Words that need to make a comeback

[Not A Nice Person]

peregrination
miscreant
comestible
ennui
perspicacious

But my all-time favorite word is tintinnabulation.

It comes to us almost unchanged from the Latin, tintinnabulatus, meaning "the ringing of many small bells simultaneously."

I just love the thought of a culture that needed a WORD for that.

NANP™

 

[NorthALABeeKeep]

Fair to middling
(the proper response to which is)
and partly cloudy

This was originally used to describe the length of cotton fiber. The longer the fiber the higher the value of the cotton at the gin. Fair to middling would be average to a little better than average.

 

[DunEdinRanger]

I forgot suborn and sinecure.

"All I ever wanted was a sinecure."

 

[TorzJohnson]

brandish

This one gets a lot of use over on the firearms forums.

So what? "Festoon" gets a lot of use over on the Hanging Rancid Chunks Of Raw Meat Festooned With Flies forum. You don't hear it much outside of that group though.

 

[wchnu]

Fair to middling
(the proper response to which is)
and partly cloudy

This was originally used to describe the length of cotton fiber. The longer the fiber the higher the value of the cotton at the gin. Fair to middling would be average to a little better than average.

Maybe I am not the only one here that grew up in a cotton farm I see..


Groovy

 

[goodsamaritan]

So what? "Festoon" gets a lot of use over on the Hanging Rancid Chunks Of Raw Meat Festooned With Flies forum. You don't hear it much outside of that group though.

Do I sense some hostility?

 

[CitizenDan]

I enjoy the use of these words when necessary:

Calamity
Arbitrary
Lackadaisical
Vacillate
Copulate
Shiznit
Business (as in - giving one the business)

 

[johnniegold]

rapscallion

 

[thirdeye]

Fubar....

 

[DunEdinRanger]

vicissitudes

 

[CitizenDan]

zounds!

 

[professorchaos]

rapscallion

Good one!

 

[burningdarkness]

My favorite word:

Floccinaucinihilipilification. n an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial

The word itself is guilty of its meaning.

 

[burningdarkness]

Hate to be a Grammar Pill, but: It is incumbent upon everyone to edit his post.

When I am King of the Universe, everyone will be issued his/her own copy of Elements of Style, along with a Random House Dictionary.

Random House? When I am King of the Universe, I will repeal your law and issue every human a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary.

 

[sol92258]

uummm, I've learned not to use words the mods have to look up......
*see custom title for reference

as for phrases:
"Happier than a horse with two tails at fly swattin' time"

 

[Rughi]

cuckold

It describes a whole buncha songs from both types of music (Country and Western) although it has probably never been used in any of them.

Roger

 

[RichGem]

uummm, I've learned not to use words the mods have to look up......
*see custom title for reference

as for phrases:
"Happier than a horse with two tails at fly swattin' time"

Sorry, Jim. I beat ya to that one a few posts back.

 

[Not A Nice Person]

Texas local color, since we're on phrases and idioms as well as vocabulary:

"dog like that's pretty hard to keep under the porch"

"this ain't my first rodeo"

"cowboy up or go sit in the truck"

"ain't braggin' if you can do it"

"well, this is the hill I'll die on, dagnabbit"

NANP™

 

[johnniegold]

gadzooks

 

[Ramaniac]

How are you pronouncing flange so it sounds dirty?

Enmity-and the lack thereof in all aspects of life, and the avoidance of creating it.