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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2012 17:38:18 GMT
On another website today, I was thrilled to be able to place the word "harridans" to refer to the core bully group.
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Post by onlymark on Dec 18, 2012 18:48:38 GMT
Any word over two sylabl........., silabl......, syble......, sbyla....., ...... I rarely use long words.
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Post by htmb on Dec 20, 2012 1:55:16 GMT
On another website today, I was thrilled to be able to place the word "harridans" to refer to the core bully group. I'd be most interested in hearing how well the use of the word was received by others on the website. Was there mixed agreement, were some shocked or outraged, were others in agreement?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 4:55:06 GMT
They made believe I hadn't said it -- or perhaps they didn't look it up.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 20, 2012 7:42:53 GMT
;D Even though I haven't seen the cited post, I'm fairly sure where it was & at whom it was aimed.
As far as I know, I'm the author of the word "knuckledragger", although it seems likely that it must have been coined by others as well, serving so perfectly as it does to describe a certain segment of humanity.
All I know is that, used in discerning company, it always provokes a pleased bark of amused recognition.
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Post by lugg on Dec 20, 2012 7:51:59 GMT
Knuckledragger ... It took me a few secs but then ;D ;D ;D. I am going to adopt it for my own use
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 19:05:01 GMT
Actually, I think that one of the harridans did feel a bit concerned, because as the thread continued, she suddenly started defending my point of view so as not to be lumped with the others*. Since nobody was named, they can all just keep guessing.
*And yet just before that, she had just written "K2's posts I cannot comment on, I rarely read them."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 21:50:26 GMT
Now the other main harridan has softened up as well. I think I may have hit the bullseye with my vocabulary.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 19:57:15 GMT
On another website today, I was thrilled to be able to place the word "harridans" to refer to the core bully group. I like that word: "Harridans". I've heard of it before, but never used it. Good one. "Double standards". Another good one. Meaning (from wiki): 'A double standard is the application of different sets of principles for similar situations, or to different people in the same situation. A double standard may take the form of an instance in which certain concepts (often, for example, a word, phrase, social norm, or rule) are perceived as acceptable to be applied by one group of people, but are considered unacceptable—taboo—when applied by another group.'
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 5, 2013 14:04:53 GMT
Sadly, I find myself using it quite a lot, usually when it comes to "Do as I say, not as I do" authority figures....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 15:41:39 GMT
I understand what you mean, Patrick. Sometimes it seems this world is run on Double Standards. Especially, like you say, when it comes to authority figures or those that put themselves up as such.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 6, 2019 20:19:37 GMT
Recently, I used the word "lackadaisical" on another forum. One person said they had to look it up and another said they had completely forgotten that it existed and that they would try to place it in a sentence as soon as possible.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 6, 2019 20:33:27 GMT
It is good if one has to look up words. Now it is so easy. I use the online Oxford, which has different national versions as well. For language pairs, reverso context, scary as it seems to hone in on what I'm writing, correcting or translating.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 6, 2019 20:36:35 GMT
By the way, I dearly love the Italian word strepitoso.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 6, 2019 21:43:58 GMT
By the way, I dearly love the Italian word strepitoso. You introduced me to that word, LaGatta, and as soon as I looked it up, I too loved it. The other day I had occasion to use a word I had hitherto only read, but never said aloud. The word was "scofflaw" and the friend with whom I was discussing our country's president immediately agreed it was perfect to describe him.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 6, 2019 22:07:33 GMT
Of course he is, but I associate that word with lower misdeeds. For example, I have never before seen so many motorists here make so many U-Turns in busy streets, even in the presence of pedestrians. How about miscreant? Of course he is also a scoundrel, but one can be a scoundrel without actually breaking any laws.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 6, 2019 23:36:01 GMT
Nah ~ I'm sticking with my choice as he continues to flout every rule and law and get away with it.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 7, 2019 10:06:32 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 7, 2019 15:38:37 GMT
Wayzgoose : an annual summer dinner or outing held by a printing house for its employees. Lovely word...as is defenestration...the act of throwing something out of a window...
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Post by whatagain on Oct 7, 2019 18:16:41 GMT
I had to look up lackadaisical. Last week someone said ´peu ou prou ´ that I find lovely. I said it translated Into grosso merdo. Much less classy.
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Post by lugg on Oct 7, 2019 18:48:03 GMT
If you're looking for terms of abuse, this lady has one: Toerag - yup
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Post by lagatta on Oct 8, 2019 1:48:45 GMT
Defenestration - something or someone. Especially in Prague.
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Post by questa on Oct 8, 2019 11:05:42 GMT
Bixa's scofflaw reminds me that I used to use "scrofulous" as a word of contempt. "The mechanic tried to rip me off, the scrofulous little weed."
Toe-rag is common in UK police dramas.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 8, 2019 15:58:13 GMT
Scrofulous is wonderful! I don't think it's a word I've ever said aloud, but must try to remedy that.
A word I love and like to have on hand for the very specific times it's appropriate is "specious".
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 8, 2019 16:19:21 GMT
Recidivist. I like that one. And I'm sure Bixa may well remember my use of spalpeen.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 8, 2019 20:27:28 GMT
Existential
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 9, 2019 0:40:09 GMT
~?~ Is that a ball peen hammer for use in a swimming pool?
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Post by questa on Oct 9, 2019 3:15:39 GMT
Maybe the hammer belonged to a pal? floccinaucinihilipilification - (the estimation of something as worthless) This was brought home by my philosopher son and used when he sniffed at a container of "off" yogurt "Yuk, Mum, chuck this out. I am indulging in an act of floccinaucinihilipilification" I can't even pronounce it but the stress is on the 'NI hil'. It is very hard to slip it into conversation though!
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 9, 2019 17:49:28 GMT
You are both right I'm sure. Better than saying it is an Irish insult.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 9, 2019 17:50:32 GMT
Wazzock. Barnpot. Lickspittle.
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