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Chorve.  Meaning to annoy someone with intent, to the worst possible extreme.  For best effect, screaming into the victim's face after a crushing victory in any given video game while gurning madly.  And strung out as long as possible... CHEEEEEOOOOOORRRVVVVVEEEEEEE.  Ahem.

That's fabulous. GDS: to Mario Kart 64!

colpocoquette - a woman who has an attractive bosom and makes good use of its allure.

callipygian - a person having a well-formed set of buttocks.

e.g. "Cor!  Check out her over by the bar!  She's well callipygian!" "You'll never get anywhere there mate, bit of a colpocoquette, that one."

A callipygian colpocoquette, eh? Superb. I'll have to use that second first word in my own description at some point.

Words I am liking today:

evanesce: to fade away,

irruption: to invade, to burst it,

crass: unrefined, insensitive,

axiom: a truth held to be self-evident,

borborygmus: tummy-rumbling noises.

*Smiles and polishes knuckle on shirt*

I love the word clandestine (comparative more clandestine, superlative most clandestine)

Positive
clandestine
      
Comparative
more clandestine
      
Superlative
most clandestine

   1. Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
   2. (freemasonry) a person or lodge not recognized as a regular member.

saponaceous adj

Soapy, slippery; evasively ingratiating.

e.g. "I don't like that new bloke who started, have you seen the way he's always trying to be everyone's best friend?  I reckon he's trying to slip his way up to the top I do." "Aye, he's proper saponaceous, that 'un." "And he's got bad breath."

Ho! I was thinking of unctuous for most of the day which means something very similar.

I did think of some good words but a combination of Mirror, this message board, my cat and a mysterious 'other factor' have rendered me incomprehensible. Instead of such lexicographical jewels I offer some delights for your diction:

chortle, wheeze, knuckle, rubicund*, naughty, bellicose, raggamuffin and the redoubtable trousers.

*a healthy shade of red. Should such a thing exist.

Oh Lord, not you too!   

It's alriight: a night in the realms of a nebulous dreamworld have resolved my issues. The mysterious 'other factor' was probably 'Infectonator: World Domination' on Newgrounds (a flash site with games and music and movies and a slithering landslide of shite if you look through the wrong portals).

Normal service is resumed:

caveat: a warning or cautionary advice. Leads to the use of 'Cave*, chaps!' by schoolboys in the fifties,
halcyon: hopefully the source of an excellent pun by esteemed board member Halcigone. I can't be arsed to google it right now but I think it's an archaic name for 'kingfisher' and means those rosy-tinted days of yore,
coruscant: having occasional flashes or points of brilliant light. Also 'a planet in the real Star Wars universe'. Uuuffff....

*Ahem. Pretend I didn't edit this post. It's pronounced 'cave-eeee!'.

acquiesce


It's also the title of an early Oasis b-side.  But don't hold that against it, it's a wonderful and fitting word.

Good lord; good word!

Some T words today:

tyro: a novice or beginner,
triptych: an art work divided into three pieces (ie a set of three paintings that, displayed side-by-side, create a panorama),
tryst: basically means 'a date' but has more secretive connotations these days,
thanatology: the science and study of death and
twattery: deliberate stupidity.

Acquiesce is my favourite Oasis song.


pareidolia

Random stimulus perceived as significant; the shapes of animals in clouds, the face of Christ on some toast, noises sounding like messages.

The fridge told me you'd say something like that, Davydd.  It's a good thing the kettle says nice things about you, or I'd be doing what the microwave's been suggesting for months...

I wouldn't have thought many of these constituted examples of recondite language. Or is this thread mainly about phonetic appeal? One I've always liked the sound of is 'pusillanimous', meaning cowardly and unprincipled.

Yes, but you like Bal-Sagoth, clearly ludicrous wordplay agrees with you. The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire!

It's just a list of favourite words that you don't hear as often as you might.

You are the disembodied soul of Clark Ashton Smith and I claim my five....currency units.

It's just a place to put words that are...uh...good: whether you like them for just, they feel wonderful bubbling off the tongue, or they neatly summarise other more lengthly sentences why not whack 'em in here. I have other, grander plans for Human Betterment.

Alright, alright: I Googled 'recondite'.

I have no shame in admitting that I also Googled 'recondite'.  It's just "Hey, do you know this,word?  It's a goodie!" Not Smarty Pants' Show-Off Corner... I'm a big fan of 'oubliette' for its meaning, the sound of it, and the fact that I first encountered it playing a DIZZY game (after Daisy is made too big to fit out of the oubliette she has been placed into).  DIZZY.

Malice, I have always like the sound of that word as it's sharp and cutting,  pretty much is a 'ronseal' type of thing.

Mmm: I spent some time dreaming up a comic-book character called 'Malice'. It's a fabulously onomatopoeiaic* word. And kudos for expanding the horizons to trademarks and product names too: I personally love Maersk (and their supercool Wipeout 2097-esque logo)

*I added the 'ic' myself. It means a word that immitates the sound or thing it denotes. As everyone no doubt already knew...