Lexical Compendium

Wait... what is this? Sometimes I come across a word, phrase, idiom, quote, reference, bit of slang, person of interest, etc that either I don't know or I find amusing, interesting, etc. This is a collection of those items so that I can refer back to them in emails, texts, etc.

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"This sounds schemey. Redolent of thwart."

Something that the character Tom Wambsgans says in the television series "Succession," in Season 2, Episode 8.


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Tags: quote, television, succession

Date Added: Unknown
Date Modified: 22 Jan 2025

"What ho! She bumps!"

I came across this bit of old-timey slang in the television show "The Artful Dodger." It means something like, "Wow! It works!"


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Tags: quote, television, slang

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"...an effective plot must be 'unexpected but inevitable'..."

I came across this quote in the television series Mythic Quest. In that show, it was attributed to Aristotle, but I haven't been able to confirm this.


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Tags: writing, plot, quotes, story

Date Added: Unknown

DSKY

An acronym for Display Keyboard (pronounced diskey). This was the interface that Apollo astronauts used to communicate with the computers on the Command and Lunar Modules.

I first came across this acronym while watching the television series For All Mankind.


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Tags: space, astronaut, apollo

Date Added: Unknown
Date Modified: 27 Jun 2024

interregnum

  1. A period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.
  2. An interval or pause between two periods of office or other things.

As in:

...the interregnum between the discovery of radioactivity and its detailed understanding.

or:

You are a weak monarch in a dangerous interregnum.

The latter comes from a line of dialog from the character Gerri in the television series "Succession"


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Date Added: Unknown

Floyd Hole

In the Venture Bros episode "Perchance to Dean," Dr. Venture introduces Dean to progressive rock (including one of my favorites, King Crimson!). He leaves Dean and comes back later to find that he's fallen unconscious. Dr. Venture screams, "He's fallen into a Floyd Hole!"

The term "Floyd Hole," now refers to the act of losing track of time while consuming media.

For example, "It's already 4PM?? I fell into a Floyd Hole watching YouTube!"


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Tags: quote, television, eponymous

Date Added: 05 Sep 2024
Date Modified: 12 Feb 2025

devour feculence

Devour feculence is a "big word" way of saying eat shit.

The phrase was used in S2E9 of the Apple TV+ show Severence. Earlier in the show, the character Mr. Milchick receives a performance review that criticizes him for "using too many big words." The character, played by Tramell Tillman, is black and works for Lumon Industries. Lumon is operated like a cult and, as such, it is a very oppressive environment for most employees. Tensions between Mr. Milchick and Mr. Drummond grow to a head and upon being asked to apologize for his use of large words, he replies with "devour feculence."


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Tags: quote, television

Date Added: 25 Mar 2025