Glossary

15 terms

• Dasein /dɑː.zʌɪn/

  Being-there, Heideggerianly speaking. In Lord Snatch’s hands, a philosophical warrant for being exactly where he has no business to be.

• demimondaine /ˌdem.i.mɒnˈdeɪn/

  Woman of the demi-monde [French]. A polite nineteenth-century wrapper for a subject the novel is unlikely to leave polite.

• Diamorphine /daɪəˈmɔːfiːn/

  Heroin in its medical clothes. Applied here to Lady Snatch’s burns with the respectability denied it elsewhere.

• Digestionnaire (n.) /daɪˈdʒɛs.tʃəˌnɛr/

  Coprophage, coprophile [French].

  • French

• Dildo /ˈdɪldəʊ/

  Artificial erect penis. Also, given sufficient philosophy, a problem in teleology, literary history and insurance.

• Dilution beyond Avogadro’s Constant (n. phrase) /daɪˈluː.ʃən biˈjɒnd ˌæv.əˈɡɑː.droʊz ˈkɒn.stənt/

  The dilution of a mixture beyond the threshold at which a molecule of a given substance can reasonably be expected to be present.

• Dinjerley /ˈdɪn.dʒə.li/

  A condition of impecunity, crisis and generally disagreeable financial exposure. Particularly vexing when superadded to aristocracy, addiction or matrimony.

• Dionysiacs /ˌdaɪ.əˈnɪz.i.æks/

  Revellers of the Bacchic tendency. The street mob once drums, drink and grievance have acquired a classical education.

• Dogging (n.) /ˈdog.ɪŋ/

  Engaging in sexual activity with strangers, typically outdoors.

• Dogmuckery (noun) /ˈdɒɡˌmʌkəri/

  A particularly egregious form of cant, usually pertaining to moralistic or theological discourse and accompanied by an odour of self-satisfaction.

• Doyolek /ˈdɔɪ.ə.lek/

  Supposed barbarous tongue in which Francis MacMahon imagines Ian Corby to speak. Linguistics by sales patter.

• Drunques /drʌŋks/

  Drunks [vernacular]. Common street furniture in Stokes Croft and Montypee.

• Dubstep Dialectic (n. phrase) /ˈdʌb.stɛp ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪk/

  A philosophical standoff conducted at 150bpm. Features in Sleaze’s retreat, where tantric instruction and preposterous jargon collide with screaming synth lines.

• Dubstep Serenade (n. phrase) /ˈdʌb.stɛp ˌsɛr.əˈneɪd/

  A failed erotic overture delivered by Onanisticles the scagsmith via mobile phone speaker during the late stage of an orgy. Features industrial shrieks, digital shrillness, and a mass failure of the vinegar stroke.

• Duma (n.) /ˈduːmə/

  Parliament, council, legislative body [Russian].

  • Russian