The NEVERENDING word(s) of the day thread

My favourite Scrabble word: zo, dzo or zho - a cross between yak and common cattle

My favorite word of all time (I think I've said this before somewhere) is pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I've even learned how to say it as quickly and glibly as Danny Kaye ever could've if he would've.

Mine too; I have said it many times to unbelievers who ridicule the big about ultramicroscopic in the middle. Apparently it's usually called silicosis which seems a travesty, but if you suffer from it I suppose you can't say the whole thing.

MOX NIX - a fun word
Apparently from German. " es machts nichts"
I really don't care what we do. It's "mox nix" to me.

BABA GANOUSH
My favorite sounding recipe: baba ganoush.
It's a dip made from roasted eggplant, garlic, tahini,
lemon juice,etc. . In Arabic, "Baba Ganoush" literally means "voluptuous young lady." in Arabic Now that's got to be the all time winner in descripton of a recipe.

(If you go to make this recipe, be very aware of the first step. Puncture the egglant and put over coals to blacken. On the first attempt to make Baba Ganoush, I didn't do that and when I went to turn the eggplants over, an eggplant exploded and I got hit on the forehead and the face. Luckily, I wear glasses.
But for I few days, people asked me what happened to my face. I honestly said, "I got hit be an exploding eggplant." "OK, wise guy. Now, what happened to your face?"

EDIACARAN It was pleasant to hear this week that a word geologists
have been using for four decades now has an official meaning. The
International Stratigraphic Commission, part of the International
Union of Geological Sciences, has just decided that the geological
period from 600 to 542 million years ago is officially to be called
the Ediacaran, and not the Vendian, the name that some scientists,
in particular those in Russia, have preferred. The decision ends 8
years of deliberation. The official name commemorates the Ediacara
Hills in South Australia, north of Adelaide, whose rocks contain
beautifully preserved fossils of animals from that time.

Togethering

A vacation place for bonding or vacationing with family and friends.

Antimacassar A protective or decorative cloth over the back of a chair.

To find the inspiration for this term, we must go back to the very
start of the nineteenth century and to Mr Rowland of Hatton Garden
in London, who invented what the Oxford English Dictionary
describes as "an unguent for the hair". He claimed it was based on
sweet oils imported from Macassar or Makassar, a seaport now named
Ujung Pandang on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. (His unguent
was basically palm oil with some additions but may never have been
anywhere near Macassar.) Macassar oil was sold in deeply embossed
square glass bottles and was promoted in terms as extravagant as
any of the period, as here from the Edinburgh Advertiser of June
1812:

MRS. RAEBURN, NORTH BRIDGE, Has just received A FRESH
supply of that beautiful production, MACASSAR OIL, for
the HAIR, a preparation that surpasses all others for
eradicating all impurities of the Hair, and increasing
its growth where it has been bald for years; strengthening
the curl, and imparting a beautiful gloss and scent; in
fine, rendering the hair of ladies, gentlemen, and children
inexpressibly attracting. View Rowland's Essay on the Hair.
This inestimable Oil has also received the august patronage
of their Royal Highnesses the Princess of WALES and Duke of
Sussex, and a great number of the nobility.

The essay, by the way, had been written in 1809 by Rowland's son:
objectivity in advertising wasn't their goal. Among the nobility
using the product was Lord Byron, who mentions it when speaking
witheringly of his wife in his Don Juan of 1819:

In Virtues nothing earthly could surpass her
Save thine "incomparable Oil", Macassar!

And while we're on literary associations, it's also mentioned in
the White Knight's poem in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-
Glass.

The fashion for oiled hair became so widespread that in desperation
housewives began to cover the backs of their chairs and sofas with
washable cloths to preserve the fabric coverings from being spoilt.
Around 1850, these started to be known as "antimacassars".

They came to have elaborate patterns, often in matching sets for
the various items of parlour furniture; they were either made at
home using a variety of techniques such as crochet or tatting, or
bought from shops. By the beginning of the twentieth century, they
had become so associated in peoples' minds with the Victorian
period that the word briefly became a figurative term for it.

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ah ha ive been posting in another word of the day topic
right my favourite word are:

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

The action or habit of judging something to be worthless.

Back in the eighteenth century, Eton College had a grammar book which listed a set of words from Latin which all meant "of little or no value". In order, those were flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili (which sound like four of the seven dwarves, Roman version, but I digress). As a learned joke, somebody put all four of these together and then stuck -fication on the end to make a noun for the act of deciding that something is totally and absolutely valueless (a verb, floccinaucinihilipilificate, to judge a thing to be valueless, could also be constructed, but hardly anybody ever does). The first recorded use is by William Shenstone in a letter in 1741: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money".
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless.
The word's main function is to be trotted out as an example of a long word (it was the longest in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary but was supplanted by pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in the second). It had a rare public airing in 1999 when Senator Jesse Helms used it in commenting on the demise of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: "I note your distress at my floccinaucinihilipilification of the CTBT".

and

EMBUGGERANCE - Military Slang
"a natural or artificial hazard that complicates any proposed course of action".

a development of an older British transitive verb to bugger about, to cause someone trouble and irritation. This appears, for example, in exclamations such as "stop buggering me about!" An embuggerance, then, is an instance of trouble or interference so caused.

Definitely a term to be used sparingly, and with careful selection of audience.

and lastly for today

SLUBBERDEGULLION
A filthy, slobbering person.

English, whatever its other merits, has as many disparaging words as one would possibly desire. The example that follows is from Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, dated 1653, which draws heavily on vocabulary used in Scotland in his time:
The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, called them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, shitten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf.

the last post was posted just incase you all want some far out words to insult the people you argue with here on a2k

my favourites are:

prattling gabblers
gaping changelings
noddypeak simpletons
ninny lobcocks
and ninny-hammer flycatchers

Lordy, is it any wonder they get nothing done at Parliment?

pulchritudinous

= pretty; beautiful.

Love Colman's insults!!

My word for today is LUM-SOOPERS = chimney sweeps - a north country word.

"Pettyfogger"--a nit-picking bureaucrat with some influence.

"Newfie"-a contraction of the word Newfoundlander. it is meant as an ethnic slur upon the inhabitants of The easternmost province of Canada.
it is often used as a center of an ethnic insult, such as,
"how many Newfies does it take to give a baby a bath?"

"whats a bath?"

Newfie is a good one, farmer. Even more insulting is 'mackarel choker' or 'herring snapper', an epithet used to describe all other Canadians from the Maritime Provinces. Don't know if these are still in use, but they were quite common when I was a wee lad (sometime in the Pleistocene I think that was).

Merry Andrew--

Mackerel choker and Herring snapper were used in New England to describe Catholics because of Fish-on-Friday.

sorry-broad

a place almost too far to get to.haha