Upsilamba

What is Upsilamba?


1.

1) mixture of Greek letters upsilon and lambda

2) fanciful creation of Nabokov

3) the impossible joy of a suspended leap

4) a dance

5) the image of small silver fish leaping in a out of a moonlit lake

6) a sound or a melody

7) a word used in a insult intended to brush someone off ("an upsilamba to you too!")

8) what one may shout when jumping rope

9) the paradox of a blissful sigh

10) a magic code that opens the door to a secret cave filled with treasures

11) the magical name of a small boy in Africa

12) an exclamation used when you have a feeling of inexpressible joy mixed with clumsiness and goofiness

13) a word whose definition is your own individual discretion (similar to supercalifragilisticexbealadocious)

I was having such a good time listening to Marc's band and hanging out with my friends that shouted "Upsilamba!"

2.

An archaic / fictional letter.

From Nabakov's 'Invitation to a Beheading'

They had no words that would end in an unexpected way, an upsilamba, becoming a bird or a catapult with wondrous consequences.


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