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Sun Feb-27-05 03:09 PM
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Favorite $10 (ie big) word? |
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Today, I have to go with nictitating. It's a membrane that reptiles, birds and Donald Rumsfeld (Wait! I already said "reptiles." Sorry!) have to protect their eyes. Apparently, nictitate just means blink. But is sounds ever so much more impresive.:D
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:13 PM
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:23 PM
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3. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysyliogogogoch |
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Edited on Sun Feb-27-05 03:24 PM by McKenzie
a village in Wales...longest name of such in the world. Have fun trying to pronounce it.
It means "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave."
edit: they got the spelling of "hazel" wrong.
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:19 PM
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:25 PM
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a person who uses extra long words (sesqui- means 1 and a half; ped means foot; so the idea is that the words are a foot and a half long -- it's self-referential!)
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:27 PM
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5. antidisestablishmentarianism |
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:28 PM
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adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer 2: expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"
I could probably find someone to describe this was every day if I looked hard enough.
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:30 PM
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7. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! |
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:31 PM
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8. "scrofulous" comes to mind |
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It's an old-fashioned medical word for a condition with swollen throat glands and catarrh (another fun word). It has a secondary meaning of "corrupt and morally degenerate."
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Sun Feb-27-05 03:33 PM
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9. my favorite is "euphemism" |
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Edited on Sun Feb-27-05 03:34 PM by rocknation
because it's a fancy word for "a fancy word for"!
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big word for "fucked over" :evilgrin:
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Edited on Sun Feb-27-05 03:54 PM by CubsFan1982
ob·strep·er·ous adj.
1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant. 2. Aggressively boisterous.
My best friend have the dumbest inside jokes regarding this word. We're weird, I'm perfectly aware of that. :D
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Fear of the number 13.
--IMM
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