Word of the Day

[urroner]

I love learning new words, only problem is I almost always forget them even if I use them five times a day for a week, but I love new, but weird words.

Word of the Day - osculate

Osculate - To kiss. "Come over here woman, I feel like oscualting you."

I learnt this word as a kid and I would get people in my ward all excited when I would say "My dad loves to osculate my mom." My dad would always tell me to stop being such a enfant terrible.

[scott715]

With your heritage, people would think the worst with your comment.

[urroner]

pulchritudinous - Characterized by or having great physical beauty and appeal. (The "ch" is a hard "c " sound.)

I realize that this sounds like a non-positive word, in fact, it sounds more like an insult, but it is a very complimenting word.

Example: "Damn honey, you sure look pulch today. Let's go osculate"

[urroner]

sesquipedalian
1. given to using long words.
2. (of a word) containing many syllables.

I love this word because it describes exactly what it is. "sesqui" means ""half as much again," so "sesquicentennial" means "150 years." "ped" come from "pes" and mean "foot,"so "sesquipedalian" means "somebody who uses words a foot and a half long" or "somebody who uses long words." The word practically is what it means.

But there is an interesting side note here, especially for those who like "-phobia" words. "Sesquipedalophobia" means "An abnormal, persistent fear of long words."

[urroner]

lugubrious [loo-goo-bree-uhs, -gyoo-]
–adjective
mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.

Cougarcorner was a place full of life and joy until the villainous Schmoe showed up, then it became a very lugubrious place, kind of like, but not as bad as the Northern Septic Abyss .


NOTE: Schmoe is good people and this is a gentle poke in his ribs. Please note his name is in the true color of righteousness and high intelligence - blue!!!!

[Schmoe]

Haha, thanks Urroner, but we all know that your disclaimer is just a lie so that I won't steal your homemade ice cream!

[scott715]

So Urroner, you got the brains but not the looks! Using all of those long words and all.

[kiwibacon]

...But there is an interesting side note here, especially for those who like "-phobia" words. "Sesquipedalophobia" means "An abnormal, persistent fear of long words."

Another appropriate word with the same meaning is "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia".

[urroner]

For those out there who suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia or sesquipedalophobia, prepare to get the living daylights and maybe even the bejeezers scared out of you. The longest true word in the English language. It is only 1,185 letters long. Note that there are no b's or d's in it.

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It is a tobacco mosaic virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

[urroner]

feckless - Lacking purpose; Without skill, ineffective, incompetent; Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way; Lacking vitality.

It's derived from the Scot word "feck" which means "effect" + "less"

Here is a great example of using the word "feckless" without using the word "feckless":



Need I say more or have I said too much already?