slubberdegullion
From one of the incompetent muppets who works for us, and believes he is the boss, even though he is simply the boss's brother.
"Innovationalisation"
Why use a simple, not to mention real word, when you can invent a ridiculous one?!
Why use a simple, not to mention real word, when you can invent a ridiculous one?!
Turgid.In which case,"tumescence"
And I don't care if it has been before.
Palimpsest, which I managed to get into a meeting today.
Palimpsest, which I managed to get into a meeting today.
Fubar (OK, technically not a word...)
fubar
Schmuck!
Outwith.You've been in Scotland recently, haven't you?
Outwith.
Outwith.
Here are the winners of this year's Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition:
Omniscient
turdspurts
As in: "Acer, you really are a pack of unholy turdspurts!" (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=post;msg=470825;topic=23506.90;sesc=832fb5ea44a5a830e0b35c6a7d4d7d2f)
;D
Clicky (http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/?page_id=654).
Have we had nubile yet?
You too?Have we had nubile yet?
I have but it was many years ago.
You too?Have we had nubile yet?
I have but it was many years ago.
Leave that stuff well alone, Zoidburg.Paul McCartney won't forget that divorce in a hurry.
If you get into it, it'll end up costing you an arm and a leg.
JOBBERNOWL.
A blockhead.
Mrs. Krabappel: I never heard the word embiggen until I moved to Springfield.
Ms. Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
QUOCKERTODGER.
A wooden penis that is controlled by strings.
dyspeptic
\dis-PEP-tik\ , adjective;
1. Of, pertaining to, or having dyspepsia (indigestion).
2. Irritable or ill-humored, as if suffering from dyspepsia; morose; gloomy.
noun:
1. A person suffering from dyspepsia.
As in, "Our dyspeptic associate, Mr IanH"
assiduity
Taghairm, tag'erm, n. an ancient form of divination among the Scottish Highlanders, in which a man was wrapped in a fresh bullock's hide and left by a running stream to wait for inspiration. [Gael.]
BURGOO.
A stew or a thick soup.
Callipygian
... You're a complete camel's rectum filled with weasel spooge ...
I believe the Honorable Mayor of Mortagne au Perche is the originator of the SPOOGE word.
Not me, Guv. I first encountered it in a post by Auntie C.
"population paste".
Sturmbannführer
I was serving in our Small Heath branch,
Wolkenkuckucksheim
eructation \ih-ruhk-TAY-shuhn\, noun:In agriculture it is the process by which partially digested material is returned for further mastication.
The act of belching; a belch.
Wolkenkuckucksheim
Sprechgesang.
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money
Manifestations
The dots or patterns they put on plate glass to stop you walking into it by accident.
Limpiaparabrisas (pronounced exactly as it's written *the beauty of the Spanish language*)Brisas - winds or breezes.
It's Spanish... meaning windscreen wipers ;D
Well, you never know when you might need it... ::-)
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ersatz /'eəʳzæts/ listen
Synonyms:
o adjective: surrogate
o noun: substitute, surrogate, makeshift
o
If you describe something as ersatz, you dislike it because it is not genuine and is a poor imitation of something better. ADJ usu ADJ n written disapproval
+
Synonym
fake
+
...an ersatz Victorian shopping precinct.
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The ersatz spontaneity of `Sunday Love' sounds especially hollow.
o
An ersatz product is a poor quality product that is used to replace something that is not available. ADJ ADJ n old-fashioned
+
Synonym
substitute
+
There were few provisions available in exchange for food stamps: ersatz coffee, macaroni, small cubes of margarine.
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crepuscular /krɪp'ʌskjʊləʳ/ listen
Synonyms:
o adjective: dim, dusky, twilight
o
Crepuscular means relating to twilight. ADJ ADJ n literary
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...peering through the crepuscular gloom.
crepuscular:I think Deano used that in "Have you been out today" a few months ago.Quote*
crepuscular /krɪp'ʌskjʊləʳ/ listen
Synonyms:
o adjective: dim, dusky, twilight
o
Crepuscular means relating to twilight. ADJ ADJ n literary
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...peering through the crepuscular gloom.
Manifestation - to become visable?Manifestations
The dots or patterns they put on plate glass to stop you walking into it by accident.
Surely it's manifenestrations?
eristic \e-RIS-tik\,
crapulence. A state of overindulgence through eating or drinking, e.g. me on a Sunday evening.
crapulence. A state of overindulgence through eating or drinking, e.g. me on a Sunday evening.
In his 1959 novel "Naked Lunch" American author William S. Burroughs uses mugwump as the name of a bizarre creature.
:)
It was in a geotechnical report I was reading. I also liked "intercalated"!
:)
It was in a geotechnical report I was reading. I also liked "intercalated"!
It's pretty common medicspeak. 'The appendix was oedematous and indurated.'
Usually means hardened due to inflammation or other pathological process, the central 'dur' suggesting hard, as in durable, which is hardwearing .
'Abscounds' is in many places on the BBC News website. Is one who abscounds an 'abscoundrel'?
Deutschekleinepeniskompenzationierenmachine.
friggatriskaidekaphobia
Looks at date...that reminds me:-
Triskaidekaphobia
Hint: It's not the fear of three clones of Wayne Rooney's baby boy knocking you down with a single punch.
Exsanguinate.
Exsanguinate.
Don't! Recalls days of A&E duty when those with end-stage liver disease would :sick: their blood volume on my shoes and clothes.
Sorry. I was thinking of people who might benefit the world by having it done to them.Exsanguinate.
Don't! Recalls days of A&E duty when those with end-stage liver disease would :sick: their blood volume on my shoes and clothes.
floccinaucinihilipilification
a favourite of my old RE teacher, along with antidisestablishmentarianism
eculizumab
Olfactry
As in carry out an olfactry assessment ie sniff it
Olfactry
As in carry out an olfactry assessment ie sniff it
I hate to be sniffy about this but I spell it 'olfactory'...
I was far to compliant to ever break teh BIOHAZARD roolz.
Fug
Discombobulation.
Tonking.
Painterly
In photography, implies that one has mucked a picture about so much in Photoshop that it looks as if the entire crew of Impressionists had had a go at it.
Poptyping
I just warmed my cawl in the poptyping, I did.
Painterly
In photography, implies that one has mucked a picture about so much in Photoshop that it looks as if the entire crew of Impressionists had had a go at it.
In painting it can have the same meaning.
Person.
Why? Because in later years its use has swollen out of all proportion to the point that I want to howl whenever I see it. In more literate days it was mainly used by the police in the phrase "person or persons unknown", and so rarely by anyone else that to use it was to invite the addition of "or persons unknown" by others, at least mentally. The only other sane usage was in referring to one's person.
But now. Person is used meaning someone, somebody, or individual, and usually in a sentence such as "a person may feel pain in their tooth" which is disjointed in to many way it should be painfully put away.
I hate the word, I loathe it, and I never want to read or hear it again, other than in police bulletins.
thixotropic
e.g. ketchup, something I always remember my father mentioning.
[thread awakening alert]
My personal (OK, OK) feeling is that persons is more formal than people, so it's OK in officialese. As a plural of person, people isn't pompous enough.
thixotropic
e.g. ketchup, something I always remember my father mentioning.
[thread awakening alert]
Deliquescent is a word I quite like, suitably onomatopoetic.As in juvenile deliquescent?
Deliquescent is a word I quite like, suitably onomatopoetic.As in juvenile deliquescent?
Palimpsest.
Palimpsest.
adj. Superlative form of palimps. "He was the palimpsest dude in the whole of our year at school."
Also the name of Gore Vidal's autobiography, which I think is probably where I first came across the word.