October Words

Horripilation
     noun
a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold or fear; goosebumps.
Horripilation comes from the Late Latin word horripilāre, “to become bristly,” which is also the source of words such as horrendous, horrify, and horror. (source)

The focused, egregious degeneracy of the Republi/Facist party gives me horripilation and the boogie woogie blues.

Aole
     adverb
no; not at all.
Aole comes from the Hawaiian interjection ʿaʿole, which can mean “no, not, never; to be none, to have none.” (source)

Far be it from me to argue with a native Hawaiian but this word looks like it’s missing a few letters. It’s actually a noun meaning:

1. a person’s anus. (or, in Cheeto’s case, his face)

2. a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person. (or one of Cheeto’s mild, insufficiently descriptive sobriquets)

Coriaceous
     adjective
of or like leather.

Have you ever noticed? Scary Kari Lake’s face has an aged, left-out-in-the-desert-sun coriaceous quality.

Shower orange
     noun
an orange that is peeled and eaten under a steamy shower, the purported benefit being that the steam enhances the orange’s citrusy fragrance and creates a soothing experience for the person who is showering.

The modern world is filled with ways to dissociate. You can take a drug designed for horses. You can shroud yourself in darkness. You can submerge your body in a tank that stops your senses from working at all. Of course, the options are more limited for those of us with fewer resources, but thankfully we have TikTok, which is full of shortcuts to feeling (temporarily) at peace. For example, have you tried eating an orange in the shower? (source)

Emmmm, no thanks. My shower goal is to get clean. If I want to eat an orange I’ll eat the damn fruit without draining my hot water tank and blowing up my water bill.

The test: Was eating an orange in the shower life-changing?
Yes. And no. Contrary to science, the shower dampened the citrusy scent—the orange was actually way more fragrant when I took a bite outside the bathroom...Maybe my olfactory system is flawed. Maybe I psyched myself out. Maybe it’s all hogwash. (source)

Yeah, again, no thank you.

Screaming-meemies
     noun
extreme nervousness; anxiety; hysteria.

• Screaming-meemies was first recorded in 1925–30 as a World War I army slang term for a type of German rocket that made a loud noise in flight.
• Screaming-meemies expanded in meaning to refer to battle fatigue as well as to the state of drunkenness or even hysteria. (source)
  

The money mad power chasers of the Republi/Fascist party give me the screming-meemies.

Cadaveric Spasm
a form of muscular stiffening which occurs at the moment of death and which persists into the period of rigor mortis. Its cause is unknown but it is usually associated with violent deaths in circumstances of intense emotion. (source) 

Not to be confused with the death metal band (there MUST be one) of the same name.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
~ Margaret Atwood