Great English words

[Buick Mackane]

I swiped this list of cool English words, do you have any favourites to share?

Erinaceous - Like a hedgehog

Lamprophony - Loudness and clarity of voice

Depone - To testify under oath

Finnimbrun - A trinket or knick-knack

floccinaucinihilipilification - Estimation that something is valueless. Proper pronunciation based on Latin roots: flockə-nowsə-nəkələ-pələ-fək-ation.

Inaniloquent - Pertaining to idle talk

Limerance - An attempt at a scientific study into the nature of romantic love.

Mesonoxian - Pertaining to midnight

Mungo - A dumpster diver – one who extracts valuable things from trash

Nihilarian - A person who deals with things lacking importance (pronounce the ‘h’ like a ‘k’).

Nudiustertian - The day before yesterday

Phenakism - Deception or trickery

Pronk - A weak or foolish person

Pulveratricious - Covered with dust

Rastaquouere - A social climber

Scopperloit - Rude or rough play

Selcouth - Unfamiliar, rare, strange, marvelous, wonderful

Tyrotoxism - To be poisoned by cheese

Widdiful - Someone who deserves to be hanged

Zabernism - The abuse of military power or authority. Not applicable to terb moderators.

 

[dirkd101]

Thank you Buick, this is very nihilarian of you for providing such a list of selcouth words. This list is truly floccinaucinihilipilification.

 

[FatOne]

Coitus
Bazinga

All other words are for girls and gays.

 

[needinit]

pollicitation (puh-lis-i-TAY-shuhn) noun

A promise or an offer made but not yet accepted.

[From Latin pollicitation, from polliceri (to promise).]



Sure sounds like Politician to me!!

 

[Boss Nass]

Cunt


My work here is done.

 

[buttercup]

Thank you Buick, this is very nihilarian of you for providing suck a list of selcouth words. This list is truly floccinaucinihilipilification.

We use floccinaucinihilipilification a lot. In my circle, we always pronounce it "flocksi . . ." , but whatever gets you thriough the night. It doesn't just mean that something is unimportant - flocksi is the name for the quality or habit of saying/thinking that valuable things are mere trifles.

We capitalize Nihilarian. It's the name for a follower of certain beliefs, like "Christian". We don't use the word as an adjective.

You often hear the word 'selcouth' in speech, of course - but until now, none of us had ever seen the word used in an actual sentence; so hats off to you on that one.