Words that aren't used enough

[classicdrogn]

Poltroon - a craven coward, yellow-belly
- CD had several, but forgot the others while driving
That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[hmelton]

I don't know if this word is used enough or not, but I did know a man who worked as a "gandy dancer" for nearly 50 years.
howard melton
God bless

[Angryoptimist]

Flummery - a ridiculous, hypocritical, or pretentious ceremony or performance-----------------
Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, "I drank what?"
- Chris Knight, Real Genius

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[Kokuten]

Codswallop!
--- Kokuten Daysleeper, Retired Epicced Officered DorfWire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[Rev Dark]

Defenestrate. To throw out of a Window

[HoagieOfDoom]

I second defenestrate.
Though I think it was used in the Ranma fanfic Nocturne.*********
There's no need to hear, I can shout you.

[Valles]

Euphonious - pleasing to the ear.
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

[Rod.H]

I've seen defenestrate used in a number of locals, heck a character in the DC Comics 'Hitman' was based around it.

[SkyeFire]

"Melifluous". Turned up on a Letterman Top Ten list: "Top Ten Words that sound good when spoken by James Earl Jones." JEJ actually showed up, read the list off, and vanished, grinning like a theif the whole time. I nearly busted a rib, I was laughing so hard...
Although personally, I kind of miss "Refulgence." As in "Scintillating polychromatic refulgence," used by Doc Smith to describe the appearance of an Arisian Lens. Whatever else you can say about the ol' Doc, when he was on his game he could make words sit up and sing.

[Bob Schroeck]

Coruscate/coruscating. I once used it in a conversation, and stopped that conversation cold when the person I was talking to said, "I've never actually heard anyone use that word before!"

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03

[Logan Darklighter]

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"Melifluous". Turned up on a Letterman Top Ten list: "Top Ten Words that sound good when spoken by James Earl Jones." JEJ actually showed up, read the list off, and vanished, grinning like a thief the whole time. I nearly busted a rib, I was laughing so hard...

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At your service sir! By way of the Letterman archive on the CBS website, January 1994-
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Top Ten Words That Sound Great When Spoken by James Earl Jones
10. Mellifluous
9. Verisimilitude
8. Guppy
7. Stolichnaya
6. Boutros-Boutros Ghali
5. Neo-Synephrine
4. Pinhead
3. Mujibur and Sirajul
2. Heebie-Jeebies
1. Oprah
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And from the 2001 Letterman Top ten archive -
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Top Ten Things That Sound Cool When Spoken By James Earl Jones
10. "I can't believe it's not butter"
9. "Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear"
8. "J. Lo in the house"
7. "Click here now for the hottest sex sites on the web"
6. "And the Academy Award for best picture goes to -- 'Dude, Where's My Car?'"
5. "You're not fully clean until you're Zestfully clean"
4. "You mean I get all these great funk classics on just one CD or cassette?"
3. "Number three"
2. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow
1. Wassssuppp?
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I get an even bigger giggle out of the second list imagining him popping on to read that one. ^_^-Logan
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[Ebony]

Two that I found in a story in Analog last month:
Captious - Marked by a disposition to point out trivial faults
Farraginous - Possessing a multitude of elements. Heterogenous.
Ebony the Black Dragon
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

[DHBirr]

Inveterate.
I actually used it in conversation once, something like three decades ago.
DHBirr
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Crescend]

It's a bit sad that I can quote Transmetropolitan from memory:
"Inveterate masturbators needed for the Cult of Poor Damned Onan floor show."

[Bob Schroeck]

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Inveterate.

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Then there's always the Nancy Liebowitz button that reads "Invertebrate punster - spinelessly unable to resist a pun - so slug me".

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03

[mephron]

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Later in his life, when Gryphon was asked about his experiences in the caverns of Leng, questing from the dreamlands to the outskirts of Oriphos, he would generally decline to answer, except to say that it was noisome, squamous, eldritch, cyclopean, and loathsome, not to mention redolent with noxious exhalations of an insalubrious character.

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Dude. Triple Word Score.Brazil has decided you're cute.Brazil has decided you're cute.

[WengFook]

oh lord I forgot about that passage.... what does insalubrious mean anyways? O.o
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

[Valles]

Unfortunate. Unpleasant. Something like that.
*checks webster* 'Not conductive to health.' Close enough for jazz.
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

[robkelk]

Bombastic.
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Foxboy]

Sesquipedalian - of or pertaining to long words
And the nof course there's my personal favorite phrase: Victorian polysyllabic gobbledygook.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[WengFook]

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And the nof course there's my personal favorite phrase: Victorian polysyllabic gobbledygook.

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usually shortened to just gobbledygook. _____________________________
HK-47: "Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds"
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

[HoagieOfDoom]

Phantasmagoric -
1.--a. A fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever.
----b. A constantly changing scene composed of numerous elements.
2. Fantastic imagery as represented in art.*********
There's no need to hear, I can shout you.

[WengFook]

I got a new one... Jejune._____________________________
HK-47: "Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds"
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.