Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Winnewaw

n.
an unexpected burst of good news that only makes you skeptical, believing that every sudden rise in your fortunes must inevitably be accompanied by an impending fall, which leaves you feeling uneasy at the end of a really good day, waiting around for the punch line.

Middle English winne, joy + wawe, woe. Compare williwaw, a sudden blast of wind descending from the mountains to the sea. Pronounced “win-uh-waw.”

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Indosentia

Vulture Shock

Lyssamania

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Watashiato

Semaphorism