knackatory, pogonotomy

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Apologies for missing last week -- I was on holiday and completely forgot. So two words for you this week:


knackatory (NACK-uh-tor-ee) - n., a shop for knick-knacks.

pogonotomy (po-go-no-to-mee -- I'm not sure where the stress goes) - n., the cutting of beards.


The first is also knick-knackatory, as the shop in Dragon Quest V. It comes from knick-knack, itself a duplication of knack, a trifle. The latter is what I need to do after scruffing myself up after two weeks off. It was coined from Greek roots pogonos, beard + tomos, a cutting.

The proprietor of the knackatory was a wizened, white-haired man in desperate need of pogonotomy and a pullover that wasn't older than me.

---L.

Comments

[starphotographs.livejournal.com]

I love these words! Knick-knackatory will be useful for me because I'm always going to antique stores and flea markets. And I love how cutting a beard is considered an -otomy! It's like... Hair surgery.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Well, it is a -tomy. In a sense. Especially if you're as attached to it as some men get.

---L.

[james0289.livejournal.com]

It's probably [po-go-NO-to-mee], at a guess.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

That's one of the possibilities that came to mind, yeah.

---L.