Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.
Widdershins. It means counter to the sun’s direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.
- Paramour
It sounds fancy, but means a casual lover. A fuck buddy. A friend with benefits. Though it can also carry the implication of being an out-of-wedlock lover, as it dates back to a time where having a fuck buddy was almost certainly a sign of married infidelity.
- Kith
Means one’s friends and other people they are close to that aren’t family. Often paired with “kin”. Kith and kin. Friends and family.
Wait did you just coin that? That’s fucking brilliant
Because there was no /s - no they didn’t, it’s been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)
Vulgar Argot - a word or phrase that is obsolete or incredibly obscure.
Indubitably!
It means most certainly, beyond questioning.
And it’s fun to say!
Ah, I grew up listening to Adventures In Odyssey and one character said that all the time. Beautiful word.
Internecine, meaning “destructive to both sides in a conflict”.
Petty bickering like that divorce where they had a judge adjudicate the distribution of their beanie baby collection was internecine.
Grok
It means to know or understand, like “yeah man I can grok that.”
Specifically, it refers to a deep understanding.
[A critic] notes that [the coiner’s] first intensional definition is simply “to drink”, but that this is only a metaphor “much as English ‘I see’ often means the same as ‘I understand’”. (from Wikipedia)
When you claim to “grok” some knowledge or technique, you are asserting that you have not merely learned it in a detached instrumental way but that it has become part of you, part of your identity. For example, to say that you “know” Lisp is simply to assert that you can code in it if necessary – but to say you “grok” Lisp is to claim that you have deeply entered the world-view and spirit of the language, with the implication that it has transformed your view of programming. Contrast zen, which is a similar supernatural understanding experienced as a single brief flash. (The Jargon File; also quoted on Wikipedia)
Being pedantic, but it’s beyond that.
To grok is to know or understand so completely, it becomes a part of yourself. To know something fully. You can understand the concepts of astrophysics, but you might not grok the concept.
The literal meaning was defined “to drink”. If you drink something, it becomes a part of you.
I guess I didn’t grok the true meaning of the word. Thank you!
Perchance!
You can’t just say “perchance”!
Grandiloquent/sesquipedalian. It’s what you get when you use everything in this thread ₍^ >ヮ<^₎ .ᐟ.ᐟ
/s
Jocund: cheerful and lighthearted.
From Romeo and Juliet:
Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Avuncular - of or having the qualities of an uncle.
“His avuncular joke was both lazy and sexist”
That’s the definition but not how it’s ever used.
Proof /s
Interrobang.
It’s this thing: ‽
More people should use the symbol because it looks cool and has a badass name, so for that you need to know what it’s called.
Who’s with me‽
Only if you agree to stop calling them Hashtags and use their more-correct name of Octothorpes
“Press 1 to continue followed by the Octothorpes”
Lol I love it
Interrobang sounds like something from a porno about police work.
“Did you question the suspect?”
“Yeah, Chief, we interrobanged him and got the info.”
Hey, it’s me, your suspect. I’ve got more info, step it up with the interrobanging, will ya?
While I like the concept, I can’t help but prefer ‘!?’ or ‘?!’. There’s more granularity of meaning, and I think it just looks nicer having two or more separate characters.
How do I start?
I set up an auto replace on my phone so when I type ?! It’ll switch it to ‽ for me.
I made
AltGr + /type an interrobang so I’d always have access to it
perambulation is a good one. My morning walk isn’t quite grand enough to be called a ‘constitutional’; nor scenic and leisurely enough to be called a ‘stroll’; nor yet social enough to be called a ‘promenade’; ‘perambulation’ is just the ticket.
I thought the morning constitutional was taking a shit.
And what a lovely paragraph about it. Thank you.
Oh I love to perambulate, sitting still is what I really hate
Gormless - Lacking initiative, foolish
Copacetic - correct, orderly, good
Copacetic
Sonder (noun): the feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one’s own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles: In a state of sonder, each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member, and an extra in overlapping stories.
This one always makes me smile, because it’s from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’s just some guy’s blog in which he comes up with new words to express experiences and emotions that are difficult to describe, and that specific one has thoroughly broken containment
Bought the book. It’s the only dictionary I’ve enjoyed reading.
That was lovely, thank you for that.
