Ghough

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Ghough

n.
a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more joy, more sex, more money, more hours of sunshine, more years of your life; a state of panic that everything good will be taken from you too early, which makes you want to swallow the world before it ends up swallowing you.

Onomatopoeic to the sound of a devouring maw. Pronounced “hawkh,” with air drawn sharply inward through the mouth.

Hobsmacked

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Anecdoche

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Hubilance

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Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Anechosis

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Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock