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.

Licotic

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Idlewild

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Jouska

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Trumspringa

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Rückkehrunruhe

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Foreclearing

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Looseleft

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Slipfast

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Justing

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Gobo

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Vulture Shock

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Occhiolism

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Merrenness

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Plata Rasa

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Ringlorn

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Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

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Fitzcarraldo

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Treachery Of The Common

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Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Anecdoche

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Routwash

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Proluctance

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Hubilance

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Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench