Great, underused words

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

What an interesting grouping of words. Gratuitous and schmuck get lots of play inside my head.

We have 10 pages of words with only one minor detour into political snark; I'm so proud of the DIS.




African or European?

I don't know that...


AAAAaaaaaaaaaaa..........

 

[LisaMommy]

Doff/don. I use them all the time, and my kids have started too. People look at them funny when my six year old tells his sister to doff her shoes.

 

[OceanAnnie]

On an "A" roll:

amok
awry
askew
amiss
askance
asinine
arbitrary
abate

 

[mfd25wife]

That gets used a lot in charting where I work, as in "copious secretions."

Here's another....behoove

This one comes in handy with the kids!

I can't remember if these were mentioned:
Verbiage
malarkey

I've learned from this thread that I would be in trouble trying to play Scrabble with some of you!!

 

[PrincessKitty1]

Has anybody mentioned the word sublime yet??

Those of you who are looking in the dictionary--that's cheating!

 

[letfuller]

Here are a few of my favorite words!

titillation
ludicrous
nefarious

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

This one comes in handy with the kids!

I can't remember if these were mentioned:
Verbiage
malarkey

I've learned from this thread that I would be in trouble trying to play Scrabble with some of you!!

A friend from college is now a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Yeah, she can't get anyone to play word games with her.

 

[AmericangirlinFrance]

I like Latin phrases that have become common usage in English (well, common in that some people will know what you mean )

Nota Bene (there's one!): I try to use them more in writing than in speech, though I put them in emails and things.... you know, throw people off.

Et alia
Supra and infra
In loco parentis
Et seq.
Sui generis
A priori
In flagrante delicto
Sine qua non
De jure/de facto

Okay, back to my geek corner now... and I didn't even list any of the legal Latin I use much too frequently

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Et alia
Supra and infra
Et seq.
de facto

Okay, back to my geek corner now... and I didn't even list any of the legal Latin I use much too frequently

I work for attorneys and we use many of these frequently, except we use inter alia, as opposed to et alia. Also ipso facto.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Has anybody mentioned the word sublime yet??

I love that band!

 

[emer95]

What a spectacular thread! I love big words. I love the way they feel rolling off my tongue. I love the look I get when I use them.

Here are ones that have popped into my mind as I read through 10 pages (I apologize in advance if they are repeats):

Verbose
monotonous
drivel
squallor
ominous
ostentatious
insolance
resiliency
splendor

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Hmmm

Scallywag
landlubber
keelhaul

 

[Charade]

Hmmm

Scallywag
landlubber
keelhaul

You must not be that great of a pirate if those are underused words in your circles.

"Welcome to Long John Silvers..."

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

You must not be that great of a pirate if those are underused words in your circles.

"Welcome to Long John Silvers..."

Under-used by ta public, ya left handed swab jockey, ya.



hehehehehehe

 

[Cantw8]

Hynie...because it makes me giggle

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Hynie...because it makes me giggle

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

These are great words. Many of my favorites have been mentioned, but here are a couple:

interloper (even my kids say it, when an onion ring gets in with the french fries, for example!)

juxtapose
alas and alack (oftentimes uttered together)

nunnery

cotillion

gregarious

 

[PrincessKitty1]

I was just talking to a co-worker and described a couple of stuffed shirts at work as "officious" and immediately thought of this thread.

 

[Galahad]

nunnery

Webster's definition, or Shakespeare's?

 

[OceanAnnie]

I was just talking to a co-worker and described a couple of stuffed shirts at work as "officious" and immediately thought of this thread.

Sounds like auspicious.