Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Blaise

👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little squiggle of a word! Now, "blaize," frankly, is a bit of a tripped-up darling of the English language. You won't find it in most standard dictionaries, and honestly? Neither will I be entirely certain how to pronounce it with 100% confidence – somewhere between “blayz" and a mournful little badger’s whimper.

Basically, "blaize, blaize-ère, blaisezier," according to some rather delightfully obscure medieval French texts (and frankly, whoever bothered to write them down), referred to the smell of old turnips that were rotting in a ditch after a rain. Yes! You read that right, the very essence of impending, slightly suspect, cellar provisions. It wasn't just a bad smell—it was an…experience. People described it as having a certain…pungency, a sort of mournful musk. Think a badger’s bum had mated with a forgotten root vegetable and then spent a long, wet afternoon weeping into the mud. 400 years later, this term simply vanished from respectable writing, only to reappear in a very limited capacity as it's now considered an antiquated, almost theatrical word! Here's your unsettling, edgy sentence, just for you: ’The old woman stared out of the rain-slicked parlour, her face bleached and brittle, and declared with a disturbing