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johnsmcjohn
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25 Jun 2011, 5:36 am

My favorite word: Schadenfreude. It means taking pleasure in others pain.



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25 Jun 2011, 6:07 am

awaydriveness - dismissal
behovely - necessary
besnitness - degradation
betwixset - interposed
comelitheness - hospitable
custiness- virtue
dwildafterfollowing - erroneous movement
earthtiller - farmer
eftmindy - remembering
eyeseen - visible
ermth - poverty, misery, distress
forlayness - fornication
freckenful - dangerous
galdersong - incantation
grorning - complaint
herahuth - plunder
honeysweet - mellifluous
hungerbitten - famished


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25 Jun 2011, 7:05 am

Henbane wrote:
behovely - necessary


I like and use the word 'behove' which I guess comes from that one.


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28 Jun 2011, 2:20 am

Alacrity: noun: readiness or willingness in a cheerful way

Garrulous: adj: the describing word for a person who speaks about the trivial

Bloviate: verb: to speak about something nonstop, particularly of an interest one does not care about

Loquatious: adj: a describing word about a person who speaks repetitiously, nonstop

Jollux: noun: 18th century slang for a fat person.

Flambeau - noun: a flaming torch

Panopticism - noun: the theory conjured by Michel Foucault of being 'all seen,' as garnered throughout his book 'Discipline and Punishment'

Infinitesimal - adj: small

Impervious - adj, oblivious to anything that could happen; not allowing something to seep.

Soporific - adj, sleep inducing

Perfidious - adj, a description for one who betrays



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28 Jun 2011, 2:23 am

Rubicund- red or reddish; ruddy.



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11 Sep 2014, 8:23 pm

Palindromes are spelt the same way backwards and forwards.



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12 Sep 2014, 7:16 am

Henbane wrote:
awaydriveness - dismissal
behovely - necessary
besnitness - degradation
betwixset - interposed
comelitheness - hospitable
custiness- virtue
dwildafterfollowing - erroneous movement
earthtiller - farmer
eftmindy - remembering
eyeseen - visible
ermth - poverty, misery, distress
forlayness - fornication
freckenful - dangerous
galdersong - incantation
grorning - complaint
herahuth - plunder
honeysweet - mellifluous
hungerbitten - famished


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Interesting.

Those are the Germanic terms (from either Anglosaxon, or from Norse) that we would be using today if the Normans hadnt conquered Britain and caused English to adopt a veneer of French on its Germanic core.