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I've recently discovered a Glorious word. I thought I share and ask for more.

171 replies

GretaGip · 21/07/2023 16:40

Grawlix.

You can f#%£ing thank me by throwing more rare but eminently usable words at me.

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Random789 · 21/07/2023 18:31

Rebarbative is a go-to for me. Likewise glabrous.

GenialHarryGr0ut · 21/07/2023 18:31

Crapulence

  1. sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating.
  2. gross intemperance, esp. in drinking.

Disingenuous
lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere:

MillWood85 · 21/07/2023 18:32

I love the word Mizzle - think it's Cornish for combined drizzle and mist.

Also randomly think it's a Farrow and Ball colour.

LadyOfTheCanyon · 21/07/2023 18:32

Bucolic is nice and I also like Bosky for something that is abundantly verdant. A bosky glade always sounds wonderful.

Gopping is a great word.

SuddenlyOld · 21/07/2023 18:35

I read a lot of victorian books and one word which was common then, but seems rare nowadays, is 'singular' (adjective). As in 'she was of a singular appearance ' meaning unique or odd/strange.

I definitely think singular should be brought back into the fold

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 21/07/2023 18:35

A quidnunc

An inquisitive or gossipy person

upinaballoon · 21/07/2023 18:37

I know and like kerfuffle and kaylied.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 21/07/2023 18:37

LadyOfTheCanyon · 21/07/2023 18:32

Bucolic is nice and I also like Bosky for something that is abundantly verdant. A bosky glade always sounds wonderful.

Gopping is a great word.

Bosky always makes me think of the characters in Cold Comfort Farm and their mollocking.

'Mollocking through the bucolic bosky glades.' Words that sound rude even if they aren't.

upinaballoon · 21/07/2023 18:43

Jongleterre · 21/07/2023 18:27

Tantivy.

Gallop at full pace.

Oooh, an honorary aunt used to talk about 'playing tantivy'.

upinaballoon · 21/07/2023 18:50

SuddenlyOld · 21/07/2023 18:35

I read a lot of victorian books and one word which was common then, but seems rare nowadays, is 'singular' (adjective). As in 'she was of a singular appearance ' meaning unique or odd/strange.

I definitely think singular should be brought back into the fold

It's being used nowadays, in some instances, where I would simply use the word 'single'. Perhaps the dictionary allows both meanings, but I can't help but think it's just folk not understanding the difference between 'single' and 'singular'.

squashyhat · 21/07/2023 18:50

Dunderhead. I've known a lot of dunderheads.

And shenanigans.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 21/07/2023 18:51

upinaballoon · 21/07/2023 18:43

Oooh, an honorary aunt used to talk about 'playing tantivy'.

A-hunting we will go! A-hunting we will go!
We'll catch a little fox
And put him in a box
And then we'll let him go.
Tantivy! Tantivy! Tantivy!
A-hunting we will go! (echo)
Tantivy! Tantivy! Tantivy!
A-hunting we will go!

A nursery rhyme written by the same man who wrote Rule Britannia, fact fans.

upinaballoon · 21/07/2023 18:53

Finagle - used more by Americans I think. I don't know where it started.

MissHarrietBede · 21/07/2023 18:54

I also like cad and bounder and wish they were still used

Ah, the types who should be horsewhipped on the steps of their club.

NotSorry · 21/07/2023 18:57

I always have to look bucolic up as I can never remember what it means

I would like to throw “disabuse” into the thread

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 21/07/2023 18:58

So many lovely words here.

I’m rather fond of clerihew - a whimsical four line poem.

My ds and his dw refer to one of their dogs ‘wimbling’ whenever they want something - she’s a whippet and I think it is a combination of whining and grumbling - basically complaining about how hard her life is when she is feeling chilly and no-one is rushing to put her fleecy pyjamas on her and wrap her in a blanket.

I also like prognostication - for seeing the future.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 21/07/2023 18:58

Foreseeing not for seeing. Grrrr.

upinaballoon · 21/07/2023 18:59

Riapia · 21/07/2023 18:14

Old Lincolnshire.

Gollop, golloping, golloped.

Meaning to eat or drink greedily, quickly.

“ He, she golloped it down. “

Clunch.

Unsociable. Someone of very few words.
To be described as “clunch” by a Lincolnshire person you would have to be very anti social. Just being unsociable is a local characteristic, we have perfected it through centuries of in breeding.

I golloped my(me) tea down today before I came on here.

Do you know 'stitherum'? a rambling, boring, un-followable speech/talk/sermon

Fredface1 · 21/07/2023 19:01

Maresnest

loislovesstewie · 21/07/2023 19:01

I like kine, archaic word for cattle.

upinaballoon · 21/07/2023 19:03

I'm shogging off now and going to watch cricket sweep down the back caus'y.

drspouse · 21/07/2023 19:04

Mendacious.
I'm a numbers person and used this on my 20s to a literary bloke I had a mild crush on but who was quite full of himself in retrospect. He didn't know it. Felt very good.

NeedSleepNow · 21/07/2023 19:08

Overmorrow

The day after tomorrow

Brody77 · 21/07/2023 19:08

I love tantalise and use it with my dd like my dad did with me Smile

JaninaDuszejko · 21/07/2023 19:10

loislovesstewie · 21/07/2023 19:01

I like kine, archaic word for cattle.

That's obviously related to the Scots word kye. They both presumably comes from a Germanic root word when you look at northern European words for cattle.