Glossary

19 terms

• Eau de robinet (n. phrase) /oʊ də ˈroʊ.bɪ.neɪ/

  Tap water. [French]

  • French

• Ecdysis /ˈek.dɪ.sɪs/

  Shedding of skin. Ordinarily zoological; at Spa Elysium, a premium treatment outcome.

• Eco-lala /ˈiː.kəʊˌlɑː.lɑː/

  Don Quicksotte’s booming sustainability discourse. Wind, virtue and unanswerability in equal measure.

• Eggmoney (n.) /ˈɛɡˌmʌni/

  Hegemony [local vernacular].

  • local

• Eglise de la Bouteille (n. phrase) /eɪˈɡliːz də la buːˈteɪjeɪ/

  Church of the Bottle [French]. The street drinking fraternity.

  • French

• E la peste de Cipriano (n. phrase) /eɪ lə pɛste də sɪp.riˈɑː.nəʊ/

  It is the plague of Cyprian. [Italian]

  • Italian

• Emesis /ˈɛmɪsɪs/

  Vomiting in its classical dress. In Pretty Poli it even acquires a goddess and roadside shrines, because simple nausea would be insufficiently ceremonial.

• Emetos /ˈem.ɪ.tɒs/

  Purging god. Patron of emesis, nausea and the more candid forms of wellness.

• Enflèchement (n.) /ɑ̃.flɛʃ.mɑ̃/

  Piercing with arrows. [French]

  • French

• entelechy /ɛnˈtɛləki/

  The realised tendency of a thing toward its natural end. Alderman Oldphart invokes it to explain Bristol’s inability to leave a Mayoral chair empty.

• Enterologist /ˌen.təˈrɒl.ə.dʒɪst/

  Specialist in the intestine. A calling particularly well supplied with work in the Cravenverse.

• Enterologistan (n.) /ˌɛn.tə.rɒl.əˈdʒɪs.tæn/

  The conceptual space pertaining to digestive medicine.

• Entropy /ˈɛntɹəpi/

  The Second Law of Thermodynamics pressed into psychiatric service by Dr Narziss von Sociopath. Disorder, conveniently, has a diagnosis.

• epoché (n.) /ɛˈpɒk.e/

  The suspension of judgement, a concept in Hellenistic philosophy, especially among sceptics e.g. Sextus Empiricus. [French]

  • French

• Equine anaesthetics /ˈek.waɪn ˌæn.əsˈθet.ɪks/

  Horse tranquillizers. Hawksmoor’s preferred pharmaceutical bridge between public duty and oblivion.

• Equus Tranquillus (n. phrase) /ˈɛk.wəs træŋˈkwɪl.əs/

  Mr Luvvertory's Latinised ketamine: tranquil horse in name, chemical wormhole in practice. Consumers may emerge persuaded they are spaghetti.

• Escalier (n.) /ˌɛˈskælieɪ/

  Staircase [French].

  • French

• Esprit d’escalier (n. phrase) /ɛsˌpriː dɛs.kæl.jeɪ/

  Spirit of the staircase. Conceiving a witty riposte when its moment has passed. Alternatively, in the context of the Phantom Crapper subplot in Amoeba Dick, being overcome by the urge to defecate on the staircase. [French]

  • French

• Eukaryote (n.) /juːˈkæ.ri.əʊt/

  Unicellular organism containing a distinct membrane-bound nucleus.