Cal·en·ture (n.) - A febrile delirium, said to be peculiar to sailors, wherein they imagine the sea to be green fields and will throw themselves into it if not restrained.

- Hooper’s Lexicon-Medicum; or Medical Dictionary (1829)

'Countdown' keeps teaching me new words, and today it's 'simurg':

simorg; simurg; simurgh - (n.) a monstrous bird of Persian fable

Simurgs look like this:


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SeeBriRun --

[noun]:

An oral sex master

'How will you be defined in the sexual dictionary?' at QuizUniverse.com

Nicked from yayforsuper: the only other LJ jockey on the whole Internet to list 'the word "moog"' as an Interest. I feel a ditzy kinship.

Sadly, I think it must mean 'oral' in the strictly verbal sense.