Glossary

11 terms

• Nabokovian /ˌnæb.əˈkəʊ.vi.ən/

  Adjectival literary fraternity claimed by Slime and Sleaze. Their browser histories make the fellowship less innocently bibliographical than the word first suggests.

• Nabokovian Google history /ˌnæb.əˈkəʊ.vi.ən ˈɡuː.ɡəl ˈhɪs.tər.i/

  Slime's compromising online archaeology, sufficiently literary to be called Nabokovian and sufficiently compromising to interest the Feds.

• National Socialist /ˌnæʃ.ən.əl ˈsəʊ.ʃə.lɪst/

  Political designation adopted or discussed by several of the parish’s more enterprising reactionaries. History, locally franchised.

• National Socialist narrative /ˌnæʃ.ən.əl ˈsəʊ.ʃə.lɪst ˈnær.ə.tɪv/

  Mr Morton Stanley’s proposed revision of history. A narrative whose principal defect is not lack of confidence.

• Necrotizing fasciitis /ˈnek.rə.taɪ.zɪŋ ˌfæs.iˈaɪ.tɪs/

  Flesh-eating soft-tissue infection. One of the less reassuring footnotes to communal bathing.

• Neep-heid (n.) /nip-hid/

  Turnip-head. Disparaging term [Scots/Doric].

  • Scots

• Nembutal /ˈnem.bjʊ.tɒl/

  Pentobarbital. Short-acting barbiturate employed to ease an animal’s passage out of this world.

• Nequia /ˈnek.wi.ə/

  A consultation with the dead, or descent among them, adapted for Lord Snatch’s mock-epic itinerary.

• Neurotic Historicism (noun) /njʊˈrɒtɪk hɪˈstɒrɪsɪzəm/

  An anxiety-ridden obsession with historical cycles, in which each present moment is misread as echo or retribution.

• Nilists (n.) /ˈnaɪlɪsts/

  Nihilists [vernacular]. In the context of sociopolitical ethics, persons without goals save for the destruction of all human institutions, whether concrete or abstract.

  • vernacular

• N’importe quoiqu’elle s’appelle (n. phrase) /nɛ̃.pɔʁt kɔkɛl sa.pɛl/

  No matter how she styles herself [French].

  • French