Had to Google “paucity” which was a word used in another thread on here. Turns out to mean a scarcity of something basically.

Nice word. Love finding new (to me) words that I try to incorporate into conversions. Nerdish I know. This is STW however so I’m in good company.

Now,I know a lot of you guys are great with words. Clean ones too… So what you got? Educate me.

Post the meaning of your “delicious” word too.

moiety

It means half of a thing that’s been divided

I like chthonic, mainly because it has way too many consonants. Of or pertaining to the underworld, as in “Boris Johnson briefly held high office but once people caught on to his paucity of talent he was quickly remanded to his chthonic origins”.

Petrichor.

I do like “contemporaneous” – when something is of the same time as another thing, one is contemporaneous with the other…

Thrombus

Its a medical term but makes a good swearword as it basically means bloody clot!

Astragal

The bar that divides panes of glass in a multi paned window

Lovely words?

Well I’m ****

Contiguous

adjacent and touching.

Like Boris.

Astragal

The bar that divides panes of glass in a multi paned window

Or a comic book heroine

I’ll raise your “delicious” and give you scrumptious poopscoop
It can be used to describe something tasty or even to describe an attractive person.

trabeculated as in the inside of a bladder

Dwang.

It’s the Scottish word for a Noggin.

so what you are saying is that you’d like to appear more erudite?

Coruscate

(of light) to flash of flicker

Combobulate

To bring something to fruition through chaotic or mysterious means.

some lovely words I may never have used…

“the drinks are on me”

Crepuscular

pertaining to bodybuilder’s trainers 👟

Wonderwall…..

so what you are saying is that you’d like to appear more erudite?

“loquacious”, surely….?

While doing my nurse training I enjoyed finding interesting words and slipping them into my essays.

“the obfuscation associated with these negative symptoms”

or

“the elision of these aspects of emotional intelligence”

Obfuscation – to make something obscure or unclear.

Elision – joining together or merging of things.

My daughter (17) has just left me after being in the posh shed/pub/not watching telly place up the top of the garden and that was playing when her boyfriend turned up and now I’m not as important as I thought I was. 🙄

potentially; by being loquacious one appears to be erudite. That’s why i said appears; doesn’t mean you are, just ‘cos you know fancy words.

oleaginous or unctious

Contrafibularities…’tis a common word, down our way.

Fissiparous- prone to split into many parts.

Aglet – the little plastic or metal bits which stop shoelaces from fraying.

germane and oleaginous

Feckless.

querulous

– habitually complaining or complaining in a whining manner.

(I have three young kids – enough said)!

Crepuscular

What you did there? I see it!
Great word, actually means of, relating to, or resembling twilight, dim, indistinct.
I particularly like crepuscular rays, sunlight shining through gaps in dark clouds.
For the OP, check out Robert Macfarlaine’s Word Of The Day on Twitter, it’s an endless joy of interesting and obscure words from English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and other sources; he just loves language and words.

I like old timey words for evil/bad/morally bankrupt people

Caitiff – a contemptible or cowardly person
Malefactor – a person who commits a crime or some other wrong.

Declivity.

The angle of something.

Have you read Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson? It’s a compendious history of the English language that’s presented with humour and easy to read, you’ll struggle to spell (fish) after reading it.
How many English words do you know? You don’t have to fill in your profile to do the test
http://vocabulary.ugent.be/

Vestigial

Something that exists, but is essentially useless. I remember it from school biology and “vestigial winged fruit flies” that we used to learn genetics.

I’ll let you lovely folks come up with your own usage…

Esoteric, a word that will never wear out as it doesn’t get used very often

Perspicacity.

Peregrinations.

Peripatetic.

Embellish.

Ossify.

Flibbertigibbet (a flighty person, a ‘loose cannon’).

Scrim.

Vestigial

Something that exists, but is essentially useless. I remember it from school biology and “vestigial winged fruit flies” that we used to learn genetics.

I remember reading a column by a motoring journalist when I was a kid. He did a rally in Australia where the entire field got lost because they were all looking for a signpost saying “Vestigial Road”, as marked on their maps.

Inimical.

Imbroglio.

Corollary. (Also a kind of Toyota car!)

Zeitgeist.

Gestalt.

Ganzfeld.

Callipygian

Having well rounded / shaped buttocks

defenestration – something that should happen to a large proportion of our current politicians, either meaning.