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342. Gubbins
Objects of little or no value, odds and ends. A word frequently used while moving house, e.g. "I can't take it any more! All these gubbins to sort out!"
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344. Morass
A muddy or boggy swamp, or figuratively, a quagmire. Great to weave into conversations, e.g. "no morass will stop me."
Kind sir, might you lend a hand and add a funny word?
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347. Glabella
The space between your eyebrows, just above your nose. Do you scratch your glabella in public? See also Body.
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348. Pilcrow
The paragraph mark that looks like a backward p, i.e. ¶. See also Typography.
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349. Cruciverbalism
One might suppose that cruciverbalism refers to the ability to murder the King's English with great ease or perhaps the skillful art of using one's razor-sharp tongue to gore a grumbling grammarian. See also Puzzles.