Odd Seldom used Words

[Skub]

Ya'll are a shed load smarter than the average bear,so will have encountered a favourite word of mine 'Schadenfreude',a German word meaning taking pleasure from the misfortune of others. Someone told me today there is another version from ancient Greek with the same meaning.

Epicaricacy. Pronounced epi-car-reek-ah-see.

Gimme some of your favourite seldom used words please,so I can impress the good clean fuck right out of other people.

[cheb]

Pannage: The right to let your pigs eat acorns in the New Forest.

[MingtheMerciless]

Cumberworld - one who cumbers the world, a useless person.

[Sadlonelygit]

Tatterdemalion
Mooncalf
Uberous unchies

[Buckaroo]

Winker:vowel challenged masturbater

[KungFooBob]

Assclown.

I don't think it's a real word tho

[Sadlonelygit]

Rantallion......a man who's balls hang lower than his cock

[Mr. Dazzle]

I still like 'outwith' cause it always throws people. It's just the opposite of 'within' because of course 'without' means something else.

[Lutin]

Curtilage - In common law, the curtilage of a house or dwelling is the land immediately surrounding it, including any closely associated buildings and structures, but excluding any associated "open fields beyond". In feudal times every castle with its dependent buildings was protected by a surrounding wall, and all the land within the wall was termed the curtilage.

[Count Steer]

Pannage: The right to let your pigs eat acorns in the New Forest.

Land usage and control is a mine of nice words (but hard to drop into daily conversation )

'Carucate' - the amount of land a team of oxen can plough in a season. 'Carucage' was the tax on it.

'Thwaite' - a piece of reclaimed wasteland but now only found as part of a place name.

I like 'purlieu' as in a bordering area but originally to do with a tract of land as part of a (usually royal) forest.

[Count Steer]

If the paintwork on your old bike looks as good as new it's because they used immarcescible paint in the good old days. (Unfading).

[Yorick]

Something you never hear in Yorkshire

It's my round

[Mr. Dazzle]

If the paintwork on your old bike looks as good as new it's because they used immarcescible paint in the good old days. (Unfading).

Jargon doesn't count I reckon You can find a million and one seldom used words in that context.

[Count Steer]

If the paintwork on your old bike looks as good as new it's because they used immarcescible paint in the good old days. (Unfading).

Jargon doesn't count I reckon You can find a million and one seldom used words in that context.

Jargon?! It's a sound word of fine Latin pedigree

(marcesere - to languish).

[Rockburner]

"Bifurcated"

As in : "un-bifurcated garment". (Skirts/kilts/dhotis etc).

Trousers are bifurcated garments.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I hear the word bifurcated all the time at work . I would consider it a 'normal' word, given how often I use/hear it.

[gremlin]

I hear the word bifurcated all the time at work . I would consider it a 'normal' word, given how often I use/hear it.

Same here. Words go through periods of being the latest buzzword in finance. Bifurcated was one a while back.

Can I chuck in 'contiguous'?

[Yorick]

I hear the word bifurcated all the time at work . I would consider it a 'normal' word, given how often I use/hear it.

Same here. Words go through periods of being the latest buzzword in finance. Bifurcated was one a while back.

Can I chuck in 'contiguous'?

Used a lot in IT circles.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I hear the word bifurcated all the time at work . I would consider it a 'normal' word, given how often I use/hear it.

Same here. Words go through periods of being the latest buzzword in finance. Bifurcated was one a while back.

Can I chuck in 'contiguous'?

A while ago all my colleagues remained cognisant of things, rather than just keeping them in mind.

[Taipan]

The world is a poorer place for the declined use of tickety boo. Still, this is a smashin thread!