Egeria
noun
A woman adviser or counselor.
In Roman mythology, a prophetic nymph or divinity, the instructress of Numa Pompilius, and invoked as the giver of life

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smug
adjective
1. Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent.
"a smug look; a smug critic."
2. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
3. Similar: spruce Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.

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balderdash
noun
1. Nonsense.
2. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
3. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

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prissiness
noun
The state or quality of being excessively prim or proper.
Examples:
"The first lesson: that however much I might like to say that I was being prissy about it because I wanted to Avoid Being Pedantic, or that, yes, my reluctance to use the term was pure prissiness but that my prissiness is not a function of Bigger Issues, neither of these statements is truthful." -- The Vagina Dialogues | Her Bad Mother 2006

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eye dialect
noun
The use of nonstandard spellings, such as enuff for enough or wuz for was, to indicate that the speaker is uneducated or using colloquial, dialectal, or nonstandard speech. The deliberate use of nonstandard spellings to indicate that the speaker uses a nonstandard or dialectal speech, even though the spelling is pronounced the same way as the original word. This sense?) (uncountable) The written representations of dialect speech in which words are spelled in a manner which indicates a non-standard pronunciation.

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nekkid
adjective
Eye dialect spelling of naked.

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chump
transitive & intransitive verb
To chew or make a chewing movement.
noun
A gullible person; a dupe. A stupid or foolish person; a dolt.

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curtain-twitcher
noun
A nosy person who watches his or her neighbours, typically from a curtained window.

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table rapping
noun
variants: or table-rapping, or less commonly table tapping or table-tapping
: spirit rapping
The best Sherlock Holmes stories were written before 1916, when Arthur Conan Doyle officially converted to spiritualism and took to table-rapping. —Ian Thomson

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table tapping
noun
Alleged form of communication with spirits of the dead.

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