<word definition and root formation>
Dactylonomy: counting on the fingers [Gk. dactylo- (“finger”) + -nomy (“law”; “custom”)]
Dasypyal: having hairy buttocks [Gk. dasús, (“hairy”; “dense”) + –pugḗ, (“buttocks”)]
Delendum: (Pl. -da) thing to be deleted [from dēlinō, (“destroyed”; “annihilated”; “razed”)]
Desipient: silly, trifling or foolish [L. de- (“of”; “from”) + –sapere (“to be wise”)]
Desuetude: state of disuse [L. de +- suescere (“to become accustomed”)]
Deuteropathy: (Medic.) secondary illness [Gk. deúteros, “second” + -pathy -páthos, (“suffering”) + –y]
Diasyrm: rhetorical device of damning by faint praise, a method of ridiculing or disparaging someone [Gk. (?)]
Dicacity: oral playfulness; talkativeness [From L. dicacitas, from dĭcāx (“sarcastic”; “witty”) + -ity]
Didapper: one who disappears and then bobs up again [from a merging of “dive” and “dapper”]
Dilogy: ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse; repetition of a word or phrase [Gk. dilogía (“repetition”), from dís, (“twice”) + -logia]
Dippoldism: (Psych.) the paraphilia of deriving pleasure from the implementation of any form of corporal punishment whether it be in the form of beating, whipping, or spanking of another; sexuoerotic arousal derived fron spanking or whipping school children [From Andreas Dippold, German schoolteacher convicted of inflicting abuse on children including manslaughter]
Dismissory: sending away; permit to depart [from L. dimittere (“send away”) (dismiss) + -ory]
Discalceate: barefooted [dis + from L. calceus (“a shoe”)] 👣
Diversivolent: desiring different things [L. diversi (“diverse”) + –volent-, volens, velle (“to will”; “wish”)]
Dolorifuge: that which drives away sadness, mitigates or removes grief [from L. dolere (“to grieve”) + –fugere (“flee”). Coinage modelled on centrifuge, febrifuge, vermifuge, etc.]
Drapetomaniac: a person with an impulse or intense desire to run away from home [Gk. drapetēs, “a runaway [slave]”) + -mania, “madness”; “frenzy”). Coinage: Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright invented the term “Drapetomania” in 1851 to describe what he believed was the “psychological disorder”(sic) that caused a phenomenon of enslaved Blacks to run away from bondage before the American Civil War (masshist.org)
Dyslogy: censure; dispraise; uncomplimentary remarks [modelled on eulogy, Gk. dys (“badly”) + -logy]
As the Logolept’s Diet is very handy for vocabulary builders, let’s introduce two new words (not neologisms) to the glossary that relate to the hand 🖐️
DORSAL v PALMAR – the obverse couple.
Dorsal = the back of the hand ; relating to the back or posterior. Palmar = relating to the palm of the hand.
Diaphanous: (esp of a fabric) light, delicate and translucent. Greek root: dia (“through”) + -phainein (“to show”)
When I first came across the word diglot, I conjured up some kind of learned helot. But It’s actual dictionary meaning via the OED is a bilingual person or publication – as underlined in its Ancient Greek origins: díglōttos, di- “twice, double” and -glōttos, a derivative of glôssa “tongue.”
My second entry for D is the politically loaded dextroversion = turning to the right.
Diglot goes well homophonically with another D word already in the redux list, dilogy.