Five words capillotracted to restore urgently

They are strange, even narcotic drugs, but completely delicious.A "Luculelus" designates a person who appreciates "good food".Whoever tends to "Blézimarde", often cuts off.As for the "Agelast", he never laughs.Overview, thanks to the 200-Funny Words to be successful to defeat the gloom (Le Robert) by Jean-Christophe Tomasi, the capillotracted terms that populate the French language.

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Barathre

Avouons-le, ce nom a notre préférence. Il est élégant et peut aisément s’insérer au milieu d’une conversation banale. En effet, un «barathre» ou «barathrum», désigne une «sorte de gouffre» ou, plus généralement, un «enfer». Victor Hugo y a recours dans Les Misérables tandis qu’il décrit les égouts de la capitale: «L’imagination populaire assaisonnait le sombre évier parisien d’on ne sait quel hideux mélange d’infini. L’égout était sans fond. L’égout, c’était le barathrum».

But to see more closely, we discover that this term hides a dark and cruel story.Originally, the "barathre" was a "very deep, which served as a precipice for criminals".As Jean-Christophe Tomasi, this frightening place was noted, was west of Athens.The stone walls were relieved of the "iron crampons, some with the tip at the top, the others aside" so as to injure the condemned to death and, of course, "hit the imagination of the spectators".

The playwrights will not hesitate, thereafter, to reinterpret the meaning of the word.Plaute, as Tomasi mentions, "uses it to stigmatize women of bad life whose lubricity was deemed insatiable".It was not until the 19th century and, more precisely, the literary movement of the decadents that "Barathre" becomes a synonym of hell.

Fanfrelucheux

This is a jovial and sparkling word!Cute, almost.Where does this adjective come from?"Fanfreluche comes from the Latin of Lower times Famfaluca (ninth century), preserved by Italian, alteration of the Greek Pompholux,‘ ‘Bulle of Air’ ’."The term first designated a "trifle" before taking the meaning of "little thing that the wind is preventing" then meant finally, an "ornament in the toilet".

"Fanfreluche" gave the word "freluche" which means "something little value", a word used to speak of an "decoration element" or even, "an ornament of the costume".We will have understood: a "fanfrelucheux" is a way of qualifying "the one who loves fanfiole", the light ornaments.

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Gnomic

This learned little word has an equally serious definition: "which expresses moral truths in the form of sentences".Amiel, which is retained for his newspaper nearly 17,000 pages, invented the neologism "Gnomorrhagie", namely: "the bad habit of debit sentences".

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Coming from Greek Gnomê, the adjective "gnomic" can work "about a form of ancient poetry expressing moral truths".Often, in the form of maxims or even proverbs.In linguistics, specifies Tomasi, this term is used "to qualify a present translating a general fact".Example: the earth is round.

Tantalize

We need to dive into Greek antiquity again.And more specifically, in history, repeatedly told, of Tantalus "condemned by Zeus, perhaps because he was flying the dishes to the table of the gods".Ulysses meets this tormented hero as he goes to the dead to know how to go home, reminds Tomasi.We then meet Tantalus, "condemned to be thirsty and hungry eternally, the water from which he wishes to drink always shirks under his feet and the fruits on the branches, swept out of his reach by the wind".

Thus, figuratively, his name ended up characterizing "any person ardently wishing something that is inaccessible to him".What is "Tatalian" is what arouses a lust and designates an unfulfilled wish.As for the verb "tantalizing", it has the definition: "inspire someone of the desires that he cannot satisfy".

Gymnop

Have you ever had the strange impression that an unknown was fixing you, detailing your face, your clothes, following with meticulousness your smallest actions?So you know the definition of gymnophtism.Let us specify all the same.This neologism is used to speak of a "embarrassing feeling that a person undresses you with the gaze".

Know also that the Japanese have a word to talk about someone's look to someone before "looking away, to finally come back to him in order to be sure that we drew his attention": "Nagashime".The English have created the term "basorexia": "the pressing desire to kiss someone".The lexicon of emotions: a whole poem!

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