Pepspots
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boistercartle /ˈbɔɪstәˌkɑːtәl/
noun (plural boistercartles)
a living staccato mark that provides emphasis for both notes and words.
[a blend of boisterous + staccato + -le.]
bromma /ˈbrɒmә/
noun (plural brommas)
a self-important comma that stretches up to become a bracket.
[a blend of bracket + comma.]
pepspot /ˈpɛpspɒt/
noun (plural pepspots)
a living punctuation mark, such as a tildebeest, diacritter or quook.
Proxynonym: vimbol, charactive
- pepspotty /ˈpɛpˌspɒti/ adjective
- pepspottily adverb
quook /kwʊk/
noun (plural quooks)
1. an inverted, living question mark that fishes for answers, and can sometimes be trained to catch answers that wouldn’t naturally interest it.
2. an act of quooking.
verb (transitive or intransitive) (plural quooks; quooked, quooks, quooking, quooken, quookel; agent noun quooker (plural quookers))
3. to delve with a quook.
- quookish /ˈkwʊkɪʃ/ adjective (comparative quookishmore; superlative quookishmost)
- quookishly adverb
- quookery /ˈkwʊkәri/ noun
[a blend of question mark + hook.]
tildebeest /ˈtɪldәˌbiːst/
noun (plural tildebeests)
a wavy pepspot that normally sits alone peacefully atop an n, but occasionally grows a beard and congregates with other tildebeests in vast numbers to transmigrate or transliterate across many pages to begin another life in a brave new word. Saved privately.
- tildebeestly /ˈtɪldәˌbiːstli/ adjective
[from tilde + English obsolete beest ‘beast’.]