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.”

Gobo

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

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave