Favorite Obscure Words

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  • KickassAugust
    KickassAugust Posts: 1,430 Member
    Thrice
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    Ubiquitous

    Kerfuffle

    Onomatopoeia <-- someone just beat me ... #spooky
  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
    I love obscure words. Too bad I can only use them around people who know my pronunciation is rubbish.

    Indubitably, abhor, malarkey, gallivanting...

    I use all of those words on a regular basis! :tongue:

    Then you would know what I'm trying to say!

    Can we be besties?

    Palindrome
  • LesliemarieAZ
    LesliemarieAZ Posts: 352 Member
    I love obscure words. Too bad I can only use them around people who know my pronunciation is rubbish.

    Indubitably, abhor, malarkey, gallivanting...

    I use all of those words on a regular basis! :tongue:

    Then you would know what I'm trying to say!

    Can we be besties?

    Palindrome

    Indubitably!
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    borborygmus :blushing: annnnd...subungual
    :laugh:

    edited cause apparently I can't spell & giggle at the same time
  • LesliemarieAZ
    LesliemarieAZ Posts: 352 Member
    Not sure if it's a real word, but I like saying "crappola." And apparently it's not real because there's a red squiggly line underneath it. What a bunch of malarkey. :happy:
  • MikeCrazy
    MikeCrazy Posts: 2,716 Member
    sophistry

    fallacious


    The second one seems to throw arrogant debaters for a loop, as they think it refers to something very male. :laugh:
  • SuperVixen2B
    SuperVixen2B Posts: 218 Member
    Ubiquitous

    Kerfuffle

    Onomatopoeia <-- someone just beat me ... #spooky

    #greatminds
  • bonkosaurusrex
    bonkosaurusrex Posts: 71
    callithump
    cattywampus
    rumpus
  • WreckaRed
    WreckaRed Posts: 116 Member
    facetious....oh and douchecanoe
  • LesliemarieAZ
    LesliemarieAZ Posts: 352 Member
    I call my mom "Marmee"
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    Flabbergasted

    Obsequious

    Fungible

    Supercilious

    Sagacity

    Loquacious

    Evidently, I am particularly fond of words ending in -ous.
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,618 Member
    Vociferous

    Discombobulated
  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
    I feel like this speech should be included here:

    Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valourous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.

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  • ohpiper
    ohpiper Posts: 697 Member
    Insouciance.
  • kingjabou
    kingjabou Posts: 48 Member
    Onomatopoeia....BOOM! for the win. (what ya mean I didn't win?)
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    penultimate
  • BigT555
    BigT555 Posts: 2,067 Member
    scrumtrulescent
  • CJisinShape
    CJisinShape Posts: 1,404 Member
    Geoarbitrage
    Poppycock
    Thermonuclear dynamics
    Renormalization
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,618 Member
    Salacious

    Sanguine

    Sophistry
  • Fittreelol
    Fittreelol Posts: 2,535 Member
    Callow
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    Qi, xi, xu, ar, sh, hm, za, et, aa, ae, ai, re, un, ka, ki

    Also, qat, suq, haj, raj, mu, nu, ...

    Anyone up for Scrabble?
  • CaptainJAG_37
    CaptainJAG_37 Posts: 134
    Infarction

    Matriculate

    Impale
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    I'm a big fan of expropriate instead of steal.
  • richardositosanchez
    richardositosanchez Posts: 260 Member
    tomfoolery
    obstreperous
    skullduggery
    alarmist
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    spoonerism: it's the best word and the best thing ever.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Qi, xi, xu, ar, sh, hm, za, et, aa, ae, ai, re, un, ka, ki

    Also, qat, suq, haj, raj, mu, nu, ...

    Anyone up for Scrabble?

    don't forget taj and qaid, though the two letter obscurities are more deadly
  • SuperVixen2B
    SuperVixen2B Posts: 218 Member
    Onomatopoeia....BOOM! for the win. (what ya mean I didn't win?)

    I beat you to it! :laugh:
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    Obfuscation

    At all costs .. eschew obfuscation
  • Primal_Warrior_
    Primal_Warrior_ Posts: 2,180 Member
    Douche Canoe is my fav of the moment

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