Words you thought had a different meaning

[longtompot]

I heard the word Turgid on Gardeners World recently. I always thought it meant stagnant, but it means full of water!
Are there any words you thought meant one thing but found out it was something else?

*different!

Turgid means swollen, distended...so it could easily apply to a penis!

Turbid is cloudy/opaque, maybe that's why you thought stagnant water?

And I think bucolic has a negative sound because it's like bubonic!

My aunty (then about 9) went to USA 40 odd years ago and was telling the class all about her pussy and everyone started sniggering. It wasn't a 'rude' word back then here.

Erstwhile...I thought it meant brave. I think because I’d only read it in stories ‘his erstwhile companions...’. Rather than meaning former. I only realised when someone used it on the news and brave simply didn’t fit.

Is it choleric you're confusing with bucolic Codename? I think of that as applying to red faced older men.

I once listened to someone talk about the negative impact of the male gays, and was shocked by how homophobic they sounded... turned out they were saying "male gaze" hahaha

On here so often people confuse “wary” and “weary” and I find it unreasonably annoying .

Wary - suspicious of something, watchful

Weary - tired

@MsTSwift

On here so often people confuse “wary” and “weary” and I find it unreasonably annoying .

Wary - suspicious of something, watchful

Weary - tired

Yes that really annoys me! My old boss used to actually say weary instead of wary out loud and that used to irritate me but of course I couldn’t say anything. Was amazing how often it got said once I’d noticed!

When I was very young, watching TV adverts for dogfood, and they used to advertise Kennomeat as 'packed full of stamina' - obviously meaning that it would give your dog lots of energy.

For an unreasonable number of years afterwards, I thought that 'stamina' was the word for that jelly kind of stuff around the meat in dogfood....