What's one really cool word for today?

sanguine

can mean either bloodthirsty or confident, optimistic

refurbish

Cleave.

It can mean bring together, or split apart. Each word has a separate etymology – how cool is that?

colonoscopy

@tom_g Quite a clever definition!

“having blood as the predominating bodily humor; also : having the bodily conformation and temperament held characteristic of such predominance and marked by sturdiness, high color, and cheerfulness”

I love those MW games!!

@OneBadApple refurbish is amazingly close to rubbish.

Very cool, @glacial.

Thanks!

rancid

@tom_g Knew it meant something related to blood. Didn’t realize it could also mean confident or optimistic. Interesting and a bit confusing!

@OneBadApple You’d think the doctor would get tired of that practical joke, and warm colonoscopy up a bit!

Yeah. Kind of like ‘rhinoplasty’.

Rancid strikes me as kind of a pretty word for an ugly thing.

“My dear, your soup is utterly rancid!”

Irie
EDIT: crap I didn’t read the details of the question but I like my word anyway.

“I had the greatest date last night…..She was absolutely RANCID !!”

It’s all good in my land of make-believe, @Judi. Most here enjoy playing with themselves as much as with others.

:-D

@OneBadApple What a cheesy remark.

HEY !!....Don’t include me in…..........

Oh, alright….include me….

CHILL!

Sphincter.

Aww, lost your blankie, Squeeky?

:-)

@ZEPHYRA Can you tighten that answer up a bit?

serendipity

Oooo…nice @YARNLADY Fun to say plus a cool word.

Sanguine, because it has two difference and almost antonymous (another good word) meanings.

“Languid.” To me it sounds exactly like what it means—slow and relaxed.

Have another, @gailcalled?

@tom_g broke the wind ice with sanguine.

:-)

Bungalow

OneBadApple, I’ve always had difficulty pronouncing “colonoscopy” and get it mixed up with that awful “colostomy.”

lull

Yes, @Pachyderm_In_The_Room languid immediately brings to my mind Williams and Faulkner

Yes, @NuclearWessels, bungalow is very jaunty!

Thanks!

Yeah, @Pachyderm_In_The_Room , as we all know, the first can always potentially lead to the second….

Yes, @Hawaii_Jake, lull might be a little more liquid in my mind than languid. As in ocean waves. Very appropriate!

ludicrous

@OneBadApple I swear, if your mind’s not in the gutter, your head’s up your….

Pass judgement if you like, @Hawaii_Jake. It’s a social question!

My head’s been in a lot worse places…

Evidently, the Social Section has no meaning anymore around here.

quincunx

Nice, @dxs!

quixotic

Nice @dxs

(I was wondering when some smart arse would finally make me look one up)

…...and ??

How very Don Quixotian of you, @Hawaii_Jake.

I’m not your love slave yet @OneBadApple.

Hey man…it’s YOUR fuckin’ thread….I ain’t gonna look it up…

@ibstubro, are you a thrall to @OneBadApple?

Steady, Jake…..

@Hawaii_Jake In reality, I’m just the embodiment of one of the faces that speaks to @OneBadApple via the bathroom mirror.

Sort of like an altered Eggo.

Hey, LET GO!

That’s it.

I’m out.

I swear, some days @OneBadApple and I are so close, when I fart, he swells, @Hawaii_Jake

If someone doesn’t seize the opportunity to add the annoyingly predictable defenestrate to this thread, I’ll tergiversate.

Ultracrepidarian;
the new love-of-my-life.

Kind of awkward word to say aloud, @gailcalled, but a great concept.

For those of you with limited knowledge, I mean.

^^ Be careful to pronounce it as “crep” and not “crap.”

It’s not about having limited

knowledge but the lack of awareness therein. (Or do I mean thereto?)

Sara Palin is the epitome of an ultracrepidarian.

^^_ Bless her heart!_

Cashew Shrimp!
Clearly I am unable to follow directions with number of words requested here today. haha

Fluther has its share of archetypical ultracrepidarians also.

@Coloma amazing how you can bring nuts and penis size into the most innocent of threads!

My goodness @gailcalled…talk about getting your tongue wrapped around your eyetooth!

Can I just stick with iceholes?

@ibstubro This is fargin war.

@glacial we’ll get the bastages, though!

Cryonics

I’ve met several dogs named Lagniappe, which I love. But my all time favorite word is susurrus

@ucme Good one!

Crayonics: the art of using frozen Crayons.

:)

Cry-on-its…frozen tissues?

I had to click the link for Lagniappe, @syz. but I actually knew susurrus.

Great words!

Is that like a cold shoulder, @ucme?

;-)

That’s right @ibstubro, ham it up :)

Man cannot live by cheese alone, @ucme.

:)

I am eclipsed by the jocularity being bandied about.

Gutturniform – shaped like a water pitcher.

Recompense, a more elegant way of saying compensation.

Nah, @Unbroken. Bandied is is a great word! For some strange it makes me think of that guy on the old western TV show that walked with a distinct limp.

Really, @wildpotato? What a fun word. Almost like Guggenheim.

@Kardamom Now, I always thought recompense sounded like a pig-latiny kind of word. I’m pleased someone likes it! :-)

@ibstubro It sounds French to me.

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. (cool word right!).
A word from the Disney film production of the book Mary Poppins describing any quality that is so indescribable that you have no real word to say it with.

@Smitha The sound of that is something quite atrocious…

But, @dxs, only if you say it loud enough

—@Smitha YES! I might have answered supercalifragilisticexpialidocious on that other site.

:-)

@dxs Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! from MARY POPPINS it took me some time to pronounce it!

@ibstubro LOL! (I thought about it twice before posting here!)

Cool word for me now. Bedtime. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Crap.

Cool word #2?

Chesapeake.

@Smitha I know. I’m just saying it loud enough so that I always sound precocious.

Homo Neanderthalensis.

Testaceous (sounds dirty, but isn’t)

Yup, @downtide sounds like it should refer to the testicles of a shrimp, or something akin. lol Good one.

@gailcalled This one’s for you.

I am currently ready Mary Roach’s Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and she notes some wonderful medical terms that deserve to put into the common lexicon.

Grumous (meaning “clotted or lumpy”)
glabrous (“smooth and hairless”)
periblepsis (“the wild look of delirium”)
maculate (“spotted”)

Anoesis .
0_o

I am definitely going to work “grumous” into a conversation soon! (And here I thought describing the material in an abscess as caseous was fun!)

(It sounds almost like something a ‘Valley girl’ or ‘surfer dude’ would say.)

@syz Ah. I often (seriously) wonder about words like ‘immaculate’. “Is there such a thing as ‘maculate’?”

In this case, apparently, YES.

Sorry, @lx102303. I looked it up and the definition was too short for me to have an understanding.

Still good to see your girly little avatar!

;-)

I am also fond of the word “gobsmacked” which you won’t find in the Oxford Dictionary, and which means shocked or astonished, especially when accompanied by an expression that makes you look like you’ve just been smacked in the mouth.

Example: “It actually IS in the Oxford Dictionary, I’m gobsmacked”.

I’m familiar with gobsmacked, @downtide, but I would have said ”...like you’ve just been smacked in your pie hole.”

:)

‘Adventures on the Alimentary Canal’ also sounds dirty, but (probably) isn’t…

You rectum, @OneBadApple? That’s an intestineing thought.

‘Adventures on the Alimentary Canal’ put me mind of Tom Sawyer.

“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.”

“Tom, I am not everybody.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Hypothermia

Rumpelstiltskin

I hope that’s hypothetical, @ucme!

Rapunzel @Coloma

you need to find that other thread before we get cussed for talking about you behind your back

@ibstubro You can climb my hair if you want to, you look like a little guy. lol

Nah, @Coloma, not so little. Save your feathers, though, and I’ll have me a nice long nap. :)

Kaleidoscope

Chipolte!

gangrene

@OneBadApple Looks like your little green apple needs to visit the ER. I think you have flesh rotting disease, maybe gangrene too. lol

Just cut the @#$%&#$ thing off, doc…..I got places to be….

defenestrate

^^^ Sounds like a flea and tick medicine. lol

I just wanted to bug Jeruba.

Jerubug! lol

lawlz yo

Cacophony

I thought @ucme‘s Kaleidoscope was particularly good and @Coloma Chipolte is just a fun word to say if its Chipotle. :-D

Gangrene is just gross, @OneBadApple, although you personally wear it well. :D

At least I don’t have to worry about tergiversation.

(blushing…)

@OneBadApple Do I detect a note of leprosy? De Aroma of Kay?

Raspberry! as in the delish raspberries in my champagne right now. lol

Fusticate.

Marmoset

Adumbrate
Ululate (yesterday’s word)
HIrsute (tomorrow’s word)

Juxtaposition

We got your raspberry, @Coloma!

Fusticate was new to me, @AshLeigh, and a great word, sounds tough.

Marmoset is a cute word for a cute animal, @Coloma. At least from a distance. :)

I’ll not be trying to work those into conversation today, @gailcalled. lol :)

Juxtaposition happens to be a favorite of mine, as well, @jh87. Thanks, and welcome!

I like the word ’‘swivel’’.

Yeah, it just kind of makes you want to find a bar stool, doesn’t it @Symbeline!

:)

Yeah, then I can spin around on ti like mad going, weeeeee! Fuck beer, spinning stools are where it’s at.

I once produced a spinning stool which was…..

( aww…..never mind…)

doowd, gross

Cataclysmic

Yes, a great word, @ucme. One you can define through onomatopoeia and context.

Consternation

Actually, @Coloma, as much as I hate to make you fret, that word reminds me of Carnation Evaporated Milk.

Okay fine…I’ll change it to Tarnation!

Aww, that’s just crotchety-oldtimer-coot-speak, is it not ?

Where are we now, in 1885 ??

^^^ Sure why not? Lets go for old time words like “geezer.” and “Curmudgeon”! haha

I LOVE Tarnation, @Coloma. We can’t let loose of our roots.

Speaking for the male population here, of course.

“Geezer” is a little close to the quick, however.

Let’s move the things like ‘jimminy’ and ‘gad ZOOKs’?

You gosh-darn kids…...get off my lawn…...!!

^^^ LOL

I’ll get off your lawn when my little ratty poodle finishes taking his morning constitution. Disclaimer, no ratty little mongrel dogs for me. Ewww.

Good for the grass, or so I’m told.

Please proceed, Pierre…..

Cool word # 94

Gosling

Sounds like something people do in the movies when they are 14…

haha…

Frenetic

I was. She eventually discarded me.

Best thing for everybody, all around….

Fuck word of the day, selfie has just been voted word of the year…really?

Jiggle Juggle Joggle

fun fun fun

Probity.
My crossword-loving pal called again and asked me what “eponymous” meant. A good word-of-the-day, I thought.

Wow, @gailcalled. You accidentally learned me something! Did you know that: “An eponym is a person or thing, whether real or fictional, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named.”

I never know that “eponym” was a word.

Speaking of which, in May we took that ‘cog’ train up to Pikes Peak in Colorado. History tells us that Zebulon Pike first discovered and explored this area, and is why its highest point is named for him.

On the train tour, they said that actually another intrepid American (named ‘Wilson’ or something) went to the top first, and that Pike’s expedition never made it all the way up. But there already was a mountain named ‘Wilson’s Peak’, so it was decided to just call this one Pikes Peak for convenience.

Conglomerate

Sanguine

Vestibule

@Coloma, ‘sanguine’ was already submitted by @gailcalled.

Please keep your eyes off your neighbor’s paper….

…who stole it from @tom_g in answer number one.

@Ibestubro; Yes, I knew what both eponym and eponymous mean.

Then BOTH of you need to keep your eyes off your neighbor’s paper…

Buckshot

Well “seeing” as how I missed those submissions it is still an original. Pffft!

Tortoise

Turquoise

Machete

Flabbergasted, never has my gast been so flabbered.

Upchuck, never has my chuck so nearly come up.

Sanguine

jestation

I like it because I just made it up in the shower, yet you know what it means.

:-)

Nincompoop, those pesky nincoms, they poop everywhere.

Sanguine

Sanguine again? lol

Grovel

“Waiter, we’ll have the clams-on-the-half-shell special and a bottle of your best sanguine…”

jackass

(snicker)

(chortle)

I love Chortle.

Gingersnap

Persnickety

I love chortle TOO!
Even more so if I get to do it immediately after insulting someone!

Guacamole, best said with Brad Pitt’s “Italian” accent in Inglorious Basterds.

“Bon-jore-no” hahaha

Pitt and Tarantino are interviewed in the DVD ‘Special Features’. They said that during the first script reading, Brad Pitt said the Italian words in his southern accent and the room exploded in laughter.

Tarantino knew immediately that they had to do it that way in the film…

Provocative

Proclivity

Panorama

Exsanguinate

I think we have a winner !!

Crap. I posted after Proclivity, and it was lost. Damned satellite internet!

So you’ve been exsanguinated, in a manner of speaking…

Ashram

Scram

Doppler

ooo… doppelganger.

Prolix and its lovely synonyms, bombastic and pleonastic.

I went to high school with a Leon Pleonastic.

Flagrant

If you got it, flaunt it, @Coloma.

bombastic’s great!

Curmudgeon

coriander ( if changed into a verb )

“We were bored as hell, so we just coriandered down to the train station…”

Rhomboid
Parallelogram

I just used snigger on another thread, and I think it’s cuter than snicker.

My black buddy Glenn is looking at it a little sideways at this very moment….says he doesn’t find it “cute”....

Halitosis

A really cool word is gelid.

Miffed is so…Country Club.

@gailcalled: Yes, gelid, like some personalities. Good word. Very, very cool ;-)

My latest is deliquescence:
– del·i·quesce , intr.v. del·i·quesced, del·i·quesc·ing, del·i·quesc·es
1.a. To melt away. b. To disappear as if by melting.

2. Chemistry: To dissolve and become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

3. Botany: a. To branch out into numerous subdivisions that lack a main axis, as the stem of an elm. b. To become fluid or soft on maturing, as certain fungi.

I’ve never heard nor read this word before, which is rare these days. I ran into it recently in a book on Africa, written in 1953. The author, a highly experienced American journalist and bureau chief, was describing what happened to the caliphate of Fez after the 1912 invasion of colonial troops and superimposition of French government upon Morocco. They ostensibly allowed it to exist as a reward for their cooperation during the invasion, but actually starved it of political power over a period of time. It simply deliquesced. Efficient, nonviolent, and predictably passive aggressive (read civilized) on the part of the French colonial government.

The only thing I think I could use it for is to describe in first person how the world melts away when one loses consciousness. I like the word. Or it could be used to describe what happens to a gelid woman who finally meets her match.

Jugaloo.

Graduation… :D

Congrat, @AshLeigh. GOOD FOR YOU! :-)

I am quite discombobulated

I wish I had my high school vocab book still with me. It was full of useless fun words.

Saturday!

Saturday is a very un-cool word for me this week. I had to work, which was operose.

Okay, then @downtide: Birthday since you had one this week!

Let’s all sing !!

(hang on…..I’ll get my harmonica….)

…grab a blanket. LET’S PUT ON A SHOW!

Cerveza!

Bless you, Goosey!

Or maybe a Grey Goose Martini with some Grey Poupon, but of course!
Nah…going out for some Cerveza now. Toodles.

[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] Bring me the change.

Well..by the time I pick up the rest of the goodies, there will be no change. lol

Get some of those little glass jars of Kraft Cheese. Old English, I think. I have 11 pounds of crab meat…we’ll make some hot cheesy crab dip!

bazooka is a really cute name wasted on a weapon.

Also the name of a bubble gum when I was a kid.

Aerugu

That looks like arugula.

—For the record, I agree @dxs—

Looks like a South American airline to me…

Kaukauna

Hawaiian airline, right there….

No, a town in Wisconsin that makes cheese. lol

Kakuna!

Crap! Dazed and confused, I’m just glad I facilitated that thread!!

I thought every town in Wisconsin made cheese…

Meld is a great word!

I don’t like it.

Spondoolicks

saffron

My day OFF! Woot!

poppycock

Curmudgeon

Sorrow.

Fizzle

poppycock’s FUN

Poot.

BOOB

All that loot made me poot in my boot!

The hell does “rickrolled” mean?

Norco as in the pain pills my doctor gave me for my evil sinus/ear infection.

Sounds like a brand of refrigerator…

“Hello….Norco Service Department…...this is Lou….how can I help you….??”

^^^ LOL Well maybe since my head is in the spin cycle they are appropriate.

@ibstubro “Rickrolling” is explained here: http://bit.ly/7JJSz8

Quarantine Do not come to my house today or you shall be struck down with a deadly disease. lol

Thanks, @downtide, I knew that! lol

Q words are cool. Quinine. Quince.
Kumquat.
get your mind out of the gutter

Fracking.

Iceholes

Quantum
Quark
Quack I like “Q” words.

Queer.

Quit!
Quiet

?noitseuQ

Quat.

Subzero
Tropical
Hankering

Hunky.

Dory

Quiddity
Quondam
Quorem

Quash.

@gailcalled Haha..“Hankering” I love that word. “I have a hankering for a bagel and cream cheese right now.

Quicksilver

Mercurial

I can’t quibble with that, @gailcalled, mercurial is a great word.

Saturnistic.

Okay..I propose the next word begin with a “P”

Persnickety!

Pumpernickle.

Pompous

Grey Poupon anyone

Dijon Okay, I’m all over the map here, my brain on Vicodin lol

Dijon Warwick?

^^^ LOL, very good!

Ferrari

Oh, Miss? Behave!

Carnival

Circus

Pantomime

Palomino.

Boloney

^^ Psst. Baloney

Percussion

Bologna sausage, also known as baloney, boloney or polony, is a sausage derived from and somewhat similar to the Italian mortadella (a finely hashed/ground pork sausage containing cubes of lard that originated in the Italian city of Bologna).

Concussion

Continuum.

Ruffles!

Ridges!

Something’s happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear….

There’s a man with a potato chip over there, telling me I got to beware…hey children whats that sound….

Gazelle

Grizzly

Trifecta.

Tribeca

Diatribe

Zither

and Yon

Yodel Whoever thought yodeling was cool? Gah! lol

SHILY. (WWF says it’s a real word. At least for my opponent.)

That’s silly shit. @Dutchess_III

Gargantuan

Rabelaisian

Is that when a bunch of rabble rouser get together to form a liaison?

No, silly, that’s when 2 Rabi’s have an affair.

Had to look that one up..it means raucous humor, fitting for this place

Squeegee

Jews only ordain those with two b’s.

François Raabelais wrote the book that starred Gargantua (and Pantagruel), hence the eponymous (hehe) adjective.

bankruptcy

it sounds festive!

leukemia also sounds kind of joyous, if you say it the right way….

That’s daft.

Scruples always reminded me of scrotum haha

Scruples always makes me think of ‘Scrabble’

And without fail, whenever driving near Baltimore, I see the highway signs referring to Chesapeake as ‘Cheapskate’.

Ruggles. Such a funny last name. I always think of a stuffed animal or something. I laugh when that stop is announced on the T.

Exasperated! That’s me right now…fuck, why is it when you are sick the whole world needs something from you! Gah! lol

Constipated.

Inflatulation—When you see someone you love so much that you accidentally fart.

Giggle!

coinflatulation…when EVERYBODY starts farting because they’re so glad to see everyone.

Big Bird on Sesame Street taught me this one. Made a song about it and everything. It’s kind of long though… Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Supercalifragilisticexpeallydoshis.

Comport

Polydactyl

Pollyanna ;-p

Pollywog

tell me that’s not a cool word!

Winsome I love Pollywogs

Flibbertigibbet.

Empathy

I LOVE winsome. It makes me feel it, and reminds me of Winnie, from The Wonder Years first episodes.

Flibbertigibbet is fun

Flabbergasted @ibstubro Oooh, I forgot about “The Wonder Years” great show!

Winnie always made me feel winsome, for some reason.

Jigglypuff

Octopi

Loquacious

Gracious

Mellow.

Ostentatious LOL..it’s a rhyming game now

Pollywollydoodle

We all know it’s one word. All day!

Chagagagagamanchagagachubungagungamo

B. I. N. G. O!

Abandoned. as it appears this thread is.

Catsup

Pugnacious

I just thought of this thread today!

Hypnotic

Grandiose

Brevity

Hypochondriac
Sure sounds like fun?

Hippopotamus

Permafrost

Persnickety

Flabbergasted

Googleplex

Flummoxed

Flatulence.

Ignoble

Igloo haha

Loogy.

Pugnacious

^^^ Hey, it’s been done dude, by me. Count 14 up. lol

Frittter

Oh, like there are no repeats! HAR!

Pugilistic

Nihilistic :-p

Fortuitous

humdinger

@ibstubro I love Fortuitous, just used it the other day with a person I met in a park, we had so much in common.

Cuckhold

Mystical

Bumkin

Waaay too close to another word I know.

Baboon @ibstubro I think it’s Bumpkin. :-) Oh no, I’m turning into @gailcalled lol

Milo here: You could do worse, and congrats, BTW, on it’s

Cuckold. (Sorry).

“Nifty” or perhaps “Niftiness” which isn’t an actual word but one I occasionally use…

Spiffy

REDRUM.

Here’s Johnny!

Conundrum

Baa

Moo

Quack

Quark. Did we already do that?

Frolicsome

Flippant

We’re not overly concerned with duplicates, @Dutchess_III. The Goose may call you out, but honk over it! lol

OK

Flippant.

?III_ssehctuD@ ,tnappilf’ naem uoy diD

Pique

oɹqnʇsqı ʇuɐddıןɟ ʇuɐǝɯ ı ‘ou

Flipper.

Pestilence.

Obsequious

Frappuccino

Flappuccino
Crappuccino

Cappuccino!

I had a hard time getting over that ‘Goose drinking coffee’ hump.
Imagine Daffy with an Espresso!

Honk, flap, run!

Mastodon

Avalanche

Oceanic

Avada Kedavra!

Frankenfurter, weenie, wiener, frank, hot doggy…uh, uh….

Penis

Snipe!

Conniving

Crispy

Buffet!

I’m off to one for the day.

Jealous
How I feel about that.

Fudge! Oh my merry Xmas ass is happy. lol

Fruitcake!

Biddy

@Dutchess_III Are you keeping Miss Puss clean? lololol

Rummy

Christmas!

Banjo.

Sparkle

Respite

Birthday! It’s my birthday! lol

Glorious!

May you have a glorious birthday, @Coloma!

@ibstubro Thank You, I shall.

Celestial

Happy birthday, @Coloma!
Perfunctory

Hatchet.

Pompous

Drum roll…

Epiphany

What glorious word.

Hey, Goosey loosey…what are you doing on here? Isn’t it your birthday?

@ibstubro It’s almost 7 pm and I was out all day, I am done with everything now. Whew!

Gypsum

^ Gypsy

Bohemian

Hippy

Beatnik

WAFER.

^ Shh

Strabismus

Why am I being shushed?

(shouting)

Bonita

Perfidy