Words I love

caboodle – bunch: any collection in its entirety; “she bought the whole caboodle”. Caboodle is essentially a nonsense word, and is perhaps a contraction or rhyme of “kit and boodle”.

Love the sound of it :)

Crevice, n.
A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.

keksi:
there was this entry to the cave, you know, like a crack in the side of the rock, sort of narrow, do you know what I´m talking about?
daniel:
a crevice?
Thanks for teaching me, sweetheart :)

From sesame street:
What does the word “scrumptious” mean? – Really yummy!

wanderlust, noun
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel

Right now I´m feeling very wander-lusty :-)

ephemeris n. , pl. ephemerides.
A table giving the coordinates of a celestial body at a number of specific times during a given period
It charts ephemeral moments in time, passing events like lunations, flowerings, tides, times of sunrise and sunset and the movement of the stars.

Tris (greek for three) deka (greek for 10) phobe (an individual affected by a certain fear) – effectivey a triskaidekaphobe fears the number thirteen, or situation that involves anything in a 13 sequence. This in in honour of Friday 13th yesterday ;-)

doolally
adj. (British) irrational (Offensive)

so maybe it`s wrong to “love” an offensive word, but this one looks so funny in print ;-)

One of the things that make me smile is to find German words in texts written in other languages, like the French waldsterben und the English zeitgeist and ueber…so I was absolutely delighted to find an abseiling spider in a Bill Bryson book yesterday ;-)

abseil
n. method of descending a mountain face by sliding down a rope which is fastened to an overhead projection (Mountain Climbing)

Adjective
1. lacking spirit or liveliness; “a lackadaisical attempt”; “a languid mood”; “a languid wave of the hand”; “a hot languorous afternoon”
(synonym) dreamy, languid, languorous
(similar) lethargic, unergetic
2. idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; “she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical”

I never knew a word could have so many vowels in it ;-))

Idiosyncrasy n.
comes from Greek ιδιοσυγκρασία “a peculiar temperament”, “habit of body” (idios “one’s own” and sun-krasis “mixture”). It is defined as a structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group. The term can also be applied to symbols. Idiosyncratic symbols mean one thing for a particular person, as a blade could mean war, but to someone else, it could symbolize a knighting. By the same principle, linguists state that words are not only arbitrary, but also largely idiosyncratic signs.

I took idiosyncratic to mean eccentric, now that I know how much more it can mean I like the word even better :-)