Weird Words... (Read 70920 times)

Fultonius · June 24, 2010, 06:29:39 pm

Outwith. Lot's of Scots don't even realise it is mainly used in Scotland. Good word tough.

tomtom · June 24, 2010, 06:39:24 pm

Quote from: Fultonius on June 24, 2010, 06:29:39 pm

Outwith. Lot's of Scots don't even realise it is mainly used in Scotland. Good word tough.

Do you dislike the letter 'h'?

Normally my pedant gland doesnt twitch, but in a thread about words... the irony...

Fultonius · June 24, 2010, 07:04:49 pm

Quote from: Fultonius on June 24, 2010, 06:29:39 pm

Good word, tough.

Fixed.

slackline · July 13, 2010, 10:26:36 am

Inveigled

john horscroft · July 13, 2010, 11:20:12 am

Defenestrate
Quotidian
misanthropic
Lycanthropic

Actually anything that ends in pic

Grandiloquent

oh, oh, and marmalade

slackline · April 20, 2011, 07:50:32 pm

ennui

andy_e · April 22, 2011, 01:42:34 pm

Palinspastic.

Yoof · April 22, 2011, 04:25:27 pm

Along the lines of grandiloquent: Magniloquent
Neophyte
Nescient
Superjacent
Equipoise
Beleaguer (If only it were of german origin it would be so much better/ spelt Belieger)

Yoof · April 22, 2011, 04:28:26 pm

OOh and:
Oleaginous
Suppurating

Duma · April 22, 2011, 06:14:34 pm

Quote from: andi_e on April 22, 2011, 01:42:34 pm

Palinspastic.

brilliant!

mrjonathanr · April 22, 2011, 08:07:12 pm

This thread's loquacious.

lagerstarfish · April 22, 2011, 11:09:26 pm

At work I regularly use the word "confabulation"; mainly because it's what a lot of my customers do. It's a great word, but I always feel like a wannabe Time Lord when I say it out loud.

grumpycrumpy · April 23, 2011, 08:16:02 am

Umbrella .......

andy_e · April 23, 2011, 11:57:08 am

Penumbra
Palaeosol
Palaeo-anything really
Parhelion

andy_e · April 23, 2011, 11:32:22 pm

70

Oh, wait, weird words. Sorry.

slackline · October 06, 2011, 11:17:18 am

Usury

Mike Tyson · October 06, 2011, 12:24:12 pm

Someone used the word "chugging" yesterday in a conversation and how they disliked it. I asked them to elaborate and its a shortened version on "charity mugging" i.e. the lovely folks who stop you on the high street with a clipboard and an amazing sense of happiness no matter how crap tge weather is, and attempt to gain your cash for charity.

slackline · October 06, 2011, 12:43:29 pm

Its not really a shortened version its whats known as a portmanteau.

aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB · October 06, 2011, 12:47:50 pm

"Fugacious"

Plattsy · October 06, 2011, 12:58:59 pm

"interrobang"
"gnaborretni"

andy_e · October 06, 2011, 01:06:48 pm

Has someone been watching QI

Plattsy · October 06, 2011, 01:25:40 pm

Quote from: andi_e on October 06, 2011, 01:06:48 pm

Has someone been watching QI

Here's a shit new word. "Mumpreneur". Yep a mum who runs her own business.

GCW · October 06, 2011, 01:35:16 pm

Quote from: slack---line on October 06, 2011, 11:17:18 am

Usury

Although it always makes me think......

Quote

The orgy of sly winking usery was only brought to an end by a stairwell nonce bashing, which left North braindead and quadrospazzed on a life glug.

aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB · October 20, 2011, 07:37:08 pm

Guffaw! [With the exclamation mark]. A superb word.