Word of the Day

[Phaedrus]

The dictionary app I use on my phone to help me when I'm writing gives me a daily word.

I have seen some weird words, but this one takes the cake.

tintinnabulation.

the ringing or sound of bells.

[Alan V]

Enantiodromia is a conversion of something into its opposite. For instance, a teacher who spreads ignorance, a doctor who makes his patients ill, or a political party that tries to undermine the government.

[SYZ]

abstemious and facetious... the only two words in the English language containing all 5 vowels in their correct order.

—or are they?    

[Dancefortwo]

The dictionary app I use on my phone to help me when I'm writing gives me a daily word.

I have seen some weird words, but this one takes the cake.

tintinnabulation.

the ringing or sound of bells.

LOVE that word, "tintinnabulation".   Edgar Allen Poes used it so well in his poem, The Bells.   I won't post the whole thing because it's so long.  But here's the first stanza.

Hear the sledges with the bells-
                  Silver bells!
  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
          How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
              In the icy air of night!
          While the stars that oversprinkle
          All the heavens, seem to twinkle
            With a crystalline delight;
                Keeping time, time, time,
            In a sort of Runic rhyme,
  To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
            From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
                  Bells, bells, bells-
  From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Edit to add: Reading through that poem again it has a Christmas flavor to it. Edgar Allen Poe and Christmas. Now there's a fun combo.

[Dancefortwo]

I love the word "languid" because I love what it means visually.  





I always think of weeping willow trees on a warm summer day as being languid.



Or a quite, reposed woman on a sofa.



It's a beautiful word.

[Dānu]

[Fireball]

legs. 

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[no one]

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[NorthernBen]

I like the word moist.
It's neither wet or dry.
Don't ruin moist by adding ure to it, that makes a mockery of a perfectly good description of not wet.

I'm losing the plot.

[grympy]

Crunt. Can be used in polite company.

I'm also very fond of flunngle. (as in flunggle my dunggle)

[Chimp3]

Murmuration: That thing that birds do!

[Alan V]

I like the word factitious, which means artificially created or developed.

[julep]

Perspicacious.

[Phaedrus]

deipnosophist

a person who is an adept conversationalist at table

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Sympathy", found between "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary.

[SYZ]

The longest word composed entirely of letters from the first half of the alphabet is the 12-letter fiddledeedee.

The longest word composed entirely of letters from the second half of the alphabet is the 10-letter word zoosporous.

[Dānu]

[Dancefortwo]

I've always liked the word "milktoast".   "A timid, unassertive, spineless person."    Nobody uses that word much anymore but I think it's a fun word to describe someone.  

"Prestidigitation"  is also a fun word.  It's fun to say.

[grympy]

Murmuration: That thing that birds do!

Ululation. The verb is  ululate. (see 3.19 in the clip below. )







I have actually witnessed this once, in this street.  There is a Sudanese family a few doors down.  The day they left to be married, the bride's friends lined up on either side of her  path and ululated. Made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

[grympy]

"Sympathy", found between "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary.

Yair, a bit like 'gratitude'. A polite definition is "' the expectation of favours to come" 

Stalin was pithier ; " A sickness suffered by dogs". But of course he was a paranoid psychotic. 

[Dānu]

I've always liked the word "milktoast".   "A timid, unassertive, spineless person."    Nobody uses that word much anymore but I think it's a fun word to describe someone.  

[Alan V]

Circumambulation is the act of walking around a sacred object or idol, like Muslims do with the Kaaba in Mecca.