High-faluting mumbo jumbo

This blog will hereafter have a new feature perhaps: the high-faluting mumbo jumbo feature, named in honour of that moment when Gilbert Blythe tells Anne of Green Gables not to write high-faluting mumbo jumbo, but to right about what's real and things she knows. He's right of course, but I still have a soft spot for a little high-faluting mumbo jumbo. Or rather, I quite like big words, or rather big words that say something precisely, that it would otherwise take half a sentence to say eg schadenfreude - find another way to say that in one word and I might use it.

So, here is a word I stumbled across on the weekend (definition taken from here):

su·do·rif·ic (sōō'də-rĭf'ĭk) Pronunciation Key

adj. Causing or increasing sweat.

n. A sudorific medicine. Also called sudatory.

It's very useful. Here is the proof of that, which came to me in a flash of inspiration this morning:

On a sudorific morning

When all the world was snoring

I jogged along Blackwattle Bay

And dripped my Christmas lunch away.

So OK, if you want to read something more serious, about something of a little more substance, here is my post at the EQUIP book club today.