What's the last new word you learned?

[LaDaronne]

Mine is the rather pleasing flong, paper pulp used to make moulds in printing. What's yours?

Dysania. The inability to get out of bed in the morning.

perfidious

Anthropomorphic - meaning human like either in appearance or attributes.

I do rather like the sound flong makes and possibly suffer from dysania! 😂

Catasterised. To be elevated to being a celestial body, like what the Greek gods did to people.

Zoonotic. I hope I spelt it correctly

Aetiology - meaning cause or causation. Good old essay writing

Siphonophore. Thanks, Octonauts!

Fleshlight, thanks Mumsnet!

Went round the Toyota factory yesterday and learnt Genchi Genbutsu and Kaizen which mean 'Go and See' and 'Improvement'

Calligram - A word which when written looks like the image of the word itself. E.g. big written in large font or hot written to look like flames are coming from the letters.

Presque vu - forgetting something, but feeling that you could remember it at any minute.

Plopping aka curly girl friendly turban tying

pathetic fallacy
noun
the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

Quasar is "a massively remote celestial object." Came up on the Guardian 's codeword today. Never heard of it.

Plongeur, a French washer of dishes and do other menial work in a restaurant.

I've already learned two new words off the back of this thread

Cunty chops.
My all time mn fav!

Fartle, or fardel - a bundle or clump. Thanks, Shakespeare!

Mine is perfidious too! Heard it in an audiobook that I got with a free MN code!

Balwark - a person or thing that acts as a defence.

Orthogonal. At right angles to, rather than diagonal.

A bulwark?

Yes, Bobbin, bulwark. Thanks!

Aglet. The little plastic end of a shoelace.

porphyry: ancient rock :)