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OK, this was brought on by a conversation in my office. We do a publication that gets posted around the college campus, and we try to put different things on there. One this time was "Names of things you didn't know had names." Our rule was it had to be in the dictionary, and it had to be, well, unusual. Best one:

Zarf - a holder for a handleless cup of coffee.

So, anyone else know any odd or unusual (real) words?

Dammit, wrong forum! Can a mod delete this post and move the thread to Off-Topic?

I can't make a post for you in another forum. How about I just move the thread instead.

This sounds awfully like Doug Adams' The Meaning Of Liff which was a game he started with a mate where they gave common things in life names which otherwise didn't exist.

Alyeska wrote:I can't make a post for you in another forum. How about I just move the thread instead.

I meant delete the second post (the one asking for it to be moved), then move the thread...that way asking for it to be moved wouldn't inflate my post count beyond what it should be. And now I'm just confusing myself.

I think my favourite term from 'The Meaning of Liff' was a Grimsby. IIRC, a Grimsby is a small nugget of gristle placed in food by freemasons, who await to see if you can give the correct response or will choose to swallow the food as best you can.

The best method of dealing with a grimsby is to take it, and, hopping backwards with your arms behind your head, cram it down your hosts throat crying 'Take that, You smug masonic bastard!'

Damnit to hell, I used to have a book on this! It had more than 2000 synonyms for drunk alone!

Two that I remember:

A lagniappe is a small gift like hard candy left out for customers, and a punt or puntle is the indentation in the bottom of a wine bottle. If I'm remembering correctly, that is. Lost the book years ago...

Any word sounds wierd if you've been thinking of it for long enough, or at least that's what happened in my experiences. However, they're also in everyday vocabulary, unlike "zwieback" or "pussilanimous" (Old word for "cowardly", IIRC).

Floccinaucinihilipilification (noun): The action or habit of estimating a thing as worthless. Formerly the longest word in the English language, bested by pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Link:
http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm

floccinaucinihilipilification-the categorizing of something as worthless or trivial

hippopotomonstrosesquipidelian- long.
autohypnopseudolinguatactilization-n. The imaginary sensation of an object on your tongue
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- fear of long words.

I don't recall what the word itself is, but there is a word for that annoying white stuff that is on oranges...

AA - It is a form of lava in Hawaii. Prounced "ah ah".

Chode - That space between your nutsack and your asshole. Im not sure if this is really a word or just some slang my friends and I use.

Chode - That space between your nutsack and your asshole. Im not sure if this is really a word or just some slang my friends and I use.

No, a Chode is a penis that is wider than it is long. It's a very rare medical condition.

The area between your nuts and anus is the gooch.

Durran Korr wrote:No, a Chode is a penis that is wider than it is long. It's a very rare medical condition.

The area between your nuts and anus is the gooch.

Really? Gooch sounds like something people in the south would call their dog.

Durran Korr wrote:

Chode - That space between your nutsack and your asshole. Im not sure if this is really a word or just some slang my friends and I use.

No, a Chode is a penis that is wider than it is long. It's a very rare medical condition.

The area between your nuts and anus is the gooch.

I'm still conflicted on the definition. I've heard both, but I tend to be partial to the tuna can theory of a choad being a dick that's wider than it is long.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:I don't recall what the word itself is, but there is a word for that annoying white stuff that is on oranges...

Pith. As in, taking the.

The_Lumberjack wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:I don't recall what the word itself is, but there is a word for that annoying white stuff that is on oranges...

Pith. As in, taking the.

I think that's taking the piss.

Gandalf wrote:

The_Lumberjack wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:I don't recall what the word itself is, but there is a word for that annoying white stuff that is on oranges...

Pith. As in, taking the.

I think that's taking the piss.

Now, see I don't know whether that's a joke or not, Pith is the white stuff on Oranges, but the latter comment was more of a jokey comment than me not knowing what I'm talking about...

For you music people out there:

hemidemisemiquaver - a 64th note

Bliout: A dress sewn to twice the length of the torso, and then laced and tied up under the arms so that the extra fabric appears as a cumberbund beneath the breasts.

Wimple: A square piece of cloth wrapped under the chin and attached to a headpiece.
Modern: the head and neck piece worn by a Catholic Nun.

Durran Korr wrote:No, a Chode is a penis that is wider than it is long. It's a very rare medical condition.

The area between your nuts and anus is the gooch.

Wasn't the schoolyard bully on that old show Dif'rent Strokes named The Gooch?

Road.

And the area between your balls and your ass is called the taint. As in, taint your balls and taint your ass.

TrailerParkJawa wrote:

Durran Korr wrote:No, a Chode is a penis that is wider than it is long. It's a very rare medical condition.

The area between your nuts and anus is the gooch.

Really? Gooch sounds like something people in the south would call their dog.

No, no, no. The area between your anus and your scrotum is your taint. Because it ain't your balls and it ain't your hole.

Aibohphobia - fear of palindromes.

~ver

Metrion Cascade wrote:Floccinaucinihilipilification (noun): The action or habit of estimating a thing as worthless. Formerly the longest word in the English language, bested by pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Link:
http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm

Fear the German language, where you can make words as long as you want by compounding
Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänsassistentenmützenhalterschraubenschlitz

And it still makes sense