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

Amnesty

Catechism

Spatchcock

Milquetoast

Bumfluff

Buttocks

Carapace

Sirreverence – as in “Well, goodness me if the vagabond next door hasn’t just this moment sent a stinking sirreverence sailing over the fence and through my kitchen window. ‘Tis another veritable flying pasty and no mistaking!”

Monocoque

Consanguinity

Positively geotropic

Inflorescence

Scatalogical.

Gumption

Chinoiserie

I manage to get it in surprisingly often

Not sure if we’ve had it- copasetic

Au fait - I used it today

Wee/wean
Glaikit
Gallus
Fanny

I miss living in Scotland

Amanuensis
Insalubrious
Oleaginous
Obsequious

Bag of dicks
Shit the bed
Fuck a tramp

I use discombobulated quite a lot, so am wondering if I used it on here?!

Am starting to see why I have always been teased for my vocab, the are an awful lot of words here that I've used in general conversation... it's made me very self conscious to a point where I am sometimes monosyllabic, which probably also seems uppity.

I quite like orgiastic

Symbiotic. A great word and can be used regularly if you want to one-upmanship your friends.

Raison d'etre. Not a word but a phrase obviously (can't type the accent thingy) but I'm quite good at pronouncing it with the guttural grrr which makes me look even more stupid and try hard so obviously I never use it in speech, but I used in it every single post grad essay I did.

Mendacious
Happenstance

Flibbertigibbet
Floozie
Ragamuffin
Ditto to vexed (a GM often used to say it)
and vexing, as per Lady Catherine - ‘This is all extremely vexing!’

Slattern and slatternly (I def.have tendencies in that direction since lockdown)
Riff-raff (apparently comes from the Anglo-Saxon and originally meant ‘sweepings of rags’.
Balderdash!

Esplanade. I want it in my address

Onomatopoeia - I just love it!!!!

Bumbulum

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Farter

Sarcophagus

Behoove. Preferably said in a lady windermere type voice.
Also, ruffian and henchman.

And isthmus!

Betwixt

Behoove. Preferably said in a lady windermere type voice.

Isn't behoove the American form, though, and behove the British?!

Buffoon, Nincompoop, Picaroon and Hobbledehoy.
(those are suggestions of more words I like, btw - not addressed to anybody here!)

I like 'exponentially' and 'humectant'.

Catacomb

Catafalque

Bouffant