verb
- To open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen, or other contents, as the ripe capsules or pods of some plants.
- To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound.
- To gape; to open by dehiscence.
[Thomas Baker-Rabe, in conversation]
Lexicon
n.
- a girl or woman who behaves in a sexually provocative and permissive way without yielding her virginity
Also called: demi-virgin
[“The Magus: A Revised Version by John Fowles” — Scott Manley Hadley, Triumph Of The Now]
des·ue·tude /ˈdeswəˌt(y)o͞od/
- a state of disuse. “the docks fell into desuetude“
noun
- a quality of passion and inspiration.
- A spirit. A duende is a creature somewhat like a human from Iberian, Latin American, and Filipino folklore. The Spanish term duende originated as a contraction of the phrase dueño de casa or duen de casa, “possessor of a house”, and was originally conceptualized as a mischievous spirit inhabiting a house
[Funny Weather — Olivia Laing]