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Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Defenestrate means to throw out of a window.

For example, "Someone should defenestrate Putin."

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"scruple" as a verb, meaning "hesitate due to conscience".

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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Borborygmus I use often enough, but it's not widely known. It's the gurgling sound produced by the movement of gas through your intestines.

Limaceous I almost never use, but I enjoy it anyway. It means characteristic of or pertaining to slugs.

And lastly, tawdry is one of my favorites meaning showy but cheap and poor quality.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My contribution is katzenjammer, which is a word describing a really bad hangover (in the English language). I believe it is used a bit differently in the German language, but don't take my word for it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Ultracrepidarian

An ultracrepidarianโ€”from ultra- ("beyond") and crepidarian ("things related to shoes")โ€”is a person considered to have ignored this advice and to be offering opinions they know nothing about.

The word is derived from a longer Latin phrase and refers to a story from Pliny the Elder

The phrase is recorded in Book 35 of Pliny the Elder's Natural History as ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret[1] ("Let the cobbler not judge beyond the crepida") and ascribed to the Greek painter Apelles of Kos. Supposedly, Apelles would put new paintings on public display and hide behind them to hear and act on their reception.[2] On one occasion, a shoemaker (Latin sutor) noted that one of the crepides[a] in a painting had the wrong number of straps and was so delighted when he found the error corrected the next day that he started in on criticizing the legs.[2] Indignant, Apelles came from his hiding place and admonished him to confine his opinions to the shoes.[2] Pliny then states that since that time it had become proverbial.[2]

[โ€“] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Petrichor: The smell of rain on dry ground. One of those things everybody knows about but lacks a word for.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apparently Streptomyces are the cause.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Widdershins. It means counter to the sun's direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Vulgar Argot - a word or phrase that is obsolete or incredibly obscure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I actually dislike that term a lot.

It's like spunkgargleweewee. It seems immature and makes me feel more dismissive towards the argument. Maybe that also has to do with it being a catch all term and people seem less willing to give specific examples of how things are declining in quality.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (12 children)

spunkgargleweewee

You're claiming that is a term people use?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not commonly but every so often YouTubers I watch will start using it and it sticks for a prolonged period of time.

It was just the first thing that came to mind. I imagine there are other equally silly internet words out there.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Wait did you just coin that? That's fucking brilliant /s

Edit: apparently I needed a /s because Lemmy doesn't use this term constantly or anything?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism "enshittification" in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept.[1][2] The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

It was coined by Cory Doctorow.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because there was no /s - no they didn't, it's been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Since we're talking about it, and I really like the guy's work, I figured I should say who coined it! Author, Cory Doctorow! He has a blog where he (among all the other stuff he writes about) defined the word, and wrote several articles about it.

pluralistic.net

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

lol I didn't think I needed the /s because it was dripping with sarcasm.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The issue with pretending to be stupid on the internet to make a point is that there are so many people doing the same thing with no point in mind.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Grandiloquent/sesquipedalian. It's what you get when you use everything in this thread โ‚^ >ใƒฎ<^โ‚Ž .แŸ.แŸ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)
  • Paramour

It sounds fancy, but means a casual lover. A fuck buddy. A friend with benefits. Though it can also carry the implication of being an out-of-wedlock lover, as it dates back to a time where having a fuck buddy was almost certainly a sign of married infidelity.

  • Kith

Means one's friends and other people they are close to that aren't family. Often paired with "kin". Kith and kin. Friends and family.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I use paramour, usually to describe an infidelity situation. No one under 35 knows what it is.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Jocund: cheerful and lighthearted.

From Romeo and Juliet:

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Internecine, meaning "destructive to both sides in a conflict".

Petty bickering like that divorce where they had a judge adjudicate the distribution of their beanie baby collection was internecine.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You can't just say "perchance"!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
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