Words for the Day

There are two.
 
Blustery
I can’t see this word without thinking of Winnie the Pooh. Of course. I walked into Jen and Oni’s kitchen yesterday, shivered dramatically and pronounced that it was a grand mas blustery day. Oni replied that we were “inna this here blusteration.” Yes indeedy. We were.

Can't find blusteration in the dictionary and blustery just gets a brief mention. Huh.

This is what I found:
Bluster

verb (used without object)
1. to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
2. to be loud, noisy, or swaggering; utter loud, empty menaces or protests:
He blusters about revenge but does nothing.
verb (used with object)
3. to force or accomplish by blustering:
He blustered his way through the crowd.
noun
4. boisterous noise and violence:
the bluster of the streets.

1520-30; perhaps < Low German blustern, blüstern to blow violently; compare Old Norse blāstr blowing, hissing 

At Chambers I found one little snippet on blustery:

 blustery adj said of the weather: rough and windy.

Fantod

noun
1. Usually, fantods. (Ed note: like breasts, they usually travel in pairs—or more) a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the):
We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving.
2. Sometimes, fantods. a sudden outpouring of anger, outrage, or a similar intense emotion.

1835-40; apparently fant(igue) (earlier fantique, perhaps blend of fantasy and frantic; -igue probably by association with fatigue ) + -od(s), of obscure origin;

More word origin:

From Infinite Detox:

I had also always assumed that this was one of those totally obsolete words that hadn’t seen common usage for hundreds of years, until Wallace single-handedly resuscitated it. Wrong. It actually has a strong pedigree in American literature — Mark Twain used it in Huckleberry Finn: “These was all nice pictures,… but I didn’t somehow seem to take to them, because… they always gave me the fan-tods.” In this passage Huck is describing pictures drawn by a girl who died at the age of 15. Which, I think, jives quite nicely with a general sense of the heebie-jeebies.

And World Wide Words has some, em, good words:

Where it comes from is mostly a mystery. Of the singular the Chambers Dictionary says, “a fidgety, fussy person, especially a ship’s officer”, which is intriguing but doesn’t get us very far. Some etymological works point to its presence in Dorset, Kentish and Lincolnshire dialects, and suggest it probably arose from the dialectal fantique, which may ultimately be from fantastic or fantasy. This turns up in yet another spelling here, meaning an escapade:

“You’re a amiably-disposed young man, Sir, I don’t think,” resumed Mr. Weller, in a tone of moral reproof, “to go inwolving our precious governor in all sorts o’ fanteegs, wen he’s made up his mind to go through everythink for principle.”
The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens, 1837. Dickens is here faithfully recording the London pronunciation of the period, which often turned vs into ws.

Edward Gorey was a fan of fantod. He published 28 books under this imprint.
AND there’s a pack of Fantod Tarot Cards. I believe I’ll need to pick those up.