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.”

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Nachlophobia

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Dolonia

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Moledro

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Midding

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Ecstatic Shock

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Dead Reckoning

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Drisson

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Anderance

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Feresy

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Fardle-Din

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The Kinder Surprise

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Incidental Contact High

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Mornden

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Redesis

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Antiophobia

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Dolorblindness

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Falesia

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Desanté

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Archimony

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Amuse-Douche

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Etherness

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Ellipsism

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Rivener

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Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Cullaways

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Hem-Jawed

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