Favourite Big Words

[PlayfulAlex]

I like words, particularly written. I like it when people write in such a way that it's interesting. When given a choice, I prefer to write out my thoughts, rather than speak my thoughts.

Read the New Yorker sometime. This may require a dictionary by your side.

Today I read a word that got my attention; contumacious (extra points to the person who figures out where the word was found, although this is not an endorsement, just a linguistic discovery)...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=contumacious

Do you have any interesting words to share, favourites, or surprise words that you recently discovered?



Clue: this site led me to the word contumacious

 

[VanessaofBC]

First to come to mind is


omnipotent


For two reasons.

#1 - People use it and they cannot pronounce
#2 - People usually misplace the word in a sentence making it look they actually have NO idea what the word means.

om·nip·o·tent
/ämˈnipətənt/
Adjective
(of a deity) Having unlimited power; able to do anything.
Noun
God.
Synonyms
almighty - all-powerful

 

[PlayfulAlex]

Fun With Words...

Here's a bunch of words, for other nerds...

http://rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml

 

[kauffman]

Longest word in the English language.

ANyone heard of this one? Etiologicalpsychosomaticinterference

(by proxy?)
somehting like that. It came to me in a dream

 

[Sleepmonger]

ANyone heard of this one? Etiologicalpsychosomaticinterference

(by proxy?)
somehting like that. It came to me in a dream

Sounds like it should be three words not one.
Etiological psychosomatic interference

I tend not to be impressed by the use of complicated nouns, especially ones that are just compound words used in biology or medicine.

Hmm... The only word I can think of worth mentioning that I use in common speech is discombobulated.

 

[Unpossible]

miss melody

 

[grusse]

Welch
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

one could print that page,take it to a cocktail party and soon have an entire corner to him/herself,lol.
some good stuff in there.

I believe the all-purpose F word could be a noun,verb,adjective&adverb,depending on usage&context?

also, "words" that aren't but get used,eg "irregardless"
in print we'll see "alot" which s/b "a lot"

fun with language.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

I believe the all-purpose F word could be a noun,verb,adjective&adverb,depending on usage&context?

fun with language.

Well, a favourite phrase in MY house has long been "The fucking fucker's fucking fucked!", so....yes, it can.

(..and I consider unpossible a PERFECTLY cromulent word.)

 

[Oldfart]

Good for you, BadgerJohn, for chiming in with floccinaucinihilipilification. That's the one I was going to offer.

 

[PlayfulAlex]

Good for you, BadgerJohn, for chiming in with floccinaucinihilipilification. That's the one I was going to offer.

Have you ever just sat around and tried to make up big words that sound real and authentic but are actually just created to fuck with people's heads?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=floccinaucinihilipilification

 

[rickoshadows]

omg I was just thinking about Rocky and Bullwinkle the other day! Then there was Natasha ... what was the name of the male evil character?

Boris

Yes that makes me fricken old!

 

[grusse]

Well, a favourite phrase in MY house has long been "The fucking fucker's fucking fucked!", so....yes, it can.

(..and I consider unpossible a PERFECTLY cromulent word.)

cromulent is not in my Webster's,but from your sentence I take it to mean something like "acceptable" or "sensible"

 

[Ohn]

The gamboling storms came crouching to her feet

 

[Smilf]

The word motherfucker is a noun, it describes a person place or thing .. don't be scared of the word motherfucker.

Only Bernie Mac and Samuel L Jackson could pull this off!