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ZEPPELINICALLY :  adv  swollen in the sense of being filled with gas like the dirigible airships of the early twentieth century named for the Graf von Zeppelin

General Isidro Bodega's Dutch Finance Minister, who would have confiscated the island for his personal estate, was, for example, visited with the Curse of the Tides, and his belly alternately swelled zeppelinically and shrivelled to his spine--the tides run twenty feet in Mituco Bay--until he gave the project up.

--Koster, The Dissertation, p. 9.

ZEUGMA :  noun  the use of a word in relationship to two other words in such a way that it is not grammatically correct with one of the pair. For example: "He divorced his wife and children." See SYLLEPSIS

ZIM :  verb  according to OED, a spurious word for "gem" or "jewel." ZIMMED, therefore, would mean bedecked with jewels. See SPINTRY

ZINZULATION :  noun  echoic for the sound of power saws

. . . zinzulations of shingle-mills. . . .

--Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola, p. 160.

ZOOMORPHIC :  adj  taking the shape of an animal. See CENAL

ZOOPHILIAC :  adj  animal-loving or copulating with animals

These Otukungurua are prophets of masturbating, specialists in abortion and sterilization, pitchmen for acts oral and anal, pedal and digital, sodomistical and zoophiliac--their approach and their game is pleasure. . . .

--Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, p. 318.