Lyrics That Send You to the Dictionary

It's National Dictionary Day commemorating the birthday of lexicographer Noah Webster. Has a word in a lyric ever had you searching your brain or the dictionary for its meaning?

Here's what we spun just after 9am:

• Isaac Hayes - "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" (vocab includes: modus operandi, phalanges, stupensity, asphyxiation, emancipator, cerebellum, medulla oblongata)
• The Decemberists - "June Hymn" (thrushes, panoply, barony)
• Steely Dan - "Bodhisattva" (bodhisattva)
• Andrew Bird - "Sisyphus" (precipice, recalcitrant, taciturn)
• Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke - "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (precocious, atrocious)

Additional audio sampled from:

• Lance Crutthers as Pootie Tang, in conversation with Bob Costas - Pootie Tang (2001)
• "Hooked on Phonics" television commercial (1989)