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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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StaySpicy · 24/07/2023 19:00

Laconic. It means saying a lot without using many words. It's been my favourite word since discovering it in the dictionary aged about 14 (I knew how to live)!

TWETMIRF · 24/07/2023 19:07

Topbird29 · 21/07/2023 23:55

My nan always uses to listen to the birds "chittering". When they sort of chatter amongst themselves. Not sure if just a devon word.
Also "grockles" - tourists. Usually the ones with a massive caravan getting stuck passing another car on a winding road

Grockles until they cross the Tamar and turn into emmets

25sheets · 24/07/2023 19:16

Contermacious or the "proper" spelling contramacious. My mum used to use the word about me when I was growing up. I use it on DH now as I want to keep the word alive.

Pieceofpurplesky · 24/07/2023 19:52

Kids at school have suddenly started using jarring. They didn't believe me that it was a word before TikTok and Snapchat got hold of it!
'He was well jarring last night innit'

Notateacheranymore · 24/07/2023 19:56

The only one I can offer is not English but Japanese.

Kuchisabishi - the feeling of wanting to eat not because of hunger but because your mouth is lonely.

AuditAngel · 24/07/2023 21:49

I’m surprised to have seen obfuscate yet, meaning to confuse or shadow, hide something

bigdecisionstomake · 24/07/2023 21:52

I am such a scurryfunger 😃

Bideshi · 24/07/2023 21:54

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.

And in Lincolnshire when it rains it comes siling down.

RyanGoslingsTan · 24/07/2023 22:00

Insomnomnomnomnia

It's that time of night where you can't sleep and do nothing but eat

Marjoribanks · 29/12/2023 08:36

Limacious (slug-like). Where applicable, it's my favourite insult.

muchalover · 31/12/2023 18:17

Perquisites; we now use perks as standard but it is an abbreviation.

Just read it a book.

Also use of the word dreep. It means someone who has let themselves go and is merely existing. Same author.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 09/01/2024 09:48

Frass (IIRC) which is what you need to beware of in early summer - all the caterpillar poo falling like rain from the tree you don’t want to be standing under.

MoonWoman69 · 05/02/2024 18:25

Bucolic?

MoonWoman69 · 05/02/2024 18:28

I have a good one, that I haven't heard since I was a kid, but have heard twice on old reruns of The Sweeney lately -

Sprauncy - means showy

Believe me, I have now used that at every opportunity since I heard it! I love it!

FawnDrench · 06/02/2024 19:35

Bombinate - to buzz, drone or hum (like a bee).
The word bee is derived from it apparently.

Marjoribanks · 11/02/2024 15:41

Animadversion(s) - criticism or censure. As used by me to my DH just now. "Don't give me your animadversions, I'm taking the lift"

MarmiteyCrumpets · 11/02/2024 16:27

Contumelious - "insolently abusive and humiliating"

quisensoucie · 13/02/2024 06:39

Loveys · 21/07/2023 16:52

Oh I have one! Maybe you can help me actually remember it 😂

it starts with b and means landscape or countryside? I heard it the other day and declared I would use it at every opportunity. Then I forgot it 😂

Bucolic!

Perfectlystill · 13/02/2024 06:42

F

HelpMeGetThrough · 13/02/2024 06:49

Concatenate (to link together in a series or chain)

Can guarantee I use this everyday. I'm a programmer and often concatenate strings.

bakedpotatoforlunch · 13/02/2024 06:55

Serendipity. Just lovely. And also my feeling when I came across this thread. 😃

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