Calamity Jane Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 I LOVE words -- fun stuff! Slang also rocks (I remember learning "squidgmen" or something on here from the Scotties -- what was that term again, Guigs?) This past weekend, I "learned" some folks the British term "snog", as in "I snogged my bit o' stuff last night." For reference, I am Dave's "bit of stuff". (not a terribly flattering term, but cute!) Willy just used the word finagle (spelled inaccurately) which sent me immediately to my dictionary. On the way to finagle, I found: "fecula": 1. fecal matter, esp. of insects. 2. dregs or foul or muddy water. from the Latin faecula meaning the crust of wine! wtf? what's a crust of wine? I LOVE words! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 One of my all-time favourite words is "defenestrate", meaning, "to throw someone (or something) through a window".My dictionary doesn't have "fecula", but does have "feculence", which means (among other things) "dregs or sediment", which would be that "crust of wine": the junk that accumulates at the bottom of a wine bottle or barrel.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFoolery Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Ha ha ha - I learned "defenestrate" from a buddy working at Harlequin books as a proof-reader. One of their 'action' writers had the villain crash his car into a concrete embankment, be defenestrated (shoulda had his seat belt on), then the car flipped onto him, then blew up for good measure.He used to keep a journal of wonderful quotes and passages from his job.Anyway, one of my favourite words is abstemious. First, because I'm NOT. Second, its got all the vowels in order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 you thinkin' of smengy (or shmengy), deb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Jane Posted August 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 yep, that's the one -- I need help on the pronunciation, too.abstemious! cool, TF, but where's the "sometimes Y"???"Deb, drinking permit in hand, no longer needs to approach the keg line abstemiously." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 hmm.. ok.. well, i pronounce it like this:sh-men-guy (like the french male name, ie: Guy Lafleur) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can-o-phish Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Words and slang conjur up so many images in the mind. Where would we be without them. Lost. The slang always gets me as I hail from the maritimes where the lobster pots overflow with it. I came across some slang in a Dar Williams CD in which she was writing about one of her songs and where the inspiration for it came from..."The chorus of this came into my head while I was being rolfed!" No explanation needed on this one and there's nothing like a good rolfing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Uh, rolfing is not slang, it refers to a particular kind of massage:http://www.rolf.org/Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can-o-phish Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 I sit corrected and feeling a little silly as there is a dictionary within arms reach...however, I still think Dar was using "Rolf" in a different context... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paan Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Snog is one of my favourite recently learned words...And I like phantasmagoric too.... copasetic and SHAZAM! are pretty cool too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 OINTMENT - just fun to sayFACETIOUS - only English word with all the vowels in the right orderINEFFABLE - a word to describe the indescribable "an ineffable experience"ahh, good times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mister slippery Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 "Yo Yo Ma"!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 porkin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peipunk Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Discombobulated- upset, confusede.g. After huffing his third nitrous balloon in a row, Henry looked utterly discombobulated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can-o-phish Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Then there's always "Jostled" as in "quit yer jostlin'...yer shakin' the van!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFoolery Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Hey Weezy,See above...AbstemiousArseniousFacetiousThere's three. How's that for picking a nit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 discorporate - it means to leave your body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Jane Posted August 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 then there's fun with pronunciation:al-loo-min-eee-um OR al-loo-min-um? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leanner Banner Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 belligerent - inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness Fun to say and fun to be. "I'd break your fuckin' nose \/\/i!!y; and I don't know how you'd look afterwards." :crazy: "This is my cup bitch, get your own." Two examples of Deb being belligerent after one sip of my elixir at Lose Yer Shoes. She is the Master of Belligerence. FYI. elixir - a sweetened liquid usually containing alcohol that is used in medication either for its medicinal ingredients or as a flavoring Love Ya Girl! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 ...after one sip of my elixir... Holly shit there Shithead. I thought you were just about to crawl out of the LEZBO cellar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 then there's fun with pronunciation:al-loo-min-eee-um OR al-loo-min-um?british : al-loo-min-eee-umnorth american : al-loo-min-umcletus : thayt light metally stuff what they makes mah beer cans outa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 My all time favourite word: Duotang!Def: Multiple (ty: two) Tangs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 AbstemiousArseniousFacetiousThere's three. How's that for picking a nit. I was lied to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellaBlue Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Someone tried to tell me that: "IRREGARDLESS" was a word the other day. I told him that there was no such word and that it should be "REGARDLESS". He insisted it was a word, so I told him if that was so to show it to me in a dictionary. Sure enough it was there! IRREGARDLESS: 1. an erroneous redundancy for regardless. 2. a mistaken fusion of irrespective and regardless. So it IS a word because it's in the dictionary but it's not a word becasue the dictionary defines it as such. Wait, isn't that the definition of IRONIC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Why do we have both the word "flammable" and "inflammable"? Isn't that just asking for a bad incident to happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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