# Words I just don't work into enough conversations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-i-just-dont-work-into-enough-conversations/409011 "2007-06-22T16:00:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-i-just-dont-work-into-enough-conversations/409011/41 "2007-06-22T21:40:16Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] Concatenate. [/QUOTE] Thanks to Excel, this comes up way more than I would like it to. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-i-just-dont-work-into-enough-conversations/409011/42 "2007-06-22T22:38:23Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Thanks to Excel, this comes up way more than I would like it to. [/QUOTE] I was going to say, thanks to SAS. I have to concatenate all the live long day. God damn those ||s to hell. I quite like pusillanimous, but I really have no call for it mostly. Verdigris is also lovely, and more useful if copper turns up in the conversation, but mostly not. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-i-just-dont-work-into-enough-conversations/409011/43 "2007-06-22T22:51:20Z")
**serendipitous** ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-i-just-dont-work-into-enough-conversations/409011/44 "2007-06-22T23:59:30Z")
Hornswoggle. ---
**Author:** ![Lunar\_Saltlick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lunar\_Saltlick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunar_Saltlick)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-i-just-dont-work-into-enough-conversations/409011/45 "2007-06-23T01:28:52Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] I deliberately use “kerfuffle” as often as possible. It’s one of my very favorite words 😃 [/QUOTE] I assume you’ve seen season one of the BBC’s Little Britain? Can’t remember which episode, but there’s a wonderful skit that includes three kerfuffles in one sentence. A good-natured chap is about to help his disabled friend into a pool, but first tells the lifeguard, “there’s a bit of a kerfuffle gettin’ ‘im in, and a bit of a kerfuffle gettin’ 'im out, but apart from that, he’s relatively kerfuffle-free.” It’s all the more humorous since he pronounces it kuh-fuffoh. Mendacious is a good word, as is hirsute. Gob-smacked is nice, though not sure if it’s one word. Expectorate and perambulate are decent too. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-i-just-dont-work-into-enough-conversations/409011/46 "2007-06-23T02:13:36Z")
flummox [QUOTE=Indyellen] Intrepid. Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. (Sorry, still at work…) 🙂 [/QUOTE] I’ll call your Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty and raise you a Retrobulbar mictalgia!\* \*[sub]Pain behind the eye, when you pee. It’s a positive porcelain sign. Meaning your a crock![/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-i-just-dont-work-into-enough-conversations/409011.md?page=2)