Chapter 8: 77-86
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Etesian
Prevailing northerly monsoonal winds in the summer and early fall
not whistle
Such a fun "vice" was not allowed on ship.
Torpedick
Like an eel.
Bandieten
Armed thieves in a band of thieves.
Pumplenose
???
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monitory
Conveying an admonition or a warning
the Watch
Closely observing an area as in a neighborhood watch.
his Fell
hide: the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
virid
Etymology: From the Latin viridis, from virere ‘to be green’.
Pronunciation:/'vɪrɪd/
Noun,Singular: virid; Plural,virids
virid (plural virids):(colour) a bright green colour
virid colour: Adjective: virid, more virid, most virid
(colour) having a bright green colour
1977: His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe. — Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
Voorhuis
Dutch: fronthouse
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"Tell me, what'd I say?"
Perhaps a reference to Ray Charles' 1959 hit song, "What'd I say," which features this line. Wikipedia entry
lock'd his front door
(Traditional?)
Fumulus
fumulus—A contraction of the words fume and cumulus, indicating water-droplet clouds that form within the top of rising plumes from smokestacks.
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Stoep
Entered English as 'stoop' in 1789.
Theater of the Japanese
Called Noh. See wikipedia. Here is the relevancy for the text:When hand props other than fans are used, they are usually introduced or retrieved by stage attendants who fulfill a similar role to stage crew in contemporary theater. Like their Western counterparts, stage attendants for Noh traditionally dress in black, but unlike in Western theater they may appear on stage during a scene, or may remain on stage during an entire performance, in both cases in plain view of the audience.
the Range of their Desires
Must be compared, it would seem, to the name of Part 1 of ATD: Light Over the Ranges.
Younkers
youn·ker: Pronunciation: 'y&[ng]-k&r
Etymology: Dutch: jonker--young nobleman
Noun
1 : a young man
2 : CHILD, YOUNGSTER Merriam-Webster Dict.
delegated the sighing
Jet will not sigh over the romantic overtures; her sisters will.
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Jesuit part
his penis, that is part of his lap, where the Guitar is? A(nother) small penis joke with an aware allusion to "Jesuitical", arguing small points?
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lengkua
the word should be lengkuas, a Malay word for the spice whose Linnean name is Alpinia galanga. Now, this site has a slew of names for it: siamese ginger, siamese galanga, java galangal, greater galangal, el galangal, el adkham, hang dou kou, stor kalanga, galanga, galanga de l'inde, laos, galgant, kulanjan, naukyo, lenkuas, galanga maior, kha, ka, riêng, großer galgant, herbe indienne, da liang jiang, grand galanga, galanga majeur. But the form galangal seems to be the current English name, used alongside galanga.
OED shows this word {galanga] in Chaucer
Is Pynchon's lengkua a simple mistake or typo for lengkuas, or could it be a legitimate (though rare) alternate form? I have too much respect for Pynchon and his love of variant forms to assume the former, but I don't see much evidence for the latter. From a linguist online.
Bilimbi pickles
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Bobotie
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Frikkadel
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Satay
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Rakhman
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even better, as Eve
(No missing rib? Gets to be disobedient?)
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B-st-rd
Who's censoring here? A convention in 18th century literature.
a Tun short... law
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Fence-Runner
Not in OED? He means surveyer, insinuating that all surveyers do is measure property lines.
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recreations including running Amok
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