I love the term “ball peen” and I wish more things besides hammers could be it.

Posted on January 10, 2013

These words are those I would like to be able to use more often in the next year. I have to come up with appropriate conversations to work them into.

Cartouche
Perforate
Marquee
Corpulent
Deciduous
Ball peen
Interstitial
Meerkat
Pilfered
Jejune
Aqueous
Tools of ignorance
Quinquina
Mellifluous—I’m waffling on this one, not sure it’s worth the work.
Ganglia

Some of these like “corpulent” I use at every opportunity. Others I’m going to have to create circumstances that allow me to use them. I love the term “ball peen” and I wish more things besides hammers could be it. I want there to be ball peen shoes, and ball peen cameras, and just other ball peen instruments. My mother was a jeweler and owned several ball peen hammers, but I saved a different hammer of hers, more of a mallet that I keep at home from her jewelry tools. Anyway I don’t use the phrase “Tools of Ignorance” other than to tell people what it means a couple times a baseball season, and I want to make more drinks with some quinquinas.

Anyway, this is my block, and this tree is deciduous