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Everybody's heard of couth and uncouth...how about selcouth? "Strange, unusual, rare; unfamiliar; marvellous, wondrous" I basically use it to mean like "that's weird, but it's cool"
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 15:50 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 10:42 |
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Neige posted:Inchoate: still nascent; often used with something that builds into something grand, as with a crescendo. I like the other definition: disorganized, chaotic, incoherent, rambling. If you describe someone as displaying inchoate rage, they could be: 1. Showing the beginning signs of a massive tantrum that has only begun to develop 2. So furious that they're just randomly lashing out and shouting expletives 3. Mumbling and babbling in furious confusion.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 00:42 |
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Obsequious -unctuous, fulsome, sycophantic. Irascible - truculent, churlish, recalcitrant Loquacious -garrulous, voluble
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 02:31 |
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Yoshi Jjang posted:Lethologica - the state in which you cannot remember a word you're thinking of, at the tip of your tongue http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1234/whats-the-word-for-when-you-cant-think-of-the-word I'm with Cecil on this one - I like aphasia.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 02:31 |
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The problem with using aphasia in that way is that the actual definition is very wide ranging and medical in use. My girl is a speech path and dealing with aphasia patients due to stroke or other neurological disorder is 50% of the field.
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# ? Sep 18, 2014 09:30 |
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Marcus Tullius posted:Contrafibularities - Fake, pretend, or sarcastic congratulations. Contra - against, fibula the smaller bone in the lower leg. I.e. pulling someone's leg. Sausage- A cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating.
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# ? Sep 18, 2014 10:01 |
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spog posted:Sausage- A cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating. C - Big, blue, wobbly thing that mermaids live in.
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# ? Sep 18, 2014 17:01 |
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Dog - Not a cat.
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# ? Sep 18, 2014 17:42 |
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I've discovered I like the word 'subclavian'--which refers to the blood vessels that pass under the clavicle, or collarbone.
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# ? Sep 25, 2014 05:04 |
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cal·li·pyg·i·an kaləˈpijēən adjective having well-shaped buttocks.
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# ? Sep 25, 2014 05:22 |
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preantepenultimate - fourth from last remonstration - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remonstrate and I'm noticing a theme, so: bathykolpian - big breasted, deep bosomed
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# ? Sep 28, 2014 04:27 |
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I had a moment in a previous lexicographic thread about one of my favorite words. Canine - like a dog Feline - like a cat Ursine - like a bear Asinine - like an rear end
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# ? Sep 28, 2014 05:18 |
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My favourite is shibboleth. It means a code word that shows you belong to a certain group. For example, if I use a word like hermeneutic, it shows I have a background in studying English literature. Or for goons, "Are you protected?"
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# ? Sep 28, 2014 06:16 |
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Psychlone posted:My favourite is shibboleth. It means a code word that shows you belong to a certain group. For example, if I use a word like hermeneutic, it shows I have a background in studying English literature. Or for goons, "Are you protected?" Or for Fyads, Tane.
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# ? Sep 28, 2014 08:23 |
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Therbligs are the repetitive motions of a task, especially an industrial one. "Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime – and therby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.” R.A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 01:54 |
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Hellequin posted:Kitthoge, adj. & n. Left-handed or awkward, or a left-handed or awkward person. Racist. In all seriousness, as a left-handed person, the history of how languages have treated right/left handedness is interesting. Sinister comes from Latin and is simply "left". Dexter, also from Latin, meaning "right". It probably belongs in another thread but it's interesting how languages have added connotations to both words that were never present in the original.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 23:18 |
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Borborygmi - the sound of your stomach rumbling
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 23:59 |
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Invagination - the action or process of being turned inside out or folded back on itself to form a cavity or pouch
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# ? Oct 7, 2014 01:27 |
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Otiose - Serving no practical purpose or result Moribund - At the point of death or a thing in terminal decline, lacking vigour Truculent - Quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant Inculcate - Instill by persistent instruction Lugubrious - Looking or sounding sad/dismal Perfunctory - Carried out with no real feeling or interest Dragoon - A member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army. Oxter - An old English word for armpit Sprunt - An old Scots word meaning to chase girls around the haystack after dark
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 20:41 |
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Lunchbox Paradox posted:Sprunt - An old Scots word meaning to chase girls around the haystack after dark My great grandfather who came to the US from Scotland in his teens used to ask me if I was doing this. I was seven.
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# ? Oct 14, 2014 00:14 |
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niggardly - grudgingly mean about spending or granting aka a word that gets people fired. If you use that in the 21st century in the United States, you should expect that to be misheard and people to think you're a douche.
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# ? Oct 14, 2014 02:27 |
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canyoneer posted:niggardly - grudgingly mean about spending or granting Or people might hear you correctly and think that you're a Verbose - Using words longer or more obscure than is neccesary Douche - Someone who uses an obscure word in a professional environment while aware of its phoenetic similarity to a racial slur
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# ? Oct 14, 2014 03:53 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 10:42 |
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Lunchbox Paradox posted:Sprunt - An old Scots word meaning to chase girls around the haystack after dark Clearly a portmanteau of 'sprint' and 'oval office'.
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