just before midnight on august 19th
i was able to work the word, ostrobogulous into a sentence. orson and i were exiting a local pub when we heard a clang from the alley. the source of the noise, we soon found, was two raccoons on top of a dumpster® brand trash receptacle boning eachother. we stared at the raccoons (our jaws in slack formation) for ten seconds or so before the dominant raccoon resumed his awkward arrhythmic thrusting (the freaky exhibitionist) and orson and i double-timed it back the pub where (over shots of aguardiente) i described what we witnessed to a third party as an “ostrobogulous encounter of the first degree.”
anyway, richardbronsky (from the comments) noted that ostrobogulous describes itself. such a word is called an autological word. here is a list of them.
