Gadzooks

gad-zooks (gadˈzo͞oks)

interjection
1. An expression of surprise, shock etc.
Well, gadzooks! Zippy's getting his freak on.

Synonyms: ain't that the cat's pajamas, ay caramba, ay chihuahua, blow me down, by Jove, crikey, cripes, dagnabbit, fiddlesticks, gee whiz, goodness gracious, great Scott, Great Googly Moogly, Heavens to Betsy, holy cow, gosh, holy Hannah, holy mackerel, holy Moses, horsefeathers, impertinent little monkey, Jiminy Christmas, jinkies, Judas priest, Jumpin' Jehosaphat, Merlin's beard, moly, leaping lizards, oh my God, oh my Goddess, oh my stars and garters, Suffering Sappho, sweet merciful crap, Sweet Mother of Preston Tucker, Sweet Zombie Jesus, well bust my buttons, "Well paint me red and call me Shirley," what in tarnation, what in the world, wow, wowzers, yipes.

* This word might be an alteration of God's hooks, the nails of the crucifixion of Christ.

Gajillion

ga-jil-li-on (gäjzilyən)

noun
1. An unspecified large number.
Since I've been home, I feel like a gajillion pounds have been lifted off my shoulders. I think I'm going to be ok.

Synonyms: bajillion, bazillion, bunch, dillion, eleventy, fantillion, gadjillion, gagzillion, gazillion, gobs, godzillion, grillion, hojillion, kabillion, kajillion, katrillion, killion, robillion, loads, heaps, oodles, scads, skillion, squillion, tons, umptillion, zillion.

Gauche

gauche* (gsh)

adjective
1. Left-handed awkward and clumsy.
Have cut my right hand on a broken glass and sprained my right leg, I look very gauche, hobbling around and whining about everything. I am really lucky to have such good friends to help me out and put up with me.
2. Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
I wondered as I did it, whether I would regret throwing out that pallet Amanda painted on, but she left it in a pile of garbage, so I wasn't sure what else I should do. Now, I feel like going out and buying her more pallets to use as gauche canvases.
3. Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations; crude; tactless; socially inept.
The most vengeful people I know are either very gauche in their tactics and, therefore, not a threat; or they are so vindictive and conniving that I haven't recognized them yet and should be very afraid.
4. A mathematical term to mean skewed.
The whole photo seems crooked because the horizon line is so gauche.

Synonyms: all thumbs, awkward, blundering, blunderous, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, clownish, clumsy, crooked, crude, elephantine, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hulking, ill-shaped, incompetent, inelegant, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, splay, stumbling, unable, unadept, uncoordinated, uncouth, undexterous, uneasy , ungainly, unhandy, unskillful, untactful, untalented, untoward, unwieldy, weedy.

* From the French word, meaning left.
** Looks like lefties get a bed wrap here, doesn't it?

Glanceable

glance-ab-le (glnsbl)

adjective
1. Understandable at a glance or through glances, therefor requiring little attention.
His attractiveness was as glanceable as an ideogram and almost as deep.

Synonyms: user-friendly.

* This word belongs to the tech and ad industries, but, in our culture, is also sadly applicable to so many relationships.

Gowany

gow-an-y* ((goun)

adjective
1. Covered in daisies.
When I was a little girl, I used to dream that I was Laura Ingalls, running through a gownay field.

Synonyms: covered in daisies.

* From the Scotish word gowan, which refers to any of various yellow or white flowers growing in fields, especially the common daisy.

Genuflect

gen-u-flect (jĕnˈyə-flĕktˌ)

verb
1. To bend at the the knee, especially in worship.
No one is laughing at God this Saturday;* many will genuflect.
2. Grovelling.
Is it a coincidence that God and super villains both want the same thing: masses of inferior beings genuflecting at their feet.

Synonyms: beseech, boot lick, bow, cower, crawl, crouch, gesticulate, grovel, kneel, kowtow, prostrate, snivel, worship.

* In the future, when I am editing this collection of blog posts for a book, I will edit Saturday out to read: the Second Coming of Christ 21 May 2011.

Geminate

gem-in-ate (jĕmˈə-nātˌ)

verb
1. Arranged in, formed, or occurring in pairs.
If souls geminate at creation, God made you and I together; over the years, life had a different plan.

adjective
1. In a pair.
You and I are geminate spirits that strayed.

Synonyms: accompanying, bifold, coupled, corresponding, doubled, dual, dualistic, joint, like, paired, parallel, same, twin, twofold, very same.

noun
1. In linguistics, a double or long consonant sound.
The geminate consonant sound distinguishes the difference between "night train" and "night rain."

Synonyms: doubled.

Greeking

gree-king (′grēk·iŋ)

verb*

1. Displaying format without the character. Giving the hint of what something is, without showing you what it is, especially in film.
Greeking is what Charlie Sheen pretends to do, when he conceals the beverage he's drinking on Sheen's Korner in a lament that the manufacturers haven't paid him for advertising it - not because he's actually drinking alcohol and is afraid to show his fans that he didn't blink and change his brain.

Synonyms: conceal, obfuscate.

*I've been posting too many nouns lately.

Guffaw

guf-faw (g-fô)

noun
1. A genuine from-the-heart burst of laughter.
Eugene, who never laughs - except at his own thoughts, let out an audible guffaw, when he overheard me explaining the delight of being able to surprise one's self with chocolate because of one's own tiny attention span. This made my day.

Synonyms: belly laugh, deep laugh, laughter, snort.

Gigantic

gi-gan-tic (j-gntk)

adjective
1. Much larger than a thing is supposed to be.
We hardly ever spoke, but I had a gigantic crush on you.
2. Relating to or suggestive of a giant.
Look at those gigantic footprints! How can you look at gigantic footprints like that and not believe in giants?

Synonyms: ample, astronommical, Herculean, big, brobdingnagian, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, excessive, gargantuan, ginormous, great, huge, humungous, immense, jumbo, large, massive, mondo, monster, monsterous, prodigious, stupendous, super, super-colossal (if colossal isn't big enough for you), tremendous, vast, very big, very large, whopping

noun
1. The name of one of my favorite songs.
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic...