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neotransotaku
Posts: 1036/1860
throng

n. a large gathering of people

A throng appeared when the ferrari crashed into the bank.
Tommathy
Posts: 202/339
Albedo - The amount of light something reflects expressed as a ratio versus total incoming light. Also can be used to mean the light that an reflects. Often used as a romantic metaphor for the reflected divinity in all human souls.

The albedo of the moon is one of the more prominent features of the night sky.
NSNick
Posts: 874/2228
That's totally what I said. >_>

Give me a break, it was 8:30 in the morning
emcee
Posts: 361/867
I'm pretty sure that's a verb.
NSNick
Posts: 864/2228
quaff
verb
To drink.

"Man, I'm so thirsty I could quaff a whole six-pack."
Tarale
Posts: 691/2713
Originally posted by Tommathy
Well, there goes rule #2 out the window...


Ah whoops, that'll serve me right for posting after hours of trying to web dev. I don't read things properly when I'm tired, sorry
emcee
Posts: 354/867
Originally posted by emcee
It's a different day than my last word, so here's another.

carporinous

Adj. Dubious, Arousing doubt; doubtful.

From the Norse root word "karpa", meaning "to talk or brag". The meaning was also influenced by the Latin word "carpere", meaning "to pluck or to pick at".


Ok, I made that up, the root words are real though.

Now that its not April Fool's day, how about a real word:

Proprioception

n. One of the 12 main human senses, refering to an individual's awareness of the relative location of the various regions of their body.
HyperHacker
Posts: 1584/5072
Discombobulate - verb
1) Disassemble, reverse-engineer. I can discombobulate the program to see how it does that.
2) ~ed: Confused. Waking up on the kitchen table left me very discombobulated.
emcee
Posts: 341/867
It's a different day than my last word, so here's another.

carporinous

Adj. Dubious, Arousing doubt; doubtful.

From the Norse root word "karpa", meaning "to talk or brag". The meaning was also influenced by the Latin word "carpere", meaning "to pluck or to pick at".
Tommathy
Posts: 196/339
Pork - verb - Synonym for "fuck".

So, yeah, I went into the bathroom and I swear these two guys were totally porking eachother in one of the stalls.
Tatrion
Posts: 1295/2467
I think it's been 24 hours since my last post... This is a word (or suffix, I guess you could say) I learned a few days ago.

.ogg (noun, adjective)

A type of music format used in computers.

i.e, Super Mario War's music is stored in .ogg files.
Tommathy
Posts: 194/339
Well, there goes rule #2 out the window...
emcee
Posts: 336/867
Charentais

An heirloom variety of French melon of the subspecies cantalupensis. Making it a "true cantaloupe", rather than a muskmelon (of the subspecies reticulatus).

In a sentence: Those people with their fancy Charentais melons sure are uppity.
Tarale
Posts: 674/2713
Originally posted by Tommathy
Wow, Tarale, even *I* don't know the precise etymology of my favorite words.


lol -- nah, I just bothered to look it up in the Merriam-Webster dictionary I dislike dictionary.com, I wanted to get a decent definition
Tommathy
Posts: 193/339
Wow, Tarale, even *I* don't know the precise etymology of my favorite words.
Zachio
Posts: 523/595
ebony
adj.
A very dark black

The coal was Ebony in color
Tarale
Posts: 671/2713
I love the word "defenestrate" and I use it a lot.

However, I'm also very partial to prerogative -- an often misspelled word, and one I am inexplicably attached to.

pre-rog-a-tive
Pronunciation : pri-'rä-g&-tiv
Function : noun
Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin praerogativa, Roman century voting first in the comitia, privilege, from feminine of praerogativus voting first, from praerogatus, past participle of praerogare to ask for an opinion before another, from prae- + rogare to ask -- more at RIGHT
1 a : an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: as (1) : one belonging to an office or an official body (2) : one belonging to a person, group, or class of individuals (3) : one possessed by a nation as an attribute of sovereignty b : the discretionary power inhering in the British Crown
2 : a distinctive excellence
Tommathy
Posts: 192/339
Pelf - An informal term for money, it is usually loaded with connotations of "ill-gotten".

Lord Ruggart's pelf came into his hands through the rather convenient string of "accidents" that befell his elder, wealthier relations."
NSNick
Posts: 851/2228
penultimate
adj.
Second to last.

I died in the penultimate level in Super Mario Brothers. Stupid World 8-3.
Vyper
Posts: 94/575
Antidisestablishmentarianism
noun : to be against the idea of having a national religion/church
"Isn't antidisestablishmentarianism the longest word in the dictionary?"

Actually, floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical word (with 29 letters), but it was made up as a joke so that it simply COULD be the longest word. Antidisestablishmentarianism is #2 with 28 letters.
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