My favorite made up word is funnilingus basically means 69
Favorite real word i hardly ever get use is gregarious.
I’ll see your *egregious *and raise you gragarious.
Win!
I acquiesce.
Eschew
Poppycock : I once heard a teacher say it and it has been one of my favorite words since, but I rarely use it.
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.
Zitterbewegung - as a lapsed physicist I don’t get to use it anymore, but it does sometimes describe my ADHD daughter.
tintinnabulation
quotidian
I like ‘demonstrative’, as it is quite a useful, prosaic word, but contains a ‘monster’.
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!
Australopithecus. Now there’s a word. rarely get to use it, though.
Also like Tanichthys Albonubes. Who wouldn’t?
Pithecanthropus.
Oh, wait…
Callipygian.
Twitterpated.
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?
This reminds me of one of my own: tertiary. You rarely need to go beyond the secondary.
Antinomy.
Troglodyte is one that I never get to use, which is a shame. My favorite that I do use, albeit rarely, is plethora.
Borborygmus
Could be used to describe someone whose had too much coffee.
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.