interesting words

[TypeSaucy]

pollo

[Marisa the Magician]

shindig

I hear that one more often than you'd think. Damn twitch streamers.

[|ndußtrial]

london

[Edward-san]

thrombocytopenia

[TypeSaucy]

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia = fear of long words.

[NeuralStunner]

Belgium.

Mind yer language, mate.

These are really just words I tend to use too much:

• theoretically
• practically
• obligatory
• dubious
• particular
• juxtaposition
• obnoxious

Yes, I often speak as if I'm a fornicating thesaurus.

Fun words:

• defenestrate
• bagel
• rutabaga
• credenza
• hearse

[Reactor]

Heh, defenestrate is a funny word alright Actually the fact is funny that chucking things/people out of the window actually has an own word.

Interesting words I can recall are discrepancy, slumgullion, hodgepodge, ostensibility
I love how the dictionary tries to explain some of them. For instance, if you enquire "discrepancy", you get the definition: "the state/quality of being discrepant"
Gee, thank you Captain Obvious, you really helped a lot! *sarcasm alert!*

[wildweasel]

How about skulduggery? "Unscrupulous behavior or trickery." ("Unscrupulous" is also a fun one to say.)

[|ndußtrial]

How about skulduggery? "Unscrupulous behavior or trickery." ("Unscrupulous" is also a fun one to say.)

would the noun be skuldigger?

[Viscra Maelstrom]

i like amalgamation, which is the process of combining several things into one entity. i dunno why, it's a fun word i don't hear being used all that often.
maelstrom is also one i like, as you can probably tell. it's a powerful type of whirlpool, but also refers to a state of disorder.

[BouncyTEM]

Blatherskite's a fun word.

A voluble purveyor of nonsense; a blusterer.
A worthless fellow; a deadbeat.
Nonsense or blather; empty talk.

[Reactor]

Bumpness!

I just found two more funny English words, which don't seem to be utilized so frequently. They're good words tho!

"ramshackle" and "ostensibility"

I also noticed, how poorly dictionaries try to define some words. For instance, in case of "ostensibility" and "discrepancy". The dictionary blurted out: "The state of being discrepant/being ostensible". Wow! No shit, Sherlock!

[NeuralStunner]

It's almost as if derived words have a definition related to the word they're derived from!

(If definitions were that verbose, the average college Webster's would take up a whole shelf.)

[|ndußtrial]

It's almost as if derived words have a definition related to the word they're derived from!

(If definitions were that verbose, the average college Webster's would take up a whole shelf.)

the only reason i could imagine those being included, at all, is for purposes of aiding with spelling and figuring out the proper suffix and prefix - don't most dictionaries altogether omit the extra derivatives from the collection of definitions, and just list them under their base word in a list of "forms"?

also, zircon, zirconium, and the tetra- prefix - all just pleasant-sounding
a new word would be lugubrious - randomly chanced upon it roughly a week ago, it's a very specific combination of mournful, gloomy, and otherwise dark sorts of feelings

[Nevander]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.