Yes, ” chiropteran ” (” hand-wingy “):

chiropteran : relating to bats.

Whereas @Frank says the OED uses ” cheiropteran ” ( eiro instead of iro )

The OED also comes in the form is “The OED” doesn’t “spread the information like rain) and not “spread the heat”.

Whereas your vocation is your job, your line of business, and how you earn your income, by contrast your avocation is a secondary occupation which you take as an addition, especially for enjoyment.

For example in Collins: Avocation

variable

noun Your
avocation is a job or activity that you do because you are interested in it, rather than to earn your living.

He was an engineer by trade and a naturalist by avocation.

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Avocation

noun
1. com 1 1. Is another occupation something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, especially

for pleasure. my doctor’s avocation is painting.

This meaning evolved from an older sense, now archaic, where the word meant “a distraction”, but more particularly a calling away from your vocation ( n.1): From Etymonline :

avocation ( n.1):

)
1610, “a calling away one’s occupation;” 1640s, “that which calls one away from one’s business,” from Latin avocationem (nominative avocatio ) “a calling away, distraction, diversion,” noun of action from past participle stem of avocare “to call off, call away,” from ab “off, away from” (see ab-) + vocare “to call” (from POIE ROOT *wekw

Which I think fits nicely to your need for a word which is “Not quite work, not quite a hobby”. The call is so compelling that it distracts you from your day

job.

Try vigil, defined by Collins as: vigil:

a purposeful watch maintained, esp at night, to guard, observe, pray, etc Thus: I came

back

to my post and and continued my vigil A bit hackneyed,

but it works.

I do

give all the examples of idle chatter, Let’s put a very brief context. This passage appears in Chapter XCI, “Smoking-Club in a Man-of-War”, which discusses the universal human routine of gathering together somewhere and chit-chatting, gossiping.

Metropolitan gentlemen have their club; provincial gossipers their news-room; village quidnuncs their barber’s shop; the Chinese their opium-houses;… As

the title suggests, on ship, this happens in the galley (dining area), which is the only place the sailors are allowed to smoke their pipes. So the scene Melville is setting here is a bunch of working-class sailors sitting around in the kitchen after meal, smoking, and gossiping.

He starts the description of their interaction with

Not a few were politicians

There, “not a few were politicians” is litotes for “many of the sailors thought themselves politicians” i.e. The Squarish King’s Speech, p 55; 10/24/1960, 9:16 p.m. Political parties are held on the nightly, held out on political topics during these nightly social gatherings.

And, as there were some thoughts of a war with England at the time, their discussions waxed warm.(Half the day was 10:47:17), however, their discussions were more immediate.

How does the possibility of an invasion of England affect the politics in this scene? The conversation had gets heated.

What is it that they are just saying or crying?

“I tell you what it is, shippies,” cried the old captain of gun No. 1 on the forecastle “if that ‘ere President of ourn don’t luff up into the wind, by the Battle of the Nile! He’ll be getting us into a grand fleet engagement afore the Yankee nation has rammed home her cartridges–let alone blowing the match before, um, the man of the Match. ’em up with God! It’ll be bringing the old America into the new Grand Fleet! If

the President doesn’t slow down / put on the brakes, he’ll get us into a naval war with England before we (the Americans, the Yankees) have even gotten to load our guns.”

Why does anybody talk of luffing? “Keep our Yankee nation large before wind, say I, till you come plump on the enemy’s bows, and board him in the smoke,” and with that there came forth a mighty blast from his pipe.

What is slowing down? We should sail full speed until we can see the enemy’s ships and board them”.

Who said that George Washington has become too old to steer his trick, this old man, in the role of state chairman, as well as the old man in charge of Yankee nation?

What would your assessment be about the president having to steer this ship during his tenure? ” ( The First President of the United States being a hero of the Revolutionary era) ( Washington being a hero of the Revolutionary War, it’s top general, the first president of the fledgling nation, and a venerated founding father).

“But they say he’s a cold-water customer, Bill,” the cried another; “and sometimes o’ nights I somehow has a presentation that he’s goin’ to stop our grog.” Now

this sailor is responding to the sheet anchor-man who was comparing the current President to George Washington. How does an unintended pro-President turn into a war hawk and why? What does President Obama wish for?

When Trump does run. He

will “stop our grog” In a naval context, this usually means “end our rations of alcohol”, usually as a punishment aboard ship for some infraction. Let the sailor stop wasting his booze.

How do you stop booze? A teetotaler has not beaten him in any way. Yet he is still going strong. A member of the ‘temptation’ class of the 18th century. What was the effect of the 18th Amendment to the US constitution on smoking and marijuana in the US?

So why is the President fighting to end alcohol consumption?

What does “cold water customer” signify?

The syntax of the epithet is quite complex. So, first we want to analyze the syntax! I read it as ” adjective + customer” that is, it is using the colloquial (and now dated) sense of customer:

1. colloq. A person of a specified (esp. gtn.) life, the nature of the universe. (sp. the embodiment in Theology). Spec.. Troublesome character or type; (sometimes) troublesome character or difficulty). When a person is and how one is dealing. Frequently with modifying adjective indicates personality or character, as awkward, ugly, etc. Also in extended use with reference to an animal, usually a fox, or an object.

   Cool Customers: see the first element.
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adjective + customer is saying this a person, such as awkward, ugly, cool, etc.?

How do we use cold water as an adjective? What does that mean, and how does it relate to Obama?

In the temperance

movement, and all the discussion, debate, literature and publications around it, alcohol (sinful) is constantly paired and contrasted with water (pure). How is water important in reducing inflammation?

If no one wants to drink booze, the only thing we do is drink cold water. Don’t use it and don’t over drink booze. Where do I go as a man who is dull, uninspiring and uninspiring? What is the only water that fit for man? Cold water, if not impossible, would have to remain cold for man to grow up.

What’s up with Donald

Platt, the last American politician who had abused liquid that was turned into water? The

novel was written in 1849, and published in 1850, and set contemporaneously. The US President at the time was James K. Polk… a teetotaler 2. He won the 1996 Oscar.

J. _{W. C. Fields 1 And W. C. Field said it more roughly : “Mr. Fields is my servant at times when I don’t speak very slowly… I can never make his sense. I must give him the certainty…” Fields, can you tell me the reason for your well-known aversion to water? “… “Never touch the stuff—very unhealthy. Fish fuck in it. If}

you’ve _{gotten this far and still don’t find “The alternative to booze is cold water” very convincing, perhaps there is some solace in knowing that, regardless of one’s other choices of beverage, people who would stop another man’s grog, is, indisputably, a wet blanket.}

What is the difference between being a genuinely great boy and a super girl?