PriusChat Word of the Day

colloquialism

n : a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

 

diminutive

adj: indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being familiarly known

Sample use: Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do.

 

Floccinaucinihilipilification

n: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial

 

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

n: a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos

Also it is a really long word made up of little tiny parts, which I guess would mean that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicopneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisconiosis would be a lung diesease caused by breathing in the actual word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

 

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH

is according to one source the longest placename in the world, with 58 letters. It is a town in North Wales meaning "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave" or "St. Mary's (Church) by the white aspen over the whirlpool, and St. Tysilio's (Church) by the red cave" in Welsh.

 

"Waxing the Prius"

Freudian euphemism: http://www.canoe.ca/LifewiseHeartPassion00...0419_wheel.html

 

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So I said with rictus, "I know where you got that word from!"

 

Sniglet

any word that does not appear in the dictionary, but should.

 

vulpine

adj. resembling, or having the qualities of, a fox.

Similar usage as canine to a dog, bovine to a cow, porcine to a pig, etc.

 

Ameliorate is derived from Latin ad + meliorare, "to make better," from melior, "better."

 

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Jim, is that DG IL as in Downer's Grove IL? If so, I love that suburb..lived there for many years as a child at the corner of Seeley and Chicago Avenues....just curious.

Dave.

 

Correct. That is the only DG in IL. But it's two words, so beyond the scope of this thread.

 

OUI

Yes in French

 

deadthreadotomy: Reviving a thread people forgot about years ago.

 

Specularia:

"of, or pertaining to mirrors"

(Genus of an early-spring denizen of the eastern deciduous forest)