Word of the Day

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.

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

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" :evil: :evil:

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."

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 :utard: .





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

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

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

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.

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":



:utard: :utard: :utard: :utard: :utard: :utard: :utard: :utard:



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

Sackless and feckless? What a combination!

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.



You know, that really does sound precocious.

CAFB_04-12 wrote:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.



You know, that really does sound precocious.

I saw the movie the first day it came out.

Disestablishmentarianism.



define it for us Master Urroner. ;)

CougarPeasant wrote:
Disestablishmentarianism.



define it for us Master Urroner. ;)

Too easy my young grasshopper.



Disestablishmentarianism - A practice of anybody rooting for the :utard: or maybe even the 8).



If you rot for the :utard: , you would want to get 8) off the face of the Earth, since the 8) shows you up almost all the time. But, in all truth, those butt sorry :utard:, when they think of the 8) usually end up sing the chorus from Guns and Roses "Paradise City:"

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green

And the girls are pretty

Take me home (Oh, won't you please take me home)

If you root for the 8) (please note I didn't say "rot"), you would just want to destroy the :utard: since. as Obi Wan originally said before PCism made them change what he said', ""The University of Utah - you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." :utard: :utard:

Here is a word that describes those butt ugly :utard: to a tee:





nescience \NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s\ , noun;

Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.



Etymology: Late Latin nescientia, from Latin nescient-, nesciens, present participle of nescire not to know, from ne- not + scire to know



See my entry in the :utard: Caption thread.

slugabed [sluhg-uh-bed] –noun

a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising. [from slug(gard) + abed]

urroner wrote:
slugabed [sluhg-uh-bed] –noun

a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising. [from slug(gard) + abed]

Did that definition have my picture by it?

grok \GRAWK\ , transitive verb slang;

1.To understand, especially in a profound and intimate way.



From Robert A. Heinlein in his book "Stranger in a Strange Land:"

Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthly assumptions) as color means to a blind man.

It is used mainly by nerds and others who are absorbed by and have become a part of net culture.