Wondrous Words Wednesday

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading.  If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky!

My first two words this week come Burning Bright by Ron Rash.

1. stob – “He had to get back into the gorge, and quick, but his legs were suddenly stiff and unyielding as iron stobs.”

A stob is a stake or a post.

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2. puncheon – “Lily lifted the ball of thread off her lap and placed it on the porch’s puncheon floor, then set the half-finished coverlet on the floor as well.”

Puncheon has a couple different meanings, but in this case it means a split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed.

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My third word this week comes from Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum.

3. faloupoo– “Generally speaking, eating is more of an afterthought with Yllis, even on the rare occasion when she isn’t acting faloupoo.”

Faloupoo isn’t in my dictionary, so I went to the internet for help.  According to this site, faloupoo is slang from the 1970’s and means when someone is acting spacy.  This would  make perfect sense, since the book is set in 1976.  I don’t know why I didn’t  know this one, since I graduated from high school in 1975 – I obviously wasn’t with it, even back then!

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Have you come across any new words lately?