The thread of beautiful words...

[Caribou]

I have this idea from another message board I'm on, and there it's as popular as the 'what are you listening to' thread here.

The point is to post a word that you find beautiful, interesting, funny or whatever, and share it with us. Either for our amusement or to teach us certain words we hadn't yet heard of.

I'll start with one of my favourite words in the English language:

u·biq·ui·tous /yuˈbɪkwɪtəs/ [yoo-bik-wi-tuhs] –adjective

existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent:
ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.

[paul jones]

tits

[HEIRESS]

Effluent: waste material, such as water from sewage treatment or manufacturing plants, discharged into the environment

RHYMES WITH AFFLUENT
LALZ

[paul jones]

vagina

[Yorkshire~Rose]

quixotic /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ Pronunciation Key - [kwik-sot-ik]
adjective

1. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
2. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

[mikizee]

muffin


you eat it

[ms.peachy]

quixotic /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ Pronunciation Key - [kwik-sot-ik]
adjective

1. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
2. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

That's one of my favourites as well!

I also quite like:

ser·en·dip·i·ty (sěr'ən-dĭp'ĭ-tē)
n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties

1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making such a discovery.

[From the characters in the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, who made such discoveries, from Persian Sarandīp, Sri Lanka, from Arabic sarandīb.]

[Knuckles]

That's one of my favourites as well!

I also quite like:

ser·en·dip·i·ty (sěr'ən-dĭp'ĭ-tē)
n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties

1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making such a discovery.

[From the characters in the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, who made such discoveries, from Persian Sarandīp, Sri Lanka, from Arabic sarandīb.]

Anyone remember the Serendipity (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.any-book-in-print.com/images/book_covers/s_web/serendipity.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.any-book-in-print.com/_grades_k5/s_serendipity_k5.htm&h=134&w=85&sz=9&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=hwCKjbCDcR3PEM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=58&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dserendipity%2Bbook%26svnum%3D10%26um% 3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff) book series?

I loved The Wheedle On The Needle!

[Waus]

Loquacious.

[cookiepuss]

gos·sa·mer (gŏs'ə-mər) pronunciation
n.

1. A soft sheer gauzy fabric.
2. Something delicate, light, or flimsy.
3. A fine film of cobwebs often seen floating in the air or caught on bushes or grass.

adj.

Sheer, light, delicate, or tenuous. See synonyms at airy.

[MC Moot]

ab·so·lu·tion

–noun 1. act of absolving; a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties.

[hpdrifter]

Dude, Leo the Lop was my favorite book when I was a kid.

I guess it was a harbinger of things to come.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I like the word contemplative.

[Bob]

arguendo

"for the sake of argument"

basically it's latin for "your argument sucks, what were you thinking, get out of my courtroom"

[jabumbo]

Effluent: waste material, such as water from sewage treatment or manufacturing plants, discharged into the environment

RHYMES WITH AFFLUENT
LALZ

(y)


flocculate

verb
1. form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the protoplasms flocculated"
2. cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; "The chemist flocculated the suspended material"

[cookiepuss]

ob·se·qui·ous /əbˈsikwiəs/ Pronunciation[uhb-see-kwee-uhs]
–adjective
1. characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
2. servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants.
3. obedient; dutiful.

[Helvete]

Aluminium.

Okay, however you say it, it doesn't matter. Just write it. Make sure you do it all joined up, or cursive whatever you people call it. It's just the nicest, most perfect word to write. Flowing and smooth. I was on an engineering course and had to write that word a few times, it was most enjoyable.

[Bob]

ob·se·qui·ous /əbˈsikwiəs/ Pronunciation[uhb-see-kwee-uhs]
–adjective
1. characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
2. servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants.
3. obedient; dutiful.

can't spell it without "IOU"

[abcdefz]

I was just checking our local weather at CNN, and it said "Dreary." That cracks me up. I mean, okay, yeah, I guess, but... that just seems
kind of subjective for an "official" weather vocabulary.

"Dreary." :D Sunny, cloudy, chance of rain, mild, dreary.

[jabumbo]

ob·se·qui·ous /əbˈsikwiəs/ Pronunciation[uhb-see-kwee-uhs]
–adjective
1. characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
2. servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants.
3. obedient; dutiful.


i still don't know what it means :(

[abcdefz]

i still don't know what it means :(



Think of how Smithers behaves with Burns.

[jabumbo]

Think of how Smithers behaves with Burns.


now that is more my language!

[abcdefz]

(y)

[Bob]

I was just checking our local weather at CNN, and it said "Dreary." That cracks me up. I mean, okay, yeah, I guess, but... that just seems
kind of subjective for an "official" weather vocabulary.

"Dreary." :D Sunny, cloudy, chance of rain, mild, dreary.

is your weatherman eeyore?

[abcdefz]

See, that's what I'm thinking. That or Poe.

Maybe Morrissey.

[vickista]

Cellar Door

haha Donnie Darko reference!!

yay!

i agree though cellar door does sound quite nice

[MC Moot]

Trattoria ....I love it.....

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural trat·to·ri·as or trat·to·rie \-ˈrē-ˌā\

Etymology: Italian, from trattore restaurateur, from French traiteur, from traiter to treat, from Old French traitier — more at treat

Date: 1832

:restaurant; specifically : a usually small Italian restaurant

[Yetra Flam]

i like the phrase "orwellian dystopia"

[SobaViolence]

reification
to make the abstract tangible.

[wanton wench]

i love this thread! cause i'm a Logolept (word lover)

Sophomania-delusions of exceptional intelligence.

Geloscopy-determining someone's character or future by the way he or she laughs

[MC Moot]

suc·co·tash

Pronunciation[suhk-uh-tash]

–noun a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, esp. lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.

Suffering....

[wanton wench]

what was the cartoon with the little cowboy guy with red hair that always said
"southern succotash"

was it bugs bunny???

[MC Moot]

what was the cartoon with the little cowboy guy with red hair that always said
"southern succotash"

was it bugs bunny???

Sufferin succotash! = Yosemite Sam....:D

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jJSznSmRRBM

[wanton wench]

ah......i was wondering why you added the "suffering" at the end. :)

but actually that dish sounds southern.