{"id":3565,"date":"2006-06-12T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/06\/12\/blick-and-fulguration.html"},"modified":"2006-06-12T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T15:59:58","slug":"blick-and-fulguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/06\/12\/blick-and-fulguration\/","title":{"rendered":"blick and fulguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \"bleak,\" also known as the \"blay\" and the \"blick,\" is a particular \"small European river fish,\" according to <cite>Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>But what interests me more is that \"blick\" is also defined as \"fulguration.\"<\/p>\n<p>Which, in turn, is \"the act or process of flashing like lightning,\" according to MW10.  I would not have thought that enough things flashed like lightning to require a whole word for it.<\/p>\n<p>\"Fulguration\" can also refer to \"electrodesiccation,\" which (as you might expect) is desiccation by means of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine I came across \"fulguration\" in some Bradbury story, probably <cite>Something Wicked This Way Comes<\/cite> if nothing else.  But I don't think I've seen \"blick\" before.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;bleak,&#8221; also known as the &#8220;blay&#8221; and the &#8220;blick,&#8221; is a particular &#8220;small European river fish,&#8221; according to Webster&#8217;s Revised Unabridged Dictionary. But what interests me more is that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}