Education & Reference Underused/Forgotten Words

[Tulip]

The english language is actually turning to shit. We have a dictionary with 100,000 words in it, and some people would struggle to recall 1000

I'll start with Tarry.

tar·ry 1 (tr)
v. tar·ried, tar·ry·ing, tar·ries
v.intr.
1. To delay or be late in going, coming, or doing. See Synonyms at stay1.
2. To wait.
3. To remain or stay temporarily, as in a place; sojourn.

Very underused

 

[emuboy]

Suffix

Everyone know what "prefix" means, but few people use the word suffix any more.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Suffix

Everyone know what "prefix" means, but few people use the word suffix any more.

Didn't he live three doors down from Asterix?


If you really want to annoy ignorant people, use the word "niggardly".

 

[cammania]

Bonza.

 

[Starlin Castro]

Seldom.

 

[SBI]

I reckon that "nong" is a criminally underused insult.

 

[AtomicBlonde]

avuncular
quincunx
librate
phallus
plebian
philistine

some phrases from another time:

"on the 'morrow"
"gentleman callers"
"stiffen the sinews"
"woe is me"

 

[BORK]

"Cross" to describe a feeling of anger or frustration.

 

[krisholio14]

"Cross" to describe a feeling of anger or frustration.

KP likes it

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[sherb]

The english language is actually turning to shit. We have a dictionary with 100,000 words in it, and some people would struggle to recall 1000

I'll start with Tarry.

tar·ry 1 (tr)
v. tar·ried, tar·ry·ing, tar·ries
v.intr.
1. To delay or be late in going, coming, or doing. See Synonyms at stay1.
2. To wait.
3. To remain or stay temporarily, as in a place; sojourn.

Very underused

Steve Harley used it - at 1.07:

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[cancat]

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[cancat]

Steve Harley used it - at 1.07:

And Freddie at 0.59

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[PAUR]

Verb 1. defenestrate - throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"
throw - propel through the air; "throw a frisbee"


"that ***** just got defenestrated yo"

In a vocabulary challenge you will always win with this

 

[grizzlym]

Verb 1. defenestrate - throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"
throw - propel through the air; "throw a frisbee"


"that ***** just got defenestrated yo"

In a vocabulary challenge you will always win with this

Didn't the modernist sculptor Carl Andre defenestrate his wife?

Here's an amusing list of untranslatable words.

http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/20-awesomely-untranslatable-words-from-around-the-world/

 

[mdc]

Wanton. Particularly underused in speech, due to potential dumpling-related confusion.

 

[volcboy]

crapulent adj
1. given to or resulting from intemperance
2. suffering from intemperance; drunken

[from Late Latin crāpulentus drunk, from Latin crāpula, from Greek kraipalē drunkenness, headache resulting therefrom]

crapulence n
crapulently , crapulously adv
crapulousness n

 

[Lemma]

escutcheon

 

[GoTheSwannies]

I like the word vexed and believe its underused

 

[juddsentant517]

debonair

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

cowabunga

 

[rhinowce]

Nearly all of Caesar's posts contain these so called words...

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Jibbed

 

[MarcMaverick]

Nerts
Troglodytes.
Accord

 

[Triple E]

Kwyjibo

 

[Dazb86]

Swell.