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Started by Cora Courcelle, October 09, 2015, 07:03:37 PM

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Cora Courcelle

October 09, 2015, 07:03:37 PM
Every so often one comes across a word which is so wonderful one just wants to tell the world about it, so I thought I'd see if anyone else also has favourite, unusual or obscure words (and their definitions) that they would like to share

Here is my word:

'Velleity' ~ a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action 'the notion intrigued me but remained a velleity'
(Oxford Dictionary of English)
You have to tread a fine line between avant-garde surrealism and getting yourself sectioned...

pakled

#1
October 10, 2015, 11:52:12 AM
Penultimate - the next to last of anything...;)

Madasasteamfish

#2
October 10, 2015, 12:40:06 PM
Lunting - the act of walking whilst smoking a pipe.
I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

Rockula

#3
October 10, 2015, 01:09:27 PM
Indubitably - That cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable....

And a musical word on the tongue.
The legs have fallen off my Victorian Lady...

SeVeNeVeS

#4
October 10, 2015, 01:23:01 PM
cataclysmically .....A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change.

Maelstrom .....A violent or turbulent situation

Yep. I'm kinda in that mood at the mo'  :P

Caledonian

#5
October 10, 2015, 01:57:38 PM
ever since I started to learn English i have a certain fascination with the word 'roundabout'.
i don't know why!
it's ALIVE --- and weirdly obsessed with wizards?

SeVeNeVeS

#6
October 10, 2015, 02:11:51 PM
Quote from: Caledonian on October 10, 2015, 01:57:38 PM
ever since I started to learn English i have a certain fascination with the word 'roundabout'.
i don't know why!
That is a magic word.....here in the UK  ;D
Spoiler: ShowHide


Caledonian

#7
October 10, 2015, 02:42:16 PM
please explain 0_0
it's ALIVE --- and weirdly obsessed with wizards?

Madasasteamfish

#8
October 10, 2015, 06:17:00 PM
Quote from: Caledonian on October 10, 2015, 02:42:16 PM
please explain 0_0

It's the characters of an old kids tv show the magic roundabout (apparently it was originally a french series and the translator hired to dub it into English decided to throw away the script and made up stories to fit what was happening on the screen).
I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

SeVeNeVeS

#9
October 10, 2015, 06:31:22 PM
Quote from: Caledonian on October 10, 2015, 02:42:16 PM
please explain 0_0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Roundabout

written and performed by Eric Thompson, father of....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Thompson

The French just don't get the idea of a traffic roundabout, irony?

pakled

#10
October 11, 2015, 10:17:43 PM
...and I thought it was a song by Yes...;)

von Corax

#11
October 13, 2015, 03:42:18 PM
Quote from: pakled on October 11, 2015, 10:17:43 PM
...and I thought it was a song by Yes...;)


They might be connected, in a roundabout way...
By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
By the Beans of Life do my thoughts acquire speed
My hands acquire a shaking
The shaking becomes a warning
By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
The Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics is 5842 km from Reading

Hez

#12
October 14, 2015, 02:45:26 AM
Sesquipedalian: characterized by long words; long-winded.   ;D

and dappled which sounds and looks like what it means.

Fairley B. Strange

#13
October 14, 2015, 04:36:41 AM
Callipygian.

A word that rolls off the tongue, in a number of ways.
I've always thought it would lend itself to a persona name: Miss Callie Pygian...   ;D
Choose a code to live by, die by it if you have to.

Caledonian

#14
October 14, 2015, 06:29:54 AM
another word I've liked since the first time I saw it in my engish textbook:

Nevertheless

sorry for the lack of fancy words here but somehow roundabout and nevertheless are words that stuck to me in a way.
perhaps because their dutch translations are lame?
i have no idea.
it's ALIVE --- and weirdly obsessed with wizards?

Cora Courcelle

#15
October 14, 2015, 05:03:23 PM
Words don't have to be fancy to be luscious, (which is itself a perfectly wonderful word meaning ~ delectable or delightful)
You have to tread a fine line between avant-garde surrealism and getting yourself sectioned...

von Corax

#16
October 14, 2015, 05:32:35 PM
Quote from: pakled on October 11, 2015, 10:17:43 PM
...and I thought it was a song by Yes...;)


Earworm: a piece of music which gets into your head and won't leave.

Spoiler: ShowHide
By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
By the Beans of Life do my thoughts acquire speed
My hands acquire a shaking
The shaking becomes a warning
By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
The Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics is 5842 km from Reading

Clym Angus

#17
October 15, 2015, 12:45:16 AM Last Edit: October 15, 2015, 12:49:16 AM by Clym Angus
I can think of much worse things to have in your head.

Britney Spears springs to mind.

Crepuscular

You want a earworm.
I'll give you an ear worm....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOMGIbY-9s

pakled

#18
October 15, 2015, 01:05:38 AM Last Edit: October 15, 2015, 01:08:13 AM by pakled
Ecdysiast - the fanciest way to refer to a...erm, well...clothes-challenged dancer...;)
Thanks for the spoiler, love me some Roger Dean...;)
Earworm - It's a Small Small World, comes to...oh no, not again! Swear that was written in North Korea...;)

von Corax

#19
October 18, 2015, 06:19:09 PM
Quote from: Clym Angus on October 15, 2015, 12:45:16 AM
I can think of much worse things to have in your head.
I never said it was a bad thing.
By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
By the Beans of Life do my thoughts acquire speed
My hands acquire a shaking
The shaking becomes a warning
By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
The Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics is 5842 km from Reading

Hurricane Annie

#20
October 22, 2015, 04:41:32 AM


psychedelia
phantasmagoria
funkadelic
morphia

Colonel Hawthorne

#21
October 23, 2015, 01:06:44 AM
Ratiocination

Lubriciousness

(not necessarily at the same time)
Colonel Sir Julius Hawthorne
H.M. Air Privateers (Retd.)

http://capitalsteampunknz.org

Whatever did we do before retro-futurism?

Clym Angus

#22
October 25, 2015, 12:12:13 AM Last Edit: October 25, 2015, 12:14:57 AM by Clym Angus
obsequious

It forces the emotion of distain through pronunciation. It slithers and writhes as a word as it escapes the lips.

creagmor

#23
October 25, 2015, 08:54:19 AM Last Edit: October 25, 2015, 08:57:47 AM by creagmor
Triskaidekaphobia. Fear of the number thirteen  

BTW I have been told that Sesquipedalian literally means "sixty legged word".
"Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that cold true reason which I place above all things." Sherlock Holmes, in The Sign of Four.

creagmor

#24
October 25, 2015, 09:08:45 AM
Floccinaucinihilipilification. The estimation that something is worthless. Just don't ask me how to pronounce it.
"Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that cold true reason which I place above all things." Sherlock Holmes, in The Sign of Four.
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