The Meaning of It All

I’ll have legally been 42 for 24 hours at the stroke of midnight. Regular visitors here
will recognize this post’s title as referring not just to my age, per an earlier post today, but fitting the pattern of my occasional volleys of word-verification definitions (collected and explained for the uninitiated at that link). I’ve taken to publishing these when I expect the blog to lie fallow for a spell, as well as simply when the mood strikes, but while I can see some things getting in the way of new posts over the next couple of weeks I confess that I’m not yet sure to which scenario this entry applies.

• androjor — [an dro jor] n. Robot duplicate of Superman’s Kryptonian father.

• bucritas — [buh kree tahss] pl. n. A Mexican dish made from pirate meat.

• cobside — [kob syd] adj. Near an ear of corn.

• dingdoc — [ding dok] n. Popular subgenre in Australian cinema of nature films featuring wild dogs.

• entheist (1) — [en thee ist] n. One who worships the 14th letter of the English alphabet.

• entheist (2) — [ent hiyst] n. 1. Theft from one of Tolkein’s tree-people. 2. Break-in at an otorhinolaryngologist’s office.

• falsider — [fawls sy dur] n. A bogus hot apple drink.

• harbity — [har bih tee] n. Living peacefully by the coastline.

• litade — [lit aid] n. Cool summer drink made from water and freshly squeezed used books. (Talk about pulp!)

• mispi — [miss py] v. “Three point one fiv— Wait! I mean... Ah, heck.”

• nforpork — [en for pork] n. Variable in a gastronomical word problem.

• Parim — [par im] n. An average Purim.

• predly — [pred lee] adj. Deadly in a predatory kind of way. “I think that dude over there is a vampire. I’m getting a predly vibe off him.”

• reesen — [rees in] v. Get your chocolate in my peanut butter, or vice versa.

• sitare — [sih tair] n. A nasty look from Ravi Shankar.

• Thesca™ — [thess kuh] Citrus diet soda made in Northeastern Greece.

• unatier — [yoo nuh teer] n. A single shelf.