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  • Underused words
  • CaptainFlashheart
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    Dolt.

    Should be used far more often, don’t you think?

    😀

    Drac
    Full Member

    I’ve seen that used recently.

    rascal
    Free Member

    Berk!

    geoffj
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    geoffj
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    Pudding (obvs)

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    I’ve seen that used recently.

    Really? What a coincidence.

    Berk!

    Far ruder than you might think.

    CharlieMungus
    Free Member

    Polysemic

    wanmankylung
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    **** AKA Bearded Clam.

    Dolt is a word I use all the time.

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    More cake?

    Drac
    Full Member

    Really? What a coincidence.

    Quite remarkable.

    lesgrandepotato
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    Kludgefundle

    rob2
    Free Member

    Bumder

    grum
    Free Member

    Colourway
    Murdered-out
    Enduro
    Gnar
    Sick
    Steed
    Selfie

    Just to annoy all the people on here who get wound up by such things.

    njee20
    Free Member

    Boondoggle.

    I’m enjoying “commensurate” at the moment.

    grum
    Free Member

    Rambunctious is pretty good. Don’t hear that often.

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    Rotund.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Dolt.

    Should be used far more often, don’t you think?

    I can’t possibly even begin to imagine where you might have got that word from.

    Idiot.

    samuri
    Free Member

    pugnacious

    tomkerton
    Free Member

    Discombobulate. Brilliant word.

    kcal
    Full Member

    phalanx.

    ElShalimo
    Full Member

    Thrutching

    jemima
    Free Member

    Discombobulate +1
    Commensurate +1
    And I will add:
    Crepuscular
    Copacetic
    Tautology
    Savage
    Capital (as in, “that is a capital idea chap”)

    fadda
    Full Member

    I have a fondness for “contemporaneous”

    Edukator
    Free Member

    Yes.

    Thrutch was the caving club magazine.

    j450n
    Free Member

    Buffoon!

    Edric64
    Free Member

    Masticate is very underused

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    Galoot, I know a few galoots.

    toxicsoks
    Free Member

    Flange.
    Apoptosis.

    mastakillah
    Free Member

    plethora.

    specky4eyes
    Free Member

    Have, as in “I could have….”

    CheesybeanZ
    Full Member

    Please
    Thank you
    Excuse me

    reggiegasket
    Free Member

    I used ‘lexicon’ in a lecture today. Not sure where that came from.

    CountZero
    Full Member

    CaptainFlashheart – Member
    Berk!
    Far ruder than you might think.

    Think? I know it’s cruder than most who use it realise. 😉
    Clot is seldom used these days, but I rather like its very concise nature.

    yunki
    Free Member

    bucolic
    melancholy

    ElShalimo
    Full Member

    Apposite

    mefty
    Free Member

    Not sure where that came from.

    A lexicon?

    eddiebaby
    Free Member

    Fulcrum
    Assonance
    Limen

    jimmy
    Full Member

    Cruft.

    A colleague used it in a meeting with some consultants. I had to stifle a chortle.

    votchy
    Free Member

    Please
    Thank you
    Excuse me

    Seemingly the most underused words in the English language now 👿

    Pigface
    Free Member

    Flibbertigibbet

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