[Closed] Tell me some lovely words I may never have used...

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 ****ed

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

****less.

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.

you’ll struggle to spell (fish) after reading it.

Peasy. Ghoti

Perpendicular.

Yomp.

Yngling.

Truculent.

Diblet.

Mishy.

Btw, Wasn't the 'mishy diblet' golfers slang for a 5-iron?

Chirality (pronounced kai-rality). The property of two items being symmetrical but not identical.

Shoes for example are chiral because the left and right are different. Socks are often not as, a pair may well be identical, although good quality socks sometimes are chiral.

Was going to suggest Crepuscular but beaten to it - twice - so I give you:
- microcephalous meaning small brained; best use as an insult by adding idiot after it
- troglodyte meaning hermit or cave dweller; apparently can also be used to describe dim witted

@greatbeardedone....mashie niblick - a six iron which I knew but had no idea it's between a mashie and a niblick.
Every day's a school day.

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

Not exactly on topic, but in this vein I like to use gentle terms of 'abuse' that have hidden undertones.

So saying Gove is a bit of a berk, is OK but if you know and I know it's rhyming slang, you can enjoy the mild insult far more.

Also referring to someone as 'fella' - unless you're in on the military slang, which if they are might get you thumped. Unless it's obvious you aren't and never were military and couldn't possibly know the meaning / intent.

@frankconway...well done:)

Panapoly.

Contingent.

Retinue.

Vassal.

Chattel.

https://twitter.com/susie_dent?s=09

I'm going with some Scottish, oft used by our secretary at work.

Sleekit - sleek / slippery person, physically by being skinny runner or character wise.

Blootered - drunk

Tuechter - someone from up north

Besom - mischevious eg. She's a wee besom. (Originally is name for a twig broom)

Drookit - drenched

Braw - good or great

Intertwangle. Mixed up and confused.

While I'm sure Suzie Dent's word of the day is very interesting, I reckon the Urban Dictionary one is better. 😈

There is a lot of meretricious persiflage on STW

Skiddling.

Parsimonious.

Anodyne.

Acerbic.

Hornswoggle - to cheat or deceive

Carapace.

Epistemic.

Fallacy.

Tautology.

Ontological.

Onanism

Dooberryflopdangle (s) (depending on male or female referencing)

I'll get me coat.

Azimuth.

Contiguous.

Plebiscite.

Commensurate.

Contrafibularity.

Paradiddle.

Perfunctory.

Axiomatic- Something so obvious it really doesn't need saying.

All politicians are corrupt, it's axiomatic.

Daps- Sports shoes in South Wales and the South West.

I got some nice new daps for PE.

distanciation and wappened

And not to forget Dags- the dried on muck stuck to a sheep's tail.

Those ewes have a lot of Dags. With the risk of maggots in this warm weather I guess I need to spend a day dagging them (cutting off the dags.)

Vertiginous

Noun (usually ADJECTIVE noun)

‘A vertiginous cliff or mountain is very high and steep’

(Nice excuse sneak in some sublime BSP)

Crenellation

Voussoir

@boomerlives Correct! I'm impressed

Homogenous and heterogenous are wildly underused in English, in my opinion.

Scunnered
Glaikit

All these big words make me quite discombobulated.

Ethereal - In my own mind it means ghost like.
My favourite use of it is in the early morning mist, either over hills (with a temperature inversion), or in woodland.

Gubbed

Banjaxed

UndeXXXXable

Wabbit - Tired and lethargic, probably due to chasing bunnies

Limen - the threshold of perception.
Arctophile - a lover or collector of teddy bears
Mallemaroking - the carousing of sailors in icebound ships

Surreptitious.

Prestidigitation.

I take it OP that you are hoping to be described by your peers as sesquipedalian.

Semantics - ship borne parasites

Disappointed to have been beaten to "defenestrate" (to throw something out of a window) and aglet, so I'll go with philtrum - the little groove between your nose and upper lip.

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.

Reminds me of a mate of mine on holiday in Wales, being amazed at just how large Traeth Beach was.

mashie niblick – a six iron which I knew but had no idea it’s between a mashie and a niblick.
Every day’s a school day.

School day indeed, I thought Mashie Niblick was a brand of clubs.

Go on, try being

MAGNANIMOUS

today

You never know, you might like it 😉

sobriquet

OP should read some Will Self

Who am I to criticise people whose newsfeeds pump Arron-Banks-funded disinformation into their dumb heads, causing a sort of enraged hydrocephalus that makes them shit in their own nests then gobble up the bemerded straw, crying out “Mm, taste that rich substance!” After all, I’m just as much a creature of my own mediatisation: a sort of bourgeois grub, white and pampered, floating in the aural amniotic fluid of Radio 4.

Every day's a learning day & I learned this word yesterday, Solivagant.
I think it's quite apt for this forum.
I could add a few Lancastrian words that you've probably not heard but I wouldn't describe them as lovely..
Solivagant
A solitary wanderer,a person who revels in the act of wandering alone,preferably in destinations & locations they have not previously visited.

I could add a few Lancastrian words that you’ve probably not heard but I wouldn’t describe them as lovely..

Ginnel?

I love the old Scottish verb "to footer" meaning to fiddle around with something, usually in a not too clever way. Can also be a noun.

Daps- Sports shoes in South Wales and the South West.

Only found out about the Dunlop Athletic Plimsoles Recently TBH
Allegedly from sign on factory in Merthyr(whatever a factory is).

I do love the Scottish words thou ya wee bampot.
(Reading too Brookmyre)

Probably not one to impress yer Scottish mates tbh.