Petrichor.
Yours?
A word for today.
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Supine
Terpsichorean
Rebarbative
Affricative.
Labtebricole.
Towel
Tuesday
Clandestine
(but you ain’t read that, right)
I wouldn’t mind some petrichor right now…..
arch
(as in playfully roguish or mischievous)
Used recently by TrypF to describe St Vincent’s concert.
Catchfart
borborygmi
covfefe
Phlogiston
I was only talking about dephlogisticated air this very weekend, as postulated by Joseph Priestley.
Hot.
Crepuscular
Sesquipedalian
Yesterday I used the word “pace” (in italics) when referring to something in the past that is related to the thing that is happening now. It was an email about an insurance policy and was a response to a lawyer’s pompous and dismissive email which contained the italicised words “mutatis mutandis” without context, or explanation – as if nothing further needed to be said.
Sounds like you showed remarkable restraint…
It was a subtle dig – and so subtle that I think it probably passed him by. As a non-confrontational coward, this is the best way to be.
Palimpsest
Chthonic
Meowmwurrumgerummurrowmmyarunmurrum
Or something like that. Cos today I learned that Kenny Everett did the voice of Charlie the cat in the ‘Charlie Says…’ public information films. How did I not know that already?
Pottingerism
Dull
Hurr
To err is human
to arr is pirate
to hurr is Moose
A fat bloke is sitting somewhere in the jungle muttering…
…the hurrur…..
Referring back to the original post, I have long described petrichor as “the smell of Mother Nature’s armpit”, a veritable GM Hopkins I am.
As for my favourite word – today it’s uisce – the Irish for water, pronounced ishka and the root of the word whiskey.
Bit like uisge, then, the Scottish Gaelic for the same and hence whisky.
Another day, another word.
Protagonist
zeugma
a great word to drop in conversation
gamine
gamey
Derailleur
Embonpoint.
Jouissance.
Oo-er madame.
Aliquots
Dunning
Kruger
Litotic
Mitotic
Stereoisomeric
Philtrum
Nice one, Duke. Something we all have but I suspect very few of us knew its name.
https://dentagama.com/news/the-philtrum
Then again I can’t imagine any context in which I would need it.
It’s useful (or its absence) in diagnoses of foetal alcohol syndrome.
Just me then?
Hence the big tache?
Wasn’t he the pretty one in ELO?
Today’s word:
gumbo.
Which reminds me, there is a posthumous Dr John country record coming out soon!
Gasogene.
Fandabbydozy
Allotrope
If there wasn’t a band called that, there should have been. Ditto ‘Triple Point’.
Triple Point sounds the title of a lost VdGG album.
Fusillage
Folderol
Tragus
Aestivation.
Bouillabaisse
B Side of Davey’s on the road again, fact fans.
Recrudescence.
Vellum.
Dysdiadochokinesis
Well, if you will insist on modelling your leg movements on FYC guitarists…
Respect!
Entropic
Ucalegon.
Algonquin
Plebian
Armageddon. And not just any word. THE word for these days.
RIGHT!!!
caesura
Simulacrum
Noisome.
brouhaha
balderdash
ballyhoo
It’s only talk…
Clarithromycin
Good gracious!
I’ll see your clarithromycin and raise you an amphotericin B…
You use a word like “gracious”. WTF are you? What kinda word is that?
All the weird shit on this thread and that’s what you call out?
No that is weird. weird shit. Think about it.
Let’s put on some music while I’m thinking…
Jay-zus it wasn’t me. It was that devil devil in me
but what a rocking sound anyways
Eh?
Is it because I missed the “me” off the end (as in goodness gracious me)? Can’t see the problem otherwise..
…and “WTF” am I?!? I’m the eyeball that floats to the top of your soup and watches you with idle curiosity. Look out for me next time…because I’ll be watching you…
Okay, alright. I like your definition of yourself.
It’s best not to the me too seriously, ‘Stoke.
oology
Ectoplasm
incunabula
Gracious
‘exclamation: gracious, used to express polite surprise, eg
“good gracious, that was close!” ‘
Weird
“Weird, weird shit”, apparently…I’ve been thinking about it.
While I think on, Moose, what was the video above? I got the “unavailable in your house” message. It seemed to pacify C. Stroker a bit, whatever it was…
Oh go on!
It was Good Gracious, a fine nugget of post-bop from Lou Donaldson. Great cover image of him oggling a bord like a kind of jazz Kenneth Connor.
Fabulous sound.
A word I learnt this week.
Toadpipe.
Oneiromancy.
Permeability
Ouroboros
Baggywrinkle
Underfelt
Velvet underfelt?
Never knowingly.
sac
mnemonic
Menticulture
Trousers
Abyssal.
Supercilious – Afterword Tshirt
Overstood
Cuniform.
anglet.
Postern.
ovoviviparous
shibboleth
and pickle
Effluvium
Samizdat.
obfuscation
Blurt
stoichiometry
On reflection, perhaps the word for today should be:
Rickrolling
Rhomboid
Stentorian
Prurient
Nodule
Bof
crapulence
vituperative
frottage
Bint
Lapis lazuli (which I suppose is two words, if we’re being strict)
Three, if we’re being REALLY strict…
capacitance
Crepuscule
…with Nellie?
scrimshaw
Flummoxed
Isinglass
Swimbladder
gorts
Sellotaph
Calumny
Champerty
Crikey … there’s not too many words beginning with Cb….
Thank you!
Usufruct
rheological
Boak
See also: the dry boak…