word sauce

So, a while back when I was searching for a name for my little etsy site (I finally decided on ABookFull.etsy.com) I was doing a lot of word-hunting in the amazing book Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words in an effort to find a cool name. I had forgotten all about this list until I ran across it here, in my unpublished blog posts, and I thought you might enjoy it. Here are some amazing words I came across in my search, not all pertinent to bookbinding; some are just delicious on their own.

• brimborian—something nonsensical
• calcographer—one who draws with crayons
• callidity—craftiness
• centonism—collating of new or borrowed materials into a new form of art
• chartaceous—of or like paper
• book sauce—information (this one was from urbandictionary.com)
• clodpolish—awkward
• clinomania—excessive desire to stay in bed
• cockalorum—a little man with delusions of grandeur
• cogger—a phony flatterer
• colligation—a binding together
• complect—to connect together; to intertwine
• concinnity—skillful blending
• cuggermugger—whispered gossiping
• cynanthropy—a type of insanity in which the person thinks she is a dog
• acuchla—Irish for darling
• adipose—fatty
• anatine—ducklike

As you can see, I didn't get very far in the dictionary. There are still so many words to be discovered!