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  • Oliver Street
    Oliver Street Posts: 5,132
    Soft
    Machine
    Caravan
    Egg
    Matching
    Mole
    Hatfield
    And the North
    Gilgamesh
    National
    Health
    Gong
    Nucleus
    Passport
  • souladdick
    souladdick Posts: 214
    hypothetical
    Peripheral
    Bouncy

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Poppycock, especially like that it comes from the Dutch for Pappy Cack.

    Pumpernickel, another schoolboy one this. I like that it means Devil's Fart.
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,910
    Oliver Street said:

    Soft
    Machine
    Caravan
    Egg
    Matching
    Mole
    Hatfield
    And the North
    Gilgamesh
    National
    Health
    Gong
    Nucleus
    Passport

    Magma. Nova. Quantum Jump.

  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    Roland's favourite word is "huh"
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    A couple of lovely Afrikaans ( a very descriptive language if a bitch to speak if your from south London) words I've picked up here and learned to love

    Snotklap ( literally you hit somebody so hard that snot flies out of their nose)
    Koekie pelmat ( a mix of Afrikaans and English "literally her dress is so short it just about covers her Koek")
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Best word in the English language is Free.
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Rambunctious
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Jibber Jabber
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Clunge
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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    I always used to like buying a pamplemousse in France. It's when they reply "Yez, zer, wun grapefruit fer yeu".
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    I love this thread. Thanks for starting it cafcfan.

    For anyone who loves the study of words and their meanings, I can thoroughly recommend Mark Forsyth's books, The Etymologicon and the Horologicon. Below are some of my favourite words from them:

    Bumfodder - toilet paper (the source of the word bumf)
    Drunkery - pub, bar, gin house etc.
    Expergefator - something that wakes you up
    Feaguing - the act of sticking an eel up a horses arse (apparently some snollygosters did this to make the horse more lively and so get a better price for it)
    Gong-hole - lavatory
    Grinnow - stain that won't come out in the wash
    Gubernatorial - things belonging, or relating to, a governor
    Hum Durgeon - an imaginary illness
    Philogrobolized - hungover
    Plutomania - obsessive pursuit of money
    Snollygoster - a shrewd unprincipled person
    Squitter - to void excrement with a noise
    Towcher - index finger (i.e. toucher)
    Zwodder - a drowsy stupid state of mind

    Also good fun are Adams and Lloyd's The Meaning of Liff and Roger's Profanisaurus. Though their contents are entirely made up. Forsyth's words are genuine.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    ;-)
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,767
    Stig said:

    I love this thread. Thanks for starting it cafcfan.

    For anyone who loves the study of words and their meanings, I can thoroughly recommend Mark Forsyth's books, The Etymologicon and the Horologicon. Below are some of my favourite words from them:

    Bumfodder - toilet paper (the source of the word bumf)
    Drunkery - pub, bar, gin house etc.
    Expergefator - something that wakes you up
    Feaguing - the act of sticking an eel up a horses arse (apparently some snollygosters did this to make the horse more lively and so get a better price for it)
    Gong-hole - lavatory
    Grinnow - stain that won't come out in the wash
    Gubernatorial - things belonging, or relating to, a governor
    Hum Durgeon - an imaginary illness
    Philogrobolized - hungover
    Plutomania - obsessive pursuit of money
    Snollygoster - a shrewd unprincipled person
    Squitter - to void excrement with a noise
    Towcher - index finger (i.e. toucher)
    Zwodder - a drowsy stupid state of mind

    Also good fun are Adams and Lloyd's The Meaning of Liff and Roger's Profanisaurus. Though their contents are entirely made up. Forsyth's words are genuine.

    Nice list Stig.
    Agreed re: Meaning of Liff and Profanisaurus too.

    For those who haven't read it, The Meaning of Liff is a list of genuine place names with made up meanings attached to them. Some of them were brilliant. (The 'Adams' that Stig refers to is Douglas Adams. An incredible comic talent, sadly taken far too soon.)

    FWIW, my favourite words from Liff were:
    "Brompton" - A fart in a bath
    And
    "Skegness" - That almost solid nasal excreta that is something between snot and a bogey.

    Genius.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    Scrotum. (I.e. I think scrotum is a good word rather than I think the previous poster is a scrotum!)
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Off the top of my head, I can only remember on word from the Meaning of Liff (probably time for a re-read).

    Lowestoft = Belly Button Fluff
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,767
    Sillybilly said:

    Scrotum. (I.e. I think scrotum is a good word rather than I think the previous poster is a scrotum!)

    Lol. I was worried for a moment!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
    Biffle
  • Bolderhumphreyreid
    Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,553
    Game
    On
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    Ping Pong
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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    Wombat
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    Judicious
    Ubiquitous
    Omnipotent
    Sanguine
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    edited February 2014
    thai malaysia addick said:

    Wombat

    Wombat is brilliant. One of the best sentences I read in a newspaper contained the word wombat: Residents of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea were banned from keeping pets after Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wombat disgraced itself. I'd love to know what that wombat did.

    After reading it, one of our cats was nicknamed wombat.

  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,910
    Ostensibly. Cashmoney. The Idiocracy.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    Wombat is great. One of the most brilliant ever one liners: what would you do with a wombat? Play wom.
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    Milf
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,910
    Guttural. Bombastic. Preposterous.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    edited February 2014
    Stig said:

    Off the top of my head, I can only remember on word from the Meaning of Liff (probably time for a re-read).

    Lowestoft = Belly Button Fluff

    For some reason, my car's satnav pronounces low es toft in a sort of german-sounding two syllable way as Loves Toft. It sounds kind of dirty and is the only town name I'm aware of that it gets wrong.

    A blind work colleague had an Amanuensis which is another word I quite enjoy.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    MSE7 said:

    Milf

    But not Gilf?
  • Ted\'s Addicksson
    Ted\'s Addicksson Posts: 555
    Souvenir. Because of its French meaning-Memory.

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