John, the hobbledehoy of his class, , grabbed the yagi off the roof and assumed a vorlage as he scooted down to the finial-adorned gutters.hobbledehoy: A gawky adolescent boy.
Flipper, though lotic, despised the rivulet home he'd made for himself.
yagi: A directional radio and television antenna consisting of a horizontal conductor with several insulated dipoles parallel to and in the plane of the conductor.
vorlage: A posture assumed in skiing in which the skier leans forward from the ankles, usually without lifting the heels.
scoot: Scoot comes from a Scandinavian verb related to the verb shoot and, borrowed into Scots dialect, originally meant “to squirt with water.” Two derived senses, both intransitive verbs, have become even more common: “to slide suddenly across a surface” and “to move quickly”: The mouse scooted across the floor. In the American Midlands, there is a phrasal verb scoot over, meaning, in its transitive sense, “to push (someone or something) to the side to make room.”
finial: 1. Architecture A sculptured ornament, often in the shape of a leaf or flower, at the top of a gable, pinnacle, or similar structure. 2. An ornamental terminating part, as on a post or piece of furniture.
lotic: Of, relating to, or living in moving water.
rivulet: A small brook or stream; a streamlet.
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