Words you don't hear used every day....

[Joe Fields]

Here's mine for the day: bawdy house!

[Left Is Write]

1. Antimony.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Flabbergasted...nt

[Joe Fields]

20. If you were around me, Peggy you would hear it a lot. I also make a

point to use "flummoxed," when I can inject it into conversation.:bounce:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. How cool!

I use it a lot too!

Not as much for flummoxed!

That is also a very good word!

:bounce: :bounce:

[lost-in-nj]

3. EGADS! n/t

[TOhioLiberal]

13. I used that...

...this evening, as a matter of fact! :rofl:

[Inchworm]

4. argot

I'm in the process of learning the argot of DU. :D

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

5. antebellum.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. but also postdiluvian.

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

17. good one! That word was actually in a book i read the Great Mississippi flood of 1927

now i always keep a dictionary handy when i'm reading a new book.

also, Hyacinth approves Dear.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Mephitic. Obdurate. Premorse. Prise. Hermeneutic. Cthonic.

[femmocrat]

9. Are those words from the National Spelling Bee? !

LOL

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. I don't think so - they're just some of my favorite odd words.

[Joe Fields]

22. No, the Scrabble dictionary.

[femmocrat]

7. Persnickity

[Esra Star]

53. To be pernickety, switch the second "i" for an "e". nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. Gobsmacked.

n/t

[Xipe Totec]

14. Heard that one Sunday on NPR nt

[GOPisEvil]

11. Kerfluffle.

[Lost-in-FL]

15. Dohicky, n/t

[NMDemDist2]

16. ROFL! I used just that phrase last Saturday

:rofl:

course it was in a joke I was telling :evilgrin:

[Joe Fields]

23. bawdy house? really?

:toast:

[NMDemDist2]

42. it's more polite than "whore house" and more earthy than bordello

:evilgrin:

[Sanity Claws]

18. efflugent

I heard in a poem and had to look it up.

[MsKandice01]

19. Serendipity..

It's always been one of my favorite words though.

[Texasgal]

21. Varmints

My grandma used to complain about the squirrels ( VARMINTS) around her house!

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Cattywampus

You don't hear that every day...

unless you live in rural Indiana. Then you do.

[Joe Fields]

29. I'm kind of partial to that word...

:toast:

[Xipe Totec]

26. Victuals, Hackney

[crim son]

27. Chesterfield!

It's what I called a couch before I moved to the States.

[wildhorses]

28. hobgoblin

poltergeist
doppelganger

[otherlander]

40. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

:D

[Joe Fields]

43. doppleganger is cool!

:yourock:

[Left Is Write]

30. Fisticuffs.

[otherlander]

31. Opprobrium

[cwydro]

32. perspicacity

plethora

dearth

[snailly]

33. I've used several of these words in normal conversation

in the past week. Does that make me an asshole?

[Joe Fields]

36. asshole? no. Colorful? yes!

[snailly]

45. LOL I've been told I'm a tad dramatic

and colorful. Oh well, I like me. I use the vocabulary that hits me at the time. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. From Republicans: "I'm sorry", "That was my fault", "I was wrong"

[Joe Fields]

37. We have a winner!

[bluethruandthru]

35. Davenport.

When I was a kid I remember my older relatives calling the sofa/couch...a davenport. Never hear that anymore.

[kwassa]

58. Unless you are from Iowa.

[Tikki]

38. Rapscallion.........n/t

[Joe Fields]

41. also scalawag...

[Bjornsdotter]

39. Oh horsefeathers

.....hey, that will be my word.

Cheers

[KG]

44. antidisestablishmentarianism

[1monster]

46. My party word: floccipaucinihilipilification. And

abdominous (pot bellied).

I tell kids who are bullied to learn new words from their dictionary and use abdominous as an example.

Then they can tell the bratty bullies, "Daaarling! That outfit makes you look absoooluuutely abdominous! Really incredible!"

I tell them that by the time the bratty bullies looked it up in the dictionary (if they can be bothered to or even remember the word) they can be way far away from the wrath of the bratty bullies...

[trackfan]

47. No one ever refers to the whole "schmeer" any more.

[Joe Fields]

57. And I really miss that...

[Drum]

48. "whilst"

once in a blue moon....

[Shine]

49. antidisestablishmentarianism

:D

[SeattleGirl]

50. Cad

[Adsos Letter]

51. defenestration

as in "defenestration of Prague"

[Adsos Letter]

52. twitterpated

[u4ic]

54. diphthong

[BlueIris]

55. Lickspittle.

[Dernitt]

56. Fucklenuts!

My grandfather used this term all the time but never heard it used by anyone else.
Should I make a Wikipedia entry?

:shrug:

[Joe Fields]

60. simpleton would go nicely with that...

[datasuspect]

59. ablutions

[TrogL]

61. propiciation

I hear it once a week.

[LostInAnomie]

62. Frotteurism

:patriot:

[Redstone]

63. Anodyne. Quondam. Pantaloons.

Redstone

[knitter4democracy]

64. Zarf. My fave, hands down.

It's a handle-less cup, like the ones coffeeplaces use.