Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.
- CrabAndBroom ( @CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) English1•5 minutes ago
Scrofulous - a) having a diseased run-down appearance. b) morally contaminated
I learned this word when I heard someone being described as a ‘scrofulous drinkist’ lol
- Mobiuthuselah ( @Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee ) 4•34 minutes ago
Shemomedjamo - Georgian word meaning to eat past the point of fullness because it tastes so good or as I heard it, “I accidentally ate the whole thing.”
- themadcodger ( @themadcodger@kbin.earth ) 4•3 hours ago
Borborygmus I use often enough, but it’s not widely known. It’s the gurgling sound produced by the movement of gas through your intestines.
Limaceous I almost never use, but I enjoy it anyway. It means characteristic of or pertaining to slugs.
And lastly, tawdry is one of my favorites meaning showy but cheap and poor quality.
- ProfessorPeregrine ( @ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com ) 9•4 hours ago
Widdershins. It means counter to the sun’s direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.
- Floon ( @Floon@lemmy.ml ) 3•3 hours ago
“scruple” as a verb, meaning “hesitate due to conscience”.
- MinusPi (she/they) ( @MinusPi@pawb.social ) English3•37 minutes ago
People probably know a word based on it, unscrupulous, meaning having or showing no moral principles
- Floon ( @Floon@lemmy.ml ) 1•22 minutes ago
Yeah, and folks know “scruples” as a noun which some people have and some don’t, but “scruple” as a verb is a nice archaic version that I really like, which you don’t encounter much outside of, say, a Jane Austen novel.
- schnurrito ( @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•3 hours ago
No one mentioned “niggardly” yet? What’s going on?
- dotslashme ( @dotslashme@infosec.pub ) English1•3 hours ago
My contribution is katzenjammer, which is a word describing a really bad hangover (in the English language). I believe it is used a bit differently in the German language, but don’t take my word for it.
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 9•5 hours ago
- Paramour
It sounds fancy, but means a casual lover. A fuck buddy. A friend with benefits. Though it can also carry the implication of being an out-of-wedlock lover, as it dates back to a time where having a fuck buddy was almost certainly a sign of married infidelity.
- Kith
Means one’s friends and other people they are close to that aren’t family. Often paired with “kin”. Kith and kin. Friends and family.
- Asafum ( @Asafum@feddit.nl ) 10•6 hours ago
Indubitably!
It means most certainly, beyond questioning.
And it’s fun to say!
- flux ( @flux@lemmyis.fun ) English1•1 hour ago
I love that word. I don’t know where I even learned it first, but I sometimes throw it back out there. It’s so fun!
- realcaseyrollins ( @realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ) English5•5 hours ago
Ah, I grew up listening to Adventures In Odyssey and one character said that all the time. Beautiful word.
- fool ( @fool@programming.dev ) 4•5 hours ago
Grandiloquent/sesquipedalian. It’s what you get when you use everything in this thread ₍^ >ヮ<^₎ .ᐟ.ᐟ
/s
- realcaseyrollins ( @realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ) English6•5 hours ago
Perchance!
- CaffeinatedMoth ( @CaffeinatedMoth@lemm.ee ) 6•5 hours ago
You can’t just say “perchance”!
- laranis ( @laranis@lemmy.zip ) 1•1 hour ago
“Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Steve.”
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@slrpnk.net ) 32•8 hours ago
perambulation is a good one. My morning walk isn’t quite grand enough to be called a ‘constitutional’; nor scenic and leisurely enough to be called a ‘stroll’; nor yet social enough to be called a ‘promenade’; ‘perambulation’ is just the ticket.
- yngmnwntr ( @yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml ) 16•7 hours ago
I thought the morning constitutional was taking a shit.
- FruitLips ( @FruitLips@lemmy.ml ) 14•8 hours ago
Sonder (noun): the feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one’s own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles: In a state of sonder, each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member, and an extra in overlapping stories.
- Skua ( @Skua@kbin.earth ) 7•7 hours ago
This one always makes me smile, because it’s from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’s just some guy’s blog in which he comes up with new words to express experiences and emotions that are difficult to describe, and that specific one has thoroughly broken containment
- themadcodger ( @themadcodger@kbin.earth ) 2•6 hours ago
That was lovely, thank you for that.
- JonC ( @jonc211@programming.dev ) English20•8 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins
Just because it sounds cool.
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 1•1 hour ago
Sounds like a creature that would have a lot of creepypasta written about it.
- tunetardis ( @tunetardis@lemmy.ca ) 8•8 hours ago
Sounds useful in Minecraft. Like you put a sign in a cave “exit widdershins” to tell people to follow the left wall.
- kibiz0r ( @kibiz0r@midwest.social ) English1•2 hours ago
In an emergency, you can also exit widdoutershins.
- SaintWacko ( @SaintWacko@slrpnk.net ) English5•8 hours ago
Yesss. I love this word and use it whenever I can
- thefartographer ( @thefartographer@lemm.ee ) 3•7 hours ago
Widdershins start my hair, your Spooktober decorations are so spooky!!!
- fri ( @fri@beehaw.org ) 11•4 hours ago
Propreantepenultimate. Fifth to last.
- Ultimate
- Penultimate
- Antepenultimate
- Preantepenultimate
- Propreantepenultimate
- PolandIsAStateOfMind ( @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 hours ago
Hmm the grammar checks out 👍
- Canadian_Cabinet ( @Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ) 4•7 hours ago
I use penultimate all the time and most people have no idea what I mean! We need to bring back the Latin based words
- bizarroland ( @bizarroland@fedia.io ) 1•5 hours ago
That means the item right before the last item, right?
- Canadian_Cabinet ( @Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ) 2•4 hours ago
Yep. That’s actually how we say last and whatnot in Spanish: último is last and penúltimo is 2nd to last
- themadcodger ( @themadcodger@kbin.earth ) 2•6 hours ago
I knew the first three, but not four and five. TIL