Something More than Nothing



Milkomeda
(Andromeda and the Milky Way are on collision course; the giant black holes
at the center of each galaxy will orbit and collide.  So I'm thinking spiraling 
in and possibly smacking off.)



The Gentleman Brick-Maker
Tom the Smuggler
(Both are nicknames for a particular highwayman.)


Willow Weir  (should have weaving figures).

Kindling


Antarctanax (shackletoni)
Metallochaperone
Zoropsis spinimana (maybe just "Zoropsis"; a harmless mediterannean spider in california)
Dineobellator notohesperus ("Navajo Warrior" dinosaur from new Mexico)


"Caterpillar, Pear, Tulip, and Purple Snail"
Ice Age Hyena
Cave Hyenas
Japanese Snack Box (probably not)
Archimedes Palimpsest
New Moon of Neptune
Jaw Roll and Jaw Yaw

Carpet Sharks

Painting the World
Northern Quoll
Toad Sausages
Incidental Refreshments
Lake Cow Bacon

Ruddy Duck

Deep Ambiguity
Mysterious Wisteria
Second Blooming

Nominative Determinism


Beautiful Effluvia (from "When the Gorgonzola cheese went wrong").


Fortalice  (a small fort, fortified house, outwork of fortification)


speleological reconnaissance 

Meander (caving term, a winding passage created by an earlier flow of water)

Cockapert (a dandified fellow)

Victorian Slang
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Afternoonified ("smart" or "upscale")
Arfarfan'arf  (drunk - had too many halfs)
Back Slang It (thieves slang - go out the back way)
Bags o' Mystery (sausages)
Bang Up to the Elephant ("perfect, complete, unapproachable")
Batty-Fang ("to thrash thoroughly")
Bow Wow Mutton ('meat so bad it might be dog flesh')
Bricky ("brave or fearless")
Bubble Around ("a verbal attach, generally made via the press")
Butter Upon Bacon ("Too Much Extravagance", like gilding the lily)
Cat-Lap (tea or coffee - if you drink liquor, fit only for animals)
Church-Bell (a talkative woman)
Chuckaboo (nickname for a dear friend)
Collie Shangles (Quarrels, from Scottish)
Cop a Mouse (get a black eye)
Damfino (damned if I kknow)
Dizzy Age (elderly)
Doing the Bear ("courting that involves hugging")
Don't Sell Me a Dog ("don't like to me")
Door-Knocker (facial hair around lips, forming something like a door-knocker)
Enthuzimuzzy (satirical reference to enthusiasm)
Fifteen Puzzle (complete confusion)
Fly Rink (1875-a polished bald head, like Pilgarlick)
Gal-Sneaker (1870 - "a man devoted to seduction")
Gas-Pipes (especially tight pants)
Gigglemug (a habitually smiling face)
Got the Morbs (temporary melancholy)
Half-Rats (partially intoxicated)
Jammiest Bits of Jam (1883: "Absolutely perfect young females")
Kruger-Spoof (lying, 1896)
Mad As Hops (excitable)
Mafficking (rowdy in the streets - from the relief of Mafeking)
Make a Stuffed Bird Laugh (so ridiculous)
Meater (coward)
Mind the Grease ("asking someone to let you pass please")
Mutton Shunter (policeman)
Nanty Narking (1800-1840, tavern term, "great fun")
Nose Bagger (someone who brings a bag lunch to the beach and makes no economic
contribution)
Not Up to Dick (not well)
Orf Chump (no appetite - off my chump?)
Parish Pick-Axe (a prominent nose)
Podsnappery (wants everyone to know you're much put upon)
Poked Up (embarassed)
Powdering Hair (1700s - getting drunk)
Rain Napper (Umbrella)
Sauce-Box (mouth)
Shake a Flannin (gonna fight)
Shoot Into the Brown (To Fail - trying to hit the target but hitting the
ground)
Skilamalink (Secret, shady, doubtful)
Smothering a Parrot (drinking a glass of absinthe neat)
Suggestionize ("to prompt")
Take the Egg (to win)
Umble-cum-stumble (thoroughly understood", low-class)
Whooperups (inferior, noisy singers'0


Random Stuff
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Perfidious Albumen

Becky Hill's "Haven" is a nice mazurka/waltz with some depth.


A Flock of Moons (synonym for drunk)



Overmorrow (old word meaning the day after tomorrow.)