BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here

Subject: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 01:49 PM

Ooooh, sone people have great vocabularies!

Saw this one just today:

Eschewed

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 02:02 PM

Eschew Obfuscation was a bumber sticker in the 70's - I always liked that.
Ubiquitous.
Rhododendron.
Anything else you pronounced before you heard it...

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 02:08 PM

I am diligent in eschewing moderation.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: HouseCat
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 02:36 PM

My boss is no longer allowed to use the word "exacerbation" in business situations. With his very unfortunate Bushian pronunciation skills, it becomes a word that might mean "no longer engaging in sexual self-satisfaction".

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 02:54 PM

Rapaire, my personal proclivity consists of being assiduous in the pursuit of eschewing assuagement.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 04:26 PM

I had one of those, but the wheels fell off.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 04:33 PM

Proclivities do that, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 04:45 PM

It is quite feasible to exacerbate the difficulty, gnu. Insure, please, that whatever remains functional is indeed circular and does not demonstrate polygonal proclivities.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 04:46 PM

dude, you guys talk good.

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 05:27 PM

Indubitably.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: DMcG
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 05:35 PM

I try to use 'spanghew' whenever I can, but its not easy to work into the conversation.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: curmudgeon
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 05:40 PM

Rapaire - I am shocked! "Insure" for "ensure?"

BG - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 06:14 PM

Ensure?

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 06:22 PM

DMcG, that's an easy one (I've heard it often) : Stop that or I will spanghew.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 03:02 AM

Error while looking up definition

No definitions found for 'spanghew'

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: DMcG
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 03:12 AM

Spanghew!

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 04:17 AM

Ladies & gentlemen, you've been a wonderful audience. Goodnight and spanghew!

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 01:27 PM

In another thread:


"I'm hucking feartbroken."

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Becca72
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 01:33 PM

I had no idea that launching a frog had it's own word...LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 01:35 PM

Out of a potato cannon? Poor frog!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 04:38 PM

Personally, I prefer propensities over proclivities. I've tried 'em both and found propensities to be a bit meatier and with a heartier bouquet.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Mooh
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 05:21 PM

Blind River? Hull?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Rog Peek
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 05:54 PM

The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
What a vocabulary that man had - my favourite is 'tintinnabulation'
http://www.bartleby.com/102/88.html

If you want to hear it, Phil Ochs did a super adaptation put to music.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 06:18 PM

The word is from the Latin for "ringing bells," and is used in that wondeful old Roman song, "Tinnitus": "Tinnitus, tinnitus, semper tinnitus...."   The root word itself is used to describe the medical condition of "ringing in the ears."

I would discuss this further, but torpidity overwhelms me.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 11:50 PM

I've never used one here, but I like words with extra letters at the front.

chthonic - Greek origin, means from the deep underground
ptarmigan

There was word in the poem "Mary Lou Wingate" such as phthisis. That was a good one.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 01:55 AM

I recently used "lingible" in the thread on "smirting" and I think it killed the thread. I'm really sorry about that.

Perhaps it was too vernacular.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Surreysinger
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 08:42 AM

I personally like words of a sesquipedalian nature.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: John Hardly
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 09:23 AM

The new alphabet...

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S U V W X Y Z

Apparently T got too close and eschewed it off.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 02:50 PM

"I personally like words of a sesquipedalian nature."

I, on the other hand, am an antihypersyllabicsesquipedalianist

I am also a prevaricator.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Surreysinger
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 04:18 PM

Whoo hoo Bill D - you sound like a person of quality when it comes to words ... and that word has to be a contradiction in terms... love it!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:27 PM

McDump..... I like it. McPee, McDump, McDressup.....

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Subject: RE: BS: Handicap Accessibility
From: Liz the Squeak - PM
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:13 PM

Don - "Not that I eat at McDonald's all that often, but if I'm out and in search of a rest room, I can usually rely on McDonald's."

That's call a 'McDump'... entering a fast food restaurant with the sole purpose of using the facilities. When I worked in a library near a McD's, we would always advise our disabled customers to go to their bathrooms rather than use ours as - you guessed it - it had an inward opening door that even able bodied people had trouble with. If you pushed it hard enough, it wedged on the sink (wash basin).

LTS

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When we drive to Harrisburg for diocesan biz-- 3 hour drive-- I often stop at McD to put on my biz clothes. Or take 'em off.

Thanks and kudos LIZ!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Grab
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:46 PM

Around here it's a McShit.

Of course, sometimes Johnny No-Stars behind the counter asks whether you're going to order food afterwards. "Of course I am", you reply.

Then it's a McShit with lies...

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 03:15 PM

A friend on mine told the story of getting almost desparate looking for 'facilities' when he spotted a McDonalds....he hopped out, ran in and approached the counter, asking breathlessly, "Where's the McPotty?"....he got a giggle and a point in the right direction.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 03:17 PM

[wiping screen.....]

Adenoidally: "I wadda McPoddie......."

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Surreysinger
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 06:07 PM

I think the spiffy vocab may well have deteriorated now. I detect a certain plumbing of the depths... sadly.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 06:14 PM

Echt? Never!   Ersatz? Definitely! Meretricious? Positively!

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 06:27 PM

Abundantly and vociferously loquacious.

(and my spell checker didn't beep!)

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 06:41 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Surreysinger
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 08:48 PM

I apologise if my jobation gave rise to such an abundance of loquaciousness!

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Edmond
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 11:01 AM

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, anyone ?

Bet I'm more vorpal than you, manxmome.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Surreysinger
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 01:42 PM

I reckon that if you use made-up words (albeit those of a master) they don't qualify as spiffy, and maybe you should be spifflicated?

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: harpmolly
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 02:15 PM

Or at least subjected to considerable obloquy. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Spiffy Vocab Seen Here
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 07:38 AM

Antipathy, indeed, opprobrium, might be thought a sine qua non.....