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Look, the brief was a coherent sentence, not a likeable one. It's a bit strained, but could make sense depending on context...
whilst
and
halibut
serendipity - my favourite word
Knob - makes me giggle. Along with Gusset and fettle.
Makes perfect sense to me ........
It's poetic, man. It's the opening line of Heart of Darkness that Conrad scrunched up and fired into the wastepaper basket by mistake.
Sausage.
Applauds StefMcDef! 🙂
Lol.. plenty more verbal diarrhoea where that came from 🙂
Sausage is a great word.
As is flan
Oxymoron - hard work getting hat into conversation I can tell ya 🙂
and smorgasbord, makes me smile
firmament
&
spectral
pyrolatrous (fire-worshipping)
an example:
"That night they sat at the fire like ghosts in their dusty beards and clothing, rapt, [i]pyrolatrous[/i]. The fires died and small coals scampered down the plain and sand crept past in the dark all night like armies of lice on the move."
This thread is just a meaningless list of words.
yeah so are all the others on stw.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest..? Is that like when something is THE pimpest plus a bag of chips and curry sauce? (EDIT: just googled it.. it should be just to teach itself a lesson)
potent
M6TTL:
When you live in a village called Oxhey, as I do, you no longer find the word Oxymoron has any meaning since everyone has an Oxhey / Oxy.... team name, be it the pub quiz or darts or tug o'war team!
Now, I wonder how many of you now need to look this one up: antediluvian.
Wetwang
Free
beer
I went to school not far from Wetwang! Pocklington (not quite as silly a name, I grant you).
verdant
Crepuscular (meaning twilight, also a nice word in itself).
Also; crepitus (the broken ends of bones creaking within the skin).
"Now, I wonder how many of you now need to look this one up: antediluvian."
Errrrr, not many I would imagine?
Quim
Panhandle.
I agree with Bunnyhop though, Serendipity is a fantastic word.
Spatula.
I have a girly friend who finds it irredeemably funny for some reason.
When I was a kid, I thought that "spatuler" (spatula) meant [i]extra special[/i]
😳
Felch has a certain ring to it. Probably not to be used in front of your gran though...
Podium.
+1 for the fantastic word [b]flange[/b]
Flange is getting it so far ......
archipelago
This is a much much nicer thread that that other one.
Pericombobulation.
perpendicularity
I think you lot are a bunch of.... nincompoops
for not agreeing with sausage
"pull my nightie down when you've finished".
possibly the most erotic phrase I've ever seen on STW 🙂
Presbyterianism
philanthropist
Prong.
Scree.
Culmulonimbus.
Faff.
Auld joe was a carnaptious curmudgeon, whose truculent manner meant he was constantly ostracised.
Nefarious
Mollycoddle
Cunnilingus
Pamplemousse.
Not English, maybe, but it's up there with the best.
Quiff - until I recently found out its American derivation. Vaginal fart.