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Lemon Calf-slobber Pie

If it’s Thursday, it must be time for Thursday’s Top Ten List and this week, I’m continuing to work my way through a very, very bizarre book!  The title is Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.  This week we are exploring the letter C.

1. Cagamosis – an unhappy marriage.  I’m surprised I never heard this term before.
2. Calf-slobber – meringue on a pie (slang).  I may never eat lemon meringue pie again.
3. Capernoited – tipsy, lightly pifflecated.  Otherwise known as a 3-martini lunch
4. Carfax – an intersection of four roads.  And I thought it was what you asked for when you buy an used car.
5. Chittering-bite – a piece of bread put in the mouth to prevent the teeth from chattering.
6. Clinchpoop – a jerk, boor, slob, boob, fathead – (an ex)
7. Convertite – a reformed prostitute
8. Catlap – a weak drink, fit only for a cat to lap
9. Caliginous – obscure, dark or veiled.
   
10. Cacoepy – incorrect pronunciation. (can you pronounce any of these words?)