Jonah Winter: Selected Poems Glossary

Jonah Winter: Selected Poems Glossary

chortle

laugh with satisfaction

catapulted

thrown at a high speed

hogging

occupying something someone else might want

quoth

to declare

prowl

to move quietly

phenyl barbathol

phenobarbital, a medication that treats seizures

Hava Nagila

let's rejoice

spurn

to refuse to accept something or someone considered not worth having

congregating

coming together in a large group

round-robin group

a roundtable

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