Post an obscure word, its definition, and use it in a sentence.

It’s not right. :slight_smile: It’s derived from kalos, meaning beautiful, and pyge, meaning ass.

denoument - The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.

The *denoument * came at the end of the movie when he uttered rosebud.

But that’s a portmanteau, not a real word. Yet, anyway. Its obscurity is largely the result of its recent vintage.

As for mine:

Flibbertigibbet (flib-ber-tih-jih-bet)

An flighty, amusing, unpredictable person. (Originally and primarily intended to describe a young woman of such characteristic.)

“Jane is always changing her mind. She’s quite the saucy flibbertigibbet.”

I came across this recently while looking for a synonym for tenebrous:

Caliginous: dark and misty and gloomy.

As for the sentence (with apologies to Dante:

In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a caliginous wood, where the paths both onward and homeward were hidden.

Defenestrate: to throw out of a window.

“We were on the bottom floor of the building, so defenestration was simply not an option for a faux pas of that magnitude”

Portmanteaux are not considered real words? Since when? That would mean words like “avionics” and “hydrocarbon” aren’t words, either.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Portmanteaus

Re: Flibbertigibbet: how do you solve a problem like Maria?

Nurdle: a small pellet of plastic - either pre-production (for use in injection moulding, etc) or a piece of post-production waste broken or worn down into a pellet, especially by the action of surf and sand.

“Plastic waste on our beaches is a growing problem - many tonnes of nurdles wash up on our shores every year”

They’re technically real words, I just mean that Antcipointment has not yet been recognized in any official capacity as a real word, and may not be if it doesn’t survive long enough to become common in every day speech. (See also: Metrosexual) Until it’s "OED"ified, it remains Urban Dictionary material to me.

A flibbertigibbet, a will-o-the-wisp, a clown?

I think that’s probably where I first heard the word, too, lo these many years ago.

I don’t know which dictionaries might have include it at this time; I first heard it about ten years ago.

That would be hard to do, although you could gleek on a neoplasm, but you’d have to excise it first.
RR

Verminiferous - bearing rodents in the womb.

Judging by her previous children, I’d say she’s verminiferous.

Thanks!

defenestration - to throw out the window (derived from fenestration which I understand to mean the placement of windows in a facade)

When I found my honey to be unfaithful his worldly goods were defenestrated.

antimakassar: a cloth plased on the seat back to prevent hair oil (makassar) from staining the upholstery.
“Dang it Ma, where’s the antimakassar when you need it?”
-natter (verb): to niggle
-niggle (verb) : to natter
Sorry, can’t think of a use for these two!

Spathic (geology term) - having good cleavage.

“That new girl in accounting sure is spathic, isn’t she?”

I just thought that sentence would be risible.

pulchritude: “physically comely”

RiverRunner’s gleek was timed perfectly at the expense of the pulchritudinous flibbertigibbet’s callipygian posterior, which to some resembled a large nurdle.

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Or I am trying too hard?

One of my faves:
abecedarian \ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-uhn, noun:

  1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a beginner.
  2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet.

adjective:

  1. Pertaining to the letters of the alphabet.
  2. Arranged alphabetically.
  3. Rudimentary; elementary.

That foreman’s construction skills seem rather abecedarian. Are you sure he has the required experience?

That’s a mental image we didn’t need.

:smiley:

Nitpick: it’s antimacassar

I love Balderdash! That’s how I first learned the word fartlek, a type of exercise regimen. Boy, I’ve really gotten in shape since doing a fartlek three times a week!

Paneity: the state of being bread. Generally used in religious studies related to transubstantiation, but…

David crouched outside the oven, waiting for the dough to achieve paneity.