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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => Topic started by: slackline on December 30, 2008, 10:01:33 am
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In investigating the origins of the text currently up on the UKB shop (http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,9278.msg178426.html#msg178426) I came across an unusual word that I didn't know the meaning of...
retromingent (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retromingent) an animal that urinates backwards - such as the camel, hippo or raccoon; Set up so as to urinate backwards; cowardly.
Can't see me ever using it that often though, any coward would have run away!
What unusual words do you know, and do you ever actually use them?
EDIT : :-[
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I know a few:
Weird
Discombobulation
Pusil****ous (yes, I sometimes use it and get criticised for it :lol: )
Borborygmi is something I use occasionally
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I like Porphyry. An unusual letter combination.
And Paraphernalia. Just like saying it.
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I sometimes excuse myself saying I need to micturate, but people just think I'm taking the piss.
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:)
Was it Ben Johnson (the sprinter) who said "Are you going to give me a gold medal or take the piss?"
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Panopticon
Microcosm
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Right, having to have looked up everything but microcosm so far, any chance of including some definitions in future posts?
onomatopoeic is a favourite (sounds like what it's describing, ie buzz)
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Right, having to have looked up everything but microcosm so far, any chance of including some definitions in future posts?
onomatopoeic is a favourite (sounds like what it's describing, ie buzz)
My favourite onomatopoeic is "orange"
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Right, having to have looked up everything but microcosm so far, any chance of including some definitions in future posts?
Forgot to say, perhaps the easiet way of looking up a definition is to enter 'define: [word]' into Google (no need for the quotes, but the colon is key), example of results linked below.
Not particularly obscure but I just used ameliorate (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+ameliorate) which I don't use very often but have just used in another post.
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Pusil****ous (yes, I sometimes use it and get criticised for it :lol: )
My wife castigates (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+castigates) me when I use words that she doesn't know and we often have petty arguments over this. My stance is that I can't possibly double guess her or anyone else's vocabulary and if I know a word that succinctly conveys what I am trying to say its not my responsibility to try and guess whether the person I'm talking to or writing to will know it. If they haven't understood what I've said and are really bothered about understanding what I'm saying then they can either ask me for clarification or live in ignorance.
She thinks I'm being snobbish using words that she doesn't know, but thats not the case, there are many wonderful words that describe or convey more meaning than a dumbed down description that uses several words to describe something.
Despite the above use of Google I still keep a dictionary to hand on my desk. Maybe I'm just weird, I did used to read dictionarys for "fun" when I was younger :-[
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dictionarys
Can this one go in?
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dictionarys
Can this one go in?
:oops: :lol: really need to get in the habit of using the Spell Check
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Mondegreen.
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woah - useful google ad alert:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/landing/?ad=google.vocabulary&gclid=CPmq3uv0_JcCFQEoGgodBjXbDg (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/landing/?ad=google.vocabulary&gclid=CPmq3uv0_JcCFQEoGgodBjXbDg)
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Incommunicado (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+incommunicado)
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i love masticating a sausage at the dinnertable.
another good one is verisimilitude, for the david ward fans out there.
also one of my favourite bits of wordage, from The Wrong Trousers: "its no use prevaricating about the bush".
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Marillion-Incommunicado.jpg)
Slackers, you are a sesquipedalian, whereas I have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
I have an issue with the wife and her scurryfunge.
Purfled.
Squizzle.
Crytoscopophilia.
Pulchritudinous.
The other day I had some curglaff, but after lunting I felt much better. If only I could sort out my jirging.
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another good one is verisimilitude, for the david ward fans out there.
Nice one, that's well pulchritudinous.
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I once submitted a paper to my PhD supervisor entitled "The Peripatetic Perambulations of Polydimethylsiloxane in Plasma Processed Polypropylene".
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this is rapidly turning into the dictionary episode of backadder 3.
I once submitted a paper to my PhD supervisor entitled "The Peripatetic Perambulations of Polydimethylsiloxane in Plasma Processed Polypropylene".
a bit like "Proper Planning & Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance".
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Very David Brent that is.
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:lol:
That's amazing! Talking of the crazy deployment of modern discourse, some of you might know the story surrounding the physicist Alan Sokal and his contribution to Frederic Jameson's journal Social Texts. He basically made up a lot of faux theoretical lexicons and concepts and his article was published.
A synopsis of the hoax here (http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html)
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:lol:
That's amazing! Talking of the crazy deployment of modern discourse, some of you might know the story surrounding the physicist Alan Sokal and his contribution to Frederic Jameson's journal Social Texts. He basically made up a lot of faux theoretical lexicons and concepts and his article was published.
A synopsis of the hoax here (http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html)
Yeah, come across that before, first time was when I stumbled upon the Post Modern Generator (http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/) which implements such pointless ramblings on the fly.
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http://obsoleteword.blogspot.com/ (http://obsoleteword.blogspot.com/)
I quite liked tziganologist.
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Yeah, come across that before, first time was when I stumbled upon the Post Modern Generator (http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/) which implements such pointless ramblings on the fly.
Thats completely made my day.. I can have so much fun winding my colleagues up with that...
Excellent work Slackers.
My word of the day (that I do sometimes use) is:
Palimpsest
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Sokal A (1996) Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity. Social Texts 46/47:217-252 (http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html)
Sokal's original parody (for those with too much time on their hands!)
I'm sure I've posted this before, but H.G. Frankfurt's treatsie On Bullshit (http://web.archive.org/web/20040421060422/www.jelks.nu/misc/articles/bs.html) is an interesting read. Bits of it are a bit crap though :P (first came across this little book in Fopp for a few quid and thought it was a joke, but it is actually a genuine discourse into what constitutes bullshit).
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obsequious (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+obsequious)
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classic quote: "you can't spell obsequious without I.O.U."
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Homer_Vs_Patty_And_Selma.jpg)
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pedagogic - relating to the principles, practice, or profession of teaching.
Can Mohorovicic discontinuity be included here? It's a word, but named after someone. And I like it.
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I vituperate those odious fuckers that uses thesauri in order to appear erudite, like.
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assuage (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+assuage)
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Hebetude, my usual state of mind until at least midday.
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assuage (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+assuage)
Also an anagram of sausage.
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assuage (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+assuage)
Also an anagram of sausage.
I'll eat my words then!
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mmmm sausages
(http://homepage.mac.com/onehundredbhq/.Public/homer.jpg)
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foible (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+foible)
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Glottlestop.
Nimbly is a cool word too.
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"Petrichor" is a slightly chemically sounding name for a nice thing that I've never found the opportunity to use except when pointing out to someone that I know the name for it and they don't. And this is another example of just that.
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aegis (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+aegis)
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Ergo (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+ergo)
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Can wierd names be included here?
I always liked Meyudi Menuhin.
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Came across this one the other day - cunctative! The spell-checker doesn't like it but my Shorter Oxford confirms it's for real! Seems to be an adjective for someone who causes delays or hold-ups. I'm wondering if calling my boss a cunctator would really be a good idea though?! :-\
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Came across this one the other day - cunctative! The spell-checker doesn't like it but my Shorter Oxford confirms it's for real! Seems to be an adjective for someone who causes delays or hold-ups. I'm wondering if calling my boss a cunctator would really be a good idea though?! :-\
Just go to google and type in define: [word] (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+cunctation&spell=1) (replacing [word] for the actual word you would like a definition of) and you will get several definitions of the word. If there isn't an exact match a suggestion will be made (as in this instance).
I too still keep a small dictionary on my desk though :)
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I like
pusillanimous - me on anything bigger than a 1 metre runout
termagant
lugubrious
dodecahedron
corollary
chagrin
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stool
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stool
What sort of weird shit are you trying to plam us off with Mr Cat?
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stool
What sort of weird shit are you trying to plam us off with Mr Cat?
I just think it's a strangely funny word... :D
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stool
What sort of weird shit are you trying to plam us off with Mr Cat?
I just think it's a strangely funny word... :D
The pun went over your head then? (stool == shit)
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stool
What sort of weird shit are you trying to plam us off with Mr Cat?
I just think it's a strangely funny word... :D
The pun went over your head then? (stool == shit)
no... :) I just treat(sic) it with the contempt it deserved...
i.e. silence... :D
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Just been reminded of homunculus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus) (Cheers GCW).
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Nae bother, came to me whilst in mid calamistrate.
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Odoriferous (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+odoriferous)
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i hate, hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate, flavoursome. It sounds distinctly American. Why flavoursome and not perhaps flavourful. ater all things can be wonderful. and it only ever seems to be unttered by irritating people.
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Always liked obfuscate, for when obscuring just isn't good enough.
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Mordant (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mordant) - a great word that I will be trying to use this week.
bluebrad
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Ophiolitic obduction is tickling my tongue.
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Bluebrad, that makes me think of mordents and inverted mordents from all the music theory exams.
(http://gc-music.com/Ornament/LongMordent.jpg)
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Ophiolitic obduction is tickling my tongue.
Cummingtonite?
Ah the benefits of a geological education, being able to produce a ceaseless tide of shit, rock-related jokes.
Quite like Mississippian as a word. Always have trouble pronouncing and spelling it though.
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Maastrichtian.
Manganocummingtonite?
I always have nappes between thrusts. All my faults are stress related. etc. etc.
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recidivistic (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/recidivistic)
For some reason this word has been stuck in my head for a few days.
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recidivistic (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/recidivistic)
For some reason this word has been stuck in my head for a few days.
I used to be in a band called "recidivist", which meant that every time people asked the name of the band it sounded like "recidivist......what?......recidivist"
We should've changed our name to recidivistwhatrecidivist just to add confusion
I've typed recidivist too many times now, it doesn't look like a word any more
I'd like to ad "poovery" sp. as it is a little onomatopoeic, and quite useful down the wall if people are using their heels, knee-bars etc.
Note: both poovery and recidivist used in the film of the tv series Porridge
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Diddipol and nupson.
Two variants of the better known but distinctly archaic poltroon, or fool. Priceless and cause great confusion if you use them.
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solipsistic (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/solipsistic)
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Seeing that made me think of this (http://www.yorkshiregrit.com/problem.html?id=simons__solipsism#photo) which reminded me of Spondonical (http://www.yorkshiregrit.com/problem.html?id=simons__spondonical#photo): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trangia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trangia)
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sobriquet (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+sobriquet)
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Just had my inappropriate use of the absolutive participal (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-6-23-02-on-language-that-said.html) pointed out to me :oops:
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I heard the word Quagmire at Glastonbury this year and couldnt get it out of my head for days!
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I heard the word Quagmire at Glastonbury this year and couldnt get it out of my head for days!
Don't ever bother watching Family Guy then.
(http://randazza.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/quagmire-stripper.jpg)
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Useful for scrabble is qaid http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/qaid (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/qaid)
scored me 40ish points!
one to remember along with qi, qat and qadi. Loads more in wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U)
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Thralldom (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+thralldom) another word for slavery (or being under the control of another)
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I watched the league of gentleman film with some mates a while ago and non of us could stop yelling "AN HUMUNCULOUS!".
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Homunculus use to be a leading theory in embryological development, before microscopes could be used to observe eggs and sperm it was thought that embryos developed from small pre-formed versions of the baby/adult. See Font of all disinformation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus)
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Thanks Mr Logic.
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Thanks Mr Logic.
No problem, although it wasn't a logical deduction as I never learnt latin so couldn't have derived the meaning from the words aetiology, but did learn about it in developmental biology.
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Yes.
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:hug:
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Outwith. Lot's of Scots don't even realise it is mainly used in Scotland. Good word tough.
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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...
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Good word, tough.
Fixed. :great:
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Inveigled (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+inveigled)
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Defenestrate
Quotidian
misanthropic
Lycanthropic
Actually anything that ends in pic
Grandiloquent
oh, oh, and marmalade :bounce:
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ennui
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Palinspastic.
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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)
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OOh and:
Oleaginous
Suppurating
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Palinspastic.
brilliant! :lol: :lol:
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This thread's loquacious.
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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.
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Umbrella .......
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Penumbra
Palaeosol
Palaeo-anything really
Parhelion
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70
Oh, wait, weird words. Sorry.
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Usury
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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.
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Its not really a shortened version its whats known as a portmanteau.
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"Fugacious"
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"interrobang"
"gnaborretni"
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Has someone been watching QI(http://www.adiumxtras.com/images/thumbs/interrobang_6_21505_6709_thumb.gif)
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Has someone been watching QI(http://www.adiumxtras.com/images/thumbs/interrobang_6_21505_6709_thumb.gif)
:clap2: :yes:
Here's a shit new word. "Mumpreneur". Yep a mum who runs her own business. :shit:
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Usury
Although it always makes me think......
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.
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Guffaw! [With the exclamation mark]. A superb word.
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Tintinnabulation : a discourse on graphic novels.
Susurration : predilection for supported stockings.
Redolent : symptom of conjunctivitis
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Lugubrious - the carrying of an excessive amount of climbing or camera equipment
Pyrogallol - early French agricultural lubricant
Conflate - the effect caused by a heavily padded bra
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Subject
Adjective
Here's the reason: Etymologically these mean "under thrown"/"brought under" and "to thrown" respecively... WTF! subject also apparently comes from Aristotle's use of "to hupokeimenon" which means "material from which things are made" and "subject of attributes and predicates". 'Fraid I just don't see the logic. HELP!
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Just had cause to use 'riposte' which I don't use every day (although its not that weird).
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I love the use of ming in the NE. Can mean grim, repulsive etc as in, "Christ she's a minger" but can also mean hot as in "Wow she's a minger".
Chebs is another class NE word (or at least used by my NE mates). Used to alert one's fellows to the prescence of a large breasted female without arousing suspicion of being a chauvinsitic pig ;D
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I always thought ming, minger etc.. Was a Manc word.. Not fussed, just what id presumed. Maybe it's Minga' in the ne ;)
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I always thought ming, .. Was a Manc word..
From Mongo originally though
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In defence of obscure words - Will Self (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17777556)
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"This whole embroglio is epiphenomenal" Will Self on Newsnight talking about the Levenson enquiry. Unfortuantely he's right...
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I'm a fan of the word 'Rhythms' purely because its the longest word in the English language without a vowel in it...
And Epsilon although I dont know how you get it into conversation. I'm always putting three fullstops after everything...
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Which is an ellipsis.
:smart:
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And Epsilon although I dont know how you get it into conversation.
Just spell everything in Greek.
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I've just been derided by my colleague for using the word 'exhortation' in an email.
This is a fun site for people who like words and trying to work out etymology (not entomology which I sometimes confuse it with).
http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1368 (http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1368)
Although I doubt it actually donates rice. It gets progressively harder as you play. Or you can skip to a high level.
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tinnitus
I have it after using a thickneeser with ear pro and the name is just right, I have tinnitus.
Also I remember an old bloke at a concert telling everyone the loud music had given him tittiness, which sounds like more fun than tinnitus if I'm honest...
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tinnitus
I have it after using a thickneeser with ear pro and the name is just right, I have tinnitus.
Also I remember an old bloke at a concert telling everyone the loud music had given him tittiness, which sounds like more fun than tinnitus if I'm honest...
You were using what?
What with slackers tweets this morning, I'm feeling like I woke up in a foreign country...
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I'd love to know too.
I have it as well btw. 2 years in Artillery plus too many nighclubs with shitty soundsystems will do that to you.
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Typo? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thicknesser)
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Thicknesser, sorry.
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without ear protection?
I must admit I have never heard of thicknesser, so I learned something.
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It would seem along with tinnitus I have knobberhands...
You should be happy in your ignorance of thicknessers, they are very much noisy, messy bastards.
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you definitely have knobberhands. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dick%20hands)
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And Epsilon although I dont know how you get it into conversation.
Just spell everything in Greek.
I've got greek feet if that counts...
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Isn't Knobberhands a village between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge?
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Isn't that where Tommy Dick Fingers is from?
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Would names that ring in the head be a different thread? I am periodically fixated on Laurent Gbagbo.
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Having spent far too much time dealing with Italian businessmen, I wake sweating during the night; with the word "Procrastination" echoing in the depths of my soul...
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Why can't Americans abseil? What they do is just repelling.
http://www.ehow.com/video_2358477_repel-rock-climbing.html (http://www.ehow.com/video_2358477_repel-rock-climbing.html)
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That's repellent.
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top thread that is now preventing me from getting on with work (bar the very fact that I'm browsing ukb).
Twiffler - plate that is somewhere is size between a large dinner plate and a small side plate. i.e. a medium plate.
Use it all the time, and derives from the dutch twijfelen which means to be unsure - or intermediate.
I like the idea of a plate being unsure as to which size it is.
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No no no:
Twiffler: person who speaks in sentences of 140 characters or less.
Seriously, good one and a new one on me.
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We should adopt this twiffler word to refer to someone of average height who can complain that a problem is too reachy or too bunched, and is therefore in both camps.
( :guilty: )
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Would names that ring in the head be a different thread? I am periodically fixated on Laurent Gbagbo.
I hear you on that. I sometimes get Yehudi Menuhin in my head and it won't go away.
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Benyamin Netanyahu is one of mine (I used to get confused between Netanyahu and Menuhin when I was younger. Yehudi Netanyahu Is a violin-playing Israeli prime-minister.)
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<pedant>I wouldn't consider names, no matter how weird or catchy, to be weird words as you can't look them up in a dictionary.</pedant>
Although I've nothing against thread-drift whatsoever.
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I used to like "bandied", but nowadays I find it just gets...um..overused.
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This is interesting about UK slang catching on in the US:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249)
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This is interesting about UK slang catching on in the US:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249)
Thats, like - soo AWESOME!
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Thought this fitted in with the language theme of this thread...
To pun or not to pun (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21011778)
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So what (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22iht-currents.html)
I'm boring and think it should remain in the preserve of the conjunctive rather than starting sentences with it. You don't start a sentence with "Errr" / "Um" when speaking people tend to pause and think about what they're going to say. This is even more so when typing in emails/forums/twatter/farcebook because you have the time and freedom to pause and think about what you are writing.
Anti-Nowhere League - So What (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MlrPESdDI#)
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So what (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22iht-currents.html)
it should remain in the preserve of the conjunctive
What's jam got to do with it?
I've really noticed this, especially with academics. Sat through a series of interviews recently and all the candidates did this, for pretty much every question. The backlash is clearly overdue.
"backlash" mmmmm there's a nice word.
"shiboleth" I've been liking too...
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double b?
Harangue.
Like meringue only less nice.
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metagrobolize
(I would link to its definition but....)
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Syzygy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy)
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Forgot about this thread - one I heard the other day and seems, to me at least, rather appropriate currently is kakistocracy (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kakistocracy?&o=100074&s=t)
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Syzygy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy)
I think this every time I see sxrxg's forum name. I bet that's where you got it from.
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I bet that's where you got it from.
No I was reading an essay by the evolutionary biologist William D Hamilton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton).
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A new one for me
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backwardation.asp
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(https://i.imgur.com/tuoamWe.jpg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/tuoamWe.jpg)
...There's a reason you haven't heard those words before. It's because they were all made up by one person in the last few years.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a website and YouTube channel created by John Koenig that defines neologisms for emotions that do not have a descriptive term.[1] The dictionary includes verbal entries on the website with paragraph-length descriptions and videos on YouTube for individual entries. The neologisms, while completely created by Koenig, are based on his research on etymologies and meanings of used prefixes, suffixes, and word roots.[2] The terms are often based on "feelings of existentialism"[3] and are meant to "fill a hole in the language", often from reader contributions of specific emotions.[4]
Here's the website. http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
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Funny as.
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Weird name
http://www.worldsurfleague.com/athletes/3698/odd-persson
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Strange guy.
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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 (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ultravirasact&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:{referrer:source?}&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADFA_enGB461&gfe_rd=cr&ei=8-LQWPu9OqbS8AfJ0a-QAw#q=ultra+vires+act&*)... :slap:
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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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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".
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"That's so legit" is bad enough...but really???? That legit gets on my tits.
Ya wee bairn, ya.
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I guess if it was short for "legitimately" it would be a a legit use of the word.
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http://www.thewhoresofyore.com/kates-journal/a-nasty-name-for-a-nasty-thing-a-history-of-cunt
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Uhtceare, old English for the darkest thoughts you have before dawn.
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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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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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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skree?
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Scrying (or Skrying) is a kind of divination or clairvoyance, from the Old English word for seeing.
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when clairvoyants find themselves together on a long journey, do they play I Scry?
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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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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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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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Thalassotherapy
http://magicseaweed.com/news/thalassotherapy-why-surfing-makes-you-feel-great/10259/
Be a great name for a DWS route.
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https://www.wordnik.com/words/kleptocracy (https://www.wordnik.com/words/kleptocracy)
Seems apt given recent developments in the land of the free and the home of the "brave".
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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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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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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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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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Gingering Up. great route name
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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/petrichor
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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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Oh this is a fun thread - I am now going to ruin everyone by pointing out the extreme over use of two words:
Stuff(s)
Thing(s)
Over the last year or so be it listening to a podcast, TV/radio reports or in person conversation it seems a rare occurrence for someone to string together a single coherent sentence without improperly or inaccurate use of the word stuff and/or thing. Rather than using the more exact and specific term they should challenge their brain to retrieve they instead fall back on the catch all word of choice. Now that anyone who is reading this is aware of this phenomenon I can promise you will catch other people doing it endlessly and hopefully try to cut down if you yourself fall fowl to this 'dumbing down' of language. I play a little game with myself where I actively force myself to not use either word, instead forcing my brain to work a fraction harder and retrieve the slightly more complex word that more precisely fits the given situation.
I have a (surely un-original) theory that a combination of Covid (less face to face social speaking interactions) and ever increasing social media use has drastically impacted our collective vocabularies. Resulting in those two forbidden words starting with S+T words taking hold of our minds.
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Superfluous words at the start of sentences has pissed me off for what feels like four lifetimes. The one you mention is bad but I think 'Ok so....' or just 'So' are worse.
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I've been doing even more editing than normal recently and there are two words that I've now come to detest. First. "indeed" - it is almost always pure padding. Second, "upon" - total affectation, there are almost no circumstances in which upon (rather than plain old "on") is actually required. I recognize that I'm as guilty of these offences as anyone.
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Andy, the only time I can think when I’d use upon would be when describing a situation like ‘I happened upon Fiend sweating profusely beneath the Moon Board’. Would you edit me?
Will, I avoid listening to him speak wherever possible, but I think the PM and other MPs are fans of the more authoritative ‘now look’!
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Andy, the only time I can think when I’d use upon would be when describing a situation like ‘I happened upon Fiend sweating profusely beneath the Moon Board’. Would you edit me?
No, I'd probably let that one stand, not least for its slightly comedic effect. "On" would work fine here, but upon is justified.
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Even more comedic if you replace ‘happened’ with ‘came’!
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In a similar vein, people are forever using "yourself" where "you" would do, normally to try and sound more formal. Get in the sea!
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I've been doing even more editing than normal recently and there are two words that I've now come to detest. First. "indeed" - it is almost always pure padding.
I recently had to argue with a fantastically stupid person on UKC and I definitely did this. :guilty:
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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!
There's a chap I've worked with a lot in the past who prefaces virtually everything he says with "look". Drove me mad! Very glad to not have to work with him for a while at least.
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Even more comedic if you replace ‘happened’ with ‘came’!
Quite. Interestingly, "came upon" works exactly the same as "happened upon," whereas "came on," ummm, doesn't. Upon is clearly right in this instance.
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I am now going to ruin everyone by pointing out the extreme over use of two words:
Stuff(s)
Thing(s)
... hopefully try to cut down if you yourself fall fowl to this 'dumbing down' of language.
You can stuff things like chickens, but that's just my poultry contribution to the thread.
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When did the ubiquitous "like" arrive? Kids can't complete a sentence with al least 2 unnecessary likes slipped it. Grates me when they do it, grates even more when I do.
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In a similar vein, people are forever using "yourself" where "you" would do, normally to try and sound more formal. Get in the sea!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evHIYJzp0OQ
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When did the ubiquitous "like" arrive? Kids can't complete a sentence with al least 2 unnecessary likes slipped it. Grates me when they do it, grates even more when I do.
It is horribly hard to speak without using hesitation devices. They do change over time. Live with it.
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Superfluous words at the start of sentences has pissed me off for what feels like four lifetimes. The one you mention is bad but I think 'Ok so....' or just 'So' are worse.
I think "look..." is way worse. I was convinced for a while that some kind of public speaking coach was making a fortune telling male politicians to start every sentence that way as it makes them sound commanding or some such shit. They all do it. At least "so..." seems to be more of an attempt to sound friendlier or less intimidating. Very popular with academics being interviewed on radio 4.
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As much as I generally hate linguistic prescriptivism, the phrase 'going forward' instead of 'from now on' does my nut in. As does the overuse/misuse of the word 'iconic'.
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When did the ubiquitous "like" arrive? Kids can't complete a sentence with al least 2 unnecessary likes slipped it. Grates me when they do it, grates even more when I do.
It is horribly hard to speak without using hesitation devices. They do change over time. Live with it.
In the pre "like" era everyone seemed to cope?
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Oh this is a fun thread - I am now going to ruin everyone by pointing out the extreme over use of two words:
Stuff(s)
Thing(s)
Over the last year or so be it listening to a podcast, TV/radio reports or in person conversation it seems a rare occurrence for someone to string together a single coherent sentence without improperly or inaccurate use of the word stuff and/or thing. Rather than using the more exact and specific term they should challenge their brain to retrieve they instead fall back on the catch all word of choice. Now that anyone who is reading this is aware of this phenomenon I can promise you will catch other people doing it endlessly and hopefully try to cut down if you yourself fall fowl to this 'dumbing down' of language. I play a little game with myself where I actively force myself to not use either word, instead forcing my brain to work a fraction harder and retrieve the slightly more complex word that more precisely fits the given situation.
I have a (surely un-original) theory that a combination of Covid (less face to face social speaking interactions) and ever increasing social media use has drastically impacted our collective vocabularies. Resulting in those two forbidden words starting with S+T words taking hold of our minds.
I have come to rely on these words in the last few months to compensate for my perimenapausal brain having a meltdown mid-sentance - interestingly and rather usefully for me, I'm amazed how many times people around me know what I'm talking about! Bloody infuriating though, especially when doing training/or public speaking.
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True. As a listener I'd much rather hear 'stuff' and 'things' than listen to a speaker pause and fumble for the right word when we both already know what they are referring to anyway.
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When did the ubiquitous "like" arrive? Kids can't complete a sentence with al least 2 unnecessary likes slipped it. Grates me when they do it, grates even more when I do.
It is horribly hard to speak without using hesitation devices. They do change over time. Live with it.
In the pre "like" era everyone seemed to cope?
In the, er.., pre-like, um... era everyone, um..., seemed to, er.., cope.
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Maybe my memory has faded, but I don't recall that being as prevalent.
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Working with a lot of US folk and enjoying the regular punctuation of sentences with 'awesome'. I have a deadpan colleague who says it in a couldn't be more bored tone. Their heads would likely explode if they visited the Grand Canyon.
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If we're going American, 'super' gets me.
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Agree at the super suffix to anything. It's not supercool.
Kind of back on subject, I like supercilium though, Latin for eyebrows. So if someone is giving you a supercilious look you are getting the eyebrows.
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I usually delight in the varied and complexity of people's verbal ticks but the politician's "let me be clear" before spewing out some lying waffle really annoys the piss out of me. Every time you say that Emily Maitlis should be allowed to hit you with a wooden spoon.
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It is easier if you know French:
eyebrow = sourcil
supercilious = sourcilleux
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You would swear French and English both had the same base language sometimes....
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I remembered another phrase popular with politicians (heard it at least twice over the past couple of days, usually when trying to gloss over some kind of sleaze) : a "job of work". Makes me die inside.
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There's room 101 for all this "old man grumbling" chat, like.
Grouchy old fusspots, grumbling and griping.
:chair: