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

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Grawlix.

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

One word I came across in my most recent OU course and has never heard before was Bildungsroman, basically meaning a coming-of-age novel. Considering how many literature courses I've done I was surprised I hadn't heard it before.

I also love aestivate/aestivation which is like hibernation but in summer/hot temperatures instead of winter. I've been aestivating a lot recently.

Had not has. My phone is trying to show me up again.

Imbroglio (im BROH lio)

a confused or embarrassing situation or complicated misunderstanding.

Often a useful word!

Thanks to the Stephen King thread I picked up Lisey's story and discovered the words:
Niggardly - unfortunate sounding and had caused controversy but it means ungenerous with money or time.

Also impel Vs compel.

One is to encourage action by threat of a negative outcome the other is to encourage action on moral grounds.

A woman dealing with the will is the executrix, iirc.

Formication (sounds a bit rude... but it's the feeling of ants crawling under your skin....)

Periphrastic, loquacious, circumlocutory..... all long words for taking a long time to make your point, which makes me giggle a bit.

Love all these examples!

@ThisIsTrifficult interesting point. It reminds me of mandatory, which people tend to use to mean compulsory, but actually means subject to a mandate issued by the ruler. So not committing murder is mandatory. Breathing isn’t.

My current favourites are benthic - of the deepest depths, and marcescence - a botanic term relating to flowers which means “withering, without falling off”, and which i would definitely use as the title for my autobiography if i was famous enough to have one.

One of my favourite words is "gound", the crusty secretion you wipe from your eyes in the morning. I just called it "sleep" for years.

We just always call that eye bogies!

Comestibles - foodstuffs
Peradventure - maybe
Nodgecock - Shakespearean word meaning a fool or nincompoop (another great one!)
Sirreverence - poo

Beshitten. As said by the Duke of Norfolk in Hillary Mantel’s Wolf Hall.

’By the thrice beshitten shroud of Christ’!

I shall henceforth use it as an exclamation in place of ‘for fucks sake’. 😂. It’s a bit of a tongue twister though.

Scatological

Below the belt/toilet humour
(I never thought I'd ever get to use this word!)

One from my dad (a maths teacher) - I think I have remembered it right - rhombicosidodecahedron.

Great word, but I think the quote is actually
’By the thrice beshitten shroud of Lazarus'.

Mellifluous - musical, harmonious, used to describe a voice or manner of speaking

also

Hornswaggle - American slang for swindle/
hoodwink/ fleece

Benthic is a lovely word.

Something I was reading this week had both pelage (fur) and pelagic (open ocean) on the same page. As far as I can see, they are unrelated words, but it made me blink.

Defenestrate - to throw (a person) through a plate glass window

Dimpsy.

The brief moments a fraction before sunset when the violet and UV of the sun is all there's left and the white, mauve and blue flowers all light up like little glowing beacons.

One I thought of after I logged off earlier

Fissiparous - inclined to undergo division into separate parts.

I learned about the Defenestration of Prague while doing A level history. Apparently it was quite a common thing to do to political opponents in Bohemia.

Allodynia. Pain caused by a normally non painful stimulus. I have it due to nerve damage during surgery. Not a particularly nice thing to suffer from but a very attractive word.

May well be. It’s a long time since I watched it. Lovely phrase nevertheless. 😂

On a recent thread, someone used the word ‘wuss’. Hadn’t heard it used for ages, and I hope, worthy of this thread.

Always makes me smile when I hear Nissan Qashqai... sounds like those cars are cash cows... wonder if it was a Scot that named it as a money-maker...

He was found guilty of fratricide i.e the killing of one's sibling.

Always makes me smile when I hear Nissan Qashqai... sounds like those cars are cash cows... wonder if it was a Scot that named it as a money-maker...

Yes, I always think that and read it in a NI accent too!

I'm still laughing at the other thread about misunderstandings where somebody in NI was told they needed to speak to 'duty' (i.e. the team on duty) - and she was expecting somebody called Judy!

I used the word 'puddly' today at work, and was told it definitely wasn't a word. Times like that is what Google is great for.