Metronymy

   
Metronymy is the system of naming after the mother's or female line in a family.

Agelast

   
An agelast is one who never laughs; a mirthless person.

He or she is definitely not an abderian!

Abderian

   
An abderian is a person given to foolish or excessive laughter.

Abbozzo

   An abbozzo is a preliminary sketch, rough drawing or early model.

Jentacular

   
Jentacular means of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up.

Agraffe

 

An agraffe is a clasp consisting of a hook which fastens on to a ring; the term is also used for a certain piano part and for the wire that holds the cork in a champagne bottle.

Brontide

   
Brontide is long, low, rumbling thunder. The term is also used for low, rumbling thunderlike sounds of short duration not originating from thunderstorms but believed to be of seismic origin.

Blandiloquence

   
Blandiloquence is mild, flattering speech.

Hagiographer

   
A hagiographer is the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography; especially used for those writing about saints. The study of saints is called hagiography.

An autohagiographer is someone who writes sumgly about their own achievments.

Guggenheim

 
Guggenheim is a word game.

The Rules of Guggenheim

Players choose a set of five different categories; for example - places, girl's names, vegetables, cars and sports.

Then they choose a word of five or six letters; e.g. PRAISE.

Each player then has to provide a word for each category starting with each letter of the target word.

Scoring is either one point for each word provided or one point for each word no-one else fills in that space for, each blank counting minus 1 point.