Grawlix
Grawlix (And some other related words)
I bet you're really wondering what a grawlix is, right?
First, what my family thought:
Mom: A Combination of a Colon and Semicolon
Jessie: A mixture of Red, Brown, and White
Papa: A tool used for punching holes in a canvas cloth
Well, they were wrong.
A Grawlix is actually the symbols in a comic that replace a cursing word. For example, some four-lettered word beginning with an F that I prefer not to say would become $@#%.
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| Grawlix. I could see this happening. |
The term Grawlix came around in 1980, and the book, The Lexicon of Comicana. This short book was written by Mort Walker, creator of the Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois. Walker defines words that he made up and made popular, like solrads, lines that emanate from light sources. Many of the words he created even appear in dictionaries, but not doozex.
(Don't look that one up. Just... don't...)
Dites, Hites, and Vites. They all sound similar, and they are all somewhat related. By the way, they were also created by Mort Walker.
Dites: Diagonal Lines across a reflective surface
Hites: Lines used very commonly in comics, showing a line of motion, as if after a fist punching someone, or just someone running.
Vites: Nevermind. Vites and Dites are the same thing.
See, so Mort Walker was actually a pretty influential comic-writer, at least for people who do blog posts on weird words...
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