Slang Victorian-Era language, thanks to Mental_Floss

I would like to thank Mental_Floss, specifically Erin McCarthey and Andrew Forrester. In 1909, Andrew Forrester, under the fake name James Ware, took note of so incredibly many slang words from the 1870's.  And thanks to some of these words that are totally bang up to the elephant*, they might totally make you fifteen-puzzled**. But please, if you don't understand any of these and get frustrated with me, do not shake a flannin with me.***
I really like these phrases. I mean...

• For example, did you know that a rain napper is a totally so-much-better way to say umbrella?
• I can guarantee you that people use their Sauce-Box every day.  And, you ask, what is a sauce-box? Well, it's your mouth, of course!
• You'd be making a stuffed bird laugh if you didn't know that this phrase meant something absolutely absurd.
• Some say that I, Josh, have a gigglemug. That's right. I have a face that smiles out of habit.
• Well, damfino what this word means. I lied. I actually do know that this means. It's a pretty convenient contraction for damned if I know.
• I know some of the "jammiest bits of jam". Don't you guys agree that I go to school with "the prettiest, most perfect young women".

I'm sorry if these wonderful phrases made you get the morbs, rather, made you temporarily sad and melancholy, but I just find them so wonderful and exciting and it just makes me happy and they are so lovely and please don't mind this run-on sentence, but I just love words and these phrases make me so happy and I love it  because they are lovely things.

*Perfect and complete

**Complete, utter confusion

***Oh my goodness, I have to use this phrase more with people.  Unfortunately, I am not one who likes to fight.

What in the universe is a Kakistocracy?

One of my favorite literary pieces of all time comes, oddly enough, from Douglas Adams. I guess that's not odd at all, if you know me. Perfectly normal.
The entire chapter, my favorite thing ever, perfectly describes a Kakistocracy.
From Chapter 28, Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

Simply put, a Kakistocracy is a government that has a ruler who is least qualified.  << see America, 2001-2009>> (Sorry. I just don't like how he pronounced words. Nookyular.)

Anyway. The word Kakistocracy comes from κακός, (kakos), meaning bad, or worst.  And then it also, obviously comes from -cracy, meaning government. I think. Fun fact. κακός also gives us the word kaka,  rather, defecation.

One of the earlier uses of Kakistocracy comes from James Lowell, who said "Is ours a “government of the people, by the people, for the people,” or a Kakistocracy, rather for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"

I also have one more example here, which is kind of a half Kakistocracy: (And this is actually happening. I sadly did not make this up.)

Quarinkates

Hey, fun word this week. Quarinkates.  (I've done my research, and I believe it rhymes with Socrates, instead of mates.)

So Quarinkates:
Mom: "Prison cells where people are quarantined."
Dad: "People that have been put into quarantine."
Jess: "The oddities of a dead person."
Kevin: "A large group of camels."
Kimmy: "Information not available at this time."

So, they were all pretty far off. Quarinkates are those shivers that you get when music is really good, a show is really intense, or you are crying and just shake uncontrollably. So I guess that they are something related to strong emotions. (Joy, Worry, or Sadness.)

The word Quarinkates was actually relatively recently created, within the past couple of years. Coined by a Californian, in fact.  Jared Bates has created several words that made it into the Oxford dictionary, including Phablet, a combination of Phone and Tablet. Weird!
Honestly, I have no idea how he came up with Quarinkates. I... I don't even know...
Does Quari- come from the same root as Quality? I actually just looked it up. Quari- means "What kind of a..." So I guess that is a "What kind of a feeling"? Something like that.

I mean, when there's a recently invented word, there's never much info. I actually had to dig around on the internet to find this, and some of the background behind Quarinkates. I really wanted to do this word, because I love the spelling of it, and I think it's something we all relate to.

Yeah.

Aubade, CFR, Acosmist

Hey. There are more words here this week. Aubade, CFR, and Acosmist.

 Aubade: Kimmy: A fruit native to South Africa
               Mom: Someone who punishes slaves
               Jessie: The crash of waves on the shore
               Dad:  The only word I can think of with aub- in it is Auburn...
               Kevin:  A type of fish with teeth that look like a human's. A smiling fish.
Contrastive Focus Reduplication: Kimmy: When people get in line and look at their phones, then when they look up at their phones, they see they are going the wrong way.
                                           Mom: Taking a second look at something.
                                           Jessie: A mix up of your brain's ability to focus in different situation
                                           Dad:  A redundant word. (So Close!)
                                           Kevin:  Hmm. The experience in Transcendentalism when your brain is 50 years old.
Acosmist: Kimmy: A person who gives really good hugs.
                  Mom: Someone who is not of this universe
                  Jessie: Someone who has experienced the space and stars and the moon and asteroids and planets and meteors and meteorites and meteoroids and black holes and white holes.
                  Dad:  Someone who is a stargazer.
                  Kevin:  Someone who is on a really really really strict diet.

An Aubade , in contrast to its antonym, a serenade, is a song usually performed at dawn, just as morning is breaking. This is what I need in my life.  Music in the mornings... Anyway, the term Aubade has a few origins, but are all directly correlated. The Occitan (Old French) roots aubada and auba both mean dawn, but the term Aubade also comes from the Latin -alba, which is a (vulgar) term for Woman. Literally, Aubade means "A song performed at dawn to a sleeping woman."
I just found out, while researching this word, that it is actually supposed to be about 2 lovers parting at dawn. So that's kind of sad.

Contrastive Focus Reduplication: I'm really glad I'm able to do this word. It doesn't have much information, but it's something that we can all relate to. CFR is  whenever you repeat a word for emphasis. Think of the common Elementary School Phrase, "Do you like her, or do you like-like her?" Or, just think of Drake and Josh. Thank you, Josh Nichols, for teaching us all about emphasis and CFR. This term has also been called "The Word-Word" and "Lexical Cloning," which is so much better.

Ah, yes. Josh Nichols was the epitome
of Contrastive Focus Reduplication.

Finally, an Acosmist is someone who doesn't believe in anything. Nothing. At all.  No religion, no science, no magic, and no miracles. *Laaaaaaaame* They don't even believe in the Universe. They "believe" that we are all just illusions. Acosmism is a philosophy, and it sounds like a pretty boring (yet intriguing) one. The main reasoning behind it is that there is one Absolute, and it is infinite.

Sorry, I didn't have very good words with large backgrounds. I'm going to try and be detailed in the coming weeks. But, I'm running low on words...

Yeah.

Aureate, Lethologica, and Parlian

Yo. If this is your first time reading my blog... I feel bad for you. It's a great blog. It's all about words. Every so often, I will ask my family members what they think certain words mean, like what I did this week. And yeah. This blog is all about words, mainly ones you probably didn't know existed, or words that you may find useful in the future, like the feeling of Lethologica.  Sometimes, I will go to detail behind the word, and sometimes, I will just give a quick definition.
(I suggest, if ye be interested, that ye look at a lot of me other words.  <<end pirate accent>>)

My words for this week are Aureate, Lethologica, and Parlian:
Aureate: Kimmy: Something is emanating from someones personality. 
                  Mom: To turn golden, or to make sound
                  Jessie: To misinterpret a word because of hearing it wrong.
                  Dad: To speak in the pompitous of love, to tell a story
Lethologica: Kimmy: Nonsense
                       Mom: The process of falling asleep.
                       Jessie: A disorder caused by stress and homework at Ghidotti
                       Dad:  An incorrect approach to solve a physics problem.

Paralian: Kimmy: A person who got made fun of in their youth and is still insecure.

                 Mom:  Someone who walks by your side.
                 Jessie: Someone who is part of Parliament (;
                 Dad: A person who has citizenship in multiple countries.

Aureate: There are two definitions to this word, and one of them, I just love. And I get the feeling a certain English teacher will love it too. The first meaning of Aureate means 'Of a golden color or brilliance." I mean, it's pretty interesting. Obviously, that comes from the Latin root Aurus- , meaning "Gold."  But this second one... The best possible definition of this word means "Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets, marked by grandiloquent style." I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND HOW GREAT THIS IS. This is the exact word I've been looking for. Words are my passion. I love them. And then I stumble upon this word that literally describes everything I need. Aureate can describe poems, novels, magazine articles, and even blog posts. The definition is even an Aureate one definition! (Grandiloquent‽‽‽*)

Lethologica: Believe it or not, this is not the first time I have gotten a word that I believe everyone experiences, but is an actual disorder.  (See Dysania)  Lethologica comes from the terms Lethe-, meaning "Forgetfulness", and -Logo, meaning "Word."  The word Lethologica is a fine word to know, because it represents when you can't... uh... I forget the word! It's on the tip of my tongue! I know it! AH! When you can't remember a word, you experience Lethologica. But, as I stated before, it is an actual, clinical disorder, identified by the Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung.  In 1913, his book The Psychology of the Unconscious stated that "9 out of 10 Westerners will experience some form of Lethologica at some point in their life." This can be brought upon by stress, anxiety, or just uncomfortable situations. So, if you ever see me presenting something, and I stand there thinking of the right word, I am incredibly uncomfortable.  Lethologica should not be confused with the word Aphasia, which means speechlessness.

Paralian: I've searched everywhere for the etymology of this word. I found out that Para- comes from the Greek root, meaning "Alongside, beside", (Like in parallel). Anyway, A Paralian is someone who lives by the ocean/on the coast. My grandparents are Paralians, along with my sister and brother. This should not be confused with the incredibly similar Paralalia, which is an accidental sound. (One not meant to be made, like from a speech impediment.)

*For those of you just joining me, a ‽ is called an Interrobang, and is a combination of ? and !