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

[Perknose]

enfeeble

Appears but once, but is buried in a long quote, so I'm not giving credit here.

 

[AreaCode707]

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.

Ha! My devious plan to steal your day is succeeding! Muahahahahaaa!

:wub:

 

[Perknose]

fatuous

Appears 6 times, but once in a long-assed P&N quote, so, by my unitaterally amended rules, it's in.

 

[Perknose]

Ha! My devious plan to steal your day is succeeding! Muahahahahaaa!

:wub:

Why you horrible harridan, you hoydon, you strumpet, you!

Meanwhile back at the obsession station . . .

puissant appears twice, but once in a quote and once used completely wrongly.

puissance, which I originally searched, not at all.

And eclat, along with a number of other words I've searched, also doesn't appear at all!

 

[Perknose]

Which reminds me to look, and . . .

harridan does not appear in the last year, and comes up only three times ever -- once by Golotha in a MB thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=20027596&postcount=12

Once by me in the "f'ed up words" thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=21719280&postcount=21

And once by blakeatwork:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=23582067&postcount=64

But none since 2007.

Fucked up search function still fucked-up. I KNOW I've used that word more than once here, and hoydon as well (not to mention the far more common strumpet).

Yup, hoydon (admittedly far more obscure than harridan) doesn't show up at all. Boooooooo!

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

teetotaler

This word's for you, JohnCU.

 

[Perknose]

Having forgotten to return from "any date" to "a year ago or newer" perambulate came up 6-7 times, but not once in the last year.

There seem to be a number of not all that wildly exotic words like that which haven't been used at all in the last year, as well as a number of ones no more common (to me) that HAVE been used far more times than 5, like tesselate.

Interesting. At least to me.

 

[Perknose]

teetotaler

This word's for you, JohnCU.

Ha ha, thanks! You reminded me of what turns out to be another hands down winner, having appeared but once in the entire last year:

soused

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=28249856&postcount=41

Gotta' say, even as I was searching I thought, "Nah, too common", and yet . . .

 

[Kanalua]

stentorian

used only once (originally) this year (quoted once more in same thread): http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=29830514&highlight=stentorian#post29830514

other interesting ones:

ecdysiast

used once in Official neffing thread in 2008: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=26866710&highlight=ecdysiast#post26866710

porphyrophobia

used once in Zenophobia thread in 2005: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=15215792&highlight=porphyrophobia#post15215792

 

[Perknose]

abstemious

Appears only once in the last year, but not used originally by the poster, rather buried in a long P&N quote.

 

[Perknose]

stentorian

used only once (originally) this year (quoted once more in same thread): http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=29830514&highlight=stentorian#post29830514

Made me think of

clarion

Which shows up an amazing 19 times in the last year.

Sadly, every single usage either refers to the car stereo manufacturer or is buried in a long quote.

 

[Ken g6]

Defenestrate

Nope; that's been used a lot.

No it hasn't. Only once, here, outside this thread.

Unless multiple forms of the word count as one? :hmm: Like defenestration, used once here.

 

[Perknose]

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

Inspired by the obsolescent Brit slang balderdash I searched for popinjay.

No appearances in the last year, and only ONE use ever outside of the user named popinjay!

 

[Rubycon]

LOL this is a tech forum and not once instance of Hypotrochoid.

FAIL! [x]

 

[Perknose]

concomitant

Listed 7 times, but only 4 "original" usages in the last year.

Again, a cut and paste quote doesn't count to me.

 

[Perknose]

LOL this is a tech forum and not once instance of Hypotrochoid.

FAIL! [x]

Thanks, my dear, you inspired me to another hands down winner!

peristalsis

Out of the blue and only once for you by our own crafty Canadian:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=28123423&postcount=49

 

[Rubycon]

stenodialysis

If you google that you will find only one match and that's the thread it was used in.

 

[Rubycon]

euryhaline

 

[Perknose]

And by sideways sibilant serendipity I'm led to another winner:

plenipotentiary

Posted but once:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29267416&postcount=52

 

[vshah]

pagophagia...its a real word but its not in m-w

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=28706664&postcount=2

 

[Perknose]

euryhaline

Not posted in the last year. Posted only once, ever, by a certain sailor, in 2005.

C'mon, now, play by the posted rules or so note!

 

[Rubycon]

That's ok time to go! I just got a call that my ride is ready! I'm headed over to Hamilton rocking a souped up Motobecane scooter! (I asked if I could ride the rotary and they said "maybe"). Oh boy!

 

[Perknose]

folderol

More "elderly" British slang.

Appears only 5 times in the last year, and two of those refer to the pun-based name of a distributed computing org.

 

[Perknose]

That's ok time to go! I just got a call that my ride is ready! I'm headed over to Hamilton rocking a souped up Motobecane scooter! (I asked if I could ride the rotary and they said "maybe"). Oh boy!

I think I speak for all of us when I say, PICS! :awe:

 

[Perknose]

crapulent <--------------- Actual upright English word

Whoops, had my search to fo'evah and it came up 3 times, 2003, 2005, & 2008, but not ONE time was it used correctly.