Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Hem-Jawed

adj.

feeling trapped inside your own language, struggling to shake away the baggage weighing down certain words, unable to break out of its age-old structures and melodies, frustrated that the scattering of verbal pigments on its palette could never quite capture the colors in your head.

From hem, an attempt to clear the throat + jaw, coarse babble.

From the Dictionary

Wellium

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Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Symptomania

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Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Ne’er-Be-Gone

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1202

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Skidding

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Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Vaucasy

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Wildred

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Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks