REALLY SPECIFIC WORDS
Reddit asked: What’s that one really specific thing you know the term for? Some of the responses:
– Groaking: Watching a person eat in the hopes they will share their food, like the way a dog watches someone eat, but people do it, too.
– Glabella: That one spot where your eyebrows, forehead, and nose meet. (* In my case, it’s my left ear, which is why I work in radio.)
– Sphygmomanometer: That inflatable cuff they use to take your blood pressure.
– Oology: The study of eggs.
– Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. (It coming from the Greek words “arachi” for “ground nut” and “butyr” for butter, and “phobia”.)
– Gustatory hyperlacrimation: A medical condition where people cry when they eat.
– Gleek: When contractions in your mouth cause a saliva “spray.” It can happen when you’re yawning.
– Aphantasia: The inability to create mental images in your mind.
– Defenestration: Throwing someone out of a window. (* Also known as Putinism.)
– Syneresis: The clear liquid that comes out of the ketchup bottle that always ruins your fries. The submitter says he learned it by working for the design agency that redesigned the current Heinz squeeze bottles.
– Anosmia: the loss of the sense of smell.
– Cordwainer: One who makes shoes. (A cobbler repairs shoes.)
– Borborygmi: The sound of your tummy grumbling. (* You’d think they would have called that “Burp-orygmi”.)
– Ereyesterday: The day before yesterday.
– Overmorrow: The day after tomorrow.
* PHONE TOPIC: Have you got a really specific word for something? Maybe a family joke about something?








