Words you enjoy using; which, others rarely use
I just used the word wittol, in response to a crude and ignorant attempt to insult me by someone fat. Its a wonderful word and insult; also, it seemed to fit this individuals sexuality perfectly. What words do you like which are rarely used, i'm not talking about merely insults... I'm talking about words which can enrich all our vocabularies.
Re: Words you enjoy using; which, others rarely use
Originally posted by Free_Speech
I just used the word wittol, in response to a crude and ignorant attempt to insult me by someone fat. Its a wonderful word and insult; also, it seemed to fit this individuals sexuality perfectly. What words do you like which are rarely used, i'm not talking about merely insults... I'm talking about words which can enrich all our vocabularies.
Schadenfreude.
Words I use every day:
ensue, (usually, but not limited to, when talking about a shit storm is about ensue),
concur (It's a habit),
pivotal (no idea why or how I started using it, but it's a habit now)
occurring (as in, ''what's occurring'' instead of ''what's happening'' just to be weirder),
obnoxious(ly) (my coffee is obnoxiously strong, this lesson is obnoxiously difficult)
doucher (see, douchbag, perpetrator of douchbaggery - reason is I hang out with a lot of Americans)
There are tons more, but these ones pop up all the time. Maybe I should keep a list of my vocab.
- scan: just a cool-sounding techno word.
- chatspider: this is the person in your neighborhood who hangs out waiting for someone to walk by, so they can grab them for a self-absorbed chat.
- megaspacer: this is the driver who likes to keep a football-field's worth of space between them and the car in front, at 30-40 mph, even hitting their brakes when that car waayyy up front hits theirs.
- eigenstate: still working on this one. Sounds impressive as long as one can pretend like they know what it means.