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 Dictionary of Obscure and Lost Wordsphrontistery.info |
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...speaking of "F" words... |
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Chaz |
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I quite like... I was amuse to discover the word 'flaughter', which can mean 'flicker', but also means to skin, that is to say, to 'flay'. And 'slaughter' means, more or less, to 'slay'. I liked the wit of chaz- in response. |
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More "F"'s?? |
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Fructíferous Feral |
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stalhandske 01-Aug-19, 22:04 |
It is the Finnish word for something as common as a soapstone merchant. In Finnish words are mostly joined together without hyphens. This word has 19 letters: SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS It is composed of the separate words Saippua=soap Kivi=stone Kauppias= merchant |
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Chaz |
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Amorphophallus titanum. Amorphous = without form, disfigured phallus = male organ. en.wikipedia.org titan = giant, big and so it is a "Giant disfigured male organ." People like to collect and possess this specimen although it smells like dead corpse. Women may run away from this rotten smell even before they see it. It is not for the faint hearted people. Try to solve and interpret it first and check whether my interpretation is correct or not in following wiki. en.wikipedia.org |
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Speaking of 'F'... aplaceformypoetry2.blogspot.com I have just discovered another of BH's gems: Fad Eyed Fufan. |
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F Troop youtu.be ...Hilarious! |
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Giant, deformed erect male organ. Now you can clearly see what Amorphophallus titanium means in the above youtube video. |
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stalhandske 06-Aug-19, 20:20 |
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stalhandske 06-Aug-19, 20:21 |
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I agree... In place of 'morobund' I was going to use 'mortescent', with much the same meaning, but it turns out that the latter is my own coinage, to mean 'on the point of death'. I could still have used it, and would likely have been understood, but it would have been what is called a 'nonce word' - one coined 'for the nonce' - for the moment. As I am no linguist - never getting past a limited vocabulary and the most tenuous grasp of grammar in any other language - I have made it a point to be as conversant as possible in my own. That doesn't mean, by the way, that I always go with the 'standard' rules (much less that I'm beyond the far too frequent typo). So let us give way to jaunty, jocund jollification in this thread and explore the more abstruse and recondite, such as 'jobbery', 'jackanapes', 'jennet' and 'juggins'. |
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supercalifragilisticexpialidocious youtu.be We utter some words not because we like its meaning but because it is tongue twisting, poetic and rhythmic. The above word is from Mary Poppins movie. I have never known the true meaning of it. If stal or piccolo knows its meaning, please let me know. The majority, if not most people have no problems memorizing it although it is a long word. |
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ace |
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I remember ... 'Super' meaning super; 'Kali' from the Greek 'Καλός', meaning 'good' (It could also have a meaning associated with 'California' which, my spies tell me, derives from a Spanish mythical paradise); 'fragilistic' suggesting a fragile, delicate impermanence; 'expi' also indicating perishability, as in the word 'expire'; 'alidocious' possibly has the idea of 'like', as in similitude. The whole suggests a transient, impermanent niceness or semblance of niceness. All this is quite speculative, of course. I have no real idea what the thing means. |
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long words... 'antidisestablihmentarianism' - one letter longer than the English alphabet is widely thought to be the longest (again, outside the sciences). It means 'Opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England' As there seems to be no official moves to carry out such a disestablishment, it seems that it is a meaning that attaches to an idea that doesn't exist - or no longer exists. That probably explains why I can not find the word in my 'New Oxford Dictionary of English'. As it turns out, there is a longer word - in that it contains more letters, which might actually be used in a sentence that describes aspect of current world affairs. 'floccinaucinihilipilification' 29 letters, though, on account of the 9 appearances of the letter 'i',occupies less space on the line than does 'antidisestablihmentarianism'. Meaning: 'the action or habit of describing everything as worthless'. Used, perhaps not altogether literally, in a sentence: 'The floccinausinihilipilification of Democrats against Republicans, Republican policy, and Republican execution of policy, reciprocated in full by the Republicans, is getting out of hand.' |
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Somehow or other... |
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www.telegraph.co.uk |
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E Buckminster Fuller He named his worthless car Dymaxon, and Wikipedia found little to say about him. en.wikipedia.org Quote: "I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented." He was overly proud and definitely a narcissistic --- he would have likely have been a big fan of the organism Intellectual outlaw indeed. www.newyorker.com |
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E Buckminster Fuller... 'Compactomorphic'? Yep: that's mine. |
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coverture, feme covert www.womenshistory.org en.wikipedia.org |
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis miinibaashkiminasiganibiitoosijiganibadagwiingweshiganibakwezhigan An Ojibwe word meaning Blueberry pie 🥧 |
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stalhandske 16-Aug-19, 08:11 |
Where/what is Ojibwe? My wife's blueberry pie is made from bluberries picked here at the island (currently she has picked 12 litres). The pie is called MUSTIKKAPIIRAKKA in Finnish. Much simpler that Ojibwe |
