guys, these words are great, how about some definitions to go with them. Even the words that we all already know the meanings of, the actual definition may offer some surprises.
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This thread is far too nerdy for me to let it truly die.
inchoate:
–adjective
1. not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
2. just begun; incipient.
3. not organized; lacking order: an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject.
inchoate:
–adjective
1. not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
2. just begun; incipient.
3. not organized; lacking order: an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject.
teadrinker
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From a local newspaper:
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A malison on the niddering who vilepend these fine words
Just because a word is rarely used is no reason to discard it from a dictionary.
IN ENGLAND, a campaign has begun to save endangered words. The words might not make it into a new Collins Dictionary, and have been placed on a doubtful list. They have been pushed to the edge of extinction because people don't use them enough any more.
Many of the words are charming, evoking sensations of affection and vague familiarity, in this reader at least. Some recall the nonsense words in Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky, which is made up of wonderful concoctions (callooh, callay!) that are delicious to say out loud and sound as though you already know what they mean.
The word guardians at Collins told The Times, which has spearheaded the campaign, that the words would be given a second chance if they were found to be in circulation before February. Articles (like this one) arguing for their salvation will not count.
The Collins people want evidence that people are actually using the words.
To this end England's poet laureate, Andrew Motion, has taken up skirr, which means a whirring or grating sound as of the wings of birds in flight. Actor Stephen Fry has adopted fubsy — which means short and squat — a word that should stay with us for as long as chips and bacon butties remain part of the English diet.
In the interests of compossibility (and to save the word compossible, which means possible in existence with something else and is also a philosophical concept in which mutually contradictory worlds can co-exist) perhaps the campaign should be taken up in Australia too.
The English might find the antipodes agrestic, but it is apodeictic that a call to save obscure words from becoming recrement, or from fading into calignosity, would be of interest to those Australians who like to talk, read and write. We are not a niddering people, and a malison on those who would say we were.
It might also be roborant to take up such a cause. What should our tactics be? Should we approach the matter with mansuetude or oppugnancy?
It is difficult to vaticinate, and easy to become embrangled in tactical discussions while the words themselves teeter on the brink of caducity.
Some might say that exuviating these words is part of a natural process, that it may even be abstergent and inevitable. The argument is griseous.
Some words one would like to keep because of the way they roll off the tongue, others because the ideas they define are worth preserving. I would put compossible in this camp and wish to make a special plea for muliebrity. It is not a lovely sounding word and its meaning — the condition or quality of being a woman — surprised me.
While it has been good to discover that such a word exists, I hope — now that I have found it — that it does not disappear before I have learnt how to use it.
In this case it is possible, however, that the word has fallen into disuse because we are no longer sure what it defines.
Wikipedia describes muliebrity as the female counterpart to virility — "he exercised his virility and she received her muliebrity". It comes from the Latin muliebritas, meaning womanhood.
Despite this information, I am still having trouble understanding muliebrity. Virility is a straightforward idea, but the condition of being a woman strikes me as various and, unfortunately, is often contestable. And why is muliebrity received? Fubsiness is a doddle by comparison (and I predict a nitid future for the word).
In the meantime, people, buy your mother a periapt and don't vilipend your dictionary. I don't want to be fatidical, but the words might have a chance if you decide they are not olid, and start using them.
And now for some definitions, courtesy of The Times.
Abstergent: cleansing or scouring; agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth; apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration; caducity: perishableness, senility; calignosity: dimness, darkness; embrangle: to confuse or entangle; exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering); fatidical: prophetic; griseous: streaked or mixed with grey; somewhat grey; malison: a curse; mansuetude: gentleness, mildness; niddering: cowardly; nitid: bright, glistening; olid: foul-smelling; oppugnant: combative, antagonistic or contrary; periapt: a charm or amulet; recrement: waste matter; refuse; dross; roborant: tending to fortify or increase strength; vaticinate: to foretell; prophecy; vilipend: to treat or regard with contempt.
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There ya go!
-T.
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A malison on the niddering who vilepend these fine words
Just because a word is rarely used is no reason to discard it from a dictionary.
IN ENGLAND, a campaign has begun to save endangered words. The words might not make it into a new Collins Dictionary, and have been placed on a doubtful list. They have been pushed to the edge of extinction because people don't use them enough any more.
Many of the words are charming, evoking sensations of affection and vague familiarity, in this reader at least. Some recall the nonsense words in Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky, which is made up of wonderful concoctions (callooh, callay!) that are delicious to say out loud and sound as though you already know what they mean.
The word guardians at Collins told The Times, which has spearheaded the campaign, that the words would be given a second chance if they were found to be in circulation before February. Articles (like this one) arguing for their salvation will not count.
The Collins people want evidence that people are actually using the words.
To this end England's poet laureate, Andrew Motion, has taken up skirr, which means a whirring or grating sound as of the wings of birds in flight. Actor Stephen Fry has adopted fubsy — which means short and squat — a word that should stay with us for as long as chips and bacon butties remain part of the English diet.
In the interests of compossibility (and to save the word compossible, which means possible in existence with something else and is also a philosophical concept in which mutually contradictory worlds can co-exist) perhaps the campaign should be taken up in Australia too.
The English might find the antipodes agrestic, but it is apodeictic that a call to save obscure words from becoming recrement, or from fading into calignosity, would be of interest to those Australians who like to talk, read and write. We are not a niddering people, and a malison on those who would say we were.
It might also be roborant to take up such a cause. What should our tactics be? Should we approach the matter with mansuetude or oppugnancy?
It is difficult to vaticinate, and easy to become embrangled in tactical discussions while the words themselves teeter on the brink of caducity.
Some might say that exuviating these words is part of a natural process, that it may even be abstergent and inevitable. The argument is griseous.
Some words one would like to keep because of the way they roll off the tongue, others because the ideas they define are worth preserving. I would put compossible in this camp and wish to make a special plea for muliebrity. It is not a lovely sounding word and its meaning — the condition or quality of being a woman — surprised me.
While it has been good to discover that such a word exists, I hope — now that I have found it — that it does not disappear before I have learnt how to use it.
In this case it is possible, however, that the word has fallen into disuse because we are no longer sure what it defines.
Wikipedia describes muliebrity as the female counterpart to virility — "he exercised his virility and she received her muliebrity". It comes from the Latin muliebritas, meaning womanhood.
Despite this information, I am still having trouble understanding muliebrity. Virility is a straightforward idea, but the condition of being a woman strikes me as various and, unfortunately, is often contestable. And why is muliebrity received? Fubsiness is a doddle by comparison (and I predict a nitid future for the word).
In the meantime, people, buy your mother a periapt and don't vilipend your dictionary. I don't want to be fatidical, but the words might have a chance if you decide they are not olid, and start using them.
And now for some definitions, courtesy of The Times.
Abstergent: cleansing or scouring; agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth; apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration; caducity: perishableness, senility; calignosity: dimness, darkness; embrangle: to confuse or entangle; exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering); fatidical: prophetic; griseous: streaked or mixed with grey; somewhat grey; malison: a curse; mansuetude: gentleness, mildness; niddering: cowardly; nitid: bright, glistening; olid: foul-smelling; oppugnant: combative, antagonistic or contrary; periapt: a charm or amulet; recrement: waste matter; refuse; dross; roborant: tending to fortify or increase strength; vaticinate: to foretell; prophecy; vilipend: to treat or regard with contempt.
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There ya go!
-T.
ixthrock
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con·tu·me·ly )n. pl. con·tu·me·lies 1. Rudeness or contempt arising from arrogance; insolence.
2. An insolent or arrogant remark or act.
I've found people on the forum using
ex·ac·er·bate tr.v. ex·ac·er·bat·ed, ex·ac·er·bat·ing, ex·ac·er·bates To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate: a speech that exacerbated racial tensions; a heavy rainfall that exacerbated the flood problems.
to mean:
a·mel·io·rate (tr. & intr.v. a·me·lio·rat·ed, a·me·lio·rat·ing, a·me·lio·rates To make or become better; improve. See Synonyms at improve.
2. An insolent or arrogant remark or act.
I've found people on the forum using
ex·ac·er·bate tr.v. ex·ac·er·bat·ed, ex·ac·er·bat·ing, ex·ac·er·bates To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate: a speech that exacerbated racial tensions; a heavy rainfall that exacerbated the flood problems.
to mean:
a·mel·io·rate (tr. & intr.v. a·me·lio·rat·ed, a·me·lio·rat·ing, a·me·lio·rates To make or become better; improve. See Synonyms at improve.
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How can a gay discussion group forget this word?
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My wife called me “pecker breath” one time when she was pissed!….
smokeshadow
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I'm constantly fascinated that more people don't utilize
pulchritude
which means physical comliness or sexiness
pulchritude
which means physical comliness or sexiness
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I'm gonna use that sometime.
