Words

Another thread has thron up some superb words, the sort of thing that should be used more often!

Prig
Ribaldry

Now, my favourite word is “Museum”, because of what it means. It’s Latin for “Let us think”, which is lovely, when you consider what it describes!

So, words, what tickles your fancy?

**** ***** ******* and ****f***ing

furiously

brant – Member
**** ***** ******* and ****f***ing

You are RudeBoy and I claim my £5

Now, BAN HIM! BAN HIM! 😉

You are RudeBoy and I claim my £5

Now, BAN HIM! BAN HIM!

If Brant carried on like RB does, and got as many complaints, would he get banned, d’ya think…?

saw this in a classified the other day…. ‘Caveat’ means warning apparently.

On a word related rant, FAO certain idiots on here…

It’s “lose weight” not “loose weight”.

It’s “as well” not “aswell”.

It’s “a lot” not “alot”.

They appear all the time on here and the sad thing is, they’re not typos!

Firmament: I like its expansiveness

and

Singularity: I just like it, no real reason.

If Brant carried on like RB does, and got as many complaints, would he get banned, d’ya think…?

I’ve been banned, under the “cock” clause.

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they’re not typos!

surely you mean typo’s 😉

“unalloyed”.

Whelmed

One can be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but can one be just plain whelmed?

the steam of your piss not withstanding

Jeez! Is this now a new test?!! What’s the steam coefficient of piss?!!!

‘filibustering’ now THAT’S a word!

I forget the context of the banning, but “the steam of your piss notwithstanding” is a fine sentence.

🙂

surely you mean typo’s

No apostrophe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical_error

FLANGE!!!!

and

GUSSET!!!

😀

Arboreal.

Moist

Thread closed.

pelmet

No apostrophe.

yes. hence the smiley.

Moist seconded
nothing bad was ever moist!

serendipity meaning happy accident. Accident so often has negative connotations, its nice when things accidentally go right. 🙂

Circumspection
Courtly
Apostille
Postulate
Conjecture
Fisticuffs
Bountiful

horaclanger

Zarf – the proper name for that bit of plastic/cardboard with a handle on that you sit your plastic/cardboard beaker of coffee into when it’s too hot to hold.

Strictly speaking it should be called a podstakannik when you’ve got tea rather than coffee, but i think zarf is a much nicer work.

Flibbertigibbet

crepuscular

glaikit – a beautifully expressive work for someone who looks a bit dim

I overheard a discussion beween a radiologist and a junior doctor the other day in which the radiologists suggested that the patient needed a follow up exam called a “ridiculogram“. Don’t know if he was taking the [swear filter avoidance blocked] or not.

the gloaming – that period in summer when the sun has gone down yet there’s still a strangely romsntic greyish light, sufficient to go roaming in.

overtime

free

rotund

i do like arboreal…

spurious is one of my favourites.

Ultracrepidate = to crticize beyond one’s sphere of knowledge. Sums up this forum really.

Spigot
Scantlings

Unobtainium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

vacuous

Second “fisticuffs” and “dust-up” (yes, I know, hyphenated and all that) but my favourite word of the last ten years or so is “shenanigans”…it can be used to describe all sorts of stuff.

Volcanic terms make me laugh…

Fumarole & Hornito.

Pyroclastic….Great word.

Defenestrate – To throw out of window.

“laminar” – as smooth sounding as the flow it describes

Freak …