Author Topic: Words  (Read 15864 times)

hellymedic

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Words
« on: 07 November, 2015, 01:30:20 pm »
The Welsh call a microwave oven a popty ping.
In Israel they call the @ symbol 'strudel'.
A pingfuckit needs no explanation.

What are your favourites?

Re: Words
« Reply #1 on: 07 November, 2015, 01:40:54 pm »
Zig and Zag for forward and backward slash. (daughter of BBC presenter).
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Ruthie

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Re: Words
« Reply #2 on: 07 November, 2015, 01:44:04 pm »
Pelican.

I just like it.
Milk please, no sugar.

Re: Words
« Reply #3 on: 07 November, 2015, 01:55:41 pm »
The Polaks call @ małpka - little monkey.

αdαmsκι

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Re: Words
« Reply #4 on: 07 November, 2015, 02:00:09 pm »
Whereas in Dutch the @ is apenstaartje, which means little monkey's tail.
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woollypigs

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Re: Words
« Reply #5 on: 07 November, 2015, 04:37:50 pm »
Faff.

Faffing.

Get lost.

Leg it.

Just because and they don't really exict in Danish.

Oh and plonker, emporium, ointment.

Current mood: AARRRGGGGHHHHH !!! #bollockstobrexit

ian

Re: Words
« Reply #6 on: 07 November, 2015, 04:44:27 pm »
susurration

That's my favourite word.

Re: Words
« Reply #7 on: 07 November, 2015, 04:47:01 pm »
'Lagom' was my favourite Swedish word and it doesn't translate easily. It means everything is fine or just right, but in a positive sense that the English doesn't convey.

As a cyclist in Budapest, I had much cause to use 'seggfej'. It translates as 'arseface', but means 'arsehole'. Terrible drivers, the Magyars.

'Marvellous' is a word that seems to have fallen out of favour, losing out to the awful 'awesome'. but is my favourite adjective.
Haggerty F, Haggerty R, Tomkins, Noble, Carrick, Robson, Crapper, Dewhurst, Macintyre, Treadmore, Davitt.

IanDG

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Re: Words
« Reply #8 on: 07 November, 2015, 04:51:40 pm »
Balter

I like that word and I like a good balter :)

Re: Words
« Reply #9 on: 07 November, 2015, 05:07:36 pm »
Canny it's just so versatile.
Its More Fun With Three .

Re: Words
« Reply #10 on: 07 November, 2015, 05:13:47 pm »
Yclept is up there with the favourites.Thanks (I think) to Mr. Larrington.
I'm just waiting for the opportunity to insert it into a work email.

Grin.
In the context of a light box, where an image is backlit.
If the light source(s) aren't sufficiently diffused, you'll experience bright spots.
These (collectively) are known as grins.
My line manager didn't believe me.
However I did manage to get that one into a work email on Friday.
That made him think.

My challenge for next week, thanks to Wowbagger,  is to make use of 'otiose' in a work email.
Give them something to do....

Mr Larrington

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Re: Words
« Reply #11 on: 07 November, 2015, 05:23:26 pm »
The Germans, that race of robotically-logical Volk, call a sleeveless jumper a "pullunder".  I do not know why, and nor does Miss von Brandenburg.

"Lollygag" and "Syllabub", particularly when combined in one sentence and uttered by the late Vivian Stanshall, are difficult to beat.
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Pancho

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Re: Words
« Reply #12 on: 07 November, 2015, 05:24:48 pm »
Zig and Zag for forward and backward slash. (daughter of BBC presenter).

The mad hippies I know who work for the BBC would probably have *named* their daughters Zig and Zag.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Words
« Reply #13 on: 07 November, 2015, 05:45:50 pm »
Halitosis
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Basil

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Re: Words
« Reply #14 on: 07 November, 2015, 05:51:00 pm »
Eclectic.

I just love the way it rattles.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Re: Words
« Reply #15 on: 07 November, 2015, 06:14:00 pm »


Oh and plonker, emporium, ointment.

So where is this emporium selling plonker ointment?

hellymedic

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Re: Words
« Reply #16 on: 07 November, 2015, 06:52:45 pm »
Yclept featured in my much-hated O Level English Literature, in which we thrown the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

As often, I probably appreciate it much more now than in 1974.

Re: Words
« Reply #17 on: 07 November, 2015, 06:56:05 pm »
"mallemaroking"

woollypigs

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Re: Words
« Reply #18 on: 07 November, 2015, 06:57:59 pm »


Oh and plonker, emporium, ointment.
Now that is my next business venture :)
So where is this emporium selling plonker ointment?
Current mood: AARRRGGGGHHHHH !!! #bollockstobrexit

lou boutin

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Re: Words
« Reply #19 on: 07 November, 2015, 07:06:47 pm »
Discombobulated is a personal favourite.

Re: Words
« Reply #20 on: 07 November, 2015, 07:08:21 pm »
Ineffable  :)

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Words
« Reply #21 on: 07 November, 2015, 07:23:15 pm »
Serendipity.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Andrew

Re: Words
« Reply #22 on: 07 November, 2015, 07:47:32 pm »
kitchen
trousers

TheLurker

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Re: Words
« Reply #23 on: 07 November, 2015, 07:48:04 pm »
Marmalade
Τα πιο όμορφα ταξίδια γίνονται με τις δικές μας δυνάμεις - Φίλοι του Ποδήλατου

Andrij

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Re: Words
« Reply #24 on: 07 November, 2015, 07:57:08 pm »
kitchen
trousers

Do you have trousers specific to other rooms of your home as well?
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup: