Glossary

26 terms

• samizdat /ˈsæmɪzdæt/

  A word dropped by Fadya in disguise as literary small-talk. The play offers no definition, only the expectation that underground culture should have news.

• Sanhedrin /sænˈhiː.dɹɪn/

  Montpelier’s informal tribunal of disorderly assembly. A sacred council for a parish in which sacredness has been drinking.

• Scagmeistery (n.) /ˈskæɡ.maɪst.ər.i/

  Drugging, and the lifestyle associated therewith.

• Scagsmith (n.) /ˈskæɡ.smɪθ/

  A title borne by purveyors of heroin, ketamine, and poetic delusion. Most famously applied to Onanisticles of the ilk, whose afflictions are as metaphorical as they are dermatological.

• Scagsmithery /ˈskæɡz.mɪθ.ər.i/

  The arts and mysteries of the scagsmith. Commerce, narcotics and the moral atmosphere surrounding both.

• Scatological /ˌskæt.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/

  Of dung, bottoms and the literature they leave behind. Applied with equal freedom to Vagus's relict, gym aggression and the investigations of the Phantom Crapper.

• Schadenfreude (n.) /ˈʃɑː.dən.frɔɪ.də/

  Shame-joy [German]. The sociopathological deriving of happiness from the others’ misfortunes.

  • German

• Schlafzimmer /ˈʃlaːfˌt͡sɪmɐ/

  Bedroom [German]. The Buggery sleeping chamber acquires foreign dignity without shedding any of its nastiness.

• Schwartze Schaffe (n. phrase) /ʃvɑrtsɛ ˈʃæfə/

  Black sheep [German]. See also mouton noir.

  • German

• Scirocco (n.) /sɪˈrɒkoʊ/

  Strong dry Mediterranean wind originating in the Sahara, often reaching hurricane force.

• Scunnered (adj.) /ˈskʌn.ərd/

  Bored, enervated, with intimations of overwhelming [Scots/Doric].

  • Scots

• Shanked (n.) /ʃæŋkt/

  Stabbed.

• Sine qua non (n. phrase) /ˌsaɪ.niː kwɑː ˈnɒn/

  Without which not [Latin]. Indispensable.

  • Latin

• Slip x a length (n. phrase) /slɪp eks eɪ leŋθ/

  Engage in sexual intercourse with x.

• Snatchiad (n.) /ˈsnætʃ.i.æd/

  Part Three of Odour Issues, cast as a mock-epic after Homer and Virgil. The Snatchiad gives Lord Snatch the heroic apparatus he manifestly does not deserve.

• sophronistae (n.) /ˌsɒfrəˈnɪsti/

  Instructors of youth. Groomers. Paedogogues [Greek].

  • Greek

• Spakür Ohne Grenzen (n. phrase) /ˌʃpɑː.kʊər ˈoʊ.nə ˈɡrɛnt.sən/

  Spa Cures Without Frontiers [German]. Disaster relief agency.

  • German

• Spartacist /ˈspɑː.tə.sɪst/

  Member of the League of Spartacists. Revolutionary by nomenclature, sacrificial victim by algorithm.

• Squattocrat Towers /ˈskwɒt.ə.kræt ˈtaʊ.əz/

  Decaying Montpelier squat-palace of Lord and Lady Snatch. Manga murals, aristocratic anarchy, salons and eventually redevelopment pressure.

• STI /ˌes.tiːˈaɪ/

  Sexually transmitted infection. One of the recurrent occupational hazards surrounding Roger Buggery’s professional ecosystem.

• Stubbly Delilah (n. phrase) /ˈstʌb.li dɪˈlaɪ.lə/

  Bearded seductress of ambiguous gender and unmatched treachery. Associated with betrayal, falsified testimonials, and coconut oil.

• Subdialectic appropriation /ˌsʌb.daɪ.əˈlek.tɪk əˌprəʊ.priˈeɪ.ʃən/

  Buggeryite theoretical manoeuvre by which Marxism can be made to explain whatever Roger was going to do anyway.

• Sudra (n.) /ˈsuː.drə/

  White shirt tied with a cord, sacred to Zoroastrians.

• Sundarbang (n.) /ˈsʌn.dɑː.bæŋ/

  The Sundarbans, mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal, located in the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers.

• Swailed (adj.) /sweɪld/

  Swallowed [Scots/Doric].

  • Scots

• Swinking (n.) /ˈswɪŋ.kɪŋ/

  Toiling, labouring [from the Anglo-Saxon].

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