Was listening to I Need a Miracle just now, and had to look up the word ‘chantility’ via Siri and the definition of Old French verb ‘chantey’ could fit the lyric as being ‘singing lady of nobility and rage’. What uncommon words do you ‘hear’ in Hunter’s lyrics that you don’t hear in other songs?

Although ‘chantility’ does not show up in the following list (probably because it appears to be ‘gentility’), here’s an AI-compiled list of real words I’ve already found (I don’t think the names count, personally, but they are words):

Arrears – Touch of Grey

Bebop – Loose Lucy

Gentility – Ship of Fools

Dire – Dire Wolf

Harrow – Wharf Rat

Begonias – Scarlet Begonias

Terrapin – Terrapin Station

Carmine – China Doll

Althea – Althea

Gossamer – Stella Blue

Cornice – Mountains of the Moon

Weathervane – Box of Rain

Fennario – Dire Wolf

Candyman (as a title and metaphor) – Candyman

Shakedown – Shakedown Street

Rowan – Brokedown Palace

Scarlet – Scarlet Begonias

Peggy-O (traditional but uncommon) – Peggy-O

Cosmic – Cosmic Charlie

Terrapins (plural imagery) – Terrapin Station

Ramble – Ramble on Rose

Wharf – Wharf Rat

Cumberland – Cumberland Blues

Sugaree – Sugaree

Jackstraw – Jack Straw

Dupree – Dupree’s Diamond Blues

Bertha – Bertha

Cassidy – Cassidy

Viola – Viola Lee Blues

Shakedown – Shakedown Street

I also thought of a couple more:

Transitive - Dark Star

Cic-ah-dahs (lol oh Jerry, you ol’ so and so… we all know it’s pronounced cic-ay-duhs) - Terrapin Station

I was curious after going down this rabbit hole, how about shares from the minds of this amazing community?

Thanks in advance!