I didn’t think WTF, but that’s because my first brush with the word came from a memorable dialogue in a David Eddings book. I’m probably paraphrasing, mind, since I was 16 or 17 when I read it, but it went like this:
female character, very caually. “Did you hear about [insert name]? He was defenestrated.”
male character, completely horrified. “That’s a terrible thing to do to a man!”
“I mean he was thrown out a window, to his death.”
“Well, that’s a terrible thing to do to a man, too.”
Defenestration – for when nothosonomia just doesn’t do the job.
Rinkworks.com has a section on “fun with words,” including a list of silly words. (Yes, both defenestration and nothosonomia are on the list.)
elfkin477, that was from late in The Hidden City, the final book of the Tamuli trilogy. The two characters in your quote are professional warriors from different cultures, and the woman is known for being pretty direct when killing people.
As often as I scrub my floors with bleach. Not so much since I bought a pressure washer.
I went to the room where they think the Defenestration of Prague happened when I was in Prague last summer.
Mirtai the Atana and Sir Kalten
hmm maybe i did read too much Eddings as a teen
What we’re especially curious about is how did you leave it?
I went to a defenestration party in college once, although we had no idea that’s what to call it at the time. I guess we weren’t learining as much as we should have been, huh? Standing outside talking to a friend though, in a moment of drunken clarity someone defenestrated themselves, flying right inbetween my co-converser and I and landing with an appreciable thud. Did you know that defenestration is contagious? By evening’s end, there were multiple defenestration craters around the property. Curious… is there a word for making a bonfire out of all your furniture because you’re about to graduate? It fit rather nicely in one of the defenestration-induced craters. How about if someone tosses a bunch of bottle rockets into the defenestration crater bonfire and everyone runs away except for the guy standing closest who never even moved, arguably sufferingly mightily from the effects of several rapid ends to his defenestrational momentum? I mean… there’s gotta be a word.
They threw the city of Prague out through a pane glass window? :eek:
I use it often. It’s a great way to differentiate basic hydrolysis of esters from acidic hydrolysis. We chemists throw around words like that all the time.
Another favorite is “moiety.” It’s just fun to say.
To show what a total word nerd I am, I’m going to have to say I knew instantly – without looking it up – that you misspelled that word: it’s uxorious. (Note the “o.”)
Uh…carry on.
Sailboat
I’ve been educated. I always thought that defenestration was tearing the leaves off of something. Is there a near miss word that means this?
The real question is if, anywhere in the pendragondom, you could defenestate someone though a crenellation if you’re uxorious about her.
Oops. That’s what I get for not looking it up! 
“What’s defenestration?”
“I don’t know, but if we get caught at least they won’t hang or kill us.”
You’re thinking of defoliation.
It took me damn near 20 years to be able to use the phrase “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” in a conversation.
I learned the word defenestrate from viewing rotten.com’s “today in rotten in history” and sometimes there would be a historical figure that suffered “death by defenestration”.
When I see a discussion like this, it reminds me of one of my favorite words: sesquipedalian
Wouldn’t it make more sense to defenestrate someone’s husband if you were uxorious about her?
Saponification
Pathologists use it, too - to describe the conversion of body fats on a decomposing corpse.
Great word.
Si
Denude/denudation.
Expectorate doesn’t seem necessary, when spit, or “hock up a loogie” fits the bill.