Your world is about to change once you find out that these everyday things actually have names.
Barm The foam on beer
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Punt The indent on the bottom of a wine bottle
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Griffonage illegible handwriting
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Armscye The armhole in clothing.
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Wamble A stomach rumble.
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Rhinotillexomania Obsessive nose picking
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Petrichor The smell after rain.
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Caruncula The small triangular bump on the inside corner of your eye.
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Apricity The feeling of being outside on a cold day but feeling the warmth of the sun.
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Mondegreen Misheard lyrics.
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Rectal Tenesmus The feeling of.. um… incomplete defecation.
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Grawlix A string of typographical symbols that is used to indicate profanity.
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Feat A dangly piece of curly hair.
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Skeuomorph A design feature copied from a similar artifact in another item, even when not necessary. For example, copper color on pennies, the shutter sound on a digital camera, or the notepad paper design on your iPhone.
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Parasthesia That pins and needles feeling you get when a body part falls asleep.
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Peen The side opposite the hammer’s hitting side.
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Muntin The strip separating window panes.
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Semantic Satiation That feeling when you say a word too many times and it loses it’s meaning.
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Acnestis The area that’s hard to reach between your shoulder blades.
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Scroop The rustling swooshy sound that ball gowns make
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Biblioklept A compulsive book thief or hoarder.
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Zugzwang When you’re playing chess and every possible move is to your disadvantage.
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Desire path A path created naturally because it’s “the shortest or easiest” way.
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Semordnilap A word that reads one way forward and another way backward. For example, “desserts,” “diaper” and “parts.” (It’s literally “palindromes” backwards.)
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Dysania The difficulty of getting out of bed in the morning.