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#61 Post by bob2s » Thu Mar 11, 2021 4:30 am

Serendipity -- finding something good without looking for it

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#62 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:59 pm

Fafi - Telling my sister in Norwich about the day the Chinese Fafi mafia's limousine was upended by a baying crowd who felt they had been cheated when we lived in Johannesburg. She was just a wee bairn then and remembered nothing of it. My mother saw what was happening and managed to get police support just in time to save the Chinese from an unpleasant death. Life in Africa is never boring.
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#63 Post by Smeagol » Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:48 pm

Smeech - dirty, smoky, cloud from a fire. A westcountry word not in my Shorter Oxford dictionary (only 137,000 words).
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#64 Post by ian16th » Wed Mar 17, 2021 4:38 pm

Netty - A toilet in the North East England.
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#65 Post by Pontius Navigator » Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:31 am

Shower as in baby shower.

The first time I heard this word in this context was when a wannabe princess held one in New York.

Imagine my surprise when, doing ancestral research, I found the term used in the 1960s in Canada of the wedding shower for a distant relative.

Shower as in showering gifts.

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#66 Post by 4mastacker » Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:55 am

Dunch - North Eastern for 'crash into", usually in reference to a vehicle collision.

"He quoined the corner and dunched into it" = He drove around a bend in the road and collided with the back of another vehicle"
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#67 Post by EA01 » Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:03 am

'Kinoath (as in,...it most certainly is indeed!!)

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#68 Post by Pontius Navigator » Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:45 am

Quoin as in decorative stone work on the corner of the building

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#69 Post by EA01 » Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:12 am

Flummoxed.....as in I am frequently Flummoxed...

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#70 Post by CharlieOneSix » Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:39 am

Bicameral.

Don't know how I got to my age without ever hearing this word until today. Meaning 'two chambers'. A bicameral parliament is one that contains two separate assemblies who are both involved when new laws are made, such as the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the UK.
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#71 Post by EA01 » Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:42 am

Here, in our State, we have a Unicameral state Government....neither side looks to change that....

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#72 Post by Karearea » Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:58 pm

Scroddle (transitive) To mottle (pottery) with scraps of differently coloured clays.

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#73 Post by Undried Plum » Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:17 pm

****q.

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#74 Post by Opsboi » Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:52 pm

Undried Plum wrote:
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****q.
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#75 Post by Karearea » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:31 am

Apricity - the warmth of the sun in winter.
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#76 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:06 am

Snollygoster - a shrewd, unprincipled person, usually a politician... Never heard or read that word until yesterday.
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#77 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:35 am

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
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Snollygoster - a shrewd, unprincipled person, usually a politician... Never heard or read that word until yesterday.
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#78 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:56 pm

Noachian - relating to the biblical patriarch Noah or his time (as in Australia's Noachian floods).
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#79 Post by Hydromet » Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:43 pm

Antediluvian - before the Noachian floods.

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#80 Post by bob2s » Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:41 am

Antilocution -- is a form of discrimination in which negative verbal remarks against a person, group, or community, are made (in a public or private setting)

Was used in an article referred to in a post,definitely had to look up it's meaning.

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