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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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I didn't realise 'questment' is a word in use, and has dictionary credentials. Of course it is entirely possible and probable I have come across but diddn't remember it.
Last century I coined 'testerical' for use in the way 'hysterical' is used about womeen. I even checked in the queen lexicographer of this land. It hadn't been recorded. Now it is used on TwitTwat, and on telly. Not down to me, but because it has emerged.
I do enjoy a bit of etymology. Give me your quirky favourite and its origin.
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Sycophant. Exact etymology uncertain. By classical Greek times, it meant vexatious litigant.
The parts of the word would suggest something like "fig revealer". Perhaps this is a reference to the clampdown on luxury items in Solonian Athens.
... Or it's a pussy joke. |
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over a year ago
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All words are made up. Those words that are made up then have spelling that is made up. Both the words and the spellings change over time. The Turkish language and most of its words is only 100 and a bit years old. They literally (whoop, a proper use of the word literally  ) had scholars working for decades inventing words, and agreeing them by committee.
I enjoy the new additions to the OED each year, but sometimes I feel they have gone for a buzzword that will clearly not last the test of time.
Similar to the OP, a favourite of mine is Correctile Disfunction, aka mansplaining. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Sycophant. Exact etymology uncertain. By classical Greek times, it meant vexatious litigant.
The parts of the word would suggest something like "fig revealer". Perhaps this is a reference to the clampdown on luxury items in Solonian Athens.
... Or it's a pussy joke."
I love 'fig revealer'.
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"All words are made up. Those words that are made up then have spelling that is made up. Both the words and the spellings change over time. The Turkish language and most of its words is only 100 and a bit years old. They literally (whoop, a proper use of the word literally ) had scholars working for decades inventing words, and agreeing them by committee.
I enjoy the new additions to the OED each year, but sometimes I feel they have gone for a buzzword that will clearly not last the test of time.
Similar to the OP, a favourite of mine is Correctile Disfunction, aka mansplaining. "
And words change meaning over time. Apparently awful used to mean "liable to fill someone with awe" |
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"Sycophant. Exact etymology uncertain. By classical Greek times, it meant vexatious litigant.
The parts of the word would suggest something like "fig revealer". Perhaps this is a reference to the clampdown on luxury items in Solonian Athens.
... Or it's a pussy joke.
I love 'fig revealer'.
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Classicists have incredibly crude senses of humour. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"All words are made up. Those words that are made up then have spelling that is made up. Both the words and the spellings change over time. The Turkish language and most of its words is only 100 and a bit years old. They literally (whoop, a proper use of the word literally ) had scholars working for decades inventing words, and agreeing them by committee.
I enjoy the new additions to the OED each year, but sometimes I feel they have gone for a buzzword that will clearly not last the test of time.
Similar to the OP, a favourite of mine is Correctile Disfunction, aka mansplaining. "
I may deploy Correctile Dysfunction. |
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On a similar vein, martyr.
Classical Greek: witness. Legal cases have headings saying "marturos" (witness)
Hundreds of years later, if you witnessed for Christ in the early Roman empire, you may find yourself facing lions and becoming a martyr in the sense we understand today. |
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By *ister CMan
over a year ago
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Clue...
From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.
He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.
Didn't get used again until 1500s.
Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew. |
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"Clue...
From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.
He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.
Didn't get used again until 1500s.
Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew. "
In which dialect of Greek is there a letter W? |
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"I thought I invented the bommiknocker...however one turned up on the telly about six months later 
The internet spells it with a y.
What is your meaning for the word?
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it's a fictional club made of soft material..something like mallets mallet...only used as a non serious threat...."I'm going to biff you with my bommiknocker" |
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By *ister CMan
over a year ago
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"Clue...
From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.
He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.
Didn't get used again until 1500s.
Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew.
In which dialect of Greek is there a letter W?"
None im aware of...? Clew is middle English... 'ew'... probably proto European but from what I know it could of been a ball of clay too...
Essentially coming from ariadnes string...
So I'd assume proto european.
That ok flower? |
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"Clue...
From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.
He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.
Didn't get used again until 1500s.
Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew.
In which dialect of Greek is there a letter W?
None im aware of...? Clew is middle English... 'ew'... probably proto European but from what I know it could of been a ball of clay too...
Essentially coming from ariadnes string...
So I'd assume proto european.
That ok flower?"
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"Sycophant. Exact etymology uncertain. By classical Greek times, it meant vexatious litigant.
The parts of the word would suggest something like "fig revealer". Perhaps this is a reference to the clampdown on luxury items in Solonian Athens.
... Or it's a pussy joke."
Psychophant - a very annoyed elephant... |
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"Clue...
From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.
He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.
Didn't get used again until 1500s.
Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew. "
Clew....smelly clue |
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I didn't know that there was such a word as FEJ till I thought about disposing of one of personalised registration numbers that's really now surplus to requirements. According to the urban dictionary on Google FEJ is the name for female ejaculation, and the context sentence that's quoted is,"Last night I went down on my bitch and she fejed all over my face." Amazing what you learn each day! |
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"I didn't know that there was such a word as FEJ till I thought about disposing of one of personalised registration numbers that's really now surplus to requirements. According to the urban dictionary on Google FEJ is the name for female ejaculation, and the context sentence that's quoted is,"Last night I went down on my bitch and she fejed all over my face." Amazing what you learn each day!"
oo that's a good one ..
We need this in the fab dictionary |
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Cunt ....
The earliest known use of the word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was as part of a placename of a London street, Gropecunt Lane, c.?1230. A street synonymous with prostitution .Use of the word as a term of abuse is relatively recent, dating from the late nineteenth century.
You all wanted to know admit it  |
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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago
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Well someone had to do it...
Floccinaucinihilipilification
The act of estimating something as worthless, comes from four Latin words for something of no substance, Flocci, soft plant hairs, Nauci, a trifle, Nihil, nothing and pili, short hairs.
And the longest non-compound word in the English language
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I just like that they changed literally to mean both literally and figuratively. Because now it literally couldn't get anymore confusing.
My head is literally going to explode. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cunt ....
The earliest known use of the word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was as part of a placename of a London street, Gropecunt Lane, c.?1230. A street synonymous with prostitution .Use of the word as a term of abuse is relatively recent, dating from the late nineteenth century.
You all wanted to know admit it "
I feel the word's lost its gravitas in recent years though. I prefer 'twunt' these days. |
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I don't know it's etymology, but the word CLEAVE is the only word in the English language that has two meanings that are the complete opposite of each other.
Cleave can both mean to split apart and stick together
Ah such fun  |
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"I don't know it's etymology, but the word CLEAVE is the only word in the English language that has two meanings that are the complete opposite of each other.
Cleave can both mean to split apart and stick together
Ah such fun "
There's more than one of those. They're called contronyms.
'Bolt' is one and with pretty much the same meanings as cleave. Bolt together/horse that bolts
Fast is another - move quickly/stuck fast |
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"I don't know it's etymology, but the word CLEAVE is the only word in the English language that has two meanings that are the complete opposite of each other.
Cleave can both mean to split apart and stick together
Ah such fun
There's more than one of those. They're called contronyms.
'Bolt' is one and with pretty much the same meanings as cleave. Bolt together/horse that bolts
Fast is another - move quickly/stuck fast"
Hey that's cool! Definitely learning things today. Who'd have thought a site predominantly filled with pictures of genitalia would also be a great place to brush up on your knowledge of language, it's a funny old world sometimes |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Do you know German, OP ? The portmanteau words are off the scale !"
I had to read All Quiet on the Western Front in German for A Level. Reading aloud an entire page with no full stops and some portmanteau words was a challenge.
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"The etymology of "penguin" is uncertain but it is thought it may be Welsh, meaning "white head". "
Pinguescence is one of my favourite words. From the Latin pinguis = fat.
I thought that was part of the root for penguin.
'Pinguinus impennis, meaning "penguin without flight feathers").' |
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