Word obsessions

[Clowes]

Aren't they a Firm of Geordie solicitors?

[General Dryness]

Bradawl!

 

Marry me, you fool.

[Total Longo]

KUMQUAT

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Catafalque.

 

I came across it in a book* I read about 30-35 years ago and it's such a lovely word that it's stayed with me ever since.

 

Unfortunately, as it means the bier that a coffin rests on when someone is lying in state, it's not a word I get to use every day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Death of a President by William Manchester.

[Total Longo]

Catafalque.

 

I came across it in a book* I read about 30-35 years ago and it's such a lovely word that it's stayed with me ever since.

 

Unfortunately, as it means the bier that a coffin rests on when someone is lying in state, it's not a word I get to use every day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Death of a President by William Manchester.

 

Still a corker though. Mine are more based on things that amuse me and i can't really explain why.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Still a corker though. Mine are more based on things that amuse me and i can't really explain why.

I love "purview" thanks to Malcolm Tucker.

[Champ]

Still a corker though. Mine are more based on things that amuse me and i can't really explain why.

I'm with you on the Norbert Dentressangle

[Total Longo]

I get stupidly excited when i see a "double Norbert"

[Dr Nowt]

Jamboree

Bonanza

Louche

Redolent

Zenith

Flaxen

Mongoloid

Purple in a Scottish accent

Warm in a Scottish accent

Car park in a scouse accent

Lurpak in a Geordie accent

Italy in a Geordie accent

Tranquilo in a Spanish accent

 

The sound of these all please in different ways. Words. Mmmmmm.

[Tony Moanero]

Cunt.

[Rotpeter]

German loanwords:

 

Achtung

Eigen(function/vector/...)

Fingerspitzengefühl

Gestalt

Götterdämmerung

Götzen-dämmerung

Merkwelt

Überfremdung

Übermensch

Umwelt

Verfremdungseffekt 

Weltanschauung

Welträthsel

Weltschmerz

Zeitgeist

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Jamboree

Bonanza

Louche

Redolent

Zenith

Flaxen

Mongoloid

Purple in a Scottish accent

Warm in a Scottish accent

Car park in a scouse accent

Lurpak in a Geordie accent

Italy in a Geordie accent

Tranquilo in a Spanish accent

 

The sound of these all please in different ways. Words. Mmmmmm.

"Outwith" is another lovely Scottish word.

[Hades]

Jamboree

Bonanza

Louche

Redolent

Zenith

Flaxen

Mongoloid

Purple in a Scottish accent

Warm in a Scottish accent

Car park in a scouse accent

Lurpak in a Geordie accent

Italy in a Geordie accent

Tranquilo in a Spanish accent

 

The sound of these all please in different ways. Words. Mmmmmm.

 

Obsequious

Servile

Kowtowing

Ingratiating

Turncoat

Quisling

Treasonous

Supercilious 

[Dr Nowt]

Obsequious

Servile

Kowtowing

Ingratiating

Turncoat

Quisling

Treasonous

Supercilious

A fascinating and perceptive insight, it's like you've peered directly into my notoriously meek, venal soul. I use Spastic Judas on my business cards, but you've got me pinned.

 

Have a rep with my deepest sympathies at what a wretch you are, and how desperate you remain for my attention. Keep on loving life, champ.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Catafalque.

I came across it in a book* I read about 30-35 years ago and it's such a lovely word that it's stayed with me ever since.

Unfortunately, as it means the bier that a coffin rests on when someone is lying in state, it's not a word I get to use every day.

*Death of a President by William Manchester.

Also used in 'The Last Lion Defender of the Realm by Manchester.

 

I looked it up four days ago.

 

(Is this the start of a time travel bromance between us...)

[Hades]

A fascinating and perceptive insight, it's like you've peered directly into my notoriously meek, venal soul. I use Spastic Judas on my business cards, but you've got me pinned.

 

Have a rep with my deepest sympathies at what a wretch you are, and how desperate you remain for my attention. Keep on loving life, champ.

 

I forgot to add ableist. My mistake. 

[Dr Nowt]

Imagine being Hades and telling other people they're self-righteous. Gold.

 

You're boring me I'm afraid, so enjoy posting to a brick wall from now on while you're definitely, absolutely playing it all for laughs.

[razor]

Donnybrook.

 

It is from the Irish, and means fight.

 

"Dr Nowt and Hades had a donnybrook."

 

I also love the word "gerrymander".  It should be used every day.  Even if it doesn't fit the context. 

 

But you can get away with it if you say, "Gerrymandering by stealth."

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Also used in 'The Last Lion Defender of the Realm by Manchester.

 

I looked it up four days ago.

 

(Is this the start of a time travel bromance between us...)

Catafalque buddies.

[ZonkoVille77]

Viscosity

Duplicitous

Parsimonious

Verisimilitude

Asinine

 

I like those words.

 

Yer ma

[Dr Nowt]

Repechage.

[Stouffer]

Rascal.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Indignant.

[Kevin D]

Hoodwinked.

[Lee909]

anispeptic

frasmotic

compunctuous

pericombobulation