NEW CHALLENGE! Post a word rarely seen in the forums in the last year

[KeithTalent]

Rapscallion

Last used by DivideByZero on Sept 18/08 here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=218643&highlight=rapscallion

There are only 6 threads total that have used this word. Best usage, in my opinion, is by Kev in this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1163702&highlight=rapscallion

I've always liked that word.

KT

 

[BurnItDwn]

Extirpate

Looks like it was used once in 2008
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=182471&highlight=extirpate (by Auggie)

Looks like it was used in 2007 too.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1966460&highlight=extirpate (several pages in, by Rogodin2)

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Balderdash is way more popular a word than I would have assumed : (

 

[gaidensensei]

Incandescence
Schmide in April 2010
Rubycon in April 2010 (I swear, I don't know how rubycon keeps appearing in my searches)

next is 2007.

 

[yankeesfan]

Atavist

Only one use (10/2009)
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=329582&highlight=atavist

Used in context:
"You're a homophobe, a bigot, an atavist."

 

[squirrel dog]

Mandingo

 

[gaidensensei]

Atavist

Only one use
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=329582&highlight=atavist

Used in context:
"You're a homophobe, a bigot, an atavist."

This guy wins the thread, but it's not a word in the dictionary..

 

[yankeesfan]

This guy wins the thread, but it's not a word in the dictionary..

"Atavist, it turns out, isn't in the free Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, where you just searched.

However, it is available in our premium Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. To see that definition in the Unabridged Dictionary, start your free trial now."

 

[daw123]

jangle:

http://forums.anandtech.com/search.php?searchid=285443

 

[Rubycon]

Nephroid

In the neffing thread!

 

[KeithTalent]

Nonagenarian used only once by Leros (another Dragon avatar!!) on February 15, 2007 here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2012026&highlight=nonagenarian

This is kind of fun. Too bad I have to work.

KT

 

[Tea Bag]

"everyone", "knows" and "this".

 

[Rubycon]

"everyone", "knows" and "this".

The OP ordered a rare steak and you just delivered a tektite. :biggrin:

 

[Drako]

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

or even just

Sesquipedalian

 

[Perknose]

mellifluous

Only once, amazingly. Just this month, too:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29818058&postcount=7

 

[Perknose]

semiotic not at all, but semiotics was used but four times in the last year.

Not once was it used by poster him or herself, as each time it was as a quote of an article. Three of those times Lanyap was quoting Naomi Wolf , and once it was buried in what was literally a 20 paragraph article thrown up by Specop 007.

All four instances were in P&N.

 

[gaidensensei]

Can I join the elite "SHOOT THE MOON AND PAST THAT SINCE THE WORD WAS USED 2009-2010" winning team also?
trophoblasts - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trophoblasts

10-10-2009, 09:00 AM William Gaatjes - http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=28742064&postcount=5

No other entry. Except mine here!

 

[keird]

Ziggurat

It was suprisingly used today, too.

 

[Perknose]

ineffable

Appears but 5 times in the last year, twice in quotes (which don't count as true uses of the word by a poster in my book), twice by Slithery Dee, and once by kylebeisme, the noted 9/11 conspiracy theorist

Edit: And by quotes, I don't mean a poster quoting a previous post, which, quite naturally, also shouldn't count.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Ziggurat

It was suprisingly used today, too.

That's cause most of them have been upgraded to spirit towers : p

 

[Perknose]

trugid

Another winner, used but once in the last year.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29013892&postcount=10

 

[Perknose]

sanguine

Appears but twice, and once as a quote of a list of game names, so the sole honor of actually using it goes to:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=28565165&postcount=90

 

[Perknose]

consanguinity <---------- Not directly related at all in meaning to sanguine

Used 5 times. Three were in quotes, one is buried somewhere in the official neffing thread and is likely, imho, a quiote, so Ima go give the sole original use of it to Zenmervolt in a private moderator forum where the uber elite meet to greet, my sweet.

 

[Perknose]

obsfucate

Got another winner, used but once:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29667132&postcount=49

Damn, I think I could do this all day long. Must . . . stop . . . soon.

 

[SuperSix]

"SuperSix"