Author Topic: Words (Read 16017 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #25 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:00:03 pm »

hippopotamus
heffalump
hiccup
haversack

L CC · « **Reply #26 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:11:59 pm »

I think everyone is familiar with my favourite

Wowbagger · « **Reply #27 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:14:59 pm »

Shenanigans
Curtilage
Clitorides
Coruscating

hellymedic · « **Reply #28 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:23:05 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 07 November, 2015, 07:57:08 pm

Quote from: Andrew on 07 November, 2015, 07:47:32 pm
kitchen
trousers

Do you have trousers specific to other rooms of your home as well?

Best thing about the word 'trousers' is listening to a Dutch person attempting to pronounce it...

hellymedic · « **Reply #29 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:25:48 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 07 November, 2015, 08:14:59 pm

Clitorides

Plural goodness!
When would you use this, except in a totally detached discussion?

Canardly · « **Reply #30 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:30:24 pm »

When explaining that the plural of penis is not penises or peni?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #31 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:38:14 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 07 November, 2015, 08:25:48 pm

Quote from: Wowbagger on 07 November, 2015, 08:14:59 pm

Clitorides

Plural goodness!
When would you use this, except in a totally detached discussion?

I suspect that my use of the word "clitorides" has been largely confined to the pages of this wondrous forum.

Ian H · « **Reply #32 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:47:36 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 07 November, 2015, 08:38:14 pm

Quote from: hellymedic on 07 November, 2015, 08:25:48 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 07 November, 2015, 08:14:59 pm

Clitorides

Plural goodness!
When would you use this, except in a totally detached discussion?

I suspect that my use of the word "clitorides" has been largely confined to the pages of this wondrous forum.

As an alternative to 'pages'?

David Martin · « **Reply #33 on:** 07 November, 2015, 08:55:29 pm »

recondite, but that could be too obscure for many.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #34 on:** 07 November, 2015, 09:07:30 pm »

persimmon
Malmesbury

madcow · « **Reply #35 on:** 07 November, 2015, 09:26:01 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 07 November, 2015, 01:44:04 pm

Pelican.

I just like it.

A wonderful bird is the Pelican,
It's beak can hold more than it's belly can.

Kerfuffle, radgie, gadgie , tup.

Ian H · « **Reply #36 on:** 07 November, 2015, 09:37:48 pm »

Supernumerary.

Tump and the related mump.

Pancho · « **Reply #37 on:** 07 November, 2015, 09:46:51 pm »

Tump I knew (well, I know of one tump). Mump, I didn't.

Ian H · « **Reply #38 on:** 07 November, 2015, 09:58:05 pm »

Here's a mump.

DaveJ · « **Reply #39 on:** 07 November, 2015, 10:47:51 pm »

Gruntled.

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #40 on:** 07 November, 2015, 11:40:04 pm »

Porch.

hellymedic · « **Reply #41 on:** 08 November, 2015, 12:03:11 am »

Quote from: DaveJ on 07 November, 2015, 10:47:51 pm

Gruntled.

In Shedspeak you could have mantled, molished and whelmed.

Kim · « **Reply #42 on:** 08 November, 2015, 12:12:31 am »

Quote from: hellymedic on 08 November, 2015, 12:03:11 am

Quote from: DaveJ on 07 November, 2015, 10:47:51 pm
Gruntled.
In Shedspeak you could have mantled, molished and whelmed.

Let's not forget teriorate.

Canardly · « **Reply #43 on:** 08 November, 2015, 12:19:13 am »

Verisimilitude, but it could be a fib.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #44 on:** 08 November, 2015, 03:47:35 am »

Good to see that these are all nice woody words.

(Flees from the Python Police)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #45 on:** 08 November, 2015, 03:53:00 am »

Quote from: madcow on 07 November, 2015, 09:26:01 pm

Quote from: Ruthie on 07 November, 2015, 01:44:04 pm
Pelican.

I just like it.

A wonderful bird is the Pelican,
It's beak can hold more than it's belly can.

Horthy by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

canny colin · « **Reply #46 on:** 08 November, 2015, 09:19:37 am »

Voussoirs , Gauged of course . e Extrados .

T42 · « **Reply #47 on:** 08 November, 2015, 01:49:30 pm »

Refrangible
Huehuetenango, sounds like a cross between a tango and an 8some reel
abaft

Canardly · « **Reply #48 on:** 08 November, 2015, 02:35:12 pm »

Quote from: canny colin on 08 November, 2015, 09:19:37 am

Voussoirs , Gauged of course . e Extrados .

Need your rubbers for a good voussoir.

nikki · « **Reply #49 on:** 08 November, 2015, 02:40:16 pm »

Peduncle, courtesy of a Radio 4 programme about oak trees.

Takadanobaba and Roppongi are also favourite Tokyo place names, with syllables to be strewn out after a deep breath or individually crafted and savoured respectively.