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An Imp’s Heraldic Dictionary

Updated: 25 Sep 2010  


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Inspired by The Devil's Dictionary? Yep.

Bar

Where some heralds go to celebrate their triumphs and/or drown their sorrows

Barry

A soft, fleshy, seeded fruit; also, a synonym for ursine

Blasted

A physical condition of being exhausted, exceptionally inebriated, or perhaps both

Bouget

From the French verb "to move", one way that a rare herald, both agile and extroverted, can "get down" while dancing

Caboshed

Removed from active status, such as a submission being rejected or a herald being removed from office

Chevron

Along with Shell, a mining corporation with an odd, yet feasible, heraldic badge

Crescent

The hereditary mark of the second son of someone who has hereditary arms; also, a buttery roll that's "part of this complete Continental breakfast"

Enfield

A nickname for an eccentric, servile deputy to a potent officer

Engrailed

Surrounded by large cups

Eradicated

Something eliminated such that it can never recur or return; a concept foreign to heraldry

Ermine

How some heralds in Britain might say the name "Herman"

Fess

In rural vernacular, what a penitent herald does when they admit to an act of their deviousness

Fitchy

Describing someone who moves around or handles something in a restless manner

Fleury

A burst of activity, such as when heralds learn of free food or heraldic stuff becoming available

Formy

A playful term for a document used for reporting, submissions, and the like

Fret

What a weak herald might do when they face a problem

Fusil

A weak herald who would benefit from developing their courage; the noun is fusillanimous; an informal term for batons used in training for this is "fusil sticks"

Golpe

A sound from an intemperate herald drinking

Goutte

What a German-speaking herald might say when they say they like something

Ground

What some heralds like to have done to their coffee beans just before they're put into a French press

Gules

Malevolent graverobbing creatures originally from Islamic folklore

Invected

What a herald can become after succumbing to the attack of a pathogen

Inverted

A closed area filled with a green color, especially by paint

Mascle

A playfully mischievous girl

Mullet

A hairstyle worn by some heralds, mainly in rural areas

Naiant

A person or situation from which the herald receives recurrent disapproval or rejection

Opinicus

An intellectual bully who forces their views on others

Orle

How heralds in some areas say the word "oil"

Pale

The typical complexion for a book herald

Paly

A group of book heralds; not a term used by most book heralds

Pile

When tidy, it's a vertical stack of items, such as books and notebooks; when untidy, it's more like a mound

Raguly

Pasta pillows filled with meat, cheese, vegetables, or some combination thereof

Rustre

A formerly active herald who is long out of practice

Sable

Black; yes, outside heraldry, a sable is also an animal with dark brown fur, but in heraldry, it's just black

Saltire

The superstitious practice tossing a pinch of salt with either hand over one's opposite shoulders for good luck

Sinople

A drink, green in hue, to be invented or discovered in the near future by heralds that will cause at least one imbiber to exclaim that it's the best stuff in the known world (if that hasn't happened already as you read this)

Trippant

A person or situation, in the herald's opinion, that is reminiscent (so far as the herald knows) of a hallucinatory experience

Unguled The condition of a place (generally a cemetery) after the gules have been dispelled

Voided

One's condition upon leaving the lavatory

 

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