Increase Your Vocabulary and Teach Us a New Word

Teach us a new word that is rarely used in common everyday laguage. Include both the word and the definition. The word can be from any language.

Here is an example:

criticaster: an inferior or petty critic

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Acersecomic:
Noun, a person whose hair has never been cut.

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heres a good one


quidnunc----means busybody, someone who is nosy.

MOSFET

Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effects Transistor

.....well, its an acronym, but whatever

How about this one:

castigate: To inflict severe criticism or punishment

Here is another good one.

truculent: Feeling or displaying ferocity, to be cruel or savage

Discombobulated
Probably not a real word,
means the same as "Fubar"
F'd up beyond all recognition.

GLIB!!

adjective: artfully persuasive in speech

"Matt-- Matt you're glib."

blatherskite: 1.) A person who engages in nonsensical dialog
2.) One who blathers

Originally posted by MooneyBravo
blatherskite: 1.) A person who engages in nonsensical dialog
2.) One who blathers

I think the root of this word needs to be explained........

The (skite) part is:
from Middle English skite, diarrhea, from Old Norse sktr, excrement, from skta, to defecate;
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I can't get much on (blather), but:
Old Norse bladhra; see bhl- in Indo-European roots
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From definitions I read, it means to run on at the mouth in a nonsensical way.


This whole thing stinks of BS. :shk:

I forgot to add my own word to the thread, and I'll let you look it up.

I went through a few moments of pandiculation before deciding to post it.

Conjugate: To be joined togehter in pairs

anti-disestablishenmentarianism

Adjective
Definition: Someone who is against the establishment of an organization of Churches.

Irregardless:

Not a word, in fact it is a what is called a double negation or double negative.

Many people use this term and do not know that it is not really a word.

The method used with irregardless is overwhelmingly prescriptive. Much of the criticism comes from the illogical double negative pairing of the prefix (ir-) and suffix (-less), and the argument that irregardless is not, or should not be, a word at all because it lacks the antecedents of a "bona fide nonstandard word

Now this is a GREAT idea for a thread...

Or should I have said...

Presently this is an eminent conception for a ligature...



Habituate
"Make used (to something)"


Semper

Cardinal- means hinge

prevaricate: to deviate from the truth

I got a good one, it's very ironic.



Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia


Which means.....FEAR OF LONG WORDS!!!!

Haha, this is like my favorite word by the way. I don't know why.

-Jimmy-

panoply

PAN-uh-plee

noun
1 : a full suit of armor
2 : something forming
3 : a magnificent or impressive array
MW word of the day

kakistocracy
(kak-uh-stock'-ruh-see) n. government by the worst people. [from Greek kakistos "worst," superlative of kakos "bad" + cratos "rule, sway, authority"].