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Re: Cool words
« Reply #45 on: May 18, 2011, 04:22:17 AM »
Quote from: Piotr1600 on May 18, 2011, 04:20:32 AM

But... but... but I like my story better - 'cause it involves dinosaurs!  ;D


Oh, it is ok, I admit that.
I know and used with some frequency all the words except "milquetoast". What is that?
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #46 on: May 18, 2011, 05:18:10 AM »
Hi Dina.  A milquetoast is a very meek person.  I believe it comes from a story about a very meek guy called
Casper Milquetoast who let everyone figuratively walk all over him and was very meek and mild.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #47 on: May 18, 2011, 05:23:46 AM »
Ah, thanks a lot, Snow! I'll keep reading this thread, trying to learn.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #48 on: May 18, 2011, 05:26:15 AM »
You're welcome.  That's part of the reason I started it.  Because some words are just so cool in both meaning and sound.
and nowadays they aren't used as much as they might be.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #49 on: May 18, 2011, 02:36:45 PM »
perambulation
palaver
pipsqueak
sussurus  & (especially for me!) sussuration
ablution


Quote from: Dina on May 18, 2011, 04:22:17 AM
Oh, it is ok, I admit that.
I should also have said "You are 100% correct" - I was just being my silly self... :)


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Re: Cool words
« Reply #50 on: May 18, 2011, 02:46:03 PM »
Whenever are you not silly Piotr?  ;D
Good morning by the way, how goes your day?

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #51 on: May 18, 2011, 03:31:33 PM »
I am appalled at how many of those words I actually use.

That said, I love "cattywampus." 
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #52 on: May 18, 2011, 06:40:02 PM »
Quote from: Kali on May 18, 2011, 03:31:33 PM
I am appalled at how many of those words I actually use.

Why?    I thought the request was primarily for "cool" words, not primarily "ones we've likely never heard of?"
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #53 on: May 18, 2011, 08:45:04 PM »
Quote from: Snowleopard on May 18, 2011, 02:46:03 PM
Whenever are you not silly Piotr?  ;D
Good morning by the way, how goes your day?
Uhhh... Ya know Snowy, I don't actually recall the last time I *wasn't* silly...
Probably the last time Herself quietly threatened to skin me alive if I was awful in public.
I wasn't too worried though - I can run faster scared than she can mad!  ;D
Until I got to wondering if I could stay scared longer than she can stay mad...
So I behaved(1) myself.

And I am ridiculously better than I deserve.

How about you? Are you recovered from the move, all unpacked, settled in, and everything OK?







(1)For certain values of "behaved". Obviously not badly enough to get skinned...
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #54 on: May 19, 2011, 06:07:37 AM »
Quote from: Piotr1600 on May 18, 2011, 08:45:04 PM
Uhhh... Ya know Snowy, I don't actually recall the last time I *wasn't* silly...
Probably the last time Herself quietly threatened to skin me alive if I was awful in public.
I wasn't too worried though - I can run faster scared than she can mad!  ;D
Until I got to wondering if I could stay scared longer than she can stay mad...
So I behaved(1) myself.

And I am ridiculously better than I deserve.

How about you? Are you recovered from the move, all unpacked, settled in, and everything OK?







(1)For certain values of "behaved". Obviously not badly enough to get skinned...

Hey, life's too short to be serious all the time and life's too serious to take it seriously all the time.  (I think? ::))
I suspect that herself can stay mad lots and lots longer than you can stay scared. ;D
Me, I'm hanging in there.  Slowly recovering, trying to unpack and find stuff - more finding stuff than unpacking.
Lots of cleaning up - of friend's place.  She's something of an incipient hoarder along with having bad knees.
Sigh.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #55 on: May 20, 2011, 05:56:17 AM »
And in honor of "Cool words", and due to something I ran into today (metaphorically)  I'd like to add the subcategory of "having something to do with indicating irritation, and or anger..."

pique
peeved
waspish
rancor
vituperation
wrath (and cousin "wroth")
ire (and the closely related "Irish")
fulminating (usually paired with "anger", or in another context a chemical compound :) )

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #56 on: May 21, 2011, 02:07:30 AM »
bete noire (I know I haven't added the little thingie)

termagant
virago
shrike
donnybrook
cudgel

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #57 on: May 21, 2011, 03:06:22 AM »
I love cudgel, especially as a verb.

 ruffian
 curmudgeon (or curmudgeonly)
 truculent
 
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #58 on: May 21, 2011, 06:32:07 AM »
misogynist
surly
saturnine

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #59 on: August 04, 2011, 05:01:28 AM »
I know I am resurrecting this thread but after my first post here

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I like the word obstreperous which refers to someone who is not just defiant but is very noisy about it.

I was pleasantly surprised to find the word in Ghost Story.

I know Jim uses many of the fun words here but this one jumped off the page at me and I immediately thought of this thread.
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