Author Topic: Words (Read 16034 times)

Torslanda · « **Reply #100 on:** 27 November, 2015, 09:00:57 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2015, 08:21:47 pm

Apeshit, as in "going apeshit", rather obviously derived from the fact that angry monkeys enjoy flinging their own excrement as passers-by. Or "medieval" used to describe something very nasty and violent, such as "Charlotte went medieval on the taxi driver's sorry arse".

I think I'd pay to see that . . .

Wowbagger · « **Reply #101 on:** 27 November, 2015, 09:06:49 pm »

Quote from: Torslanda on 27 November, 2015, 09:00:57 pm

Quote from: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2015, 08:21:47 pm
Apeshit, as in "going apeshit", rather obviously derived from the fact that angry monkeys enjoy flinging their own excrement as passers-by. Or "medieval" used to describe something very nasty and violent, such as "Charlotte went medieval on the taxi driver's sorry arse".

I think I'd pay to see that . . .

I believe that Berkeley Castle is the place to see this sort of thing.

Quote from: Salvatore on 27 November, 2015, 07:27:04 pm

tatterdemallion - a ragamuffin, as in the phrase 'scrofulous tatterdememallion', which is where I encountered it.

Also tatterdemallionism and tatterdemallionry.

Examples from the OED:
(1879) Mrs. Bramble.. said, she had never seen such a filthy tatterdemalion.
(1642) Great numbers of poore French tatterdimallians, being as it were the Scumme of the Countrey.
(1879) It is rare to see a tatterdemallion in Paris.

I had completely forgotten about tatterdemallion! It was a word my mother used fairly often in my childhood. I can't think why.

Ian H · « **Reply #102 on:** 27 November, 2015, 09:18:17 pm »

Picaresque.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #103 on:** 28 November, 2015, 12:17:58 am »

PJ O'Rourke introduced me to 'tatterdemallion', which is one of those words that you know what it means even if you've never encountered it before.

Torslanda · « **Reply #104 on:** 28 November, 2015, 10:57:13 am »

First heard on Queen II, 1974.

"Tatterdemallion and a junketer,
There's a thief and dragonfly trumpeter,
He's my hero!"

Pretty sure only Freddie could get away with that . . .

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #105 on:** 28 November, 2015, 11:06:12 am »

I think Vivian Stanshall could have carried it off, though more likely in a spoken word setting.

Torslanda · « **Reply #106 on:** 28 November, 2015, 11:08:42 am »

<grandiose voice> Tubular BELLS! </grandiose voice>

offcumden · « **Reply #107 on:** 28 November, 2015, 12:39:01 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 27 November, 2015, 09:18:17 pm

Picaresque.

Quixotic

runsoncake · « **Reply #108 on:** 28 November, 2015, 01:43:07 pm »

Crepitate

Wowbagger · « **Reply #109 on:** 28 November, 2015, 05:05:10 pm »

Coruscating.

Polar Bear · « **Reply #110 on:** 03 December, 2015, 01:45:25 pm »

Bellicose.

Sounds far more jovial than it really is.

T42 · « **Reply #111 on:** 03 December, 2015, 01:51:46 pm »

Like them there bellicose veins.

---o0o---

Encrusted.

offcumden · « **Reply #112 on:** 03 December, 2015, 02:26:23 pm »

This being a cycling forum, we should mention 'ischial tuberosities', which has a certain ring to it (them).

Tim Hall · « **Reply #113 on:** 03 December, 2015, 03:51:41 pm »

Quote from: Salvatore on 27 November, 2015, 07:27:04 pm

tatterdemallion - a ragamuffin, as in the phrase 'scrofulous tatterdememallion', which is where I encountered it.

Also tatterdemallionism and tatterdemallionry.

Examples from the OED:
(1879) Mrs. Bramble.. said, she had never seen such a filthy tatterdemalion.
(1642) Great numbers of poore French tatterdimallians, being as it were the Scumme of the Countrey.
(1879) It is rare to see a tatterdemallion in Paris.

Ooh, I like that. I'll use it alongside "feckless itinerant" (© Brian Aldridge) and "longwhip and ne'er do well" (© Joe Grundy)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #114 on:** 04 December, 2015, 12:28:03 am »

Quote from: offcumden on 03 December, 2015, 02:26:23 pm

This being a cycling forum, we should mention 'ischial tuberosities', which has a certain ring to it (them).

Arising out of that, I give you ischial callosities. It's a monkey's bum, m'lud.

hellymedic · « **Reply #115 on:** 04 December, 2015, 12:43:55 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 04 December, 2015, 12:28:03 am

Quote from: offcumden on 03 December, 2015, 02:26:23 pm
This being a cycling forum, we should mention 'ischial tuberosities', which has a certain ring to it (them).

Arsing out of that, I give you ischial callosities. It's a monkey's bum, m'lud.

FTFY

madcow · « **Reply #116 on:** 12 January, 2016, 10:03:47 am »

Just spotted on "Tune Association" thread- boogie.
To me it's the sort of word that defines a generation , like skiffle, beatnik, mods, techno or rave.
If you lived it then it meant something, but a few years either side and it means nothing.

T42 · « **Reply #117 on:** 26 January, 2016, 03:33:49 pm »

Meed: "his meed of praise" in a J.B. Priestly essay, meaning the praise due to him.

offcumden · « **Reply #118 on:** 26 January, 2016, 03:52:34 pm »

At a blood donor session yesterday I noticed a large sign:

←WHOLE BLOOD - COMPONENTS→

As I was giving platelets I went to the right. You know you're old when you're only good for spare parts.

citoyen · « **Reply #119 on:** 27 January, 2016, 02:27:54 pm »

Quote from: lou boutin on 07 November, 2015, 07:06:47 pm

Discombobulated is a personal favourite.

The Lexicon Valley podcast did an episode on the origins of discombobulate - well worth a listen:
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2014/07/lexicon_valley_the_etymology_of_the_word_discombobulate_with_lexicographer.html

ElyDave · « **Reply #120 on:** 27 January, 2016, 09:31:26 pm »

dollop

just sounds like it is "how about a dollop of cream on your strawberries?"

Ruthie · « **Reply #121 on:** 27 January, 2016, 09:55:58 pm »

Trollop.

ElyDave · « **Reply #122 on:** 27 January, 2016, 10:05:27 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 27 January, 2016, 09:55:58 pm

Trollop.

that reminds me of an ex colleague of mine

At a restaurant for an office Christmas curry, as a more mature lady walked past, done up to the nines, he remarked "look at that, mutton dressed as mutton"

Ruthie · « **Reply #123 on:** 27 January, 2016, 10:11:54 pm »

Quote from: ElyDave on 27 January, 2016, 10:05:27 pm

Quote from: Ruthie on 27 January, 2016, 09:55:58 pm
Trollop.

that reminds me of an ex colleague of mine

At a restaurant for an office Christmas curry, as a more mature lady walked past, done up to the nines, he remarked "look at that, mutton dressed as mutton"

That'd be me, then.

Salvatore · « **Reply #124 on:** 17 December, 2019, 07:52:12 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 03 December, 2015, 03:51:41 pm

Quote from: Salvatore on 27 November, 2015, 07:27:04 pm
tatterdemallion - a ragamuffin, as in the phrase 'scrofulous tatterdememallion', which is where I encountered it.

Also tatterdemallionism and tatterdemallionry.

Examples from the OED:
(1879) Mrs. Bramble.. said, she had never seen such a filthy tatterdemalion.
(1642) Great numbers of poore French tatterdimallians, being as it were the Scumme of the Countrey.
(1879) It is rare to see a tatterdemallion in Paris.

Ooh, I like that. I'll use it alongside "feckless itinerant" (© Brian Aldridge) and "longwhip and ne'er do well" (© Joe Grundy)

I'd forgotten about this thread. I couple of years ago I was quoted at an exhibition in Dublin