To ask you what words you love that you rarely get to use?

[Ethelfleda]

Help others expand their vocabulary

I like ‘anthropomorphise’ and ‘Schadenfreude’
But so rarely get to use them in a sentence. So it feels good to do that here!

Hit me with your most eloquent sentences

My current favourite word (newly learned) is ' Juedredi '. It's a French portmanteau word combining Juedi (Thursday) and Vendredi (Friday) which means that weird discombobulated feeling of not really being sure what day it is.

Every day is Juedredi at the moment.

Mellifluous and petichor

Oops! Petrichor..

Pistachio, flibbertigibbet (not sure spelt that right).

Fondle

Yy, to buffoon and nincompoop, also OAF

Also one for defenestration !
I like interstices ; there is actually a word that can be used to describe the tiny spaces inbetween tree branches . We need an under-used word revival !

Archipelago

Peripatetic.

It's got a pitter-patter sound that pleases me, for some reason.

Tabernacle - very, very few opportunities to use that one in everyday life

Unless you live near where I used to live, which was near a big roundabout with a tabernacle on it! Directions to my house were "Go straight on at XXXX tabernacle, then left at YYYY pub, and my road's first on the right".

Of course this was before satnavs were invented. Or mobile phones, for that matter.

I forgot about Anachronistic

Saltpetre.
I love this word.

Batrachian.
(Michael Gove’s face)

Slovenly.
(Me, lockdown, with pride)

Fantastic thread thank you. Am I the only one reading it out loud just to get the enjoyment of the sounds?

Yes to vernacular and onomatopoeia

Also find that imperfect subjunctive has a nice rhythm to it

Niggard - a miserly or stingy person. It's a word I rarely use because it's easily misinterpreted as a similarly sounding word that is highly offensive, although of course "niggard" and "that word" are completely unrelated, the former being much, much older in origin.

It's kind of funny when people get upset when I use it - basically, they are being offended by their own ignorance!

Slubberdegullion. Spelling right?

@Musmerian

"I'm a. Secondary school English teacher so get to Chuck long words at my students all the time."
I hope you teach literature rather than language with that grammar.

I like interstices ; there is actually a word that can be used to describe the tiny spaces inbetween tree branches . We need an under-used word revival !

That is a nice one and I use it at every opportunity.