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The word comes from an old Urgic dialect of the tundra, used in the fourth century by the Lappish community that settled near Helsinki after the great Herfftel thaw of AD 342. I hope that's obscure enough. The word is Hevelspending, it is a noun and means "the gasp made by one who, walking in the morning, smells spring in the air after a long winter." Isn't that a nice thought for those of us beginning to see the end of a long cold winter? Anyone else have favorite words?
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"Fungible"! I just learned it (unlike, I'm sure, JBryan and many more out there).
It sounds so like what it is too - so "fungy", so real and tangible.
(Great topic, Plays!)
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Fragilisticsuperalafragistic or something like that, I can't remember... zorro It just rolls off your tongue, doesn't it?
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DevilSpending is a verb, includes a gasp now and then, and stems from the LappishDancic community. I know of a word spoken only by left-handed near-sighted freckled Swedes with brown contact lenses, but, as I am unblemished, I have yet to actually hear it. Heres a perfectly good audible that has, unfortunately, no associated meaning that I know of. Perhaps you could help. Barisitude It smacks of the English law establishment or perhaps could fit into the suppertime meteorologic patter. (No more than 2 vowel substitutions allowed.) As far as "legal" words, my favorites change, but "rictus" (the mouth orifice, or a gaping grin or grimace) always seemed more genteel than "pie-hole". Bob
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I like the word fulminate with its etymological subtext of being like a bolt of lightning. It's the perfect word to describe the style of so many posts here on Piano World, I'm starting to think we should call the Coffee Room the Fulmination Room!
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I've always liked the German, gemuetlichkeit. (wish I had an umlaut on my keyboard!) It means cozy, warm, homey comfort. Plays I like your word - or at least the concept. I can feel it today!!!
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Originally posted by plays88keys: The word comes from an old Urgic dialect of the tundra, used in the fourth century by the Lappish community that settled near Helsinki after the great Herfftel thaw of AD 342. I hope that's obscure enough.
The word is Hevelspending, it is a noun and means "the gasp made by one who, walking in the morning, smells spring in the air after a long winter." Not meaning to be a killjoy nor a partypooper (yeah, right, it's my calling!), but you realize, of course, that this little bit of fluff you posted is a Stephen Fry bit, one of his "Donald Trefusis, ageing professor of Philology" numbers. See Fry's book Paperweight. P.S., I'm a huge fan of Fry, surely Britain's most amazing comic genius of the past 50 years.
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Here's my favriote word! Taken directly from Russell Ash's "The Top Ten of Everything 2002" page 101: the number one longest word in the english language: Ornicopytheobiblopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanthropoicichthy-opyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomoly-bdoclerobeloaxi nocoscinodactyliogeolithopes-sopscphocatoptrotephraoeirochiroomychodactyloarithsti-chooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac (Now try saying that 10 times fast!!! ) This word means: A deluded human who practices divination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts, or other manifestations related to the following animate or inamiate objects and appearances: birds, oracles, Bible, ghosts, crystal gazing, shadows, air appearances, birth stars, meteors, winds, sacrificial appearances, entrails of humans and fishes, fire, red-hot irons, altar smoke, mice, grain picking by rooster, snakes, herbs, fountains, water, wands, dough, meal, barley, salt, lead, dice, arrows, hatchet balance, sieve, ring suspension, random dots, precious stones, pebbles, pebble heaps, mirrors, ash writting, dreams, palmistry, nail rays, finger rings, numbers, book passages, name letterings, laughing, manners, ventriloquism, circle walking, wax, susceptibility to hidden springs, wine, and shoulder blades.
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Matt - Busted! You are too good.
Ariel - I really like "fungible."
Jgoo - LOL!
Another one I like is "schmeck" -- as in 'This particular piece of music really schmecks!" Basically, it means to react or respond in a favorable manner. My dearest friend used to say this all the time -- I was never sure if she made it up or if it was a real word, but I've always liked it.
Another person I know made up the word "hizzer." I don't particularly like it, but he was always promoting it and tried to get it included in Webster's. He says it's his way of being gender neutral, as in "his or her." Whatever... :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by zorro: Fragilisticsuperalafragistic or something like that, I can't remember... zorro It just rolls off your tongue, doesn't it? If you were trying to write: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, then you are right, it does roll right off the tounge. Although it was an invented word and made popular in the movie Marry Poppins, it is now considered as an eligable word since it has appeared in the Oxford Dictionary. It means "wonderful", and is tied in 8th place as the longest word in the English language, along with: Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism, meaning "false opposition to the withdrawal of state support from a church", and is derived from the word: Antidisestablishmentarianism, wich doesn't make it in the top ten list of longest words in the English Language. (The 10th spot is taken by three words, each 30 letters in length. Antidisestablishmentarianism is only 28 letters long. The one that I posted above is a whopping 310 letters long!!! ).
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Say it loud, say it proud...
Pronk
(v : jump straight up, as of kangaroos)
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Originally posted by plays88keys: Another one I like is "schmeck" -- as in 'This particular piece of music really schmecks!" Basically, it means to react or respond in a favorable manner. My dearest friend used to say this all the time -- I was never sure if she made it up or if it was a real word, but I've always liked it. Schmeck is likely from either German or Yiddish schmecken, whose literal meaning is "to taste." Maybe your friend is trying to say that it's "tasty"!
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I've studied both modern and ancient Greek. I always liked callipygian which so lovingly describes an attribute many females bewail.
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Originally posted by apple: I always liked callipygian Callipygian good! Πυγη! Just testing my unicode.
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Originally posted by Matt G.: P.S., I'm a huge fan of Fry, surely Britain's most amazing comic genius of the past 50 years. Yes, but even genii have the moments of madness. I found The Stars' Tennis Balls very disappointing compared to his other three novels; not because it was poorly written, but because the others were so very good. David
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"Ah, that dress (a short jersey back cut down to the two dimples on either side of her coccyx) makes you look so callipygous tonight."
I don't know, can't think of anyone who might like hearing that or getting it even.
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(I can't believe I've found something Matt didn't know!)*
It's not "Urgic," but rather, "Ugric." It's one of the two languages naming the Finno-Ugric language group, which includes Turkish and Mongolian, in addition to Finnish. My OED (1/e) gives Ugrian as preferred, however. My favorite word is "Dinner!" shouted, as an invitation.
*Which reminds me of a story. When Jack Benny was young (so this story goes), he was practicing the violin, to the accompaniment of the family dog, which was howling. After a while, this got on Jack's father's nerves, and the old man shouted downstairs, "For heaven's sake, Jack, can't you play something the dog doesn't know?"
I worked for a Greek pathologist once, who insisted his residents be familiar with two words, "callipygous" and "steatopygous" (steato = fat). And while my mind is wandering, I remember an interesting story he told me about medical malpractice in Greece. He had once made a mistake, misdiagnosing a vein as a vas deferens (meaning that one of his patients was unaware that his vasectomy had not been successful). The man's wife became pregnant, as a result of this error. The pathologist was not sued, however. The pathologist was aware that the man's mistress had also become pregnant, and threatened to expose that in court if he were sued. As the patient's wife had no knowledge of the existence of the patient's mistress, and the patient wanted it kept that way, no suit was filed.
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Why of why of all the threads, is this neat one the victim of the dreaded side-winder disease?
I can't stand it. It's like having a real papyrus to unravel. I've got some (I think) cool words. But not yet. I'll wait until there's an antidote.
One observation. Hey, apple...Which do you think are more callipygian - apples or peaches? (Guess it depends on how tight the gluts are).
Ariel
VERY terrific word! So zaftig - that word TomAsterisk didn't want anybody defining for you. Means "juicy" literally in German and Yiddish. Metaphorically - well, kind of like Elizabeth Taylor in between her first (horse )movie and Virginai Wolf.
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Originally posted by Ariel: Why of why of all the threads, is this neat one the victim of the dreaded side-winder disease?
I can't stand it. It's like having a real papyrus to unravel. I've got some (I think) cool words. But not yet. I'll wait until there's an antidote.
The thing that caused it in this particular thread is jgoo's long word. If he'd hyphenated it so that it fit on about 3 or 4 lines, we wouldn't be scrolling. Any such long continuous object, whether it's a photo, a URL, or a very long unbreakable bit of text, causes this scrolling. It's not an error of the new UBB software. (Though some of the other threads are currently deranged because of some error in handling URL's for sig pictures and such.) That's why it's always a good idea to scale pictures to about 640 pixels wide or less, and to use short URL's rather than post the whole long one as a link.
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Hey jgoo, how 'bout editing your post?
It's easy to enter diacritical characters like umlauts once you know how. In Windows, bring up the Character Map, (WinXP = Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map), find your specific character, copy to the clipboard or note the Alt number.
For example, the small 'u' with umlaut/diaeresis is Alt-0252. ΓΌ Hold down the <ALT> key while you type 0252. Make sure you use the number pad when typing the numbers. Capital 'U' with umlaut would be Alt-0220.
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