Word of the Week

 I collect words. Sometimes because they are just fantastic, sometimes because they are funny. Naturally, they are mostly uncommon words, but I don't pick them for rarity alone. Language is a weird thing: it's a crude approximation of the thing we feel and experience, but it's still the best tool we have to communicate not just facts and data, but also all the billion shades of reality, not to mention all those hazy things swirling around in our heads.


 
lubricious |loōˈbri sh əs| (also lubricous |ˈloōbrikəs|)
adjective

1 offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire.
2 smooth and slippery with oil or a similar substance.

DERIVATIVES
lubriciously adverb
lubricity |-ˈbrisitē| noun

ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin lubricus ‘slippery’ + -ious .


Lubricious is a word I came across while searching for a synonym for slippery. It's still one of my all-time favorite words. Lubricious is so perfect: it sounds like what it means, it's slippery and salacious and well lubricated. Just hearing this word I think of two sweaty bodies writhing together.