User:Soap/unsorted words

Video games

11:17, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

It took me 30 years to realize that Aegagropilon was the boss who groped me when I thought I was only just beginning a new quest. But no, probably not an intentional pun. From the same game that taught me sleep flower, partisan (“weapon”), and whatever else I can't think of right now. The closest we have to an English cognate for this word is the French égagropile. Im not sure how this word came to be connected to the creature, whose Japanese name is 毬藻 (“marimo”). The real aegagropilon (that is, the marimo) is small and does not have arms, but in a video game, everything that moves is bigger than a human, especially bosses. It's possible that the scientific name has nothing to do with Japan and that we named them "goat hair" just because they somewhat resemble goat hair. But why goats?

I've somehow come to be fond of words that have a very similar rhythm to the name above. Such as:

diastimoplion
sideroxylon
stereopticon
some of what is listed in

English terms suffixed with -opia

Although these words also remind me of sleep flowers.

Definitions

Words I use or previously used in different (mostly narrower) ways than the accepted definition.

pedant one who notes details in passing
pit a deep hole with unclimbable walls, due its being too smooth, too soft, or both