"Grognard" is one of my favorite words. I've seen a few meanings for it about old soldiers, pendants and grumblers, but the best definition is referring to table top gamers who prefer the old fashioned stuff. Even better and funnier when referring to fantasy table top gamers, because it sounds like an old fashioned fantasy creature.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:57 (eight years ago)
I bet people who prefer Final Fantasy 1-6 and 9 get called Grognards.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:59 (eight years ago)
I love the word "jabroni"
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 20:00 (eight years ago)
I love the word "empyrean"
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 29 December 2016 20:03 (eight years ago)
haha I tried this recently, my sense is that people hate more language than they like round here
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Thursday, 29 December 2016 20:16 (eight years ago)
Diaphanous
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 20:33 (eight years ago)
Look at those fucking grognards over there
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 20:36 (eight years ago)
lambentgrace
― estela, Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:55 (eight years ago)
Dadsploitation
Status quo warriors
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 January 2017 18:46 (eight years ago)
Horseplay
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 11 May 2017 10:47 (eight years ago)
lol
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 May 2017 10:55 (eight years ago)
Cahoots
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 11 May 2017 15:03 (eight years ago)
Git
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 12:16 (eight years ago)
visceral
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 12:38 (eight years ago)
alright that was pretty decent and as good as anything i've seen fey do. still no lols but a silly thing to get angry about in this immensely ratfucked cultural moment.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 18 August 2017 18:46
Ratfucked
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 3 September 2017 14:18 (eight years ago)
Tyranny of the screen
I thank Alfred for this one. I've found a few instances of it but I don't know if anyone coined it or it's something people came up with independently.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:50 (eight years ago)
been fond of "chuckleheads" lately, probably cos i've had to deal with a few
― a big sausage-handed small-eared guy (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:55 (eight years ago)
Haha I use that one a fair bit
― streeps of range (wins), Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:56 (eight years ago)
it's so satisfying to say
― a big sausage-handed small-eared guy (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:58 (eight years ago)
I like logy, not the suffix but the American word with a hard g; nobody uses it here but it's a perfect term for what it describes, that long o, you feel logy just saying it
― streeps of range (wins), Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:06 (eight years ago)
"redress"
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:10 (eight years ago)
(xp) Never heard of it!
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:20 (eight years ago)
Lisa uses it in an early Simpsons episode, that's where i learned it
― a big sausage-handed small-eared guy (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:24 (eight years ago)
Don't remember where I first heard it. I just came across it again in this lore segal book I'm reading
― streeps of range (wins), Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:31 (eight years ago)
There are thousands of really great words. Too many to recall. But "rapscallion" jumped into my head a few seconds ago.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 September 2017 17:43 (eight years ago)
top deck bmx brexit acid house colwyn bay genial rozzers in reet convivial canalside bank holiday deckchair behind the bikesheds with the charnock richards boys, reach across the astral plane for a proper boundary park style tannoy session, hats off dont forget to wave before the authorities come, can't get this one in morecambe cancer research anymore serene vibes to all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16rBpphe1E
― saer, Sunday, 10 September 2017 17:52 (eight years ago)
pop that in your ginster big mal!
― saer, Sunday, 10 September 2017 17:55 (eight years ago)
I dont normally agree with words but its good to have 100 or so in your arsenal, you never know when you might be required to speak
― saer, Sunday, 10 September 2017 18:06 (eight years ago)
Groom.
I think it's funny sounding, like a mythical Scandinavian creature.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:43 (eight years ago)
Yarling
Hunger dunger dang
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:45 (seven years ago)
Grotto
Decanter
Avaunt
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:48 (seven years ago)
Trashterpiece
Fenestration
Chartreuse
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 15 September 2018 22:26 (seven years ago)
Purpureal
Oh John Ringo no!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:48 (six years ago)
Coruscating
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:51 (six years ago)
I favor any word which is le mot juste for the occasion.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 February 2019 21:05 (six years ago)
... dreich and drookit, for instance.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 February 2019 21:22 (six years ago)
Volun-told
Got this one from Adam Driver's ted talk
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 March 2019 09:48 (six years ago)
Pendulust
Strange breadfellows
Saddo
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 26 April 2019 18:46 (six years ago)
piebald
― milkshake chuk (wins), Saturday, 18 May 2019 14:30 (six years ago)
Big dad energy
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 April 2020 02:36 (five years ago)
"vital skull custard" -- but no one else agrees with me on this
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 6 April 2020 02:39 (five years ago)
testing... testing... DUMPLINGS!
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 6 April 2020 02:59 (five years ago)
I'm rather fond of 'defenestrate'.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 6 April 2020 23:48 (five years ago)
Mention Family Guy and get defenestrated by means of a kick
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 01:23 (five years ago)
Is there a connection?
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 03:08 (five years ago)
Don't tell me, I don't wanna know.
Can anyone be defenestrated by means of a kick though? Pretty sure has to be a throw, or at least a drop to qualify.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 03:10 (five years ago)
I'm sorry, it was a reference to the thread titled "Animation Snob Thread (no Disney, no Pixar, no mainstream anime, mention Family Guy and you get kicked out a window), puppet films are allowed"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 03:28 (five years ago)
Oh lol
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 04:40 (five years ago)
"I'm not a Furry...but"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:24 (five years ago)
‘...Violent J is a good role model for dads the world over.’
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:29 (five years ago)
'Helpmeet' I'd not heard of before today.
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 22:26 (four years ago)
Sounds like a Dickens character.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 14:59 (four years ago)
Lissom
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 15 November 2020 18:42 (four years ago)
Blithe
― rob, Sunday, 15 November 2020 18:57 (four years ago)
Ambergris
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Sunday, 15 November 2020 19:04 (four years ago)
Isinglass
Extreme infighting described as cannibalism
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 01:01 (four years ago)
Pitcher of margaritas
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 02:01 (four years ago)
Accidental Partridge
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 3 May 2021 17:44 (four years ago)
Quite fond of people saying something Slaps or Whips. It would sound quite unnatural if I said it though.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:56 (four years ago)
Tempting offer:
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― Alba, Thursday, 10 June 2021 12:47 (four years ago)
Last night my wife unironically used the phrase "gussied up" to describe someone, which delighted me. A few minutes later in the same conversation, and equally un-self-conciously, she uttered the phrase "hotsy-totsy". I was bowled over!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 25 September 2021 01:05 (four years ago)
Chonky
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:10 (three years ago)
Sounds like the lady’s got moxie!
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:20 (three years ago)
A heckin' chonker
― may the florist be with you (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:54 (three years ago)
Stravaig
― She's got a dog in Ballymena (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 August 2022 11:01 (three years ago)
seems like a very German word, but it's a good one.
― calzino, Sunday, 7 August 2022 11:20 (three years ago)
Lackadaisical
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Friday, 11 November 2022 11:34 (two years ago)
I overheard someone say "higgledy-piggledy" today and my heart soared a little - first recorded usage is in 1590 apparently! Is there a word for words like this or harum-scarum? It also reminded me of one of my favourites, "heedrum-hodrum"...
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19214989.scots-word-week-heedrum-hodrum/
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2023 17:34 (two years ago)
flibbertigibbet
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Monday, 24 July 2023 18:02 (two years ago)
willy-nilly
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 July 2023 18:17 (two years ago)
Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey deucy, hoochy koochy, hinky dinky, heeby jeeby, harum scarum, helter skelter, honky tonky, palsy walsy, lovey dovey, pitter patter, teeter totter, tootsie wootsie, boogie woogie, piggy wiggy. Razzle dazzle, rosy posy, georgie porgy, roly poly, walky talky, namby pamby, wishy washy, twiddle twaddle, tittle tattle, fiddle faddle, shilly shally, dilly dally, silly billy, willy nilly, fuddy duddy, hunky dory, teenie weenie, itsy bitsy. Look out! He's got a gun!
― Grandall Flange (wins), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:15 (two years ago)
I said higgledy piggledy yesterday! For some reason. I think I first saw it in Bloom County.
― orifex, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:51 (two years ago)
Argy Bargy!
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 24 July 2023 22:36 (two years ago)
Reduplicatives: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/easy-peasy-jiggery-pokery-reduplicative-words
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 03:50 (two years ago)
they are called tautonyms and ancient Chinese is full of them
― all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 04:04 (two years ago)
"lickety-split" is a neat conjoined term that isn't reduplicated.
unrelated, i like "one fell swoop"
― all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 04:17 (two years ago)
"can/cannot sanction your/this buffoonery" coined by Tommy Lee Jones in the making of Batman Forever
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 October 2023 15:19 (one year ago)
amaneuensis
factotum
dogsbody
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 30 October 2023 22:13 (one year ago)
*amanuensis
Syllabub
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 16:21 (one year ago)
Goonette
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:16 (one year ago)
carpenter
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:19 (one year ago)
it just sounds good
fuiud = fuck you if you disagree
Pretty much the only acronym I like
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 December 2023 20:22 (one year ago)
Fuck Thank you, I never could figure out what fuiud meant.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 29 December 2023 21:59 (one year ago)
otm
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:11 (one year ago)
I like archaic one-syllable words that were coined so long ago that there were plenty of single syllables still available for that purpose. Some of them like 'cud' still have a marginal but continuing life. Others, like 'fid' have retreated into some tiny crevice of use by a coterie of specialists.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:43 (one year ago)
gams
― z_tbd, Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:14 (one year ago)
gedda a load of em
― z_tbd, Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:15 (one year ago)
I like archaic one-syllable words that were coined so long ago that there were plenty of single syllables still available for that purpose
this concept is delightful
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Saturday, 30 December 2023 06:18 (one year ago)
And yet, even among all possible 2 letter words, there are plenty that aren't being used.
Out of the 26 possible words beginning with A, there's at least 10 good words just going to waste:
AAABACADAEAFAGAHAIAJAKALAMANAOAPAQARASATAUAVAWAXAYAZ
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 30 December 2023 09:16 (one year ago)
"comfort break"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 4 June 2025 09:31 (four months ago)
flummox
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 4 June 2025 15:51 (four months ago)
"out of interest"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 10:47 (three months ago)
Two good Scottish words:
outwith (outside; beyond)
ben (in; within; inside; into the inner part (of a house))
― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 10:57 (three months ago)