CREPUSCULAR

Crepuscular                 of twilight; or dim

First encountered:      when looking up information about small, wild cats - little-known but just as lovely as a snow-leopard. See http://www.catsurvivaltrust.org/

How it's used:         a cat is a crepuscular predator. - meaning that it hunts at twilight

How you might use it:   He is nice but crepuscular - meaning ' he is nice but dim.'

Why I like this word:    Because its a word that doesnt sound anything like what it means. It sounds like its talking about something or someone extremely scabby - or am I the only person who thinks that?  'He was a crepuscular human being' - sounds scabby doesn't it? A bit like Ecclefechan - which is actually a town in Scotland, or a small dried fruit tart named after a town in Scotland,  but doubles as a very effective curse.

Rippley - A crepuscular creature mistaking my laptop for a bed, possibly on account of the cushion that someone very kindly put there. She had had a very busy time catching a small green bird, a baby shrew, a possibly very rare lizard, and a vole. All but the vole survived to be caught another day.