“Tsouris” (Yiddish for problems, hassles, irritations - “I don’t need all this tsouris!”)
I think I got it from Eve. No doubt it says something depressing that I have occasion to use this word so often these days.
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“Hubris”: I’ve been using it as often as I can after I learned it in English class last year. It’s a good word to describe the US government.
There is a word, I’m sorry to say, which I’ve been using in my head fairly frequently recently, but I’m too much of a gentleman to say it out loud. I guess I’m just stressed out.
–Cliffy
I’ve been trying to bring back “foodstuffs”
Nowadays, people seem to just say “foods” which doesn’t sound nearly as cool.
I’ve noticed myself saying ‘fairly’ quite often, as in, ‘we’ve had some fairly good weather’, or, ‘xyz restaurant is fairly good value for money’.
Now that I think about it, it does come across as a rather non-committal way of expressing myself.
I am presently calling everyone a numpty.
“Oy” pronounced somewhere between “[t]oy” and “Ai.” Haven’t been on a real-world kick lately, though I’ve found myself going on them in the past.
Mellifluity: now there’s a good word.
Daniel
Arsed. I’m pretty sure I got it from the Brits on this board, but I find myself using it in place of “bothered.” As in, “He can’t be arsed to move.”
Recently i’ve been using “hanabi” which is japanese for fireworks.
“Yaaaaarrrrrgh!!!” --I’m selling a house…
“Damn.” Mostly when I’m using Microsoft products.
“Oy!” – this is my husband’s fault, as he says it, too.
“Shite” – because it sounds better than shit and makes me sound a little Irish/Scottish/British.
“Actually” – I use this waaaaaayyy too much and I have to stop.
I’ve put the the next one in a spoiler box, in case it’s a little too raw for IMHO:
“Cunting whore!” – I made this up on the spur of the moment for toe-stubbing occasions, although I’m not sure why I made “cunting” a verb, nor what it would mean.
crazy
said like the Rolling Stone dude in Almost Famous
Gaz, as in “Don’t give me the…”.
Homunculus.
I’ve come across several occasions lately where I actually had to say it.
I mean, who uses that word??
Occasionally, I drag 'fabulous" out of the archives. Can’t spell it (don’t think I can anyway), but it’s got a good feel.
Biscuithead - Good all-purpose, non-dirty insult.
Snarf - Like “scarf” but non-related to foodstuffs. “Hey, where’d ya get that bootleg copy of Star Wars?” “I snarfed it from BitTorrent.”
Chafe - I’m resurrecting this one from college. “These lengthy conference calls are such a chafe…”
Flashturbation - Any meaningless Flash intro to a website. I’m using it quite often to describe the websites of potential clients. Interchangeable with “Waste of Flash.”
Given that so many of my female friends are pregnant and in that “nesting” phase when they need attention 24/7, I’m using the word “clingy” quite a bit.
Crapster. All purpose exclamation of not-goodness. Styub your toe - Crapster. Get a staple stuck in your finger, or reach blindly into the drawer for a paper clip and realize you got the pushpin container by mistake? - Crapster.
**Assface ** - Everyone lately is Assface. The cat, the co-workers, the chick.
Bad Kitty. This started with, well, with the cat. Now anyone doing a mischievious thing in my vicinity that they think no one noticed becomes Bad Kitty.
I’ve been running around telling people who are being dicks that they have ‘jerk herpes’ or ‘jerpes’ for short.
Sorry to rain on your parade but that word is used in the ‘verb’ sense a great deal in Britain.
In fact, your phrase is used quite often also.
Recently I’ve been using pish a lot.