eldritch

Am I the only one here to think of the singer from Sisters of Mercy?

I'll get me cloak...

It's a dull word. Could be the name of a stodgy cricket player who only scores runs between mid-on and mid-off. "Yes, it's a fine knock by Eldritch today who looks as if he'll make ten by lunch. All in singles of course but lovely technique. I haven't seen a left elbow so high since Kippax and indeed Trumper."

Ditch-phuca? In lieu of actually knowing what you mean, I have to assume that you are talking about some sort of Old World chupacabra.

Poor Ethelred!

Blecch. Not to me. I was in a production of "The Rimers of Eldritch" years ago and I loathed it. So now the word makes me think of that experience. *shudders*

There's something remarkably satisfying about this word. Eldritch. Eldritch. Eldritch.

To me, it conjures up weird images of Ethelred the Unready, waking up in some kind of a ditch, after a particularly unsatisfying altercation with the ditch-phuca.

etymology is 'elf kingdom' (the word for kingdom in Old English being 'rice' like in the German 'reich')

"I anticipated some such reception, he began with an eldritch laugh, for which, it seems, history is to blame."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14