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Words you like and rarely use.

Words you like and rarely use.

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@hand-of-hecate said
Yes, but, dashingly good looking ones.
Keep in mind I've seen you picture average at best is your looks!

Beautiful looking dog though sitting next to you!

-VR

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@hand-of-hecate said
For some reason that word made think of the word “flense”. As in to flense someone before defenestrating them.
Had to look up flense ... I can see how flensing and then defenestrating could become a fetish.

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

-VR

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I word I like and can hardly use is transmogrify...

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Aphrodisiac - nice word

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Synecdoche is one of my favorite words for the same reason.

-VR

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"pounded up"

a deep-sea diving term
i bring this forward in honor of @divegeester's avatar
i will not explain or expound upon the meaning of the term, as it describes a gory death -


ooops

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flummoxed

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Sphingomyelin

I have even considered changing my name on deed pole to Sphing O'Myelin as a tribute to the quality of this word.

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@petewxyz said
Sphingomyelin

I have even considered changing my name on deed pole to Sphing O'Myelin as a tribute to the quality of this word.
I changed the names of my kids to, Faith and Begorrah. 😲

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@great-big-stees said
I changed the names of my kids to, Faith and Begorrah. 😲
lol
my two are tic and tac
had there been a third, her name would be toe

i wonder if that's the reason she left me?

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@great-big-stees said
flummoxed
Genuinely one of my favourite words.

(Hard to utilize though in a conversation, without sounding like a twerp).

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Wont. As in something is won’t to be. I’ve managed to work it into conversation a few times and it sounds just as arrogant and pompous as you might suspect.

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@hand-of-hecate said
Wont. As in something is won’t to be. I’ve managed to work it into conversation a few times and it sounds just as arrogant and pompous as you might suspect.
naah, wont means your customary behavior.

The wolves tore up the carcass as they are wont to do.