User:Leucosticte/Lolita vocabulary


 * Solecism: a grammatical mistake in speech or writing.
 * Cognomen: a nickname
 * Etiolate: having lost vigor or substance; feeble
 * Apotheosis: the elevation of someone to divine status; deification.
 * Redolent: fragrant or sweet-smelling
 * Arabesque: an ornamental design consisting of intertwined flowing lines, originally found in Arabic or Moorish decoration.
 * Sibilant: sounded with a hissing effect, for example s, sh.
 * Manque: having failed to become what one might have been; unfulfilled.
 * Uranist: a homosexual.
 * Tortuous: excessively lengthy and complex.
 * Pastiche: an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
 * Nymph: a mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.
 * Fey: giving an impression of vague unworldliness.
 * Coeval: a person of roughly the same age as oneself; a contemporary.
 * Poltroon: an utter coward.
 * Fascinum: the embodiment of the divine phallus.
 * Tiddle
 * Tartan: a woolen cloth woven in one of several patterns of plaid, especially of a design associated with a particular Scottish clan.
 * Axillary: of or relating to the armpit.
 * Russet: reddish brown in color.
 * Merkin: an artificial covering of hair for the pubic area.
 * Dirndl: a full, wide skirt with a tight waistband.
 * Volubility: the quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly; talkativeness.
 * Moll: a gangster's female companion; a prostitute.
 * Coruscate: (of light) flash or sparkle
 * Drumlin: a low oval mound or small hill, typically one of a group, consisting of compacted boulder clay molded by past glacial action.
 * Piazza: the veranda (a roofed platform along the outside of a house, level with the ground floo) of a house.
 * Mummery