Phillumenist (noun)
fil-oom-en-ist
A collector of matchbox or matchbook labels.
1940s: from phil- ‘loving’ + Latin lumen ‘light’ + -ist.
Example sentences
“He’s a phillumenist, he’s quite obsessed with match boxes!”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
