What's your favorite uncommonly used word?

[Undertaker #59*]

Verklempt (choked with emotion) is a good one for Planet members that go back to the beginning.

One I like that I really need to try and use more is "pernicious" (having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.)

 

[TipRoast]

Perspicacious is one of my favorites.

It describes "the spontaneous, uncontrolled release of sweat" that sometimes happens when a shy man is introduced to a pretty girl.

 

[BostonTim]

Maybe my favorite: Antepenultimate: don't know if I've used it here but I squeeze it in whenever possible

Ultimate = Last
penultimate = next to last
antepenultimate = next to next to last.


Cheers

 

[BostonTim]

Perspicacious is one of my favorites.

It describes "the spontaneous, uncontrolled release of sweat" that sometimes happens when a shy man is introduced to a pretty girl.

Is one who insists on perspiring perspinacious?


Cheers

 

[patfan64]

Multiplicative.

What's my prize?

 

[gomezcat]

In written work, I'm quite a fan of "de facto", "nevertheless" and "somewhat".

The only spoken one I can think of is "chuck". I use it as a term of endearment and it's a Northern English word (possibly specific to Manchester and Lancashire, where I'm from originally).

In the North, we pronounce our "u"s in a sound that's Germanic - think Daphne from Frasier (although the actress is actually a Southerner).

I would therefore say "ta, chuck" to Mrs Cat, meaning "thanks, hon".

 

[jetsknicks1]

Winning.

 

[gomezcat]

Multiplicative.

What's my prize?

Ooh, I like that.

 

[BostonTim]

Winning.

That must be a hard word to have as your favorite.
But so perfectly fits the rubrick. ROFL


Cheers

 

[PatsFanLisa]

egregious - outstandingly bad. shocking, appalling, terrible, awful, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous.

Synonyms: Roger Goodell, Donald Trump.

No, really. It's in the dictionary.

 

[Roberto71]

Precipitously

Erudite

 

[O_P_T]

Huzzah!

 

[Claremonster]

Mayhap is a fun word. Also the word underpants.

 

[imapig]

gunt butter two words, but used often.

 

[BostonTim]

Multiplicative.

What's my prize?

A big box of positive integers identity functions.

 

[TipRoast]

The terminology of spoken language has some very nice words:

The word "phonemes" is descriptive of the category, which include these:

vowels
consonants
plosives
sibilants (a.k.a. fricatives)

and my favorite

diphthongs

 

[patsload]

Defenestration, I often threaten my daughter with it

 

[deec77]

megalomaniac - Goodell

~Dee~

 

[Big/Sky/Fly]

Perspicacious is one of my favorites.

It describes "the spontaneous, uncontrolled release of sweat" that sometimes happens when a shy man is introduced to a pretty girl.

Hyperhidrosis is similar...

 

[Big/Sky/Fly]

megalomaniac - Goodell

~Dee~

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