Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted May 25, 2020 Leadership Team Share Posted May 25, 2020 mumpsimus (noun) (Bank Holiday Monday). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted May 29, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted May 29, 2020 29 May - "bloviator" origin in 19th century. A speaker of empty rhetoric and blower of hot air; someone who talks a lot but says very little.In 2018 she very kindly gave us "quockerwodger" which might also be deemed useful today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Geoff Brown Posted May 29, 2020 Area Representative Share Posted May 29, 2020 Is that the same as blowing hot air out of your a*se? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted June 11, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted June 11, 2020 From her Twitter feed:- "This is the obscure, tongue-tricky discovery of my day, noted because it really fills a gap: 'cacoethes' [kak-o-ee-thees] is the desperate urge to do something very inadvisable."I think I have suffered from this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted June 23, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted June 23, 2020 To whiffle (1500s) is to blow this way and that without sticking to one course of action. A whiffler is someone who's evasive and/or is forever changing their mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Collier Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 The Houses of Parliament has over 600 whifflers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted June 26, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted June 26, 2020 Word of the day is 'unasinous', a 17th-century spin-off of 'unanimous' that means 'united in stupidity' (literally, 'one ass'). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger King Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 My favourite word is from a few years ago. It's made up, but perfectly describes some peopleIGNORANUSSomeone who is both stupid and an a**hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Collier Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Ignoranus, haven't heard that word for fifty years, when it was frequently used by my maths teacher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative gileshudson Posted June 26, 2020 Area Representative Share Posted June 26, 2020 A bit like 'testiculate' - To wave one's hands and arms around madly, while talking 8ollocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Wrightpayne Posted June 26, 2020 Area Representative Share Posted June 26, 2020 A bit tame but Petrichor is my fav word! Anyone know without googling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Batty Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Wish you would speak English like what I do Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Also my favourite smell, Wrightpayne, though I have a friend who hates it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john aston Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 One of my favourite smells too, and a word I very much like using since I first came across it. The smell you get outdoors after heavy rainfall in spring or summer is my recollection - with no cheating on GoogleAnother favourite is flaneur - a status I aspire to . Any takers? Also insouciance - a word that always reminds me of Bill Nighy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted June 27, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted June 27, 2020 I can't say I have a single favourite word but I do enjoy the rich variety of English and enjoy wordplay.Words like mellifluous which have a onomatopoeic quality are nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM25T Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Petrichor is great. A sense you develop when driving a 7 ... enabling you to get the half hood fitted moments before the rain hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted July 8, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted July 8, 2020 smellfungus (18th century): a grumbler, faultfinder, or one who likes to shift the blame for their own mistakes onto someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted July 12, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted July 12, 2020 Flarnecking (19th century) is the vulgar flaunting of success. How very social media, particularly FaceAche which full of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted July 14, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted July 14, 2020 snollygoster (19th century): an unprincipled individual who is driven entirely by political gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerobod - near CYYC Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Perhaps the US Founding Fathers coined the word to anticipate a future US President to a T?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyt Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Working in Aviation maintenance the BOEING 767 has fitting which the guys termed the "tronkus fitting" because it was... a son of a b and what ever expletive you like. To remove and install. It was a fitting that attached the landing gear fwd link and the inboard end of the trailing edge flap to the fuselage. Rather than write all that someone came up with the term. Tronkus. and it stuck.sadly never added to a dictionary anywhere as the 767 is almost exstinct. I'm sure the term suits many automotive parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted July 22, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted July 22, 2020 Dictionary discovery of the day: ‘empleomania’ (19th century) is the manic desire to hold public office, at whatever cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 If you're feeling a little short on words these days, 'laconic' looks to the Laconians of ancient Greece, known for their pithy speech. When Philip of Macedon thunderously promised that if he entered Laconia he would raze it to the ground, they sent a one-word reply: ‘If’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team Golf Juliet Tango Posted August 27, 2020 Author Leadership Team Share Posted August 27, 2020 Word of the day is 'balatronic', a rare 19th-century word meaning 'like a buffoon'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john aston Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 My inner Susie compels me to share 'litotes' - ironic understatement employing a negative to imply a positive. . ' it;'s not too bad out today '. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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