Coolest Word Ever: Defenestration | I Challenge All!

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The discussion centers around the word "defenestration," defined as the act of throwing someone out of a window, which several participants consider to be a particularly cool word. Various other words are introduced and debated for their uniqueness and appeal, including "paneity" (the quality of being bread), "quonking," and "bogometer." Participants share their favorite words, often with humorous definitions or anecdotes, and explore the origins of some terms, such as "fenestra," the Latin word for window. The conversation also touches on the use of long and complex words, with mentions of "antidisestablishmentarianism," "sesquipedalian," and "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis." The thread is characterized by playful banter, wordplay, and a shared appreciation for the richness of language.
  • #101
Some drum rudiments have classic names. The pataflafla for example.
 
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  • #102
I think its either the long form of DNA or long form of aspirin
 
  • #103
Ivan Seeking said:
merkin

SYLLABICATION: mer·kin
PRONUNCIATION: mûrkn
NOUN: A pubic wig for women.
I can't even imagine why there would be such a thing. :confused:
 
  • #104
Evo said:
I can't even imagine why there would be such a thing. :confused:
In case the Mad Waxer strikes your neigbourhood... :eek:
 
  • #105
This was a "word of the day" at m-w.com recently - abecedarian

\ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-un\
• adjective
1 *a : of or relating to the alphabet b : alphabetically arranged
2 : rudimentary

I've always liked discombobulate.
 
  • #106
Sounds more like a magician with a speech impediment.
"Watch as I pull a rabbit out of my hat!"
"Abecedarian!"

I like discombobulate too. It sounds like it feels almost like an onamatopia.
 
  • #107
Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers
 
  • #108
Okay, not a single word, but allegedly the hardest tongue twister in the English language

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Also, I like science and math words like

Tsunamigenic
Tornadic
anti-clockwise [much better than counter]
asymtote
latera recta

The first time a professor started to lecture about canonical equations, I thought he been drinking his lunch! Doesn't he mean conical? :biggrin:

Also, during the first lecture on this, I swear, I kept waiting for the implicit meaning of the Heavyside to become evident. :smile:
 
  • #109
Ivan Seeking said:
Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers
My Brit friend's father opened a pub based upon this concept about 25 years ago. It was called the Pheasant Plucker, based upon a poem:

I'm not the pheasant plucker;
I'm the pheasant plucker's son.
I'm only plucking pheasants
'Til the pheasant plucker comes.

When you couldn't say it properly at a reasonable speed, you were cut off. :biggrin:
 
  • #110
Your assumption being the same as mine, it turns out that Fuddrucker is a family name.

I'll bet that's really a cool name when you're twelve. :biggrin:
 
  • #111
Ivan Seeking said:
Your assumption being the same as mine, it turns out that Fuddrucker is a family name.

I'll bet that's really a cool name when you're twelve. :biggrin:
Any kid with a speech impediment in that family would never be let out of the house. :eek:
 
  • #112
I'll be damned if I'll let Danger kill one of my own threads
 
  • #113
Danger said:
My Brit friend's father opened a pub based upon this concept about 25 years ago. It was called the Pheasant Plucker, based upon a poem:

I'm not the pheasant plucker;
I'm the pheasant plucker's son.
I'm only plucking pheasants
'Til the pheasant plucker comes.

When you couldn't say it properly at a reasonable speed, you were cut off. :biggrin:

:smile: That reminds me of the "Cork Soaker" skit from SNL. :smile:
 
  • #114
Smurf said:
I'll be damned if I'll let Danger kill one of my own threads
Rats! After 3 days, I thought that I'd gotten away with it.

Moonbear said:
:smile: That reminds me of the "Cork Soaker" skit from SNL. :smile:
Get thee to the clinic, wench. :-p
 
  • #115
Wench, that's a good word. Harlot too.
 
  • #116
Smurf said:
Wench, that's a good word. Harlot too.
True, but I'd be very careful about applying it to someone who at this moment is planning, in another thread, to squish you into a grease spot.
 
  • #117
Smurf said:
Wench, that's a good word. Harlot too.

And strumpet. Strumpet is good.
 
  • #118
matthyaouw said:
And strumpet. Strumpet is good.
Reminds me of my favourite type of fishing: 'Trolling for Trollops'.

(Hey! That'd make a good game show...)
 
  • #119
Smurf said:
I'll be damned if I'll let Danger kill one of my own threads
qf damned e
 
  • #120
Smurf said:
qf damned e
You're a persistent little bugger, aren't you?
 
  • #121
the best word is definitely the longest one,:

Floccinaucinihilipilification

any discussion?
 
  • #122
Ivan Seeking said:
anti-clockwise
Hmmm. Come to think of it, I tend to get out of bed in an anti-clockwise mood.
 
  • #123
BobG said:
Hmmm. Come to think of it, I tend to get out of bed in an anti-clockwise mood.
:smile:

I keep my clock out of easy reach so I can't break it before I'm fully awake.
 
  • #124
matthyaouw said:
And strumpet. Strumpet is good.
I like strumpet.

Frumpish.
 
  • #125
Danger said:
:smile:

I keep my clock out of easy reach so I can't break it before I'm fully awake.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I like to be fully awake when I break my clock so I can truly savor the moment.
 
  • #126
Sozzled- slang for drunk.
 
  • #127
BobG said:
Hmmm. Come to think of it, I tend to get out of bed in an anti-clockwise mood.

even better than that word, anti-anti-clockwise
 
  • #128
Avuncular: of or pertaining to a friendly uncle.

As in 'though I loved my new boyfriend's hair and physique, his avuncularity meant I was never able to become sexually aroused around him.' And I always thought pylon was a very pretty word.
 
  • #129
you guys are all dumbasses. The coolest word is also the longest word:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

-a disease that infects the lungs that is caused by inhaling microscopic bits of silicon from volcano ash
 
  • #130
"Minterm" is a nice word.
 
  • #131
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is better by a longshot
 
  • #132
icvotria said:
And I always thought pylon was a very pretty word.
All of this worry about expanding, and you're still playing with pylons? :wink:
 
  • #133
Did I vote on this? I'd say "Silly" right now.

Don't be silly. I feel such a grownup saying that *g*
 
  • #134
I've always liked "Anacrusis."

Iliked it even more when I realized that that is what I find most engaging about Dave Gilmour's lead guitar work.
 
  • #135
I never liked long words. Rohypnol and chutzpah are good words.
"Pylon is a word that has great chutzpah, but nobody noticed cos they were all spiked with Rohypnol." Yum. Homeowner is good too cos it's like a schoolyard way of calling someone a homo.
 
  • #136
yomamma said:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is better by a longshot
officially my word is the longest one. yours is loger but it is scientific. scientists say that in order to write our DNA it should be in one word and it would have thousands and thousands of letters.
 
  • #137
for the time being, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis wins :approve:
 
  • #138
yomamma said:
for the time being, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis wins :approve:
And yet despite all of those letters, the simple but effective 'fart' seems far more popular in everyday conversation.
 
  • #139
fart, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, fart, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, I just can't decide! :confused:
 
  • #140
yomamma said:
I just can't decide! :confused:
At least, no one's likely to say ' Who pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosised in here?!' :rolleyes:
 
  • #141
now I have to say that tomorrow. :rolleyes:

how do you submit a word into webster's dictionary? :rolleyes:
 
  • #142
yomamma said:
now I have to say that tomorrow. :rolleyes:
Good luck with that.

yomamma said:
how do you submit a word into webster's dictionary? :rolleyes:
Anonymously. That way you look brilliant, because you're quoted all the time.
 
  • #143
God Damnit Danger!
 
  • #144
Reintarnation

I have a new word in contention for the title... It is "Reintarnation", the definition of which is: "To come back to life as a Hillbilly"
:-p
 
  • #145
holy ****! I-Love-God! I can tell already that you're going to be very popular here. This is evidenced both by your moniker and by your habit of reintarnating old threads!

:smile::smile::smile:
 
  • #146
Ivan Seeking said:
Does anyone like self-defecating humor?

Is that something that makes you laugh so hard you **** yourself?
 
  • #147
okay, the coolest word ever HAS to be: Punchinello!

Punchinello means a fat humpbacked clown! =D seriously! google that ****!
 
  • #148
alabandical
barbarous; stupefied from drink
His behaviour after the party was positively alabandical.
 
  • #149
"necroposting"
 
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