Favorite most unused words

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  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    Skulduggery

    Piffle

  • shifterbrainz
    shifterbrainz Posts: 245 Member
    Whither's yer pleasure, hither or thither? :huh:
  • kmcgallery
    kmcgallery Posts: 123 Member
    Pensive- dreamily or wistfully thoughtful:a pensive mood.
  • pants77
    pants77 Posts: 185 Member
    Pong - an unpleasant or offensive odor. May also be used as a verb.
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    Onomatopoeia - The formation or use of words, such as buzz or cuckoo, that imitate what they denote.
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Weenus
  • VintageMisery514
    VintageMisery514 Posts: 533 Member
    CyberTone wrote: »
    Onomatopoeia - The formation or use of words, such as buzz or cuckoo, that imitate what they denote.

    I don't even care how nerdy it makes me sound, I've always loved this word!
  • shifterbrainz
    shifterbrainz Posts: 245 Member
    CyberTone wrote: »
    Onomatopoeia - The formation or use of words, such as buzz or cuckoo, that imitate what they denote.

    ^^^ Ding ding ding ding . . . and we have a WINNER! :drinker:
  • cblue315
    cblue315 Posts: 3,836 Member
    facetious - treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant
  • Markdjones83
    Markdjones83 Posts: 852 Member
    pants77 wrote: »
    Pong - an unpleasant or offensive odor. May also be used as a verb.

    I like this one!
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    Ululation - A long, loud, often trilling howl or wail of lament.
  • Cindy4FunFit
    Cindy4FunFit Posts: 2,732 Member
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  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    ^^ That would be for the misused, not unused, list.
  • Scalawag, Tomfoolery, and funkybuttlovin
  • jaymvita
    jaymvita Posts: 5,787 Member
    Guffaw, chortle, lugubrious, bandy, tawdry, particulate, albeit, munificent, onanistic
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Flanges
  • Cindy4FunFit
    Cindy4FunFit Posts: 2,732 Member
    CyberTone wrote: »
    ^^ That would be for the misused, not unused, list.

    Would have also accepted:

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  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    CyberTone wrote: »
    ^^ That would be for the misused, not unused, list.

    Would have also accepted:

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    :)
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,618 Member
    Sophistry: the use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
  • 4leighbee
    4leighbee Posts: 1,275 Member
    Is this where we open google to find the most rare word to post?

    :) you could ... I use my words though - and I (no genius by any stretch) know most of the ones listed, so I'm guessing that most of the words listed are known and (maybe) used by the peeps who added them, too.
  • lexlowe
    lexlowe Posts: 908 Member
    edited March 2015
    Kumquat: it makes me immaturely snicker every time I hear it because it sounds like a word that should be in the urban dictionary.

    ebullient:highly enthusiastic or excited. Also means bubbly.
  • RJ0274
    RJ0274 Posts: 4,173 Member
    egad
  • cuckoo_jenibeth
    cuckoo_jenibeth Posts: 1,434 Member
    Thwart, thwarted, to thwart....my husband makes fun of me every time, but I am forever saying that his nefarious plot has been thwarted when I catch him in red-handed orneriness!
  • VintageMisery514
    VintageMisery514 Posts: 533 Member
    jenibethbu wrote: »
    ...his nefarious plot has been thwarted when I catch him in red-handed orneriness!

    OMG. Greatest sentence ever?
  • BrandNewMan1970
    BrandNewMan1970 Posts: 373 Member
    Curmudgeon a person who is easily annoyed and complains
  • 4leighbee
    4leighbee Posts: 1,275 Member
    Curmudgeon a person who is easily annoyed and complains

    Oh crap. That's me on Facebook RIGHT NOW. I bet someone just called me that. I am SOOOO over this freezing rain and snow. I'm such a curmudgeon, sheesh. (Didn't know it was spelled with an "r" - thanks!)
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    Curmudgeon a person who is easily annoyed and complains
    Curmudgeon - Could you use that in a sentence please?
    - MFP should implement a curmudgeon flag.
  • ethim
    ethim Posts: 134 Member
    Puerile - immature
  • 4leighbee
    4leighbee Posts: 1,275 Member
    dilapidated: in shambles, falling apart
  • aliciamarieUF
    aliciamarieUF Posts: 226 Member
    dollop
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