Cool Word: RIMPLE

It just means "wrinkle" or "fold."  It works as a noun or a verb.

Apparently, there's a Fijian actress named Rimple Sumer.

It's a moderately common name, apparently, in some part of India.  There are a lot of faces on the Google image search.

I like that it kind of feels "folded"; you can hear the sound of folding in the word a little.  Just a little.

Okay, so this word is really not that cool.  But maybe you didn't know it already?

Viscid Pics

Wow.  If you do an image search for VISCID, you get some weird pictures:

Something really sticky.

Viscid Mallow

Viscid Mushroom

Top is a nice picture of something really sticky.  Middle is a picture of a plant called "viscid mallow."  Because it's sticky.  And bottom is  a purple mushroom called a "viscid mushroom."  I guess it's sticky.  It looks kind of nasty and poisonous, doesn't it?

This is apart from the band or the other weird pictures.

Sometimes it's fun to do an image search on a strange word - people make unusual connections to images, and they tag pictures strangely, and those are often the reason that images appear when you search for a term.

Cool Words - Viscid

I was digging through my old "word of the day" e-mails from dictionary.com and found this cool word from a recent e-mail - VISCID.  It means "sticky," and it's a common medical and technical term for something that's sticky.  Viscid oil is bad, viscid rot is a kind of decay found in fruit like cranberries, viscid mucous can be a medical disorder, etc.  It's related to viscous and viscosity, and words like that.  But it sounds cool - there's at least one rock band and one marketing company that use the word as a name.  I like words like this - they have a texture that . . . sticks.  (Sorry.)  

When you google this word, eventually you get to this headline from a research article:

"Do Viscid Secretions Have a Role in Nasal Polyp Formation?"

To me, this sounds a lot like, 

"Do boogers come from sticky snot?"

Ah, the power of jargon.