The Caviar of Lexicography

[Drew]

Hyperbole... is that something to do with Cricket... or is it Cricceth?

By Jiminy!! You could be right!

 

[Greatbigchicken]

My favourite words are glockenspiel and buttocks.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

My favourite words are glockenspiel and buttocks.

I like buttocks - in fact i have two myself (one right and one left)

 

[mbc]

I particularly like the buttock of a bullock, briefly burned and bloody.

 

[REDWOOD]

macrosmatic, this is something I have now thanks to the lack of tobacco smoke

 

[Skyhook]

My favourite words are glockenspiel and buttocks.

Interestingly, that's also my local pub.

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[mbc]

Interestingly, that's also my local pub.

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[Luminos]

+1

 

[pargyle]

Interestingly, that's also my local pub.

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I think I know it ... did it used to be called the Xylophone and Firkin ?

 

[Skyhook]

I think I know it ... did it used to be called the Xylophone and Firkin ?

No, it used to be a real ale and tennis themed pub- the Firkin Racquet.


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[jenkinsbrynmair]

A new word coined by one of the crews to describe a commander who, whenever he walked in to a vibrant cheery messdeck seemd to bring with him a crowd of tumbleweed and eerie silence.

Fun Sponge!​

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

This keeps rattling around my head- don't know why so I thought i'd put it in here safely out of the way

magniloquent -
adjective
speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.

Origin:
1650–60; back formation from Latin magniloquentia elevated language, equivalent to magniloqu ( us ) speaking grandly ( magni- magni- + loqu ( ī ) to speak + -us adj. suffix) + -entia -ence

 

[pargyle]

This keeps rattling around my head- don't know why so I thought i'd put it in here safely out of the way

magniloquent -
adjective
speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.

Origin:
1650–60; back formation from Latin magniloquentia elevated language, equivalent to magniloqu ( us ) speaking grandly ( magni- magni- + loqu ( ī ) to speak + -us adj. suffix) + -entia -ence

***** That's a lovely word ... wraps right round your tongue !

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

***** That's a lovely word ... wraps right round your tongue !

And a pity it's on the list of 'dying words', and for a change you could always switch to Grandiloquent for a while, occasionally interspesed with pompous just to keep the variety going.

 

[user 6228]

Syzygy... Alignment of 3 celestial bodies...
Great scrabble score as well.

 

[FreeFall]

One of my favourites...

Petrichor - the scent of rain on dry earth.

 

[REDWOOD]

omnique cognatione illa regina

 

[Drew]

Syzygy... Alignment of 3 celestial bodies...
Great scrabble score as well.

Really? How many "y" - must be cheating to use a blank??

Well not cheating more not cricket!!

 

[For want of a better word]

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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[jenkinsbrynmair]

Another favourite for me which the old man used to mutter under his breath:

ceriwaredygalardi ​