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Vocabulary List!
OK, will start the ball rolling with one of my favourite words of the moment: ullage
which is the amount of "empty" in a bottle or container.
I like that there is a word for that!
JAC
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"Glabrous" is a fancy adjective for "bald." I know because I am... I liked "ullage."
Umbilicus, a synonym for the navel or belly button. Is that sexy or what?Who knew? Not me! The things you learn from reading erotica ;) I had to look it up because I thought it meant something else and was confused. Head hanging in shame . . .
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Getting us to behave and only provide one word a day is going to be difficult for you ... :-)
BarkLessWagMore wrote: "Umbilicus, a synonym for the navel or belly button. Is that sexy or what?Who knew? Not me! The things you learn from reading erotica ;) I had to look it up because I thought it meant somethin..."
THIS one I knew - "ullage" and "glabrous" were new ones for me ... need to open my doc with cool words and add them ...
Whee! I get to add a word today! Umm ... damn, I have a bunch of cool ones ... let's find something REALLY obscure ... hold one *shuffles around a bit*OK, here we go:
absquatulate (v): abscond: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
A bag of money fell off the armoured truck. My boyfriend and I immediately picked it up, and absquatulated with it, not to be seen again!
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I love the word, and the sentence!!
I wonder if I can work that word into Journal Jabber tonight...LOL
BarkLessWagMore wrote: "Umbilicus, a synonym for the navel or belly button. Is that sexy or what?Who knew? Not me! The things you learn from reading erotica ;) I had to look it up because I thought it meant somethin..."
Well the belly button is....but not the word haha Sounds more like an illness.
Amy wrote: "VERY GOOD!!I love the word, and the sentence!!
I wonder if I can work that word into Journal Jabber tonight...LOL"
:-) Told ya I collect unusual words ... I have a Word doc set up, but not all of them are on it yet - I have a notebook with more written down. I have lots of "alternate" obscenities, too ... old-fashioned words that aren't used anymore.
I'll give a few ... going alphabetically, first this is one of my favorite words - "clinchpoop" which essentially means a boor.
You've heard of deja vu - how about these:
déjà senti - the phenomenon of having “already felt” something. This is exclusively a mental phenomenon and seldom remains in your memory afterward; you could think of it as the feeling of having just spoken, but realizing that you, in fact, didn’t utter a word.
déjà vécu (vay-koo) - the experience of having seen an event before, but in great detail – such as recognizing smells and sounds. This is also usually accompanied by a very strong feeling of knowing what is going to come next.
déjà visité - an uncanny knowledge of a new place; Déjà visité is about spatial and geographical relationships, while déjà vécu is about temporal occurrences.
jamais (zhȧ me) vu - a disorder of memory characterized by the illusion that the familiar is being encountered for the first time (as opposed to déjà vu); describes a familiar situation which is not recognized. It involves a sense of eeriness. The observer does not recognize the situation despite knowing rationally that they have been there before. It is commonly explained as when a person momentarily doesn’t recognize a person, word, or place that they know.
presque vu - it is the strong feeling that you are about to experience an epiphany – though the epiphany seldom comes.
"fillip" is a fancy term for snapping your fingers ...
infandous - too odious to be expressed or mentioned
nefandous / nefand - unfit to speak of; unmentionable, impious, excreble
poop-noddy - boor, bore, fool
OK, OK - I know what you REALLY meant - here we go:
retromingent - to urinate backwards, like a feline for instance. Used as an insult
sard - fuck
skite - a contemptible person; a voider of excrement; (obsolete) a shit (calling a person a shit)
slubberdegullion - a slobbering, dirty, nasty fellow
stoopnagel - long form meaning “stupid” as given to name a specific individual. The short form is “stupe”
swive - to have sex, to fuck
trayf - not kosher, dirty, shit (literally from Yiddish “tref”), very unclean
twigle - to copulate – considered more “proper” term than sard or swive
enjoy!
Cassie - Gathering Leaves wrote: "LOVE your list!!! LOL"That's only a small part of it - but not all the words have such entertaining meanings - some I collected just because they were cool-looking, $50 words ... :-)
BarkLessWagMore wrote: "Umbilicus, a synonym for the navel or belly button. Is that sexy or what?Who knew? Not me! The things you learn from reading erotica ;) I had to look it up because I thought it meant somethin..."
It's similar to the Italian word (ombellico) so I wouldn't have been confused... guess it's the Latin version! :-D
And lots of French in Katy's list (I speak French as well...)! :-D
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Ottilie wrote: "Haha how do you find these words?!"A major source of the more "saucy" words was Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present; the others I just run across here and there and collect them. One of the more amusing aspects of a lifetime spent reading an eclectic variety of books :-)
Barbara wrote: "And lots of French in Katy's list (I speak French as well...)! :-D "I don't really know French, but I have experienced deja vu for literally HOURS at a time, and several of the other things, too - once I got started looking them up, I just went crazy with it ... LOL
I understand a bit of French but don't attempt to speak it as Italian has messed up my French accent forever! Speak a bit of German though, and I can usually work out oddments of Latin from the Italian. Welsh though, Welsh is completely beyond me at the present time!I went on a choir-tour to Bologna and there was a cafe called "Ombellico del Mondo" - navel of the world. Yuck!
I didn't go in there, but I did wonder if as a concept it worked better in Italian or if the owner
had some strange fetish that made it sound like a good idea...
Katy, LOVING those words! Though not sure I'm likely to eat Twiglets again....
JAC
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You used "chuffed" a lot, and I would like to know exactly what it means. I think I have the gist of it, but I GOTTA KNOW!!! LOL
hahaha Yorkshire word! Dialect for "pleased" - for very pleased, use "dead chuffed".Though "chuff off" is grumpy and used in place of swearwords - and with a completely different meaning, you also get "[kick her / stick it / other rude-type action] right up the chuff" which is considerably more gynaecological, and probably best avoided!!
For real Yorkshire dialect, Google
"on Ilkla moor baht 'at... "
It's a song and there's bound to be a website playing it somewhere. Then I'll translate, should you so wish... Very Yorkshire humour, that.
JAC
Katy wrote: "Barbara wrote: "And lots of French in Katy's list (I speak French as well...)! :-D "I don't really know French, but I have experienced deja vu for literally HOURS at a time, and several of the ot..."
we use the expression of "navel of the world" for someone/thing at the center of the attention, the best, so to speak...
Dmitry and I were having a debate about the specific accent that Lister has on Red Dwarf - we *think* it's what is called Liverpudlian. J.A. - are you aware of Red Dwarf, and can you let us know exactly which type of accent Lister has? Probably more appropriate for the "random fact of the day," but since you were talking dialects ...Now, I might-could give you some ideas on southern US accents ... I was fixing to write a post about it anyway ... :-)
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But I found a YouTube video that has the song JA was talking about and it even has the words at the bottom where we can see what he is singing as he is singing it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rtrdq...
Amy wrote: "OH my goodness, I love Red Dwarf...that was such a great show!!!"The whole thing came up because we were talking about the Creighton vs. Christine "war" regarding various things, like salad cream, pants vs. socks drawers, and why her bras end up shaped like his head ...
I just learned a new word, and although it's not a *weird* word, it's something that not everyone would know.Poults - young/baby turkeys
Learn something new every day!
Katy wrote: "I just learned a new word, and although it's not a *weird* word, it's something that not everyone would know.Poults - young/baby turkeys
Learn something new every day!"
Oh, yeah:
We found raising poults to be lucrative, as they would grow up in just 18 weeks.
Katy, it's either Liverpudlian or Brummie. Offhand I can't remember which. In America, do accents carry stereotypes with them too? They do here.Hang on, will see if I can play a bit of Lister and find out.
JAC
Yep, he's a Scouser all right (ie from Liverpool). Apparently that's just Craig Charles doing his own accent! LOVE Red Dwarf but haven't watched any for ages! Particularly liked the curry monster one. And indeed
"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!"
JAC
"Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas!" And "that's Ace Rimmer (well, this one is just Rimmer, trying to be Ace Rimmer), not Lister" :-P (my husband announced in dismay - he's a Red Dwarf FANATIC) I like the Ace Rimmer episodes, too - any episode with Rimmer being, well, Rimmer was hilarious; but it's Lister's accent - or, rather, Craig Charles' accent - it's just to die for ...
And yes, accents have stereotypes here - southern US accents, as has been said in another thread, tends to cause people to take at least 20 points off the estimated IQ of the person with the accent, and people with NY or NJ accents are considered to be "toughs," whilst those of us raised in the SUPERIOR upper midwest, with our LACK of accent, are to be emulated *sticks up nose in air* LOL
Well, let me tell you,'we have been watching "Luther" from the BBC. It was good and I was flabbergasted to see Stringer Bell from The Wire with that accent. But...I found it almost impossible to understand the accents! My gawd, that wasn't English!Splitter
Luther? Haven't heard of that one. Where was it set?
London. He was a cop with issues. The stories were quite good. My wife and I took to calling it Lufa by the end because that's how everyone pornouned it. Splitter
J.A. wrote: "I understand a bit of French but don't attempt to speak it as Italian has messed up my French accent forever! Speak a bit of German though, and I can usually work out oddments of Latin from the Ita..."Wow, JA, that takes me waaaay back. My mother used to sing it (she had no connection to Yorkshire I know of) when I was about three. I used to sing along but, not knowing what she meant, I was singing " An ilkey mo bar ta". Not a bad transliteration for a three-year-old, but got some funny looks as I grew older when I burst into the song for no apparent reason.
C.S. Splitter wrote: "London. He was a cop with issues. The stories were quite good. My wife and I took to calling it Lufa by the end because that's how everyone pornouned it. Splitter"
I thought Luther was a great show. Did it go more than the one season? We only saw the first here in Oz if it did. Much more cerebral than most cop shows.
Katy wrote: "I'll give a few ... going alphabetically, first this is one of my favorite words - "clinchpoop" which essentially means a boor.
You've heard of deja vu - how about these:
déjà senti - the phenom..."
You stumped me on a couple of them, Katy. I always understood "fillip" as meaning to boost or improve; and a "skite" is a braggart.
Phil wrote: "C.S. Splitter wrote: "London. He was a cop with issues. The stories were quite good. My wife and I took to calling it Lufa by the end because that's how everyone pornouned it. Splitter"
I though..."
There is a second season (or second series as the Brits say). It was only four shows though. Apparently, the BBC is holding out on announcing whether or not they will bring it back for a third.
yeah, it was cool. I love the way the presented London. Always abandoned. Loved the serial killer...
Splitter
Phil wrote: "You stumped me on a couple of them, Katy. I always understood "fillip" as meaning to boost or improve; and a "skite" is a braggart. "re: "fillip" - yeah, it means that NOW ... it used to mean a snap of the finger. And "skite" may mean braggart, but BLATHERskite ... that's a different animals!
Here is my proposal for this topic. We will post ONE NEW vocabulary word for the day. If you see that someone has posted a word for the day, come back tomorrow with your word and post it before anyone else gets a chance to put up theirs!
Put up your vocabulary word, the definition and use it in a sentence. I think this will help out everyone in this group! Broaden our knowledge base, and have fun learning new words!
Maybe try to use it in your review for the day, or your blog post - impress your neighbors with your new found skills!