[QUOTE=Mr. Excellent]
Interesting word - what’s the derivation? The obvious connection is to Calypso, the sea nymph Odysseus hooked up with - but that sounds a bit too pat to be right.
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It’s not right. 
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.
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63]
anticipointment:
The state of mind resulting from excitedly anticipating a strongly promoted product, event, film, etc, and then being disappointed when it fails to meet the expectations generated by this promotion.
Many people who saw “The Happening” experienced strong anticipointment.
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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”
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
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.”
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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”
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63]
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
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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.
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63]
how do you solve a problem like Maria?
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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.
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
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.
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I don’t know which dictionaries might have include it at this time; I first heard it about ten years ago.
[QUOTE=Knorf]
“Mangetout gleeked on your pleonasm.”
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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.
[QUOTE=Maeglin]
It’s not right. It’s derived from kalos, meaning beautiful, and pyge, meaning ass.
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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?”
[QUOTE=RiverRunner]
That would be hard to do, although you could gleek on a neoplasm, but you’d have to excise it first.
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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:
adjective:
That foreman’s construction skills seem rather abecedarian. Are you sure he has the required experience?
[QUOTE=Knorf]
“Mangetout gleeked on your pleonasm.”
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That’s a mental image we didn’t need.
[QUOTE=ralph124c]
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!
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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.