New word thread.

[Croydon Bob]

So you are both saying that although we assume that the Americans are the deviants, it is sometimes us who are the deviants.

Must... resist... urge... to... mock... polomint...

In 1892 when Keir Hardy stood for election in West Ham South he stood as a "Labor" candidate. Either he was seriously thick or the UK later added a "u".

[Graham Lappin]

In 1892 when Keir Hardy stood for election in West Ham South he stood as a "Labor" candidate. Either he was seriously thick or the UK later added a "u".

And in 1982 he couldn't even blame MS Word spellcheck.

[chaggle]

Cheers Matt - hadn't heard that one before

ram·bunc·tious   [ram-buhngk-shuhs] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
2.
turbulently active and noisy: a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand.
Origin:
1820–30, Americanism; orig. uncert.

—Related forms
ram·bunc·tious·ly, adverb
ram·bunc·tious·ness, noun

[skbuncks]

milquetoasts

milquetoasty adj.
Word History: An indication of the effect on the English language of popular culture is the adoption of names from the comic strips as English words. Casper Milquetoast, created by Harold Webster in 1924, was a timid and retiring man named for a timid food. The first instance of milquetoast as a common noun is found in the mid-1930s. Milquetoast thus joins the ranks of other such words, including sad sack, from a blundering army private invented by George Baker in 1942, and Wimpy, from J. Wellington Wimpy in the Popeye comic strip, which became a trade name for a hamburger. If we look to a related form of popular culture, the animated cartoon, we must of course acknowledge Mickey Mouse, which has become a slang term for something that is easy, insignificant, small-time, worthless, or petty.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Milquetoasts

Thanks to Matt quoting Phil Plait

skb

[Julia]

In one of Bill Bryson's books he bemoans the loss of many delightful old words, such as "slobberchops". A couple of days after I read this I overheard my dad (who hadn't read the book) calling our dog a "slobberchops" for being a messy eater. When I asked him about it - my dad, not the dog - he told me that he thought "slobberchops" was a Yorkshire dialect word and could remember his parents and grandparents using it.

Another little gem is the derogatory "dickipoggy", which I first came across in two enormously long JREF Forum threads about the thirty year feud between rival Highgate Vampire hunters David Farrant and Sean Manchester. It also seems to be a Yorkshire dialect word but for some reason is used almost exclusively by one of David Farrant's female followers (Google "dickipoggy" and you'll see what I mean...)

[Lucan]

Falsarii

[skbuncks]

Heard came across this over on Badscience:

Borborygmus.

It has the double wammy of not only being a cool word I've never came across before but is also an onomatopoeia, one of my favourite words and one which I try, but consistently fail, to get into conversation

skb

[chaggle]

Heard came across this over on Badscience:

Borborygmus.

It has the double wammy of not only being a cool word I've never came across before but is also an onomatopoeia, one of my favourite words and one which I try, but consistently fail, to get into conversation

skb

Good word - I tried to guess and got it completely wrong. I had it down as a sort of cross between 'boring' and 'ignoramus' - someone who bangs on ad nauseum about a subject about which he obviously knows very little. Many of my customers are boborygmae.

Anyone play Balderdash? IMHO the best after-dinner game around.

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[alganbagerap]

Helioproctosis: the belief that the sun shines out of one's arse

[panama]

Helioproctosis: the belief that the sun shines out of one's arse

Very good...I think I'll be using that one.

[Spring Heeled Jack]

Those of you who enjoy songs about haemorrhoids and other amusing medical conditions might like to know that "Borborygmy" is also the name of an incredibly strange record - free download here.

Enjoy!

[Mr.Smoketoomuch]

Onomatopoeia
- a naughty puppy

[ZERO]

Megacryometeor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacryometeor

Huge chunks of ice that fall out of the sky. Cause uncertain.

[bindeweede]

Krukolibidinous.

The act of staring at someone's crotch

[Spring Heeled Jack]

Nittles - asterisks or other non-alphabetical symbols substituted for letters in a censored naughty word. That's a real one! Though why a word for something that makes the world less rude should itself sound a bit naughty is beyond my powers of analysis.