Obsession.
Passion --- no that is too much.

All of us here in the hinterlands pronounce the e in forte 'n we ain't agonna change fer nobody. The only use we make of the word is as a musical term.

In England I have heard the catalpa called an Indian bean tree. Call it what you like but don't set one out in your yard. There was one in my back yard when I moved here 60 years ago. It was the first to go.

When I saw this good word, I immediately thought about Holmes and Watson. Then I saw that the Good Doctor had beat me to it.

With the discussion of blurb, we are digging into the bottom of the lexical barrel. Us folks here in the hinterlands don't cotton to such words.

Slava, I salute your mother's "One swell foop".

There is the phrase "one fell swoop" which means a sudden action. It is attributed to the Bard. I have used it time out of mind. My father-in-law said, "One foul swoop", and I referred him to Shakespeare. He was a devotee of the Bard having some slight experience on the stage him...

Recombobulate may not be in any curated dictionary, but it is in: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recombob ... se,oneself)%20back%20into%20working%20order.

This word [first definition] accurately defines my brain as I move further into senior citizenship. However, I prefer to be called discombobulated as it is such a neat sounding word.

Here in the hinterlands, we say, "how-DEEH?" or "How y'all are?" or "Come in n take a load off n set a spell?

There is "jury rigged" which is different than a rigged jury. Then there is a certain American unnamed politician [so called] who thinks elections are rigged if he doesn't win.

Please, David, I invented the hinterlands and know their extent.

The word was created in Appalachia. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHIJfbYhQFg

It is a noun used in Appalachia to mean very poorly constructed.