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3catwoman3

(23,977 posts)
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:37 PM Apr 2018

"Favorite new word" help.

Someone posted an interesting-looking word this morning, about 9:30 EDT, and called it "my favorite new word." I was checking in at the airport and when I went back to DU on my phone I couldn't find that message again.

The word was several syllables long, and sort of reminded me of sesquipedalian, one of my own favorite multisyllabic words.

If anyone can help me out here, I would be thrilled. This has been bugging me all day because I feel like I am missing out on a cool addition to my vocabulary.

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"Favorite new word" help. (Original Post) 3catwoman3 Apr 2018 OP
Could it be this? Glorfindel Apr 2018 #1
No, but thank you. 3catwoman3 Apr 2018 #5
Or maybe kakistocracy from a few days ago? More_Cowbell Apr 2018 #2
That's OK. 3catwoman3 Apr 2018 #4
caudillismo? unblock Apr 2018 #3
Alas, no, but that's a good one... 3catwoman3 Apr 2018 #6
ultracrepidarian csziggy Apr 2018 #7
YES!!! Thank you. 3catwoman3 Apr 2018 #8

3catwoman3

(23,977 posts)
5. No, but thank you.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:20 PM
Apr 2018

I do think it is interesting that there has been such an uptick in that word being searched. I suspect most of us here on DU use this word regularly.

3catwoman3

(23,977 posts)
4. That's OK.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:17 PM
Apr 2018

I added kakistocrasy to my lexicon shortly after the stolen election. IIRC, it was a dictionary.com Word of the Day. The editors at that site seek to have a decided left-leaning attitude.

3catwoman3

(23,977 posts)
8. YES!!! Thank you.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 11:36 PM
Apr 2018

What a great word, with plenty of opportunity to use it.

Now I will be able to sleep tonight.

Just for the fun of it, I checked to see if there is just plain "crepidarian." There isn't. Just like there is disgruntled but no gruntled.

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