Foilsick

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Foilsick

adj.
feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone—allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice, your childlike vulnerability—wishing you could somehow take back the moment, discreetly bolting the door after a storm had already blown it off its hinges.

Scottish Gaelic foillsich, to expose.

The Meantime

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Nachlophobia

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Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench