Favorite Obscure Words

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  • polyseme
    polyseme Posts: 11 Member
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    linguistically

    I don't see how that's obscure at all. Says the linguist.

    I don't think escutcheon is obscure, but I don't say it often enough, so I'll use that as my content.
  • Limeycat
    Limeycat Posts: 249 Member
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    'Concatenate' was always one of my favourite words
  • LesliemarieAZ
    LesliemarieAZ Posts: 352 Member
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    Lickety-split
  • Morgan5647
    Morgan5647 Posts: 598 Member
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    Medulla oblongata
  • jacques57
    jacques57 Posts: 2,129 Member
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    Medulla oblongata

    Excellent. And how about Gluteus Maximus? Sounds like a spell from Harry Potter....
  • VeganAmandaJ
    VeganAmandaJ Posts: 234 Member
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    Yes, I love that word and sadly only learned it a few years ago!
    Doppelganger
  • Morgan5647
    Morgan5647 Posts: 598 Member
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    Onomatopoeia
  • VeganAmandaJ
    VeganAmandaJ Posts: 234 Member
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    Love it all! Especially that last phrase ;) Can we use that at work some time???
    spoonerism: it's the best word and the best thing ever.

    Have you met Zilch the Torystellar?
    "My name is Terry Foy, although you might know me better as Zilch the Storyteller.
    Er, ah, Torysteller.
    The stories I tell have a bit of a twist to them.
    I spalk in toonerisms. Ah, I talk in spoonerisms.
    Citching one's swonsonants fack and borth
    Worning your Turds around.
    It's serfectly pimple.
    You just have to tink thaster than you falk."

    LOVE that man!!!

    And Alfalfa (According to Puke and Snot it is the most sensuous word in the Englsh Language...Hmmmm, maybe too much time spent at Shakopee Ren Fest)

    Other favorite words...
    dihydrogen monoxide (chemists, don't yell at me...I know I know...)

    phlebotomy/phlebotomist/phlebology
    philanthropy
    verigate
    linguistically
    antidisestablishmentarianism
    geriatric

    and another favorite quote...with some great vernacular with linguistic fortitude
    "disinclined to acquiesce to your request."
  • VeganAmandaJ
    VeganAmandaJ Posts: 234 Member
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    I was going to say "Facetious"! I love that word and it's sad that some of these words aren't used in everyday speech..
    facetious....oh and douchecanoe
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
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    Obsequious
    Undone
  • denfrank
    denfrank Posts: 18 Member
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    kertwang
  • wildrose53
    wildrose53 Posts: 1,342 Member
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    Quercetum
  • icupkn3
    icupkn3 Posts: 39
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    Agraffe



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  • janegalt37
    janegalt37 Posts: 270 Member
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    Gauche

    or

    Gaucheness
  • janegalt37
    janegalt37 Posts: 270 Member
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    I was thinking of this last night, when I was trying to fall asleep.
    I can't think of obscure words off of the top of my head, because they wouldn't be obscure.
    I can only come across obscure words in my reading or while observing speech.
    Therefore, this is a necromancy thread. It will be revived every time one of the strange and few of us think of/see/hear an obscure word.
    Love. It.
  • Kaelakcr
    Kaelakcr Posts: 505 Member
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    Transcendental
    Preternatural
    Aria
    Fugue
    Snollygoster :D
  • LeonXC
    LeonXC Posts: 68
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    Laparohysterosalpingoophorectomy.

    A small incision into the abdominal wall for the removal of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.
  • xMermaidx
    xMermaidx Posts: 142 Member
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    Palindrome is one of my very favorites! Polyglot. Polemic.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
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    the "f" word...i wish it would come out of hiding. sometimes nothing else says it the same!
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
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    Petrichor

    is the scent of rain on dry earth, or the scent of dust after rain. The word is constructed from Greek, petros, meaning ‘stone’ + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It is defined as "the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell".

    One of my favourite scents. I'm pleased to learn that it has a name. :flowerforyou: :smile:
    Ugh! That smell literally chokes me. I cannot stand it. I am vexed that there is a word for it. I'm terribly vexed. :angry:

    My contribution for today is "concupiscent".

    i saw a fb challenge pic today that this word reminds me of

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