Word of the day

[Magellan]

I thought that was when Booneys daisy dukes are pulled up too high in the front, giving him a portmantoe.

Portmanflyseyes?

[Booney]

I thought that was when Booneys daisy dukes are pulled up too high in the front, giving him a portmantoe.

I knew it. Mowing the lawn last night I could just feel some eyes were watching me.

[Booney]

Newspeak - noun - an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”

"....in the official Newspeak, "the broadening of the sphere of commodity and money relations." In translation: moves toward a market economy....."

[Magellan]

Newspeak - noun - an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”

"....in the official Newspeak, "the broadening of the sphere of commodity and money relations." In translation: moves toward a market economy....."

Courtesy of George Orwell, of course, a man very much ahead of his time.

[Booney]

Stravage - verg - to stroll, wander aimlessly

"...What made you stravage about the cliffs, looking for nothing in particular...."

[Booney]

Arithmancy - noun - divination by the use of numbers, especially by the number of letters in names.

"In modern languages such as English, many different systems of arithmancy have been produced, none of them entirely satisfactory. The most basic, which is much used in the popular numerology but also can be found in Renaissance occult writings, simply gives each letter the number of its place in the alphabet ..."

[Booney]

Cimmerian - adjective - {si-meer-ee-uhn} - very dark, gloomy.


"...The sunny English noon had swallowed him as completely as if he had gone out into cimmerian night...."

[Booney]

Anthophilous - (an-thof-uh-luh s) - adjective - Attracted by or living among flowers.

... we are probably justified in concentrating our attention on adaptation to the needs and preferences of flower-visiting ( anthophilous) animals that may be effective pollinators.

[Booney]

Fanfaronade - noun - bragging, bravado, bluster.

"I mean, that sometimes you baffle me by the fanfaronade behind your foolish words."

[Booney]

Nescience - noun - nesh-ee-uh ns - lack of knowledge, ignorance.

"... quiz shows merely expose our appalling national nescience"

[Booney]

Inveterate - adjective - in-vet-er-it - settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like

"...It was an ideal wintering home in every respect but one: it was owned by the Turlocks, the most inveterate hunters of Maryland..."

[mighty_tiger_79]

Have you tried using these words in day to day conversation?

[Booney]

Have you tried using these words in day to day conversation?

I did, but I found the lugubrious look on some people's faces, the ones who clearly didn't understand, quite distressing.

Fortunately the ataraxia I felt when I walked away meant I could move on quickly.

[Booney]

Mensch - noun - [ mench ] - ( informal ) a decent, upright, mature and responsible person.

"..I understand that people make mistakes but a real man, a mensch, shoulders his responsibilities and faces people and at least explains..."

[Corona Man]

Mensch - noun - [ mench ] - ( informal ) a decent, upright, mature and responsible person.

"..I understand that people make mistakes but a real man, a mensch, shoulders his responsibilities and faces people and at least explains..."

I will get shot down here... but what the hang. Mensch is the opposite of Jaensch then?

[bennymacca]

Mensch - noun - [ mench ] - ( informal ) a decent, upright, mature and responsible person.

"..I understand that people make mistakes but a real man, a mensch, shoulders his responsibilities and faces people and at least explains..."

I will get shot down here... but what the hang. Mensch is the opposite of Jaensch then?

FFS!

I read Booney's original post and was about to make the exact same joke haha.

well played CM

[Booney]

Leporine - noun - lep-uh-rayn - Zoology of, relating to, or, resembling a hare

"During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, the fun dad discussed how difficult it is to explain leporine mythical figures to 17-month-olds without getting too deep into biology "

[Booney]

Rampike - noun - ram-pahyk - Chiefly Canadian, a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.

"Along the crest of the ridge, among the rampikes, silhouetted dark and large against the sunrise, moved a great herd of caribou, feeding as they went."

[mighty_tiger_79]

Might use that word in a sledge at golf tomorrow..

[Booney]

Perfidious - adjective - per-fid-ee-uh s - deliberately faithless, treacherous, deceitful

"It's impossible to believe a close friend could be so perfidious"