Alex's Abode
Words I find interesting and/or fun to say.
  • bailiwick - a person's specific area of knowledge, authority, interest, skill or work
  • hardscrabble - providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort
  • sarcophagus - a stone coffin
  • fiddlesticks - (used to express impatience, dismissal, etc.)
  • at loggerheads - in dispute with
  • fisticuffs - a cuff (blow with open hand) made by the fist, a.k.a. a punch
  • lucubration - laborious work, study, thought, etc. especially at night
  • sinuous - having many curves, bends or turns, winding; also indirect, devious
  • foofaraw - excessive or flashy ornamentation; also, a fuss over a trivial matter
  • scuttlebutt - gossip; rumor
  • galumph - to move in a clumsy manner or with a heavy tread
  • hirsute - covered with hair; set with bristles; shaggy; hairy.