Odd Seldom used Words

[Cousin Jack]

Pedagogy and it's relatives are little used apart from the teaching profession

[Sunny]

Ebullient is a good one. 'Cheerful and full of energy'.

I once had a school report from my CDT (Craft, Design, and Technology, aka woodwork etc) teacher that just said 'ebullient and effervescent'.

[Horse]

Detonation is enormously more efficient at heating things up and extracting energy, which is why detonation ignition engines are one of the holy grails of ICE.

It also tends to be somewhat more destructive . Indeed the thing which makes high explosives "high" is the fact they use Detonation ignition.

And a motoring one for you. IIRC the material that inflates airbags 'deflagrates'.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Probably don't want an airbag coming at you at supersonic speed TBF.

[Wossname]

Irascible. Not often, but I can be.

[cheb]

Irascible, you fucking idiots.

Irascible. Not often, but I can be.

Unobservant too.

[Count Steer]

Irascible, you fucking idiots.

Irascible. Not often, but I can be.

Unobservant too.

Clearly both your responses are fungible.

[Treadeager]

Apricity ...... The warmth of the sun in Winter

[Count Steer]

I bet Will Self* is reading this looking for ideas.

*Never knowingly used a short, common word when there's a long, obscure one available.

[cheb]

Hysteresis. It's why tyres heat up.

[cheb]

I bet Will Self* is reading this looking for ideas.

*Never knowingly used a short, common word when there's a long, obscure one available.

Are you saying he's sesquipedalian?

[Yorick]

Apricity ...... The warmth of the sun in Winter

We have that here. Didn't get much in Bradford

[Count Steer]

I bet Will Self* is reading this looking for ideas.

*Never knowingly used a short, common word when there's a long, obscure one available.

Are you saying he's sesquipedalian?

I can think of a much shorter word to call him.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Hysteresis. It's why tyres heat up.

It's why lots of things heat up

[Count Steer]

My Olympic word of the week is 'repechage' - literally to fish again.

[gremlin]

I don't know if this one is eligible or not, given its origins, plus I think the word has never really made it into the vernacular, let alone fallen out of use, but 'Sprezzatura' describes the art of looking stylish, yet with an air of nonchalance, and dare I say contempt, for all things fashion.

Not sure how the word would be used, as it would be a paradox to say it of oneself, and if you'd pulled it off well, nobody would know you were being sprezzatura.

[Cousin Jack]

Just glanced through a book I read as a teenager, Last of the Mohicans by Fennimore Cooper. Excellent source of rarely seen words.

Declivity and acclivity.

Readers of books in those days were expected to know words like this.

[cheb]

Curmudgeon.

[Yorick]

I don't know if this one is eligible or not, given its origins, plus I think the word has never really made it into the vernacular, let alone fallen out of use, but 'Sprezzatura' describes the art of looking stylish, yet with an air of nonchalance, and dare I say contempt, for all things fashion.

That's me that is.

[gremlin]

I don't know if this one is eligible or not, given its origins, plus I think the word has never really made it into the vernacular, let alone fallen out of use, but 'Sprezzatura' describes the art of looking stylish, yet with an air of nonchalance, and dare I say contempt, for all things fashion.

That's me that is.

I would say you were leaning more towards the senzatetto style of dress.