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Word of the week: mugwump

July 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

A Mugwump in David Cronenberg’s film adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel The Naked Lunch

Word of the week: This oddly evocative noun might summon in the mind some tactile, earthy image, or a strange childrens’ TV fictional character, but actually pertains to a person who is politically neutral, aloof, or independent, and in 19th-century America, described anti-corruption party switchers

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Word of the week: circumbendibus

November 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Laurence Sterne’s acclaimed novel - a prime example of circumbendibus

Word of the week: Not a snaking elongated piece of public transport but still a very evocative 17th-century word for a circuitous, long-winded route or way of doing something or telling a story …

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Word of the week: eel-skins / excruciators

October 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Meme of the time: four lads in jeans, Birmingham 2019

Word of the week: Aside from the literal outer layer of the ray-finned slippery fish, this evocative, slightly suggestive 19th-century slang means very tight trousers, while this week’s bonus word, excruciators, points to the experience of wearing very tight shoes

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In blues, avant-garde, comedy, country, dance, disco, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, rock, pop Tags word of the week, words, eel-skins, clothing, Four Lads In Jeans, social media, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, books, Tat Vision, Snoop Dogg, Larry 'Legs' Smith, Cower, New Young Pony Club, Conway Twitty, Squeeze (Australian band)
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Word of the week: ooftish / oofless

May 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ooftish

Word of the week: This evocative term is derived from the Yiddish expression gelt afn tish, meaning cash money on the table, ooftish was common slang for money or cash in late-19th to mid-20th century English, with oofless in turn meaning skint, poor or bankrupt

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Word of the week: pantagruelian

May 2, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Illustration from Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel by Gustave Doré

Word of the week: Huge, gigantic, enormous, voracious or insatiable, this colourful adjective derives from the character in the pioneering 16th-century French prose writer François Rabelais’s multiple volume work, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Word of the week: warzle / warzlement

February 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Alan Rickman as whe wheedling, warzling Obadiah Slope in a BBC TV production of The Barchester Chronicles

Word of the week: An evocative Old English-origin dialect word for sycophantic flattery, pertaining to sly persuasion for favours, it derives from two old English words – wær meaning cautious, and sealm meaning speech

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Word of the week: gnathonic

November 24, 2020 Peter Kimpton
That certain smile: Alan Rickman as Obadiah Slope, the calculating curate in BBC’s The Barchester Chronicies

That certain smile: Alan Rickman as Obadiah Slope, the calculating curate in BBC’s The Barchester Chronicies

Word of the week: It’s an adjective to describe the act of flattery, often false and deceitful, toadying, fawning and that done by a sycophant, but where does it come from and how might it show up in song?

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In comedy, indie, pop, prog rock, psychedelia, rock, traditional, folk Tags words, word of the week, books, film, television, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Terence, Plutarch, Charles Kingsley, Lauren Weisberger, The Office, The Simpsons, Joseph Goebbels, Henry Kissinger, The Rolling Stones, Motorhead, The Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Katy Perry, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Courteeners, Teenage Fanclub, The Pixies
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Word of the week: hubris

November 9, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Three recent books that are more than relevant to the current word

Three recent books that are more than relevant to the current word

Word of the week: About whom could this apply right now? It's a word for extreme, foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with arrogance that tends to lead to a fall, and a dangerous thing in the head of someone with power who refuses to acknowledge it.

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Word of the week: nosism

August 18, 2020 Peter Kimpton
The figure portrayed on this famous record cover could be described as a practitioner of nosism

The figure portrayed on this famous record cover could be described as a practitioner of nosism

Word of the Week: It sounds like a strange religion or nasal habit, but from Latin ‘nos’, this is the practice of using the ‘we’ pronoun when really only referring oneself in action or opinion - it’s more common in song than ‘we’ might imagine

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Word of the week: quincunx

July 15, 2020 Peter Kimpton
From The Quincunx, the 1989 novel by Charles Palliser

From The Quincunx, the 1989 novel by Charles Palliser

Word of the week: This ancient symbolic word is not really one to sing, but points down many cultural roads through history, as well as unearthing a variety of lesser known music

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Word of the week: rondo, rondeau, roundel and round

July 7, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820

Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820

Word of the week: What comes around … this week's rather shapely word circles culture in many directions – from medieval French poetry to a 17th-century musical form all the way to modern slang on sport stars to derogatory cars

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Word of the week: ackamarakus

April 29, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Johnson and Trump. Both deal heavily in ackamarakus, not always with success

Johnson and Trump. Both deal heavily in ackamarakus, not always with success

Word of the week: It’s a rare, slang noun that could easily describe the speeches of several prominent politicians – meaningless activity just for show, deceptive nonsense and bluff. But how might it show up in song lyrics?

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In blues, film soundtrack, folk, goth rock, indie, jazz, pop, poetry, postpunk, psychedelia, soul, traditional, rock Tags words, word of the week, nonsense, ackamarakus, Damon Runyon, books, film, Bob Hope, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, politics, Nat King Cole, The Velvelettes, Motown, Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, William 'Mickey' Stevenson, John Lennon, The Beatles, Wire, Talking Heads, Beck, The Republic of Mars
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Word of the week: tussicate

December 3, 2019 Peter Kimpton
The Dead Kennedys bring up a number that fits this week’s word

The Dead Kennedys bring up a number that fits this week’s word

Word of the week: Clear your ears, but especially your throat. What word is coming up this time? An archaic term that that was in use from the late 16th to 19th centuries means to cough, from the Latin tussicus, or tussis, having that affliction

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In avant-garde, hip hop, indie, pop, postpunk, punk, psychedelia, rock, musicals, comedy Tags words, word of the week, health, books, poetry, Frank Loesser, musicals, Marlon Brando, Jean SImmons, Vivian Blaine, The Beatles, David Bowie, Riot Squad, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osborne, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, The Saints, Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra, Regina Spektor, Soul Coughing
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Word of the week: harridan

February 2, 2019 Peter Kimpton
May and Thatcher: two more recent harridans, though their gender has nothing to do with policy or nature

May and Thatcher: two more recent harridans, though their gender has nothing to do with policy or nature

Word of the week: It traditionally means a scolding, bossy, unpleasant woman, possibly with origins from the 17th century and related to the verb to harry, or hassle, and has a certain comical quality, but where does it come up in song lyrics?

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In pop, prog rock, punk Tags words, word of the week, harridan, William Makepeace Thackery, WIlliam J Locke, books, Lou Reed, Queen, Shakespeare
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Word of the week: jabberwock

January 16, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Monstrous nonsense: from the original illustration of the Jabberwock from Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass

Monstrous nonsense: from the original illustration of the Jabberwock from Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass

Word of the week: It’s best known as the mythical monster in Lewis Carroll’s poem from Through The Looking Glass (1871), but the word also means nonsense or gibberish, something that continues to be very much at large

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Word of the week: olfactory

November 27, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Polar bears, and others from the bear family can sense food from as far as 20 miles

Polar bears, and others from the bear family can sense food from as far as 20 miles

Word of the week: It refers to the system that governs our sense of smell (olfaction) and is a highly evocative word, and while there are many songs about odours, who uses it in lyrics?

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In blues, country, electronica, pop, postpunk, indie Tags words, word of the week, olfactory, biology, sense of smell, animals, evolution, Patrick Süskind, books, Deerhoof, Louden Wainwright III, Chumbawumba, The Most Serene Republic
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Word of the week: simian

October 30, 2018 Peter Kimpton
You must remember this … a kiss is just …

You must remember this … a kiss is just …

Word of the week: It’s an adjective with a beautiful sound. It means the characteristics of our ape cousins, but of course sharing almost all the same DNA, it also means us. But where is simian in lyrics?

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In comedy, dance, electronica, poetry, pop, rock, soul Tags songs, word of the week, words, simian, apes, animals, evolution, Planet of the Apes, David Attenborough, books, film, Will Self, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Ian Brown, The Stone Roses, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Janelle Monae, Saul Williams, Aesop Rock, Simian Mobile Disco
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Word of the week: yellowback or yellow-back

September 18, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Yellowback books from 19th century

Yellowback books from 19th century

Word of the week: Following on from zephyr last week, we work backwards to a colour term that can pertain to cheap books, a fish, a mussel, insect, a certificate for gold, and in urban slang, council workers wearing hi-vis jackets

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Jul 30, 2025
Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
Jul 30, 2025

New album: Wistful, vivid country-folk and Americana by the Los Angeles band fronted by Ben Schneider in this strong fifth LP, coloured by images of huge skies and stars, California deserts, love, loss, with catchy tunes, tender anguish, haunting melodies and memories

Jul 30, 2025
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Jul 30, 2025
Yoshika Colwell: On The Wing
Jul 30, 2025

New album: Musically gentle and reflective, this is beautiful acoustic folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Kent in a debut that’s both candid and dream-like, fuelled by a sense of complete dislocation from a move to a new town, lockdown, solitude and a traumatic break-up

Jul 30, 2025
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Jul 29, 2025
Raekwon: The Emperor's New Clothes
Jul 29, 2025

New album: Part of the Mass Appeal Records Legend Has It... series of 2025, the Wu-Tang Clan member aka Corey Woods releases his first solo album in seven years (since 2017’s The Wild), with punchy classic-feel old-school hip-hop, soul and film samples, joined here in by guests including old friends Nas, co-Wu Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Method Man

Jul 29, 2025
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Jul 29, 2025
Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be A Good Thing
Jul 29, 2025

New album: Sweetly beautiful three-part harmonies underpin darkly ironic humour and deliciously unfolding, oddly disturbing lyrics in this entertaining debut by the Melbourne former high school friends Heide Peverelle ((they/them), Jeanie Pilkington and Gracie Sinclair

Jul 29, 2025
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Jul 28, 2025
Fever Ray: The Year of The Radical Romantics
Jul 28, 2025

New album: Disturbing, striking and brilliant, this is a mix of old kindled magically into new from the innovative Swedish artist Karin Dreijer, with live-to-tape studio highlights from her acclaimed third album, 2023’s Radical Romantics, plus new iterations from 2017’s Plunge and early classics, performed with her tour musicians

Jul 28, 2025
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Jul 28, 2025
Tyler, The Creator: Don't Tap The Glass
Jul 28, 2025

New album: Following his acclaimed 2024 LP Chromakopia, the innovative eccentric American rapper Tyler Okonma returns with a somewhat less eclectic but still strane ninth LP – short, snappy, more cliched and braggadocio in lyric, and this time fuelled in sound by catchy, punchy, dancefloor beats and samples

Jul 28, 2025
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Jul 28, 2025
Madeline Kenney: Kiss From The Balcony
Jul 28, 2025

New album: In this follow-up to 2023’s excellent A New Reality Mind, the Oakland indie artist brings expansive, experimental electronic dynamism and particularly rich texture to her music, working with friends Ben Sloan and Stephen Patota, and exploring themes of broken relationships, solitude, idealised romance, resentment, and womanhood

Jul 28, 2025
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Jul 22, 2025
Billie Marten: Dog Eared
Jul 22, 2025

New album: Beautiful, warm, intimate, gentle, experimental indie-folk by the singer-songwriter Isabella Tweddle from Ripon in North Yorkshire, in this delicious fifth LP, filled with love songs and nostalgic childhood memories, and following 2023’s Drop Cherries, an expansion of excellent musicians in the recording

Jul 22, 2025
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Jul 22, 2025
Gina Birch: Trouble
Jul 22, 2025

New album: The veteran Raincoats co-founder, bass player, songwriter, film-maker and feminist artist’s second solo album is a passionate, political and personal release, outspoken, but also eccentric and eclectically introspective, mixing post-punk, dub, pop and experimental rock

Jul 22, 2025
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Jul 21, 2025
Alex G: Headlights
Jul 21, 2025

New album: This 10th album by the Pennsylvania indie musician, producer, and singer-songwriter Alexander Giannascoli brings a mellower sound than some of his previous LPs, with often gentle, skilfully rendered guitars, dream-like, wistful and fantastical lyrics, and beautifully drawing on Americana as well as key influences Elliott Smith and Neil Young

Jul 21, 2025
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Jul 21, 2025
NODEGA: Rot in Helvetica
Jul 21, 2025

New album: A thinly disguised iteration of the New York post-punk band Bodega fronted by songwriters by Ben Hozie and Nikki Belfiglio, the same quintet go full punk and hardcore on this articulately angry, pacy, attention-grabbing burst of eight, raucous yet catchy and also clever songs in just 18 minutes, satirically pulling no punches about society’s various ills

Jul 21, 2025
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Jul 21, 2025
Panic Shack: Panic Shack
Jul 21, 2025

New album: A refreshing, fast, witty, perky, cheeky, and raw post-punk debut by the band from Cardiff, packed with energy, humour, filth and feisty fun, covering subjects from body shaming to partying, dodgy men, and a joyous celebration of good nights out and friendship

Jul 21, 2025
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Jul 20, 2025
Natalie Bergman: My Home Is Not In This World
Jul 20, 2025

New album: This stylishly retro second solo album by the Chicago-born LA-based singer-songwriter follows her acclaimed 2021 LP Mercy, and channels psychedelic soul and alt-60s pop, packed with beautiful, classic-feel, heartbreak songs, and with a title that yearns for that past era and sense of place

Jul 20, 2025
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Jul 19, 2025
Disiniblud: Disiniblud
Jul 19, 2025

New album: Truly mesmeric, exquisitely beautiful, original, intimate, eclectic sounds are summoned up and simmer in this debut collaborative album project by the Brooklyn composers, producers and multi-instrumentalists Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith

Jul 19, 2025

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Jul 30, 2025
Song of the Day: Snõõper - Worldwide
Jul 30, 2025

Song of the Day: Frenetic, stomping, bass-heavy, angular guitar and catchy post-punk with echoes of Leeds’ Delta 5 by the Nashville band in this title track from their forthcoming new album, out on 3 October via Third Man Records

Jul 30, 2025
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Jul 29, 2025
Song of the Day: Nation of the Language - Under The Water
Jul 29, 2025

Song of the Day: Simple, pleasing, crisp, four-chord synthpop with brass sounds and shades of OMD by the Brooklyn band in this new single heralding their upcoming album, Dance Called Memory, out on 19 September via Sub Pop Records

Jul 29, 2025
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Jul 28, 2025
Song of the Day: The Divine Comedy - The Last Time I Saw the Old Man
Jul 28, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new balladic, trumpet-filled number by the Irish singer-songwriter and band leader Neil Hannon about his late father, heralding the new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, on 19 September

Jul 28, 2025
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Jul 27, 2025
Song of the Day: Flock of Dimes - Long After Midnight
Jul 27, 2025

Song of the Day: Beautiful gentle bittersweet acoustic single by the Baltimore indie musician and singer-songwriter aka Jenn Wasner heralding her upcoming new album, The Life You Save out on 10 October, via Sub Pop Records

Jul 27, 2025
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Jul 26, 2025
Song of the Day: Tame Impala - End of Summer
Jul 26, 2025

Song of the Day: In a change from the tuneful, psychedelic indie-pop of previous work, Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker channels his creativity into a hybrid of electronic dance music, with shades of the acid house era of 1989, as well as Underworld and beyond, with his first release on Columbia Records

Jul 26, 2025
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Jul 25, 2025
Song of the Day: Jehnny Beth - No Good For People
Jul 25, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, thrumming, powerful, punchy new single by the ex-Savages French singer-songwriter and actress about social behaviour conflict, heralding her new album You Heartbreaker, You, out on 29 August on Fiction Records

Jul 25, 2025
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Jul 24, 2025
Song of the Day: Whitney - Dandelions
Jul 24, 2025

Song of the Day: Delicate, poignant, vivid indie-folk and Americana with a sensitive falsetto and 70s feel by the Chicago band formed by Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek, in this latest single heralding their forthcoming album, Small Talk, out November 7 via AWAL

Jul 24, 2025
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Jul 23, 2025
Song of the Day: clipping. – Night of Heaven (featuring Counterfeit Madison & Kid Koala)
Jul 23, 2025

Song of the Day: A wonderfully strange, eclectic, experimental mix of hip-hop, neo-classical and electronica by the LA-based trio fronted by rapper and actor Daveed Diggs, joined by the Nigerian-American and Canadian artists, taken from the expanded edition of their latest album, Dead Channel Sky, out on Sub Pop Records. Dead Channel Sky Plus is released on 19 September

Jul 23, 2025
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Jul 22, 2025
Song of the Day: Jeff Tweedy - One Tiny Flower
Jul 22, 2025

Song of the Day: This eclectic, cross-rhythmic but beautiful evocative folk-rock single by the Wilco frontman is whimsical tale of a man who trips over a flower and dies, yet also celebrates the power of nature, and heralds his upcoming triple solo album, Twilight Override, out on 26 September via dBpm Records

Jul 22, 2025
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Jul 21, 2025
Song of the Day: The Last Dinner Party - This is The Killer Speaking
Jul 21, 2025

Song of the Day: Channelling ABBA and more – opulent, dramatic, catchy pop with a dark undercurrent of story and fable, where being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer with matching cinematic, fantasy video, by the acclaimed all-female British band following last year’s debut Prelude to Ecstasy, and heralding their second album, From The Pyre, out on 17 October on Universal Island

Jul 21, 2025
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Jul 20, 2025
Song of the Day: Poptones - Say Something Now
Jul 20, 2025

Song of the Day: Mixing beauty and dissonance, clever, skilfully textured angular guitars and vocals to a mesmeric, bendy, woozy, dream-like effect by the Copenhagen art-rock trio, the second single from their upcoming album Pure, out on 26 September via Happy Metal Records

Jul 20, 2025
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Jul 19, 2025
Song of the Day: The Charlatans - We Are Love
Jul 19, 2025

Song of the Day: An upbeat jangly, melodic return from the now veteran and enduring 90s British indie rock band fronted by Tim Burgess, with beautiful guitars and positive lyrics in this title track heralding their upcoming album out on 31 October on BMG

Jul 19, 2025

Word of the week

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Jul 23, 2025
Word of the week: labeorphily
Jul 23, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a colourful noun for an intoxicatingly visual subject, and in parallel relating to people who may be a labeorphilist or labeorphile, it refers to the enthusiasm for, and collection of beer bottle labels. But what’s the musical connection?

Jul 23, 2025
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Jul 10, 2025
Word of the week: mugwump
Jul 10, 2025

Word of the week: This oddly evocative noun might summon in the mind some tactile, earthy image, or a strange childrens’ TV fictional character, but actually pertains to a person who is politically neutral, aloof, or independent, and in 19th-century America, described anti-corruption party switchers

Jul 10, 2025
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Jun 26, 2025
Word of the week: nucha
Jun 26, 2025

Word of the week: A niche, sensual noun for a tactile area, with the related adjective nuchal, meaning related to the nape, or back or scruff of the neck. But where does it rub in music? For some light relief, here’s a variety of neck songs to send hairs standing up for different reason in this anatomical area

Jun 26, 2025
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Jun 4, 2025
Word of the week: olecranon
Jun 4, 2025

Word of the week: This is the large, thick, curved bony area of the elbow that sticks out at the arm joint – the proximal, posterior end of the ulnar bone which, alongside the radius, is the lower arm, and marks the point of the ulnar nerve, or in other words – the funny bone

Jun 4, 2025
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May 21, 2025
Word of the week: perruquier
May 21, 2025

Word of the week: Taken from the French language, this appropriately ornate noun pertains to makers of perukes, wigs or hairpieces, a trade that has variously gone in and out of fashion over the centuries. But what about these hair pieces in song?

May 21, 2025

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