Nick
@misterghostreads.bsky.social
Board gamer | Dog dad | ARC Reviewer | 🏳️🌈👻
🖤🩶🤍💙 Mostly horror & LGBTQIA+
📖 - Oathbringer (Sanderson)
📖 - Sanditon (Austen)
🖤🩶🤍💙 Mostly horror & LGBTQIA+
📖 - Oathbringer (Sanderson)
📖 - Sanditon (Austen)
Apple Music called me a gay slur last night when showing me my wrapped thing.
December 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Apple Music called me a gay slur last night when showing me my wrapped thing.
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
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Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
October 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
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US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right -
the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it
the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it
September 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right -
the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it
the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it
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Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.
August 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.
Ever so slightly NSFW:
But to all the football fans out there, do those guys know we can see the entirety of their dicks in those pants or???
I might've accidentally become a football fan is all I'm sayin'
But to all the football fans out there, do those guys know we can see the entirety of their dicks in those pants or???
I might've accidentally become a football fan is all I'm sayin'
July 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Ever so slightly NSFW:
But to all the football fans out there, do those guys know we can see the entirety of their dicks in those pants or???
I might've accidentally become a football fan is all I'm sayin'
But to all the football fans out there, do those guys know we can see the entirety of their dicks in those pants or???
I might've accidentally become a football fan is all I'm sayin'
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Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
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Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.
July 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.
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The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.
June 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.
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For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.
June 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.
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Word of the day is ‘beek’ (13th century): to bask in the pleasurable warmth of the sun.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
May 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Word of the day is ‘beek’ (13th century): to bask in the pleasurable warmth of the sun.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
Also available as a noun, as in ‘I took a wonderful beek today’.
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Word of the Day is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and bask in its warmth.
April 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Word of the Day is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and bask in its warmth.
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Soubhiye, from Lebanese Arabic, is the enjoyment of a quiet moment of peace before everyone else is awake.
Gökotta is a Swedish term for waking up early to enjoy the birdsong.
For the rest of us, there is hurkle-durkling, from Scots: lingering in bed long after it’s time to get up.
Gökotta is a Swedish term for waking up early to enjoy the birdsong.
For the rest of us, there is hurkle-durkling, from Scots: lingering in bed long after it’s time to get up.
April 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Soubhiye, from Lebanese Arabic, is the enjoyment of a quiet moment of peace before everyone else is awake.
Gökotta is a Swedish term for waking up early to enjoy the birdsong.
For the rest of us, there is hurkle-durkling, from Scots: lingering in bed long after it’s time to get up.
Gökotta is a Swedish term for waking up early to enjoy the birdsong.
For the rest of us, there is hurkle-durkling, from Scots: lingering in bed long after it’s time to get up.
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Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
April 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
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Etymology of the day: in the expression ‘just deserts’, ‘deserts’ is an old past participle of the French ‘deservir’, meaning ‘deserve’. To get your just deserts is to get what you deserve.
‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
March 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Etymology of the day: in the expression ‘just deserts’, ‘deserts’ is an old past participle of the French ‘deservir’, meaning ‘deserve’. To get your just deserts is to get what you deserve.
‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.
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Among the lost positives consigned to the dusty corners of the dictionary is ‘reck’, meaning ‘care’, ‘heed’, and ‘consideration’. Which means we can be reckful instead of reckless (and feckful, gormful, ruthful, ept, kempt, couth, consolate, and many more).
March 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Among the lost positives consigned to the dusty corners of the dictionary is ‘reck’, meaning ‘care’, ‘heed’, and ‘consideration’. Which means we can be reckful instead of reckless (and feckful, gormful, ruthful, ept, kempt, couth, consolate, and many more).
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Word of the day is ‘hingum-tringum’: 19th-century Scots for feeling feeble or barely presentable, and just about hanging together.
March 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Word of the day is ‘hingum-tringum’: 19th-century Scots for feeling feeble or barely presentable, and just about hanging together.
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Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.
March 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.
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Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.
Happy World Book Day.
Happy World Book Day.
March 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.
Happy World Book Day.
Happy World Book Day.
I've recently become completely obsessed with the UK show Countdown. I fucking love it. I'm so bad at the letters and so good at the numbers. I guess my job does sorta make sense...
March 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I've recently become completely obsessed with the UK show Countdown. I fucking love it. I'm so bad at the letters and so good at the numbers. I guess my job does sorta make sense...
I'm sick and miserable 😭
My nose just keeps going 💀
My nose just keeps going 💀
March 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I'm sick and miserable 😭
My nose just keeps going 💀
My nose just keeps going 💀
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February 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM