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Title: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 04, 2009, 02:30:22 PM
Uncle and I like "curmudgeonly"

There are so few really accurately descriptive words in common use these days so dredge the recesses of your minds and let's have a few.
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 04, 2009, 02:46:25 PM
Balderdash
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 04, 2009, 03:02:52 PM
Disgusterous  whistle:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 04, 2009, 03:06:25 PM
Disgusterous  whistle:

Little used?  eeek:


 ;)

Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 04, 2009, 03:09:09 PM
Well for everybody else  it is redface:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 04, 2009, 03:40:19 PM
Popinjay
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 04, 2009, 03:40:57 PM
I must confess that digusterous has entered the Kennel lexicon and is now used freely by all of us. THW says she gets some odd looks at school when she uses it but now others are catching on.
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 04, 2009, 03:42:30 PM
Popinjay

Ooooo I like that one. I'll see your Popinjay and raise you a Jackanapes
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 04, 2009, 04:10:29 PM
Flummery
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 04, 2009, 05:13:43 PM
Rascal
Scamp
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 04, 2009, 05:16:43 PM
I must confess that digusterous has entered the Kennel lexicon and is now used freely by all of us. THW says she gets some odd looks at school when she uses it but now others are catching on.

And where are my royalties  rubschin:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 04, 2009, 05:35:36 PM
I must confess that digusterous has entered the Kennel lexicon and is now used freely by all of us. THW says she gets some odd looks at school when she uses it but now others are catching on.

And where are my royalties  rubschin:

Far end of The Mall ~ big white building ~ you can't miss it.  whistle:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 04, 2009, 05:40:55 PM
Lancinating = (of pain) Acute, shooting.
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 04, 2009, 05:43:45 PM
Lancinating = (of pain) Acute, shooting.

Ooh! That hurts!  ;D  Very good.
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 04, 2009, 05:44:54 PM
Skulduggery
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 04, 2009, 07:00:29 PM
Obfusticate


and a variation used in family circles: Dumbfusticate
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 04, 2009, 07:07:09 PM
This could be quite an elitist thread  redface:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 04, 2009, 07:13:12 PM
Noooo, surely not.

How about Squelch?  i.e. when Wellington meets mud?  lol:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Bar Wench on September 04, 2009, 07:14:24 PM
I'm getting that feeling too!

Personally I feel yumster is underused

I use squelch! :D
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 04, 2009, 07:27:52 PM
I like Goof...used by the girls to describe particularly irritating men  whistle:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Bar Wench on September 04, 2009, 07:44:02 PM
Personally I find twat or nincompoop to be best for that!
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on September 04, 2009, 10:32:21 PM
Ramage, a good woody word if ever there was one.
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 05, 2009, 12:46:20 AM
Rapscallion

Poltroon
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 05, 2009, 06:39:17 AM
Rumbumptious - such a good word  cloud9:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Barman on September 05, 2009, 08:47:08 AM
Lickspittle
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: The Moan Ranger on September 05, 2009, 08:50:08 AM
Pugnacious.
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 05, 2009, 11:53:07 AM
Bellicose
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pirate on September 05, 2009, 02:50:56 PM
Strumpet

Scallywag
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 05, 2009, 02:53:45 PM
Philanderer
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 05, 2009, 04:47:26 PM
Rhubarb: underused and under eaten these days  evil:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 05, 2009, 04:49:17 PM
Syllabub
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 05, 2009, 04:50:19 PM
Syllabub

Which has three (more schoolboy humour)
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 05, 2009, 04:51:02 PM
That word always seems wrong to me and does not conjure up thoughts of lovely things to eat  noooo:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 05, 2009, 04:51:08 PM
Have we had panjamdram?
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 05, 2009, 04:52:01 PM
Speaking of Humour you never hear of anyone "Knocking their funny bone" these days and to widen things out a bit whatever happened to "A punch up the bracket"?
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 05, 2009, 04:52:25 PM
Have we had panjamdram?

No  noooo:

Maybe his brother  whistle:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 05, 2009, 04:56:52 PM
That word always seems wrong to me and does not conjure up thoughts of lovely things to eat  noooo:

Think Angel Delight with a double vodka  ;)
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 05, 2009, 04:58:02 PM
Can I pass on the Angel Delight  sick2:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 05, 2009, 05:11:08 PM
I misread that  redface:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 05, 2009, 05:12:56 PM
 lol: lol: lol:

I wouldn't do that  eeek:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 05, 2009, 05:15:21 PM
Might as well ~ even my kids don't like it.
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 05, 2009, 05:16:17 PM
It was fine in about 1968  noooo:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 05, 2009, 05:17:02 PM
So were Wagon Wheels and now look at them.
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 05, 2009, 05:19:20 PM
My local shop has loads of Whispas in. I prefer a sherbert flying saucer myself
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 05, 2009, 05:45:56 PM
My local shop has loads of Whispas in. I prefer a sherbert flying saucer myself

Is that like a marzipan shunter?
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 05, 2009, 05:46:26 PM
Swede
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 07, 2009, 11:24:48 AM
Munter
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on September 07, 2009, 11:30:01 AM
My local shop has loads of Whispas in. I prefer a sherbert flying saucer myself

My local shop has loads of wasps in.Umm flying saucers. cloud9:



Languor
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 07, 2009, 11:41:30 AM
Liquorice
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Just One More on September 08, 2009, 09:46:18 AM
Buffoon

The word perfectly described two people I worked with over the years
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2009, 09:49:42 AM
Had a dream last night ~ very odd dream at that but on waking one word from it stuck in my mind..........................


Jaunty
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 10, 2009, 09:51:22 AM
I had a dream last night ...again bizarre and very precise. I will go off and look what it means.

Prolly means I still need to be sectioned  noooo:

Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 10, 2009, 09:52:44 AM
 Popcorn:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 10, 2009, 09:58:36 AM
 eeek: eeek: eeek:

"symbolizes primal nourishment and your need to be nursed and cared for"
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 10, 2009, 10:04:12 AM
Breasts again. Seek help!
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 10, 2009, 10:10:23 AM
Not really

But there is no definition for it in the dream dictionaries  lol:
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 10, 2009, 10:11:28 AM
Follow my wise counsel and seek help urgently
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2009, 10:14:52 AM
Kerfuffle
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Nick on September 10, 2009, 10:16:43 AM
Booby
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 10, 2009, 10:17:39 AM
exasperation
Title: Re: Little used words that exactly describe something to perfection
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2009, 10:45:57 AM
Booby

Beautiful sea bird  cloud9:

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