There will be 3 OPs. This is the first.

Do you have any words that you seldom use but like the look or sound of, like lacrustine, oocyte, oscelot, zounds, sonoluminescence?

Futtocks.

mollwollfumble said:

There will be 3 OPs. This is the first.

Do you have any words that you seldom use but like the look or sound of, like lacrustine, oocyte, oscelot, zounds, sonoluminescence?

I have a plethora of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy_bJelwa0c

Chagrin

It’s a work one, but I like ecchymosis. Such a fabulous way of saying bruise.

Smeghead

Chlamydia.

Quondam (though I do get to use that one a bit.)

mollwollfumble said:

There will be 3 OPs. This is the first.

Do you have any words that you seldom use but like the look or sound of, like lacrustine, oocyte, oscelot, zounds, sonoluminescence?

Did you mean “lacustrine”?

I use “lacustrine” fairly frequently, then promptly have to explain myself.

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

There will be 3 OPs. This is the first.

Do you have any words that you seldom use but like the look or sound of, like lacrustine, oocyte, oscelot, zounds, sonoluminescence?

Did you mean “lacustrine”?

I use “lacustrine” fairly frequently, then promptly have to explain myself.

Idiosyncratic.

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

There will be 3 OPs. This is the first.

Do you have any words that you seldom use but like the look or sound of, like lacrustine, oocyte, oscelot, zounds, sonoluminescence?

Did you mean “lacustrine”?

I use “lacustrine” fairly frequently, then promptly have to explain myself.

Idiosyncratic.

Oxymoron.

Michael V said:

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

Did you mean “lacustrine”?

I use “lacustrine” fairly frequently, then promptly have to explain myself.

Idiosyncratic.

Oxymoron.

I thought that was a bad welder.

Michael V said:

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

Did you mean “lacustrine”?

I use “lacustrine” fairly frequently, then promptly have to explain myself.

Idiosyncratic.

Oxymoron.

schadenfreude..

Backpfeifengesicht

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

There will be 3 OPs. This is the first.

Do you have any words that you seldom use but like the look or sound of, like lacrustine, oocyte, oscelot, zounds, sonoluminescence?

Did you mean “lacustrine”?

I use “lacustrine” fairly frequently, then promptly have to explain myself.

Idiosyncratic.

Tinny word, not woody enough.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T70-HTlKRXo

Defenestration.

Intumescent

Beserker

Epicaricacy

Zumbooruk
Unguent
Ablutions

Covfefe

Kek

Priapic. If only.

The Liberal National party has refused to concede the Queensland election, with its leader, Tim Nicholls, all but demanding Annastacia Palaszczuk stand aside and let him attempt to form government.

“Will she do the right thing and will she go into opposition and invite the LNP to attempt form government?”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/28/liberal-national-party-leader-tim-nicholls-refuses-to-concede-queensland-election?CMP=soc_567

Bintulu
Skikda

Spent a good part of my childhood living in these two places, so that probably has something to do with my liking them as words.

I really love words. I could keep doing this thread all night, as they come to me. But I’ll stop now.

Yes.

dv said:

The Liberal National party has refused to concede the Queensland election, with its leader, Tim Nicholls, all but demanding Annastacia Palaszczuk stand aside and let him attempt to form government.

“Will she do the right thing and will she go into opposition and invite the LNP to attempt form government?”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/28/liberal-national-party-leader-tim-nicholls-refuses-to-concede-queensland-election?CMP=soc_567

I think he’s trying to cement his position as top dog in the LNP, when it comes to the leadership spill post-loss-confirmation.

Sorry.

Estivation…that was the word I want the other day.

Obstreperous….should be used more.

kii said:

Obstreperous….should be used more.

Yes it’s a great word

irregardless.

inflammable.

Complicit, apparently. See dictionary.com thread.

As you might imagine, my interest in Anatomy leads me to like ‘Eviscerate’.

But I have a different nomination for most interesting word – Pragmatic

i’d like to use the c word more often , especially in the work place to communicate my opinion some of my work colleagues and their Weltanschauung.

but i might be sacked

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

There will be 3 OPs. This is the first.

Do you have any words that you seldom use but like the look or sound of, like lacrustine, oocyte, oscelot, zounds, sonoluminescence?

Did you mean “lacustrine”?

I use “lacustrine” fairly frequently, then promptly have to explain myself.

Oops, yes. Don’t know why the spell-checker failed to pick up my error there. Enjoying all the other words posted.

Factitious.
Just read this word in an ABC article, about the woman who was taking 800 laxatives a day. I assumed the work experience kid had made it up, but no, it’s a word. Ya learn sumthink new every day hey.

Mrs La Bella suffered from the factitious disorder Munchausen syndrome where a person repeatedly acts as if they have an illness when they are not really sick.

ruby said:

Factitious.
Just read this word in an ABC article, about the woman who was taking 800 laxatives a day. I assumed the work experience kid had made it up, but no, it’s a word. Ya learn sumthink new every day hey.

Mrs La Bella suffered from the factitious disorder Munchausen syndrome where a person repeatedly acts as if they have an illness when they are not really sick.

It just makes me feint.

ruby said:

Factitious.
Just read this word in an ABC article, about the woman who was taking 800 laxatives a day. I assumed the work experience kid had made it up, but no, it’s a word. Ya learn sumthink new every day hey.

Mrs La Bella suffered from the factitious disorder Munchausen syndrome where a person repeatedly acts as if they have an illness when they are not really sick.

How can you not know “factitious”?

It was Merriam-Webster word of the day just a few months ago, and has been used in English since the 17th Century.

You might also ask, how can I have not seen or heard it before?

Is fake news fictitious or factitious?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Is fake news fictitious or factitious?

Oooo, I think the English language could morph the meaning of factitious a bit. Trump certainly does seem to have Munchausen syndrome when it comes to facts.

ruby said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Is fake news fictitious or factitious?

Oooo, I think the English language could morph the meaning of factitious a bit. Trump certainly does seem to have Munchausen syndrome when it comes to facts.

>Tinny word, not woody enough.

Antelope, hoops, intercourse

esselte said:

ruby said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Is fake news fictitious or factitious?

Oooo, I think the English language could morph the meaning of factitious a bit. Trump certainly does seem to have Munchausen syndrome when it comes to facts.

I just love that ‘me’ in brackets there.

Avuncular hermeneutic homunculus.

psyllium

kii said:

psyllium

Confounding, isn’t it, that psyllium husk as a laxative was developed centuries ago by a vegetarian society with a high level of roughage (dietary fibre) in their collective diets anyway, so constipation was likely a very rare problem.

Michael V said:

kii said:

psyllium

Confounding, isn’t it, that psyllium husk as a laxative was developed centuries ago by a vegetarian society with a high level of roughage (dietary fibre) in their collective diets anyway, so constipation was likely a very rare problem.

Unless they were eating/drinking/smoking something that caused them to get blocked up…?

Rule 303 said:

Michael V said:

kii said:

psyllium

Confounding, isn’t it, that psyllium husk as a laxative was developed centuries ago by a vegetarian society with a high level of roughage (dietary fibre) in their collective diets anyway, so constipation was likely a very rare problem.

Unless they were eating/drinking/smoking something that caused them to get blocked up…?

Such as?

Michael V said:

Rule 303 said:

Michael V said:

Confounding, isn’t it, that psyllium husk as a laxative was developed centuries ago by a vegetarian society with a high level of roughage (dietary fibre) in their collective diets anyway, so constipation was likely a very rare problem.

Unless they were eating/drinking/smoking something that caused them to get blocked up…?

Such as?

Lots of things cause constipation…

Rule 303 said:

Michael V said:

Rule 303 said:

Unless they were eating/drinking/smoking something that caused them to get blocked up…?

Such as?

Lots of things cause constipation…

Sure, but a vegetarian diet is an unlikely suspect.

Rule 303 said:

Michael V said:

Rule 303 said:

Unless they were eating/drinking/smoking something that caused them to get blocked up…?

Such as?

Lots of things cause constipation…

You might have diarrhoea, so you eat some carob to help stop that, but you ate too much* and need to loosen up a bit, so munch on psyllium husks to help :D

*how anyone can eat too much carob is a question above my pay grade.

kii said:

Rule 303 said:

Michael V said:

Such as?

Lots of things cause constipation…

You might have diarrhoea, so you eat some carob to help stop that, but you ate too much* and need to loosen up a bit, so munch on psyllium husks to help :D

*how anyone can eat too much carob is a question above my pay grade.

Carob never had that effect on me. Mind, I haven’t eaten any carob in a long time. Is that a usual thing?

The Graun has a page going where you can submit your unusual Australian words. I’ve just submitted “Yonnie”.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/29/preserve-your-dialect-tell-us-about-the-unusual-australian-words-you-use

Poultices…

Michael V said:

kii said:

psyllium

Confounding, isn’t it, that psyllium husk as a laxative was developed centuries ago by a vegetarian society with a high level of roughage (dietary fibre) in their collective diets anyway, so constipation was likely a very rare problem.

It is in part why I chose roughbarked..

Most of your suggestions now incorporated in Cartoon 451.

Thank you all.

I learned a word.

Geocarpy.

Geocarpy is “an extremely rare means of plant reproduction”, in which plants produce diaspores within the soil. This may occur with subterranean flowers (protogeocarpy), or from aerial flowers, parts of which penetrate the soil after flowering (hysterocarpy). It has evolved as an effective means of ensuring a suitable environment for the plant’s offspring.

Geocarpy is also linked with solifluction soils, where rapid thawing and freezing of surface soil causes almost continuous movement. This phenomenon is prevalent in high altitude areas of East Africa. In order to reproduce, geocarpic plants bend their stems so that the fruit can be embedded in the soil during the freezing process while the fruit is still attached to the plant itself.

Geocarpy is most frequent in tropical or semi-desert areas, and geocarpic species may be found in the families Araceae, Begoniaceae, Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), Callitrichaceae, Convolvulaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), Loganiaceae, Moraceae and Rubiaceae. The best-known example is the peanut, Arachis hypogaea.

dv said:

I learned a word.

Geocarpy.

Geocarpy is “an extremely rare means of plant reproduction”, in which plants produce diaspores within the soil. This may occur with subterranean flowers (protogeocarpy), or from aerial flowers, parts of which penetrate the soil after flowering (hysterocarpy). It has evolved as an effective means of ensuring a suitable environment for the plant’s offspring.

Geocarpy is also linked with solifluction soils, where rapid thawing and freezing of surface soil causes almost continuous movement. This phenomenon is prevalent in high altitude areas of East Africa. In order to reproduce, geocarpic plants bend their stems so that the fruit can be embedded in the soil during the freezing process while the fruit is still attached to the plant itself.

Geocarpy is most frequent in tropical or semi-desert areas, and geocarpic species may be found in the families Araceae, Begoniaceae, Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), Callitrichaceae, Convolvulaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), Loganiaceae, Moraceae and Rubiaceae. The best-known example is the peanut, Arachis hypogaea.

Important knowledge for plant propagators