I like words. I know a fair few of them. I want to know more. What are your favorite esoteric words?
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Palimpsest - it’s like a document that’s been re-used but still shows some of the previous words underneath. Or a bit like a whiteboard that has ‘burnt-in’ marker showing after being erased.
Source: Merriam-Webster https://share.google/8S38DanhSZubSlMdX
Toxicognath
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toxicognath
Without the pesky google tracker
Try these on for size:
Epicaricacy - Schadenfreude, but sounds fancier Coprophagous - shit eating. As in: “A coprophagous grin”
Contra intuitive (for things that do not work like it would seem logical for you)
Perspicacious (~sharp senses. English is a second language for me, so I didn’t know that one. Found it in a book, loved it)
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Used to be known by pretty much every kid in at least the US.
(Edited to clarify that maybe outside the US also)
Was The Sound of Music only popular in the US? I’d assumed it was also popular in Europe given the setting.
Also, this word was an exercise in the gifted classes I got put in in elementary school. The idea was to try to spell it without looking it up.
I don’t know about The Sound of Music (I’ve only seen clips) but supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was popularized here (and maybe elsewhere) by Mary Poppins.
Am I mixing up the movies maybe? It’s quite early here so my brain may not be working at 100%.
I haven’t seen it until I was 28. It’s not very popular in Europe, especially DACh, because it’s apologetic for Austrians, showing them as victims of the Nazis, rather then enthusiasts.
It is said to be a propaganda piece made for that but idk
Contemporaneously. (At precisely the same time).
I hate saying it, it feels bad in my mouth. Anthropomorphize is kind of fun though.
Why do you hate saying it?
It just feels awkward to say clearly and quickly.
Whenever I say it, I am unsure whether I’ve added an extra syllable.
- syzygy
- diurnal
- gnathion
Diurnal’s cool, but its not Crepuscular cool.
True, it’s usually lower temperature by then.
Hey, you should be friends with my Yiddish cephalopod friend.
Just my normal quotidian vocabulary
Hapax legomenon.
Tell me more.
It’s a word that only appears once in a given corpus.
sesquipedalian: • a foot and a half • a really long word • referring to a user of really long wordsDiscombobulated!
I love disconcerting
Stonks.
