Well, we're just over halfway =]
nacarat - a bright orange-red colour
nagware - computer software which is free for a trial period and thereafter frequently reminds the user to pay for it (not your partner reminding you that you should really wear that disgusting jumper a relation gav you last Christmas)
nainsook - a fine, soft cotton fabric, originally made in the Indian subcontinent
nesh - Brit. dialect weak, delicate, or feeble (tends to be used in Staffordshire, Yorkshire and midlands)
netizen - a habitual or keen user of the Internet (guilty as charged)
noctambulist - a sleepwalker
noyade - an execution carried out by drowning
nugacity - triviality or frivolity
nympholepsy - passion or rapture aroused in men by beautiful young girls
obnubilate - to darken, dim, or obscure something (you make a better door than a window as my Nan would say)
ogdoad - a group or set of eight
omophagy - the eating of raw food, especially meat
omphalos - the centre or hub of something
onolatry - the worship of donkeys or asses (we like big buts - shut up Brian!)
o-o - an endangered Hawaiian bird, a species of honeyeater (the larger birds look like this O-O, particularly when surprised by a honeyeater)
operose - involving or displaying a lot of effort
opsimath - a person who begins to learn or study late in life
orectic - having to do with desire or appetite
orrery - a clockwork model of the solar system, or the sun, earth, and moon
ortanique - a cross between an orange and a tangerine (also known as a fruit salad)
otalgia - earache
oxter - Scottish & N. English a person's armpit
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De TodoEverybody is somebody else's weirdo: I suspect I may be many people's. Consider this a brain dump, or indeed a Brian dump given the misspelled pseudo-entity who lives in my skull. Tangential thoughts, comments, ideas, and general Brianisms from the...
