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fud is a scottish term for.....
Ladies bits.
Hence the joke.....
"Did you hear about the man who gave himself an instant sex change?......He jumped off a cliff and landed with a fud"
Bassoon.
Implicit.
Peripherique.
Pompidou.
Mandible.
Zygote.
Hyperbole:)
fud is a scottish term for…..
Ladies bits.
That's how I know it as well. Wonder if it's a regional thing
popliteal fossa.
the hollow bit behind your knee
floccinaucinihilipilification
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
somnambulism
Sleepwalking
Hermeneutics.
Hermetically.
Rapscallion.
I fear some on here are becoming somewhat sententious.
Anyway... http://phrontistery.info/ihlstart.html
Sequester.
Dilettante.
Extemporize.
Promulgate.
Fud
Wonder if it’s a regional thing
see also Foo Fighters.
Anyway, fungible
Nyaff.
Embouchure.
Coterie.
That’s how I know it as well. Wonder if it’s a regional thing
The nether regions perhaps
I miss Hamesuken, havent had anybody convicted of it in years!
Think I’ve posted this before, but the word womblecropt, meaning nauseous or queasy is great. Old English word that has fallen out of use.
This book is a great humorous look at the evolution of words.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Etymologicon
Not rarely used (at least by me)but I love rapscallion - a mischievous person
Countryside.
It's what you'd commit if you killed Piers Morgan.
(actually, there might be a separate thread in this...)
I think you’re correct Cougar. Fire it up!
Plebeian, im guessing there are a few of us on here
pettifogging
So what does it mean? To "pettifog" is, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "to quibble over insignificant details" or "engage in legal chicanery".
Lots of that on here....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51198666
Meretricious + persiflage.
Boris is the master.
Comestibles
What a cyclist seeks when bonked.
Sluberdegullion..a lovely word but its meaning not so lovely ..
As sung on the album " The Lamb Lies down on Broadway " by Peter Gabriel of Genesis
" Sluberdegullions on squeaky feet "
pettifogging: “to quibble over insignificant details”
I use 'tjagaining' for that.
Schooled by my 6 year old today...commutative; its a maths term I'd never heard before
The late, great Jake Thackeray managed to sneak "pettifoggery" into one of his songs.
Komorebi.
Gloomth
Dimsey
Another random selection...
Frisson.
Chasuble.
Cassock.
Endogenous.
Sclerotic.
Miasma.
Paradiddle (either single or inverted).
Erinaceous.
People often say that the Americans cheapen our language. But they use "yonder" which is a lovely word. But they have a bigger country than us, with big skies, so maybe it's more pertinent over (I was going to say Yonder) there.
Jings, crivens, help ma boab
Boaby
Boondoggle
Boaby
We risk straining the boaby shaft!
Can she call her sister ship the Sticky Clinker?
Thrutch
Casuist
Proclivity
Prestidigitation.
Syntactical (inexactitude).
Misanthrope/misanthropic.
Contrapuntal.
Arcane, boys. Known by the crew but no one else.
People often say that the Americans cheapen our language. But they use “yonder” which is a lovely word. But they have a bigger country than us, with big skies, so maybe it’s more pertinent over (I was going to say Yonder) there.
There are parts of America, like Appalachia, where they still speak a form of Elizabethan English, (that’s Elizabeth I, not II), and in the 1700’s, apparently, the US senate were complaining about how English terms were intruding on their language!
See Bill Bryson’s ‘Mother Tongue’.
‘Fall’ is Old English, for example.