Defenestration: the coolest word ever?

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Ivan Seeking said:
SYLLABICATION: mer·kin
PRONUNCIATION: mûrkn
NOUN: A pubic wig for women.
You can use mucilage to glue it on! :biggrin:
 
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Math Is Hard said:
You can use mucilage to glue it on! :biggrin:

Use it sparingly though. Mucilage hanging from a merkin is a real turn off!
 
Ivan Seeking said:
Use it sparingly though. Mucilage hanging from a merkin is a real turn off!
bleeech! yewwcchh! At least it's less brain damaging than airplane glue and not as painful to remove!
 
ab·squat·u·late ( P ) Pronunciation Key (b-skwch-lt)
intr.v. Midwestern & Western U.S. ab·squat·u·lat·ed, ab·squat·u·lat·ing, ab·squat·u·lates

To depart in a hurry; abscond: “Your horse has absquatulated!” (Robert M. Bird).

Until now, if someone told me that my horse has absquatulated, I'd be getting a shovel.
 
brobdignagian

Brobdingnagian \Brob`ding*nag"i*an\, a. [From Brobdingnag, a country of giants in "Gulliver's Travels.'']

Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n. A giant. [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]

(Spelt? Is dictionary.com a British site??)



beseech is a good word, too.
 
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jcsd said:
I've actually worked the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' into a conevrstaion before (the only chance you ever have to do this is when discussing the Anglican church in the UK in the 18th century).

I remember it being used in an episode of the British sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister.

Along with this joke, that has very limited applicability...

Advisor: He's been trying to be made a bishop for ages.

PM: Ahh! Long time, no See.


:smile:
 
infidel said:
I remember it being used in an episode of the British sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister.

Hey, that was a funny show! I watched him in Yes Minister as well.
 
Some drum rudiments have classic names. The pataflafla for example.
 
I think its either the long form of DNA or long form of aspirin
 
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:
 
Evo said:
I can't even imagine why there would be such a thing. :confused:
In case the Mad Waxer strikes your neigbourhood... :eek:
 
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.
 
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.
 
Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers Fuddruckers
 
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:
 
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:
 
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:
 
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:
 
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:
 
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
 
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.
 
Smurf said:
Wench, that's a good word. Harlot too.

And strumpet. Strumpet is good.
 
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...)
 
Smurf said:
I'll be damned if I'll let Danger kill one of my own threads
qf damned e
 
Smurf said:
qf damned e
You're a persistent little bugger, aren't you?