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Words, words, words

#1

LittleSin

LittleSin

Post words you like! Any language welcome!

kairos (KYE-ROSS):

a perfect, delicate or crucial moment. A rightness of time and place that creates the best atmosphere to say or do something.


#2

fade

fade

frisson
frēˈsôN
  1. a sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill.


#3

Dave

Dave

syzygy - an alignment of celestial bodies.

Also great if you want to be a dick in hangman.


#4

LittleSin

LittleSin

fade said:
frisson
frēˈsôN
  1. a sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill.
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I like that one!

Maybe in a similar vein...

numinous (nu-min-us)

A powerful personal feeling of being overwhelmed and inspired, fearful yet fascinated.


#5

GasBandit

GasBandit

Egregious. adj (adv: Egregiously)
eg-REE-jee-us

Blatant, obvious, flagrant, gross. Extremely badly, beyond what you would expect.

"Try not to do anything egregiously stupid."
"There's an egregious number of spelling and grammar errors in this essay."


#6

LittleSin

LittleSin

brontide:

the low drum of distant thunder


#7

Dave

Dave

Borborygmos - The rumbling sound your stomach makes.[DOUBLEPOST=1407528841,1407528768][/DOUBLEPOST]And they've apparently named a MtG monster that as well.


#8

Bowielee

Bowielee

mag·nan·i·mous
magˈnanəməs/
adjective
adjective: magnanimous
very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself.


#9

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

金繕い (kintsukuroi): to repair with gold


#10



BErt

quark.jpg


Also:

ca·coph·o·ny
kəˈkäfənē
a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.


#11

GasBandit

GasBandit

Bowielee said:
mag·nan·i·mous
magˈnanəməs/
adjective
adjective: magnanimous
very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself.
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#12

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Also:
humuhumunukunukuapua'a


#13

Bowielee

Bowielee

German, Hawaiian and Inuit words are kind of unfair because they all basically take entire sentences and turn them into single words :p

That being said:

scha·den·freu·de

noun, often capitalized \ˈshä-dən-ˌfrȯi-də\
: a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people


#14

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Hey! That's just the name of the state fish.


#15

GasBandit

GasBandit

Bowielee said:
German, Hawaiian and Inuit words are kind of unfair because they all basically take entire sentences and turn them into single words :p
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You're not joking. I used to jokingly use Ungenugentafellappen. It means, roughly "Unsatisfactory blackboard erasing rag."


#16

HCGLNS

HCGLNS

"odds bobs hammer and tongs" - means I am astounded by this fucking situation


#17

drifter

drifter

Backfeifengesicht - a face in need of a fist


#18

PatrThom

PatrThom

BErt said:
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It's "smock," not "quark!"

Praseodymium, a rare earth metal.
Also, the first loooong word I ever learned, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

--Patrick


#19

Gryfter

Gryfter

Dave said:
syzygy - an alignment of celestial bodies.

Also great if you want to be a dick in hangman.
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Also a super cool space sorcerer created by Jim Starlin :)



#20

Frank

Frank

Dave said:
Borborygmos - The rumbling sound your stomach makes.[DOUBLEPOST=1407528841,1407528768][/DOUBLEPOST]And they've apparently named a MtG monster that as well.
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Holy fuck, Borg-borgy-borg is a real word?!

He's boss of the Gruul clan.



#21

GasBandit

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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Ideopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
If you hear the murmur you can make the diagnosis:
Ideopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis!

My father the doctor sang this sometimes. He described it as meaning, from the greek:
Ideopathic - We have no idea why it's doing this
hypertrophic - overgrown/overfed muscle
subaortic - below the aorta
stenosis - swelling that squeezes off a blood vessel.


#22

PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Ideopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
If you hear the murmur you can make the diagnosis:
Ideopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis!

My father the doctor sang this sometimes. He described it as meaning, from the greek:
Ideopathic - We have no idea why it's doing this
hypertrophic - overgrown/overfed muscle
subaortic - below the aorta
stenosis - swelling that squeezes off a blood vessel.
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I've often wondered if I could build a pun around "Super can of fragile lipstick, expect halitosis," or something like that.

--Patrick


#23

Hylian

Hylian

allonsy - Here we go

gorram - A version of "God damn"

qapla - success

p'tahk - Klingon swear word


#24

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

zymurgy - the branch of applied chemistry dealing with fermentation, as in winemaking, brewing, the preparation of yeast, etc.


#25

klew

klew

lisp - because people with one cannot properly pronounce it


#26

Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

кошка

.... cat

I just like the word "kohshka"


#27

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

furfuraceous: covered in flakes such as dandruff


#28

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

My answer to the original post as well as the thread at large: gesundheit


#29

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Reinheitsgebot
:D


#30

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Amygdaloid


#31

jwhouk

jwhouk

schadenfreude (shah-den-froy-dah). n. A feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people.


#32

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

orenda: an Iroquois word which means the force present in all people that enables them to change their own destiny or affect the world around them.


#33

Just Me

Just Me

klew said:
lisp - because people with one cannot properly pronounce it
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Stutter - for roughly the same reason

fremdschämen - to be ashamed yourself for someone else's behaviour because he obviously isn't but should. Can be used for almost all those B-celebs; Kardashians or example.

Honorary mention: Rampensau (because I like the sound of it :) ) *rump 'n' sow* where the 'ow' is pronounced like in ouch
A person extremely seeking attention and hogging the limelight. A friendly wave goes to William Shatner.


#34

Grytpipe-Thynne

Grytpipe-Thynne

Two words, new to me , that I find of interest: Angiogram- A scan of the heart and arteries. Because I had this a few weeks ago. Angioplasty - stent because I am due this next month. Both of these procedures involve Cardiac Catheterisation.


#35

Dave

Dave

Damn you! Hope you are okay!


#36

DarkAudit

DarkAudit



#37

Celt Z

Celt Z

WasabiPoptart said:
Also:
humuhumunukunukuapua'a
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I can't ever think about your state fish without thinking of this scene:


#38

tegid

tegid

I love this word:
Muditā (Pāli and Sanskrit: मुदिता) means joy. It is especially sympathetic or vicarious joy, the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being rather than begrudging it. The opposite of schadenfreude or of envy.


#39

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Celt Z said:
I can't ever think about your state fish without thinking of this scene:
*snip*
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It's so much fun to say!


#40

PatrThom

PatrThom

DarkAudit said:
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I've posted this one plenty, I still love it.


I think the best part about this one is how they get away with so few.

--Patrick


#41

Jax

Jax

I like surreptitious for multpiple reasons:

First of all it means stealthy/secretly, or in proper dictionary terms: obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine:

Second because parts of it contain or sound like surreal, rapture, tits and anything ending with -ious (of which the first two that pop in my head are delicious and voloptuous) :awesome:


#42

PatrThom

PatrThom

Thought of the word "lobular" on my way to work.
It's one of those words that evokes its meaning.
Say it with me...lobular.

It also reminded me of this video about words and word sounds.


lobular-lobular-lobular...

--Patrick


#43

drifter

drifter

Concupiscence - sexual desire

Concatenate - link together

Yurt - kind of a tent common to the steppes


#44

GasBandit

GasBandit

The word Yurt was ruined for me when I heard Mark Stein say it 257 times in 15 minutes.


#45

Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Man you guys should read some Marshall McLuhan - reportedly he would occasionally get so fixated on a word that he would simply repeat it aloud over and over and over, in different emphases, volumes, accents...

I love all sorts of words. I am not sure I could begin to make a list, but 'pecuniary' comes to mind. It means something relating to money, wealth, or finance.


#46

GasBandit

GasBandit





#47

fade

fade

Gryfter said:
Also a super cool space sorcerer created by Jim Starlin :)

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Is that a loincloth, or is he sitting on a really uncomfortable rock formation?


#48

Gryfter

Gryfter

fade said:
Is that a loincloth, or is he sitting on a really uncomfortable rock formation?
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Loincloth.... he floats alot. In case anyone is wondering he is from the comic Dreadstar.


#49

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Minchia - Italian for either penis or testicles (I've been told both), but mostly it's used as an exclamation. I like it since most people around here don't know what I'm saying. "Oh Michia!"


#50

rac3r_x

rac3r_x

Hip, it pops



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