Odd Seldom used Words

[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.

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

I know I'm right. In a world where 99% wear t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, fashion has no place.

I'm even comfortable wearing double check. Shorts n shirt

[Buckaroo]

That's me that is.

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

I know I'm right. In a world where 99% wear t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, fashion has no place.

I'm even comfortable wearing double check. Shorts n shirt

Playing golf ??

[Yorick]

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

I know I'm right. In a world where 99% wear t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, fashion has no place.

I'm even comfortable wearing double check. Shorts n shirt

Playing golf ??

Golf is gay

[MrLongbeard]

Curmudgeon.

That's me that is.

[demographic]

Just started working on another building fairly recently and on the subject of seldom used words I reckon "Level" and "Plumb" can't have got much usage during much of its shell construction.
"Be Reet" must have been hammered to ferk though.

[Wossname]

Irascible, you fucking idiots.

Irascible. Not often, but I can be.

Unobservant too.

Ah. That’s a word you don’t see very often.

[cheb]

Punctillious.

[Ian]

Frobnicate

Cromulent

[Mr. Dazzle]

Cromulent

Embiggen.

[Count Steer]

Cromulent

Embiggen.

That, strangely, is an exiguous post.

(Just read that word in a book review....had to look it up ).

[cheb]

Therblig: Therbligs are elemental motions used in the study of workplace motion economy.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Cromulent

Embiggen.

That, strangely, is an exiguous post.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cromulent

crom- (apparently an arbitrary formation) + -ulent

Note: The word was introduced in "Lisa the Iconoclast," an episode of the Fox animated television series The Simpsons that first aired on February 18, 1996. Coinage of the word has been attributed to the television writer David X. Cohen by Bill Oakley, one of the series' producers, in a commentary to the DVD release of the series.

[ZRX61]

Objurgatory

Parsimonious

Nafarious

Jactitation

Farouche

Compurgation

[Buckaroo]

Objurgatory

Parsimonious

Nafarious

Jactitation

Nigel Farouche???

Compurgation

[Count Steer]

My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.

(I'm fond of 'poltroon' too).

[Screwdriver]

Neighbour asked if I could let a surveyor into his house "between 9-11am"

Delay, delay, cancel etc.

No problem I said, I was just furtling in my shed.

Haven't used that word very often. Furtle: to rummage tentatively.

Quite poetic really....

[cheb]

My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.

(I'm fond of 'poltroon' too).

How about rapscallion or jackanapes?

[ChrisW]

My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.

The Bloom County cockroach…?

[Count Steer]

My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.

The Bloom County cockroach…?

Woah! A Bloom County fan? Hurrah!

Yes, but originally a character in a 1920s cartoon - Caspar Milquetoast. Became an archetype for weak, ineffective types.

[Count Steer]

Wife just contributed...

Persiflage (banter or flippancy).