[Closed] Great words that are underused.

rambunctious is a personal favourite

Oui, oui,

Oxter

Fettle
Fangle

Both totally bike-related 🙂

Minge

Stracciatella

Current fave in our house is;

'Cockwomble' e.g "You absolute cockwomble" or "what a bunch of cockwombles"

+1 flange

Land pirates

Nothing either diffuses an argument or gets you punched in the face faster than calling someone a Nincompoop

Poignant

flibberdyjibbard

vista as in "look at that stunning vista!"

Numpty

Dreich

Carnaptious

Recalcitrant

My homunculus is called "Recalcitrant".

And my penis.

I'm particularly fond of cromulent words that embiggen the language... 🙂

glaikit

Biffon.

flange

trunnion is another fave

Nomenclature

Oxymoron

Also amused by Americans who address you as "sir" when asking directions to Edinburgh Castle (other famous tourist sites are available).

Spiffing

Ejaculated

meaning Utter suddenly

used in some sherlock Holmes books see examples below

Watson ‘ejaculates’ twice as often as Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle’s stories. There are 23 ejaculations in total, with 11 belonging to Watson. On one occasion, Holmes refers to Watson’s ‘ejaculations of wonder’ being invaluable; on another, Watson ejaculates ‘from his very heart’ in the direction of his fiancée. Homes is only responsible for six ejaculations, although it is not clear which of the two men ejaculate in the passage below:

So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night.
The Man with the Twisted Lip, 1891

flange

When bored I teach other people's kids that flange is a swear. They go back and start calling their simblings it. Endless fun.

@DanRandon

Just William shocked me by ejaculating several times in one book.

Incredulity : is my offering.

gudgeon pin

" Homes is only responsible for six ejaculations, although it is not clear which of the two men ejaculate in the passage below:"

Is this a euphenism ?

Is this a euphenism ?

look it up in a dictionary and there are two meanings

A Gudgeon is also a tropical fish*. A smallish unassuming fish, which it turns out** can eat anything up to about 1/2 of it's size. Including some of my favorite ones 🙁

You may not be surprised to learn it comes from Australia.

An Empire Gudgeon
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*And also some Marine fish share the name
**My LFS did not know this until I brought her back. Fatter.

Draconian

Callipygian - meaning shapely buttocks

Thingummyjig
Doodleflop
Howsyourfather

I sometimes have trouble remembering words...

Ultracrepidarian

Really should get more use, plenty of opportunities in this and many other internet forums.

Crapulent. Not a word that there aren't plenty of alternatives for, but it's got "crap" in it, so, y'know..

Zugzwang

also

Floccinaucinihilipilification - the estimation of something as valueless

not one for the kiddies 😉

Heiromania

Shag carpet.

inertia
integrity

scantlings

lollygag

obsequious

unlucent

Nadir.
Capacious.
Viscosity.
Asshat.

f*ck-wit
berk
cretin (when pronounced creetin)
shonky

Anthropomorphic is an awesome word, but sadly there is little call for using it day to day. Womblecropt is an old word for stomach pains and I love pumpernickel because it literally means devils fart when taken back to it's root words.

Fecund
Fecundity
Onomatopoeia
Portmanteau
Loquacious

'amongst'

The Americans don't have it, so can't say, 'The cat is amongst the pigeons.'

Moribund......a lovely word not used often enough.
Hysteria.... From a friends 1930's dictionary, 'Wild erratic unpredictable behaviour, especially in women'
Gullible.... Not in the dictionary

Moist

Hysteria.... From a friends 1930's dictionary, 'Wild erratic unpredictable behaviour, especially in women'

There are some words that just feel good coming off the tongue - moist being one of them