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Steep - in the teabag-brewing-in-the-mug sense, not the gnar trail-comes-alive sense...


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 12:48 am
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Caitiff

Braggart

Guileful

Misdoubt

Tumult


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 12:50 am
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Plethora
Ullage
Ameliorate
Puerile


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 7:05 am
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Defenestration. First word one of my teachers said in the first English lesson in secondary school....I think it was thinly veiled threat.


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 9:51 am
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Troglodyte
Fangle
Postprandial
Corvid/Korvid [I love the way it sounds when pronounced by an Estonian - it means basket, and is also this [img] [/img] which is rather lovely]

oh and

Disappointing 😉
[IGMC]


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 10:46 am
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obstreperous, use it describe my partner...

I am taking Berk and cruft away from this thread myself, lots of great words but didn't know what either of these really meant.. and there ace!


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 11:01 am
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ne'er-do-well

Higgledy-piggledy

hugger-mugger


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 11:11 am
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Try as I might, I cannot get the locals round here to adopt the word "snicket". Really miss that one!


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 11:33 am
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Warning: Overuse of this thread could lead to this...

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Posted : 19/03/2015 11:52 am
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Excoriate


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 12:08 pm
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Turgid

Repast

Chump

Thrawn

Antonym

Gobshite


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 12:14 pm
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Ganderflanking , we've all been guilty of it .


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 12:27 pm
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Odious
Vagaries
Sanguine
Rubenesque


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 12:32 pm
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Gobshite

We got there in the end.


 
Posted : 19/03/2015 12:39 pm
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I used the word Circlejerk to describe a meeting the other day. Two more junior members of staff misheard it as Circletwerk.

So, circletwerk it is.

Circletwerk.


 
Posted : 20/03/2015 3:31 pm
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Is that how you got the bent udder?


 
Posted : 20/03/2015 3:33 pm
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whence
****less


 
Posted : 20/03/2015 4:25 pm
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Lose , it seems to have been replaced with loose . 😆


 
Posted : 20/03/2015 5:14 pm
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As an alternative to the recently overused fracas may I suggest brouhaha be added to the list.

I also like Perihelion and Dickwad but for different reasons.


 
Posted : 20/03/2015 5:41 pm
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