What’s that Thing Called? [Video]

I'm a sucker for articles that contain words like: "Things you never knew about _____." I also find myself compelled to read "100 _______ you must know before 30," or "25 _______ you must know for a better _______."

With that in mind, I had to immediately read an email I got the other day from a friend. I mean, how could I pass up this title: "58 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names." It's a piece written by Dave Stopera at Buzzfeed. As a collector and connoisseur of useless bits of information, this kind of thing is right up my alley. I was willing to bet my aglets (those plastic pieces at the end of your shoestrings) that I knew at least a few of the 58 items. Turns out...not so much.

I learned the names for lots of everyday things, like:

• Petrichor: the way it smells outside after rain.
• Vagitus: the cry of a newborn baby.
• Chanking: spat-out food.
• Peen: the side opposite the hammer’s striking side.
• Natiform: something that resembles a butt.

Of course, trying to work these words into everyday conversation might annoy those around you, prompting them to ask "Just get the new Reader's Digest, smart guy?" Just tell them they're being a Natiform.

Let's look at some more:

• Box tent: the table in the middle of a pizza box.
• Cornicione: the outer part of the crust on a pizza.
• Barm: the foam on a beer.
• Keeper: the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
• Agraffe: the wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne.
• Collywobbles: butterflies in your stomach.
• Griffonage: unreadable handwriting.
• Vocable: the na na nas and la la las in song lyrics that don’t have any meaning.
• Crapulence: that sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much.
• Ideolocator: a “you are here” sign.
• Phloem bundles: those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana.
• Octothorpe: the pound (#) button on a telephone.
• Scurryfunge: the time you run around cleaning frantically right before company comes over.
• Tmesis: when you separate a word into two for effect. Example: “I AM GOING TO ABSO-FREAKIN’-LUTELY BE THE BEST SCRABBLE PLAYER ON THE PLANET NOW!”

These words should help you quite a bit with Scrabble, Words With Friends, etc. However, if you're one of those people who want to get their information from video rather than actually reading (what's the word for that, I wonder):