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Posted 24 November 2004 - 12:51 AM

We all have words we just love and I've seen them in other threads. Words you love to use or words you'd love to have the opportunity to use aught to go here, preferably with definitions if they're obscure.

Miasma: refering to bad air or a cloud of unhealthy gas.

Ubiquitous: meaning to be everywhere at once.

Squiggly: Meaning to have squiggles, or to feel as if one is squiggling.

Dastardly: Do people even use this word anymore? It means fiendish and cowardly.

Constitution: It used to refer to one's health. I think I shall have to use it more often I recall Paul used it once in his ten dollar haircut article and it was delightful.

Good Heavens!: Not so much a word as an exp​ression but I still likes it.

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Posted 24 November 2004 - 06:05 PM

I can't say "Good Heavens!" anymore without thinking of that Whose Line is it Anyway? skit, with the "Good Heavens, An Orange!" foreign movie title.
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Posted 24 November 2004 - 06:59 PM

Damn you, TV, corrupting our vocabulary!

Corporeal and ethereal.

Boffo, wizard, spiffy, keen - Dated terms that translate to today's interjection and compliment "cool".

Any british expletive.

It's kind of hard to think up words on the spot like that. I have a plethora of good vocabulary words, but I don't use them often enough and they slip to the back of my mind to only be recalled when someone else mentions them.
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 01:31 AM

here's a few barendisms that have cropt up over the years...

seducted: to be allured into capture, and unlawful physical removal from location.

controll: same as control but the extra "l" make it seem a little more so...

kablammo: extreemly significant in its overwelmingness...
(i.e.it was like, kablammo) 'blam' is used for less intense situations.

brrrrrrrr: 1. it's cold
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 09:36 AM

I have a pet peeve for people using the term "flustrated"

when they intend to say "flustered"
or "frustrated."


Then there's "D'oh!"

Always been a simpsons fan, so I don't mind that one in general language. However, when it's written into a script, it's a case of pure laziness. Come up with your own catch phrase. (screening room scripts do not apply)
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 10:38 AM

I have some good ones!

sidewalk: A paved walkway along the side of a street.

tremble: To shake involuntarily, as from excitement or anger; quake.

mug: A heavy cylindrical drinking cup usually having a handle.

neighbor: A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.

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Posted 30 November 2004 - 11:02 AM

And may I add to "barendisms" the infamous "hypmotize"?
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 01:02 PM

I use confuzzled frequently. A cross betwixt confused and puzzled, and it just sounds so endearingly silly.
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 03:15 PM

QUOTE (Madam Corvax @ Nov 30 2004, 11:02 AM)
And may I add to "barendisms" the infamous "hypmotize"?


of corse...

hypmotize: like hypnotize but a little mo potent.
[part of the 70s black pimp series of barendisms]
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 03:55 PM

I speak an entirely different language to most of the people I live with, but I simply cannot think of anymore than one word:

Indubitably: Without a doubt.

Referring back to the first list, I always associated the word "squiggley" with "in the manner/shape of a squig". Since only one other person on this forum knows what a squig actually is, this doesn't help...
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 04:31 PM

Make that two ... wink.gif
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 05:52 PM

Ooh, gravy. What's your army/armies of choice then?
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 07:13 PM

Isn't a squig a part of a ship?

And I love indubitably, that's just the coolest word. I don't think you're allowed to say it unless you're wearing a housecoat in a lounge chair drinking scotch and someone comes in and asks you something. Then, and only then, do you get to say indubitably, and they reply with "good heavens!"

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Posted 30 November 2004 - 07:31 PM

Hear hear. Except a monocle is not optional. It must be worn.
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Posted 30 November 2004 - 08:00 PM

Conflate. It means basically to blow up (not explode, but enlarge) a criminal smile.gif

Actually, it means to merge or meld together two separate things. I just think it's a really useful word that sounds cool.
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