Obstreperous: A Good Word for Children

Obstreperous

/əbˈstrɛp(ə)rəs/

Adjective.

Noisy and difficult to control.

"Mrs. Callahan, as your son's teacher I regret to inform you that he has proved both obstreperous and anti-social..."

The word is derived from the Latin obstrepere, composed of ob (against) and strepere (make a noise).  It has become one of my absolute favourite words in recent times.

Septentrional: Hope you don't feel boreal-ed to death by this one, mate

Septentrional, meaning "of the north", is a word rarely used in English, but is commonly used in Latin and in the Romance languages. The term septentrional usually is found on maps, mostly those made before 1700.

Apotropaic posts will be proof against spambots

apotropaic

/ˌapətrəˈpeɪɪk/

adjective

adjective: apotropaic

supposedly having the power to avert evil influences or bad luck.

We are living in a materiel world

materiel

/məˌtɪərɪˈɛl/

noun

noun: materiel

military materials and equipment.

"the shipping of materiel south into the battle zone"

Sophont: an uplifting word

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + ὤν (ṓn, “on”), present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “being, existing, essence”). First used in the 1966 works by Poul Anderson, coined by his wife Karen Anderson.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊfɑnt/

Noun

sophont (plural sophonts)

1. (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent being; a being with a base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. The word does not apply to machines unless they have true artificial intelligence, rather than mere processing capacity. quotations ▼

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sentient

References

• “sophont” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 194.
• sophont at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project

Affatas: Like a breath of fresh sweven

Afflatus \Af*fla"tus\, n. [L., fr. afflare. See {Afflation}.] 1. A breath or blast of wind. 2. A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. --Spence.

Why Read Books? 5 things

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/5-reasons-why-reading-books-is-good-for-you/

5 reasons

Pick a lane, wold

Wold \Wold\, n. See {Weld}. Wold \Wold\, n. [OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. v["o]llr, a field, and probably to Gr. ? a grove, Skr. v[=a]?a a garden, inclosure. Cf. {Weald}.] 1. A wood; a forest. 2. A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. And from his further bank [AE]tolia's wolds espied. --Byron. The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold. --Tennyson.

Latten: Brazen choice of a wooden joke.

Latten \Lat"ten\, n. [OE. latoun, laton, OF. laton, F. laiton, prob. fr. OF. late lath, F. latte; -- because made in thin plates; cf. It. latta a sheet of tinned iron, tin plate. F. latte is of German origin. See {Lath} a thin board.] 1. A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also {latten brass}. He had a cross of latoun full of stones. --Chaucer.

2. Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten. {Black latten}, brass in milled sheets, composed of copper and zinc, used by braziers, and for drawing into wire. {Roll latten}, latten polished on both sides ready for use. {Shaven latten}, a thinner kind than black latten. {White latten}, a mixture of brass and tin.

Awash in a manger

/ˈmeɪn(d)ʒə/

noun: manger; plural noun: mangers

a long trough from which horses or cattle feed.

Fy on you, fiend! Hist!

Fy \Fy\, interj. [See {Fie}, interj.]
A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation,
abhorrence, or contempt. See {Fie}.

hist, interj

1. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
2. (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.   quotations
   • 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, Chapter XI,

     "My worthy Nelly! I am greatly rejoiced to find it is no other than thee. Hist! child, hist! Should Ishmael gain a knowledge of our plans, he would not hesitate to cast us both from this rock, upon the plain beneath. Hist! Nelly, hist!"

   • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Scenes from "Politian", 2009 [1902], Charles F. Richardson (editor), The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: Poems, page 87,

     Hist! hist! thou canst not say / Thou hearest not now Baldazzar?,

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 99,

     There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist—hark! By Jove, I have it!

Synonyms

• (utterance used to attract someone's attention): psst, hey, yo; see also Thesaurus:hey
• (injunction to be quiet): hush, shh, shush, whist
• (injunction to pay attention): hark

Thus ends the first post.