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earwash, the pallet cleansing podcast.
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Welcome to earwash, the podcast that, like my washing machine right now, rotates at a
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high speed in order to clean things, in this case your ears.
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As today is Easter Sunday, I thought it would be best to do something a little more wholesome
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than usual to provide some very educational Easter eggs from the Easter bunny of my mouth.
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And so I'm providing you with a bounteous harvest of words from my notebooks.
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So if you go and hunt for them, see if you can find them.
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From the notebook of Douglas Brook, volume 156, 23rd of August 2025 to 21st of November
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Thana-Topsis, a word which means a view of death.
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Apparently it comes from a poem, schnocked means drunk.
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Rotogreviewer, r-o-t-o-g-r-a-v-u-r-e, a word which he means, a type of intaglio printing
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process, also known as Gravio for short.
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On a related note, intaglio is a word which he means, the family of printing and printmaking
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techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken
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Diesel, B-E-A-Z-E-L, it's an obscure word used by PG Woodhouse, as indeed are most of
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And as far as I can tell, it means a young woman, with overturns of sexual precocity.
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Bezel, B-E-Z-E-L, a word which he means, a grooved ring or frame holding the cover
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of a watch-faced, mobile phone, etc. in position.
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Cushonari, C-O-C-H-O-N-N-E-R-I-E.
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A word which he means, a dirty thing, worthless thing, junk or rubbish.
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Miswaj, M-E-S-S-U-A-G-E.
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A word which he means, a dwelling house without buildings and land assigned to its use.
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Approbrius, a word which he means, expressing scorn or criticism.
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A Pothagym, a word which he means, a concise saying or maxim, an aphorism.
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In the notebook of Douglas Brook, volume 160, 26th November 2025 to 23rd December 2025.
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Crambo, a word which he means, a game in which a player gives a word or a line of verse
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which each of the other players must find a rhyme to.
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Calabash, a word which he means either, an evergreen tropical American tree which bears
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fruit in the form of large woody gourds, or a gourd from the Calabash tree, or a water
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container tobacco pipe or other objects made from the dried shell of a Calabash or similar
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Elimus, a-l-l-u-m-e-u-s-e, a word which he means, tees its fringe.
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Heliograph, a word which he means, a signalling device by which sunlight is reflected in flashes
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from a movable mirror, or a telescoping apparatus for photographing the sun.
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That said, it is a noun.
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If used as a verb, it means either to send a message by Heliograph or to take it Heliographic
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According to Wikipedia, Dildo cactus is a common name for several species of long, narrow
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I did do some etymological research on this, and it seems likely it was named such because
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it looked a bit phallic.
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But don't go sticking one of them up yourself.
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Hoiden, h-o-y-d-e-n, a word which he means, a boisterous girl.
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Well, that's all from me for this week.
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Ewosh would back on Wednesday with a value pack, and with a fresh episode on Sunday.
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So until then, goodbye.
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Ewosh was created, performed, produced by Douglas Brook.
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I'm not sure to rest him in the podcast, everyone you know.
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And like Douglas Brook on Facebook, and if you ever get around to his Instagram, now
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if you'd excuse me, I need to go and murder Douglas as a neighbor who's decided to
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start using his repussing about while we're recording, I shall repass-snip him.
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This has been a message from the earring.
