Syzygy: In astronomy, either of two points in the orbit of a solar system body where the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun. Pro-tip: this is probably the best hang-man word in the entire dictionary.
I learned that word because space boobies. Spoiler: Picture of space boobies One of the hundreds of SF books my dad owns.
haul: to mean a large number of items of clothing which are sequentially tried on in YouTube videos, creating a sort of soft porn if the clothing is scanty enough and the girl attractive.
You wanna a trip down memory lane? Try out some 80’s slang ... dude! Airhead – Someone who lacks common sense and unable to grasp simple concepts. Barf me out – Gross or Disgusting Bodacious – Oustanding or unbelievably sexy. Cowabunga – Satisfying and delightful. First used in the 1950s, but became popular again in the 1980s with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Dork – Someone who is inadvertently funny, but in an odd way. Duude – Woah or wow. F*ck’n A – Outstanding or Absolutely. Grill – Someone’s front teeth. Hellacious – Can be used in a positive or negative way. Surprisingly good or unbearably bad. Hood – Short for a neighborhood. Later Days and Better Lays – A phrase used to say goodbye and good luck. Mallrat – Someone who likes to hang out at the mall. Also called Mall Maggots. Moshing – A style of dancing for thrash metal or very aggressive music. It became popular around 1980. It’s usually done in a “mosh pit” and involves full body contact with other moshers. No sh*t, Sherlock – A response to something someone said that was already obvious to everyone. Poser – A wannabe who doesn’t quite make the cut. Radical or “Rad” – Extremely cool (sometimes shortened to “Rad”). Stoked – Really excited or highly enthusiastic about something. Take a Chill Pill: Said to someone who is overly nervous or excited and should relax. Whateva – Sarcastic way of saying “Yeah, okay.” Yeah, that’s the ticket – A phrase made popular by John Lovitz on Saturday Night Live while playing the character Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar. This phrase is usually said immediately after telling a lie – even when it’s blatantly obvious that what was said is not true.
I believe its common meaning (if it can be said to have such a thing) is a matched pair linked together (guess that explains the space boobs), like a pair of oxen yoked together to pull a plow for instance. In Jungian psychology it refers to the pairing of Anima and Animus, a person's inner masculine and feminine aspects. Ok, I broke down and decided to actually look up the definition: syzygy [ˈsizijē] NOUN astronomy a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. "the planets were aligned in syzygy" a pair of connected or corresponding things. "animus and anima represent a supreme pair of opposites, the syzygy"
Ruritanian adjective Ru·ri·ta·ni·an | \ ˈru̇r-ə-ˌtā-nē-ən , ˌru̇r-ə-ˈtā- \ Definition of Ruritanian : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an imaginary place of high romance Love him or hate him, reading George Will's columns will increase your vocabulary. edited because I badly mixed my comment into the definition, sorry.
Gunwale ... not really a new word to me... but I was today-years-old when i finally learned that its pronounced "gunnel" and not "gun-wa-le"
Naval terminology is weird like that. Boatswain is pronounced "bosun," and forecastle is pronounced "focsul" as well.
Not so much a new word, but rather a term and the item to which it refers. Creamed Cottage Cheese It's just the normal wet kind, but I saw the term in a vintage MCM ad and looked it up. Apparently we've just dropped the creamed part from the term over time. What I actually learned is that there is a non-wet kind of cottage cheese that's dry and crumbly, hence the term we no longer use to describe the wet kind. Never have seen the crumbly kind before.
Two, neither of which will make it into my everyday conversational vocabulary: Antanaclasis is a rhetorical device in which a phrase or word is repeatedly used, though the meaning of the word changes in each case. It is the repetition of a similar word in a sentence with different meanings, or a word is repeated in two or more different senses. A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax.
Yeah i heard those too! I was watching a sailing video and i was hearing the narrator point stuff out and im thinking "is it because he's british?" Buuuuut no....
Uh-oh! Somebody's been studying rhetoric. I actually spent a good deal of time studying Classical Rhetoric and even a bit of Aristotelian Logic. Not sure when I'd ever be able to use syllogisms, but some of those figures of speech are pretty damn cool!
Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty prevents the husband's (or wife's) titles and privileges being passed on to the wife (or husband) and/or any children born of the marriage. Source: Wikipedia
Centibillionaire - anyone who possesses a net worth of $100 billion or higher. Its mind boggling to think that there are people with this wealth.
Interesting theory. Using some rough numbers and dodgy medical information from a quick google my fat self would be legit up to about 3 million dollars. That's... surprisingly close to a sane rule
