New words from Nabokov
Words I had to look up reading Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – some I’d been vaguely guessing for years and thought I should finally confirm; most I’d never seen and had not the faintest idea about.
This is a personal list, shamelessly copy-pasted from the internet and not in any way appropriately cited (but taken mainly from Merriam-Webster, Google, and these two exceptionally loving and detailed glossary sites).
It also sketches out, I realised, the aesthetic bones of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1969 incest rom-com – his final (and, depending who you ask, finest) novel. These words, taken down in order of reading, trace a playful, grotty, brilliant obsession with plants, puns, insects, body parts, light, languages, old Europe, showing off …
Detached from its tender plot, its glittering imagery, they trace the silvery breath of this book: humid, amused, intimate, troubling and beautiful.
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1. granoblastically
of a rock: having a texture in which the fragments are irregular and angular and appear like a mosaic under the microscope
2. sur-royally
surroyal: : one of the terminal tines above the royal antler of a stag or other large deer usually attained at the age of four years
3. vernal
: of, relating to, or occurring in the spring / : fresh or new like the spring
4. cicerone
: a guide who conducts sightseers
5. salver
: a tray especially for serving food or beverages
6. parvis
: a court or enclosed space before a building (such as a church) / : a single portico or colonnade before a church
7. athwart
: across/ : in opposition to
8. putative
: commonly accepted or supposed
9. larch
: any of a genus (Larix) of northern hemisphere trees of the pine family with short fascicled deciduous leaves
10. ephemeron
sing. of ephemera
11. claque
: a group hired to applaud at a performance
12. fulgurations
: the act or process of flashing like lightning / : the drying up of tissue by a high-frequency electric current applied with a needle-shaped electrode
13. vermiculated
: marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : WINDING / : TORTUOUS, INVOLUTE / : full of worms : WORM-EATEN / VERMIFORM (: resembling a worm in shape): marked with irregular fine lines or with wavy impressed lines
14. limpidity
: marked by transparency (see TRANSPARENT sense 1) : PELLUCID / : clear and simple in style / : absolutely serene and untroubled
15. dackel [German]
daschund
16. voluble
: easily rolling or turning : ROTATING / : characterised by ready or rapid speech : GLIB, FLUENT
17. canard
: a false or unfounded report or story
18. oneirologically
: of, relating to, or suggestive of dreams : DREAMY
19. execrable
: deserving to be execrated (: to declare to be evil or detestable : DENOUNCE) : DETESTABLE / : very bad : WRETCHED
20. nonce
: the one, particular, or present occasion, purpose, or use / : the time being
21. penyuar [Russian]
negligée
22. marquetry
: decorative work in which elaborate patterns are formed by the insertion of pieces of material (such as wood, shell, or ivory) into a wood veneer that is then applied to a surface (as of a piece of furniture)
23. ormolu
: golden or gilded brass or bronze used for decorative purposes (as in mounts for furniture)
24. varicoloured
marked by a variety of usually vivid colours
25. amalgam
a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things
26. euphonic
having a pleasing mixture of notes
27. specular
: of, relating to, or having the qualities of a mirror
28. speculatory
obsolete : concerned with or constituting occult speculation
29. mirabilic
adj. mirabile (masculine and feminine plural mirabili) admirable, wonderful
30. peris
: a supernatural being in Persian folklore descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is accomplished / : a beautiful and graceful girl
31. emirate
: the state or jurisdiction of an emir
32. germinate
: to cause to sprout or develop / : to come into being : EVOLVE
33. epithelial
: of or relating to epithelium – : a membranous cellular tissue that covers a free surface or lines a tube or cavity of an animal body and serves especially to enclose and protect the other parts of the body, to produce secretions and excretions, and to function in assimilation / : a usually thin layer of parenchyma that lines a cavity or tube of a plant
34. modicum
: a small portion : a limited quantity
35. bivouacs
: a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter / : encampment usually for a night
36. libellula
: a genus of large often brightly coloured dragonflies usually with dark blotches on the wings that is the type of the family Libellulidae and in older classifications includes all the dragonflies / plural -s : any dragonfly of the genus Libellula : SKIMMER
37. scrota
plural of scrotum: the external pouch that in most mammals contains the testes
38. melodeon
: a small reed organ in which a suction bellows draws air inward through the reeds
39. fangles
a fashion especially when foppish or silly —used with new and usually derogatorily / obsolete : a silly or fantastic contrivance : GEWGAW, GAUD
40. parvenu
: one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it
41. appenzeller
Swiss cheese
42. direful
: dreadful : ominous
43. racking
: to cause to suffer torture, pain, anguish, or ruin / : to become forced out of shape or out of plumb
44. predormitarily [Nabokov's?]
before bed
45. utile
useful
46. lammer [Scottish]
amber
47. phrasal
of, relating to, or consisting of a phrase
48. flou [French]
blurry
49. palpebra [medical]
: EYELID
50. rukuliruyushchiy [Russian]
cooing
51. planful
: full of plans : RESOURCEFUL, SCHEMING / : according to a plan
52. jejune
: devoid of significance or interest : DULL
53. gulch
: a deep or precipitous cleft : RAVINE especially : one occupied by a torrent
54. chaparral
: a thicket of dwarf evergreen oaks / broadly : a dense impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees : an ecological community composed of shrubby plants adapted to dry summers and moist winters that occurs especially in southern California
55. catamite
: a boy kept by a pederast
56. izba
: a Russian log hut
57. amplitude
: the extent or range of a quality, property, process / : the quality or state of being ample : FULLNESS, ABUNDANCE
58. moiré
: an irregular wavy finish on a fabric / : a fabric having a wavy watered appearance / : an independent usually shimmering pattern seen when two geometrically regular patterns (such as two sets of parallel lines or two halftone screens) are superimposed especially at an acute angle
59. poltroon
: a spiritless coward : CRAVEN
60. commode
: a low chest of drawers / : a boxlike structure holding a chamber pot under an open seat
61. seraglio
: a palace of a sultan / harem
62. stamnos
: an ancient Greek wine jar with a wide mouth and with handles set horizontally on the shoulders
63. brachiate
: to progress by swinging from hold to hold by the arms
64. teil
Linden tree
65. ichneumon
wasp / mongoose
66. vermian
: of, relating to, or resembling worms
67. woggle
waggle
68. pudic
relating to pudendum
69. belletristic
: a writer of belles lettres / : literature that is an end in itself and not merely informative / specifically : light, entertaining, and often sophisticated literature
70. spondaic
: a metrical foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables
71. fakir
a: a Muslim mendicant : DERVISH / : an itinerant Hindu ascetic or wonder-worker / : IMPOSTOR especially : SWINDLER
72. troika
: a group of three especially : an administrative or ruling body of three
73. traduce
: to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation
74. asinine
: extremely or utterly foolish or silly / : of, relating to, or resembling an ass
75. transversion
: the eruption of a tooth in an abnormal position on the jaw
76. anthemia
pl. of anthemion: : a flat ornament of floral form (as in relief sculpture or in painting)
77. hyaline
: transparent or nearly so and usually homogeneous
78. photic
: of, relating to, or involving light especially in relation to organisms / : penetrated by light especially of the sun // the photic zone of the ocean
79. reticulated
: resembling a net or network especially : having veins, fibers, or lines crossing // a reticulate leaf
80. lampad
: LAMP, CANDLESTICK —used of the seven lamps of fire in Revelation 4:5
81. buvard [French]
blotter
82. lucifer
capitalised : the planet Venus when appearing as the morning star / not capitalised : a friction match having as active substances antimony sulfide and potassium chlorate
83. dactylic
from dactyl: : a metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables (as in tenderly)
84. collation [French]
snack
85. trémousse [French]
wiggle
86. deprecable
that may or should be deprecated.: : to express disapproval of / : PLAY DOWN : make little of
87. hoopoe
: a crested Old World nonpasserine bird (Upupa epops of the family Upupidae) having a slender decurved bill and barred black-and-white wings and tail
88. charabanc
: a sightseeing motor coach
89. calèche [French]
carriage
90. nacrine
from nacre: mother-of-pearl
91. coeval
: of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration
92. caryatics
: of, relating to, or using caryatid / : a draped female figure supporting an entablature
93. Tarentine
: of, relating to, or characteristic of Tarentum, a Greek city of ancient Italy
94. bilboquet
: a device having a cup or spike at the top of a stick to which is attached a ball on a string / also : the game of maneuvering the device so as to catch the ball in the cup or on the spike
95. brachiambulant
brachi- : arm
96. osteal
: of, relating to, or resembling bone
97. strapontin [French]
folding seat
98. décharné [French]
gaunt
99. anadem
: a wreath for the head : GARLAND
100. marguerite
daisy / : any of various single-flowered chrysanthemums
101. bonze
: a Buddhist monk
102. pourpre [French]
purple, crimson
103. sullow
chiefly dialectal : plow
104. coppice
copse / : forest originating mainly from shoots or root suckers rather than seed
105. drupe
: a one-seeded indehiscent fruit having a hard bony endocarp, a fleshy mesocarp, and a thin exocarp that is flexible (as in the cherry) or dry and almost leathery (as in the almond)
106. shagreen
: an untanned leather covered with small round granulations and usually dyed green / : the rough skin of various sharks and rays when covered with small close-set tubercles
107. ardilla
squirrel family
108. ensellure [French]
saddle
109. venery
: the art, act, or practice of hunting / : animals that are hunted : GAME / : the pursuit of or indulgence in sexual pleasure / : SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
110. Estotian
of island between Greenland and Newfoundland
111. charnue [French]
fleshy
112. plaie [French]
wound
113. lèche [French]
lick
114. pudibund
prudish
115. palpate
: to examine by touch especially medically
116. corpuscle
: a minute particle / : a living cell / : any of various small circumscribed multicellular bodies
117. carpus
wrist / : the bones of the wrist
118. damozel
: a young woman: / archaic : a young unmarried woman of noble birth / girl
119. eglantine
sweetbriar
120. trouvaille [French]
find
121. palpi
pl. palpus / : a segmented usually tactile or gustatory process on an arthropod mouthpart
122. dipterist
: a specialist in the study of Diptera (flies)
123. flue pipe
: an organ pipe whose tone is produced by an air current striking the lip and causing the air within to vibrate
124. pediment
: a triangular space that forms the gable of a low-pitched roof and that is usually filled with relief sculpture in classical architecture / : a broad gently sloping bedrock surface with low relief that is situated at the base of a steeper slope and is usually thinly covered with alluvial gravel and sand
125. marmoreal
: of, relating to, or suggestive of marble or a marble statue especially in coldness or aloofness
126. hument [French]
sniff
127. hoary
: grey or white with or as if with age / extremely old / ancient
128. miniver
: a white fur worn originally by medieval nobles and used chiefly for robes of state
129. en croupe [French]
on the back
130. telega
: a 4-wheeled springless wagon used by the Russians
131. ignicolist
a worshipper of fire
132. batiste
: a fine soft sheer fabric of plain weave made of various fibres
133. à reculons [French]
backwards
134. nates
buttocks
135. lumbus [anatomical]
the part of the lower back and sides between the pelvis and the ribs
136. splenius
: either of two flat oblique muscles on each side of the back of the neck and upper thoracic region.
137. ramping
: to move or act furiously / : to creep up —used especially of plants / : to speed up, expand, or increase especially quickly or at a constant rate —used with up / transitive verb: : to increase, expand, or decrease especially quickly or at a constant rate —usually used with up or down
138. crepitated
: to make a crackling sound : CRACKLE
139. trempée [French]
soaked
140. slew
: to turn (something, such as a telescope or a ship's spar) about a fixed point that is usually the axis / : to turn, twist, or swing about : PIVOT / skid
141. suscitate
: EXCITE, ROUSE, ANIMATE
142. opprobrious
: expressive of opprobrium : SCURRILOUS / : deserving of opprobrium : INFAMOUS
143. polyphemic
: GIANT, CYCLOPS
144. oriflamme
: a banner, symbol, or ideal inspiring devotion or courage
145. bladder-senna
: a southern African shrub (Sutherlandia frutescens) with a much-inflated pod
146. curtal
obsolete : having a docked tail / obsolete : BRIEF, CURTAILED / archaic : wearing a short frock
147. supine
: lying on the back or with the face upward / 2: exhibiting indolent or apathetic inertia or passivity / especially : mentally or morally slack / 3 archaic : leaning or sloping backward
148. incunabulum
1: a book printed before 1501 / 2: a work of art or of industry of an early period
149. breloque
: a seal or charm for a watch chain
150. lepidosis
: a scaly skin disease (as ichthyosis) / : the arrangement and character of the scales or shields of an animal
151. démission éplorée [French]
weeping resignation
152. ventral
1a: of or relating to the belly : ABDOMINAL / : being or located near or on the anterior or lower surface of an animal opposite the back / : being or located on the lower surface of a dorsiventral plant structure / : a ventral part (such as a scale or fin)
153. palpitate
: to beat rapidly and strongly : THROB
154. sphingid
hawk moth
155. fatidic
: of or relating to prophecy / fatidically 1. of or relating to a prophet or prophecy. 2. containing or of the nature of a prophecy; predictive
156. immonde [French]
foul
157. landaulet
: a small landau / : a four-wheel carriage with a top divided into two sections that can be folded away or removed and with a raised seat outside for the driver
158. carrosses [French]
floats
159. duse [French]
small calibrated orifice, limiting the flow of a pressurised pipe
160. ambivert
: a person having characteristics of both extrovert and introvert
161. retentive
: having the power, property, or capacity of retaining / especially : retaining knowledge easily
162. volitation
: the act or power of flying
163. tetrameter
: a line of verse consisting either of four dipodies (as in classical iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse) or four metrical feet (as in modern English verse)
164. trite
: hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original
165. bewgest
Not spelled thus in W2, W3, OED; beau geste, “A display of magnanimity” (OED), “1: a graceful pleasing fine or magnanimous gesture 2: a gracious conciliatory insubstantial or ineffectual gesture” (W3). Perhaps, in the spelling, a hint of gewgaw, “A showy trifle; a toy; a pretty but worthless bauble” (W2).
166. ocellated
: having ocelli (: a minute simple eye or eyespot of an invertebrate / : an eyelike coloured spot (as on a peacock feather or the wings of some butterflies) / : resembling an ocellus : EYELIKE
167. eremitic
hermit / especially : a religious recluse
168. dolent
sorrowful
169. Dorean [biblical?]
freely, undeservedly
170. Subbetuline [Nabokov's?]
growing under the canopy of birch trees, as Boletus betulicola, now believed to be a supsecies of Boletus edulis rather than a different species
171. incarnadine
adj. : having the pinkish color of flesh / : RED especially : BLOODRED | verb. : to make incarnadine : REDDEN
172. stridulating
: to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures —used especially of male insects (such as crickets or grasshoppers) (Merriam-Webster: Stridor means "a harsh, shrill, or creaking noise" and also "a harsh vibrating sound heard during respiration in cases of obstruction of the air passages.")
173. pinacoteca [Italian]
a picture gallery or place where paintings are kept.
174. pique-aced
As de pique is French for “ace of spades.” Here, in arrangement like that of the ace of spades: with a truffle in each corner, and another (a very large one, like the main ace symbol?) in the centre. Piqué in cookery means “larded.”
175. samlet
(ˈsæmlɪt ) a young salmon. Word origin. < salmon + -let.
176. parturition
: the action or process of giving birth to offspring : CHILDBIRTH
177. conformant
obsolete : CONFORMING, CONFORMABLE
178. megrims
1a: MIGRAINE sense 1a | b: VERTIGO, DIZZINESS | 2a: FANCY, WHIM | b megrims plural : low spirits
179. sander
“A pike perch (Sander, syn. Lucioperca, lucioperca), of central Europe, allied to the walleyed pike.”
180. gemel
1 obsolete : HINGE | 2: a ring of two separable hoops | — compare GIMBAL | 3 or gemel bar or less commonly gemelle or gemell \ jəˈmel , ˈjeməl \ : BAR GEMEL | 4: a pair of glass bottles blown separately and then fused usually with the two necks pointing in different directions
181. combler [French]
fill
182. certicle
?
183. paraphrast
PARAPHRASER
184. corolla
: the part of a flower that consists of the separate or fused petals and constitutes the inner whorl of the perianth
185. borborygmic [medical]
: describing a rumbling sound made by the movement of gas in the intestine
186. crupper
1: a leather loop passing under a horse's tail and buckled to the saddle / 2: CROUP entry 1 / broadly : BUTTOCKS
187. Silésian
region of east central Europe in the valley of the upper Oder River bordering on the Sudety Mountains
188. anathematised
: to pronounce an anathema upon
189. axillary
1: of, relating to, or located near the axilla (armpit) | 2: situated in or growing from an axil | axillary buds: one of the feathers arising from the axilla and closing the space between the flight feathers and body of a flying bird
190. penetralium
(from penetralia?) : the innermost or most private parts
191. grovy
: relating to or resembling a grove : situated in or frequenting groves
192. fascicles
1: a small or slender bundle (as of pine needles or nerve fibres) | 2: one of the divisions of a book published in parts
193. nuque
: the back of the neck
194. cochlea
: a hollow tube in the inner ear of higher vertebrates that is usually coiled like a snail shell and contains the sensory organ of hearing
195. hurdies
dialectal British : RUMP
196. Troussant la raimée [French]
‘tumbling the foliage,' Corrected from 1969, “foliage ‘troussant . . . ’”. Sore is French. Raimée combines ramée (“green boughs, foliage”), and raimée (as feminine past participle: “[woman] loved again”). While troussant la ramée can mean, literally, “tumbling the foliage,” troussant can also mean “tumbling” a woman in the slang sexual sense. (from here: http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/ada134ann.htm)
197. propitious 1: favourably disposed : BENEVOLENT / 2: being a good omen : AUSPICIOUS propitious sign / 3: tending to favour : ADVANTAGEOUS
198. palpebral
: of, relating to, or located on or near the eyelids
199. uterine
1: born of the same mother but by a different father 2 : of, relating to, or affecting the uterus
200. ivorine
: a substance resembling ivory in colour and texture
201. acarpous
: not producing fruit : STERILE
202. dolorous
: causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
203. logogriph
: a word puzzle (such as an anagram)
204. saffian
: a leather made of goatskins or sheepskins tanned with sumac and dyed with bright colours
205. Lalla Rookh
an 'Eastern' romance by Irish poet Thomas Moore, published in 1817.
206. lassitude
1: a condition of weariness or debility : FATIGUE The patient complained of headache, nausea, and lassitude. | 2: a condition characterised by lack of interest, energy, or spirit : LANGUOR | surrendered to an overpowering lassitude, an extreme desire to sit and dream — Alan Moorehead
207. cogitation
1a: the act of cogitating : MEDITATION b: the capacity to think or reflect 2: a single thought
208. collops
1: a small piece or slice especially of meat | 2: a fold of fat flesh
From Merriam Webster: "The word collop is fat with meaning. It originated as a Middle-English word for an egg fried on bacon and later for the slice of bacon itself. In 18th-century Great Britain, it began designating the Monday before Shrove Tuesday. Traditionally, on "Collop Monday" fried bacon and eggs were eaten. The word was also extended to refer to any slice of meat, as in "collops of lobster," and to a fold of flesh on the body. In addition, the word can be used figuratively to refer to any piece of something - for example, in Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley we find "a 'collop of the foray,' or, in plainer words, a portion of the robber's booty."
209. planchette
: a small triangular or heart-shaped board supported on casters at two points and a vertical pencil at a third and believed to produce automatic writing when lightly touched by the fingers | also : a similar board without a pencil
210. flavid
: YELLOW / a flavid gold coin
211. leporine
: of, relating to, or resembling a hare
212. hassock
1 : TUSSOCK | 2a: a cushion for kneeling, a church hassock | b: a padded cushion or low stool that serves as a seat or leg rest
213. admixed
transitive verb : to mix in
214. oeillet [French]
carnation
215. Cichlid
: any of a family (Cichlidae) of mostly tropical spiny-finned usually freshwater fishes including several kept in tropical aquariums
216. antiphonally
: of, relating to, or suggesting an antiphon or antiphony (: a book containing the choral parts of the Divine Office)
217. Amerlocks
“usually spelt ‘amerloques’ [and] is a French derogatory term for Americans.” NABOKV-L Archives March 1996 (#55). (http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/Ada38withBB.pdf)
218. recondite 1: difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : DEEP | a recondite subject | 2: of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure | recondite fact about the origin of the holiday — Floyd Dell |3: hidden from sight : CONCEALED
219. tittery
that laughs a lot in a tittering way; characterised by tittering.
220. Venutian
: venusian / : of or relating to the planet Venus
221. soubrette
1a: a coquettish maid or frivolous young woman in comedies / b: an actress who plays such a part / 2: a soprano who sings supporting roles in comic opera
222. boletes
: any of a family (Boletaceae) of fleshy stalked pore fungi that usually grow on the ground in wooded areas
223. rill
: a very small brook / : to flow like a rill
224. lyrate
: having or suggesting the shape of a lyre
225. Lunel
White wine/muscat region
226. superposed
: situated vertically over another layer or part
227. omoplates
: SCAPULA
228. embrocation
: LINIMENT | : a liquid or semiliquid preparation that is applied to the skin as an anodyne or a counterirritant
229. florula
: a small flora | especially : a fossil flora comparable to a faunule
230. Lyaskan
Antiterra's Alaska (from the transliteration of the Russian, "Alyaska"), which Russia sold to the United States in 1867. Cf. 3.15n and SO 61, where Nabokov, asked what scenes he would like to have filmed, replied: "The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding." MOTIF: Lyaska.
231. sepals
: one of the modified leaves comprising a calyx
232. bosquet : THICKET
233. Bergamask : of, relating to, or characteristic of Bergamo, Italy
234. demission
: RESIGNATION, ABDICATION
235. fioriture
: ORNAMENT sense 5 (5: an embellishing note not belonging to the essential harmony or melody — called also embellishment, fioritura)
236. culbuter [French]
to tumble, topple, knock over, break down, overcome, somersault (e.g. into a gorge)
237. vitreous
1a: resembling glass (as in colour, composition, brittleness, or lustre) : GLASSY | vitreous rocks | b: characterised by low porosity and usually translucence due to the presence of a glassy phase | vitreous china | 2: of, relating to, derived from, or consisting of glass | 3: of, relating to, or constituting the vitreous humour (: the clear colourless transparent jelly that fills the eyeball posterior to the lens) | vitreous surgery
238. Transom-wise
Transom: 1: a transverse piece in a structure : CROSSPIECE: such as a: LINTEL b: a horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window or fanlight above it c: the horizontal bar or member of a cross or gallows d: any of several transverse timbers or beams secured to the sternpost of a boat | also : the planking forming the stern of a square-ended boat | 2 or transom window : a window above a door or other window built on and commonly hinged to a transom | over the transom : without solicitation or prior arrangement
239. adumbration
1: to foreshadow vaguely : INTIMATE | the social unrest that adumbrated the French Revolution | 2: to suggest, disclose, or outline partially | adumbrate a plan | 3: OVERSHADOW, OBSCURE | bubbling optimism, not at all adumbrated by difficulties
240. abut
1: to border on : to touch along an edge - Their property abuts our land. | 2: to cause to touch or lean for support - abut a timber against a post | 1: to touch along a border or with a projecting part - a parcel of land that abuts on the road 2a: to terminate at a point of contact b: to lean for support
241. Pleonasm
1: the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said) : REDUNDANCY | 2: an instance or example of pleonasm
242. cornel
: any of various shrubs or trees (genus Cornus) of the dogwood family
243. medlar
: a small deciduous Eurasian tree (Mespilus germanica) of the rose family whose fruit resembles a crab apple and is used in preserves | also : its fruit
244. viatically
of or having to do with travel
245. randonnies
French: randonnées (trips, excursions), with a pun on English randy, in its current sense, “Lustful; eager for sexual gratification; sexually aroused” (OED) (from: http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/ada21ann.htm#3291718)
246. imbroglio
1a: an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding | b: SCANDAL sense 1a - survived the political imbroglio | c: a violently confused or bitterly complicated altercation : EMBROILMENT | d: an intricate or complicated situation (as in a drama or novel) | 2: a confused mass
247. mimotypes
: a plant or animal resembling in many respects another from which it is systematically distinct and geographically isolated
248. aril
: an exterior covering or appendage of some seeds (as of the yew) that develops after fertilisation as an outgrowth from the ovule stalk