Recalcitrant because I work with undergrads and I like to tell them that they are recalcitrant and their writing is obtuse. So really two words I guess.
Sinclair. If I have to give my name for something I say Sinclair. You know, the green dino fella from the gas station company? It could be a she. I just like saying it. Oh. And lately, Get Down "CLOWN "is working when my dogs get up on the sofa.
@AZnatural1 my “going out” name when I was young was Crystal Smoke but I told everyone it was spelled Smoak as in Felicity. Danggit I was a nerd even when I was trying to be cool.
@lisaviolet@moonhat - That’s like saying “lung” is a negative word because of lung cancer!
Squamous cells are flat epithelial cells, in contrast to cuboid epithelial cells which are square or columnar epithelial cells which are rectangular. Squamous cells are found in a variety of different parts of the body including the mouth, the lips, and the cervix.
@lisaviolet - I lost a number of relatives, including my mother, to lung cancer - I guess I tend to think the negative word is cancer, but if the s- word is negative for you, I can avoid it!
It really is the only time I’ve heard the word and it’s always been with cancer in one of my cat’s mouths. And doing whatever possible to help them through it as painlessly as possible, watching the tumor getting bigger and bigger and eating becomes harder and harder, no matter how many hoops I jump through to make the food easy to eat, then knowing the right time to say goodbye, well, it’s just not ever going to be a favorite word of mine.
@lisaviolet - I am terribly sorry to hear about your cats, having lost a few myself although never to cancer. Does more than one have the same condition? That seems strange to me.
Not to get lost in this but it’s not the cancer that’s squamous it’s a descriptor of the type of cell, really a rather important one but sensitive to UV light. However I must say I understand your feelings about word association - I sometimes feel that way about the word prostate…
@aetris We’ve had over sixty cat in thirty years. I think maybe three had this type of cancer. This is Katie, the last kitty who had it.
My husband is going in for his checkup next week, PSA test needs to be done. He went through twenty weeks (five days a week) of radiation therapy for cancer at the beginning of the year. His last test (July) was damned good (1.4), best since it was first taken when he was applying for new insurance seven or eight years ago. Hoping it’s even lower this time. October 2017, it was 8.2.
@ruouttaurmind - Really, you were in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? Say, what’s the geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
@aetris Why, it was… supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
I took the train from Bournemouth to Liverpool to meet friends and we drove out to Anglesey Island to see the castles.
They claim to speak English there… but I’m not convinced. I couldn’t understand a word the locals were spouting. Even my boy from Liverpool had a bit of a challenge with the old timers.
Background - I work in IT, so you design things to be “system agnostic”, which means it does not depend on a specific thing. Not the religious definition. But I always enjoy the slightly spaced stares as people remember that words have multiple meanings.
This ditty has language quite heinous
Is so crude it really could pain us.
Its first lines allude
To an ending most rude –
And doesn’t disappoint with anus.
@mike808 In high school I impressed my chem teacher by using the word turgid. Little did he know I only knew the word because I had recently read a naughty book that had used it.
@InnocuousFarmer - “By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using ‘hermeneutics,’ when they meant ‘heuristic’.”
1 relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion
v separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
v come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
**English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. ** James Nicoll
@butter021
From Jeff Foxworthy
Redneck Word of the Day - 06/22/2012:
ASININE:
as-i-nine (as-uh-nahyn), n. favorable praise of the hind end, to the positive ninth integer. “Man, I would give her face a two and her asinine.”
If by favorite, you mean one I say constantly, I sadly have to say awesome and cool. Yes I’m that lame. But I love many other words, just don’t say them quite as often: discombobulated, namaste, forfend, the aforementioned cattywampus, just to name a few. A coworker and I spent a very pleasant half hour or so yelling words we thought were fun to say over our cubicle wall, like namaste and Islamabad. Good times!
Oh and apparently my first husband thought my favorite word was something else. He once told me that in order to encourage… adult happy time, he was going to get a sign printed up and hung over the bed that said SALE!! because that word seemed to get my attention…lol…he was a jerk but he definitely made me laugh.
My favorite word is “honkytonk”. I am pretty sure I’ve never been to one (but would like to), and I don’t say it often, but I really love the way it sounds.
@msklzannie You know, I knew that. I did a phonetic search for it to confirm, and the first thing that came up was the way I had spelled it phonetically (“oomlat”), so I figured that must be the actual spelling and went with that instead.
I just did the same search, and lo and behold, if I actuality clicked the “oomlat” link, it went to the correct spelling. So that’s what I get…
There are just too many wonderful words to try and pick a single one. The sheer vastness of all that words may describe, underly, encompass, and the surety that in the vast macrocosmic all, there is nothing that cannot at some point be described by elegant words or even snarky slang… how is one to choose?
On seeing a new wonder in the world:
“There are no words…”
“Well, it looks like a zymolosely polydactile tongue with a statuesque growth on its tip to me…”
@mfladd you stole that from @carl669
@Kidsandliz @mfladd I’m ok with sharing. there’s plenty of fucks to go around.
@carl669 @Kidsandliz @mfladd thank fucking god.
@carl669 @Kidsandliz
Favorite: onomatopoeia
and: slither, chirp, meow, moo, swoop, and zoooooom!
Runner up: sesquipedalian
@rockblossom onomatopoeia is mine also!
Moist. There isn’t enough moistness in the world.
@therealjrn
/youtube moist
Edit: that was a gamble.
@RiotDemon @therealjrn
/youtube pronounce moist
@RiotDemon @therealjrn Ya think?? lol
Of English words-
Prestidigitation. It has a magical effect on me.
/define loquacious
ADJECTIVE
/define protuberance
NOUN
@medz Like a nose?
/define proboscis
NOUN
I’m quite fond of wroth. I also quite like amok.
@moondrake
/giphy hocus pocus amok
@jst1ofknd @moondrake Let’s try again…
antepenultimate:
Noun
antepenultimate (plural antepenultimates)
Two before the last in a series. e.g. (…, antepenultimate, penultimate, ultimate)
The syllable that comes two before the last in a word.
The words animal, citizen, comedy, dangerous, obvious, and antepenultimate are stressed on the antepenultimate.
No
Gazeebo
@ACraigL Foible
@ACraigL Gesundheit!
Sale.
currently, absquatulate.
/define absquatulate
VERB
@carl669 Not to be conflated with flatulate, after which, one absquatulates.
Rapscallion
Recalcitrant because I work with undergrads and I like to tell them that they are recalcitrant and their writing is obtuse. So really two words I guess.
@bleedmichigan you could try mixing it up with facile and inscrutible.
@bleedmichigan @mike808
And obstinate.
@bleedmichigan @jst1ofknd @mike808 Or perhaps contumaciously obfuscatory.
Sinclair. If I have to give my name for something I say Sinclair. You know, the green dino fella from the gas station company? It could be a she. I just like saying it. Oh. And lately, Get Down "CLOWN "is working when my dogs get up on the sofa.
@AZnatural1 my “going out” name when I was young was Crystal Smoke but I told everyone it was spelled Smoak as in Felicity. Danggit I was a nerd even when I was trying to be cool.
I’ve always liked squamous. But I also like the Irish pronunciation of Clonard, and the Japanese pronunciation of Hyundai.
@aetris
/define squamous
ADJECTIVE
@aetris Not a fan of squamous because the only time I hear it, it’s followed by “cell cancer”.
@aetris @lisaviolet yep
@aetris @lisaviolet i was thinking the exact same thing. negative word there.
@lisaviolet @moonhat - That’s like saying “lung” is a negative word because of lung cancer!
Squamous cells are flat epithelial cells, in contrast to cuboid epithelial cells which are square or columnar epithelial cells which are rectangular. Squamous cells are found in a variety of different parts of the body including the mouth, the lips, and the cervix.
@aetris @moonhat Did you miss this part of my reply?
It’s a personal thing. I guess that had to be spelled out for you. Sorry.
@lisaviolet - I lost a number of relatives, including my mother, to lung cancer - I guess I tend to think the negative word is cancer, but if the s- word is negative for you, I can avoid it!
@aetris It’s your favorite, just not mine.
It really is the only time I’ve heard the word and it’s always been with cancer in one of my cat’s mouths. And doing whatever possible to help them through it as painlessly as possible, watching the tumor getting bigger and bigger and eating becomes harder and harder, no matter how many hoops I jump through to make the food easy to eat, then knowing the right time to say goodbye, well, it’s just not ever going to be a favorite word of mine.
@aetris @lisaviolet no,I meant I agree with you!
@lisaviolet - I am terribly sorry to hear about your cats, having lost a few myself although never to cancer. Does more than one have the same condition? That seems strange to me.
Not to get lost in this but it’s not the cancer that’s squamous it’s a descriptor of the type of cell, really a rather important one but sensitive to UV light. However I must say I understand your feelings about word association - I sometimes feel that way about the word prostate…
@aetris We’ve had over sixty cat in thirty years. I think maybe three had this type of cancer. This is Katie, the last kitty who had it.
My husband is going in for his checkup next week, PSA test needs to be done. He went through twenty weeks (five days a week) of radiation therapy for cancer at the beginning of the year. His last test (July) was damned good (1.4), best since it was first taken when he was applying for new insurance seven or eight years ago. Hoping it’s even lower this time. October 2017, it was 8.2.
If we aren’t limited to English -
Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung.
(Speed limit in German)
@mehcuda67 Ok, I’ll bite. Gazpacho
@mehcuda67
Nope. Not limited to any particular language real or otherwise.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
@aetris http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/say.php
@aetris That’s in Wales! I was just there last month.
@mehcuda67 Bob’s favorite was albondiga, Mexican meatballs. I like babaganoush, the name of a Syrian eggplant dip.
@ruouttaurmind - Really, you were in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? Say, what’s the geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
@aetris Why, it was… supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
I took the train from Bournemouth to Liverpool to meet friends and we drove out to Anglesey Island to see the castles.
They claim to speak English there… but I’m not convinced. I couldn’t understand a word the locals were spouting. Even my boy from Liverpool had a bit of a challenge with the old timers.
@aetris @ruouttaurmind this is one of those conversations that should be in the meh hall of fame. Fuck a write up one night and repost this @dave
Hey @dseanadams! Here’s another challenge for you. Are you up to it?
@jst1ofknd Ha! I will definitely find a way to incorporate geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung into a write-up.
Agnostic.
It always slightly confuses people.
Background - I work in IT, so you design things to be “system agnostic”, which means it does not depend on a specific thing. Not the religious definition. But I always enjoy the slightly spaced stares as people remember that words have multiple meanings.
Asshat
I can’t hear that without picturing a butt wearing a hat. Makes me smile every time.
Squamous got me thinking about my 2 best friends (both lost to lung cancer 2 years ago).
Which got me thinking about smegma! Juvenile, yes, but funny as fuck when you’re young and stoned
Her nickname became “Smeg Ma”.
His? “Smeg Pa”! Of course!
I miss them both but THESE kind of memories soften the blow
@llangley My inner 13 year-old prefers Smeghead.
@rtjhnstn lol, he called me Smegmahead. She called me Smeghetti…
@rtjhnstn no words…
Kerfuffle
@shahnm Oh I forgot that one, that’s a good one!
Oh, and cattywampus.
Almost forgot cattywampus.
@shahnm Love cattywampus!
Onomatopoeia
and: slither, chirp, meow, moo, swoop, and zoooooom!
it changes
right now it happens to be
mew
no, not meh, mew
Heinous. I’ve been using it a lot lately. Can’t seem to stop. To do so seems, I dunno, heinous.
@simssj
@simssj In the movie “My Cousin Vinny”, the prosecutor pronounces it “hi een us”.
/define defenestration
NOUN
password1234
Would you also like to know my first pet’s name and what street I grew up on?
@Nuurgle
Please? Also your e-mail address or typical username.
Osteoporosis. You just gotta lean into the vowel.
Tied between corpulent and turgid.
Runner-up: tumescent.
And, just for the goats: vituperous.
@mike808 Why don’t you just say hard?
@compunaut Because they’re not as sophomorically humorous.
That would be too easy. Like your mom. /rimshot.
@mike808
/define corpulent
ADJECTIVE
/define turgid
ADJECTIVE
/define tumescent
ADJECTIVE
/define vituperous
No exact matches found for the specified word.
@mike808
vituperous: worthy of blame.
I like it!
@mike808 In high school I impressed my chem teacher by using the word turgid. Little did he know I only knew the word because I had recently read a naughty book that had used it.
Scorn
/define fastidious
ADJECTIVE
And let’s not forget the old classic
/define obfuscate
VERB
/define euphamism
No exact matches found for the specified word.
@mike808 Wow. Even the Meh dictionary is … Meh.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/giphy euphamism
@mike808
/define euphemism
NOUN
@ruouttaurmind You mean I have to spell it correctly? That is so not millennial-friendly.
@mike808 It’s ok. You tried.
@mike808 @ruouttaurmind My tears are diluting my coffee.
@mehcuda67
That will be a $1 upcharge for the DIY pour over Americano.
/define monetization
No exact matches found for the specified word.
Sigh.
@mike808
/define monetize
VERB
@ruouttaurmind Why no noun form? Lame ass dictionary, you got there, Meh.
/ define monetization
NOUN
epistemological
@InnocuousFarmer - “By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using ‘hermeneutics,’ when they meant ‘heuristic’.”
Woody Allen
@aetris
“How do you know that you know?”
It is a word for our time.
@InnocuousFarmer
/define epistemological
ADJECTIVE
I can’t help my self THUNDERBIRD!
@cranky1950 what’s the price?
@bootsmonday @cranky1950 40 twice
Areolas
“Before I die, I hope to see the Areola Borealis flashing in the night sky.”
@medz haha
dongle
/image heh-heh-heh
Thank you giphy.
@Barney
/Image Beavis Butthead laughing gif
Omfg. I give up.
@RiotDemon
/image animated beavis butthead laugh
@medz @RiotDemon
/giphy beavis and butthead laugh
I guess I’ve got the magic touch. Heh-heh-heh
@Barney @medz lol. I tried so many giphys before I gave up and went to image.
I also like cleave, the two definitions of which are opposite of one another.
Per vocabulary.com, Primary Meanings of
cleave
**English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. ** James Nicoll
Acquaintance
Asinine
@butter021
I’m pretty sure I know what it means, but this is fun.
/define Asinine
ADJECTIVE
@butter021
From Jeff Foxworthy
Redneck Word of the Day - 06/22/2012:
ASININE:
as-i-nine (as-uh-nahyn), n. favorable praise of the hind end, to the positive ninth integer. “Man, I would give her face a two and her asinine.”
@butter021 @earlyre
Reminds me of urinate (same source).
“Urinate. If you had a bad over your head then you’d be a 10.”
Or something like that.
Thanks
Covfefe
@llangley
/define covfefe
No exact matches found for the specified word.
@llangley what a surprise. Made-up words, made-up “facts”, blah blah blah
My daughter’s favorite word for years was, “no” if you went by frequency of usage.
/define boofing
No exact matches found for the specified word.
Thought so. Someone is a liar.
If by favorite, you mean one I say constantly, I sadly have to say awesome and cool. Yes I’m that lame. But I love many other words, just don’t say them quite as often: discombobulated, namaste, forfend, the aforementioned cattywampus, just to name a few. A coworker and I spent a very pleasant half hour or so yelling words we thought were fun to say over our cubicle wall, like namaste and Islamabad. Good times!
@mehbee My favorite capitol name is Tegucigalpa.
Oh and apparently my first husband thought my favorite word was something else. He once told me that in order to encourage… adult happy time, he was going to get a sign printed up and hung over the bed that said SALE!! because that word seemed to get my attention…lol…he was a jerk but he definitely made me laugh.
My favorite word is “honkytonk”. I am pretty sure I’ve never been to one (but would like to), and I don’t say it often, but I really love the way it sounds.
@moonhat then youre gonna love badonkadonk.
@mike808 @moonhat
/youtube honkytonk badonkadonk
@mike808 oh damn, that I do. That one is lots of fun.
Slake
c.f. MAS*H Season 3 episode, “Springtime”.
I like ampersand…just for the fact that there is a word for that.
@lanejustin Just wait until you see an octothorpe!
@lanejustin @mike808 Or an oomlat.
@shahnm it’s spelled umlaut
@msklzannie You know, I knew that. I did a phonetic search for it to confirm, and the first thing that came up was the way I had spelled it phonetically (“oomlat”), so I figured that must be the actual spelling and went with that instead.
I just did the same search, and lo and behold, if I actuality clicked the “oomlat” link, it went to the correct spelling. So that’s what I get…
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oomlat&atb=v113-6&ia=web
/define omphaloskepsis
NOUN
@zachdecker
NOUN
F word
There are just too many wonderful words to try and pick a single one. The sheer vastness of all that words may describe, underly, encompass, and the surety that in the vast macrocosmic all, there is nothing that cannot at some point be described by elegant words or even snarky slang… how is one to choose?
On seeing a new wonder in the world:
“There are no words…”
“Well, it looks like a zymolosely polydactile tongue with a statuesque growth on its tip to me…”
Meh.
I like the word Tchotchke. Not the way I would expect to spell it.
@heartny That’s an easy one. Try Terpsicore, Calliope, Tchoupitoulas, Mayonaisse, and the best for last, Natchitoches.
As in terp-chick-o-ree, kal-ee-oh-p, chop-it-too-luhs, may-nez, and knack-a-dish.
Nawlins, baby, Nawlins.
Splunge
M O I S T
Fukobukuro.
Gardyloo! (the exclamation point is kinda mandatory)