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BALANIC :  adj  having to do with the glans penis and/or the clitoris. BALANOS, noun. See also CARDIOID

Sometimes he wondered what the phrase really meant . . . how did a "balanic plum" look. . . .
--Nabokov, Transparent Things, p. 75.

BALATRON :  noun  an unintentional clown.

His fat body shook like a balatron. . . .
--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 32.

BATHYSIDERODROMOPHOBIA : noun  fear of subways, undergrounds, or metros. Compare CHTHONIC, TANNHAUSERISM, TERRENITY

--Well, I came up on the subways, and. . .
--Bathysiderodromophobia! What did I tell you!
--Gaddis, The Recognitions, p. 618.

BATRACHIAN : adj  having to do with frogs

His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again in to the honey.
--Fowles, The Magus, p. 160.

BATRACHOMYOMACHIA : noun  literally, "the battle between frogs and mice"; a silly and trifling altercation. Compare FRATCH, QUISQUOUS, TIRRIT

Sex is merely lust--the batrachomyomachia of the bunghole and battery from which love, apparently, can do anything but shelter one.
--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 562.

BLAEDSIAN :  verb  See quotation

In the days when bless was blaedsian, it meant to smear with blood, as if to recombine things guided apart by fear, the word for which was uggr,† or by indignation or even primitive good taste.
--West, Out of My Depths, p. 17.

BLAKE :  verb  to become pale, to blanch

. . . Medeia blaked with fury that had no possible vent. . . .
--Gardner, Jason and Medeia, p. 243.

BLEB :  noun  a bump, a blister. See PYKNIC

BOANTHROP :  noun  one who thinks he is, or acts like, an ox. Compare DODDIPOL, JOBBERNOWL, NUPSON, UNGULATE, VACCINE, VITULINE

. . . the electronic marketing-box . . . where grinning boanthrops . . . interrupt us every two minutes mumbling Party-Think. . . .
--Theroux, "Theroux Metaphrastes,"
Three Wogs, p. 17.

BOLUS :  noun  lump, large pill. See also DIGLOT. Compare HOLUS-BOLUS

--Grandfather Hippagoras . . . was physicking the ass, sticking a turpentine and onion bolus down it.
--Davenport, "The Antiquities of Elis,"
Da Vinci's Bicycle, p. 144.

BOREAL :  adj  nothern. See TRAMONTANA. Compare SEPTENTRIONAL

BRONSTROP :  noun  a corruption of "Bawdstrot," a prcuress, a madam. See PATIBULARY

BUBUKLE :  noun  portmanteau of "buboe" and "carbuncle"; boil, pimple

His face was his misfortune. It was full of meteors. It was covered with bubukles, and whelks,† and knobs, and flames of fire.
--Nye, Falstaff, p. 251.

BUGLE :  verb  1) to blow on a horn of that name; 2) a "euphemeism for `suck´" (Koster)

To tour the provinces of her mind and body, swilling up deference all along the way. Angela received him and paid homage. Fugled† and bugled, that is. . . .
--Koster, Mandragon, p. 335.