Things You Did Not Know Had Names
Isn’t it strange that there are things which you know very well but you just don’t know the names for them. Well keep reading because you are going to be amazed. Here are the list of 25 things you did not know had names. Hope you enjoy reading them!
1. The space between your eyebrows is called a glabella.
2. The way it smells after the rain is called petrichor.
3. The plastic or metallic coating at the end of your shoelaces is called an aglet.
4. The rumbling of stomach is actually called a wamble.
5. The cry of a new born baby is called a vagitus.
6. The prongs on a fork are called tines.
7. The sheen or light that you see when you close your eyes and press your hands on them is called phosphenes.
8. The tiny plastic table placed in the middle of a pizza box is called a box tent.
9. The day after tomorrow is called overmorrow.
10. Your tiny toe or finger is called minimus.
11. The wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.
12. The ‘na na na’ and ‘la la la’, which don’t really have any meaning in the lyrics of any song, are called vocables.
13. When you combine an exclamation mark with a question mark (like this ?!), it is referred to as an interrobang.
14. The space between your nostrils is called columella nasi.
15. The armhole in clothes, where the sleeves are sewn, is called armscye.
16. The condition of finding it difficult to get out of the bed in the morning is called dysania.
17. Unreadable hand -writing is called griffonage.
18. The dot over an “i” or a “j” is called tittle.
19. That utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much is called crapulence.
20. The metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called Bannock device.
21.That plastic thing on the end of your shoe lace is known as Aglet
22.The steel wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne is called a Agraffe
23. A pile of stones is called a “cairn.”
24.Ferrule is the name given to the metal attachment at the end of the pencil just before the eraser.
25.The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle is called a ‘keeper’.
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