Your favoritest big words!

mammothreptos, late Greek word in which the Spanish mamotreto evolved. It means "raised by granny", in a way to say "lazy and fatty" and defines an object, more often a book, that is large and uneven.

oikoumene or Ecumene; another Greek word meaning the whole inhabitated world.

Energumen, literally defines someone possessed by a demon, but figuratively defines a person with an histeric fit.

Triumvirate, a government led by three people, that's how my country started.

pusillanimous--cowardly, chicken sh*t

defenestration--the act of throwing someone out a window, also defenestrate or defenestrator

callipygian--means having a nice butt; reubenesque. junk in the trunk.

Hmmm....need to throw at least one of those into the WIP.

mscelina said:

pusillanimous--cowardly, chicken sh*t

defenestration--the act of throwing someone out a window, also defenestrate or defenestrator

callipygian--means having a nice butt; reubenesque. junk in the trunk.

Hmmm....need to throw at least one of those into the WIP.

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You can't go wrong with defenestration.

Especially if you're defenstrating a pusillanimous prostitute who's a little too complacent about her callipygian curves.

Pantokrator-Greek for "The ruler of all". Used as a title for God.

mscelina said:

Especially if you're defenstrating a pusillanimous prostitute who's a little too complacent about her callipygian curves.

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That's almost alarmingly alliterative.

Haggis said:

That's almost alarmingly alliterative.

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Only over onomatopoeiac oligarchies.

Obfuscating onomatopoeic oligarchies???



I've been in a silly mood ever since I got onto AW today. Can't IMAGINE why...

My favoritest big word EVAH: obfuscate. To confuse, bewilder, or stupefy. Otherwise known as using a word more than two syllables long in my homeroom class.

Psychometry is a pretty cool one, too--it's divining facts associated with an object or its owner by handling or being close to said object. I think it's going to make an appearance in my WIP (the concept, not the word, 'cause it doesn't fit--bummer...)

Myself speculates about the amusing consequences brought upon prohibiting monosyllabes within the current thread.

mscelina said:

pusillanimous--cowardly, chicken sh*t

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Dammit, you stole my word!

Otherwise: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Shadow_Ferret said:

Dammit, you stole my word!

Otherwise: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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The Venereal illness?

I'm a fickle vocabularist. I start off loving a word, but then some other catches my eye before I can profess devotion to the first. Thus the words I'd most like to call on never call me back, leaving me alone and miserable on Saturday nights. So here are some favourites from vocabula.com, abducted and presented for your delectation.

alexithymia (ah-lek-sah-THI-mee-ah) — inability to describe emotions in a verbal manner

apodyopsis (ap-oh-di-OP-sis) — 1. the act of mentally undressing someone. 2. imagining women naked; undressing women mentally.

borborygmus (bor-bah-RIG-mes) — a rumbling noise produced by the movement of gas through the intestines

clatterfart (KLAT-er-fart) — a chatterer; babbler

crepuscule (kri-PUS-kyool) — twilight; dusk

clishmaclaver (KLISH-mah-klay-ver) — casual chat or gossip

doryphore (DOR-ee-phor) — one who draws attention to the minor errors made by others, esp. in a pestering manner; a pedantic gadfly

ecdysiast (ek-DEZ-ee-ast) — a striptease artist

epicaricacy (EP-i-kar-ik-i-see) — taking pleasure in other's misfortune; schadenfreude

futilitarian (FYOO-til-i-tar-ee-an) — one who holds the view that human endeavor is futile

hebetudinous (heb-i-TOOD-i-nes) — dull-minded; mentally lethargic

kakistocracy (kak-i-STOK-rah-see) — government by the worst or least qualified citizens

mythomania (mith-oh-MAY-nee-ah) — a compulsion to exaggerate or tell lies

noctilucous (nok-ti-LYOO-kes) — shining in the night

omphaloskepsis (om-fah-loh-SKEP-sis) — contemplation of one's navel

oniochalasia (oh-nee-oh-cha-LAY-see-ah) — buying as a means of mental relaxation

quatopygia (kwah-tah-PIJ-ee-ah) — the shaking of the buttocks while walking

siderodromophobia (si-der-oh-droh-moh-PHO-bee-ah) — fear of trains, railroads, or train travel

steatopygian (stee-at-oh-PIJ-ee-ah) — having an excess accumulation of fat on the buttocks

uxorious (uk-SOR-ee-es) — excessively fond or submissive to one's wife

trismegistus--thrice greatest (Greek)

aggrandize--to exaggerate

An illuminating thread.

Archipelago. My brain loves this word because when you read it, the emphasis is unclear. It could be read essentially emphasizing any of the syllables. So in my mind I go ARchipelago. ArchiPELago. ArchipelAgo.

floccinaucinihilipilification- The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant.

I love this word, can't pronounce it or even really spell it without aid, but I still love it.

Flibbertigibbet

A flighty or whimsical person. Kinda like me really...

One of my fave words though is quite short and actually means the opposite of itself. Points means prizes for whoever guesses correctly.

oooh look at us, being all sesquipedalian! haha love it!

Ostensibly.

vicissitudes - vagaries, changing fortunes

verisimilitude - resemblance to real life

aposiopesis - trailing off to silence in mid-sentence