[Fictionary] jerque results
Pierre Abbat
phma at bezitopo.org
Wed Jan 21 23:16:29 EST 2015
On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:32:27 fictioneric at inbox.com wrote:
> Pierre:
> jerque, adj. Having a pattern of alternating stripes and rows of spots.
I made this up looking at a picture of a young tapir.
> Elliott: Excessive relative to what? Normative hops vines, I
> suppose. Never heard of lupulin, but there are lots of things I've
> never heard of. Two points.
Lupulin is either a hair of a hop plant or a material produced by hop plants
(Wiktionary disagrees with Wikipedia). The next word I looked up is "humulin",
which turned out to be a contraction of "human insulin" and nothing to do with
hops. There are chemicals humulene and humulone. Humulone, humulene, and
lupulin are named for the species Humulus lupulus of hops.
While looking up possible words, I noticed that there is no article [[Bagwig]]
or [[Bag-wig]], but there are links to both. Anyone want to write it?
Pierre
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