Author Topic: Cool words. List them here. (Read 89907 times)

HipGnosis · « **Reply #500 on:** August 19, 2018, 07:30:46 PM »

grybauti - which is Lithuanian that essentially means 'go stomping through the forest to find mushrooms'

stevent · « **Reply #501 on:** August 30, 2018, 09:14:57 AM »

Flagellation,

Sounds erotic in a Catholic kind of way..

Stickman · « **Reply #502 on:** August 30, 2018, 10:42:42 AM »

Disintermediation

aka the great rotation

Cookie · « **Reply #503 on:** August 30, 2018, 11:30:33 AM »

gooey

CLAY · « **Reply #504 on:** August 30, 2018, 08:29:55 PM »

I know an asian dude named "Bing Goei" (prounoucned gooey)

sodapop6620 · « **Reply #505 on:** August 31, 2018, 06:15:44 AM »

Retirement!

I am only 3 years away.

radon222 · « **Reply #506 on:** August 31, 2018, 09:42:36 AM »

Quote from: CLAY on August 30, 2018, 08:29:55 PM

I know an asian dude named "Bing Goei" (prounoucned gooey)

I went to Grad school with a Taiwanese dude.. Wong Wei

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #507 on:** August 31, 2018, 10:19:56 AM »

HipGnosis · « **Reply #508 on:** September 03, 2018, 12:07:48 PM »

spatchcock

HipGnosis · « **Reply #509 on:** September 07, 2018, 10:18:01 AM »

cadre

Papa Lazarou · « **Reply #510 on:** September 07, 2018, 01:16:48 PM »

rubbadub

HipGnosis · « **Reply #511 on:** September 11, 2018, 10:09:51 PM »

coquette

HipGnosis · « **Reply #512 on:** September 24, 2018, 08:40:12 PM »

confabulation a term used by psychologists to define a memory error that sees the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories
Similar to 'false memories' (but not the same)

stevent · « **Reply #513 on:** September 25, 2018, 12:31:01 PM »

Conflagration, a big fookin ass fire....

HipGnosis · « **Reply #514 on:** October 12, 2018, 08:19:41 AM »

I just heard a new oxymoron.
I thought there was an oxymoron thread, but I can't find it, so I'm putting this here.

The Brewers are in the playoffs (for the first time in recent memory).
The stadium is selling "standing room only seats".

stevent · « **Reply #515 on:** October 12, 2018, 01:47:32 PM »

Well they think Schlitz and Miller High Life are real beers, so they'll probably buy anything..

Cookie · « **Reply #516 on:** October 12, 2018, 04:17:43 PM »

Poontang

coho · « **Reply #517 on:** October 12, 2018, 05:00:22 PM »

!#&$//÷@!*!!1!

sodapop6620 · « **Reply #518 on:** October 16, 2018, 06:44:15 AM »

It is dictionary day.

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/dictionary-day/

coho · « **Reply #519 on:** October 16, 2018, 08:02:39 PM »

Pulchritudinous

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #520 on:** October 16, 2018, 09:23:09 PM »

Capsaicin

HipGnosis · « **Reply #521 on:** October 17, 2018, 11:01:36 AM »

dragoon

HipGnosis · « **Reply #522 on:** October 17, 2018, 11:02:48 AM »

Quote from: coho on October 16, 2018, 08:02:39 PM

Pulchritudinous

From vocabulary.com; Let's be honest: Your opportunities for using this word in casual conversation are probably pretty slim.
LOL

thatguy · « **Reply #523 on:** October 18, 2018, 05:32:50 PM »

bindlestiff

Cookie · « **Reply #524 on:** October 18, 2018, 05:40:17 PM »

Rumble seat

stevent · « **Reply #525 on:** October 18, 2018, 05:55:50 PM »

Vespasian (do names count?)

coho · « **Reply #526 on:** October 18, 2018, 07:49:48 PM »

Names are words.

HipGnosis · « **Reply #527 on:** October 22, 2018, 08:32:34 PM »

Svengali

coho · « **Reply #528 on:** October 23, 2018, 10:07:43 AM »

Gesundheit.

Flyer · « **Reply #529 on:** October 23, 2018, 05:01:04 PM »

Antidisestablishmentarianisim.

coho · « **Reply #530 on:** October 23, 2018, 05:09:49 PM »

Proconsular Imperium

Cookie · « **Reply #531 on:** October 23, 2018, 06:01:20 PM »

Scrapple

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #532 on:** October 24, 2018, 10:23:44 AM »

Quote from: Cookie on October 23, 2018, 06:01:20 PM

Scrapple

Are you in Pennsylvania right now?

Cookie · « **Reply #533 on:** October 24, 2018, 10:41:43 AM »

stevent · « **Reply #534 on:** October 24, 2018, 10:47:14 AM »

"Vole"

it's a tinny sort of word...

squeezer · « **Reply #535 on:** October 25, 2018, 01:48:47 PM »

gombeenism. Just 'cause it's a cool word to say.

It's the practice of borrowing money at high rates of interest.

coho · « **Reply #536 on:** October 25, 2018, 01:57:32 PM »

Pontefract

Flyer · « **Reply #537 on:** October 25, 2018, 05:01:01 PM »

Quote from: stevent on October 24, 2018, 10:47:14 AM

"Vole"
it's a tinny sort of word...

"Can't beat 'wood'..."
-Colin Chapman

radon222 · « **Reply #538 on:** October 26, 2018, 09:49:23 AM »

Quote from: squeezer on October 25, 2018, 01:48:47 PM

gombeenism. Just 'cause it's a cool word to say.

It's the practice of borrowing money at high rates of interest.

no doubt the etimology stems from "Goomba"

Stickman · « **Reply #539 on:** November 05, 2018, 08:43:02 AM »

fungibility

coho · « **Reply #540 on:** November 11, 2018, 08:14:59 PM »

Bosun

CLAY · « **Reply #541 on:** November 11, 2018, 08:50:51 PM »

Bosom.

viffergyrl · « **Reply #542 on:** November 11, 2018, 09:01:50 PM »

Quote from: CLAY on November 11, 2018, 08:50:51 PM

Bosom.

I hate it when you read my mind.

Stickman · « **Reply #543 on:** November 12, 2018, 03:00:19 PM »

unctuous

coho · « **Reply #544 on:** November 12, 2018, 03:38:53 PM »

Aviatrix

stevent · « **Reply #545 on:** November 12, 2018, 05:58:46 PM »

"Vancouver International Winefest" and I'm going.. bwaa-ha-ha-ha-ha

Cheers!

Papa Lazarou · « **Reply #546 on:** November 13, 2018, 12:08:15 AM »

cephalophore

stevent · « **Reply #547 on:** November 13, 2018, 12:03:39 PM »

Velocipede

Dufus · « **Reply #548 on:** November 15, 2018, 11:45:19 AM »

copacetic

Wesley · « **Reply #549 on:** November 15, 2018, 02:54:12 PM »

coprophagic