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fhrumpfulism - morbid addition to pies, strudles, cakes, bakery items -
quindism - a fifteenth of something -
geophagism - practice of eating clay, chalk, or other earth -
daltonism - color blindness, named for John Dalton who had this malady -
hoydenism - rude boisterous traits, especially in a young woman -
oslerism - Dr. William Osler's theory that a man is useless after age
60 -
epizoism - a condition where parasites live externally on another
living -
slurvianism - slurred speech -
nephalism - non-indulgence of intoxicating liquors, advocating
sobriety, - owlism
- stupidity; quality of being uninteresting -
pythonism - art of predicting events or being prophetic, after
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hypocorism - pet name or endearment like "sugar pie", using
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mephitism - having a foul, obnixious stench (city dumps and skunks) -
saturnism -- lead poisoning; in alchemy and old chemistry,
Saturn -
floccinaucinihilipilificationism - the practice of habitually
estimating
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