Shemomedjamo - Georgian word meaning to eat past the point of fullness because it tastes so good or as I heard it, "I accidentally ate the whole thing."
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Widdershins. It means counter to the sun's direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.
- Paramour
It sounds fancy, but means a casual lover. A fuck buddy. A friend with benefits. Though it can also carry the implication of being an out-of-wedlock lover, as it dates back to a time where having a fuck buddy was almost certainly a sign of married infidelity.
- Kith
Means one's friends and other people they are close to that aren't family. Often paired with "kin". Kith and kin. Friends and family.
My contribution is katzenjammer, which is a word describing a really bad hangover (in the English language). I believe it is used a bit differently in the German language, but don't take my word for it.
Grandiloquent/sesquipedalian. It's what you get when you use everything in this thread โ^ >ใฎ<^โ .แ.แ
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perambulation is a good one. My morning walk isn't quite grand enough to be called a 'constitutional'; nor scenic and leisurely enough to be called a 'stroll'; nor yet social enough to be called a 'promenade'; 'perambulation' is just the ticket.
Oh I love to perambulate, sitting still is what I really hate
I thought the morning constitutional was taking a shit.
And what a lovely paragraph about it. Thank you.
Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow
Figured the other way around might be as obscure...
nudiustertian: relating to the day before yesterday
Yikes
To add to that, "ereyesterday" is the noun version for the day before yesterday.
Propreantepenultimate. Fifth to last.
- Ultimate
- Penultimate
- Antepenultimate
- Preantepenultimate
- Propreantepenultimate
Duodenum.
Doo-odd-in-umm.
The duodenum is the first section of the small intestine in most higher vertebrates, including mammals
Brobdingnagian.
It's a very big word that means very big.
It comes from Gulliver's travels. The Brobdingnagians are giants, 12 times the height of humans. The word isn't limited to that scale, but it's definitely for things that are unusually large compared to us.
It's the literal opposite of Lilliputian, which is from the better known race from "Travels" that are 1/12 our size.
It's my absolute favorite word. Not just because it's a literary reference but it's fun to say. Brob ding nag ian. It just burbles off the tongue like a drunken stream stumbling among the rocks of its bed. And, it's a big word that means big, which is just fun wordplay. Like the phobia of big words, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which was inevitable as soon as the idea of a phobia of big words was conceived.
No one mentioned "niggardly" yet? What's going on?
I have a double whammy: Nonplussed.
Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act. Double whammy because it does not mean not-plussed like many people seem to think.
Nonplussed...that takes me back.
I was educated in a private school for British ex-pats run by a very old and very posh couple. This was the early eighties and they were already in their seventies, so definitely from a different era. Because of this and because of the size of our school (my entire year consisted of nine kids) we ended up quite odd. Up until highschool we had a mild but "poshy" London accent and words like vexing, nonplussed, providential, etc., peppered our vocabulary. Then my family moved to Louisiana followed by Texas and that shit went right out.
Also, the word is aluminium. It is NOT aluminum!
Interrobang.
It's this thing: โฝ
More people should use the symbol because it looks cool and has a badass name, so for that you need to know what it's called.
Who's with meโฝ
While I like the concept, I can't help but prefer '!?' or '?!'. There's more granularity of meaning, and I think it just looks nicer having two or more separate characters.
Interrobang sounds like something from a porno about police work.
โDid you question the suspect?โ
โYeah, Chief, we interrobanged him and got the info.โ
Or a fully themed, punctuation inspire flick. Named "character" to let you fill in the blanks.
Char 1: Well what do you think Mark?
Char 2: Are you sure she can handle it, Point?
Char 1: Its time we've shown
Char 2: our true power...
Together: As Interrobang!
Char 3: No wait, I've got my per....
.... OK it needs to be reworked, but you get the idea.
Hey, it's me, your suspect. I've got more info, step it up with the interrobanging, will ya?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins
Just because it sounds cool.
Sounds like a creature that would have a lot of creepypasta written about it.
And don't forget turnwise! (which is the opposite rotational direction defined by the direction the disc turns)
Sounds useful in Minecraft. Like you put a sign in a cave "exit widdershins" to tell people to follow the left wall.
Widdershins start my hair, your Spooktober decorations are so spooky!!!!
"Thrice" is a somewhat obscure word that otherwise fits.
"Adventitious" is a good one. It means "non-inherent" or "acquired" (as opposed to inherent.)
Sonder (noun): the feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as oneโs own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles: In a state of sonder, each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member, and an extra in overlapping stories.
dictionary.com
This one always makes me smile, because it's from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It's just some guy's blog in which he comes up with new words to express experiences and emotions that are difficult to describe, and that specific one has thoroughly broken containment
Avuncular - of or having the qualities of an uncle.
โHis avuncular joke was both lazy and sexistโ
Wait did you just coin that? That's fucking brilliant /s
Edit: apparently I needed a /s because Lemmy doesn't use this term constantly or anything?
Petrichor: The smell of rain on dry ground. One of those things everybody knows about but lacks a word for.
Grok
It means to know or understand, like "yeah man I can grok that."
Being pedantic, but it's beyond that.
To grok is to know or understand so completely, it becomes a part of yourself. To know something fully. You can understand the concepts of astrophysics, but you might not grok the concept.
Indubitably!
It means most certainly, beyond questioning.
And it's fun to say!
overmorgen, in Dutch. I heard this 'overmorrow' word a couple times as a response in that they wish it did exist