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From: I Never Knew There Was A Word For It
a nakhur is a camel that will not give milk until her nostrils are tickled.
a blatteroon is a person who talks too incessantly.
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5 comments:
Nakhur? I wonder if baby camels are born knowing this? LOL!
I hope I'm not a blatteroon. My mother sometimes is. Does it run in families?
What fabulous words!!
I'm writing them down to liberally pepper my next conversation!
But a person who talks somewhat incessantly is a blateron.
jinksy
Difficult to know, no?
Elisabeth
I'm sure you're not and I'm sure it doesn't.
Pamela Terry and Edward
The book is full of them, it seems.
Glenn
Like it!
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