Words you learned from rock or pop

Two musical genres not exactly famous for their use of obscure language, but offhand I can think of two words I learned from modern popular music:

  • undine
  • sericulture
    BTW anyone who can name both songs wins an SMDB spam-free cookie!

Pompadous
Suissuidio

CURSE YOU!!! I wanted to say that!!!

I never heard the word copacetic until the Local H song Bound for the Floor.

I’d never heard the word haver (talk foolishly; babble) until The Proclaimers’ 500 Miles.

Copacetic (Local H)
Lucidity (Queensryche)

Zigazigha

copious

Debenture

A number of anglicisms: bedsit, wimpy bars, hire purchase.

breezeblocks (Alt-J)

pataphysical

Acquiesce
Conciliatory
Tao
Grandeur

And a phrase…

“sexual tension.”

Wasn’t until I was older that I learned what that meant.

Sericulture is from the Human League’s “Being Boiled” - I’ll let the person who knows the other one have the cookie.

Brucellosis
“Play It All Night Long”-Warren Zevon

Pugnacious
Lugubrious
“The Original Wrapper”-Lou Reed

At 17.

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.

I am not sure if this is meant to be a game, but I thought I’d give it a shot.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

Orgasmatron.

When i was a young boy, Warrant taught me that “Cherry pie” was not, in fact, a baked good. :wink:

Scaramouch

Bismillah