- AcersecomicA person whose hair has never been cut. RecumbentibusA knockout punch, either verbal or physical. MontivagantWandering over hills and mountains.FanfaronadeSwaggering; empty boasting; blustering manneror behavior; ostentatious display.QuockerwodgerA rare nineteenth-century word for a wooden toywhich briefly became a political insult.ZugzwangA position in which any decision or movewill result in problems.
Today I'm admiring these clever prints by Project Twins, elegantly simple images that interpret and/or represent strange, unusual and lost words. The full collection was exhibited at the MadArt Gallery Dublin during DesignWeek 2011. See more images and purchase prints here.
(via brain pickings)