Uncommon words and Meanings

[Groundfeeder]

I can’t find this one - unless it’s a case of keeping up with the Joneses with words??

Wordsmith/Wordjones. Who's on first? (don't go there Abbot!)
Must dust off my tome of The Principles of Participles that my teachers beat into me.

 

[andye]

Milandye sent me this listicle, contemporaneously with the thread inauguration. I was only acquainted with16. Any superior tallies from the assembled logophiles?

 

[SuePa]

I already knew a few - 1, 6, 10, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 (only because DrRon used it a few days ago and I looked it up), 25.
Lots of good, new words in there!

 

[AuSammy]

I didn’t do very well.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I love the aroma of Petrichor in summer! Mainly

 

[DejaBrew]

I am a fan of the word "defenestration". It's not unusual to experience the desire to defenestrate computers/printers/etc.

 

[drron]

My father regularly used numbers 17,19,22 and 25.

 

[andye]

My father regularly used numbers 17,19,22 and 25.

Mine too

 

[Seat0B]

My father regularly used numbers 17,19,22 and 25.

Mine too

Mine as well. And I also use these words.

I only scored 9 on the list, so plenty of room to improve.

 

[RooFlyer]

How about plain fenestration?

Pomskizillious ?

Gromphibberous ?

 

[Julesmac]

How about plain fenestration?

Pomskizillious ?

Gromphibberous ?

I think we are the poorer since Google & Wikipedia came on the scene. In the golden days of yore, if you went to the encyclopaedia or dictionary you didn't just find the word you were looking for, but also saw the words either side - which were sometimes really interesting.

 

[AuSammy]

My father regularly used numbers 17,19,22 and 25.

Those are the four I knew.

 

[kookaburra75]

17 was in common use in Melbourne, although it was used to refer to the Collingwood football team always tanking when they got into the grand final several times.

 

[Groundfeeder]

Could I add "Poon". A lowlife who sniffs bicycle seats.
Harpoon"". A person catching said lowlife in action and saying "Har Poon!!!!!!

 

[drron]

In January 1965 I had the perfect occasion to use the word Poon. With 2 mates we were driving from Sydney to Cairns and one night we stopped in Yeppoon. We attempted to sleep in our tent as the winds roared and the rain pelted down. Now the first European to set foot in the area was james cook. He actually called it Keppel bay. But my version was that it was suggested by a crew member that it would be an ideal place for a resort to which Cook answered -ye poon.

 

[Groundfeeder]

In January 1965 I had the perfect occasion to use the word Poon. With 2 mates we were driving from Sydney to Cairns and one night we stopped in Yeppoon. We attempted to sleep in our tent as the winds roared and the rain pelted down. Now the first European to set foot in the area was james cook. He actually called it Keppel bay. But my version was that it was suggested by a crew member that it would be an ideal place for a resort to which Cook answered -ye poon.

I can't help it but for poor long-suffering residents when asked where Yeppoon is, they answer "between your knife and your fork".

 

[TheRealTMA]

Beetoota has been reading AFF!

"Apricity"

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/winter-sun-just-gorgeous/

 

[SYD]

Beetoota has been reading AFF!

"Apricity"

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/winter-sun-just-gorgeous/

“It’s nice in the sun” is a winter phrase I recall from childhood and I use jokingly but heard again today at the barber.

 

[AuSammy]

This one had me stumped in a word puzzle on the flight today

Cacomistle

And this one I haven’t come across before (move in wrong circles)

Euclid

 

[SYD]

And this one I haven’t come across before (move in wrong circles)

Euclid

Slightly ironic. “Euclid” is considered the “Father of Geometry”!

Euclid - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

One would hope that his circles were perfect?