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Antidiseshtablishmentarism
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it’s real!
Sagacious
adj.
Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness.
Sagacious advice to a cantankerous person would be to feign happiness
Convivial??
adj.
1. friendly; agreeable
2. fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial.
3. of or befitting a feast; festive.
cantankerous
adj.
1. the unpleasant state of having a large number of canker sores
sagacious
adj.
1. the condition of having upper arm skin and skin of certain other areas that become
loose during the process of aging
convivial
adj.
1. regarding a certain arrangement of living among nuns
“Ywncoffeeroomers”
A group of bored people who post notes on a Jewish website.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
noun
a lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust
<b>onomatopoeia</b>
noun
1 : the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)
2 : the use of words whose sound suggests the sense
(definition taken from merriam-webster.com)
The Wolf
interrobang
noun
the combination of the exclamation mark and question mark
Pogonotrophy
youll have to guess this one (or google it of course)
it is a practice very common among Jewish males
i myself am a practioner
riposte
the process of tearing overly long noodles in preparation for their cooking
pronounced: rip pahst uh
Hey! Wolf’s back!
Do I detect the emergence of a simper?
simper
less complicated, (as pronounced by a person who is missing his upper front teeth)
tintinnabulation
love this word! it’s almost onomatopoeic.
feivel – loved “pogonotrophy”. thanks
To ames re your example of the use of “riposte” in a sentence: You used it as a verb, but you defined it as a noun. I do not believe it can be used as a verb, except when used in feivel’s definition.
DUMBLEDORE (not what you think, harry potter fans)
noun
any buzzing insect, usually a bumblebee
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
And also, I believe, the longest word in the English language.
bete noire
another name for betty boop
this was a famous cartoon character who never exhibited any anger (no ire)
And your bete noire is….? Your good side? Weird.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidochus:
Yup this is for all Mary Poppin Fans…
“pulchritude” is another favorite of mine. it means beauty, which strikes me as funny, as the word itself isn’t an elegant or pretty-sounding thing.
ames- would make sense if your on a portable device???
Supercalifragilisticexpialidochus
the correct spelling is: Supercalifragilisticexpialidochus
ames – that is weird… even if you’re using a portable device, why would you have a problem with my posts only? maybe it’s the length of my screen name… anyway i tried to skip a line this time 🙂
thanks for starting this thread – i love words!
methylchloroisothiazolinone
i know this word because of boredom [hey – cool word for boredom = ennui]. it’s the longest ingredient in most shampoos. lol
griffonage
illegible handwriting
Thanx feivel- was wondering who the first person to correct me would be!!!
ames- I’d reccomned Dell- it’s what I use with amazing battery life…
DeliberatelyEsoteric- yeah I think it’s the length of your username.
feivel, I consider your post to be highly pernicious, when you consider the eye strain that it takes to discover that you actually made no correction.
squeak- Huh??? I actually spelt it right…woweeee I’m more talented then I ever imagined!!!
And feivel- check carefully the next time you presume I make a mistake 😉
I didn’t say you spelled it right, only that feivel merely copy/pasted your spelling and perniciously tried to pass it off as a correction.
Heehee…I always thought that feivel was mature!
squeak
consider it revenge of the B-type personalities against the A-types
Hortatory (sorry I don’t know how to bold words) makes me laugh!
adjective. Encouraging or urging.
Trichotillomania
An impulse disorder that causes sufferers to pull out their own hair
(Not a very fun definition, but a fun word!)
feivel, I didn’t realize that type B would actually get up and do something about their venegence 😉
squeak
we are human you know
Guacomole (or however you spell it. I always found that to be a funny word lol
ames- yeah that’s an idea because although their battery life is great it does get worse and worse after much usage and seeing what an addicted member you are, it’s probably down to about 5 mins! 😉
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Delib… I don’t think that skipping a line is helping because you leave those lines blank. Try putting a dot or something on the first two lines like this
LAer: i’ve always found that word pretty funny too!
Methylchloroisothiazolinone
science word, i bet feivel & squeak use it on a daily basis! 😉
(5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one) is a preservative with antibacterial and antifungal effects within the group of isothiazolinones. It is effective against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, yeast and fungi.
It is found in many water-based personal care products and cosmetics.[1] It is also used in glue production, detergents, paints, fuels and other industrial processes.
hey i see now after reading back, that DeliberatelyEsoteric used the same word as me! oh well!
Can we take a vote on whether or not Medical terms or scientific names count as words? I vote no. Otherwise, I could coin a name for a clear, colorless liquid which I claim to have added drops of every drug on the planet and call it
hydrobenechloroencyzyrtepeptoqetzaldioxycromoslydyneurosyncrotopholorestdiophalus
Avoirdupois
noun. weight, heaviness
(yeah, I get word of the day from Dictionary.com on my homepage) 🙂
His avoirdupois caused the chair to crack under him.
isn’t avoirdupois the regular type of pounds, used for feathers & stuff?
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thanks for the tip, 42.
arachibutyrophobia
it’s an actual condition in which the sufferer has an unnatural fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of his/her mouth.
ames, I am ROTFL
DeliberatelyEsoteric: I have that! I hate when it sticks to the top of your outh lol
DeliberatelyEsoteric- thanx for that- Whenever I’m feeling a bit weird I just read some of those style phobias which then leaves me thinking that however weird I am there are millions out there much worse…
I just love when peanut butter stuck to my pallete, I can eat spoonfuls of peanut butter plain… Is there a name for that condition?
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