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  • Great words that are underused.
  • camo16
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    Bupkiss
    Spooge
    Assuage
    Serendipidy
    Pyrometallurgy
    Troth
    Manumission
    Tony Danza

    ian-r
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    As I have teenage kids;
    Please
    Thank you

    RustySpanner
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    Vibraphone.
    Winkle.
    Ample.
    Replete.
    Corruscate.
    Mountebank.

    footflaps
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    Discombobulate

    mr-potatohead
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    succubus

    tommyhine
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    rambunctious is a personal favourite

    BigButSlimmerBloke
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    Oui, oui,

    sounds like you’re talking pish
    sorry igmc

    paladin
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    Oxter

    gofasterstripes
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    Fettle
    Fangle

    Both totally bike-related 🙂

    PMK2060
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    Minge

    16stonepig
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    Stracciatella

    dawson
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    Current fave in our house is;

    ‘Cockwomble’ e.g “You absolute cockwomble” or “what a bunch of cockwombles”

    reggiegasket
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    +1 flange

    crofts2007
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    Land pirates

    hughjengin
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    Nothing either diffuses an argument or gets you punched in the face faster than calling someone a Nincompoop

    andymc06
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    Poignant

    senorj
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    flibberdyjibbard

    Hohum
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    vista as in “look at that stunning vista!”

    richmtb
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    Numpty

    Dreich

    Carnaptious

    Recalcitrant

    gofasterstripes
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    My homunculus is called “Recalcitrant”.

    And my penis.

    epicyclo
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    I’m particularly fond of cromulent words that embiggen the language… 🙂

    swavis
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    glaikit

    stevied
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    Biffon.

    flange

    I’m regularly measuring the inside diameter of flanges with my bore gauge…

    swavis
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    trunnion is another fave

    surroundedbyhills
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    Nomenclature

    Oxymoron

    Also amused by Americans who address you as “sir” when asking directions to Edinburgh Castle (other famous tourist sites are available).

    Bunnyhop
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    Spiffing

    danrandon
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    Ejaculated

    meaning Utter suddenly

    used in some sherlock Holmes books see examples below

    Watson ‘ejaculates’ twice as often as Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle’s stories. There are 23 ejaculations in total, with 11 belonging to Watson. On one occasion, Holmes refers to Watson’s ‘ejaculations of wonder’ being invaluable; on another, Watson ejaculates ‘from his very heart’ in the direction of his fiancée. Homes is only responsible for six ejaculations, although it is not clear which of the two men ejaculate in the passage below:

    So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night.
    The Man with the Twisted Lip, 1891

    unklehomered
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    flange

    When bored I teach other people’s kids that flange is a swear. They go back and start calling their simblings it. Endless fun. :mrgreen:

    @DanRandon

    Just William shocked me by ejaculating several times in one book.

    Incredulity : is my offering.

    mt
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    gudgeon pin

    mr-potatohead
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    ” Homes is only responsible for six ejaculations, although it is not clear which of the two men ejaculate in the passage below:”

    Is this a euphenism ?

    danrandon
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    Is this a euphenism ?

    look it up in a dictionary and there are two meanings

    gofasterstripes
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    A Gudgeon is also a tropical fish*. A smallish unassuming fish, which it turns out** can eat anything up to about 1/2 of it’s size. Including some of my favorite ones 🙁

    You may not be surprised to learn it comes from Australia.

    An Empire Gudgeon

    *And also some Marine fish share the name
    **My LFS did not know this until I brought her back. Fatter.

    danrandon
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    Draconian

    Callipygian – meaning shapely buttocks

    LadyGresley
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    Thingummyjig
    Doodleflop
    Howsyourfather

    I sometimes have trouble remembering words…

    edlong
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    Ultracrepidarian

    Really should get more use, plenty of opportunities in this and many other internet forums.

    Crapulent. Not a word that there aren’t plenty of alternatives for, but it’s got “crap” in it, so, y’know..

    danrandon
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    Zugzwang

    danrandon
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    also

    Floccinaucinihilipilification – the estimation of something as valueless

    danrandon
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    not one for the kiddies 😉

    Heiromania

    SaxonRider
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    Shag carpet.

    Bunnyhop
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    inertia
    integrity

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