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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)
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You have to tread a fine line between avant-garde surrealism and getting yourself sectioned...
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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2015, 12:52:12 pm » |
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Penultimate - the next to last of anything...  |
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Madasasteamfish
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2015, 01:40:06 pm » |
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Lunting - the act of walking whilst smoking a pipe.
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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."
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Nothing beats a good hat.
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« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2015, 02:09:27 pm » |
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Indubitably - That cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable....
And a musical word on the tongue.
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The legs have fallen off my Victorian Lady...
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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2015, 02:23:01 pm » |
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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'  |
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« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2015, 02:57:38 pm » |
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ever since I started to learn English i have a certain fascination with the word 'roundabout'.
i don't know why!
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I actually know basic clockmaking now!
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SeVeNeVeS
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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2015, 03:11:51 pm » |
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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  |
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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2015, 03:42:16 pm » |
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please explain 0_0
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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2015, 07:17:00 pm » |
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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). |
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« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2015, 11:17:43 pm » |
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...and I thought it was a song by Yes... |
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« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2015, 04:42:18 pm » |
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...and I thought it was a song by Yes... They might be connected, in a roundabout way... |
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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 5838 km from Reading
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« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2015, 03:45:26 am » |
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Sesquipedalian: characterized by long words; long-winded. and dappled which sounds and looks like what it means. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2015, 05:36:41 am » |
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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... |
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Choose a code to live by, die by it if you have to.
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« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2015, 07:29:54 am » |
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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.
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Cora Courcelle
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« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2015, 06:03:23 pm » |
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Words don't have to be fancy to be luscious, (which is itself a perfectly wonderful word meaning ~ delectable or delightful)
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« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2015, 06:32:35 pm » |
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...and I thought it was a song by Yes... Earworm: a piece of music which gets into your head and won't leave. |
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« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2015, 01:45:16 am » |
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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 |
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« Reply #18 on: October 15, 2015, 02:05:38 am » |
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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... |
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« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2015, 07:19:09 pm » |
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I can think of much worse things to have in your head.
I never said it was a bad thing. |
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« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2015, 05:41:32 am » |
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psychedelia
phantasmagoria
funkadelic
morphia
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Colonel Hawthorne
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« Reply #21 on: October 23, 2015, 02:06:44 am » |
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Ratiocination
Lubriciousness
(not necessarily at the same time)
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« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2015, 01:12:13 am » |
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obsequious
It forces the emotion of distain through pronunciation. It slithers and writhes as a word as it escapes the lips.
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« Reply #23 on: October 25, 2015, 09:54:19 am » |
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Triskaidekaphobia. Fear of the number thirteen
BTW I have been told that Sesquipedalian literally means "sixty legged word".
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“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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« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2015, 10:08:45 am » |
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Floccinaucinihilipilification. The estimation that something is worthless. Just don't ask me how to pronounce it.
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