PUHKUS JA EELARVAMUS
Desipient brachiation
26/03/05
Tänased uued sõnad:
| brachiate | 1. verb rippudes ühelt jäsemelt teisele kiikumine või selle abil edasi liikumine (tavaliselt puu otsas) 2. adj haralisirutuvate osade või harudega (nt vahtraleht) |
”... climbing trees.”
“Oh, I’m good at that,” said Van, “in fact, I can even brachiate.”
—Nabokov, Ada, p. 51
| desipience | rumalus, tobedus, kergemeelsus |
Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming.
—Fowles, The Magus, p. 160
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