I was chatting with my brother about some DIY stuff recently, and I somehow uttered two ‘words’ that immediately struck me as cool:
Grub screw
Plinth block
Which made me think about a whole litany of words that, IMHO, are just inherently cool – either because of the way they sound or what they mean.
Got any that come to mind ?
I wrote a poem (a tanka) about one … and it got published:
we both couldn’t sleep
infundibulum I said
is such a cool word
go back to sleep said my bride
but how can I now
Bulbous
Bouffant
Macadamia
Gazebo
I was talking to my wife about fixing the microwave, and mentioned that it was likely a problem with the Magnetron.
She looked at me and said “really?”
Love this.
But also finding a large number of great words in a definition of infundibulum. I have underlined my favourites:
the hollow stalk which connects the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary gland .
Therefore infundibulum is truly a hyper-cool word.
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October 13, 2020, 12:33am
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A few years ago, there was an Indian politician whose name sounded to me like Bodge-pie , and I thought that was surely the coolest name for a world leader. I later found it’s spelled with a V, but it’s still cool.
Mandibular sounds much more magnificent than its meaning.
Harmonic Balancer
I like it because it sounds like something vastly different than what it is.
Plectrum
Trundle
Crepuscular
Perfunctory
Haberdasher
Abscondery
Embiggens
Cromulent
Boomachuck
Chazwozzer
defenestration.
A truly wonderful way to remove unwanted politicians.
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The Defenestrations of Prague (Czech: Pražská defenestrace, German: Prager Fenstersturz, Latin: Defenestratio Pragensis) were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window). Though already existing in Middle French, the word defenestrate ("out of the window") is believed to have first been used in English in reference to the episodes in Prague in 1618 when the disgruntled Protestant estates th...
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Some more I gleaned from a Christmas present book of rare and unusual words:
https://autolycus-london.blogspot.com/2007/12/some-christmas-logodaedaly.html?m=0
therblig.
(the best thing about it is the origin: it’s the engineer’s name backwards (Gilbreth)