Everything has a name, however, some aren’t spoken often so aren’t known by many. In this article, I present to you the english names of 20 things I bet you didn’t know.
1. Petrichor is the term used to describe the scent left behind by rain.
2. A box tent is the name for the tiny plastic table that is positioned in the center of a pizza box.
3. An aglet is the term for the plastic or metallic coating on the end of your shoelaces.
4. The stomach grumbling is actually referred to as a wamble.
5. A newborn baby’s cry is referred to as a vagitus.
6. A fork’s tines are its prongs.
7. Phosphenes are the sheen or light you see when you close your eyes and press your hands on them.
8. A glabella is the area between your eyebrows.
9. Overmorrow is the term for the day after tomorrow.
10. The minimus is the name for your tiny toe or finger.
11. An agraffe is the name for the wire cage that a champagne bottle uses to keep the cork in place.
13. Vocables is the term for words like “la la la” and “na na na,” which are used in song lyrics but do not truly mean anything.
13. An interrobang is a punctuation mark that combines an exclamation point and a question mark (such as this?!).
14. The columella nasi is the area between your nostrils.
15. Armscye refers to the area of a garment’s armhole where the sleeves are sewn.
16. Dysania is the medical term for the inability to get out of bed in the morning.
17. Griffonage is the term for illegible handwriting.
18. Tittle is the term for the dot placed over a “I” or “j”.
19. Crapulence is the term used to describe the extremely sickening sensation you get after overindulging in food or liquids.
20. Bannock device is the name of the metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store.
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