Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Walloway

n.
a sense memory you’ve mulled over so thoroughly that it’s become totally drained of emotion—having replayed an old song to death, over- binged a favorite sitcom, or spent too much time in the old neighborhood —inadvertently depleting a wellspring of nostalgia by watering it down with newer connotations.

From wallow, to indulge or soak in something + away. Pronounced “wol-uh-wey.”

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Exulansis

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

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Redesis

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

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Ecstatic Shock

Cover image for the Ecstatic Shock word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Candling

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

Kairosclerosis

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