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Post by fizzy on Aug 4, 2015 9:27:22 GMT
Metagrobolise: word means puzzle, mystify, baffle or confound.
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Post by tinkerbell on Aug 8, 2015 12:49:06 GMT
Nubbing-Cheat: defunct thieves cant swing from gallows, first recorded ending in Seventeenth Century. Will show you some way emptying one pocket from some queer cull, without any danger from thee nubbing cheat. Cull is a fool, dupe or sucker. This often appears in works written long after their heyday, in some scene-setting device.
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Post by sassy on Aug 12, 2015 18:43:40 GMT
Onychophagist: someone that bites their nails. This word apparently appears mainly in quizzes and spelling bees.
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Post by tiny on Aug 23, 2015 19:24:57 GMT
Ooglification: was invented about 30 years ago by Roger Wescott, then professor for linguistics in Drew university, Madison, New Jersey. Appeared in this little Linguistic Magazine article verbatim under title Ooglification, American English slang.
He claimed deriving this word, expanding American slang Oogly, which he said meant "extremely attractive" and "extremely unattractive". Until now, far were aware, this never aspired in some former sense, being this modified form for Ugly. Thus, being this process example he describes.
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Post by qtee on Aug 27, 2015 13:54:25 GMT
Ostrobogulous: can refer for something either bizarre, weird, strange or generally unusual happening. This can also mean something mildly indecent, pornographic or risqué. Ostrobogulous was Vickybird's favourite word. This stood for anything from bawdy unto slightly off-colour. Double entendre, which might otherwise have escaped his audience was prefaced by: "If you will pardon the Ostrobogulosity".
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Post by sassy on Sept 2, 2015 23:18:12 GMT
Pandiculation: when you're tired to such extent for yawning in fatigue. You may stretch your arms and neck for easing them.
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Post by pharlapjones on Oct 7, 2015 15:35:43 GMT
Prognosticate: predict, prophesy or foretell; more pithy and serviceable choices in these plainer-speaking days, when long words have rather became unfashionable. Derived from medieval Latin Prognosticare, for making predictions and certainly traced back from classical Greek gnosis, knowledge, plus prefix pro-, earlier in time.
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Post by sassy on Oct 7, 2015 20:11:21 GMT
Pusillanimous: means you have this small soul or weak spirit, one with few reserves in strength, which resist those slings and arrows for outrageous fortune.
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Post by art on Oct 9, 2015 10:24:15 GMT
Quinquagenary: term from classical Latin Quinquagenarius, consisting some fifty or fifty years old. This also gave our English language for Quinquagenarian, slightly better known term; whose adjectival senses overlap with those from Quinquagenary, where this refers about someone in their fifties.
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Post by spirit on Oct 9, 2015 21:17:55 GMT
Rhadamanthine: became this byword for justice in most severe and rigorous forms and adjective 'Rhadamanthine'. Refers for someone whose rigorously just and severe. This appeared within English, sometime during last year in our Eighteenth Century. As to the sentence he pronounces, I am unable to speak, but his forehead is Rhadamanthine condemnation.
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Post by lilith on Oct 11, 2015 17:42:44 GMT
Richard Snary: this Seventeenth Century pun for dictionary: 'Dick Snary'. This inadequate witticism, linguistically and interesting. Because suggests around this time dictionary; was said with only three syllables and middle part elided away, like "dic-snary" (/ˈdɪksnærɪ/).
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Post by blondie on Oct 12, 2015 14:49:41 GMT
Spatterdashes: effective name for leather gaiters, tied around legs below knees, like Daniel Defoe had. Stockings and shoes had none, but had made me a pair of somethings, I scarce knew what to call them, like buskins, to flap over my legs, and lace on either side like Spatterdashes, but of a most barbarous shape, as indeed were all the rest of my clothes (Buskins were this kind for high-legged leather boots).
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Post by dieseldyke on Oct 13, 2015 14:29:23 GMT
Steganography: stemmed from Greek Steganos, meaning hidden or covered, plus graphein for writing. Essentially art form or technique in creating and transmitting hidden messages. Technique that cryptographers sometimes sniffily referred: 'Security through Obscurity'.
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Post by trinity on Oct 15, 2015 17:44:01 GMT
Therianthrope: what part animal, part human. Usual meaning for this related adjective (Therianthropic) being God represented for combining animal and human forms. Examples known best for those animal-headed gods, came from ancient Egypt: Bast (Cat head) or Anubis (Jackal head).
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Post by madmax on Oct 17, 2015 11:23:04 GMT
Vaccimulgence: derived from Latin vacca and former for cow: also origin for vaccine. Since this were first derived from Dr Jenner for cowpox, in guardng against more serious smallpox.
Latter Latin verb Emulgere (milk out), which too is this ultimate origin for emulsion and root for another very rare word: Emulgence. Thus, action in milking out, for example: extracting money from someone unwilling.
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