Some of my recent favourites:
Sandillions - Numbers like grains of sand on the shore. (in other words... "a lot" of something. lol)
Dalliance - Amorous Play; Trifling
Aphotic - Having no light; relating to the region of a body of water where no sunlight can reach
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Splendiferous English!
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 04:04 PM
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 05:07 PM
sarah_444, on 26 June 2012 - 04:04 PM, said:
Some of my recent favourites:
Sandillions - Numbers like grains of sand on the shore. (in other words... "a lot" of something. lol)
Dalliance - Amorous Play; Trifling
Aphotic - Having no light; relating to the region of a body of water where no sunlight can reach
Sandillions - Numbers like grains of sand on the shore. (in other words... "a lot" of something. lol)
Dalliance - Amorous Play; Trifling
Aphotic - Having no light; relating to the region of a body of water where no sunlight can reach
I love dalliance and use it fairly frequently, such a nice word.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
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I reckon so.
Posted 26 June 2012 - 05:19 PM
schizoidwoman, on 26 June 2012 - 05:07 PM, said:
I love dalliance and use it fairly frequently, such a nice word.
A dalliance a day? lol
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 05:21 PM
ealdwita, on 26 June 2012 - 03:40 PM, said:
In the course of my work, I have encountered many slang words and phrases and I've been rummaging among my files for good examples. The best come from 16/17th.Cent Legal papers. Here's a few I've selected....
Frummagemmed = hanged or strangled
High Pad = highwayman
Lullypriggers = thieves who steal from washing lines
Drawer-latches = burglars
Pennyweighter = forger
Underdubber = prison guard
...and so on!
Frummagemmed = hanged or strangled
High Pad = highwayman
Lullypriggers = thieves who steal from washing lines
Drawer-latches = burglars
Pennyweighter = forger
Underdubber = prison guard
...and so on!
I'll add footpad, to keep your high pad company.
A few more for you:
Bastonaded - To be cudgelled
Damber - A rascally fellow
Flam - A tall tale
So any dambers telling their flams round here better watch out or they'll find themselves in receipt of a bastonading!
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 02:46 PM
sistren - The ancient plural of sister. Chaucer speaks of the fates, or weird sisters, as "the fatal sustren." Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms [1848] says that the word is a "vulgarism sometimes heard from uneducated preachers [in] the West" ... It appears, however, that the word was not vulgar in Chaucer's time. It is, as such, as well entitled to a place in pulpit eloquence as its equally antique partner, brethren. (from Charles Mackay's Lost Beauties of the English Language, 1874)
Illegal immigration isn't a new concept in the US. Just ask the Native Americans.
"...it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
"...it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 07:32 PM
Knight Of Shadows, on 24 June 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:
digs through the dictionaries
hab habe something .. ahh to hell with it
let's face it this topic is just not for me
hab habe something .. ahh to hell with it
let's face it this topic is just not for me
I like words like erudite and mellifluous, but personally I like Spanish words so much better...
Edited by ScreamingSarcasm, 27 June 2012 - 07:41 PM.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 07:47 PM
Another favourite of mine is meretricious. I love that word!
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:01 PM
green gown - To give a lass a green gown, to throw her down upon the grass so that the gown was stained. (from Walter Skeat's Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, 1914)
Skipping the alternative meaning.
Skipping the alternative meaning.
Illegal immigration isn't a new concept in the US. Just ask the Native Americans.
"...it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
"...it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:29 PM
Eldorado, on 22 June 2012 - 05:32 PM, said:
What's the most "splendid" word or words you've ever used or heard used?
Splendid <-- well I have used it on occasion lol
Edited by Beckys_Mom, 28 June 2012 - 03:30 PM.
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I reckon so.
Posted 28 June 2012 - 05:16 PM
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Curious people are interesting people, I wonder why that is?
Posted 29 June 2012 - 02:18 AM
nomenclature.
I choose this as my splendiferous word today.......not because its extraordinary............ it just tickles me
I choose this as my splendiferous word today.......not because its extraordinary............ it just tickles me
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Posted 29 June 2012 - 08:27 AM
Eldorado, on 28 June 2012 - 05:16 PM, said:
If you'd had some brandy, you could have mixed yourself a conny wabble to wash it down, though having tried it in the interests of research for my novelling, I don't recommend it.
Edited by schizoidwoman, 29 June 2012 - 08:30 AM.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
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Posted 02 July 2012 - 01:16 PM
ruttier - An old traveler acquainted with roads; from route, French routier. (from Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
also...
A set of instructions for finding one's course at sea; a marine guide to the routes, tides, etc. (from Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1909)
also...
A set of instructions for finding one's course at sea; a marine guide to the routes, tides, etc. (from Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1909)
Illegal immigration isn't a new concept in the US. Just ask the Native Americans.
"...it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
"...it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
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I reckon so.
Posted 02 July 2012 - 01:42 PM
schizoidwoman, on 29 June 2012 - 08:27 AM, said:
If you'd had some brandy, you could have mixed yourself a conny wabble to wash it down, though having tried it in the interests of research for my novelling, I don't recommend it.
I salute your indefatigability in your research!
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Posted 02 July 2012 - 03:07 PM
Snowdropper --
Person who steals laundry; especially women's underwear from clothes-lines.
Person who steals laundry; especially women's underwear from clothes-lines.
Edited by Eldorado, 02 July 2012 - 03:07 PM.
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