# Gimme your great words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991 "2015-07-01T21:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/1 "2015-07-01T21:14:51Z")
I especially like arcane words, pioneer/frontier/farming type words, Scots words, domestic words, mystical words, and phonologically evocative words. So c’mon out. Gimme your _ahem_ grubbles, your gleeds, your samps and frizzens and noils. A spare oxter, rolag, bustum, or snell wouldn’t go amiss, either. Whatcha got? Cuz [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com)’s word of the day has jumped the shark, big time. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/2 "2015-07-01T21:21:06Z")
[This guy](http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-like-words.html) does it better than I ever could. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/3 "2015-07-01T21:27:55Z")
Wickerbill, also known as a Gurney flap. I just love the way the word sounds. Stodgy, logy, fingerling (meaning fish, not potato), digamy, drouth, liripoop. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/4 "2015-07-01T21:52:04Z")
Hurple–Raising one’s shoulders to one’s ears in response to cold weather. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/5 "2015-07-01T23:54:33Z")
I love the word “bespoke.” Tailor-made. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/6 "2015-07-02T00:05:54Z")
autochthonous, empyrean ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/7 "2015-07-02T00:34:48Z")
I don’t have any, so I’ll give you Mr. Burns’s instead. **Mr. Burns:** “Look at them, Smithers. Goldbrickers…. Layabouts…. Slug-a-beds! Little do they realise their days of suckling at my teat are numbered.” **Mr. Burns:** Smithers, what’s the name of this gastropod? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/8 "2015-07-02T00:42:26Z")
I always liked the Southern word ‘tump’ because there is no perfect equivalent in other versions of American English. It usually means to quickly tip an inanimate object over in a forceful and negligent way through clumsiness. Example - Don’t stand up from the table so fast or you will tump over the milk! There is a slightly less common use that means to turn something over intentionally by force to achieve a goal. Example - Tump that wheelbarrow full of rocks over so that we can use it to get a load of dirt. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/9 "2015-07-02T00:49:22Z")
Pusillanimous, meaning: timid or weak. Which is why we call someone a ‘pussy’! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/10 "2015-07-02T00:53:40Z")
**poronkusema** - the distance a reindeer could travel without stopping to urinate. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/11 "2015-07-02T00:56:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I love the word “bespoke.” Tailor-made. I like that word, too. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/12 "2015-07-02T04:41:02Z")
My favorite old word is “absquatulate,” meaning to run away. > **[Definition of absquatulate | Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/absquatulate?s=t)** > > Absquatulate definition, to flee; abscond: The old prospector absquatulated with our picks and shovel. See more. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/13 "2015-07-02T04:45:33Z")
Thingamajig Whosamawhatsit 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/14 "2015-07-02T12:39:36Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I always liked the Southern word ‘tump’ because there is no perfect equivalent in other versions of American English. > > It usually means to quickly tip an inanimate object over in a forceful and negligent way through clumsiness. Example - Don’t stand up from the table so fast or you will tump over the milk! > > There is a slightly less common use that means to turn something over intentionally by force to achieve a goal. Example - Tump that wheelbarrow full of rocks over so that we can use it to get a load of dirt. I guess it’s a hybrid of _tip_ and _dump_. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/15 "2015-07-02T14:30:33Z")
Splunge!: [Monty Python - Splunge - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v0I4OQi7CQ) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/16 "2015-07-02T14:33:56Z")
I love “methinks.” So much better than “In My Humble Opinion.,” or even “Well, I think…” ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/17 "2015-07-02T14:58:15Z")
Widdershins = anticlockwise = counterclockwise Fremd = wud = insane Virginal = keyboard musical instrument ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/18 "2015-07-02T15:45:18Z")
Oobleck. A word coined by Dr. Seuss, now used to refer to non-Newtonian fluids. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/19 "2015-07-02T15:53:36Z")
> [@OffByOne](#): > > Fremd = wud = insane Interesting. That takes me back to Old English, as in, “hu ða æþelingas ellen **fremed** on.” Which brings me to inappropriate usage of the Old English prefix ge-. I really like to say things are “gef\*cked”. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-your-great-words/723991/20 "2015-07-02T15:59:47Z")
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