Interesting and useful words

[Lynchie999]

Quaff - verb - to drink heartily

- noun - drink - porter is a dark malty Quaff

Adjective - Quaffable

[RizzoTheRat]

A colleague used inculcate (instil an idea, attitude, or habit by persistent instruction) in a report a while back and the customer review took it out as presumably he didn't know what it meant

Lynchie999 said:

Quaff - verb - to drink heartily

Quaffing generally means ending up with more on your shirt than when drinking.

[GAjon]

SCEtoAUX said:

Flange.

Edit: Sorry, wrong thread.

Every day word for me.

[anonymous-user]

Bacon Is Proof said:

mellifluous
m??l?fl??s/
adjective
adjective: mellifluous

(of a sound) pleasingly smooth and musical to hear.
"her low mellifluous voice"

Honey-like. Learnt that at son's school, confirming that every day is indeed a school day.

[paua]

blearyeyedboy said:

Words written in the negative, where the positive is rarely used, if ever.

For example: "dishevelled" or "unkempt".

I have never heard a well-dressed and well-groomed man or woman described as "hevelled".

Couth.

[andy_s]

Lynchie999 said:

Quaff - verb - to drink heartily

- noun - drink - porter is a dark malty Quaff

Adjective - Quaffable

Surely you quaff a libation? Certainly not to be confused with 'quiffe' though.

[andy_s]

paua said:

Frottage - rubbing oneself against others, usually in crowded public places. Apparently quite a thing on overcrowded trains in Japan

I believe in Japan it is known as 'Chikan', not to be confused with Chinese 'chicken' as in 'this chicken is rubbery' to which the reply is 'fank you vely much' [can you do jokes like that anymore....?]

Edited by andy_s on Thursday 26th April 09:33

[Halmyre]

227bhp said:

Right and wrong, flange is a great word. Can you imagine if someone like this:



Said he fancied a bit or put it into one of his speeches?

Oddly enough, he springs to mind as an example of a flange. Or is it the other way round?

My word is 'yahoorsir', to be heard in the kingdom of Fife, where it is used to convey both approval and disapproval.

[andy_s]

Halmyre said:

Oddly enough, he springs to mind as an example of a flange. Or is it the other way round?

My word is 'yahoorsir', to be heard in the kingdom of Fife, where it is used to convey both approval and disapproval.

Scottish has some great vernacular; 'numpty' [dolt] 'blether' [inane chatter] 'dreich' [bleak weather - used a lot] 'radge' [unbridled madcapery] etc.

[GIYess]

If we are allowed to discuss local dialect there are plenty Ulster Scots words that are great! As the name suggests its pretty close to Scottish.

Slap - Muddy area at a gate where animals have tramped.

Sheugh - ditch

Loanan - Lane (From lane end)

Wean - child

Gurn - cry

Duchal - Manure Heap

Seghaghey (SP?) Pronounced Sjaghey or variation of. A food that consists of lots of random ingredients.

[Halmyre]

GIYess said:

If we are allowed to discuss local dialect there are plenty Ulster Scots words that are great! As the name suggests its pretty close to Scottish.

Slap - Muddy area at a gate where animals have tramped.

Sheugh - ditch

Loanan - Lane (From lane end)

Wean - child

Gurn - cry

Duchal - Manure Heap

Seghaghey (SP?) Pronounced Sjaghey or variation of. A food that consists of lots of random ingredients.

Sheugh is also in use in Scotland but it also means an artificial ditch or drainage channel - which my Fifeshire wife calls a gushel.

[LordGrover]

GIYess said:

If we are allowed to discuss local dialect...

No. A different subject altogether.

[tertius]

paua said:

blearyeyedboy said:

Words written in the negative, where the positive is rarely used, if ever.

For example: "dishevelled" or "unkempt".

I have never heard a well-dressed and well-groomed man or woman described as "hevelled".

Couth.

And gruntled, a most excellent word that is sadly under-used.

My personal favourite is sesquipedalian meaning given to using long words.

[downthepub]

Recalcitrant is a favourite of mine. That is something or someone:

1. resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
2. hard to deal with, manage, or operate.

[Billsnemesis]

Petrichor

The smell you get after rain

[Jinx]

Pulchritudinous

having great physical beauty.

[Pat H]

RizzoTheRat said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Flange.

Edit: Sorry, wrong thread.

Ah yes, the collective noun for Baboons

Showing yer age, Mel.

[Johnniem]

Gynotikolobomasophile.....one who is inordinately fond of nibbling women's earlobes.

As you were........

[Frank7]

Roman Rhodes said:

Bacon Is Proof said:

mellifluous
m??l?fl??s/
adjective
adjective: mellifluous

(of a sound) pleasingly smooth and musical to hear.
"her low mellifluous voice"

Honey-like. Learnt that at son's school, confirming that every day is indeed a school day.

Probably stems from the Latin mel for honey, same as Portuguese, it’s miel in French and Spanish, Polish went off on a tangent, miód, although I called my Polish girlfriend kochanie, which is rather like the American, “Hey, honey, how you doin’?”

[Slushbox]

'Helicopter'

Compare with 'Pterodactyl'. Greek: Flying finger.

Helico - pter is a flying helix.

More useless crap from a First in Ling, er, uisticks.