WORDS

I thought it might be interesting - well it interests me- for members to post unfamiliar words that might or might not be useful. Actually, the ones you'd never use are more fun.
Also I'd be interested words or phrases that annoy you.

 

How I long for the smell of petrichor! Won't be long now

The phrase that makes me cringe is 'gob smacked'.

 

One that gives me the pip is It is what it is.

 

Petrichor a great word for a wonderful smell. Shame you usually need a drought first,though.
petrichor flavoured fabric conditioner Now that might be worth buying @Jenny_Aster

 

@Cassia usually followed by ' so suck it up' - equally annoying.

 

Indeed. An estate agent said it to me & he got a rather frosty reply from me.

 

We had a curmudgeons' corner on the GW site. You might have liked it @shiney ,
Off to look up pauciloquent in case I need it at some point
Pauciloquent - maybe

 

I’m going to have to drop that into a conversation. I’m a crossword fan & I can honestly say I’ve never come across pauciloquent.

 

As @shiney beat me to sesquipedalian, I'll have to go with antediluvian, often applied to Archimandrites and of interest to antiquarians.
By the way alliteration is astonishing.

 

I had a job where our team was talking with clients over the phone most of the day. I introduced a game of "word of the day", anyone who managed to get that into a call got a point.

"Antediluvian" was my triumph and absolute favourite

English language is a treat

 

Apricate.

To bask in the sun.

 

My garden shed .

To those that don't 'understand' the contents of my shed, it's a jumbled store of floccinaucinihilipilification.

(can't even pronounce that word, yet alone remember it).