Vocabulary Thread

Originally posted by secret squirrel
naivete
the state or quality of being naive.
am i playing fair know.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
The word 'naivete' seldom if ever lives and breathes and has its being within the

working vocabularies of naive people. Methinks thou explaineth too much.

Originally posted by secret squirrel
none the less mr smartypants,am i playing fair.me thinks you thinks to much at once.🙄🙄🙄

Contemperaneously

To occur at the same time, probably mispelt but Im thick so leave me alone!


Bellypants!!!!

A young lads mistaken attempt at saying elephants, now immortalised as a Clan on RHP (which is alwayslooking for happy, friendly new members!).

Reconnotice - Ganster for "to assess a situation or person"

example. "You better reconnotice who your dealing with".

subcritical
lacks the eliments required to sustain a chain reaction.
many of these threads and there contibutors are subcritical.😴

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Janissaries... originally a famous militia of the Ottoman empire; now used to describe

any loyal, submissive followers or supporters. "Yes-men" is sometimes implied.

Ablation - in geology, rock erosion. Also something in medicine but I'm not sure what.

fastidious

Showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Kvetch... this can be a verb or noun. 'Kvetching' is habitually complaining, belly-aching, griping,

grousing. A 'kvetch' is one who's always complaining. From the German 'quetschen', to squeeze.


Note: Thank goodness there aren't any of these types hanging around the RHP General Forum.


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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Lagniappe... something extra, something more, for good measure. Pronounced 'lan-yap'. Word was born in the United States among the

Creole population of Louisiana. It's original meaning is seen in this sentence written by a traveler in 1893 in Harper's Magazine..."Take

that for a lagniappe," says a storekeeper in New Orleans as he folds a pretty calendar into the bundle of stationery you have purchased.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Mare's nest... something supposed to be a wonderful discovery but

turning out to be a hoax, a condition of confusion or great disorder.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Neoteny... retention of juvenile characteristics in an adult

(from Gr. neo-, new + teinen, to stretch). Hmm...


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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Otiose... (from the L. otium) serves no purpose, performs no useful function, sterile, idle, futile.


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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Pari passu... with equal step (par passus).

Also: Mille passus... (a thousand steps) a Roman mile.