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  • Under-used words…
  • clubber
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    I’m disappointed that no one has put forward ‘poppycock’. A word that I associate with bow-tie wearing professor types but which always makes me smile…

    toab
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    Myrmidon – there’s certainly enough of them about…

    Joxster
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    I’m flabbergasted that feltching isn’t on the list.

    thepurist
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    What a lot of piffle!

    BillMC
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    pantechnicon (sp?),cognoscenti, perambulator,charabang, jolly japes, indubitably, cad, trollop, flippertyjibbet, cantankerous, obsequious, concatenation, conflation, dystopia, dysgenesis, dishevilled, unkempt, uncouth (personally I’m couth, kempt and shevilled), porcine, assinine, bovine, feline. Nuff.

    tyger
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    Does anyone recoginise the word “Ramtallian” (sp) meaning someone with a round “behind” ?

    Jezkidd
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    Pantheous

    nicko74
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    Berk is one that I’ve started using again to great acclaim (from my gf).
    Merkin I do quite like.
    Parochial I tend to drop into conversation, but I wish I could use peripatetic more often. Or even remember what it means

    Tebbalot
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    I quite like ‘metamerism’

    JulianA
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    Contumely. Seems appropriate for a lot of the posts here.

    Ticklinjock
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    Haven’t heard “Sploonging” for a while, but now the winter is here I’m sure it’ll return.

    yunki
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    you lot don’t get yonselves down to Devonium for your drinking often enough if you are unappy about these words being underused..

    I often hear almost all the words listed here mentioned at least once a week.. sometimes all in the same conversation..
    even when there’s a helluva hullabulloo and the occupants of the conversation have to shout to be heard above it..

    Cougar
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    This hullabulloo, do you hear it at a hootenanny?

    CharlieMungus
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    Guddle

    and

    peely-wally

    woffle
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    My wife recently found a Sussex dialect dictionary from the late 1800’s in a 2nd hand bookshop. There are right deedy words and phrases in that.

    That aside, my dad called my brother ‘cack-handed’ the other day. Hadn’t heard that in a while.

    CharlieMungus
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    finicky

    pernickety

    plop_pants
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    Strumpet.

    drain
    Full Member

    Spiffing.

    Lashings.

    And other Enid Blyton-type words.

    nicko74
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    brouhaha is another one I like

    Hohum
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    I like the word (and thing) “quim”

    StefMcDef
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    In the supermarket car park tonight, I was driving along one of the “aisles” looking for a space when some bawbag in an Audi 4×4 breenged (Scots word meaning to lunge quickly and randomly) out in front of me. With his lights off.

    Apart from confirming my prejudices about drivers of certain marques, and of 4x4s, it made me think that living dahn sarf, I hadn’t heard the word “breenged” for a while and that it is in fact a quite splendid word.

    jimmy
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    “Boff”

    As in, Southern Yeti, why were you on STW and not boffing her?

    Davesport
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    Klunge…..Used to geat effect in the Inbetweeners.

    D.

    TiRed
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    whence – got that one in my PhD thesis – not bad considering the subject matter (“A random walk forgets whence it came”).

    GlitterGary
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    My personal favourite is ‘poppycock’, preferably with a strong profane word ahead of it.

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