Unusual or rare words

[Beachlover]

 

[MaC]

I only knew twelve of those and they're all sort of everyday things.
My vocabulary is failing me.

 

[noddy]

Glad to know there's a word for not being able to get out of bed.

And, I believe the phrase 'down to a tee' is related to the word tittle.

I did not know 12 of those I knew crapulence and tines. And petrichor ... sort of.

 

[Nice65]

Glad to know there's a word for not being able to get out of bed.

And, I believe the phrase 'down to a tee' is related to the word tittle.

I did not know 12 of those I knew crapulence and tines. And petrichor ... sort of.

Petrichor is a fairly new word, a recent invention.

Probably been mentioned, but there is also biblichor, the comforting, musty smell of old books.

 

[E. By Gum]

Pilasters. Columns that are part built in to a wall.

 

[Beachlover]

Pilasters. Columns that are part built in to a wall.

Always thought they were useless sticky things that come with cheap first aid kits.

 

[Templogin]

I only knew twelve of those and they're all sort of everyday things.
My vocabulary is failing me.

I knew only two of those. I thought that a Bannock Device was a mixing spoon, so I am now down to one.

 

[MaC]

I didn't get that one at all. I thought, "Bannock's ? Bannock's don't need a device !? "

 

[E. By Gum]

Bindlestiff. American slang for a tramp.

 

[E. By Gum]

Argot. Jargon or slang of a certain group.

 

[E. By Gum]

Koan. Riddle without an answer.

 

[noddy]

Huh! Feculence. I will be using that, though more likely as an adjective.

Thought it might be related to 'feckless'. Nope

feckless (adj.)​

1590s, from feck, "effect, value, vigor" (late 15c.), Scottish shortened form of effect (n.), + -less.

 

[MaC]

I know feculent.....as something shitty. Like a shoe that has troden in dog dirt, or a stinking farmyard.

 

[Juttle]

Have we had widdershins yet?

 

[Saint-Just]

I know feculent.....as something shitty. Like a shoe that has troden in dog dirt, or a stinking farmyard.

How interesting a discovery for me! From the latin faeculentus, muddy, filthy. Also gave faeces and fecal.
The reason I find it interesting is because we have féculents in French, with the same etymology, that translates as starchy food. Fécule is the starch from potatoes.

 

[E. By Gum]

Boustrophedon motion, weaving side to side like a ploughing ox.

 

[Saint-Just]

Boustrophedon motion, weaving side to side like a ploughing ox.

Actually that's the etymology. In practice it's used when you alternate going from left to right with going from right to left, indeed like oxen did when ploughing a field:

This is a convoluted example
gnitirw nodehportsuob fo
which unfortunately requires
detrevni eb ot srettel eht

 

[E. By Gum]

Bouse. To raise or haul by tackle. Just come across it in a book about historic Yorkshire. Raise the bouse from the swaledale lead mine.

 

[Saint-Just]

Amusingly (or not), bouse is French for cow dung…

 

[bushwacker]

Amusingly (or not), bouse is French for cow dung…

bullshit is a similar word we use around here for politics

 

[Saint-Just]

bullshit is a similar word we use around here for politics

funnily enough that one doesn't translate. The French equivalent sounds more rude in English, as we can say it in anger as well as between friends (like bullshit), and that would possibly be "conneries" (utterances from a cunt). It applies to speech as well as acts.

 

[bushwacker]

funnily enough that one doesn't translate. The French equivalent sounds more rude in English, as we can say it in anger as well as between friends (like bullshit), and that would possibly be "conneries" (utterances from a cunt). It applies to speech as well as acts.

We have talking cunts too, they're called MPs

 

[noddy]

funnily enough that one doesn't translate. The French equivalent sounds more rude in English, as we can say it in anger as well as between friends (like bullshit), and that would possibly be "conneries" (utterances from a cunt). It applies to speech as well as acts.

Sean Conneries?

 

[Saint-Just]

Sean Conneries?

Famously married to Aretha Franklin, who thus became "Arrêtes ta connerie", stop being stupid...

 

[Saint-Just]

Susie Dent: Word of the day is ‘snerdle’ (18th century dialect): to wrap up cosily beneath the covers and hold off the day for a little longer.