Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Stripe breasted

👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully peculiar little beast of a word! Now, before I even begin, let me preface things by saying "Onistasis. Nineteenth. Seriously?" That is the frankly exhausting official bibliographic name for what we affectionately (and rather messily, honestly – nobody actually bothers to formally document it anymore, frankly.) now call a “stripe-breasted individual.

Essentially, being “stripe-breasted," as I personally define and emphatically enjoy doing here, describes a state of… noticeable textural peculiarity on the chest. It's not about freckles, you understand. Unless those freckles happen to be arranged in a frankly aggressive, almost topographical, banding pattern. Nope. We are talking about that insistent, deliberate striping . Think of a really well-waxed badger, then imagine that badger is wearing a very unfortunate tweed waistcoat. That’s the general vibe. It's not a medical condition, you probably won’t catch it from a dodgy pheasant (though I wouldn’t entirely dismiss the possibility – frankly, pheasant husbandry these days… questionable). Historically, the descriptor was largely applied with an unsettling amount of seriousness in Victorian England, particularly amongst natural historians and gentlemen who apparently spent far too much time examining the pectorals of various specimens. There were, to be quite blunt, a great deal of rather alarming monographs dedicated entirely to classifying the most dramatically stripe-breasted pigeons, grouse, and occasionally, unfortunately, unfortunate