DISQUS

anshu · 2 years ago

i too can recite jabberwocky.. learnt it in class 3 and i still remember it. my favourite poem ever. you know what word should be used in real life.. "uffish"

John · 2 years ago

some of my favs are:

verisimilitude- n. the appearance or semblance of truth
omphaloskepsis- n. the contemplation of one's navel
moiety- n. a half; a portion
ataraxia- n. a state of freedom from disturbance of the mind

I have yet to be able to use any of them in normal conversation however. :P

mincus · 3 years ago

Love the list of words! Defenestrate definitely deserves to be used more in daily conversation (maybe we need more open windows to facilitate this?)

My favorites are repeating words that don't sounds like they repeat, like tsetse or hotshots.

R e n é e · 3 years ago

Of the 9 words, I'm familiar with one...that's Fop. I guess I better brush up my English. =P

Great choice of words, anyway!

Lara · 3 years ago

I love this! I've always been into words and meanings... :) Great list!

Jersey Girl · 3 years ago

My husband loves to pull out words like these and use them all straight faced...I'm like "What???"..and he does the "You've NEVER heard of that word?" I know he's been saving it up for eons!

Darn guy had nothing better to do then study the dictionary I guess...I was busy living when I was younger!

MamaDuck · 3 years ago

LOL I actually knew some of those ;). Our list is up if you’d like to look… have a great day!

Rick · 3 years ago

A couple more for your list:

spiffy - fun and irony all in one word

scrafulous - I have no idea what it means but it brings images of the sort of thing you really don't want in your house to mind.

Shawn · 3 years ago

The fact that scrumtrulescent isn't on your list, immediately nullifies your list. ;) I kid! It's fun knowing a new word to describe defenestrating a booger. Thanks for the list!

ali · 3 years ago

i love learning weird words... i laugh at random things and enjoy knowing words to say and see the faces of people who dont know the words! hahaha... you should try it...

Jen · 3 years ago

What about Oojah - it's anything that exsist; its something that you might have forgotton the name to or that has no name at all

Erik Persson · 3 years ago

Thats actually pretty cool
This website says it was created by the British Soldiers during WW1

LANmom · 3 years ago

My sons made up a useful word to describe those dirty chunks of compacted ice/slush which fall off the bottoms of vehicles in the winter
They are "carmets" like comets are dirty chinks of ice in space. see?
Heres an already in existence word I find amusing just to say it its "ensorcelled" (means to have been enchanted)

Ummmm · 2 years ago

Deus Ex Machina, uhhhh you made an error there dude it doesnt mean that, its from greek tragedy, it means god from the machine it refers to the stage "effect" created by a crane in the ancient greek theater.......... oh well =P its still funny

Erik Persson · 2 years ago

1. (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.

2. any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.

deus ex machina. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved February 13, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deus%20e...

Winkle-picker wearer · 2 years ago

Here are some words I find amusing:

1. zenzizenzizenic- the eighth power of a number

2. pana po'o- to scratch your head to remember something (Hawaiian)

It seems there is a word for everything!

Big_P · 2 years ago

BTW, doppelganger is german too: Doppelgänger

hoeltgman · 2 years ago

Doppelganger comes from the german word Doppelgänger. And the meaning in German is also the same.
It's another of those words that escaped german and entered english. Kindergarten is another of these words.

Gavin · 2 years ago

Great list, I will have to add Agnomen to my vocabulary.

Small typo, to/too confusion. Crapulous: ...who ingests <strike>to</strike>too much food or...

Henk · 2 years ago

And still your pronouncing 'deus' wrong.
The last syllable should rhyme with 'puss'.

While I'm at it: 'Doppelganger' should rhyme with 'hangar'.

Henk · 2 years ago

your => you're, forgot to check it before submitting.

Henk · 2 years ago

Pronounciation: http://www.howjsay.com/

Erik Persson · 2 years ago

Cool site but I'm in the US so pronunciation defaults to West Coast American accent. According to Merriam Webster Deus Ex is pronounced like so... http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Deus%...

While it sounds pretty cool, we don't pronounce laser like this either http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=laser
I also spell color like color. Not colour...

The metric system is superior however.

Him · 2 years ago

I have liked the word Defenestrate ever since I saw it in a Calvin and Hobbes book about 15 years ago.

mike sanders · 2 years ago

love all of them I am a word nut, one of my favourites is loquacious it is so onomatopoeic another of my faves. The english language is so rich with over 300,00 words, next closest id german with circa 100,000. Also like the hotshots entry I had never seen it like that before because it is not so obvious as others of that ilk (another good word)

ladytatts · 2 years ago

I was under the impression that the word "defenestrate" meant to disembowel someone. Who knew!

trwww · 2 years ago

defenestrate is totally a normal word, i've heard people use it

Alex · 2 years ago

fenestra is actually Latin for window. see what i did there? its called etymology. i have no idea where the word 'etymology' comes from.

Jason · 2 years ago

Regarding fop - I always found both that and the associated word "dandy" amusing. And defenestrate has been my favorite word for ages... I love that there's a word for the act of throwing something out of the window.

Zoe · 1 year ago

One word I think that should be added is : Salubrious - favorable to health of mind or body; "not the most salubrious campsite"; "one of the less salubrious suburbs".

Using it in completely the wrong context is also fun.

andi · 1 year ago

hi, just checking out ur words - i will write back when i feel amused..........!

Errol · 1 year ago

Oh my GOD I adore defenestrate and all your other words. I should have done this because it's useful for building someone's vocabulary

paul · 1 year ago

deus ex machina = machine of the gods. its rewarding to pay attention in middle school

paul · 1 year ago

I don't want FOP god dammit! i'm a dapper dan man!!!!

jojo · 9 months ago

Stumbled on this, but just had to comment: I'm another person who can recite Jabberwocky from memory. Sometimes, I do it in my head in a British accent.

demetri · 2 years ago

ive never seen so many corny things said on one site.