Cool words

[Shecky]

cool  recombobulated!  rolling that one over and over in my mind and tongue!  Of course if you were that far in your buzz--I admire your ability to say it at all. *smiling*

I also took the term "disgruntled" and dissected it with Occam's Razor. Back when I was teaching at a public university (and happy with it), I called myself a "gruntled government employee".

I'm told I speak more easily and more glibly with a wee dram of the booze in me. That or being utterly tired but wired; I've actually invented a few words in that state. My favorite has always been "retrosnack". Think about it.

[Snowleopard]

Urgh, I think I know what retrosnack means Shecky.

[LizW65]

I also took the term "disgruntled" and dissected it with Occam's Razor. Back when I was teaching at a public university (and happy with it), I called myself a "gruntled government employee".

This reminds me of a famous PG Wodehouse quote, something like:  "While not precisely disgruntled, he was far from gruntled."

I like defenestrate "to throw from a window" and from HP Lovecraft:  squamous, Stygian, ichor, foetid, Tartarean.  The problem with using those in a story, though, is that it usually comes off as Lovecraftian pastiche.

[OZ]

I love the words foetid and ichor.  I like the word noisome as well. They may be a bit cliched but I love the descriptive power of phrases like "a dank, foetid jungle" or " foul, noisome ichor dripped from its wound".

[Shecky]

This reminds me of a famous PG Wodehouse quote, something like:  "While not precisely disgruntled, he was far from gruntled."

I like defenestrate "to throw from a window"

By logic, "fenestrate" should be "to push in through a window".

[OZ]

"It would be almost impossible for the burgular to reach the second floor window so we think he must have had a friend fenestrate him."

[Snowleopard]

LOL

[Delarith]

I've always loved the phrase "inane little twit" myself.  It gets the point across without being vulgar.

[Shecky]

I've always loved the phrase "inane little twit" myself.  It gets the point across without being vulgar.

"Yammerhead" does the same thing in one word and just sounds worse.

[Phid]

I love the word "discombobulated". I've played with it a lot over the years. Examples:

- after a couple of drinks and feeling happy and at peace with the world, "Man, I'm feelin' mighty combobulated right now."
- regarding getting my s*** back together, "Ugh, what a clusterf*** this week's been. Head ain't on straight. Gotta get recombobulated."

i may just use thease in RL

[Piotr1600]

I'm trying to remember which airport has a "recombobulating zone" right after you pass thru security... Milwaukee? Green Bay? It always makes me laugh...


coprolite - fossilized dinosaur doo. Also always good for a smile.

[Snowleopard]

There was a humorist - Jack Douglas who said that the town he was living in, small town in Connecticut I think - gave
him a pair of Coprolite cuff links.  He was highly amused.

[LizW65]

The troll in the Discworld novels--essentially a living rock--uses "Oh, coprolites!" as a swear word.

[Snowleopard]

Detritus.  Love Detritus.

[comprex]

flyting

blevey

qualms

Mississippi question: which is flotsam and which is jetsam?