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I like old timey words for evil/bad/morally bankrupt people
Not exactly on topic, but in this vein I like to use gentle terms of 'abuse' that have hidden undertones.
So saying Gove is a bit of a berk, is OK but if you know and I know it's rhyming slang, you can enjoy the mild insult far more.
Also referring to someone as 'fella' - unless you're in on the military slang, which if they are might get you thumped. Unless it's obvious you aren't and never were military and couldn't possibly know the meaning / intent.
I'm going with some Scottish, oft used by our secretary at work.
Sleekit - sleek / slippery person, physically by being skinny runner or character wise.
Blootered - drunk
Tuechter - someone from up north
Besom - mischevious eg. She's a wee besom. (Originally is name for a twig broom)
Drookit - drenched
Braw - good or great
Intertwangle. Mixed up and confused.
While I'm sure Suzie Dent's word of the day is very interesting, I reckon the Urban Dictionary one is better. 😈
There is a lot of meretricious persiflage on STW
Skiddling.
Parsimonious.
Anodyne.
Acerbic.
Hornswoggle - to cheat or deceive
Carapace.
Epistemic.
Fallacy.
Tautology.
Ontological.
Onanism
Dooberryflopdangle (s) (depending on male or female referencing)
I'll get me coat.
Azimuth.
Contiguous.
Plebiscite.
Commensurate.
Contrafibularity.
Paradiddle.
Perfunctory.
Axiomatic- Something so obvious it really doesn't need saying.
All politicians are corrupt, it's axiomatic.
Daps- Sports shoes in South Wales and the South West.
I got some nice new daps for PE.
distanciation and wappened
And not to forget Dags- the dried on muck stuck to a sheep's tail.
Those ewes have a lot of Dags. With the risk of maggots in this warm weather I guess I need to spend a day dagging them (cutting off the dags.)
Vertiginous
Noun (usually ADJECTIVE noun)
‘A vertiginous cliff or mountain is very high and steep’
(Nice excuse sneak in some sublime BSP)
Crenellation
Voussoir
Homogenous and heterogenous are wildly underused in English, in my opinion.
Scunnered
Glaikit
All these big words make me quite discombobulated.
Ethereal - In my own mind it means ghost like.
My favourite use of it is in the early morning mist, either over hills (with a temperature inversion), or in woodland.
Gubbed
Banjaxed
UndeXXXXable
Wabbit - Tired and lethargic, probably due to chasing bunnies
Limen - the threshold of perception.
Arctophile - a lover or collector of teddy bears
Mallemaroking - the carousing of sailors in icebound ships
Surreptitious.
Prestidigitation.
I take it OP that you are hoping to be described by your peers as sesquipedalian.
Semantics - ship borne parasites
Disappointed to have been beaten to "defenestrate" (to throw something out of a window) and aglet, so I'll go with philtrum - the little groove between your nose and upper lip.
I remember reading a column by a motoring journalist when I was a kid. He did a rally in Australia where the entire field got lost because they were all looking for a signpost saying “Vestigial Road”, as marked on their maps.
Reminds me of a mate of mine on holiday in Wales, being amazed at just how large Traeth Beach was.
mashie niblick – a six iron which I knew but had no idea it’s between a mashie and a niblick.
Every day’s a school day.
School day indeed, I thought Mashie Niblick was a brand of clubs.
Go on, try being
MAGNANIMOUS
today
You never know, you might like it 😉
sobriquet
OP should read some Will Self
Who am I to criticise people whose newsfeeds pump Arron-Banks-funded disinformation into their dumb heads, causing a sort of enraged hydrocephalus that makes them shit in their own nests then gobble up the bemerded straw, crying out “Mm, taste that rich substance!” After all, I’m just as much a creature of my own mediatisation: a sort of bourgeois grub, white and pampered, floating in the aural amniotic fluid of Radio 4.
Every day's a learning day & I learned this word yesterday, Solivagant.
I think it's quite apt for this forum.
I could add a few Lancastrian words that you've probably not heard but I wouldn't describe them as lovely..
Solivagant
A solitary wanderer,a person who revels in the act of wandering alone,preferably in destinations & locations they have not previously visited.
I could add a few Lancastrian words that you’ve probably not heard but I wouldn’t describe them as lovely..
Ginnel?
I love the old Scottish verb "to footer" meaning to fiddle around with something, usually in a not too clever way. Can also be a noun.
Daps- Sports shoes in South Wales and the South West.
Only found out about the Dunlop Athletic Plimsoles Recently TBH
Allegedly from sign on factory in Merthyr(whatever a factory is).
I do love the Scottish words thou ya wee bampot.
(Reading too Brookmyre)
Probably not one to impress yer Scottish mates tbh.
My favourite: sesquipedalian
Characterized by long words; long-winded
Vexatious is good Thou and everyone likes a conundrum.
But my bestest best is: flange
You just can’t beat dropping it into a conversation as it rolls off the tongue and sounds so wrong.
Podger - a spanner with a long tapered shaft or anything similar - where the shaft is inseted into holes to assist alignment
Sanguine.
Effusive.
Cathartic.
Bradawl.
Expectorant.
Grandiloquent - pertaining to language: flowery and verbose.
Mellifluous - melodic, pleasing to the ear. From Latin - flowing with honey.
Decent brace for you there.
Flannel and foghorn make me chuckle.
Zarf - originally an ornamental coffee cup holder from the middle East but now appropriated to include those cardboard sleeves that coffee shops put around your cup to stop you burning your fingers. Also, now deprecated, the brown plastic holders that posh people used to hold their wafer thin, scalding hot cups from a Klix machine
Reveries.
Paradigm.
Unguents.
Humunculus.
Catastrophising is one of my favourites of the moment, lots of it about....
Expectorant.
When I was a kid, I thought this was a cough medicine for pregnant ladies.
I was having necklaces made for an ex and the jeweller asked us how far below the fonticulus we wanted them to hang.
Fonticulus - The depression just over the top of the breastbone