Indubitably!
It means most certainly, beyond questioning.
And it's fun to say!
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Indubitably!
It means most certainly, beyond questioning.
And it's fun to say!
Ah, I grew up listening to Adventures In Odyssey and one character said that all the time. Beautiful word.
Grok
It means to know or understand, like "yeah man I can grok that."
Obstreperous - noisy or difficult to control (as in "the boy is cocky and obstreperous")
Autodefenestration is one of my faves. The act of throwing yourself out of a window.
If you’re throwing someone or something out, then it’s just plain defenestration
Avuncular - of or having the qualities of an uncle.
“His avuncular joke was both lazy and sexist”
Salitter is my answer to this one every time.
The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind.
Here, also.
Übermorgen, the german word for overmorrow, is in abundant use in Germany. It's far from obsolete or obscure over here.
Same for overmogen in the Netherlands. And eergisteren for the day before yesterday.
Same for the Romanian "poimâine" (after tomorrow). We also have "alaltăieri" (the other yesterday). They are in use, quite common.
Propreantepenultimate. Fifth to last.
I knew the first three, but not four and five. TIL
I use penultimate all the time and most people have no idea what I mean! We need to bring back the Latin based words
Interrobang.
It's this thing: ‽
More people should use the symbol because it looks cool and has a badass name, so for that you need to know what it's called.
Who's with me‽
Only if you agree to stop calling them Hashtags and use their more-correct name of Octothorpes
I made AltGr + /
type an interrobang so I'd always have access to it
While I like the concept, I can't help but prefer '!?' or '?!'. There's more granularity of meaning, and I think it just looks nicer having two or more separate characters.
Interrobang sounds like something from a porno about police work.
“Did you question the suspect?”
“Yeah, Chief, we interrobanged him and got the info.”
Hey, it's me, your suspect. I've got more info, step it up with the interrobanging, will ya?
Sonder (noun): the feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one’s own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles: In a state of sonder, each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member, and an extra in overlapping stories.
dictionary.com
That was lovely, thank you for that.
This one always makes me smile, because it's from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It's just some guy's blog in which he comes up with new words to express experiences and emotions that are difficult to describe, and that specific one has thoroughly broken containment
Bought the book. It's the only dictionary I've enjoyed reading.
Duodenum.
Doo-odd-in-umm.
The duodenum is the first section of the small intestine in most higher vertebrates, including mammals
I have a double whammy: Nonplussed.
Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act. Double whammy because it does not mean not-plussed like many people seem to think.
Nonplussed...that takes me back.
I was educated in a private school for British ex-pats run by a very old and very posh couple. This was the early eighties and they were already in their seventies, so definitely from a different era. Because of this and because of the size of our school (my entire year consisted of nine kids) we ended up quite odd. Up until highschool we had a mild but "poshy" London accent and words like vexing, nonplussed, providential, etc., peppered our vocabulary. Then my family moved to Louisiana followed by Texas and that shit went right out.
Also, the word is aluminium. It is NOT aluminum!
I'd settle for not seeing "should/could/would of" typed out anymore.
perambulation is a good one. My morning walk isn't quite grand enough to be called a 'constitutional'; nor scenic and leisurely enough to be called a 'stroll'; nor yet social enough to be called a 'promenade'; 'perambulation' is just the ticket.
Oh I love to perambulate, sitting still is what I really hate
I thought the morning constitutional was taking a shit.
And what a lovely paragraph about it. Thank you.
Brobdingnagian.
It's a very big word that means very big.
It comes from Gulliver's travels. The Brobdingnagians are giants, 12 times the height of humans. The word isn't limited to that scale, but it's definitely for things that are unusually large compared to us.
It's the literal opposite of Lilliputian, which is from the better known race from "Travels" that are 1/12 our size.
It's my absolute favorite word. Not just because it's a literary reference but it's fun to say. Brob ding nag ian. It just burbles off the tongue like a drunken stream stumbling among the rocks of its bed. And, it's a big word that means big, which is just fun wordplay. Like the phobia of big words, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which was inevitable as soon as the idea of a phobia of big words was conceived.