everything has a name
By Nathan Johnson
Published 7 years ago
Translated literally, kummerspeck means: grief bacon. It is the weight that you gain from emotionally overeating.
You know that cardboard sleeve you get for your coffee to go? It’s known as a zarf.
The fresh line of toothpaste that you put onto the bristles of your toothbrush is known as the nurdle.
A ferrule is the little piece of metal that connects the pencil and the eraser.
Box Tent. That little table found in the middle of your pizza.
Dingbats, Grawlix, Profanitype. The symbols used in to replace swear words.
Columella nasi. That space between your two nostrils.
A feat is that tiny little hair or cluster of hairs that gently dangles over the forehead.
A tittle is the tiny little dot that can be found perched atop a lowercase “i” or “j.”
Armscye. The arm hole found in shirts, sweaters, and jackets.
Griffonage is the particularly terrible handwriting that someone scribbles onto a page.
Defenestrate is the insane act of throwing someone or something through a glass window.
Peen. The other end of a hammer head.
Lemniscate. The infinity loop.
The lunule is the small, white, crescent tips of your fingernails.
That strange little divot that runs between the underside of your nose and your top lip is your philtrum, and even dogs have it.
The lines on the inside of your wrist are known as ‘rasceta.’
Chanking is food that has been chewed on but spat back out.
You know that soft, webbing of skin between your thumb and forefinger? That is your purlicue.
The Punt is the underside of a bottle of wine. More specifically, it is the little indentations found on the underside of a bottle of wine.
The glabella is that soft patch of skin between your two eyebrows.
A path created naturally by people walking over grass because it was a more desirable and faster option.
