
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Barrow: a type of cart
Bathyal: pertaining to deep water
Benthos: the bottom of the sea
Beshiver: to break into small pieces
Bewray: to divulge
Bhut: a small whirlwind
Beblood: to cover with blood (!!!)
Becarpet: to cover with carpet
Beclog: to clog thoroughly (the traffic beclogged the road?)
Becrime: to make guilty of a crime
Becudgel: to cudgel thoroughly
Bedamn: to swear at
Bediaper: to ornament with a kind of design (that's not how I bediaper someone!)
Bedizen: to dress gaudily
Bedrivel: to cover with saliva
Bedumb: to render speechless
Befool: to deceive
Befret: to gnaw
Begloom: to make gloomy
Bekiss: to cover with kisses
Belady: to apply the title of lady to
Belike: perhaps (OED: "in all likelihood . . .")
Bemadam: to call by the title of madam (note that there is no "Besir" or "Begentleman," but see "beuncled," below)
Bepimple: to cover with pimples
Berake: to rake all over
Berascal: to accuse of being a rascal
Beshrew: to curse
Besmile: to smile on
Beuncled: having many uncles
Bevomit: to vomit all over
Beworm: to infest with worms (don't beworm me, deworm me?)
Each week I'll also try to have some images of some of the headwords. (See below.) Learning like this can be fragmentary—after all, this chaos is mainly ordered in only one way, alphabetically—but think of it like Trivial Pursuit, only slightly less trivial.
!!! Words of the Week
Baggie: the stomach
Bagnio: a brothel
Bakshish: to give a tip
Balisaur: a long-tailed badger
Bane: to kill with poison
Bankit: a raised sidewalk (I thought a sidewalk was raised?)
Barbal: pertaining to the beard
Bard: to armor a horse
Baresark: an ancient and wild Norse warrior, fighting without a shirt (cp. berserk)
Barghest: a goblin
Barney: a noisy argument (we had many noisy arguments as siblings because a certain children's show was desperately annoying to me)
Basenji: a barkless dog (yes!)
Basilect: the least prestigious language of an area
Bathos: triteness
Baudrons: a cat
Bawtie: a dog
Bayamo: a strong wind
Bazoo: the mouth
Beanery: a cheap restaurant
Beebread: a pollen mixture
Beezer: the nose
Begorah/begorra!: interjection, used as a mild oath (OED: "An Anglo-Irish alteration of the expletive by God"—not sure how that alteration occurred . . .)
Benedict: a newly married man (from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, turns out)
Benjamin: a gum resin (benzoin)
Bernicle: a wild goose
Bertha: a wide collar
Bezazz: pizazz
Bicaudal: having two tails
Bheestie/bheesty/bhistie: a water carrier
Baht: a monetary unit of Thailand
Baiza: a monetary unit of Oman
Balboa: a monetary unit of Panama
Ban: a monetary unit of Romania
Barye: a unit of pressure
Battalia: a military unit
Baud: a unit of data transmission speed
Bawbee: a Scottish coin
Bel: a unit of power
Belga: a former Belgian monetary unit
Bezant: a coin of ancient Rome
Bezoar: a gastric mass
(Pages 42–56)