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My first offering is the word "Pish"

It is a word of numerous meanings, the most common of which are "an expression of disdain" and "a variant of piss."

Great word.

What have you got?


 
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Nefarious and cogniscent are favourites of mine. And ne'er-do-well.


 
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Giddy kipper


 
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Assbandit


 
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Twunt

Juxtaposition


 
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Cromulent


 
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Spaff


 
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Poppycock


 
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Lubricious.


 
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Moribund
Corpulent
Crepuscular
Fluctuant

etc.

The medics know how to describe stuff


 
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How about a good old mucopurulent?


 
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Lubricious.

Pinteresque.


 
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Adoxography


 
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Somnambulant


 
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Clunge


 
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Cretard


 
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Jerkin


 
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Crepuscular

Love that word!
Pulchritudinous.


 
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Posh is brilliant! Also one of Glasgow's gifts to the english language: bawbag

As in: he's a wee....

Oh... And 'tabard'


 
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spifflicate


 
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Maggot!

😆


 
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Truculent

Rascal

Gland


 
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defenestrate

To throw out of a window; I suggest it daily!

[i]defenestrate yourself as the amount of f'ks I give is slightly below 1![/i]


 
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Gusset
Spigot
Fawcett


 
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Plop.

Mothership.


 
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Trebeculated


 
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Nonchalant


 
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Verbalize. Unnecessary Americanised jargon, taking the verb to talk and making a longer alternative for ( as far as I can see), no real purpose.

Love to throw that into a conversation with a straight face.


 
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Mingin

Ginormous


 
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Blumpkin


 
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Cretin IMO is vastly underused.


 
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Oui.

Oui, oui, oui, oui !


 
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Fug


 
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Not going to win any phonaesthetics awards, but I really like it when someone exclaims "capital!" instead of excellent. You need to be really posh to pull it off though!


 
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drip, doughnut, pain, girl.


 
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flange


 
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Mellifluous is a personal favourite of mine.


 
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quim


 
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Knob Jockey
Patrick Smiddies(diddies-to describe women's breasts)


 
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Nice one Binners, "flanges" goes well with "spigot". We could add Swage.


 
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Bupkiss
Spooge
Assuage
Serendipidy
Pyrometallurgy
Troth
Manumission
Tony Danza


 
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As I have teenage kids;
Please
Thank you


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


 
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Discombobulate


 
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succubus


 
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rambunctious is a personal favourite


 
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Oui, oui,

sounds like you're talking pish
sorry igmc


 
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Oxter


 
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Fettle
Fangle

Both totally bike-related 🙂


 
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Minge


 
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Stracciatella


 
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Current fave in our house is;

'Cockwomble' e.g "You absolute cockwomble" or "what a bunch of cockwombles"


 
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+1 flange


 
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Land pirates


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


 
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Poignant


 
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flibberdyjibbard


 
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vista as in "look at that stunning vista!"


 
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Numpty

Dreich

Carnaptious

Recalcitrant


 
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My homunculus is called "Recalcitrant".

And my penis.


 
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I'm particularly fond of cromulent words that embiggen the language... 🙂


 
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glaikit


 
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Biffon.

flange

I'm regularly measuring the inside diameter of flanges with my bore gauge...


 
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trunnion is another fave


 
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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).


 
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Spiffing


 
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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


 
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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.


 
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gudgeon pin


 
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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 ?


 
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Is this a euphenism ?

look it up in a dictionary and there are two meanings


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


 
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Draconian

Callipygian - meaning shapely buttocks


 
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Thingummyjig
Doodleflop
Howsyourfather

I sometimes have trouble remembering words...


 
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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..


 
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Zugzwang


 
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also

Floccinaucinihilipilification - the estimation of something as valueless


 
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not one for the kiddies 😉

Heiromania


 
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Shag carpet.


 
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inertia
integrity


 
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