What new word did you learn today?

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  1. J.T. Woody

    J.T. Woody Book Witch Contributor

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    Interesting. Never heard of him, but after looking him up, i like the poem (not his other ones lol....). "Tree" reads like something Dickinson would write, though. Especially the self deprecatingly final lines: "poems are made by fools like me/ But only God can make a tree"
     
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    I think that there will never bee
    a poedantic such as mee...
     
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    Xoic Prognosticator of Arcana Ridiculosum Contributor Blogerator

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    I was all like "Her, not him...", but yep, it's a him. Weird, all this time, though I forgot the name, I always thought it was a woman.
     
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    Smush

    to push a persons face into a cake.

    I think it’s made up but like it so much I don’t want to look it up because I want to think it doesn’t exist.
     
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    Pulchritudinous (adjective):

    Used of persons only; have great physical beauty.
     
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    It's ironic, because that's possibly the ugliest word I've ever heard in my life.
     
  7. Iain Aschendale

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    Ultima Ratio Regum.

    King Louis XIV had it cast onto his cannon barrels.

    It means "The Final Argument of Kings."

    Honest and badass at the same time.
     
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    Auteur authoritarian (just so) film director type.
     
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    Thinkulating?
     
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    factotum
    /fakˈtəʊtəm/

    noun: factotum; plural noun: factotums
    an employee who does all kinds of work; odd-job man

    mid 16th century (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister factotum ), translating roughly as ‘master of everything’, and Johannes factotum ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere ) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus ).

    Turns out this is also a word in Italian, which is hardly surprising considering the etymology. I love getting two for the price of one.

    Also, I'm going to make a point of calling people Johannes Factotum as often as I think I can get away with. Coolest shit I've heard all year.
     
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    This just reminded me how immature I still am, but I'm not going to explain myself. Nope!
     
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    It's better than this trailer makes it look:

     
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    Embonpoint: plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
     
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    Adelphic, spandrel.
     
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    Zeitgeist.

    After hearing the same word in 3 different shows... I got curious.
     
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    Definitions?
     
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    Rhythmisician.

    Noun, e.g. percussionist, handpans, tabla etc. My people.
     
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    Hobbledehoy
    /ˈhɒb(ə)ldɪˌhɔɪ/

    noun: hobbledehoy; plural noun: hobbledehoys
    1. a clumsy or awkward youth.
    adjective: hobbledehoy
    1. awkward or clumsy.
      "his hobbledehoy hands"
    I first heard this word years ago on Black Books, and assumed it was some made-up nonsense. I've just now learned that it isn't, and that makes me happy.
     
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    "fleer"

    intransitive verb
    : to laugh or grimace in a coarse derisive manner : SNEER

    archaic
    : a word or look of derision or mockery

    Found this in an analysis of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra byIsa ac Asimov.
     
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    Typo?
     
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    Conflate
     
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    Spoony

    To be spoony on somebody, to have a crush, 1920s...
     
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    I'll be the big one, you be the little one. :)
     
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