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Well done, Shaun. Even my former aquarium fish and budgerigars (currently nonexistent though tetrapods) and WQXR, our FM station, know triskaidekaphobia. I have an unfair advantage with paraskavedekatriaphobia. Visiting Greece of course helps, and it I think it has appeared in puzzles and in WQXR chatter. Not yet seen in Scrabble by me.

Here’s another genuine conversational MD word that means a bruise:Ecchymosis pronunciation: (/ˌɛkᵻˈmoʊsᵻs/). I knew one lady who just loved to say it and giggle. (Ditto for borborygmus.)
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Squamous; sesquipedalophobia - the fear of long words. Not related to the remarkable story of Susquehanna and the one and a half elders.
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vremyapreprovozhdyeniye - pastime

golovolomka - puzzle, riddle

kroogozore - outlook, worldview

vzglyat - view/opinion

fintyflyooshki "knick-knacks, trifles".
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Well M. Arc-en-Ciel, those are impressive words, yet not ones I would likely encounter in English conversation, as I could and mostly did with all the others apart from the excursion-steamboat-captain's-hat-factory-parking-lot-reserved-space-bollard-label-glue-bottle-lid-opener-device-handle-cleaning-fluid-wiper item that properly doesn't count at all since it's not remotely English. I am ashamed of including that one. I'm practicing my best ashamed look in front of a three-way mirror daily.

Yours will have been written in Cyrillic characters that can be Romanized in several ways, so the English spelling is flexible. That's another problem. However, I'm not a policeman here. We want to have fun. I do like fintyflyooshki.

What can I offer to the non-Russian readers here?

A long-time favorite of mine is a noun, legerdemain, literally lightness of hand.
Then there's the adjective humongous. Be careful of the medial "o".
Next is the adjective and noun subfusc. The noun is seen in some British clothing shop windows. "Cub fuss" is an anagram.
I will stop at leman, which has to do with medieval eros.
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Sleight, as in sleight of hand. Another way of wording legerdemain.
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You are doing what in front of that mirror?

You may advise me to mind my own business but I refuse to accept that advice. I shall continue to practise emphasising the distinction between verb and noun, a practice that has served me well all my life.
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Antimacassar

I imagine it as a large bird, with plumage that looks a bit like a cross-between an Axminster carpet and a William Morris print. And fringes like on standard lamp lampshades.

(I know it isn't a bird, btw).

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Antimacassar

I imagine it as a large bird, with plumage that looks a bit like a cross-between an Axminster carpet and a William Morris print. And fringes like on standard lamp lampshades.
I imagine it as someone who is staunchly against eyelash makeup...

A fun word I've used a couple of times in the chapter I'm working on is sammelband. Basically scrapbooks of disparate works bound together for personal use, common during the Renaissance. In the same ballpark is incunabula -- a generic word for any printed book up to (and including) the year 1500. It's doubtful that there are any sammelbands among the incunabula, but I can't say for sure...
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Oooh, nice one.

I like the idea of 'sammelband' - that's really, really interesting. Thank-you so much for introducing that. I've just looked it up so have nothing clever to say, but I love the idea of that kind of collection - in today's world I kind of locate the idea in a half-way space between mass-market and individual, which is really, really exciting.

Blurring the line between multiple copies of things and artist book, bespoke and universal. Oooh.

(or it might be that Antimacassars have very long and twirly eyelashes, and that's where the word 'mascara' comes from?)
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