ostrobogulous

comparative more ostrobogulous · superlative most ostrobogulous

1. humorousSlightly risqué or indecent; bizarre, interesting, or unusual.

   A tissue of ostrobogulous lies, he calls them.

   1982, Charles Richard Johnson, Oxherding

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   "The Beast and the Devil tried to hold a serious business conversation, but Vickybird kept chipping in with questions of a purely 'ostrobogulous'* nature until Crowley became so enraged that he turned Vickybird into a zebra, rode him into a zoo, where he remained for two years before regaining human shape."

   1951, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The magic of my youth, R. Hart-Davis, 1951, →ISBN, page 31

   He would speak of an ostrobogulous tale or a passage in the classics.

   1990, Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg: a biography