Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Boorance

n.
an unassuming feature of our daily lives that will eventually come off as the bizarre relic of a bygone era, that’ll make us look back in shock that we ever thought it was normal to bless each other’s sneezes, drive cars by hand, swim in chlorinated pools, keep animals in zoos, or feel clean using little else but toilet paper—things that we never think to question, because that’s just what people did “back then.”

From boor, an ill-mannered person + hence, in the future from now. Pronounced “boor-uhns.”

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Merrenness

Cover image for the Merrenness word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Jouska

Cover image for the Jouska word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows