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Dolt.

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

๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 9:49 pm
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I've seen that used recently.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 9:50 pm
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Berk!


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 9:53 pm
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[img] [/img]


 
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Pudding (obvs)


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 9:54 pm
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I've seen that used recently.

Really? What a coincidence.

Berk!

Far ruder than you might think.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 9:54 pm
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Polysemic


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 9:55 pm
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**** AKA Bearded Clam.

Dolt is a word I use all the time.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 9:58 pm
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More cake?


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 9:58 pm
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Really? What a coincidence.

Quite remarkable.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:00 pm
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Kludgefundle


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:02 pm
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Bumder


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:05 pm
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Colourway
Murdered-out
Enduro
Gnar
Sick
Steed
Selfie

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


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:05 pm
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Boondoggle.

I'm enjoying "commensurate" at the moment.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:09 pm
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Rambunctious is pretty good. Don't hear that often.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:12 pm
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Rotund.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:14 pm
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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.

[s]Idiot.[/s]


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:17 pm
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pugnacious


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:19 pm
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Discombobulate. Brilliant word.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:22 pm
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phalanx.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:23 pm
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Thrutching


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:25 pm
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Discombobulate +1
Commensurate +1
And I will add:
Crepuscular
Copacetic
Tautology
Savage
Capital (as in, "that is a capital idea chap")


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:41 pm
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I have a fondness for "contemporaneous"


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:43 pm
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Yes.

Thrutch was the caving club magazine.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:45 pm
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Buffoon!


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:46 pm
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Masticate is very underused


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:46 pm
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Galoot, I know a few galoots.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:47 pm
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Flange.
Apoptosis.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:50 pm
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plethora.


 
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Have, as in "I could have...."


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:51 pm
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Please
Thank you
Excuse me


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 10:55 pm
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I used 'lexicon' in a lecture today. Not sure where that came from.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 11:00 pm
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Berk!
Far ruder than you might think.

Think? I [i]know[/i] it's cruder than most who use it realise. ๐Ÿ˜‰
Clot is seldom used these days, but I rather like its very concise nature.


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 11:02 pm
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bucolic
melancholy


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 11:03 pm
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Apposite


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 11:03 pm
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Not sure where that came from.

A lexicon?


 
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Fulcrum
Assonance
Limen


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 11:06 pm
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Cruft.

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


 
Posted : 17/03/2015 11:07 pm
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Please
Thank you
Excuse me

Seemingly the most underused words in the English language now ๐Ÿ‘ฟ


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 8:20 am
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Flibbertigibbet


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 8:25 am
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uxorious endogamous filbert avuncular ideosyncratic internecine plethoric atavistic visceral lavatory antimacassar counterpane edifice


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 8:32 am
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Pigface got to flibbertigibbet before me, so I'm having loquacious. And its good friend salacious.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 9:02 am
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Please
Thank you
Excuse me

Seemingly the most underused words in the English language now

I'd add "sorry" to that list too.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 9:03 am
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Bouncebackability


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 9:08 am
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kerrfuffle


 
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