What's your favorite unusual word?

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To Gusay, which is when you take money for reading something, with no intention of reading it.

retromingent : the ability to urinated backwards from the body (ventrally).

veinglory said:

retromingent : the ability to urinated backwards from the body (ventrally).

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And this is your favorite why?

Episthemological. The only person I've ever heard use it in casual discussion was William F. Buckley.

caw.

blacbird said:

Episthemological. The only person I've ever heard use it in casual discussion was William F. Buckley.

caw.

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That’s epistemological.

Do fake words count?

Because cromulent and embiggens are classics.

I am keeping mine to myself, because my idea of an unusual word is probably different from yours, Lantern.

Julie Worth said:

That’s epistemological.

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I was close.

caw.

Phlegm.

Jcomp said:

Do fake words count?

Because cromulent and embiggens are classics.

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If they do count, my all time favorite is an epithet my sister used when she was mad at me (we were 8 or 9 at the time)

"Stupid, idiotic, fansil-choom!"

Amalgamate is always fun to hear, especially coming from someone with a british accent.

I like ubiquitous. I never used to know what it meant, but now that I do, it seems to pop up everywhere.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

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Which is, I think, the longest word in the English language.

crepuscular

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Or, as one local weatherman says when describing cloud formations:
"crespucular".

I think my favorite words are "superfluous" and "mellifluous", but I don't think they're weird enough for this thread.

How about, "hinky"?

When I really love a word, the sound and look of it, I will avoid learning the meaning, because I'm afraid I will be disappointed. And that I might never have an opportunity to use it.

Flabbergasted

Behooved.

Limacine. It came to my attention everytime I typed the scientific name of one of my research animals (Clione limacina). Until I entered the species name in MS Word's dictionary, the damn autocorrect function kept changing limacina to limacine.

By the way, limacine means slug-like, so it's perfect for describing someone's movements or locomotory activity.

NeuroFizz said:

By the way, limacine means slug-like, so it's perfect for describing someone's movements or locomotory activity.

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You've been spying on my cubicle, haven't you?

Okay -- Inimitable.

I just like trying to say it three times fast.

I love the word: sanguine (and sanguineous). I love how it sounds and the fact that it can mean 'cheerfully optimistic' or 'pertaining to blood'.

I also love that it was mentioned (and defined) by Kaylee in the short-lived series 'Firefly'.

Take care all -

Pusillanimous.

I just like the consonance of it.