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smileemember
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Location: San Diego,CA,USA


Posted:
I like to indulge in words that are out of the ordinary. I thought I may transpire some of this fun to you. Unfortunately, I am only familiar with the english language; please feel free to ad whatever you may wish == in fact it is encouraged!!

DEFENESTRATE - to throw somebody or something out of a window.

GARBOLOGY - the study of garbage.

NO-NO - usually used to describe vodka, also aplies to other alcoholic beverages

HALLUX - the scientific word for your big toe

POIGNANT - synanym to sad

REPUGNANT - disgusting

later - Smilee


Paddyback from the dead...sort of
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Posted:
eh...unrinate backwards?

faith enfireBRONZE Member
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Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
*bump*
i enjoy words such as penchant and vernacular
irony is a word people need to learn to use properly

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


JonnyRokBRONZE Member
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Posted:
I found one once... "pettifogging"- paying too much attention to unimportant details, and I like the way the word "opulent" rolls off my tongue

Do what you want coz a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
Yo ho fiddle dee dee, being a pirate is alright to be,
Do what you want coz a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!


BEZERKERenthusiast
237 posts

Posted:
One of my favorites is 'discombobulate'. Means confused. The first place I heard it used? On an episode of fracking 'Neighbours' of all things back in the early 90s. "Daphne.....I'm discombobulated." I was like WTF!?

Others:

Concatination: a series of interconnected or interdependent things or events.

Contumacious: Willfully and obstinantly stubborn.

As an aside, does anyone remember the episode of Black Adder where the guy who creates the first dictionary comes to see Prince George. Black Adder decides to screw him because he thinks he has EVERY word ever used in the book by using words that don't exist.

"I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities."

"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation."

"Certainly, sir. I shall return interphrastically."

lol ubbloco

silly_rillyBRONZE Member
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Location: Kelowna, B.C., Canada


Posted:
Uvula
pronounced: yoo-vyuh-luh
-The small, fleshy, conical body projecting downward from the middle of the soft palate.

in other words, the dangly thing in the back of your mouth. tongue




on a side note, if you poke it and then smell your finger... well, that's the worst case of halitosis ever!


oh yeah, and halitosis is really foul breath.

VampyricAcidSILVER Member
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Posted:
I once met someone called Emmanuel Valentine, and thought that was a perfect use of the english language, the fact he was a bit of a t*** is irrelivant

another favourite is "floccinaucinihilipilification" credited as the longest non-technical word in the english language, its meaning?
"The act or habit of describing or regarding something as worthless. "

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CaffeinatedKatieGOLD Member
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149 posts
Location: Portland, OR, USA


Posted:
Salacious. salAYshuss.
fun to say because it's like delicous, but even better.
"arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination. See also lustful, lecherous, and lascivious." (which happen to be good words, too.)

BrennPLATINUM Member
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Location: Melbourne, Australia


Posted:
ROTOLACTOR

A giant device used for milking cows biggrin

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FoxInDocsSILVER Member
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Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia


Posted:
ugh! vampyric, you stole my word!



Though, isn't it "the act or habbit of wrongly describing or regarding something as worthless"?



i could be wrong, it's been a couple of years since i've seen a dictionary that good.









oh, and with doc's mecical terms, i like "mild cardio infarction" which i believe is a minor heart attack... and sphygmomonomometer (sp??) which is the pumpy thingy they use to take your blood pressure... (my sister's a nursing student.....)
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poigmarmite and nutella sandwich
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Location: Farnborough, Hampshire


Posted:
debauchery-what's that mean, pogo mentioned it biggrin

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margitaSILVER Member
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Posted:
i quite like salubrious (long word for "good) & splendiferous (long word for "splendid")! these are pretty easy to slip into everyday conversation too! (i know, cos i use them both often!) ubblol

do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!



if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!



smile! :grin: it confuses people!


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Posted:
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

45 letters long the longest word in the english language (one for doc lightning wink )

means:
a form of silicosis caused by microscopic volcanic dust.

and quincunx - an arrangement of 5 things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and 1 iin the middle biggrin

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.


faith enfireBRONZE Member
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3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
salacious behavior:debauchery

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


The Tea FairySILVER Member
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Posted:
I thought 'antidisestablishmentarianism' was the longest non-technical word...

*counts letters*

Darn, one short!

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Bugsnewbie
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Posted:
My two favourite words which haven't cropped up yet:

Sussurus (noun) / sussuration (verb) (english): the whispery sound that a field of corn makes when it's waving in the breeze.

Sgriob (Scottish Gaelic): The ticking sensation on your upper lip just before you take a sip of whisky.

Hehe, also "canoodling" -- kissing, cuddling and being all coupley. It's a slang word I've only ever heard in the South Welsh Valleys, and hilarious in a proper welsh accent! (the stress is on the middle "noodl" syllable).

faith enfireBRONZE Member
wandering thru the woods of WI
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Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
we canoodle over here, i thought it was german or polish (that's the city's ethnic background)
sussurus is onomonopeia (sp) ubbrollsmile

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


poigmarmite and nutella sandwich
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Posted:
I like onomatopeia

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faith enfireBRONZE Member
wandering thru the woods of WI
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Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
oooh did i spell it wrong?

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


poigmarmite and nutella sandwich
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Posted:
probably unless it was a different word wink it just reminded me of onomatopeia and the game frown

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Bugsnewbie
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Posted:
 Written by: faithinfire


we canoodle over here, i thought it was german or polish (that's the city's ethnic background)
sussurus is onomonopeia (sp) ubbrollsmile



It definately isn't Welsh in origin, so you're probably right. I have friends who speak both of those languages so I'll ask next time I see them.

Whichever languange it's oringinally from, I guarruntee it's funnier when shouted in a valleys accent! I still remember hiding with my first girlfriend at the back of my high school's DT workshop one lunchtime, only to hear a teacher yell "You'd better not be canoodling back there" redface

Aah, the scars our teachers give us...

And another good word to justify this post: emoliate -- to sooth or heal. I don't know the root, but I suspect it's Latin and the same root as the French "emolier" -- to improve.

Dangerousmind66Member
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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS- The black lung, right?

LilBBoySILVER Member
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Posted:
 Written by: The Tea Fairy


I thought 'antidisestablishmentarianism' was the longest non-technical word...

*counts letters*

Darn, one short!



You could always invent 'antidisestablishmentariamism-ists'! rolleyes lol biggrin wink

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