Glossary

19 terms

• Hagranilozites (n.) /ˌhæɡrəˌnɪləˈzɪts/

  Agranulocytosis [vernacular]. Acute lowered white blood cell count, leading to neutropenia. Sufferers are at risk of serious infection owing to the immune system compromise associated with this condition. Typically associated with the abuse of adulterated cocaine.

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• Hanarchit (n.) /ˈhænərkɪt/

  Anarchist [vernacular].

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• Handjob Luncheon /ˈhænd.dʒɒb ˈlʌn.tʃən/

  Integrated investment bank of Sir Hearty Luncheon and Lord Handjob. Buys money, sells money, and converts friendship with power into a diversified portfolio.

• Handsiness /ˈhænd.zɪ.nəs/

  The condition of being excessively manual with one’s fellow citizens. Mince is an advanced practitioner.

• Haruspex [haˈrʊs.pɛks]

  Diviner by inspection of entrails. At Bristol gyms, a management grade.

• Hegemonic Scourge of the Patriarchy /ˌhedʒ.ɪˈmɒn.ɪk ˈskɜːdʒ əv ðə ˈpeɪ.tri.ɑː.ki/

  Magniloquent name for male domination when ordinary patriarchy will not sufficiently fill the banner.

• Hellevant’s Voot (n. phrase) /ˈhɛl.ə.vənts vuːt/

  Umbrella stand of uncertain vocation: urinal, reliquary, altar or all three in succession. Hellevant's Voot rewards misuse of both furniture and certainty.

• Henbane /ˈhɛnbeɪn/

  Poisonous herb in Fadya's flowers, credited in the play to Apollo and associated with Atropos. Classical botany with a body count.

• hierophant /ˈhaɪəɹəˌfænt/

  Interpreter of sacred mysteries. Chlamydia's proposed office for Squalor in a masque whose mysteries are principally sexual and punitive.

• Higgerance (n.) /ˈhɪɡərəns/

  Ignorance [vernacular].

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• High colonics /ˌhaɪ kəˈlɒn.ɪks/

  Illingworth’s principal sacrament: the upward irrigation of the bowel in pursuit of wellness, profit and evidential material.

• Hinnom /ˈhɪn.ɒm/

  Valley of torment invoked by Luvvertory as a synonym for hell. Biblical geography recruited to Bristolian complaint.

• Hombonpoint (n.) /ˈhɒmbɒnˌpwæ̃/

  Embonpoint [vernacular]. The female bust (at least in the normal course of things).

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• Homoeopathy /ˌhəʊ.miˈɒp.ə.θi/

  Therapeutic system in which the active ingredient is removed until only conviction remains. Costa's preferred method of spa maintenance.

• Hornotholojit (n.) /ˌhɔrnəˈθɒlədʒɪt/

  Ornithologist [vernacular].

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• hortonomes /ˈhɔː.tə.nəʊmz/

  Gardeners or cultivators in Medusa’s revolutionary idiom. Those who make a million flowers bloom, chemically where necessary.

• House of Snatch (n. phrase) /haʊs əv snætʃ/

  The Montpelier … er … squat also known as …er… Squattocrat Heights. Notable for its decaying grandeur, ritual orgies, and unpaying suitors. Occupied by Lord and Lady Snatch, until neither are.

• Houyhnhnm /huˈɪn.əm/

  Swiftian horse of perfect reason. In Bristol, chiefly useful as the zoological basis of a party disguise.

• hypocrisy /hɪˈpɒkɹəsi/

  The moral vice universally diagnosed in others and locally practised as a civic art.