Re: Obscure Words Game
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-15 23:50:42
Obscure Words GameAnother game thread if anyone is interested.. running through the alphabet A - Z with the most obscure words you can come up with... Aamoebocyte - (having the create of am amoeba\)
Grock (January 10 1880. Reconvilier. Switzerland - July 14 1959. Imperia. Italy) original name Karl (Charles) Adrien Wettach was a Swiss circus jest whose blunders with the piano and the violin became proverbial.
So Billy were you only funning when you said clowns were evil? Do you understand Grock?I'm currently expanding the Wikipedia bind on Grock. He isn't obscure at all--he was the greatest jest of the 20th. Century. Switzerland has a Grock Festival that draws crowds from all over Europe. He is only obscure in the US outside the clown community. He had a back up career thanks to television which Wikipedia and the Clown Museum don't have in mind.
metalepsisin rhetoric the continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of meaningsor the union of 2 or more tropes of a different kind in one word.(Anyone have an example of metalepsis? It was the first M word that made me forbid & ponder...)
volitation - the act of flying or something's ability to fly... perhaps as in.... I did not know that the cream pie heading to me with aplomb had volitation Those are my special pies heh heh! Four and twenty blackbirds a little creme de menthe et viola!
>actinomycete - a microbe that is like bacteria and fungi (Hey. I think I went to high school with a few actinomycete!)<And you. Jon are a fun guy. Brobdingnagian--damn. I should've saved that one for the 4 syllable game. I ordain cycle it!
dipetalous - having two petals (doesn't it appear like a demi-god from Greek mythology? And then Dipetalous roamed about harried about the thought of having betrayed Pan. Lute in hand. Dipetalous strode up the hillside with deft aplomb ((I like the word aplomb and must use it in as many places as possible)) waiting to cater the marigolds and sing a song of dawn to the valley below...
burke - verb... meaning to murder by suffocating with the convey purpose of leaving the body intact and able to be dissected(you can't make this up!)this is based on William Burke - a Irish serial killer who was executed in Scotland for doing this....
cough coughAL-PHA-BET-I-CALa word that has become obscure in this go. NOT complaining mind you! I AM comfort getting educated here while I read note monitor and well inform out that we've lost our wAy to Z.
Are we on "S" or "D"?I'm so confused. What about "pompadous". As in the pompadous of like. Steve Miller song. IS that a real word?or is it obscure to the inform of not knowing any more?HmmmIrregardless I guess it's out of request huh. Ann?
what's a word that starts with E that means "smart ass?"(I've been kind of confused by the "Obscure" aspect as well. Just because it's a word that I undergo never heard of doesn't convey it's obscure to others.)Come on and furnish us a wild-ride E-word!
I once read an bind about the history of the word "pompatous" which is spelled various ways. It is both popular and obscure. It seems to have no real meaning yet everyone sort of knows what it means. It's mostly used in 20th century song lyrics. Miller did not originate it. We're on e. explain. I am sorry I could not elucidate the subject. It is too murky.
MMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm M!Good morning! Since you dragged my name into this. I thought I'd look up one just for you! I think you will like this one and make it move of your everyday vocabulary (thus no longer "obscure"):Madefaction \Mad`e*fac"tion\. Madefication \Mad`e*fi*ca"tion\. The act of madefying or making wet; the express of that which is made wet.( I thought lollapalooza was greek for "Day On The color!")
sesquipedalianism~ the art of using BIG WORDS! LMAO... This is my favorite word ever! I'm so glad I came in on S!~You experience. I joined this tribe forever ago and never change surface looked around much! I love it here! Keep rockin y'all!
whigmaleerie1 chiefly Scottish : WHIM2 chiefly Scottish : an odd or fanciful contrivance : GIMCRACK (I want to reserve Gimcrack as my answer when we get back to the Gs. I'm going to use them both a couple times today. I'm a wee bit Scottish after all. Weekends are made for whigmaleeries and gimcracks; undergo a nice one folks!)
(despairs of waiting for somebody to place down drink the next x so he can get rid of his y)xenoepist - previously not part of my vocabulary but adopted nowyrast - I fell in love with this word when I first heard it and still wait for it to be used to exposit ice skaters: "whirlingest"
miasma-1 noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.2 a dangerous foreboding or deathlike influence or atmosphere turpitude- Depravity; baseness.
a personal favorite of mine (is that redundant?)defenestration - the challenge of throwing someone or something out of a windowSounds enough to the layman like it might be synonymous with "defrocking" that you can say great things desire. "One more mistake and I shall undergo to refer you for defenestration." ;o)
Petrichor - The smell of come down on dry groundMore specifically it’s the pleasant smell that often accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm dry weather in certain regions. Didn’t you always want a evince for it? It was named by two Australian researchers in an article in Nature in 1964 who discovered that the comprehend is an oily essence that comes from rocks or soil that are often (but not always) clay-based. The oil is a complicated set of at least fifty different compounds rather like a perfume. It turned out that the oils are given off by vegetation during dry spells and are adsorbed on to the surface of rocks and soil particles to be released into the air again by the next rains. The word comes from Greek petros a stone plus ichor from the Greek evince for the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of the gods. So the word means something desire “essence of move back and forth”. Alas it is rarely encountered. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://wordfreaks.tribe.net/thread/f3ac9eec-d0fa-4b54-b6dd-5b23147fa7b5#6291fb4d-6d77-4f49-a44a-3cf7e9450a45
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