What new word did you learn today?

Conniption
/kəˈnɪpʃ(ə)n/
noun
INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN

1. a fit of rage or hysterics.
   "his client was having conniptions on the phone"

I like this word, and I have just the character into whose mouth to put it.

 

ah yes, the vocab word my brother always used to use on me when I'd get upset over his bullying:
"Stop having a conniption" and "Your conniptions are getting old"

 

Psithurism, the sound of rustling leaves.

 

You must be younger. In my youth it was fairly common in popular media, especially comedies.

 

Granted, I only just learned it, but that seems an odd word choice for the context. Too... Whimsical, perhaps? I'm sorry, and I hope the bullying wasn't too egregious.

Well, it's one of those words that you hear every so often, but you don't really pick up on it. This time I decided to check it out, though, because I loved the guy's delivery and the context. And yeah, I guess statistically I'm younger than most.

 

I'm familiar with it in the context of throwing a conniption fit. More rarely heard the word used by itself.

 

Ornithopter. A flying machine, most often at toy scale, that mimics the motion of living birds.

 

Let me guess: Dune?

 

Dune had dragonflies.

 

Confession. Not new to me. I knew the word even before reading Dune many years ago in my early twenties. I saw plans for one in a model airplane magazine. You can find examples on Youtube. Seeing one there recently made me think of it.

 

In the movie. In the book they were called ornithopters.

 

I kinda figured something like that after i typed it

 

I worry about my mind at times. Doing the crossword puzzle today, I immediately came up with "fancy word for kiss" (osculate) without any letter clues, but blanked out on "falsely present as genuine" (fob off) with two letter clues. I had no idea I knew the word osculate.

 

Frater house
noun

An apartment in a convent used as a dining room; a refectory; a fratery.

 

i recently found the word basorexia, it means the sudden urge to kiss someone, i think this is really sweet i've always struggled with describing this urge and i found a perfect fit. I'm unsure whether this is an official word but nevertheless i love it

 

Yeah, that has a nice ring to it, and it makes some sense etymologically. The Italian word for kiss is "bacio", so I imagine the "bas" portion has the same Latin roots. I didn't quite know what -orexia means, so I looked it up. Apparently it means "appetite" or "desire", which is fairly obvious in retrospect. "An appetite for kisses". Yeah, good word.

 

Man, I misidentified that as French for a bit. One more letter and yeah, baby!

 

Venus Pudica
Western Art history term for the classical female nude that is either standing or reclining with her hands modestly (or shamefully) covering her breasts and vulva.


In my art history class, we only ever talked about "contrapposto" poses.
So this one was pretty enlightening

 

Cool. Who can I throw that phrase at?

 

Plafond
noun

an ornately decorated ceiling.

 

There’s apparently no noun form of diametrical, so I made one: diametry.

Go in peace my children.

 

Wait, I thought the noun is "diameter".

 

yeah but that’s a purely geometrical word

 

No, a DIAmetrical word!



... I'll see myself out.