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[Smurf]

does anyone know the word for 'fear of phobias'? Phobophobia?

 

[faust9]

floccinaucinihilipilification... My wifey would say I do this all the time. I love assigning value to things considered worthless to most.

 

[faust9]

does anyone know the word for 'fear of phobias'? Phobophobia?

So then I guess the fear of phobophobia would be phobophobophobia

 

[Adam Y.]

This is so asinine. I love the word asinine.

 

[Smurf]

matutolagnia
n.
antemeridian sexual desire

 

[Smurf]

matutinal
adj.
relating to or occurring in the morning

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The rotating brush roll in a Hoover is properly called the disturbulator.

The Germans call the TV das Fernsehen - "the far seer". I always liked that. It seems to me that the longest name of a road is also German - it combines the names of the villages that lie along its path.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: defined by the OED as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust'

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch: a village in Wales

Compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long)

A few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/l/longestword.html

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TAUMATA*WHAKA*TANGI*HANGA*KOAUAU*O*TAMATEA*TURIPUKAKA*PIKI*MAUNGA*HORO*NUKU*POKAI*WHENUA*KITANA*TAHU - A hill in New Zealand

http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html

 

[Danger]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch: a village in Wales

Damned Welsh again. According to the ex-from-hell, it's probably prounounced 'Anlock' or some silly-ass thing like that.

 

[RageSk8]

I like "callipygian". I am still waiting for it to show up in a rap song (it has to eventually).

 

[Huckleberry]

I've always been fond of woebedraggled. Not even sure if its a word but that's how I feel first thing in the morning, well afternoon as it often is.

Huck

 

[brewnog]

Damned Welsh again. According to the ex-from-hell, it's probably prounounced 'Anlock' or some silly-ass thing like that.

Nah, it's pronounced as it's spelt. Well, as much as any other Welsh word can be (Oh the joys of quadruple 'l's.). I don't think it counts though, the Welsh invented it in recent times as a tourist attraction. Why else would you want to go to Anglesey?

 

[Danger]

I've always been fond of woebedraggled. Not even sure if its a word but that's how I feel first thing in the morning, well afternoon as it often is.

I think that one's a regional variation. Here it's 'woebegotten'. The real word behind it is 'woebegone'.

 

[Evo]

Tsk, I've posted this before. According to the "Guinness book of world records"

"The city with the longest name in common usage is in New Zealand. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateturipukakapikimaungahoro-Nukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu translates as the 'place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played his flute to his loved one'. This is the place name recognised by the Guinness Book of Records.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch currently has the prestige of having the UK's longest place name."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A418565

 

[Danger]

Why else would you want to go to Anglesey?

Hey, you got to admit I got a lot closer than most colonists would have. (I even thought that the first part might be Angel (not Angle). The trick is that as with everything else about the Welsh, it's not too bad if you ignore 90% of it.

Tsk, I've posted this before.

Where on Earth did you find the energy to do it again?

 

[Smurf]

I like "callipygian". I am still waiting for it to show up in a rap song (it has to eventually).

You win. .

 

[Danger]

I like "callipygian". I am still waiting for it to show up in a rap song (it has to eventually).

Maybe if you beetle over here, you can find enough collaborators to do it yourself. Then, you won't be bummed out when someone else uses your idea. (Believe me; I'm still mad about not patenting the electric spaghetti fork.)

 

[RageSk8]

Maybe if you beetle over here, you can find enough collaborators to do it yourself. Then, you won't be bummed out when someone else uses your idea. (Believe me; I'm still mad about not patenting the electric spaghetti fork.)

I quick google search yeilded no rap songs containing the word callipygian. However, I did find callipygian in the lyrics to "Vikki Dougan" by The Limlters:

...Vikki baby you move me,
In those far-out clothes!
But don't it get chilly flyin' home at night
When that cold cold tail-wind blows?

REFRAIN

Vikki baby, you rock me,
Without you I'm bereft!
I'm hynotized by those crazy eyes,
And that callipygian cleft!

REFRAIN

Vikki baby, we're older,
My get up and go is gone
But when I see you walking down the street
Them buns still turn me on!

Who are The Limeliters you ask? Why they are a folk music trio who have been performing for over 45 years now! Apparently I have been scooped by these guys:

http://www.limeliters.com/LimelitersPR-Aspen.gif

 

[Huckleberry]

I think that one's a regional variation. Here it's 'woebegotten'. The real word behind it is 'woebegone'.

I'm not sure. There is a word bedraggled. Maybe I'm thinking of two words here.

Bedraggled
Wet; limp.
Soiled by or as if by having been dragged through mud.
Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated: a street of bedraggled tenements.

and Woe
Deep distress or misery, as from grief; wretchedness. See Synonyms at regret.
Misfortune; calamity: economic and political woes.

So apparently I wake up soiled as if dragged through wretchedness, or I'm just unfortunate to be limp.

You can't make this stuff up.

Huck

 

[Danger]

Who are The Limeliters you ask? Why they are a folk music trio who have been performing for over 45 years now! Apparently I have been scooped by these guys:

I remember them fairly well. They were about the same time as the Lemon Pipers and Peter, Paul and Mary. 'This Land Is Your Land' played a lot on the radio when I was a kid. Who'da thunk they were rappers?

 

[matthyaouw]

edit: don't know how i ended up with two posts.. feel free to delete this.

 

[matthyaouw]

Why else would you want to go to Anglesey?

I remember it had a nice aquarium, although I was 8 at the time and thus quite easily amused.
Isn't llanfairpwyllgg... erm... that welsh place on the mainland?

 

[Danger]

Isn't llanfairpwyllgg... erm... that welsh place

If it's going to keep coming up, let's just call it La La Ville. Save everybody a lot of unnecessary typing.

 

[Astronuc]

Ucalegon - http://www.ucalegon.com/uwhat.php

 

[Gokul43201]

From a James Lipton interview (Inside the Actors' Studio on Bravo), I recall that Robin Williams' favorite word is 'cloaca'.

I like some of the portmanteau words that Lewis Carrol made up : slithy, frumious, gallumphing, ...

 

[BobG]

Well, shoot, if we're using foreign words, I like Italians' 'telecommando'. It just makes changing channels so much more fun when you're using the 'telecommando' than just using a drab old TV remote control.

 

[Moonbear]

From a James Lipton interview (Inside the Actors' Studio on Bravo), I recall that Robin Williams' favorite word is 'cloaca'.

That makes perfect sense given Robin Williams' sense of humor.

 

[Moonbear]

Well, shoot, if we're using foreign words, I like Italians' 'telecommando'. It just makes changing channels so much more fun when you're using the 'telecommando' than just using a drab old TV remote control.

Is telecommando the proper term for when you're sitting on the couch wearing only boxer shorts, or is it more for the situation of wearing fatigues and war paint as you leap over the back of the sofa to wrestle the remote from your spouse?

 

[Huckleberry]

Is telecommando the proper term for when you're sitting on the couch wearing only boxer shorts, or is it more for the situation of wearing fatigues and war paint as you leap over the back of the sofa to wrestle the remote from your spouse?

Going commando means going without any underpants at all. So first you strip down to the skinny and then you divebomb your significant other on the couch and take the control away from them. viola, telecommando

Dipthong. This is a fascinating word to me. I love the way it sounds but I hate the bad rhythm they give to poems.

 

[Janitor]

Mucilage is a glue that comes in a glass bottle, and is delivered to the point of application through a rubber nipple. I have only seen it in classroom settings. It sounds like some kind of gross bodily fluid, but it is pretty cool stuff.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A long time ago I was listening to an interview with a representitive of Merck & Co., Inc. Unfortunately, esp for the apparently young and anxious company PR rep, the inteviewer was morning DJ. She [the rep] just starts to describe the new product that she was promotiing when the DJ interrupts her: Wait, wait, what is the name of your company again? Merck & Co she responded. The DJ starts cracking up. The rep is completely lost. Did you say merkin Company, he asked? Yes, Merck & Co she replies. He starts laughing at her again. Really, merkin company? etc etc... until he finally told her what a merkin is.

merkin

SYLLABICATION: mer·kin
PRONUNCIATION: mûrkn
NOUN: A pubic wig for women.