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1. bumˈpologist, n. View full entry 1824
...One who is learned in bumpology....
2. columnist, n. View full entry 1920
...One who writes a ‘column’ in the newspaper press (see column4). In the U.S. sometimes with the jocular spelling colyumistˈkɒljəmɪst...
3. deˈtonsure, n. View full entry 1819
...Shaving, polling. (affected or humorous.)...
4. ebriate, adj. View full entry 1847
...Intoxicated; fig....
5. gignate, v. View full entry 1819
...trans. To produce, be the author of....
6. growlery, n. View full entry 1830
...Growling, rumbling, or grumbling....
7. inˈcursionist, n. View full entry 1883
...One who makes an incursion or inroad; an invader. (Humorous.)...
8. noseology, n. View full entry 1819
...The study of the human nose, esp. as a means of judging character, intellectual capacity, etc.; (also) †a treatise on this (obs.)....
9. polyphloisboian, adj. View full entry 1824
...That roars loudly; noisy, boisterous....
10. † polyphloisboioism, n. View full entry 1823
...Noisy bombast....
11. profundify, v. View full entry 1821
...trans. To make intellectually profound....
12. toploftical, adj. View full entry 1823
...High-flown, ‘high and mighty’, ‘highfalutin’, ‘stuck-up’; also lit. lofty, elevated....
