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Word of the day...

#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Feb 25, 2021 12:21 pm

lambent - "(of light or fire) glowing, gleaming, or flickering with a soft radiance."

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#2 Post by emjay » Thu Feb 25, 2021 12:39 pm

Flabbergasted - adjective, emotion felt when checking the bathroom scales after exiting COVID 19 lockdown.

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#3 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:06 pm

"discombobulation" is defined as "an embarrassing feeling that leaves a person totally confused".

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#4 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:31 pm

fundi - (Southern African from Nguni group of languages, umfundi ‘learner’) - An expert, a master of a certain profession, subject or discipline.
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#5 Post by ian16th » Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:19 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:31 pm
fundi - (Southern African from Nguni group of languages, umfundi ‘learner’) - An expert, a master of a certain profession, subject or discipline.
It was used about me, when I was introduced to my peers on my 1st day at work down here!

So the 1st local word I learned.
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#6 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:18 pm

ian16th wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:19 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:31 pm
fundi - (Southern African from Nguni group of languages, umfundi ‘learner’) - An expert, a master of a certain profession, subject or discipline.
It was used about me, when I was introduced to my peers on my 1st day at work down here!

So the 1st local word I learned.
A good word for a good start! ;)))
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#7 Post by ian16th » Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:21 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:18 pm
ian16th wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:19 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:31 pm
fundi - (Southern African from Nguni group of languages, umfundi ‘learner’) - An expert, a master of a certain profession, subject or discipline.
It was used about me, when I was introduced to my peers on my 1st day at work down here!

So the 1st local word I learned.
A good word for a good start! ;)))
In the world of the blind, the one eyed man is king!

I knew a lot more about my area of expertise than anyone in SA. o:-)
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#8 Post by Hydromet » Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:59 pm

'Slipfeathers' - the little triangular pieces of wood put into mitre joints to strengthen them. People often call them splines, but splines are a different beast. They are also little pieces of wood used to strengthen mitres, but they are long and rectangular, and run the length of the mitre.

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#9 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:59 pm

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - the fear of long words.
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#10 Post by jimtherev » Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:03 pm

'Timeous' - in a timely fashion. Archaic & Scottish, yet insisted upon by an (admittedly archaic and Scottish) acquaintance in a document he is helping to draft.

Good one C16. Did you just cook that one? Got it out of the oven just in time by the look of it.

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#11 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:13 pm

jimtherev wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:03 pm
......Good one C16. Did you just cook that one? Got it out of the oven just in time by the look of it.
It's amazingly genuine! Mrs C16 says it was on an episode of QI in the distant past.

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#12 Post by ian16th » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:53 am

jimtherev wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:03 pm
'Timeous' - in a timely fashion. Archaic & Scottish, yet insisted upon by an (admittedly archaic and Scottish) acquaintance in a document he is helping to draft.

Good one C16. Did you just cook that one? Got it out of the oven just in time by the look of it.
I used it recently , it was the correct word for the job.
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#13 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:35 am

Weltanschauung - (from German of course, but adopted, stolen, appropriated by Enlgish, which is what makes English such a successful language) - World view or a particular philosophy or view of life... The Germans are geniuses for concatenating a number of words to create ineffable meaning, although there is nothing ineffable about Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän, which in English, becomes four words: "Danube steamship company captain."
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#14 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:36 pm

ian16th wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:53 am
jimtherev wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:03 pm
'Timeous' - in a timely fashion. Archaic & Scottish, yet insisted upon by an (admittedly archaic and Scottish) acquaintance in a document he is helping to draft.

Good one C16. Did you just cook that one? Got it out of the oven just in time by the look of it.
I used it recently , it was the correct word for the job.
Like the random tool bought in the aisle of doom that is essential the following week.

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#15 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:48 pm

A short one:
Plink

Tank plinking is a term that was given by pilots during the Gulf War to the practice of using precision-guided munitions to destroy artillery, armored personnel carriers, tanks, and other targets.[1] As the war progressed, the term began to encompass all forms of destroying a target with an excessively capable weapon.[2] This term was discouraged by the military

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#16 Post by jimtherev » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:25 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:48 pm
A short one:
Plink

Tank plinking is a term that was given by pilots during the Gulf War to the practice of using precision-guided munitions to destroy artillery, armored personnel carriers, tanks, and other targets.[1] As the war progressed, the term began to encompass all forms of destroying a target with an excessively capable weapon.[2] This term was discouraged by the military
Quite right too. It's a small uncomplicated word which can be understood without attending a compulsory six-week training course at Aldershot. Harrumph.

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#17 Post by bob2s » Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:21 am

Circuitous -- longer than the most direct route.Was in a book I was reading describing a meandering river.

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#18 Post by Hydromet » Sat Feb 27, 2021 1:22 am

bob2s wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:21 am
Circuitous -- longer than the most direct route.Was in a book I was reading describing a meandering river.
It also describes the route my wife will take through a shopping mall.

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#19 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:19 am

prelapsarian

characteristic of the time before the Fall of Man; innocent and unspoilt.
"a prelapsarian Eden of astonishing plenitude"

B*****R, Mrs PN had heard of it. I guess Jim the Rev will too.

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#20 Post by Hydromet » Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:31 am

Antediluvian

Before the great flood. When I worked in the water industry I always kept an eye out for an opportunity to use this one.

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