Words you like and rarely use.

@rookie54 said
dork

/face palm LOL, Oh dude, you are priceless


Now, mine. Ubiquitous, as in:
The ubiquitous COVID19 will eventually cover the globe.

@rookie54 said
dork

You may already know the etymology of dork. However it has its roots in 17th century whaling and refers to a whale’s penis. The average full grown blue whale has a penis almost 3 meters long. Leather from whale penis was often used luxury goods as is considered some of the finest available.

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Yes, but, dashingly good looking ones.

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my luxurious attire
of whale dick leather
is impervious to critique
and all types of weather

@hand-of-hecate said
You may already know the etymology of dork. However it has its roots in 17th century whaling and refers to a whale’s penis.

Urban myth I'm afraid.

@earl-of-trumps said
The ubiquitous COVID19 will eventually cover the globe.

Oxymoron alert!

@handyandy said
Vulgarised has been vulgarized.

zzzzzz’s

@hand-of-hecate said
For example, octothorp instead of hashtag. I detest the dumbing down of language.

Defenestration has become a favourite of mine after I read a book about the Thirty Years war of the 17th century. Can hardly ever use it in a converastion unfortunately.

Borborygmi is a word you just have to like. My machine has put a red wiggly line under it and frankly I'm struggling with that. This is a fine word that is unfortunately used by doctors to terrify their patients when it just refers to the normal gurgles that your guts make from time to time, but that is not the reason to like it. I just like the whole repeating first syllable thing and the general sound of it so I need to engineer some conversations in which you can use it without scaring people!

@wolfgang59 said
Urban myth I'm afraid.

Yes, deliberate hyperbole just so I could describe the luxurious nature of whale penis leather. Also, as a setup to use the word hyperbole in a sentence. Hyperbole for the win!

As a bit of info "pour moi" please...what's the exclamation mark beside the thumbs up thingy? I note I have the # 3 next to it in one of my responses. Does it mean I need to explain something to 3 folks on here?

🤔

@great-big-stees said
As a bit of info "pour moi" please...what's the exclamation mark beside the thumbs up thingy? I note I have the # 3 next to it in one of my responses. Does it mean I need to explain something to 3 folks on here?

🤔

Were you perhaps automatically alerted because of the d-word?

@great-big-stees said
As a bit of info "pour moi" please...what's the exclamation mark beside the thumbs up thingy? I note I have the # 3 next to it in one of my responses. Does it mean I need to explain something to 3 folks on here?

🤔

I think Russ traced your IP back to Canada

@kegge said
Defenestration has become a favourite of mine after I read a book about the Thirty Years war of the 17th century. Can hardly ever use it in a converastion unfortunately.

For some reason that word made think of the word “flense”. As in to flense someone before defenestrating them.