Wait a minute—I forgot the man who practices the trombone or the cornet, just across the airshaft—that’s a gollohix to dream about!
A New Year’s Eve in gay New York,
Fire engines at a fire,
A parrot that doth squawk and squawk
Are gollohixes dire.
If gollohixes all could be
Escaped, I’d thank my stars,
But Gollohix the Great is he
Who snores in sleeping-cars!
Go-lob-ri-fac´tion, n. 1. An object which has suffered extravagant decoration. 2. A composition superspiced with adjectives.
Go-lob-ri-fac´tu-rer, n. A mad architect, or designer.
Go-lob´ri-fy, v. To adorn excessively; to add excruciating and unmeaning ornament.
Golobrifaction is the extravagant exaggeration of art. One may golobrify pastry, jellies, salads; or literature, with decadent phrases.
Golobrifaction is the art of supersweetening, or the flourish of eccentric adornment. (See Diabob.)
Topiary gardening golobrifies the country residence of the aristocrat; humbler abodes are golobrified with cast iron stags or plaster statues of nervous nymphs.
The lover golobrifies his billets doux with ardent adverbs. The ambitious builder golobrifies his villas with the fret-saw and the turning-lathe. (See Gorgule.)