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I like to indulge in words that are out of the ordinary. I thought I may transpire some of this fun to you. Unfortunately, I am only familiar with the english language; please feel free to ad whatever you may wish == in fact it is encouraged!!
DEFENESTRATE - to throw somebody or something out of a window.
GARBOLOGY - the study of garbage.
NO-NO - usually used to describe vodka, also aplies to other alcoholic beverages
HALLUX - the scientific word for your big toe
POIGNANT - synanym to sad
REPUGNANT - disgusting
later - Smilee
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eh...unrinate backwards?
wandering thru the woods of WI
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Location: Wisconsin, USA
*bump*
i enjoy words such as penchant and vernacular
irony is a word people need to learn to use properly
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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Location: Sunny South Africa
I found one once... "pettifogging"- paying too much attention to unimportant details, and I like the way the word "opulent" rolls off my tongue
Do what you want coz a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
Yo ho fiddle dee dee, being a pirate is alright to be,
Do what you want coz a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
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One of my favorites is 'discombobulate'. Means confused. The first place I heard it used? On an episode of fracking 'Neighbours' of all things back in the early 90s. "Daphne.....I'm discombobulated." I was like WTF!?
Others:
Concatination: a series of interconnected or interdependent things or events.
Contumacious: Willfully and obstinantly stubborn.
As an aside, does anyone remember the episode of Black Adder where the guy who creates the first dictionary comes to see Prince George. Black Adder decides to screw him because he thinks he has EVERY word ever used in the book by using words that don't exist.
"I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities."
"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation."
"Certainly, sir. I shall return interphrastically."
lol
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Location: Kelowna, B.C., Canada
Uvula
pronounced: yoo-vyuh-luh
-The small, fleshy, conical body projecting downward from the middle of the soft palate.
in other words, the dangly thing in the back of your mouth.
on a side note, if you poke it and then smell your finger... well, that's the worst case of halitosis ever!
oh yeah, and halitosis is really foul breath.
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Location: My House, United Kingdom
I once met someone called Emmanuel Valentine, and thought that was a perfect use of the english language, the fact he was a bit of a t*** is irrelivant
another favourite is "floccinaucinihilipilification" credited as the longest non-technical word in the english language, its meaning?
"The act or habit of describing or regarding something as worthless. "
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Location: Portland, OR, USA
Salacious. salAYshuss.
fun to say because it's like delicous, but even better.
"arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination. See also lustful, lecherous, and lascivious." (which happen to be good words, too.)
Will carpal your tunnel in a minute.
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
ROTOLACTOR
A giant device used for milking cows
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
ugh! vampyric, you stole my word!
Though, isn't it "the act or habbit of wrongly describing or regarding something as worthless"?
i could be wrong, it's been a couple of years since i've seen a dictionary that good.
oh, and with doc's mecical terms, i like "mild cardio infarction" which i believe is a minor heart attack... and sphygmomonomometer (sp??) which is the pumpy thingy they use to take your blood pressure... (my sister's a nursing student.....)
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Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
debauchery-what's that mean, pogo mentioned it
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i quite like salubrious (long word for "good) & splendiferous (long word for "splendid")! these are pretty easy to slip into everyday conversation too! (i know, cos i use them both often!)
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
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Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
45 letters long the longest word in the english language (one for doc lightning
)means:
a form of silicosis caused by microscopic volcanic dust.
and quincunx - an arrangement of 5 things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and 1 iin the middle
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA
salacious behavior:debauchery
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
old hand
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Location: Behind you...
I thought 'antidisestablishmentarianism' was the longest non-technical word...
*counts letters*
Darn, one short!
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My two favourite words which haven't cropped up yet:
Sussurus (noun) / sussuration (verb) (english): the whispery sound that a field of corn makes when it's waving in the breeze.
Sgriob (Scottish Gaelic): The ticking sensation on your upper lip just before you take a sip of whisky.
Hehe, also "canoodling" -- kissing, cuddling and being all coupley. It's a slang word I've only ever heard in the South Welsh Valleys, and hilarious in a proper welsh accent! (the stress is on the middle "noodl" syllable).
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA
we canoodle over here, i thought it was german or polish (that's the city's ethnic background)
sussurus is onomonopeia (sp)
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
I like onomatopeia
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wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA
oooh did i spell it wrong?
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
probably unless it was a different word
it just reminded me of onomatopeia and the game 
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we canoodle over here, i thought it was german or polish (that's the city's ethnic background)
sussurus is onomonopeia (sp)
It definately isn't Welsh in origin, so you're probably right. I have friends who speak both of those languages so I'll ask next time I see them.
Whichever languange it's oringinally from, I guarruntee it's funnier when shouted in a valleys accent! I still remember hiding with my first girlfriend at the back of my high school's DT workshop one lunchtime, only to hear a teacher yell "You'd better not be canoodling back there"
Aah, the scars our teachers give us...
And another good word to justify this post: emoliate -- to sooth or heal. I don't know the root, but I suspect it's Latin and the same root as the French "emolier" -- to improve.
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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS- The black lung, right?
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Location: Inverness, Scotland.
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I thought 'antidisestablishmentarianism' was the longest non-technical word...
*counts letters*
Darn, one short!
You could always invent 'antidisestablishmentariamism-ists'!
lol Time does not exist. In theory, everything with a beginning has an end. Therefore, only things with an end can have a beginning. As time has no end, it has no beginning, therefore does not exist. GO PHILOSOPHY!!!
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