Words I Did Not Know That I Just Learned (1 Viewer)

[pecorino]

Speaking of music, learned these over the airwaves:

Cavatation
Terpsichorean
Crepuscular
Petrichor

Edit: HTH to see the words in context, for instance:

And all the rest of whom for which
To whensonever of partially indeterminate
Bio-chemical degradation
Seek the path to the sudsy yellow nozzle
Of their foaming nocturnal
Parametric digital whole-wheat inter-faith
Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta
In Serious Leather, serious Chains

And,
Spit out the seeds
Gnaw on the pulp
Suck on the juice
And simmer the rinds
(Herbivorous, crepuscular)

 

[rockaction]

If you're posting words you just learned, please provide definitions for the rest of us before you wind up a complaint during Festivus.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Slumgullion

a cheap meat stew.

As in "gimme more slumgullion ma"

 

[Andy Dufresne]

If you're posting words you just learned, please provide definitions for the rest of us before you wind up a complaint during Festivus.

Don't eat too much during Festivus or you'll end up corpulent.

 

[Zegras11]

Slumgullion

a cheap meat stew.

As in "gimme more slumgullion ma"

Heard this a lot growing up having it 1-2 times per month

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Slumgullion

a cheap meat stew.

As in "gimme more slumgullion ma"

Heard this a lot growing up having it 1-2 times per month

Yeah, we just called it beef stew.

 

[jabarony]

Slumgullion

a cheap meat stew.

As in "gimme more slumgullion ma"

Heard this a lot growing up having it 1-2 times per month

I have never encountered this word in my life. Yet that’s exactly what i would have guessed as the definition

 

[Terminalxylem]

Frisson, also known as psychogenic shivers, are the chills one experiences in response to rewarding stimuli.

I felt a frisson of excitement during the music preceding the home team’s entry to the stadium.

 

[El Floppo]

Frisson, also known as psychogenic shivers, are the chills one experiences in response to rewarding stimuli.

I felt a frisson of excitement during the music preceding the home team’s entry to the stadium.

I thought it was a salad.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Defenestration - In case you ever feel like throwing someone out of a window, now you know the proper word for what you are planning to do.

 

[coopersdad]

Talking about this at my best friends fathers funeral.

His dad (Gene) used to brag that he could write full name while urinating, As high school / college kids we were always amazed at this, as we could not do it.

As we are all Gene's former age now, we all realized that the force of the stream is the secret, not the amount of beer drank.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Talking about this at my best friends fathers funeral.

His dad (Gene) used to brag that he could write full name while urinating, As high school / college kids we were always amazed at this, as we could not do it.

As we are all Gene's former age now, we all realized that the force of the stream is the secret, not the amount of beer drank.

Is there a word for this?

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Frisson, also known as psychogenic shivers, are the chills one experiences in response to rewarding stimuli.

I felt a frisson of excitement during the music preceding the home team’s entry to the stadium.

I felt it ...deep down inma plums ...

 

[El Floppo]

Talking about this at my best friends fathers funeral.

His dad (Gene) used to brag that he could write full name while urinating, As high school / college kids we were always amazed at this, as we could not do it.

As we are all Gene's former age now, we all realized that the force of the stream is the secret, not the amount of beer drank.

Is there a word for this?

Pissant

 

[-fish-]

just learned hagiography today.

 

[rockaction]

hagiography - writing about saints, or, a book or passage designed to deify or idealize its subject

It was said that Bobby Knight never liked John Feinstein's book about him because it wasn't a hagiography; rather, it showed a side of Knight that was unflattering

 

[zamboni]

Frisson, also known as psychogenic shivers, are the chills one experiences in response to rewarding stimuli.

Exactly how I felt when I first heard this on television.

 

[rockaction]

xactly how I felt when I first heard this on television.

According to USPS, I am getting a package today that includes this little nugget:

Marquee Moon (Rhino High Fidelity)

Buy Marquee Moon (Rhino High Fidelity). Browse the vast selection of products available.

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Kevin Gray is doing the mastering. AAA sources. Bravo, Rhino! Let us see how this sounds. I'm so excited.

 

[zamboni]

xactly how I felt when I first heard this on television.

According to USPS, I am getting a package today that includes this little nugget:

Marquee Moon (Rhino High Fidelity)

Buy Marquee Moon (Rhino High Fidelity). Browse the vast selection of products available.

store.rhino.com

Kevin Gray is doing the mastering. AAA sources. Bravo, Rhino! Let us see how this sounds. I'm so excited.

Sweet

 

[zamboni]

Pissant

Underrated word. I first and only time I've heard it used in is the movie Lucas.

 

[rockaction]

Underrated word. I first and only time I've heard it used in is the movie Lucas.

If you're so upset, why are you going out for pizza?

 

[coopersdad]

Talking about this at my best friends fathers funeral.

His dad (Gene) used to brag that he could write full name while urinating, As high school / college kids we were always amazed at this, as we could not do it.

As we are all Gene's former age now, we all realized that the force of the stream is the secret, not the amount of beer drank.

Is there a word for this?

longpiss

 

[dickey moe]

Learned this word this week:

"panjandrum"

pan·jan·drum
noun
a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence.
"the greatest scientific panjandrum of the 19th century"

 

[rockaction]

I gave it a like instead of a love because there are no italics in the sentence.

 

[El Floppo]

Underrated word. I first and only time I've heard it used in is the movie Lucas.

If you're so upset, why are you going out for pizza?

My old HS friendly person, Courtney Smith's first movie. We all went to watch opening night and were super proud of her. Iirc, it was Wynina Ryder's first movie too, and I think she lived nearby.. she also had a pack of HS friends at the same showing and theater cheering her on.

(Just tried to find a synonym for "name-dropper", but struck out.)

 

[rockaction]

(Just tried to find a synonym for "name-dropper", but struck out.)

Not much in the way there. You'd figure with words like triskaidekophobia that there would be a one-word synonym for the condition of dropping names, but alas, all we have is the cheeky little hyphen and the words "name-dropper."

You snoot.

 

[zamboni]

Underrated word. I first and only time I've heard it used in is the movie Lucas.

If you're so upset, why are you going out for pizza?

My old HS friendly person, Courtney Smith's first movie. We all went to watch opening night and were super proud of her. Iirc, it was Wynina Ryder's first movie too, and I think she lived nearby.. she also had a pack of HS friends at the same showing and theater cheering her on.

Courtney never looked better, with the possible exception of Summer School a few years later. It was indeed Winona’s first role.

 

[BobbyLayne]

antic
semantic
gigantic

pedantic
rustic
septic
impressionistic
cryptic

Those fellows who keep posting the same argument over and over and over and over in the Jared Goff player profile thread are eristic.

 

[pecorino]

Just learned this one today: Mondegreen:

1. a word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of another word or phrase, especially in a song or poem.

See you there!

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Just learned this one today: Mondegreen:

1. a word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of another word or phrase, especially in a song or poem.

See you there!

"Bingo jet had a light on!"

 

[pecorino]

Just learned this one today: Mondegreen:

1. a word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of another word or phrase, especially in a song or poem.

See you there!

"Bingo jet had a light on!"

Excuse me while I kiss this guy.