Museum.
It means "Let us think".
A lovely word.
Moist.
A bit darker but I always loved the meaning.
Posthumous means 'born after the death of your father'
Actually it's Latin and merely means after you're in the ground.
Discombobulated....I try and use it daily
Sunshine.
Warmth.
Beer.
Futtock.
I'll probably never have cause to use it in conversation. Plus, it rhymes with buttock.
When I first read the Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, I loved the way Hans would describe the sick people at the sanatorium he is sent to in the Swiss Alps as the "moribund".
It was the first time I had come across the word and I thought it was a quaint German way of saying someone was "poorly".
My mother was a bit under the weather at one point while I was reading the book, and a neighbour asked how she was. I decided to use my new word and said she was "moribund", thinking it was quite fitting. My neighbour clearly knew what the word meant and appeared to be quite shocked and concerned. After I assured him she would be fine, I disappeared back in the house and puzzled over his reaction.
I thought it may have been the word which spooked him so I googled it.
Moribund means "almost dead"
🙂
Yeah, I appreciate it's Latin.
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Corrugated
Marmalade
Hippopotamus
[i]Futtock.[/i]
Esselgrunt?
Undulating.
Dunno why I like it. Attracts me to an area.
Tumulus.
A mound or small hill 😀
The word "scorcher" came up a while ago as a term for someone who rides fast, typically while in the "scorching position".
I said at the time I would try to use the word as often as possible, however, I have resolutely failed to do so.
I shall redouble my efforts to use the word at all available opportunities.
I shall also try to use words like resolutely and redouble more often. It makes me sound clever.
"Bendigedig" - my favourite Welsh word.
Cheryl Cole.
A lovely word.
Fills me with joy
A luvverly bird.
I'd fill her with joy.
And other things.
This is not a sonnet.
Nonchalant
Trebuchet
Nemesis.....
Always liked it 8)
Haberdashery
Shortcake
Cheesecake
Cake
Ducati Panignale.
Anything Italian. Ferrari do it too.
'Quatropuorte' basically means 'four ports'.
They make engineering sexy 😆
tiramisu
means "pick-me-up"
Buffoon - and you sir are a buffoon
Doris
I call my granddaughter (Ellie) Doris and the lady in my satnav
onomatopoeia
Thingamajig or in German dingsbum.
Serendipity
Meander
onomatopoeia
Nice, but you dont get to use it too often really, or do I need to live in a different world?
The others, I get!
Alighted.
Gloaming
Pootle
Fond
merriment
beer
glokenspiel
whimple
whattyre - MemberDiscombobulated....I try and use it daily
Me too, in fact I used it this evening but I'm not going to say in what context
Nipple.
It rolls off the tongue, as it were...
Flange
Sprocket
Giraffe
Boing
Bobbin
Titillate
Wonder what a psychologist would make of that?
Tea?
Crepuscular
Mellifluous
The Drew Barrymore teacher character in Donnie Darko says something along the lines of the two most beautiful words in the English language are 'Cellar Door'. I never quite got that. But they are mentioned in a Lemonheads song, 'It's a Shame About Ray', which is one of my favourites.
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door aaaah!
When Kate Humble uttered the words....
'I can't wait to put this in my [i]picked walnut[/i]'
Heavenly 🙂
Favourite word sadly isn't English.
Backpfeifengesicht.
It's brilliant. It means "a face badly in need of a fist". Think Nigel Farage.
Tumescent
Furkle
Corpuscular
Appendage
crenellations has always been a one I like ever since a primary school trip to a castle somewhere.
Numpty
Slartibartfast
incredulousness
I'm well up for the excessive use of vocabulary to fight the good fight.
I love the word sinister, its origins are pretty odd as well.
SueW Bendigedig or its Wenglish counterpart Splendigedig 😆
Rhombus
Mosquito
Exsanguinate
