Snookers and snudges

Le ton beau de Marot. In praise of the music of language. By Douglas R. Hofstadter. 1997

Here are a few miscellaneous definitions of note. “Sisterhood of Man” is cleverly defined as: “a transitional expression giving a generic weight to the word sisterhood while at the same time emasculating the pseudogeneric term man.” Then there is “prick”, which is explicated as follows: “a selfimportant member of the thrusting throng; an especially contemptible and disagreeable dick (see dick)”. We conclude our gay romp through the wily Wickedary with “cockocracy”, whose definition is a tittle separatist pun-poem: “the state of supranational, supernatural erections; the place/time where the air is filled with the crowing of cocks, the joking of jocks, the droning of clones, the sniveling of snookers and snudges, the noisy parades and processions of prickers: pecker order”. A-men! (Eh, men?)