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Offline Sanguine

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Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« on: Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019 02:27 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: Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019 02:53 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019 02:27 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: Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019 02:54 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: Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019 03:03 pm »
Only Nibling and Bruxism for me.
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Re: Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019 04:15 pm »
"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: Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019 04:17 pm by PeteS in CA »
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Re: Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
« Reply #5 on: Friday, Aug 02, 2019 09:37 am »
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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