Interesting and useful words

[Rockape]

One used quite frequently in my job is Hornswoggle, meaning to cheat, trick, pull the wool over ones eye etc

[Speed 3]

Rockape said:

One used quite frequently in my job is Hornswoggle, meaning to cheat, trick, pull the wool over ones eye etc

Reminds me of one I used to hear a lot when I worked in Louisiana in the US:

boondoggle

noun
1. an unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project.
"he characterized the defense program as an unworkable boondoggle"

verb
spend money or time on unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent projects.
"the only guarantees are higher taxes and bureaucratic boondoggling"

[StanleyT]

Split wi' wainscotting.

Meaning to fall on the floor whilst trying to bend over looking at the skirting board. Possibly whilst drunk but there was no reference to drink in the play I heard it in.

As in "Did you manage to do Ms. May via the passage from number 11 yesterday Boris?". "I was just about to Amber, but she split wi' wainscotting and recovering came to her senses just in time".

Edited by StanleyT on Thursday 26th April 19:20

[StanleyT]

Pavlovs sandwich van.


"What was that beeping outside?"
"Ah, that was Pavlovs sandwich van, watch all the hungover millenials rush out for fried bacon barms to help their hangovers".

As is now becoming very common on most office based industrial estates countrywide.

[blearyeyedboy]

tertius said:

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.

Oh, I like gruntled even more than I like hevelled.

And I was briefly reminded of outdated long words that are now abbreviated that the abbreviation has become the de facto word.

Omnibus instead of 'Bus, for example.

[Frank7]

StanleyT said:

Pavlovs sandwich van.


"What was that beeping outside?"
"Ah, that was Pavlovs sandwich van, watch all the hungover millenials rush out for fried bacon barms to help their hangovers".

As is now becoming very common on most office based industrial estates countrywide.

I have to take issue with your assertion that it is becoming common ‘nationwide’.
If these millennial are rushing out for “barms”, they’re probably based somewhere between Knutsford, Cheshire, and Kendal, Cumbria, with a generous window either side.
We civilised southerners ask for sarnies, (sandwiches), or in God’s own country, London, “doorsteps.”

[br d]

I have lived in and around London all my life and only know 'doorstep' as thick cut bread, never heard it refer to the finished article.

And now you mention it I only ever hear 'Sarnie' when preceded by 'Bacon'.
If the snack in question is Ham or Egg it would be plain 'Sandwich'.

[Johnspex]

br d said:

I have lived in and around London all my life and only know 'doorstep' as thick cut bread, never heard it refer to the finished article.

And now you mention it I only ever hear 'Sarnie' when preceded by 'Bacon'.
If the snack in question is Ham or Egg it would be plain 'Sandwich'.

I'm another lifelong Londoner and I've never heard a sandwich called a doorstep except in a slightly critical way. For instance if you cut the bread too thick and then over fill it my dad would say 'that's a hell of a doorstep'. But if you went in a shop and asked for a ham doorstep the shopkeeper would wonder what on earth you were talking about.

Sarnie is not just used with bacon, what about the most dangerous food item known to man? The chip sarnie.

As for London being God's own country- you've not travelled far on this fair island, have you?

[Roofless Toothless]

My house was built around 1840 and the brick walls have moved a bit over the years. The surveyor and structural engineer suggested tie bars from one side to the other. Fortunately, the placement of the bars turned out to be parallel to the joists, which makes life a lot easier. The builder checked all this out with a look under the floorboards and said, "oh, that's good, you've got no noggins."

I never really expected to find any little Norsemen under there anyway, but further enquiry revealed that noggins are little bracing pieces between adjacent joists, inserted to increase strength.

And what is more, in Scotland they are called dwangs.

[underwhelmist]

Johnspex said:

Sarnie is not just used with bacon, what about the most dangerous food item known to man? The chip sarnie.

If it’s got chips in it then
It’s a butty. Them’s the rules.

[Halmyre]

Roofless Toothless said:

My house was built around 1840 and the brick walls have moved a bit over the years. The surveyor and structural engineer suggested tie bars from one side to the other. Fortunately, the placement of the bars turned out to be parallel to the joists, which makes life a lot easier. The builder checked all this out with a look under the floorboards and said, "oh, that's good, you've got no noggins."

I never really expected to find any little Norsemen under there anyway, but further enquiry revealed that noggins are little bracing pieces between adjacent joists, inserted to increase strength.

And what is more, in Scotland they are called dwangs.

Dwangs are (or were) also the wooden plugs or wedges inserted into stone walls in order to attach the framing for lath and plaster.

[227bhp]

Roofless Toothless said:

My house was built around 1840 and the brick walls have moved a bit over the years. The surveyor and structural engineer suggested tie bars from one side to the other. Fortunately, the placement of the bars turned out to be parallel to the joists, which makes life a lot easier. The builder checked all this out with a look under the floorboards and said, "oh, that's good, you've got no noggins."

I never really expected to find any little Norsemen under there anyway, but further enquiry revealed that noggins are little bracing pieces between adjacent joists, inserted to increase strength.

And what is more, in Scotland they are called dwangs.

Then you'll maybe like 'Muntin' (as opposed to munter ) it's the vertical member inside of the external framework of a door or window frame.
Where you put your plants and ornaments is not a cill, that's the bottom member of a window and extends outside, internally it is a 'window board'.

Noggins are now solid strutting, years ago (back when material was expensive and labour cheap) they were herringbone strutting.

Edited by 227bhp on Friday 27th April 10:55

[227bhp]

StanleyT said:

Split wi' wainscotting.

Meaning to fall on the floor whilst trying to bend over looking at the skirting board. Possibly whilst drunk but there was no reference to drink in the play I heard it in.

As in "Did you manage to do Ms. May via the passage from number 11 yesterday Boris?". "I was just about to Amber, but she split wi' wainscotting and recovering came to her senses just in time".

Edited by StanleyT on Thursday 26th April 19:20

That isn't a word it's a phrase, but if we're going down that route I offer up the 'Dirty Sanchez' AKA 'Babatash'.
You can read about it here and it's cousin Dirty Rodruigez as it's a bit early for that kind of thing: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Di...

[Johnnytheboy]

Pelagic - relating to the open sea.

[davhill]

Couple with local connotations.

When I asked in Cornwall when my order would be ready, I was told, "dreckly." It meant 'directly', i. e. when it's ready.

In Derbyshire, a drain is a sough, pronounced 'suff'.

[Fastchas]

Onomatopoeiac
Meaning a word that sounds like the thing it's describing ie, 'click' or 'bang'

[Warmfuzzies]

This is our effort, my little idea to keep the office engaged in word play

[marksx]

227bhp said:

Then you'll maybe like 'Muntin' (as opposed to munter ) it's the vertical member inside of the external framework of a door or window frame.
Where you put your plants and ornaments is not a cill, that's the bottom member of a window and extends outside, internally it is a 'window board'.

Noggins are now solid strutting, years ago (back when material was expensive and labour cheap) they were herringbone strutting.

Edited by 227bhp on Friday 27th April 10:55

Is a muntin like a mullion?

[anonymous-user]

Fellatio

One to get your mouth round

[Johnspex]

underwhelmist said:

If it’s got chips in it then
It’s a butty. Them’s the rules.

You're not a southerner are you?