• Belshazzar breakfast – the last King of Babylon – depicted in paintings by Rembrandt and others.
• Juggernaut – something perceived to be an overwhelming advancing force that seems to crush everything in its path. (Sanskrit origin; Bedford origin: big lorries who come thundering through.)
• Rodomontade – boastful, pretentious, self-indulgent
• Sapphia –  somehow related to Sappho, Greek poet
• Ananias – common Jewish name;  bible reference?
• Cry peccavi – to confess one’s guilt
• Foam caps – waves in sea with foam at top
• Cats’ Paws (type of wave?) – one of names for capillary waves (i.e. almost imperceptible waves on surface of water)
• Grumous – thick and lumpy similar to clotting blood
• Cats’ paws (re: intelligence) — ?
• Asphodel – member of the lily family

(Taken from E. F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia mostly.)