Strange Words

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-10-04 09:50pm

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?

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-10-04 09:50pm

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

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-10-04 09:54pm

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

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-10-04 09:56pm

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.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-10-04 09:58pm

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.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-04 10:01pm

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!'

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-10-05 01:24am

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...

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-10-05 01:37am

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).

Metrion Cascade · Post by **Metrion Cascade** » 2003-10-05 01:45am

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

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-10-05 01:53am

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.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-10-05 02:07am

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

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-10-05 02:10am

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.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-10-05 02:17am

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.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-10-05 02:29am

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.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-10-05 02:44am

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.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-05 03:21am

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.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-10-05 05:18am

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.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-05 01:40pm

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...

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-10-05 01:59pm

For you music people out there:

hemidemisemiquaver - a 64th note

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-10-05 02:33pm

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.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-10-05 02:48pm

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?

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2003-10-05 03:42pm

Road.

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

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-10-07 07:29am

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.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-07 08:04am

Aibohphobia - fear of palindromes.

~ver

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-10-07 06:25pm

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