Words you absolutely love!

I'll start. Canaliculus/canaliculi It's an anatomical term that describes a small passageway. I also love specificity.

Rambunctious

ex·is·ten·tial

"Knucklehead" as a term of endearment. Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

Interrobang [emoji3480] Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

by John Cole m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58496478#post58496478)

"Knucklehead" as a term of endearment. Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

"Chowderhead" is also very fine.

You "lamebrains" watch too much 3 stooges!

Why, I oughta...

Numbskull!

Enshittification

Buckaroo...

Onamottapia no idea how to spell it. or what it means. but it was taught to us in grade 7 or 8.

Ruminate because it can mean to think deeply or chew the cud. Also cleave. Look it up. Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

Don't overlook overlook.

by John Cole m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58602200#post58602200)

Ruminate because it can mean to think deeply or chew the cud. Also cleave. Look it up. Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

You're our rock of ages.

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Cleave was my first discovery as a kid of a word that also means its opposite.

Personal Responsibility

Snorkel. My favorite word to say. Snorkel.

by John Cole m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58602200#post58602200)

Ruminate because it can mean to think deeply or chew the cud. Also cleave. Look it up. Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

Cleave makes me think of Cleavage which has its own special charm

lol snorkel IS a great word

Micturated. --Mr. Lebowski

by Phat Mack m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58639085#post58639085)

Micturated. --Mr. Lebowski

As they say in Massachusetts, "Wicked pissa." Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

chthonic

by Phat Mack m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58642050#post58642050)

chthonic

I've always liked this one. Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

Advoidupois. Sent from my Pixel 7a using Tapatalk

Cathartic.

Hopefully, there will be a very cathartic All-Star Game today!

nincompoop cantankerous rapscallion

syncopated rhythm

Incorrigible

aseity

condign. it means fitting. I read it in a Zelazny book.

cilice. it is a catholic self-torture belt. I read that one in The DaVinci Code.

Anodyne. I learned that one in an Emily Dickinson poem. Idk if it's normal to remember the exact place I first encountered words. The Heart asks Pleasure—first— And then—Excuse from Pain— And then—those little Anodynes That deaden suffering— And then—to go to sleep— And then—if it should be The will of its Inquisitor The privilege to die—

concupiscent Which I learned in high school English, as in: Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and big him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds I hadn't even heard of Augustine yet.

I know that poem.

by amplify m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=59404453#post59404453)

condign. it means fitting. I read it in a Zelazny book.

a term almost always executed within the context of rushing to put in punishment meanwhile this Zelenskyy cardigan is oppositely ill-fitting yet i condone the unique craned neck collar position tightened by the clench of his fist

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by REDeYeS00 m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=59404676#post59404676)

a term almost always executed within the context of rushing to put in punishment

In fact, the sentence I remember from the book I read forty years ago was "your punishment will be condign" so yeah.

wonder if you've picked up yet on a bit of nuanced seasoning there

by REDeYeS00 m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=59404724#post59404724)

wonder if you've picked up yet on a bit of nuanced seasoning there

a salt tablet as my last meal after being sentenced to execution

an acl and perhaps also l, m, or p will make you salty about needing to walk funny after achiles injuries

thyme heels all wounds

Consequence

by Tuma m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=59404748#post59404748)

Consequence

one of my favorite city names is Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. they are named after a 1950's game show.

Shpadoinkle

by Tuma m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58597275#post58597275)

Onomatopoeia no idea how to spell it. or what it means. but it was taught to us in grade 7 or 8.

When Stephen King had a HS football player think the adjective form "onomatopoeic" during a verbal confrontation at the beginning of Christine (1983) it hit me like a hammer even just being 18 that famous author King was rapidly losing touch with the common folk. I'm surprised his editor didn't flag it. Maybe he did and a drunken coked up King screamed him down, I've always pictured him even sober being a prickly waspish sort about his work other than input from his wife and maybe his adult children. Much later in the book the kid thinks about asking a girl if she wants to go to KFC for "some of the Colonel's World Famous Extra Crispy". This was the very first instance of him clumsily having a character think or speak in a commercial jingle, corporate motto, song lyric, movie line, etc. It became an overbearing annoying condescending if not downright insulting and even contemptuous, far too common tic of his. Aside from those two sentences the book is great, easily his most underrated novel, some genuinely vivid disturbing and also deeply moving writing. Spoiler Show

( is thus an antionomatopoeic word. Been trying to come up with a term for those words for years.

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c = ceiling g = ground

by REDeYeS00 m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=59405104#post59405104)

c = ceiling g = ground

Hold Tight Might Reach

Preposterous