What word should be used more often?

[Athenajm80]

Inspired by a poster's use of the word "parsimonious" on a different thread, I was wondering if there are any words you love and wish were used more often?

Someone on the matrix thread pointed out the term "High jinks and jiggery pokery" sounded great and they were going to try to use it more.

I realised that although I think I have quite a good vocabulary, I tend not to use more unusual words, usually picked up from Gyles and Susie on their podcast, and I think it's a shame. English is such a rich language, I am going to try to make an effort to use more colourful and interesting words. Please give me your suggestions 🙂

Ebullient
Predicated

Apparently, banjaxed means ruined or destroyed, pastypirate.

Or you can say you're banjaxed to mean completely knackered, wiped out. Is it Irish? I know it from growing up with Irish parents.

Absquatulate

Wazzock … definitely!!
Lush

Lovely thread. Didn't Terry Wogan use 'banjaxed'?

I knew someone who deliberately mispronounced 'chaos' as 'chouse' to rhyme with 'house'.

shog as used by Shakespeare.

Time for me to shog off.

@Inextremis

Coddiwomple - “to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination”.

Ooh I like that. I have an aptitude for it.

Scurryfunge urgent cleaning before unanticipated guests.

Hurdy-gurdy

Jollification
Merrymaking
Carouse

Pugnacious
Belligerent
Truculent

And you can't beat a good 'Prat'

Yeah, when I looked up banjaxed it said it was Irish, midsomermurderess.

Fisticuffs is another word that is underused.

cumudgeonly,
vicariously,
serendipity,
bonhomie,

Flibbertigibbet!

Pamphlet
Bosoms

I just used popinjay in a thread!

Love these words, I'm going to have to make a list of them 😀😀

Hotchpotch
Dilly-dally
Poppycock

Blithering (as in idiot)
Rascal
Ragamuffin
Floozie
Gruntled, though I’ve only ever seen it in P G Wodehouse, as in, ‘If not exactly disgruntled, he was very far from being gruntled.’

Skedaddle
Skew-whiff
Sozzled
Squiffy
Strumpet

Machiavellian

Canoodle
Whole kit and caboodle

Defenestration - the act of throwing someone from a window.

I can’t think how one would use it in a sentence other than to threaten to defenestrate someone who irked you somehow but I certainly think it’s a word that needs to be bandied about a bit more. Perhaps Boris, Prince Andrew, etc. wouldn’t be so inclined to be idiotic if people threatened to defenestrate them more often…?

1. No

2.Cut of your jib (not one word, sorry)

Wazzock needs to make a comeback.

Definitely.
"Scurryfungeurgent cleaning before unanticipated guests."
I love that there is a word for this.

I give you some regional ones
shook
scundered
thran

And if we're doing one in, one out I agree with a PP that "unprecendented" can be binned along with
iconic
vibrant

Shenanigans

I use all of these on a regular basis.

However, the words "Covid" and "test" should be used far less often.

ne'er-do-well

And Brexit, I shuddered on 23rd June 2016 knowing that monster would become part of the vernacular.