Author Topic: Words (Read 15941 times)

SteveC · « **Reply #50 on:** 08 November, 2015, 03:27:03 pm »

Crepuscular

Ian H · « **Reply #51 on:** 08 November, 2015, 04:22:02 pm »

Quote from: SteveC on 08 November, 2015, 03:27:03 pm

Crepuscular

Thelonius.

Basil · « **Reply #52 on:** 08 November, 2015, 04:34:23 pm »

Cunt.

No, really.
I used to hate the word. All the connotations to sexual politics and such.
But now I think I like it. (Not so much as an expletive, but as a word that describes what it is).
It's so short, pithy and neat. Sounds good too.

YMMV.

peliroja · « **Reply #53 on:** 08 November, 2015, 05:02:35 pm »

Plumply.

hellymedic · « **Reply #54 on:** 08 November, 2015, 05:21:52 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 08 November, 2015, 04:34:23 pm

Cunt.

No, really.
I used to hate the word. All the connotations to sexual politics and such.
But now I think I like it. (Not so much as an expletive, but as a word that describes what it is).
It's so short, pithy and neat. Sounds good too.

YMMV.

Reminds me of my Eng Lit O Level:
'Her Cs her Us and her Ts'
"Modern version has an N in it." said Master drily...

T42 · « **Reply #55 on:** 09 November, 2015, 07:36:34 am »

Areopagitica, Milton's vapouring against censorship, bears a curious resemblance to the French aérophagie, meaning an accumulation of gas in the stomach or gut which leads to ill-timed eructations etc.

What would you call that - satirical homophony?

ian · « **Reply #56 on:** 09 November, 2015, 08:17:58 am »

Incorrigible.

T42 · « **Reply #57 on:** 09 November, 2015, 10:46:15 am »

egregious

Legs · « **Reply #58 on:** 09 November, 2015, 04:16:20 pm »

juglandaceous
monumental (particularly in the expression 'monumental masons')
maneno (strictly just means 'discussion', but since it's a Swahili word it has connotations of chaotic palaver)

hellymedic · « **Reply #59 on:** 09 November, 2015, 07:00:37 pm »

Monumental masons seems apt for those who make gravestones.
Monumental cock-ups sound inappropriate in comparison.

slope · « **Reply #60 on:** 09 November, 2015, 07:01:35 pm »

deliquium
etiolation (randomly found by opening a Chambers and using it a a poem when I was all of 15 - I won a national prize = £10 record/book token
flitch
slope (obviously)
acatalectic
underachievement
strenuous
odd
tingle

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #61 on:** 09 November, 2015, 07:23:19 pm »

Wanker (usually pronounced "WANKAAAAAH!"). In the past hour it has been shouted at:

David Cameron
George Osborne
Michael Gove
Boris Johnson
David Cameron again
Chris Boardman¹
Christiano Ronaldo
That myopic neck-free twat who used to be in charge of the IAAF
The proprietor of a jewellers in Enfield

Also USAnians don't know what it means.

1: By accident. It was aimed at Andrew Gilligan but he moved.

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #62 on:** 09 November, 2015, 10:50:24 pm »

Pennorth, as in "Can I have 10 pennorth of chips please?"

clarion · « **Reply #63 on:** 10 November, 2015, 01:04:10 pm »

Wazzock

Wombat · « **Reply #64 on:** 10 November, 2015, 01:08:25 pm »

Spawny eyed, or non-spawny eyed variant, Clarion?

clarion · « **Reply #65 on:** 10 November, 2015, 01:15:13 pm »

Useless, spawny-eyed, parrot-faced!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #66 on:** 10 November, 2015, 06:19:16 pm »

bandobast
borborygmic
rorqual

spesh · « **Reply #67 on:** 10 November, 2015, 06:35:06 pm »

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #68 on:** 10 November, 2015, 10:01:36 pm »

Zimbabwe.

"Zym-bahb-whe"

Wowbagger · « **Reply #69 on:** 10 November, 2015, 10:32:31 pm »

Ndabaningi Sithole

pcolbeck · « **Reply #70 on:** 11 November, 2015, 09:33:06 am »

Tessellate
and
Woogle - this one made up by Pcolbeck junior, it's a verb that describes the way a dog moves when its aimlessly wandering around with that swinging motion where its front and back halves seem connected like a bendy bus. Typical usage: "what's the dog doing ?" "She's woogling in the kitchen"

Wowbagger · « **Reply #71 on:** 11 November, 2015, 10:56:49 am »

Grackle.

rafletcher · « **Reply #72 on:** 11 November, 2015, 02:54:22 pm »

Pulchritudinous

Deliequescence

Sublimation

Antirrhinum

Vince · « **Reply #73 on:** 11 November, 2015, 04:07:46 pm »

Pantechnicon

Quote from: Ian H on 07 November, 2015, 09:37:48 pm

Supernumerary.

Tump and the related mump.

Tump is even better when prefexed with "Hetty Peggler's".

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #74 on:** 11 November, 2015, 04:12:27 pm »

And what, pray, of Wormelow Tump?