Favourite words, usages, phrases etc

"Grognard" is one of my favorite words. I've seen a few meanings for it about old soldiers, pendants and grumblers, but the best definition is referring to table top gamers who prefer the old fashioned stuff. Even better and funnier when referring to fantasy table top gamers, because it sounds like an old fashioned fantasy creature.

I bet people who prefer Final Fantasy 1-6 and 9 get called Grognards.

I love the word "jabroni"

I love the word "empyrean"

haha I tried this recently, my sense is that people hate more language than they like round here

Diaphanous

Look at those fucking grognards over there

lambent
grace

Dadsploitation

Status quo warriors

Horseplay

lol

Cahoots

Git

visceral

alright that was pretty decent and as good as anything i've seen fey do. still no lols but a silly thing to get angry about in this immensely ratfucked cultural moment.

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 18 August 2017 18:46

Ratfucked

Tyranny of the screen

I thank Alfred for this one. I've found a few instances of it but I don't know if anyone coined it or it's something people came up with independently.

been fond of "chuckleheads" lately, probably cos i've had to deal with a few

Haha I use that one a fair bit

it's so satisfying to say

I like logy, not the suffix but the American word with a hard g; nobody uses it here but it's a perfect term for what it describes, that long o, you feel logy just saying it

"redress"

(xp) Never heard of it!

Lisa uses it in an early Simpsons episode, that's where i learned it

Don't remember where I first heard it. I just came across it again in this lore segal book I'm reading

There are thousands of really great words. Too many to recall. But "rapscallion" jumped into my head a few seconds ago.

top deck bmx brexit acid house colwyn bay genial rozzers in reet convivial canalside bank holiday deckchair behind the bikesheds with the charnock richards boys, reach across the astral plane for a proper boundary park style tannoy session, hats off dont forget to wave before the authorities come, can't get this one in morecambe cancer research anymore serene vibes to all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16rBpphe1E

pop that in your ginster big mal!

I dont normally agree with words but its good to have 100 or so in your arsenal, you never know when you might be required to speak

Groom.

I think it's funny sounding, like a mythical Scandinavian creature.

Yarling

Hunger dunger dang

Grotto

Decanter

Avaunt

Trashterpiece

Fenestration

Chartreuse

Purpureal

Oh John Ringo no!

Coruscating

I favor any word which is le mot juste for the occasion.

... dreich and drookit, for instance.

Volun-told

Got this one from Adam Driver's ted talk

Pendulust

Strange breadfellows

Saddo

piebald

Big dad energy

"vital skull custard" -- but no one else agrees with me on this

testing... testing... DUMPLINGS!

I'm rather fond of 'defenestrate'.

Mention Family Guy and get defenestrated by means of a kick

Is there a connection?

Don't tell me, I don't wanna know.

Can anyone be defenestrated by means of a kick though? Pretty sure has to be a throw, or at least a drop to qualify.

I'm sorry, it was a reference to the thread titled "Animation Snob Thread (no Disney, no Pixar, no mainstream anime, mention Family Guy and you get kicked out a window), puppet films are allowed"

Oh lol

"I'm not a Furry...but"

‘...Violent J is a good role model for dads the world over.’

'Helpmeet' I'd not heard of before today.

Sounds like a Dickens character.

Lissom

Blithe

Ambergris

Isinglass

Extreme infighting described as cannibalism

Pitcher of margaritas

Accidental Partridge

Quite fond of people saying something Slaps or Whips. It would sound quite unnatural if I said it though.

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Last night my wife unironically used the phrase "gussied up" to describe someone, which delighted me. A few minutes later in the same conversation, and equally un-self-conciously, she uttered the phrase "hotsy-totsy". I was bowled over!

Chonky

Sounds like the lady’s got moxie!

A heckin' chonker

Stravaig

seems like a very German word, but it's a good one.

Lackadaisical

I overheard someone say "higgledy-piggledy" today and my heart soared a little - first recorded usage is in 1590 apparently! Is there a word for words like this or harum-scarum? It also reminded me of one of my favourites, "heedrum-hodrum"...

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19214989.scots-word-week-heedrum-hodrum/

flibbertigibbet

willy-nilly

Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey deucy, hoochy koochy, hinky dinky, heeby jeeby, harum scarum, helter skelter, honky tonky, palsy walsy, lovey dovey, pitter patter, teeter totter, tootsie wootsie, boogie woogie, piggy wiggy.
Razzle dazzle, rosy posy, georgie porgy, roly poly, walky talky, namby pamby, wishy washy, twiddle twaddle, tittle tattle, fiddle faddle, shilly shally, dilly dally, silly billy, willy nilly, fuddy duddy, hunky dory, teenie weenie, itsy bitsy.
Look out! He's got a gun!

I said higgledy piggledy yesterday! For some reason. I think I first saw it in Bloom County.

Argy Bargy!

Reduplicatives: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/easy-peasy-jiggery-pokery-reduplicative-words

they are called tautonyms and ancient Chinese is full of them

"lickety-split" is a neat conjoined term that isn't reduplicated.

unrelated, i like "one fell swoop"

"can/cannot sanction your/this buffoonery" coined by Tommy Lee Jones in the making of Batman Forever

amaneuensis

factotum

dogsbody

*amanuensis

Syllabub

Goonette

carpenter

it just sounds good

fuiud = fuck you if you disagree

Pretty much the only acronym I like

Fuck Thank you, I never could figure out what fuiud meant.

otm

I like archaic one-syllable words that were coined so long ago that there were plenty of single syllables still available for that purpose. Some of them like 'cud' still have a marginal but continuing life. Others, like 'fid' have retreated into some tiny crevice of use by a coterie of specialists.

gams

gedda a load of em

I like archaic one-syllable words that were coined so long ago that there were plenty of single syllables still available for that purpose

this concept is delightful

And yet, even among all possible 2 letter words, there are plenty that aren't being used.

Out of the 26 possible words beginning with A, there's at least 10 good words just going to waste:

AA
AB
AC
AD
AE
AF
AG
AH
AI
AJ
AK
AL
AM
AN
AO
AP
AQ
AR
AS
AT
AU
AV
AW
AX
AY
AZ