What's your favorite uncommonly used word?

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apoplexy - have a stroke

apoplectic - be very angry

Gina
 
BostonTim said:
That is awesome. You've outdone yourself.
Future trivia q. name a word (quite likely the only word) with 6 Zs in it.
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patsload said:
Defenestration, I often threaten my daughter with it :D
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Ah Defenestration, I need to use it more often in conversation.

A favourite of mine has to be "curmudgeon"

The Oxford English Dictionary (aka the Proper Dictionary) defines it as "A bad-tempered or surly person"

Also love "Dreich" a wonderful Scottish word typically used when talking about wet weather, it's relatively common in Scotland, but doesn't seem to have been taken up elsewhere.
 
TipRoast said:
Ah, yes, the anatomical offspring of a dog and a pigeon, conceived in a bog of primordial ooze.

A low-budget chimera, if you will.
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Your muse is currently in an amusing place. :thumb:
 
For someone who isn't a lawyer, I use lessor and lessee often with my rental property. Personally, I slip in kith or ilk when I can.
 
bmooney54 said:
For someone who isn't a lawyer, I use lessor and lessee often with my rental property. Personally, I slip in kith or ilk when I can.
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I came here to suggest ilk. Because I used it today in a different thread and say hey why not. It was in the context of the ilk of human blindness.

Cheers
 
Splendiferous - splendid or having great beauty and splendor.

It's much more fun than just saying splendid.

Uncommon phrase I like - Dickhat Cilantro. It's when you have sex with a girl who hasn't shaved/trimmed enough down there and you get some left over hair on your condom. I made it up when I was drunk. You're welcome.
 
PatriotInIndy said:
Splendiferous - splendid or having great beauty and splendor.

It's much more fun than just saying splendid.

Uncommon phrase I like - Dickhat Cilantro. It's when you have sex with a girl who hasn't shaved/trimmed enough down there and you get some left over hair on your condom. I made it up when I was drunk. You're welcome.
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:spock:
 
Ryan91 said:
Ah Defenestration, I need to use it more often in conversation.

A favourite of mine has to be "curmudgeon"

The Oxford English Dictionary (aka the Proper Dictionary) defines it as "A bad-tempered or surly person"

Also love "Dreich" a wonderful Scottish word typically used when talking about wet weather, it's relatively common in Scotland, but doesn't seem to have been taken up elsewhere.
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Yeah, I've never heard Dreich used outside of Scotland, either. Outwith is another word particular to your part of the world as well.

About the only thing I can think of from Lancashire (where I was partly brought up) is a tendency to say "is it not?", instead of "isn’t it?". The American equivalent would be "oh really?".
 
gomezcat said:
Yeah, I've never heard Dreich used outside of Scotland, either. Outwith is another word particular to your part of the world as well.
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Out with it!

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