excellent words that are not made up

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crap·u·lence (krpy-lns)
n.
1. Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking.
2. Excessive indulgence; intemperance.

[From crapulent, sick from gluttony, from Late Latin crapulentus, very drunk, from
Latin crapula, intoxication, from Greek kraipal.]

crapu·lent adj.
crapu·lous adj.

moonship journey to baja, Friday, 7 December 2007 06:15 (seventeen years ago)

krpy-lns?

estela, Friday, 7 December 2007 07:04 (seventeen years ago)

rictus

Main Entry:
ric·tus
Pronunciation:
\ˈrik-təs\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
New Latin, from Latin, open mouth, from ringi to open the mouth; akin to Old Church Slavic rǫgŭ mockery
Date:
1827
1: the gape of a bird's mouth
2 a: the mouth orifice b: a gaping grin or grimace

m coleman, Friday, 7 December 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago)

hauntology (though its kinda made up)

also

YOU & YR GDDMND WRDS! the dictionary thread

bb, Friday, 7 December 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

galavant
ragamuffin

Mr. Que, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

merkin

mer·kin
/ˈmɜrkən/
– noun
false hair for the female pudenda.

am0n, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

cloaca

noun
1. (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open
2. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

am0n, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

vilipend (VIL-uh-pend) verb tr.

1. To treat someone with contempt.

2. To disparage.

bb, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

defenestrate- to throw out of a window.

darraghmac, Friday, 7 December 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

avernal

a. 1. Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Edward III, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

all words are made up

sexyDancer, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

What about onomatopoeia?

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

all words are made up

-- sexyDancer

thanks, claude

moonship journey to baja, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

rastaquouère /rastakwE:r/ n. & a. Pl. pronounced same.
L19. [Fr. f. S. Amer. Sp. rastacuero tycoon in the hide trade, upstart.]

A n. A person (esp. from a Mediterranean or S. American country) intruding into a particular social group and having an exaggerated manner or style of dress; a dashing but untrustworthy foreigner. L19.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

dictionary.com word of the day has been sending me words again they sent like 2 years ago. dicks.

bell_labs, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

sorta like a rastapopolous?

moonship journey to baja, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

or a rastakrautpasta?

moonship journey to baja, Friday, 7 December 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

^^^^^I just got that album from my music share buddy!
I'll add JETTISON. Sort of like Defenestrate.

Trip Maker, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago)

I have always like "blowtorch" and "scoreboard"

El Tomboto, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

always thought 'numismatist' was a cool word for something so boring.

bnw, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

ad nauseum

Heave Ho, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago)

Ad nauseam even

Heave Ho, Friday, 7 December 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

interrobang
also interabang (ĭn-tĕr'ə-băng') pronunciation

n.

A punctuation mark in the form of a question mark superimposed on an exclamation point, used to end a simultaneous question and exclamation.

Steve Shasta, Saturday, 8 December 2007 07:25 (seventeen years ago)


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