Favourite Obscure Words

[Simon Darkshade]

Let us share some of our favourite words, the ones that taste the best on one's palate:
My first contributions are: abishag, wavesheaf, serendipity and pusillanimous.

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[stormerne]

Wayzgoose

 

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

Ouphe.

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[BlueMonday]

I
me
my
mine



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[andycapp]

What tastes good on my palate? Vittles!

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Well, it's not really obscure, but I like the sound of "Zephyr"

 

[Scrimshaw]

Propitious.

 

[Warlord56]

pasketti and okaeya

The first one I'm hungry and become illerate and the second I make up for no reason

 

[Brad]

Fickle
Superfluous +
Iodize


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Even though stuff happens that we don't plan, be a man... use you hand.

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[Johan511]

LIMIT, LIM-IT

Man that word is FREAKY

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[Algernon Pondlife]

syzygy

 

[starlifter]

Parametric

Obsequious

Sturgilistic

 

[penvzila]

Masticate

Rhomboid

Pedagogy

 

[penvzila]

ipsedixitism (dogmatic assertion, many of us here are guilty of that)

gynarchy (government by women. Just made it up, i wonder if it actually is a word...)

I also think a good idea for a subtopic would be: words that sound gross but aren't.

 

[Brad]

PENVZILA...
As for the sub topic... see fickle.
And I think the word is matriarchy, or somthing like that. Can anyone correct me on that?

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Silence Fills the Nothingness......NERRRR!

Even though stuff happens that we don't plan, be a man... use you hand.

 

[Andu Indorin]

I'll be damned. The conversation came up at the bar tonight. My favorite obscure word: Defenestration, as in: the infamous "Defenestration of Prague"; or, "I'd really like to defenestrate that annoying individual across the bar!"

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Excellent, my somnolent, servile scullions. Just what I did desire.
Philology, and the love of words are two of my great consuming passions.

Shibboleth.

Real ones please, Warlord, otherwise everyone would make up their own. And Andu, you should know that evil has its nefarious agents everywhere

Watch out next time you are near an open window...

Innuendo, sinecure and puerile, cretin.
Uxoricide, and lacuna.

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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev

 

[xeven_god_of_helsibahr]

ONE WORD SAYS IT ALL

Gayotic (Pronounced GAY-AWT-IK), adj. 1. to be gay [Ex: That is a gayotic person.]. 2. Objects or persons that are gay {Ex: A gayotic group] v. 1. the act of being gay. 2. egaging in homosexual sex [Ex: Kraftwerk is gayotic with his mother]. n. 1. to feel gayotic [Ex: John felt gayotic]. 2. to be gayotic [Ex: Kraftwerk was gayotic; Kraftwerk is gayotic; Kraftwerk has been gayotic.] [FOR more infomation, <FONT size="2">SEE GAY</FONT s>.]

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[Eli]

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade:
Shibboleth.

What does Ear(of corn) or Spike(according to Word97) has to do with this?

 

[Kefka]

Shnoog and Narg!

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