Fardle-Din

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Fardle-Din

n.
a long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through your issues like a forest fire, which clears out your dry and hollow grievances and reminds you that your roots run deeper than you think.

Middle English fardel, burden or bundle + din, a loud cacophonous noise. Pronounced “fahr-dl- din.”

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Thrapt

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Fardle-Din

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Falesia

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Nachlophobia

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La Gaudière

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Dead Reckoning

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Moledro

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Hickering

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Anderance

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Flashover

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Ochisia

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Fata Organa

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Hanker Sore

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Soufrise

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The Kinder Surprise

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Semaphorism

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Zverism

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Beloiter

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Antiophobia

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Proluctance

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Apolytus

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Fitzcarraldo

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Ludiosis

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Nighthawk

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Daguerreologue

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Karanoia

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