Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Rasque

n.
a moment you instantly wish you could take back, feeling a pulse of dread right after crossing the point of no return—a blurted confession, a hurled insult, a final decision you’d been waffling over for months— wanting to take just one step backward in time, reverting to the way things used to be, in the halcyon days of just a minute ago.

From rue, to regret + bourrasque, a tempest. Pronounced “rask.”

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Tarrion

Cover image for the Tarrion word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Angosis

a table full of food

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Malotype

Cover image for the Malotype word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows