# What's Your Favorite Word You Rarely Get To Use? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270 "2011-05-09T14:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![fatbottomedgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@fatbottomedgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatbottomedgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/81 "2011-05-11T01:30:37Z")
My favorite made up word is funnilingus basically means 69 Favorite real word i hardly ever get use is gregarious. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/82 "2011-05-11T01:41:33Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > I kind of like _egregious_. I’ll see your \*egregious \*and raise you _gragarious_. > [@fatbottomedgirl](#): > > My favorite made up word is funnilingus basically means 69 > > Favorite real word i hardly ever get use is gregarious. Win! I acquiesce. ---
**Author:** ![Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stendhal_Syndrome)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/83 "2011-05-11T02:58:07Z")
Eschew Poppycock : I once heard a teacher say it and it has been one of my favorite words since, but I rarely use it. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/84 "2011-05-11T03:45:53Z")
One word I don’t think I’ve ever gotten to use, is _slubberdegullion_, which means a dirty and slovenly glutton. Another is _dimissory_, describing something given to a person virtually at the threshold on the point of their departure. I got these from a marvelous little book which some people in this thread have most likely seen. The author’s consummate skill in the humorous scenarios he invents to illustrate the words make the book a true gem. However, I decline to state its title in public because it might well be incendiary. Anybody who wants to know what book I’m talking about is welcome to PM me. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/85 "2011-05-11T11:52:23Z")
[Zitterbewegung](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitterbewegung) - as a lapsed physicist I don’t get to use it anymore, but it does sometimes describe my ADHD daughter. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/86 "2011-05-11T12:27:59Z")
tintinnabulation quotidian ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/87 "2011-05-11T12:59:51Z")
I like ‘demonstrative’, as it is quite a useful, prosaic word, but contains a ‘monster’. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/88 "2011-05-11T14:38:56Z")
Speaking of purple words, I love puce. It sounds disgusting, but it’s simply that color that isn’t quite purple and isn’t quite black. Sort of like plum, which isn’t quite purple and isn’t quite brown. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/89 "2011-05-11T14:53:47Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Speaking of purple words, I love **puce**. It sounds disgusting, but it’s simply that color that isn’t quite purple and isn’t quite black. Sort of like plum, which isn’t quite purple and isn’t quite brown. They used that word in Monsters, Inc! ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/90 "2011-05-11T17:35:50Z")
Australopithecus. Now there’s a word. rarely get to use it, though. Also like Tanichthys Albonubes. Who wouldn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/91 "2011-05-11T18:11:34Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > Australopithecus. Now there’s a word. rarely get to use it, though. > > Also like Tanichthys Albonubes. Who wouldn’t? Pithecanthropus. Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/92 "2011-05-11T18:25:09Z")
Callipygian. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/93 "2011-05-11T18:29:33Z")
Twitterpated. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/94 "2011-05-11T18:32:39Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > One word I don’t think I’ve ever gotten to use, is _slubberdegullion_, which means a dirty and slovenly glutton. Nice one. I’ll have to put that in reserve, next to _gorbellied_ (which I do actually find occasional use for.) Am I the only one a little surprised at some of the words mentioned here, which to me seem, if not exactly everyday words, regular enough? ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/95 "2011-05-11T20:04:54Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > “Penultimate” > > I try to use it whenever I can, but how often does second-to-last need to be labeled? This reminds me of one of my own: **tertiary**. You rarely need to go beyond the secondary. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/96 "2011-05-11T20:19:51Z")
Antinomy. ---
**Author:** ![MareIt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MareIt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MareIt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/97 "2011-05-12T02:45:12Z")
Troglodyte is one that I never get to use, which is a shame. My favorite that I do use, albeit rarely, is plethora. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/98 "2011-05-12T02:53:54Z")
Borborygmus ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/99 "2011-05-12T11:19:08Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > [Zitterbewegung](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitterbewegung) - as a lapsed physicist I don’t get to use it anymore, but it does sometimes describe my ADHD daughter. Could be used to describe someone whose had too much coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270/100 "2011-05-12T15:20:26Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > I kind of like _egregious_. I used that the other day. I wouldn’t even remember it, but I was talking to one of the directors in our office and it fit in the sentence I was saying. It was only memorable because he gave me a brief puzzled look. I’m not sure if he didn’t know what I had said or was surprised that I used it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word-you-rarely-get-to-use/581270.md?page=6)