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I'll start:

"DORBELLIST"

English also has an abundance of synonyms for “fool,” and one that should be revived immediately is the noun “dorbellist.” It is an obsolete word, but when in use, it referred to someone who sounded smart but wasn’t: a dull-witted pedant. The word derives from the name of a scholar and ardent fan of the 13th-century philosopher Duns Scotus—whose name gives us another word for fool, “dunce.”
 

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Use in a sentence.

Papa Fritz yells across the yard,

"The dorbellist broken you dumbkopf!"
 
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Excellent JP! LOL :highly_amused:

Now: "USUFRUCT"

It's a noun meaning the right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance!
 

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Excellent JP! LOL :highly_amused:

Now: "USUFRUCT"

It's a noun meaning the right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance!

I think Goldilocks did that!
 

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One of my favorites:

Brobdingnagian
Adjective: Gigantic

Noun: A giant

Origin: From Brobdingnag, the name given in Gulliver's Travels to a land where everything is of a huge size.
 

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And:

"gimcrack"
noun

A gaudy trifle; gewgaw; curiosity (1632+)
Showy but cheap and useless

I'm kinda liking "gewgaw"
 

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Excellent JP! LOL :highly_amused:

Now: "USUFRUCT"

It's a noun meaning the right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance!

Sounds a lot like the defendant's basis for a class action suit. :devilgrin:
 

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"gimcrack"
noun

A gaudy trifle; gewgaw; curiosity (1632+)
Showy but cheap and useless

I'm kinda liking "gewgaw"

Sounds like commands to a Mule. :highly_amused: PJ
 
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WITZELSUCHT

"a feeble attempt at humor"

That be me...
 

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Being the son of, and now also a husband of "Scrabbleists", I've been regularly and repeatedly exposed to obscure, arcane and/or otherwise useless words. Been beaten down by Webster's when contesting some of those sky-high scoring words.

"oxpecker" was the last straw. I steadfastly refuse to get involved with word games now. :smirk:

Since mom has passed and the 'net is ubiquitous, Mitsy has reverted to "Words with Friends" to linguistically pummel complete strangers. The pressure's off me. :wink:
 
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One I've run across reading naval military history over the years,

Gedunk

A Gedunk bar or geedunk bar is the canteen or snack bar of a large vessel of the US Navy or the US Coast Guard The term was first recorded in Leatherneck magazine in 1931.
 

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When I was in grade school living in Germany, my best friend's Dad used to recite a nonsensical saying. I never new what it meant or where it came from, but for some odd reason it's on thing from my "ute" that I clearly remember:

Eenie Beenie Chich n cheeny
oo-ga gaga leenie
Otchy potchy goomalatchy
 
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We've all heard of or used the word "disgruntled" but did you know there is a "GRUNTLED?"


adjective: gruntled

  • pleased, satisfied, and contented





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When I was in grade school living in Germany, my best friend's Dad used to recite a nonsensical saying. I never new what it meant or where it came from, but for some odd reason it's on thing from my "ute" that I clearly remember:

Eenie Beenie Chich n cheeny
oo-ga gaga leenie
Otchy potchy goomalatchy

Similar with my German paternal grand mother. "Eine Mucka Lucky Dowdies" (semi-phonetic spellings). She once asked for it from a waiter on a train... and he went away and came back "madam, we're out of that."
 

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We've all heard of or used the word "disgruntled" but did you know there is a "GRUNTLED?"


adjective: gruntled

  • pleased, satisfied, and contented


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So does that mean if someone can be discombobulated that can also be combobulated?
 
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ADOPYOSIS: the act of mentally undressing someone :cool:
 
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