A word a day

I have decided to learn a new word every day, and todays word that I would like to share with everyone is "Cockalorum". It means A boastful or self important person. A strutting little fellow. Now I shall have to wait for the opportunity to use it

Similar to a popinjay?

I'd have guessed it was Wiganese for a novelty alarm clock from Ann Summers.

Google time.

See I,ve learned something else today, as Dustaf would say, "I know knowledge" Popinjay = Parrot amongst other things

Here's one Gwim used recently:



Usurper

I like words.

Incidentally, "I know knowledge" is a line by the intelectually challenged Bunny Warren. A character in Porridge.

Gobbledegook!


Make a note of that Darling.

Here is another one "Mumpsimus" I hope you are taking note dustaf, I shall require a sentence using these words. Or you can save them for a rainy day as ammo

I always have to check the spelling of that. Especially after hearing Baldrick mangle it.

Another favourite is 'gongoozler'.

They may be undermining you erontquay, by making sure you learn MORE than one new word everyday.

Noun 1. mumpsimus - a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable; "he still holds to the old mumpsimus that a woman's place is in the kitchen"

Nice one.

Quick, pull your pants up, I think mumpsimus!

contclodakegpaw..

I shall absquatulate.

And may I be among the first to offer my humblest contri-fibularities and commend you on your use of proper grammatical syntax

Another Blackadder one.

You ninnyhammer you

word a day was introduced I believe in Readers Digest as a way of extending your vocabulary, the intention is to use it correctly and in context throughout that day as often as possible. Not easy with a mouth full of marbles by the end of the week

Let me think. How many people can I think of that I could use the word cockalorum to describe.?

You kept us waiting for that one.

I was speaking with an acersecomic Gentleman earlier, he was wearing a paletot and carrying a fascicle. He said he was a bibliophile.
He was scoffing a lion bar.
I told him to get a haircut, the scruffy sod.

Priscus I,m trying to do three things at once here, tea doesnt get itself ready you know. There has to be a word to describe the fact that a womans work is never done. I know my place

There's a sombody or other's law that says housework expands with the time given to it.

Google time.

Parkinson's

Naughty me had to use google for that.

One or two paronomasiacs on here.

The rest have left.

I put the coach driver on another thread. She was only a learner then.

How many people have you thought of who can be described with your new word for today, Erontquay?

I often have difficulty retaining new words.

Without going back to this thread's initial post - can everyone else remember what word it is that Erontquay is learning today?

I remembered.

Due to a naughty image in my head.

It's probably best not to ask about your memory prompt. And just take your word for it.

I recently used this pic and was reminded of 'hucksters and higglers'.

As seen in Lancaster's threatened market hall.

erontquay,first heard the word cockalorum on an episode of SHARPE,brilliant series which I have watched many many times

jo anne there is one but I darent say. I might be accused of epicaricacy. See thats two words today

utt,
I thought your word of the day would have been Barsteward.

Omadhaun.

Joseph1 speak for yourself

It was a word used a lot in our house, Erontquay.

That Uptt....
Ee, 'e were a right little spalpeen in his youth.

cockalorum

Abracadabra

Does that mean bibbady bobbady boo with a wand in hand

What you do in the privacy and all that....

Badum Tish!

Broady,tha's a cheeky monkey

Embroiling

Acatalepsy

Would you say you were an egregious person?

Both!

Todays word is Callipygian Cant wait for the link gwim or dustaf.

Mmmmm!

Buttato

Buttato for sale

Lol Apparently Pipa Middletons was talked about a great deal

I didn't see it in the flesh, so to speak.

Use your imagination

Didn't need to

If that's her at 0.30, then it's erm....rather decent

You'll be getting animadversion over these.

And isn't microsoft crap?

Has you do everything in Windows.

And does NOT provide you with any defenestrate function!

Defenestrate was a particular fave of Mr. Pratchett for a while.

I got arrested for defenestrating a life-insurance salesman, when he was rude to me in my own home.

Smashing!

So its no longer Burtons window

It was, but I had planned on replacing with DG units, and I did not get charged, as they accepted that I had given him an appropriate warning that I would defenestrate him if he did not moderate his language.

Google isn't helping

My new word for today is Badonkakonk, I think it really rolls off the tongue. I was really surprised at what it was I thought it had a totally different meaning, priscus Gwim dustaf, I await one of you putting up a link please. This should good

Is this the sort of thing your looking for

No, lol, the borg, I was thinking more on the lines of a tank, least thats what I thought it was when I google it but ta anyway

according to my google it,s a big ass
hence the pic

Thats what I thought it was as well, urban dictionary version. Apparently there are Non for sale at Amazon nor do they know when they will be getting any in.

ahh maybe this

Sorry the word is Badonkadonk

Thats what I thought it was as well, urban dictionary version. Apparently there are Non for sale at Amazon nor do they know when they will be getting any in.

what, tanks or large bottoms

Badonkadonks not badonkakonks, made a right ass of myself there didnt I

Just seen the Badonkadonk thanks the borg

heres one for tonker
Nihilarian

This task is much more difficult the other way round.

For example, there is a word meaning:

'someone who has never had their hair cut'

Damned if I can remember it though. Could probably find it by Googling, but no-doubt someone will know it and post the answer.

Badonkadonk

It's an anagram

A dank knob do.

Priscus. See post at 28th Jul 2011 at 15:19

Smatchet - No wonder, etc
Right, best skirr.

Isn't the meaning of the word: 'OXYMORON' really disappointing.

It would be a wonderful word to use, if it only meant what it sounded like! I bet it would be a popular word in Cambridge.

Just paid my Gabelle. Now, back to my bacchante

And todays word is, drum roll.... Carriwitchet. Oh and I only just found out that Baldric is a shoulder belt for a sword, there was me thinking it was Tony Robinson. Gwim where did you skirr off to yesterday?

Up to no good, I'll be bound.

Hellraising. Scaring pram laden Mothers by screaming abuse at them, veering off at the last minute...Kicking old Ladies out of wheelchairs whilst wheelying down the pavements at just under warp speed on the motorbike... They seem to like it, they were seen waving at me as I sped off.[:D

I suppose it was a bit of an absurd question legion

Priscus did you find out the word for someone who has never had their hair cut, I googled but no joy, perhaps if you knew a sikh, they would have the answer. Did I spell that right?

He did, EQ...

Posted by: the_gwim_weaper (22515)
Priscus. See post at 28th Jul 2011 at 15:19

Replied: 31st Jul 2011 at 12:13

qwim: well you will keep going invisible!

Ace

It's this cream. Priscus, it has 'effects' you know.

Vanishing cream?

The very effect it causes!

here

Poor popeye

Barouche. People are leaving in droves in them.

and if you fit an automatic dung collector to it...

(doubly cross-threaded)

Peloton

Gwim will be happy with that one My word for today is baragouin.

Have you altered that word, EQ?

What does the word mean?

peloton The main body of riders in a ...whoops bycycle race baragouin = gibberish

pelton

I've heard of a pelton wheel.

Me too, Water wheel...


Baragouin - A rare word in English, 'Baragouin' refers to language so altered as to be unintelligible.

Peloton.

ġeolurēad

The colour or the fruit?

It wur the fruit wot killed it.

And is there a name which rhymes with it?

According to QI. Yes.


Google time.

There's a thought.

What is the name for a word which has no other that rhymes with it?

Blorenge again (01:04)

But what are they called?

If found, would it rhyme with another word?

I'm off, I can feel my hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia comming on!

Anyone seen a women with a tonsure?

Dustaf sees plenty with binoculars.

Is he a Wigan twigger?

Is that short for sexual deviant?

He will be more your Borough Botherer. (Don't want Tonkers ears (eyes) twitching)

removed

programmers have a word for someone who produces an infinite loop.

Would some erudite wordsmith have a go at 'coining' a term for:'attempting to hi-jack a thread by stealth'.

Some concatenation of 'ambush' with 'piggy-backing'.

We certainly have a need for it.

Ham bush + Piggy-back

=


Flitching.

I'll get me coat.

ginnel

Ginnel
"We use it in leeds and surrouding areas. Its like a snicket or passageway. Me and my cousin thought everyone used it till we got down to devon and asked what was down the ginnel. Got some funny looks, i tell thee.

Im gonna go down't ginnel, to't chippy. Im off on ma sen, does thee want some, or should i get once?"

Mancinism

variable privet Guage

Brevet

Looter

Awesome

Nadir is an interesting word

As in adir nadir as well.

Pollywoppus

anachronisms

One of my favourites Freudian Slip

F/S Jokes

Macradenous

Cisvestitism. Or lack of

Nepotism

Entomophagy

Eating moggies. Depending on your definition of moggies

I like this one, Muffineer.

In weer?

Just a bit of badinage on my part there.

Badinage, I like that word.

Whoops

Mathesis.

Veto

reminisce

Intumescent (putty)

Flapdoodle

Slang - Foolish talk; nonsense, Erontquay.

Dostaf, that's puffy, not putty.

I heard the term the other day.

I didn't realise it could be applied (term, not putty) to a body part.

That's a keeper.

"(Term, not putty)" But it's nothing to do with putty though, is it?

Callipygian is a nice rounded word.

Allow me

You're not reet you!

Thanks, Dostaf. So it's a property of the putty-like mastic.

Intumescent putty is used to make a fire-break in cable ducts. There was a nasty fire the other year in a service duct in Manchester. Though I think the putty is used in pipes that cables pass through, rather than larger ducts.

You're welcome, Jo Anne.

A pic

Durst

Abject

Raggy doll

Mus musculus

Hoots

A.Word.A.Day - Subscribe for free

This word

bush trollop

We used to call these Bush trollops because they came out at night,like ladies of the night.

I was very recently watching someone using a dictionary and noticed those alphabetical finger hole type cut-outs down the edge of the pages. I now want to know the proper word for:

those alphabetical finger hole type cut-outs down the edge of the pages



Picture

Of course, Jo Anne. (Thumbs up)

I just googled 'indexed dictionary' to find that pic, but knew there was more to it.

I nearly bought one once, but the extra cost didn't seem worth it. So I got the plain one. (Chepaskate)

Also called cut-in index as well as thumb index.

What a chepaskate!

(I've never even seen them.)

Of course Hollerith had nowt to do with it. Silly me.

Loombogle.

It's true.

I think the plain version was about six quid cheaper. I thought to myself that as I knew 'a' was at the front, 'z' was near the back and 'm' would be somewhere in beteween, the posher one (£6extra) would be sheer decadence.

Hollerith, Erontquay?

Nobody mentioned that.

What's a loombogle when it's at home, Joseph?

Loombogle!

I piggin' googled that an all, mester.

Kenneth Williams as Rambling Syd Rumpo - The Ballad of the Loombogle's

Got it in one jo anne

One Google search, Erontquay. (That Dostaf being a chepaskate again.)

Chepaskate was that typed in a spanish accent.

Wigan-ish, Erontquay.

'Chepaskate'

llareggub

A name on a signpost in one the black and white films from the 1950's

!!

Dylan Thomas?

quite the reverse jo anne

Under Milkwood

There's a word for that, too.

extant

facepalm

Finagle

Verb 1. finagle - achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

"When she was 12 her father died, and his Model T Ford became hers.

Once her politically connected mother, who had arthritic feet and could not drive cars, finagled a driver’s license for the 12-year-old Margaret, she drove her mother everywhere."

(www.nytimes.com)

Ta, Jo Anne. I should have linked the item, rather than the thread.

Aglet.

aglet 1. A tag or sheath, as of plastic, on the end of a lace, cord, or ribbon to facilitate its passing through eyelet holes.

Eddie Izzard mentioned aglet in this

Cracking film. Eddie's character knew lots of obscure facts and words.

Good word that, don't you think, Jo Anne. Not many people know what the end of a shoe lace cover is called

I did.

I know knowledge, me.

We missed that over Christmas, mester. Told it was a good show by all who'd seen it.

I didn't. (To Dostaf's 'I did.')

Aglet is a good word, Joseph. I'll try to remember it.

Tie a knot in the end of your lace to help you remember, Jo Anne.

Aide Memoire.

Sorry, Mache.

I say it every day, just in case, Jo Anne.

Amanuensis

amanuensis - n. pl. amanuenses
One who is employed to take dictation or to copy manuscript.

(I've learned aglet, Joseph.)

Heard it said on the telly.

tel·ly
   [tel-ee] Show IPA

noun, plural -lies. British Informal .
1.
television.

2.
a television receiving set.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Origin:
1935–40; tel(evision) + -y2

See also 'Idiot's Lantern'.

That's you that is.

Just helping the viewers who can't google is all.

Garnering popularity, you mean.

Google 'garnering'.

No need, I know what it means, It's your Surname!

Oh, and sort your Kakidrosis out!

Does it want pruning?

It isn't a Kilmarnock Willow, you know.

Very few people will read this, you know.

The willow came to mind immediately.

I should really have typed 'trimming'.

Why is 'malodorous' seemingly American?

Odour - Odor.

I've not mentioned yon mon's malodorous dog for a while.

Poor Dog. I do like a nice Schnauzer.

Euphemism

There's one for your public.

Alow me

A euphemism is the substitution of a mild, inoffensive, relatively uncontroversial phrase, for a frank expression that might offend or otherwise suggest something unpleasant to the audience.

Some euphemisms are intended to amuse, while others are created to mislead or at least put a positive spin on events. Euphemisms can also be used in the place of words considered profane.


Wiki

My Public adore me!

Being frugal with your L's there I note.

Fore edge.

I've still remembered 'aglet'.

How is everyone else getting on with all the other words?

Mountebank

Erontquay - 'I shall require a sentence using these words.' 28th Jul 2011 at 14:38

relegation

cloistered

Follower

A word that describes some people on here

Erotomania

Welcome back

Was getting a bit worried

Coliform

Amoeba!

liquidung

Nice to see you all posting again.....it seems lately that if one stops posting so does the other........hummmmmmmmmmmmm

Awww. here you are, a little gift

HAHAHAHAHAHA

AHAHAHAHAHAH ?

That best you can do......no wonder you need our wife to stick up for you

We'll squash the lad....HAHAHAHAHA

Good un

Sweet potato

I googled.

We'll squash the lad....HAHAHAHAHA

Eh?

Int google great

I'm just glad your back one.....it's unusual for someone who spends there life on here to be missing for so long

Posted by: walshy76 (6270)
That best you can do......no wonder you need our wife to stick up for you

Replied: 19th Mar 2012 at 15:20

HAHAHAHA
I have a Mrs....Funny your mum doesn't post since I 'outed' her.

lol @ squashing

*WHOOSH*

I'm not going to handbags So there

Ganderbags here we come.

He course you did.....why don't you try and be man enough to admit that you didn't get it

Never thought I would be explaining something to mr perfect

Someone said to whoever "are you walshys mum" and ever since then that person as always said from "walshys mum",as in going along with the joke

We no you have a mrs, she sticks up for you

Outed,just remind me again who went inactive and then came back under another name

I await whilst the big mac does one of his usual searches

Cockalorum

He course you did.....why don't you try and be man enough to admit that you didn't get it


We no you have a mrs, she sticks up for you

It was me who aked your mummy if she was your mummy, (It's you with another name, glassback)

(Swify and flossy)

I didn't hide the fact I changed my name, you hide the fact you have three username, wasty

Apologies, EQ. I shall leave your thread alone now.

Subterfuge

No you assumed I had 3 names just like you assume that person was my mummy

Now I can see you getting agitated but I didn't no you had change your name, you had plenty of chances to own up to when I made comments ....but you didn't

So is that not hiding the fact

Edited so some people,or is it just the one, won't get upset

lol@ not telling the monkey!!!

HAHAHAHAHA!

you had plenty of chances to tell me but you never owned up to me about it

(Swify

Oh dear we are slacking today

You are slack every day.

Is that what happens when you get wound up

Wouldn't know, I have muscle definition.

Is that because its all fat




Apologies, EQ. I shall leave your thread alone now.

Replied: 19th Mar 2012 at 15:39

HUMILIATED!

Fat muscle?

Plenty of it I should imagine

Lies again, tut,tut

Admit when you are beaten, Mac.

Or submit, if you wish.

Apologies, EQ. I shall leave your thread alone now.

Replied: 19th

If only

Capitulate

Admit when you are beaten, Mac.

Ye, listen to mac.....dostaf.......I mean listen to dostaf......mac

I'm getting all confused here

Allow me to give you a March explanation, Walshy.

Mac, Gwim Weaper, That Big Lad Wot Left seems to know you personally.

I do not.

Where does it say that he knows me personally ..........hummmmmmm

Read again

Hahaha.

Posted by: walshy76 (6284)
Admit when you are beaten, Mac.

Ye, listen to mac.....dostaf.......I mean listen to dostaf......mac

I'm getting all confused here

Replied: 19th Mar 2012 at 16:05





click my name, (again), look at my pic, then post one of yourself.

Still laughing at the "I'm getting all confused here" line.

Just preparing for worst "case" scenario

Been looking (well googling ) for a word to describe a fear of handbags.

Nowt doing.

Plastybolsaphobia. That's 'some people's Mummies' best handbag that is.

I nearly resisted googling that.

But only nearly.

Read again

show me

click my name, (again), look at my pic, then post one of yourself

i didnt no you wore glasses

is there a word for "needing your wife to stick up for you"

MONKEY!
The man wearing spectacles is the hilariously funny Frankie Boyle. I do like him.

He didnt no, you know.

Gogore

asinine

click my name, (again), look at my pic, then post one of yourself

just remembered, why do i need to post a picture of myself if you know me personally




so you haven't put a picture of yourself on

I never typed I know you personally. remember better. (I wish I did though).
Yes, I have. Just because you can't see my face doesn't mean I am invisible.

didnt you say you knew me,when you used another name,im sure if you search all the site,like you normally do,you could,if you wanted to,find it

i agree, even you cant be invisible

So, to recap, you are typing that I didn't say I knew you, even when I used another name?
Even though I didn't tell you that I had left and rejoined when everyone else knew?

You are also ceding the fact that I have a picture up, even though you claimed I wore glasses, and was that smashing comedian, Frankie Boyle?

lets start again,you really are slacking today


when you used another name i am sure you said you knew me and the name lyndsay comes to mind,i think you said something along the lines of "lyndsay always said you where a pain in the ....."

i asked you plenty of times "are you that big lad what left" but you never said yes,not that it matters, i mean im not going to lose any sleep over it

you said "click my name, (again), look at my pic" i looked and the only proper picture,not blocked out, was of someone wearing glasses

maybe you should have said"click my name, (again), look at my pic, im one of them chaps with the face blocked out"

LOL....Asinine.

I don't(Sadly) know you, You would know if I did.

Psot where I said (Typed) i knew you.


I would never type 'im one of them chaps with the face blocked out'


Now, remind me, where is your Brother based, and what rank is he?

i wish i could spend my life on here searching the site........but i cant

i thought you said you came in the bookies looking for me

Find the thread, monkey.
Or stop bleating....
I DID go into Coral bookies looking for you, I also went in the Norley and asked Miss Cu******** if she knew you, I asked the former Landlord who was in at the time, (Mr B) if he knew you, they both said no.
Answer my question regarding your Policeman Brother.

oh dear,me thinks you could be getting upset now

how can you go looking for someone in the bookies if you dont no them


west midlands,dont no, or care,what rank he is

no doubt you would be higher than him no matter what i had put

lol....bulls droppings!

so finally,you admit to going into the bookies

but if you dont no me,or what i look like,how could you say i could get out of the bookies quick enough when i saw you,


someone who i dont no

wheres you mate gone????????????

I don't know where he is. I shall await your proof I claimed I know you. I never denied that I went in the bookies looking for you, I asked the girls working there if they knew the name, same in the Norley.

awaiot

youll have a long wait........i dont trawl this site all day every day

like i said if you wanted to find it you would

Still found nothing, monkey poo thrower?
Thought not.

Mummy must have gone to the Bingo and left you home alone.

BUSTED!

I just writted that ^^^^^^ on 'Handbags'.

Pass the smelling salts. Again

Posted by: Mac (5822)
Still found nothing, monkey poo thrower?
Thought not.

Replied: 19th Mar 2012 at 21:42

if you dont no me how do you know it was me who supposedly couldnt

" get out of the bookies quick enough when i saw you,"

as long as your wife doesnt leave YOU alone........how would you cope



nice to see your mates turned up

No proof yet?
Wasty, in body and time.

if you dont no me how do you know it was me who supposedly couldnt

" get out of the bookies quick enough when i saw you,"

if you dont understand that.........ask your wife

big lad

Posted by: walshy76 (6305)
didnt you say you knew me,when you used another name,im sure if you search all the site,like you normally do,you could,if you wanted to,find it

Replied: 19th Mar 2012 at 18:18


I await proof of your allegations.

i cant make it any clearer

i wouldnt say i didnt no someone and then say

the person i call didnt no couldnt

" get out of the bookies quick enough when i saw you,"

how did you no it was me

"I await proof of your allegations" will come next

no mention of your ex girlfriend lyndsay

I know no, 'Lyndsay' You need to prove the comment, you can't, deflection is all.
This thread is now in Handbags, another one from you, wasty.
Start your own thread to ruin.

"I await proof of your allegations"

hahaha

from the main thread ruiner who posts smutty links/pictures and comments that are totally irrelevant to the thread

even a big lad like you will only admit/deny what they want to

So no proof then?


Why am I not surprised!


"would be interesting to see where i have actually sadie" I know you

"Catch you again for more of this nonsense"

if i could find it i dont think i would post it as i wouldnt want you to get so upset you start threatening to find out where i live and come banging on my door

SO you can't find it then...LIAR.

Morning dostaf you're up early

if i spent all my life on here and found it i wouldnt post it because i dont want a big lad,who can give it but cant take it, finding out where i live and banging on my door.........very brave that

I would suggest it would be 'less brave' to hide behind a keyboard.
I wouldn't 'bang on your door'

and what tell the truth

did you not say you would come banging on my door,i could be mistaken

I would certainly enjoy 'paying you a visit'.
Remember what you typed when I offered to?....Something about telling on me?

i thought i remember you saying you would find out where i lived and come banging on my door,someone who you thought had a muscle wasting problem.....very brave

all that just because you can give it but cant take it

prove it, wasty.

The post where my Mrs 'sticks up for me'

Renind yourself, wasty.

Posted by: ladyloll (183)
Walshy

I often read but very rarely do I comment on these boards unless I feel I can add some comments of value. However I cannot let some of your latest accusations against Gwim go without responding. (I am Gwim's better half btw)

You have made some very strong comments recently about Gwim and soldiers so let me put the record straight. Some 15 months ago my nephew was killed in action in Afghanistan.
Now as well as grieving the loss of a family member of which he has known since a boy, Gwim also has shown his respect time and time over by attending other fallen soldiers repatriations and funeral ceremonies. Now I don't tell you this to defend Gwim (as we all know he is very big and capable!) but he would never divulge such details out of respect for me, my nephew and the soldiers ceremonies he has attended. For you to suggest that he would insult any of our troops is highly offensive to me and other bereaved families.

If you must carry on with your childish games - which are at times admittedly amusing to read can I suggest that you stick with attempting to insult Gwim and not use sensitive topics that can cause distress and offence to others. There are boundaries which should never be crossed and our troops be either serving, KIA or retired are one of those boundaries. To use them as you have done to try and score petty points is despicable and tells people far more about what type of person you are than him.


Replied: 28th Oct 2011 at 16:

I'm sure the knocking,or banging on the door was right

eat your own words

tussie-mussie

duh

Baloon knot.

There are a few repeats of Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows doing the rounds at the moment.

there's a belting running joke in the 1975 one where Ernie Wise takes the role of Saumuel Pepys, writing a play.

He's repeatedly shown with quill in hand scribbling away and voicing his thoughts.

Every now and then he mentions a word, then sayes "I like that, that's a good word, I'll use that".

But

He never can spell the words, so substitutes them for easier ones to write.

Nowt to do with owt, really. But it reminds me of the 'new word' threads.

When did this thread arrive?

Returned yesterday. I couldn't find the other. It's on 'general' as we type.

with dostafs tussie mussie at about 16.30 yesterday

Mac, nosegays.

NOSIST!

Which then in turn led to this

Resulting in yet another resurrection

Ar you satisfied now, Mac?

Or need I go further back?

Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.