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#mysteryword Day 31 - joblijocks Morning disturbance, for example by a small child. 1700s. Yorkshire dialect.

#mysteryword Day 30 - blutterbunged. Confounded by disgust or joy. Lincolnshire dialect.

I'll be chatting to Gerry on LMFM radio around 2 o'clock about the word history of throttlebottom, bugbear, bribe, and chivvy. Our mystery word is mubble-fubbles. Listen at lmfm.ie/ and I'll share podlink in comments later.

#mysteryword Day 29 - shoogly. Unsteady or wobbly. Scots.

#mysteryword Day 28 - betwattled. Confused. 1600s English dialect. From twattle (gossip).

“Linda, what’s this old library event you ran? It’s called Kicking the Bucket, was that a game?” #1linewed "The Librarian's Secret Diary"

This week's episode of The Librarian's Secret Diary, my serial fiction @_Channillo , is now available for subscribers to read. Nina re-cycles a library event from the past and learns about a very unusual form of garden composting. channillo.com/series/the-lib…

#mysteryword Day 27 - to glaver. To flatter. From Saxon gliwan (flatter).

#mysteryword Day 26 - Ferlie. Wonderful or marvellous. Scots. From Old Norse ferligr (dreadful).

This week's word on the blog is hooch (with a side of moonshine and bootlegging) - some words the Gold Rush gave us. Read more at wordfoolery.wordpress.com/20…

#mysteryword day 25 - perissology. The use of more words than necessary. From the Greek for superfluous.

#mysteryword day 24 - badkruka a cowardly bather - one who lowers themself slowly into cold water. This is a Swedish word - bada (bathe) and kruka (coward).

#mysteryword Day 23 - drotchel A lazy person. 1700s, Scots. Possibly from dretch - a verb used by Chaucer meaning to idle.

"How to Get Your Name in the Dictionary" 260 eponyms named for heroes and villains - from atlas to zeppelin. Ideal for word geeks, history lovers, and biography buffs. #FunFacts #etymology #Kindle #Kobo paperback wordfoolery.wordpress.com/my…

#mysteryword Day 22 - exsibilate - to hiss a poor actor off the stage. From Latin. Seems an appropriate word for the day the Oscar nominations are released, no hissing for them I'm sure.

#mysteryword Day 21 - gulosity Gluttony. From Latin gulosus.

The boy insisted on pulling a monster face each time I took the photo. In the end I re-shuffled the lineup, putting him on the far right and simply cropped him out of the image. #1linewed "The Librarian's Secret Diary"

This week at the library Nina is thinking inside the box, managing unruly eight year olds, while Oscar the Library Cat finds a new place to snooze. Subscribe and read at channillo.com/series/the-lib…