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Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« on: July 31, 2019, 10:27:50 pm »
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There's something so satisfying about pulling out a $15 word — the kind that you hardly ever get to use, but fits the situation perfectly. On the other hand, that feeling when you can't quite find the right word for what you're trying to express is incredibly aggravating. Well, we're here to help. Here are 25 weird, obscure, and downright cool words hidden in the English language.

Words You Didn't Know You Needed

    Epeolatry: The worship of words. What better piece of vocabulary to kick off this list with?
    Aglet: The little piece of plastic on the end of your shoelaces. (Also a great name for a cat, if you ask certain Curiosity editors.)
    Grawlix: You know when cartoonists substitute a bunch of punctuation marks for curse words? They're using grawlix....

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I like grawlix...*^%&$^$!!
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Re: Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2019, 10:53:57 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 31, 2019, 10:27:50 pm
I like grawlix...*^%&$^$!!

HA! I knew Tatterdemalion... Although I thought it a redneck word. And I knew a few more... I am not bereft of 5 dollar words, myself...  happy77
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Re: Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2019, 10:54:53 pm »
15 dollar words, according to the article. That seems... inflationary.
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Re: Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2019, 11:03:20 pm »
Only Nibling and Bruxism for me.
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Re: Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2019, 12:15:15 am »
"Aglet", "Tittle", "Defenestrate", "Bruxism" are the ones I had heard of. I may have used some form of "Defenestrate" here in at least one previous post.

ETA: My memory was correct.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2019, 12:17:57 am by PeteS in CA »
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Re: Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2019, 05:37:18 pm »
Heard of aglet (thanks Phineas and Ferb), grawlix (which I'm pretty sure was something Mort Walker just made up one day), tittle, defenestrate, bruxism, lemniscate, vaguely recognize obelus, and though "preantepenultimate" is new to me, I already recognized the "antepenultimate" part so I was able to easily deduce what it meant.
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