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My favourite: sesquipedalian
Characterized by long words; long-winded
Vexatious is good Thou and everyone likes a conundrum.
But my bestest best is: flange
You just can’t beat dropping it into a conversation as it rolls off the tongue and sounds so wrong.
Podger - a spanner with a long tapered shaft or anything similar - where the shaft is inseted into holes to assist alignment
Sanguine.
Effusive.
Cathartic.
Bradawl.
Expectorant.
Grandiloquent - pertaining to language: flowery and verbose.
Mellifluous - melodic, pleasing to the ear. From Latin - flowing with honey.
Decent brace for you there.
Flannel and foghorn make me chuckle.
Zarf - originally an ornamental coffee cup holder from the middle East but now appropriated to include those cardboard sleeves that coffee shops put around your cup to stop you burning your fingers. Also, now deprecated, the brown plastic holders that posh people used to hold their wafer thin, scalding hot cups from a Klix machine
Reveries.
Paradigm.
Unguents.
Humunculus.
Catastrophising is one of my favourites of the moment, lots of it about....
Expectorant.
When I was a kid, I thought this was a cough medicine for pregnant ladies.
I was having necklaces made for an ex and the jeweller asked us how far below the fonticulus we wanted them to hang.
Fonticulus - The depression just over the top of the breastbone
I like voluptuary. It is a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures. Just saying the word feels sensual and luxurious.
Practicable
Quixotic
Purport
Fecund and fecundity are an enjoyable words to use, as in 'fecund with interesting ideas'
'producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; highly fertile'
Ullage
The capacity left in a container.
Dwang.
It’s the Scottish word for a Noggin.
And also the common name of a tap wrench.
I like voluptuary. It is a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures. Just saying the word feels sensual and luxurious.
This has got me thinking, is there a word for words that feel like their meaning? Are there any others? Sort of like an onomatopoeia but for feel not sound.
Propinquity: close to someone or something.
hereditament - the property that is subject to rating - business rates or council tax. Only reminded because of percypanthers use of "contiguous" on the first page!
tmesis
ordure
tautology
Fecund and fecundity are an enjoyable words to use, as in ‘fecund with interesting ideas’
My wife watches lots of those "on the labour ward" / "oooh it's our little miracle" shows as she's in the business - In my mind they're called "fecund hell"
... oh, and shibboleth - though I've no idea how you'd pronounce it
😉
Cromulent
'Expectorant' was new to me until I heard this,
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/carcass/lavagingexpectorateoflysergidecomposition.html
Diametric.
Debacle.
Dissonant.
Febrile.
Psychopomp.
Extrapolate.
Soliloquy.
I am quite fond of archaic pejorative terms
Piffle ( I can no longer use this tho now Johnson has made it his own)
Balderdash
Bunkum
Codswallop
Some Scots ones that haven't been done:
Carnaptious: Bad tempered or argumentative.
Hoolet: An owl
Some appropriate ones for the currently climate:
Foment
Mendacious
Dissembling
Syzygy - posh name for when planets & moons & stars & stuff line up. Eg an eclipse where earth, moon and sun are in a straight line is a syzygy
Obstreperous.
Used to describe someone who's, basically, bloody awkward.
(Reading too Brookmyre)
Also from Chris Brookmyre, "bawheed rammy" which I take to being a brawl between idiots.
Only reminded because of percypanthers use of “contiguous” on the first page!
Example: Boris Johnson dropped all his files and I thought, "it'll take the contagious to pick that lot up."
Incidentally, if you all like words I can strongly recommend The Allusionist podcast.
https://www.theallusionist.org/
Chatoyant, changing in lustre or colour, eg like a jewel, silk or a cat's eye. From the French chatoyer, to shimmer
Masticate
Gibbous - as in - The moon is gibbous tonight.
Terpsichorean - as in - I am one who delights in all manifestations of the terpsichorean muse.
frenulum breve.
google image search as it’s quite a poetic word and image.
A Scottish word i like is Coorie as in coorie in - to snuggle or cuddle up
obverse - in coinage the opposite of reverse.
occulting - the opposite of flashing.
frenulum breve.
google image search as it’s quite a poetic word and image.
I suspect I know what both of those words mean, and if I'm right then putting them together means it's probably a medical condition and there's no way in hell I'm googling for images.
A Scottish word i like is Coorie as in coorie in – to snuggle or cuddle up
The Welsh equivalent is quite cool too. Cwtch (pronounced "cutch").
Google would suggest it also means 'cupboard,' which I didn't know and find mildly amusing. "Hey Gwyneth, where's the marmalade?" - "Oh Denzil, it's in the cuddle."
soporific
panacea
melliferous
Assonance. I seek it.
perspicacious
Fud
A collection of words:
Gerontocracy
Narcissism of minor differences
Supercilious
Bien pensant
Duality
Polemical
Rabble rouser
Parity of misery
Fud
A rabbits tail
Is that where fud comes from? I only know it as an insult
FUD is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt as far as I'm aware. I don't think I've heard it in any other context (other than an intentional misspelling, "I'm hungry, going for fud, brb")
I don’t think I’ve heard it in any other context
I have. Lots of times.
You probably should add it to the swear filter. 😉
I have. Lots of times.
Scottish?
snafu
antidisestablishmentarianism
Clusterbùrach. An accurate description of the current political situation.
Obdurate - stuborn persistent hardened resistant (perhaps in an immoral way)
Hauntology - "The term refers to the situation of temporal and ontological disjunction in which presence is replaced by a deferred non-origin, represented by "the figure of the ghost as that which is neither present, nor absent, neither dead nor alive"" - ah yes ok, quite.
snafu
Similarly, FUBAR.
cougar - fud is a scottish term for an idiot / unpleasant person and is fairly high on the list of insults.
Impeachable
Venal
Narcissistic
Oh, and
Toerag
Good thread this.
Fossorial (of a burrowing habit; also water voles that make burrows away from water)
Glabrous (hairless e.g that roady’s legs are really glabrous)
Collywobbles (the shakes or jitters. Often what happens after cycling with a glabrous roadie)
ethnomethodology
entomology
ericaceous
endogamy
effluvium
fud is a scottish term for.....
Ladies bits.
Hence the joke.....
"Did you hear about the man who gave himself an instant sex change?......He jumped off a cliff and landed with a fud"
Bassoon.
Implicit.
Peripherique.
Pompidou.
Mandible.
Zygote.
Hyperbole:)
fud is a scottish term for…..
Ladies bits.
That's how I know it as well. Wonder if it's a regional thing
popliteal fossa.
the hollow bit behind your knee
floccinaucinihilipilification
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
somnambulism
Sleepwalking
Hermeneutics.
Hermetically.
Rapscallion.
I fear some on here are becoming somewhat sententious.
Anyway... http://phrontistery.info/ihlstart.html
Sequester.
Dilettante.
Extemporize.
Promulgate.
Fud
Wonder if it’s a regional thing
see also Foo Fighters.
Anyway, fungible
Nyaff.
Embouchure.
Coterie.
That’s how I know it as well. Wonder if it’s a regional thing
The nether regions perhaps
I miss Hamesuken, havent had anybody convicted of it in years!
Think I’ve posted this before, but the word womblecropt, meaning nauseous or queasy is great. Old English word that has fallen out of use.
This book is a great humorous look at the evolution of words.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Etymologicon
Not rarely used (at least by me)but I love rapscallion - a mischievous person
Countryside.
It's what you'd commit if you killed Piers Morgan.
(actually, there might be a separate thread in this...)
I think you’re correct Cougar. Fire it up!
Plebeian, im guessing there are a few of us on here
pettifogging
So what does it mean? To "pettifog" is, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "to quibble over insignificant details" or "engage in legal chicanery".
Lots of that on here....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51198666
Meretricious + persiflage.
Boris is the master.
Comestibles
What a cyclist seeks when bonked.
Sluberdegullion..a lovely word but its meaning not so lovely ..
As sung on the album " The Lamb Lies down on Broadway " by Peter Gabriel of Genesis
" Sluberdegullions on squeaky feet "