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Little known english words
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I've got a little game for ye. Post one word, an english word, that pretty much no one has ever heard of before along with its definition. An actual word mind you, not a made up one. I'll start.
loquacious, adj.
Very talkative.
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loquacious, adj.
Very talkative.
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efficacy- effectiveness of a drug. This term is unrelated to its strength (how many milligrams it takes to bring an effect) or its safety or side-effect profile. It's a statement of how effective the drug is at doing what it's intended. An efficacious antihypertensive will lower blood pressure a lot.
Taking a Gestalt approach, since it's the "in" thing...
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I just picked up "Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator"...the sequel to "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory"...he had a word in there, <i>"lixivated."</i> As in, "We're all going to be lixivated!"
I tried looking it up and apparently it's one of Roald Dahl's nonsense made-up words that either doesn't have a definition per se or only he knew what it meant...and the definition died with him...
I tried looking it up and apparently it's one of Roald Dahl's nonsense made-up words that either doesn't have a definition per se or only he knew what it meant...and the definition died with him...
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[spoiler]Eightball
3.5 grams of cocaine.
*Shrugs* The average person never understands this when me and my friends start making bad jokes.[/spoiler]
Fizgig
(fiz'-gig) n. 1: a fishgig. 2: a giddy, flirting girl. 3: a kind of firework, made of damp powder, which gives a hissing or fizzing noise when ignited.
3.5 grams of cocaine.
*Shrugs* The average person never understands this when me and my friends start making bad jokes.[/spoiler]
Fizgig
(fiz'-gig) n. 1: a fishgig. 2: a giddy, flirting girl. 3: a kind of firework, made of damp powder, which gives a hissing or fizzing noise when ignited.
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I use a number of these words! (Well, "anterior," obviously, since it's a medical term. But I also use "convoluted," and not just at work.)
egregious: (adjective) conspicuous, in a negative sense. It used to be more complimentary, implying sophistication.
egregious: (adjective) conspicuous, in a negative sense. It used to be more complimentary, implying sophistication.
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Come on, people, I know ALL these words! You can do better than that!
cark (kark) verb tr., intr.
To worry.
noun
A worry or care.
[From Middle English carken (to load or burden), from Norman French
carquier, from Latin carricare. Ultimately from Indo-European root
kers- (to run) that's also the source of car, career, carpenter, occur,
discharge, and caricature. Why caricature? Because a caricature
is a loaded or distorted picture of someone.]
"Crows in hundreds carking desolately from the blasted white skeletons
of dead trees."
Colleen McCullough; The Thorn Birds; HarperCollins Publishers; 1977.
cark (kark) verb tr., intr.
To worry.
noun
A worry or care.
[From Middle English carken (to load or burden), from Norman French
carquier, from Latin carricare. Ultimately from Indo-European root
kers- (to run) that's also the source of car, career, carpenter, occur,
discharge, and caricature. Why caricature? Because a caricature
is a loaded or distorted picture of someone.]
"Crows in hundreds carking desolately from the blasted white skeletons
of dead trees."
Colleen McCullough; The Thorn Birds; HarperCollins Publishers; 1977.
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