The western sky twinkled with stars.

My mother-in-law, Louise Field Cooper, used the word snoof to convey some of this meaning, as in “he has such a bad cold he's gone totally snoof.

The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian.

That was a socdologer, but Billy was socdologer proof, and after a moment's pause, he responded with an emphasis none can command but those who communicate important and undeniable truths.