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#151 Re: Weird Words...
March 20, 2017, 06:54:20 pm
Strange guy.

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#152 Re: Weird Words...
March 21, 2017, 08:24:56 am
Had a training day for our Trustees on Saturday and came across the word "Ultravirasact" which I thought was great until I googled it and realised it's three Latin words...  :slap:

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#153 Re: Weird Words...
March 29, 2017, 09:32:34 pm
I'm turning 34 in a few weeks, so I guess I'm joining the curmudgeonly old grumpy buggers...but still...

"Legit" as an adverb?  As in:

"That was legit the most crazy thing I've seen a fizzy sugary caffeine drink sponsored mega wad do".

 >:(

"That's so legit" is bad enough...but really????  That legit gets on my tits.



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#154 Re: Weird Words...
March 29, 2017, 10:14:46 pm
I'm turning 34 in a few weeks, so I guess I'm joining the curmudgeonly old grumpy buggers...but still...

"Legit" as an adverb?  As in:

"That was legit the most crazy thing I've seen a fizzy sugary caffeine drink sponsored mega wad do".

 >:(

"That's so legit" is bad enough...but really????  That legit gets on my tits.

Ya wee bairn, ya.

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#155 Re: Weird Words...
March 30, 2017, 12:39:03 pm
I guess if it was short for "legitimately" it would be a a legit use of the word.

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#157 Re: Weird Words...
April 13, 2017, 12:01:50 pm
Uhtceare, old English for the darkest thoughts you have before dawn.

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#158 Re: Weird Words...
April 13, 2017, 12:16:49 pm
Uhtceare, old English for the darkest thoughts you have before dawn.
I always liked "Earsling" as an insult. Saxon for "Whinet" or "Clagnut" (and, it's been suggested as a root for "Arse").
Baffles most recipients of my ire...


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#159 Re: Weird Words...
May 08, 2017, 11:03:08 am
I've been using the word "screeing" to describe the sound swifts make but just been called on it by colleagues and a quick google hasn't brought up anything - is this another Fatneck invention?

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#161 Re: Weird Words...
May 08, 2017, 12:41:23 pm
Scrying (or Skrying) is a kind of divination or clairvoyance, from the Old English word for seeing.

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#162 Re: Weird Words...
May 08, 2017, 12:51:55 pm
when clairvoyants find themselves together on a long journey, do they play I Scry?

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#163 Re: Weird Words...
May 08, 2017, 12:59:59 pm
when clairvoyants find themselves together on a long journey, do they play I Scry?

Brilliant! As an aspirant teenage climber, trapped by a seemingly unending storm in a sodden Vango Force Ten pitched somewhere in the Ogwen Valley, I and my fellow schoolmates, out of our minds with boredom, invented the game of I Spy With My Inner Eye, in which the other players have to guess which abstract concept you've "spotted."

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#164 Re: Weird Words...
May 08, 2017, 01:06:45 pm
when clairvoyants find themselves together on a long journey, do they play I Scry?

I knew you were going to say that.

I must be blessed with second shite.

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#165 Re: Weird Words...
May 08, 2017, 01:09:09 pm
I knew that you knew what I was going to write, but I wrote in anyway, just to keep the timeline upright

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May 10, 2017, 11:01:31 am

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#167 Re: Weird Words...
May 10, 2017, 03:04:55 pm
https://www.wordnik.com/words/kleptocracy

Seems apt given recent developments in the land of the free and the home of the "brave".
« Last Edit: May 10, 2017, 03:12:00 pm by Iesu »

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#168 Re: Weird Words...
July 10, 2018, 08:52:46 am
To feague is to place an irritant such as a peeled piece of raw ginger or a live eel into the anus of a horse in order to make it appear more sprightly at show or sale.

Just think. At some point in history people have been shoving eels up horse's arses in such quantity that it required a verb all of its own.

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#169 Re: Weird Words...
July 10, 2018, 12:15:35 pm
To feague is to place an irritant such as a peeled piece of raw ginger or a live eel into the anus of a horse in order to make it appear more sprightly at show or sale.

Just think. At some point in history people have been shoving eels up horse's arses in such quantity that it required a verb all of its own.

So that’s how they get Prime Minister May to look like she’s alive!

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#170 Re: Weird Words...
July 10, 2018, 12:27:19 pm
Just think. At some point in history people have been shoving eels up horse's arses in such quantity that it required a verb all of its own.

As a speaker of some other germanic languages I recognise the verb feague* as having the general meaning polishing, fixing up, cleaning etc... I doubt the specialised use of the word was ever widespread...

* Surely this is the same word as Swedish/Norwegian feja or German fegen?

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#171 Re: Weird Words...
July 10, 2018, 01:02:10 pm
Just think. At some point in history people have been shoving eels up horse's arses in such quantity that it required a verb all of its own.

As a speaker of some other germanic languages I recognise the verb feague* as having the general meaning polishing, fixing up, cleaning etc... I doubt the specialised use of the word was ever widespread...

* Surely this is the same word as Swedish/Norwegian feja or German fegen?

It's definitely a thing, and the word has definitely been used for this purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gingering

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#172 Re: Weird Words...
July 16, 2018, 04:26:46 pm
Gingering Up. great route name

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#174 Re: Weird Words...
July 04, 2022, 05:20:48 pm
Has there ever been a better time to be the phrase "Well look"? For months, maybe even years now, everybody who wants to make any point about literally anything always precedes their dialogue with "Well look". It's as common as breathing and it's starting to get on my tits!

 

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