I came across the word ‘Paneity’
n. Theology, state of being merely bread.
I can’t imagine this word ever being useful. Any others?
Underpants.
Proof that searching on anything will bring you porn. “Paneity” gives you these links from Google. No, I did not search on Underpants.
How about bumbershoot?
Well I know what it sounds like, but what does it mean?
A bumbershoot is an umbrella.
I like “sippycup”.
Lugubrious. My weirdo brother-in-law actually sent me an e-mail with that word in it (describing a “Masterpiece Theater” production of “The Yellow Wall-Paper”).
A coniferous tree that is not an evergreen is called a larch.
And let’s not forget about the aglet, which is the plastic bit on the end of the shoelace.
These words are to be found in Chambers English Dictionary, or so I understand. I haven’t checked because not to find them would be a Great Disappointment.
haplography: the inadvertant writing once of what should have been written twice.
wayzgoose: an annual picnic for members of the printing profession.
stillicide: the right to drop water on somebody else’s property.
haecceity: thisness, i.e. the quality of being this.
corsned: the practice of establishing somebody’s guilt or innocence by seeing whether they are able to swallow a large piece of mouldy cheese.
Calligraphy teachers do use haplography.
When really concentrating, people often write stuff like rememember. Apparently. I think this, and my original word came from a similar question which came up in the Guardian’s Notes and Queries from a few years ago. Are they available online anywhere? Anyone know?
Lest we forget,
Mopery is the act of exposing oneself to a blind person.
Actually, a larch is a tree of the Genus Larix, which is both coniferous and deciduous. “Larch” is not a general term for such a tree (except, perhaps, to the extent that all such trees are in the genus Larix, and are therefore larches).
I’m not sure whether Notes & Queries is available online. I have one of the books though!
TURDIFORM – In the shape of a thrush.
Not quite what you’d guess, is it?
from that link i give you, “herpetologically paneity mas Messy Facials Cum Pics” some sort of reptilian facial I suppose. ODD.
I always thought ‘manager’ was a pretty useless word…
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Pneumonoultrasilicovolcanokoniosis, the longest word in the English language – a lung disease, also called “siliconiosis”, IIRC.
Rouncivale, a medieval term which means “mannish woman, a lesbian.” I suppose it comes in handy when you’re going to your local Tudor Porn Shop.
Pica
1: pi·ca
Pronunciation: 'pI-k&
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, magpie – more at PIE
Date: 1563
- an abnormal desire to eat substances (as chalk or ashes) not normally eaten.
2: pica
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from Medieval Latin, collection of church rules
Date: 1588
- 12-point type.
- a unit of about 1/6 inch used in measuring typographic material.
- a typewriter type providing 10 characters to the linear inch and six lines to the vertical inch.
Eating ashes and typesetting? How’d those two get the same word?
omphaloskepsis: the act of meditating while staring at one’s navel.
smoot: unit of length used to measure the Harvard Bridge over the Charles River. The bridge is 364 smoots and one ear long. A smoot is about 6 feet, I think.