A glossary of Mnton
terms
This has just been jotted down from ancient
memories - more details will be added.
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Aahbone
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A skull. The people of Mnton
have special reason to be wary of these, as they are frequently emissaries
of Masterskull.
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Aahboner Chasm
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The bottomless gorge behind Okhist
House into which the oceans forever pour, displaced by meteoritic dust.
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Accilver
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An ancient measure of voltage.
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Aquafine
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Arcufane
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Arx
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Mnton's manufacturer
of plumbing and heating equipment. Every Mnton home
has an Arx attic pump to provide hot
water and central heating. An attic pump has two headbone
chambers, curious spherical devices closely resembling aahbones.
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Banghammer
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To crash down upon with great force, usually
with catastrophic results. Hence also, a culinary atrocity.
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Banghammer
car
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An American car from the era of hugeness and
tailfins. Anecdotally constructed by banghammering
top-hat
cars.
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Banghammered
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Bok
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Highly alcoholic inflammable beer.
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Boozaphone
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A large, discordant euphonium-like instrument
attempted by Dadda XV.
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Box House
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Brrosher Pipe
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On Mnton ships, a small
pipe beside each sleeping bunk which endlessly emits quiet waxing and waning
"brrosher brrosher brrosher" sounds to enable the occupant to sleep without
dread.
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Bypoose
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An intelligent roof-eating beetle endemic
in Mnton.
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Cit
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An ancient measure of weight.
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Cube
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A curious cube-shaped vehicle for one person,
powered by a tube engine running
on viznup. Emits distinctive 'pop .. pop ... beeeEEEEEEEEmmm'
when running.
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'Cyoob
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Defrotnerising
machine
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Every Mnton home has
a cupboard next to the front door into which any tiresome guest is bundled.
Bright coloured lights flash on and off, jets of hot and cold air blow,
strange noises occur and the guest emerges refreshed and relaxed.
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Eljomo
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One of two rival inventing companies which
gave Mnton its technological lead (the other is Kint).
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Friseb
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O fut!
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Exclamation of frustration, as when out of
fuzz
arrows.
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Futtic
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Universal word denoting something peculiar,
state of abnormality etc.
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Fuzz gun
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A small pistol which fires fuzz
arrows. The arrows come in small glutinous fuzz
capsules, each containing fuzz powder.
Makes 'Fuzz!' sound when fired, or 'Fut!' when empty.
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Gogglebone
House
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Situated in the central jungle of Mnton,
now a restaurant.
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Groomash
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Mnton's food manufacturer.
A great favourite is canned Groomash
Vile Banghammer.
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Hallom
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Hangrasses
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Curved black rubber beings with spotty bow-ties,
somehow connected with maindists; but fortunately
of a jolly disposition.
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Heather
Space Systems
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An offshoot of Eljomo
and Kint, Mnton's space hardware
producer. Essential to successful extraterrestrial exploration is the dread
quenching unit. Unfortunately, it is useless against aahbones.
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Hmvinglops!
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Kint
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One of two rival inventing companies which
gave
Mnton its technological lead (the other is Eljomo).
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Kutta-bubba
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A sea creature resembling a large pair of
jaws, a baleful frown and very little else; it devours meduses.
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Maindists
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The curious lumps which sometimes rise and
fall in one's bed late at night, resembling many hands pressing up in different
places. Especially terrifying to small children, who can only stand on
tiptoe at the edges of their cots and scream.
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Meduse
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An edible jellyfish endemic to the sea around
Mnton.
Delicious fried.
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Mercredi
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Milstine
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Mnton
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A highly independent five-mile-square nation
which can move along the sea bed on wheels.
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Bang-Garret
Island
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The south-east corner of Mnton,
separated from the harbour by a strait; only hats may be worn.
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Ees Salis
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East Mnton: flat and
populated; includes the harbour and airport.
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Nor Salis
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North Mnton: extremely
mountainous and desolate, with permanently bad weather.
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Preta Nor
Salis
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Senta Mnton
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Sow Salis
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South Mnton: flat and
populated.
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Wes Salis
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West Mnton: mostly flat
and arable.
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Mnton Stores
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The centralised manufacturing, supply and
export enterprise of Mnton. Situated underground and
provides everything.
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Nekking
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The most extreme judicial sentence is to be
killed by the nekking machine.
The victim is strapped in upside-down; hammers bang; cutters cut. Not recommended.
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The Nightmare
of Rhubarb and Toolsheds
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Picture, if you can, two small wooden toolsheds
set apart at a considerable distance in an otherwise featureless landscape
at dusk. Above them in the sky a bunch of great stalks resembling rhubarb,
suspended horizontally with each end of the bunch above one of the toolsheds,
rotates quite slowly about its longitudinal axis. You awake in terror,
with alarming rotatory nystagmus, a child of two or three, utterly incomprehending,
and try to make some sense of it. It recurs often, identically and remorselessly.
Your description of it makes no sense to anybody.
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Oder Disinfectant
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A universal cleansing panacea.
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Okhist House
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Professor
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Selic
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An extremely high-powered explosive.
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Shrine hat
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A special hat for the Professor's
semi-human slave Shrine when taken on outings:
it has a long handle for the keeper (usually Goggo
the robot) and it rains continuously to keep Shrine
wet.
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Teluse
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An extremely light, durable metal.
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Tik
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Top-hat car
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A tall, slow, old-fashioned car from the age
of grace.
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Vitronomy
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An extremely refreshing fizzy drink.
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Viznup
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Voiswa
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Wacco bacco
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A disgusting type of pipe tobacco favoured
by Dadda XV.
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WBK
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Worlds' Broadcasting Corporation, Mnton's
radio and television station. Contributes significantly to the export economy.
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Wo!
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Exclamation of pain or grief.
[End of document of 10 July 1998, updated]