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In between worrying about events just fingernails from my grasp and playing Lego games I amuse myself with etymological endeavours. To which end I propose, second and execute the creation of a thread dedicated to putting great words in. Like.

Today's word is persiflage, (PERSIFLAGE): like banter but a bit more flowery.

I imagine it was coined after a court dandy in the 18th century called Percival Flagelot who had the most villainous tongue.

A most beneficent idea for a meme!  I am sure the every-day persiflage here can be greatly enhanced by the enrichment of our word power.  We already have another thread dedicating to proving that laughter is the best medicine.  That Reader's Digest merger can't be far off now!

Erk. Reader's Digest? I'd be worried about being defaced by Sir Henry Rawlinson with a hog-tusk Hmmm...but I don't think you meant manhandling me into a Brundlefly machine with the papery periodical.

I also mean that everyone is welcome to chuck in the good word. Found a delicious bon mot? Slide it in here. Created a chunkily satisfying portmanteau like 'shonky'? In it goes. Hurrah!

Ah, I wasn't sure if you had intended there to just be one a day that we all had to try and use and remember.  Righto!  Then let me end my persiflage with oligopoly.

Not a commonly used word, but one with a reasonably obvious meaning - if a monopoly means that one seller has many willing buyers, then this suggests that oligarchs are at play.  Few sellers, many buyers.  To put this into a sentence:

I'm not quite cofortable enough to unleash my egomania to a degree where I would expect others to LISTEN TO ME AND APPLY MY WISDOM YOU MINOR BEINGS.

And oligopoly is the finest word ever: it's like trying to swear with a mouthful of honey.

Apologies for the lag: interrupted by a small fire...

Probably for the best - the typo completely undermines your power 

Cofortable is my word for tomorrow. I have 24 hours to think of a meaning...

http://phrontistery.info/

It's not a word, but it is one of my favorite places to explore words.

Excellent. I shall sneak in there like the Flintstone's sabre-toothed cat.

Anyhoo: today's word is quincunx (QUINCUNX): imagine the orientation of the dots on a 'five' domino. That's a quincunx that is. It's so gloriously almost so many swears.

And also allowed are phrases: for example 'kidding in the square' (which means to confess in the form of a jest in the hope of softening the blow or to foster complete ignorance of that which was admitted in favour of the funny). Anything verbose and entertaining, interesting or unusual.

Kidding in the square sounds like something that would get you on a criminal database these days.

Ultracrepidate

To criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge.  Example, "When Dudley tried to argue with CUS that Shockwave was the least cool Deception Transformer ever, CUS rolled his eyes at this ultracrepidation, and launched into a two hour 'quick summary' of why Shockwave was TEH AWESOMES"

Most people alive today ultracrepidate at least once every hour, in real life and especially on internet forums, where the rate is once every ten minutes.

Absolute rubbish.

Shockwave sucks.

I'll save my ultracrepidation for another topic.

I'll pop deleterious in for this morning as I'm lazy. Internet forums can have a deleterious effect upon one's intelligence and moral standing.

Actually that's a good but way too obvious word. Atavistic is much better and a word I really like. It means to exhibit behaviour or a trait of one's ancestors.

'Dr. Xeethra sat cross-legged near the fire, fluttering the London Standard with ill-concealed disgust. "Really, Corner Unit Holmes! Must you develop such atavism in your fallow weeks?" Holmes turned from the crude wall-painting and grasped, fingers still flecked with rude paint, his trusty brontosaurus-bone club. His ragged animal skins writhed up suggestively as he cloncked the honourable doctor on the bonce. "Ug!".

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quidnunc


Someone who cannot live without access to newspapers, is a quidnunc.  Differently so, someone who can't help themselves from running up and asking "What's occuring?" when they see some other people having a private conversation, is a quidnunc.  Anyone who obsessively refreshes Facebook is a quidnunc.

We are all quidnuncs now.  And somehow we'll make, our way through the world.  We're free to choose.

Ah...

Gambrinous which means 'full of beer'.

An actual beverage is named after this word and is the best beer I've ever tasted.

Ichor, carbuncle, iatrogenic* just as a random selection.

Trousers is of course the word of a lifetime.

*Apologies to Will Self rescinded.