On The other hand, I got all the pieces of work that are due in this week done last night. I'm perky and going to Zell's tonight because I deserve it.
Seeing as though ex has just split with his gurlfriend, I decided to check on him to see how he is doing... and found pictures of me and him on his website. *runs to toilet, feeling mightily sich and wanting to burn things*
mofette [n. moh-FET]
A hole in the ground from which gases emerge is a mofette. Usually, the word refers to holes that release carbon dioxide, possibly combined with smelly gases like hydrogen sulfide. The gas that emerges from the hole is also called mofette. Mofettes typically form in the last stages of volcanic action.
Most mofettes have a musty, dank, moldy smell. In Italian, there is muffa (mold) and its diminutive, moffetta, which migrated into French and then English to describe smelly gaseous exhalations. More recently, the word was applied to the geological source of such gases.
The gases that emerge from a mofette might be described as mephitic
[adj. muh-FIT-ik] (poisonous; foul-smelling). Strangely, this similar-sounding word is unrelated. It comes from the Latin mephitis (poisonous gas emitted from the earth).
*Mofette Giggles and Smells
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