A New Word a Day
VAGITUS meaning a babies cry or wail. I thought it nicely linked with the word a day thread.
WALLYDRAG = a feeble or worthless person.
VENTOS=windy or flatulent,puffed up with conceit.
Started: 20th Mar 2012 at 15:53
HAHAHA....Had to search for that, but it pleased me greatly.
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NAYSAYER!
One who frequently engages in excessive complaining, negative banter and/or a genuinely poor and downbeat attitude.
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Marplot
An officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking.
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Witzelsucht
The patient nevertheless finds these utterances intensely amusing.
It is associated with small lesions of the orbitofrontal cortex.
Is there a Doctor in the house?
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the F****h are a batragophogus race
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I heard the term 'Frog gigging' the other day.
A nightime activity practiced generally in the South; bullfrog hunting, which involves, in some cases, shooting the frog with a .22 caliber
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You silly sod!
Eront won't appreciate you acting daft on her nice new thread.
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That's an old word.
I may google it.
Expect complaints.
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July 2009 (3rd post) 
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You silly sod! Dostaf
Eront won't appreciate you acting daft on her nice new thread
If I end up on Handbags again I won't be responsible for my actions
Rhinotillexomania. I picked that one specially
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Without googlin I reckon Rhinowotsism has something to do with cutting one's nose off. (Given Mache's reply)
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Picking ones nose but you were close
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You'll be cocking a snook next.
Often misquoted.
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bumfuzzle - and its not what you think
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Flatus (Not flatulus)
I googled. 
Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.
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I know this one................trebuchet
Replied: 20th Mar 2012 at 22:31
Turdiform - again, its not what you think.
Replied: 20th Mar 2012 at 22:35
What was that material in trousers that melted when you sat on radiators called?
Replied: 20th Mar 2012 at 22:37
Could be. Dostaf has underpants made from that material.
Makes the backs of his legs all brown.
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Grandad makes the back of Dostafs legs all brown?
Wrong trousers there!
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Mac - you seem to know some very intimate details about dostaf - I am beginning to worry about you two.
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He phones me a lot, VG. Asks for clean sponges and the lioke.
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Urban Dictionary: liokewww.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=liokeCached - Similar
You +1'd this publicly. Undo
16 Jan 2007 – 1. lioke. A word used to describe the size of weasel balls.
Replied: 20th Mar 2012 at 22:51
zabadak ? what does that mean? just heard it sung by dave dee dozy mick and titch ..lol
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBFH9R3cg4][new word?]
Replied: 21st Mar 2012 at 14:37
I don't think it means anything Rose,but there is an asteroid that was found in 1994 called zabadak
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Verb Sap
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Erm...I can only go a mere couple of hours before a rest these days, EQ. So yes, I am becoming that way.
Beltane is a word used on the song, Ride a whuite swan,. I( thought it was Belgese or somesuch until I checked, and even themn, thought it was a made up word. Seems not!
Replied: 21st Mar 2012 at 16:32
Picatinny. There's one to keep your sights on.
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Dompteuse. My Mrs reckons she's one, Grrrrr!
Replied: 21st Mar 2012 at 18:38
What was that material in trousers that melted when you sat on radiators called?
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Crimpalene.
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Antimacassar
not so much a new word, but I've only just learned its origin.
Replied: 13th May 2012 at 18:04
I was bought a set when I got wed only thing was we had bought a leather suite. We had to put them on every time we had a visit from the people who gifted them
Dostaf do I detect a bit of verbomania.
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Stott
To 'stott' is Geordie meaning 'to bounce'[2] because if dropped it would (in theory) bounce.
Wiki
Knew the name, but not the meaning.
Replied: 13th May 2012 at 20:05
CUIMHAIGH I GCONAL
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wrigglytin,
Replied: 15th May 2012 at 20:45
Always Remember. Veteran is there a bit of the old Irish in you.
Replied: 15th May 2012 at 20:53
Does anyone know what this word means?
GLOPOLA
Replied: 16th May 2012 at 14:07
Could it be a monster
Glopola monsterSlimy toothy scaly prehistoric glopola monsters were once the exclusive province of rich filmmakers.
It took a computer genius like Stan Winston and a special effects makeup genius like Rick Baker to make a drooling head-chomping lizard monster come alive, and then it took a million bucks to shoot it in a blue- screen studio on the Universal backlot.
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Last edited by erontquay: 16th May 2012 at 14:46:18
I don't know eq. I have some papers, which have been in my possession since 1983: In them, they refer to that material attributed to Petronius Arbiter, as a 'glopola'.
If I Google it, the only example of usage it produces are the very same papers that were my starting point!
Granted it finds proper noun (names) of Rock band, and I am not sure if monster is in this category. Are they derived names?
I am beginning to wonder if it has been made up, and passed into usage as with 'falange of gorillas'!
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Last edited by priscus: 16th May 2012 at 16:42:29
Origin of flange of gorillas.
Replied: 16th May 2012 at 16:08
I learned a new term last week, someone on TV: I was in the kitchen cooking but heard from adjacent room, don't know who, refer to -
"L'Oreal Managers"
because I'm worth it
Replied: 18th May 2012 at 16:14
Ar5e biscuit { emission of wind from anus}
Replied: 20th May 2012 at 11:58
No there isn't any Irish in me,Ron I got that of another forum that i'am on I was talking to an Irish fella and he printed that at the bottom of his page just thought I would put it on here.
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When I was a child, I was under the illusion that syndrome was a place specially reserved for you to practice your sinning!
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"The young people huddled with their sodden gritty towels and ignominious goosebumps inside the gray-shingled bathhouse" (John Updike).
Reminds me, also after reading Priscus's syndrome comment, of yon mon who thinks cubicle three is a palindrome.
Replied: 25th May 2012 at 18:38
Irony mark.
Just read about this while looking if rhetorical questions require a question mark.
Irony mark
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I sometimes come across that symbol used upside down also.
Have you any notion of what that means?
Replied: 28th May 2012 at 18:02
Apparently not.
According to this
Replied: 28th May 2012 at 18:03
I think the upsisde down one is Spanish.
Possibly at the begining of a question. Normal one at the end.
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I think Tonker once told us about them on WW.
Replied: 28th May 2012 at 18:06
CLERIHEW
Lewis Carroll
Wore apparel
For the nude trick
Liked not Lutwidge!
Replied: 28th May 2012 at 18:58
The first ever clerihew was written about Sir Humphry Davy:
Sir Humphry Davy
Was not fond of gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium
Here
Replied: 28th May 2012 at 19:01
I care not for the clerihew,
concerning Hummphry Davy,
So here in verse that's very new,
I'll tell it much more savoury.
That people should no evil fear,
Of Firedamp in atmosphere.
The solution here is brought in triumph
The solution clear: is wrought by Humph:
Sir Humphry Davy,
Wire: wove wavy.
And round the flame it wrapped,
And coal was hewn,by miner soon,
His glow, Humph's gauze entrapped.
Though eerily well his theory run,
They hounded him-
Oh deary Hum!
The gutter trash: a medium,
Who abuse folk of their tedium.
But Humph grew great opprobrium,
Drew crowds to the Royal Society podium,
and isolated elements;
Magnesium and sodium. ... ...
er Sorry Humph, unlike your illustrious self,
I did not manage to contain potassium.
There's always a sacrificium!
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DOUBLE-HEWN
Sir Humphry Davy
Disliked the gravy
He said to John Dalton
"It needs some more salt on"
Replied: 29th May 2012 at 10:48
I recently heard it on a programme about variety shows. 'The Story Of Variety With Michael Grade'
One person mentioned how you could always spot a variety artist (off duty), as they had a hue to their faces due to the 'five and nine'.
Makeup.
Google tells me:
Five is Ivory.
Nine is Brick Red.
From here
Replied: 30th May 2012 at 14:44
Ah! I see the connection now: clearly hue
Replied: 30th May 2012 at 15:07
Coincidence. I'd never heard the term beore and only just found the suggested reason.
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portmanteau word
eg
Quink (a portmanteau word from 'quick' and 'ink', or "Quisumbing Ink") is an ink developed by The Parker Pen Company and Francisco Quisumbing, a Filipino chemist.
Replied: 20th Jun 2012 at 19:25
Last edited by dostaf: 20th Jun 2012 at 19:26:41
You should talk/type:
Posted by: mache (9828)
last I had (Ink) came in powder form via school.......nod nod wink wink
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There's a word for that sort of hyporisy. but I can't remember it.
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Dissembler
In't google great?
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That was many years ago, i've changed since and it was before I could make my own invisible ink 
Replied: 20th Jun 2012 at 19:42
Hold it over a candle (a lighter will do).
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Steganography
No. Not these
Steganography () is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity.
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I'm not falling for that i'll use a hairdrier i'm not ruining my screen
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DON'T!
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Diastema (With pic)
Replied: 20th Jun 2012 at 20:02
I like that.
The Greeks coined the word for its onomatopoeic value. (Wiki)
Replied: 20th Jun 2012 at 20:26
Efflorescence
Interesting origin.
Brickwork
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I'm sure sombody int pub in ******** can get me one
Replied: 20th Jun 2012 at 21:32
No doubt
They (GMP) have used them for motorcycles.
(Sheltering, not riding)
Replied: 20th Jun 2012 at 21:35
You really worry me at times, Mache.
I thought you wanted one of those little ones. Perhaps to play in, like a Wendy House.
See 'Safe Frame lite'
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Bowdlerise
Found that in a comment regarding an online article about naughty street-names in London.
Replied: 24th Jun 2012 at 17:32
'Gansey' - a seaman's knitted sweater - similar to a jersey.
Replied: 25th Jun 2012 at 14:14
Ooops, wrong thread.
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Try looking up SWART.
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by: Mac (8358)
oops @ extra i in second gratuitous.
It means, in this case, 'Uncalled for', particularly as this is a site Children visit.
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Bikini oft studied by prudes on beaches.
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 18:47
What's the term fo those who relish being despised.
There is one for it somewhere. Possibly on google.
eg 'Everybody hates us and we don't care'
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 18:49
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by: Mac (8358)
oops @ extra i in second gratuitous.
It means, in this case, 'Uncalled for', particularly as this is a site Children visit.
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Intellectual Stimulation: Try initiating some interesting discussions as you drive around town or make dinner with your child close by. "What do you think about classrooms without desks? Some teachers are thinking about trying that. Do you think you'd like a classroom like that?" Or, "Do you think there'll ever be a female president of the United States?" Actively listen to your son or daughter's opinions. Ask questions. Show interest.
Some piggin' hope.
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:00
From Yahoo
There are few reasons for this i must say this is not rear but your man may just be suffering from RETARDINITIST, because of being retarded he longs for unneeded attention when not given he takes it, i.e the reason he screams and beats on you, sorry to talk the truth but it's the way life should be...
That's a made up word if ever I saw one.
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:07
Mache see the start of the thread please old man
Ps I'm not going
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Presbyterian.
Presbyterian denominations derive their name from the Greek word presbýteros (πρεσβύτερος), "elder."
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Stick a laughing smiley on, Mache. ^^^^^
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:12
Cheers.
Lend us one for the other thread.
Just below Roobarb, please.
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:16
Last edited by dostaf: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:17:00
its there again........it must be awfully embarrassing when you cant think of your own smileys
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:30
Irony.
And not even a 'thank you' to Mache. 
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does that mean not being man enough to admit to using different names
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:32
or does it mean sheep follow one another
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:33
Best prepare myself make your own mind up, that what the assummpption makers do
Replied: 28th Jun 2012 at 19:42
Penny Gaff
A penny gaff was a popular entertainment for the lower classes in 19th-century England. It consisted of short, theatrical entertainments which could be staged wherever space permitted, such as the back room of a public house or small hall
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Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelt the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too.
Replied: 5th Aug 2012 at 18:21
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"what an eyesore" and "what a nice whore"
SMUTFILTH!
I googled.
Replied: 5th Aug 2012 at 18:28
What a thread..!!!
eq, you have a lot to answer for... xxx..
Replied: 5th Aug 2012 at 18:45
Fred you should see my other one that got sent to handbags
link
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Advertorial
An advertorial is an advertisement in the form of an editorial.
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Ratiocinate. to reason or argue logically.
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Sky Pilot
Not new, but just found the early origin.
Often wondered what other form of pilots the military differentiated from.
Term pre-dates human flight.
Im't google great?
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Where's your P-a-D thread, I wanted to C&P Ernests last commet from today on it.
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Dysphemism.
Substitution of a more offensive or disparaging word or phrase for one considered less offensive.
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Omophagous:
noun
The eating of raw food, esp meat
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Metonymy
Metonymy 1] is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated
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(Comment removed because it broke the Rules)
Wrong thread.
Replied: 26th Sep 2012 at 11:34
Sutler
Seen in an owd film t'other day.
A sutler or victualer is a civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army in the field, in camp or in quarters
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Verderer
Verderers are officials in Britain who deal with Common land in certain former royal hunting areas which are the property of The Crown
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whatalottawords but, it would be better if the meanings were put on as well like erontquay as at the top of this list. i know some have, but most as i see them have not.
Replied: 2nd Oct 2012 at 20:29
Mezzanine - A partial storey between two main storeys of a building.
There's one in Wigan Life Centre - it's a floor of the Iibrary.
Replied: 2nd Oct 2012 at 20:31
ta jo anne, think i know that one, cos if i'm correct ?? ive seen houses on tv shows, with a mezzanine level - or is it something else & glad you got my gist dostaf
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That's it, Piccyme123. It was new to me when I went to the library recently.
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at least i've learned something watching Escape to the Country on tv ttfn supper is calling me
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Twaddle
Fradgin
Slancin
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Is there anyone/thing other than a cat guilty of 'slancin', Bentlegs?
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feague
feague (third-person singular simple present feagues, present participle feaguing, simple past and past participle feagued)
1.To decorate or improve in appearance through artificial means.
2.To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger, in its fundament.
Replied: 3rd Oct 2012 at 20:20
I was about to ask 'Does Darren know what, Mache?'
But then I'd show myself as being as daft as you.
Of course Darren knows.
What Darren does not know, is not worth knowing.
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inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger, in its fundament.
NOTREET!
Replied: 5th Oct 2012 at 16:31
Omerta (Code of)
Seen in a Jimmy Savile item.
Replied: 6th Oct 2012 at 22:05
Palpable.
Not really a new word, but I like it.
Apologies for spoiling thread.
Replied: 1st Nov 2012 at 21:34
Here is one I like
Growlery
A retreat for ill humour/a place to be alone while upset.
We have all been there occasionally!
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mutagenicity.
the property of being able to induce genetic mutation
I came across this word whilst looking for a snig nailed to a fence post
.
Replied: 2nd Nov 2012 at 16:26
Gibley
And it doen't seem to be googleable unless you know a bit more about it.
Not the Urban Dictionary version. (So don't look there)
Replied: 3rd Nov 2012 at 17:07
After me telling you not to, too.
But what's the proper one?
I heard it mentioned in a film earlier.
Replied: 3rd Nov 2012 at 17:56
Is it ghibli ghibli, gibli [ˈgɪblɪ] n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a fiercely hot wind of North Africa
[from Arabic gibliy south wind]
From www.thefreedictionary.com
Replied: 3rd Nov 2012 at 18:03
my inaccurate spelling gets a result if you put sandstorm with it.
(Must listen harder )
Film
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Jolly good post old boy........forgot about this
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Coincidentally, the very word echolalia even conjures up the image of someone covering their ears and saying "LALALALALA!".
I'd read about it on another thread before it appeared here.
Replied: 21st Nov 2012 at 19:58
Avoid using irony and sarcasm.
That's me buggered.
Only joking.
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Piallapawni.
Replied: 26th Nov 2012 at 21:07
Hence the term.
Still not sure about Bentlegs's Piallapawni.
Replied: 26th Nov 2012 at 21:21
tussie mussie, dostafs new word for today.
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constabulary
from here
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Hence the phrase:
'The letter of the law'
TAXI!
Replied: 16th Jan 2013 at 19:07
They should have made him spend a week in Morecambe
That would've been punishment enough
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Can't believe they let a man like Tevez behind the wheel of a Hummer.
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Ill take that as a no, because someone who normally has a lot to say wouldve said if it was a yes
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Puckle
Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie, for she's yer mammie's mammie
Ye can shove yer ither grannie, for she's your daddie's mammie
Ye can shove yer drunken uncle, for he needs another puckle
Ye can shove yer ugly cousin, for she's drank ower a dozen
Ye can shove yer baby brother, it's ok cuz there's four others.
Here
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I daren't look, as I can have a good guess.
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every time I see that word VAGITUS I think its something you would need cream for
Replied: 30th Jan 2013 at 20:28
No, you're thinking of apple pie.
Or yoghurt?
Replied: 30th Jan 2013 at 20:29
After seeing the news........cardinal sin
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inaniloquent prone to foolish or empty babbling.
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Zydeco
Found when looking for the 118 118 advert tune.
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Zydeco Skillet Lickers
Belting name.
Here
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BIGRATABLE
Worms do not have brains, however worms do have bigratable substances that substitute for brains because of its size and shape.
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naiant - applied to a fish swimming horizontally
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Foreign words sullying my thread
Rempted. Wont tell you where I,ve been
Replied: 23rd Jun 2013 at 17:49
Trummel is a rotating doings for drying stuff.
Replied: 23rd Jun 2013 at 17:53
Looking for rempted
Ince Urban District
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Bugger !
It's trommel, not trummel, from the German word for drum.
And it's used for seperating doings, not drying them.
Too much 'How It's Made' in me bonce.
Replied: 23rd Jun 2013 at 18:13
There's a similar explanation in the UD.
Replied: 23rd Jun 2013 at 18:47
No, the Urban Dictionary. Rude words and a warning that the site is unlicenced.
Same place Jo Anne found some information for us all about the going rate for snigs.
Replied: 23rd Jun 2013 at 18:58
I put 'barkled muck' into google, and I got a UD hit:
dirty mucked up splattered with sh.............
Replied: 23rd Jun 2013 at 19:02
SPANKERS=The straps around the trouser legs were called 'spankers', the use of which I am not too sure. It was possibly to stop dust rising up the legs in hot dry weather or wet conditions. Or maybe it was to stop vermin from flying up legs.
From an X coal man.
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TARRADIDDLE. My grandad used to call me this, he used as a term of affection. "You little tarraddidle". Dont hear it at all these days.
Replied: 10th Aug 2013 at 16:12
Actually, I think I heard it VERY recently on a radio show.
Replied: 10th Aug 2013 at 16:14
BURGLARIOUSLY, pleadings. This is a technical word, which must be introduced into an indictment for burglary; no other word will answer the same purpose.
Came across the word whilst reading a "Past Forward" story on George Lyon the highwayman. Its a bit of a mouthful
Replied: 15th Aug 2013 at 09:47
Spurglar: A spurglar is a woman who steals sperm to “accidentally” fall pregnant
Replied: 16th Aug 2013 at 07:52
PULCHRITUDE
If someone comments on the pulchritude of your face, you shouldn’t be offended. It may sound like quite the opposite, but pulchritude actually means " beauty"
Replied: 19th Aug 2013 at 15:36
Pultroon
Mrs Bucket (AKA Henry VIII) shots that at Harold Steptoe during a séance.
Replied: 19th Aug 2013 at 16:08
mamihlapinatapai
Noun) Two people looking at each other each hoping the other will do what both desire but neither is willing to do (from Tierra del Fuego).
I think we're experiencing mamihlapinatapai... let's get naked and see.
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis= lung disease
Is it the longest word in the English dictionary
Replied: 20th Aug 2013 at 16:24
Dunno Vg I was looking for something else and came across it. The film was American though
Replied: 27th Aug 2013 at 14:56
Just found 'Chump change' on an item about gold.
Suspect that is an Americanism too.
EDIT
Thowt as much
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I am sure it isn't a Wigganism.
I have heard of 'on the morrow' which means tomorrow. I am sure I read it in a Catherine Cookson book as in 'on the morra'.
Dostaf - I have never heard of chump change before. Heard of 'ready change'.
Replied: 27th Aug 2013 at 15:22
I've heard of 'on the change'.
Hands on hips stamps foot and comes out in red blotches.
Replied: 27th Aug 2013 at 15:24
I just come out in red blotches.
...not on the change - yet.
Replied: 27th Aug 2013 at 15:27
It's the weather.
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'oxymoron' - noun - A rhetorical figure of speech in which contradictory terms are used together, often for emphasis or effect, eg 'horribly good', 'A deafening silence'. oxymoronic adj.
Replied: 27th Aug 2013 at 17:29
Ha ha mester I like it.
Replied: 27th Aug 2013 at 17:40
It's the one which always comes to mind, Ray.
Replied: 27th Aug 2013 at 17:44
It's a peculiar thing though with oxymorons, they work.
Some more examples :-
open secret
act naturally
found missing
seriously funny
Microsoft Works
Advanced BASIC
virtual reality
pretty ugly
almost exactly
minor crisis
exact estimate
larger half
clearly confused
alone together
liquid gas
jumbo shrimp
civil engineer
tragic comedy
unbiased opinion
same difference
plastic glasses
definite maybe
original copies
constant variable
even odds
extinct life
genuine imitation
working holiday
living dead
Replied: 27th Aug 2013 at 18:13
TWERKING a new addition to the dictionary
Meaning a raunchy dance move
I,m sure we on WW need to know this word as the kids grandkids will soon be using it, and we need to keep ahead of them.
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:24
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Eront, It aint in dictionary.com or chambersonline so it's either urban slang or tha's made it up.
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:28
Not at all Ray its just been added to the Oxford dictionary today
LINK
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I stand corrected eront. Will it have a short fleeting usage with the urban yoof or enter the standard lexicon.
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:38
Only time will tell Ray
When I first heard the word I got a bit confused and thought they were refering to Twoking
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:42
This Woman will be twerking when she eventually stands up
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:45
Is there a name for them contraptions?
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:45
Politically correct term is 'seat stick'
Not 'shooting stick' anymore.
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:47
dustaf.
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:48
Ray, they actually have warnings on them telling you not to fire guns whilst sat on them.
See 'Game Bird'
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 17:51
PC gone bl**dy mad dustaf
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And a so much nicer phrase to use at a dinner party
Replied: 28th Aug 2013 at 18:18
trencherman n.1. A person who has a hearty appetite.
Replied: 3rd Sep 2013 at 16:01
Hadn't come across the word before. Not sure if it could be offensive or complimentary.
2. Archaic One who frequents another's table; a hanger-on or parasite.
I happened upon it in connection with railway food:
Kitchen car design and restaurant car staffing was dominated by the need to serve the maximum number of breakfasts in a single sitting. Trenchermen could start with porridge, connoisseurs could choose real kippers. Only wimps eat scrambled eggs and smoked salmon.
Here
Replied: 3rd Sep 2013 at 16:07
I'm trying to think of a comedy example. There's one in the back of my mind somewhere.
One mon kept complaining about visitors eating him out of house and home.
Possibly Jim Royle.
Another was Reggie Perrin's Brother-in-Law, 'Jimmy'.
"Bit of a cock up on the catering front"
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Napper Wainwright (Porridge) rhymed off a similar but smaller list in Porridge.
Wainwright- Are you in there SONNY?
Godber - I don't think so, I'm Church Of England
Or something similar.
Replied: 3rd Sep 2013 at 16:27
Effluvia
a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious
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Dragees
Anglicised to protect the sensitive.
Replied: 6th Sep 2013 at 15:46
WILLIWAW= a sudden blast of wind descending from a mountainous coast to the sea.
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assonance: n
1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse.
Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
2. partial correspondence; rough similarity
Or as Rita says in Educating Rita 'assonance is getting the rhyme wrong.'
I saw the play at Wigan Little Theatre last night and it was brilliant.
Replied: 12th Sep 2013 at 14:22
Jo anne , I like that word.
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verbum sapienti sat est
Verb Sap
Replied: 13th Sep 2013 at 11:48
I don't speak much Latin cordyline. Just enought to get a paper & some toffee from the newsagents.
Replied: 13th Sep 2013 at 13:25
Cheers cordyline.
Of course, I should have googled it & pretended I wuz clever.
Replied: 13th Sep 2013 at 13:40
Is that pronounce Poe taster or poet aster
Replied: 21st Sep 2013 at 18:43
Poetaster, like rhymester or versifier, is a contemptuous name often applied to bad or inferior poets. Specifically, poetaster has implications of unwarranted pretentions to artistic value. The word was coined in Latin by Erasmus in 1521
Similar to a beatnik really.
I wish I could find a clip of Groovy Wordbender.
Replied: 21st Sep 2013 at 21:07
Clotpole.
Shakespeare appears to be the coiner of 'good riddance', in Troilus and Cressida, 1606:
Thersites: I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come any more to your tents: I will keep where there is wit stirring and leave the faction of fools.
[Exits]
Patroclus: A good riddance.
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Tumblehome.
(Nothing to do with staggering wom)
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tumblehome:-
noun
1.
Nautical . an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
2.
Also, tum·ble·home. a similar shape for the body of an automobile.
Origin:
1825–35
Soz dustaf, stole your thunder.
Interesting word yon
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When you look for images of them, you get lots of nakky women.
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What blinkin' sites are you lookin' on mester?
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Did you type the letter 'C' mester D.
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Dandiprat :-
noun
1. a silver coin of 16th-century England, equal to about
twopence.
2.
Archaic.
a. a diminutive person; a dwarf, pygmy, or midget.
b. a person of small or childish mind; a silly, finicky,
or puerile person.
c. a child.
Origin:
1510–20; origin uncertain
Above from www.dictionary.com
Never heard or read that word afore. Will try to store it in my near capacity memory bank.
Replied: 12th Oct 2013 at 17:52
THE word of 2013
Selfie
Replied: 19th Nov 2013 at 13:31
A couple of good ones for the ladies with big handbags.
Appurtenance
Impedementia.
Recently heard them used to describe CPO Pertwee's bag of burgling tools here.
Incidentally, also learned recently that one of the wren's in The Navy Lark was Hyacynth's sister - Daisy.
Replied: 28th Nov 2013 at 14:48
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One of the weren't in the Navy Lark was Hyacynth's sister
Replied: 28th Nov 2013 at 14:57
You took your time typing and posting that.
Replied: 28th Nov 2013 at 14:59
I don't know how wrens became weren't.
Unless it's like the wellie thing.
Replied: 28th Nov 2013 at 15:03
And it still has an apostrophe in 'wren's'
But I'll leave it.
Judy Cornwell
Replied: 28th Nov 2013 at 15:06
"Activist."
Self appointed term for naysayers and aginners.
(I love this thread. Some of the words are great. Could we have the posters kindly add definitions to theirs if they have not already done so?)
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throttlebottom= harmless incompetent holding public office
I love this ^^^ word whaker.
There is another word a day thread on Handbags.
Replied: 11th Mar 2014 at 22:07
ultracrepidate= to criticize beyond sphere of one's knowledge.
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popinjay
As in ''You're a drink soaked former Trotskyist popinjay' ( Geo Galloway to Christopher Hitches c2005.
I'd never heard it before then . It's been my fave ever since.
Noun 1. popinjay - a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
egoist, egotist, swellhead - a conceited and self-centered person
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Reduplication
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Duck-buster
A heavy rain storm.
As in, "IT's a real duck-buster."
From the American south.
Replied: 12th Mar 2014 at 12:34
underwit=inferior wit; half-wit
Well I heard of half wit, even know a few but not underwit. Knowledge is a grand thing.
Replied: 12th Mar 2014 at 12:44
Probono.
Replied: 12th Mar 2014 at 13:31
A new one for me anyone heard it before
vauntiness boastfulness
Replied: 17th Jul 2014 at 15:33
jiggumbob = a thingamabob; a gadget; a whatsit;
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wanhope
Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair; Vain hope; delusion
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Well I never
Balanism........ use of suppositories
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Well doctor, for all the good them pills did me I may as well have stuck em up me a*s*
Replied: 7th Sep 2014 at 18:19
ranarium place where frogs are kept
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Quindecasyllabic..........Having fifteen syllables
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Bucolic
Relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.
Replied: 7th Sep 2014 at 21:51
catachresis incorrect usage of a word
Replied: 8th Sep 2014 at 21:15
I've just noticed the second word in the very first post on this thread
Prophetic or what ?
Replied: 8th Sep 2014 at 21:50
Ferblungen
"It is a Yiddish word meaning something like "disoriented" or "all over the place." I like the word because it sounds like what it means so if you are feeling ferblungen it gives you some satisfaction to use the word and know it will somehow be understood".
Replied: 16th Sep 2014 at 11:12
A bit like you getting satisfaction from keep opening this thread.
Replied: 16th Sep 2014 at 11:41
What is your problem basil?
Cheer up for once!
Replied: 16th Sep 2014 at 12:06
I am "cheered up" just saying does she get satisfaction keep opening this thread and that's why she's posted that word.
Replied: 16th Sep 2014 at 12:20
The threads been going for 2 1/2 years with no complaints! You've even contributed in it yourself, so what is the issue?
Replied: 16th Sep 2014 at 12:29
No complaints, or issues,from me.
I'm merely saying she must get some satisfaction out of keep opening this thread. Whatever floats your boat.
Replied: 16th Sep 2014 at 13:37
Blatherskite.
A person given to voluble, empty talk.
Was there ever such a descriptive, delightful word for a the speakers of bunk, guff, hogwash and drivel? Insulting such a person using this word is almost a compliment since it doesn't have the rough sound of hogwash, etc.
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Edjucation is a wonderfull thing Mrs E.
Replied: 16th Sep 2014 at 21:05
" Blatherskite.
A person given to voluble, empty talk.
Was there ever such a descriptive, delightful word for a the speakers of bunk, guff, hogwash and drivel? Insulting such a person using this word is almost a compliment since it doesn't have the rough sound of hogwash, etc. "
I always rated you higher than a cheap shot merchant
Just shows you never really can tell
Replied: 16th Sep 2014 at 22:05
Be careful Walt, she'll go running back to mac.
Oh sorry he's already agreed with her.
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engrailment.......... ring of dots around edge of a coin
You learn something new every day.
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Chichi.
Trying too hard to be decorated in a stylish or attractive way and therefore having no real style or beauty:
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oooerr Mr LL Dont be using the other dictionary to offer a meaning, I might take it as a complement
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I came across two words today
Cachinnation..... Loud or hysterical laughter.
We need more of it.
Capernoited.......intoxicated, tipsy.
Replied: 23rd Sep 2014 at 15:37
This thread shouldn't keep being reopened.
I'm sure there's a lot of members on here who get upset when they see all the "inactive members" above.
Replied: 23rd Sep 2014 at 17:47
Another wonderful word...
Battology.....wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 12:39
Then again I'm sure there's a lot of members who were/are relieved.
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 13:43
Ooooh two in one day.
galimatias.... gibberish; confused, meaningless jargon
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 14:22
Two in one day?
That's just showing off Mrs E.
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 14:33
Cachinnation, LL. See what I did there?
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 14:36
Hmmmm
As I said before, I thought very well of you until recently which I'm sure you couldn't care less about but there we are
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 14:41
It's the humour that gets to em Mrs E.
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Not really because it wasn't intended as humour as you and everyone else knows,it's the idea that WR is such a happy,non confrontational place unlike WW
Probably because you save the nasty side until you're on here with your different usernames conciously doing what you claim to abhor in others
I'm sure it'll all be fine though,as long as you're having fun,after all those long held grudges need to be kept alive
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 14:55
Every time it's reopened it reminds us proper members just how many bad uns have gone.
Nice to see mac following his mother hen around.
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 15:44
I really hope,with all my big gay heart, that you're right about leccylegs basil,truly I do, christmas come early springs to mind
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 15:49
Ask admin to check my IP address Walter.
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 15:54
I wouldn't bother asking Walt, mac spat his dummy out with admin before and advised,people how to get around it.
Replied: 24th Sep 2014 at 15:59
Dullard.... I've heard this a few times but never knew what its meaning, till now link
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Another one of the clan pops up, that's nice.
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macrology
excessive or repititious words or phrases
Replied: 12th Oct 2014 at 19:31
The good thing about keep reopening this, is, it shows how many nasty ones have gone.
Hello peepers.
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But YOU'RE Still here Walshy.
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Goldfish, bowl, shooting.
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gallinaceous..... like a chicken or pheasant
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eggcorn
MEANING:
noun: An erroneous alteration of a word or phrase, by replacing an original word with a similar sounding word, such that the new word or phrase also makes a kind of sense.
For example: "ex-patriot" instead of "expatriate" and "mating name" instead of "maiden name
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Nice thread, showing how many bad uns where on here,
Keep up the good work eron.
Replied: 15th Oct 2014 at 10:37
'WALLYDRAG = a feeble or worthless person.'
Very apt.
Replied: 15th Oct 2014 at 10:40
jay,jay,jay
You really need to buck up
I pointed this out myself on the 8th September
Keep up softlad
Replied: 15th Oct 2014 at 10:43
Sorry Walt, i don't open every single thread.
Like i say, very very apt.
Replied: 15th Oct 2014 at 11:01
It was on this thread you idiot, the one you found the word on, the one you've just posted on
Replied: 15th Oct 2014 at 11:21
I love this word
Furphy
A rumor; false story.
[From John Furphy, an Australian blacksmith and engineer, who designed a galvanised iron water-cart on wheels, displaying the name FURPHY in large letters. In World War I the Army bought many Furphy water and sanitation carts for camps in Palestine, Egypt. and Australia. When soldiers gathered around them, the carts became centers of gossip. The word scuttlebutt originated in a similar way.]
Replied: 17th Oct 2014 at 11:53
Heard the word so many times, I thought it meant something like, bothering someone. But what do I know. A bit more "knowledge" for today.
harangue
a speech addressed to a public assembly
a ranting speech or writing
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Fussbudget
One who is fussy about unimportant things.
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Girn
At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.
Way to go yet
Replied: 26th Oct 2014 at 22:57
"rabona" =
method of kicking football that I could never master.
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crapehanger...A gloomy person; a pessimist.
A crapehanger was one who hung up black bands of crape as a symbol of mourning. The word is from English crepe/crape, from French crepe, from Latin crispus (curled or wrinkled). Earliest documented use: 1921.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. -Sid Caesar, actor and writer (b. 1922
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Phatic......Relating to a communication meant to generate an atmosphere of social relationship rather than to convey some information.
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opsimath
One who begins learning late in life.
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sophist
One who makes clever, but unsound arguments.
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Frabjous
Wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
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Cloture..... The action of closing a debate by calling for an immediate vote.
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chaffer To haggle; to bargain.
To bandy words; to chatter.
Bargaining or haggling.
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Vape..... gathers linguistic steam to become Word of the Year 2014
This was the year of vaping, according to Oxford Dictionaries, which has chosen “vape” – the act of inhaling from an electronic cigarette – as its word of 2014 after use of the term more than doubled over the last year.
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expostulate... To reason earnestly with someone in order to dissuade.
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nugatory.....Of little value; trifling. Having no force; ineffective.
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pilgarlic.....
A bald-headed person.
Literally peeled garlic, from pill (to peel) + garlic.
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Quinary...
1. Relating to five.
2. Fifth in a series.
3. Having five things or arranged in five.
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autarky
Relating to Russia and their oil
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नया साल मुबारक हो
To eron and all Wigan Worlders
Replied: 28th Dec 2014 at 11:12
के बारे में हम पर क्या कर रहे हैं पता नहीं होगा;
ज़ोर से व्यंग्य
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Honeyfuggle...To deceive or swindle, especially by flattery.
Although an american word, I like it.
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captcha.....noun: A test used to make sure that a human is using a system, not a computer program. The test typically involves reading distorted text.
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Prebuttal
noun: An argument in anticipation of a criticism; a preemptive rebuttal.
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Acomia..... Baldness
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nongermane.
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Come on Basil,tell everyone what it means. No use contributing a word if there's no meaning given.
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Sedulous. Involving great care, effort, and persistence.
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Jobbernowl....A blockhead.
[From French jobard (stupid, gullible), from Old French jobe (stupid) + noll (top or crown of the head)
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discombobulate
to disconcert; to upset.
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Sciolism...Pretentious display of superficial knowledge.
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Jarvey, noun
1. A hackney-coach driver.
2. A hackney coach.
Replied: 12th Jan 2015 at 12:56
I found two words which are very similar in construction but very different in meaning and probably relate to me.
ablutomania - Mania for washing oneself.
aboulomania - Pathological indecisiveness.
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Bindlestiff...A hobo/tramp who carries a bundle of bedding and other possessions
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Pound, noun
The short stretch of water between two canal locks.
(Glossary of the Waterways)
Can we have a new 'A New Word a Day' thread please, Erontquay, this one's got a bit unwieldy.
Replied: 14th Jan 2015 at 15:29
Accidence
A part of grammar that deals with inflections of words.
I checked just in case I'd had an accident
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SHYSTER
SOMETHING YA"L FIND TIED TO AN ANCHOR CABLE IN 60 FATHOMS OF BRINE.
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Rosinante
MEANING:
An old, worn-out horse.
From Rocinante, the name of Don Quixote’s horse.
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Pecksniffian
Affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
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A good contribution. Informative with a good amount of humour.
A word my gran used to use.She was from north of the border
Ill-willie .No not what you think.
It means unfriendly
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Last edited by mindar: 21st Jul 2018 at 22:32:43
I came across this today. A new one on me
apple-knocker= an ignorant or unsophisticated person
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Last edited by mindar: 24th Jul 2018 at 22:03:45
I had to google that one
Pugnacious
Quarrelsome or combative in nature; belligerent. Expressing an argument or opinion very forcefully.
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gymnophobia
Fear of seeing naked bodies.
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Prototypal.
Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned.
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