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cuntline: n.  1. the spiraling groove between two strands of a rope. 2. the space between bilges--the widest part of two casks stored side by side.

cockloft: n. a small loft just below the roof

Her skirt got caught in the cuntline as they hauled the load into the cockloft.

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Image via Wikipedia “Philosophers / must ultimately find / their true perfection / in knowing all / the follies of mankind / – by introspection.” —Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996). “Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.” — Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 1938).

“Men rarely (if ever) managed to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.” —Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author.

adjective: Conventionally attractive and suave. ETYMOLOGY:After the detachable Arrow Collars sold by Cluett, Peabody & Co. in the early 1900s. The collars were shown on a supposedly idealized man, known as the Arrow Collar Man, in ads drawn by the illustrator J.C. Leyendecker. Earliest documented use: 1915. [thank you, wordsmith.org]

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afflatus

noun: A creative impulse or inspiration.

 ETYMOLOGY: From Latin afflatus (a breathing on), from ad- (to) + flare (to blow). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhle- (to blow), which also gave us blow, bladder, blather, blast, flavor, inflate, and flatulence. Earliest documented use: 1649.