Words hardly used

[Howard]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Voluptuous

Not that rare.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: montanafan
I used the term "shindig" the other day.

Shindig is how I often describe parties. Soirée is also said a lot.

 

[sandorski]

Lose---the word so many meant to use when they typed "loose". Def(winged): To misplace something or to not win

Qat--Def: an African flower and just the coolest word to use a Q with in Scrabble!

 

[49erinnc]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Please

or

Thank you.

Sad but true...

 

[SlitheryDee]

Brobdingnagian \Brob`ding*nag"i*an\, a. [From Brobdingnag, a country of giants in ``Gulliver's Travels.''] Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n. A giant.

truckle To be servile or submissive.

 

[zerocool1]

looking-glass mirror
entry found for antidisestablishmentarianism.
Main Entry: antidisestablishmentarianism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: originally, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, now opposition to the belief that there should no longer be an official church in a country
Example: When people are asked for the longest word they know, they often say antidisestablishmentarianism.

cur·mudg·eon ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kr-mjn)
n.
An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions.

 

[PinmasterJay]

[clerks] Your ruse; your cunning attempt to trick me. [/clerks]

 

[lokiju]

Wench

 

[mordantmonkey]

cwm- the ridge of a semicircular basin, also seen it defined as the basin itself.

lugubrious- Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree
great word for making fun of emo-art school kids that live by me.

 

[jjones]

latrociny

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: edro
Detritus - any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration; debris

Detritus is a very common term in the aquarium hobby...

So it's a very commen word in an uncommon hobby, therefore making it an uncommon word.

 

[PinmasterJay]

I would say that report, or reputation, was until the Colbert Report made it so popular
even though I am guessing a lot of people don't know that meaning of the word

 

[Kyteland]

Comeuppance.

A punishment or retribution that one deserves; one's just deserts: ?It's a chance to strike back at the critical brotherhood and give each his comeuppance for evaluative sins of the past? (Judith Crist).

 

[CKent]

Puerile - most of ATOT

 

[WT]

sesquipedalian !!!!

dictionary

ses·qui·pe·da·lian
n.
A long word.
adj.
1. Given to the use of long words.
2. Long and ponderous; polysyllabic.

:beer:

 

[Jesus the Porkyeti]

From Alphadictionary.com's word of the day.

Pronunciation: im-bri-fê-rês

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Rainy, showery, rain-bearing, auguring rain.

Notes: Today's Good Word is too beautiful to allow to escape the English language, yet it has become as rare as it is lovely. Few dictionaries list it any more and even the Oxford English Dictionary carries no related words, such as the noun, imbriferousness or adverb, imbriferously.

In Play: Let's say you want to pay someone back for a small slight but don't want to get caught at it. If they ask you about the weather, tell them that the forecast says it will be an imbriferous day. Chances are they will be too proud to ask you what it means but if they get drenched, you can say, "I told you so!" But jokes aside, please allow the sheer beauty of this little lexical recluse to entice you into an occasional metaphor: "He found her warm voice and imbriferous eyes formed a safe haven for him away from the searing glare of the world outside."

Word History: Today's lovely Good Word is based on a Latin compound, imbrifer "rain-bearing, rain-bringing" made up of imber "rain, rainstorm" + fer(re) "to carry, bear". Not much is known about the origins of imber but ferre comes from the same root as Sanskrit bhar- "carry", bharas "burden", Greek phero, Gothic bairo?all meaning "to bear". English bear and Scots bairn "child" (that which is borne) go back to the same root.

You can't dislike Alphadictionary.com.

 

[glenn1]

defenestrate - to throw out of a window.

Does British slang count for American readers? If so, I submit knackered.

 

[tfinch2]

ostentatious, gust (not wind), canny, feckful