Comments on: unusual words: cucumiform

By: Firmin

Firmin — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:22:23 +0000

This quote is the reason I typed “cucumiform” into Google to try to find out what it meant, and so found this page – it is from Malcolm Lowry’s “Under The Volcano”:

“But the abominable impact on his whole being at this moment of the fact that that hideously elongated cucumiform bundle of blue nerves and gills below the steaming unselfconscious stomach had sought its pleasure in his wife’s body brought him trembling to his feet.”

By: GDeeeeZL

GDeeeeZL — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:29:23 +0000

Unfortunate, albeit unlikely, uses of our new favourite word, which in the UK happens to be spelled, “cucumiformme,” from the Latin ‘cucummus’:

-In Rocky IV, Ivan Drago was a cucumiformidable opponent for Rocky Balboa

-”No taxation without cucumiformation”

-The Catholic Cucumiformity Acts of England

By: Damian

Damian — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:43:36 +0000

“My, this flashlight, like many others, is remarkably cucumiform.”

By: Lauren McMahon

Lauren McMahon — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:47:04 +0000

Hahaha, THIS is a goal I can appreciate. I think this word should also be involved in some new tongue twisters–may I propose:
-Carrie carves cuneiform on cucumiform forms
-Capriform capricorns have cucumiform germs
-Cucumiform coliforms crowd conformist Carl’s colon