# Words you learned from rock or pop **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2014, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054 "2014-05-23T01:40:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/41 "2014-05-24T18:54:07Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Pompadous I think you mean [pompatus](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/972/in-steve-millers-the-joker-what-is-the-pompatus-of-love). > [@Shakes](#): > > [Colitas](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1053/in-the-song-hotel-california-what-does-colitas-mean). Like Cecil, I always assumed it to be a dessert flower. _On a dark dessert highway, Cool-Whip in my hair._ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rain\_Soaked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rain\_Soaked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rain_Soaked)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/42 "2014-05-24T19:39:35Z")
[byre and bothy](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/markknopfler/yontwocrows.html) as well as [Border Reiver](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/markknopfler/borderreiver.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/43 "2014-05-24T23:11:19Z")
_Chaff_, as in “make fun of,” “tease” ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/44 "2014-05-24T23:23:01Z")
I learned the word \*bromodrosis \*from Frank Zappa. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/45 "2014-05-25T00:41:31Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I learned the word \*bromodrosis \*from Frank Zappa. [Brom_i_drosis](http://www.onelook.com/?w=bromodrosis&ls=b&sourceid=Mozilla-search)? (I had to look it up.) ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/46 "2014-05-25T01:14:30Z")
Ah yes, a few others here I should have thought of, such as Philippic. And I didn’t mean to include made-up words … never mind, they’re fun. Here’s another one: **Junkers Jomo 004** Not exactly modern music but there’s one I learned from a Monty Python record - ovine. > [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Sericulture is from the Human League’s “Being Boiled” - I’ll let the person who knows the other one have the cookie. > [@Smapti](#): > > Is it “Workshop of the Telescopes” by Blue Öyster Cult? > > - By Silverfish Imperatrix, whose incorrupted eye > Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives > By Salamander, Drake, and the power that was Undine > Rise to claim Saturn, ring and sky > By those who see with their eyes closed > They know me by my black telescope \* Why, yes it is - see it right there at the end of line 3 ? 🙂 Very good, guys, didn’t expect it to be so easy. I should have known better. Sadly, I just can’t seem to break this here cookie in half … ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/47 "2014-05-25T02:22:18Z")
The _humuhumunukunukuāpua’a_ ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/48 "2014-05-25T02:40:05Z")
Philomath “Can’t Get There From Here”-R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/49 "2014-05-25T02:58:05Z")
Mareseedotes. (Just came back to charge up the time machine.) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/50 "2014-05-25T10:02:14Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Philippic, Desultory (after I was Robert McNamara’d into submission) I was going to say this! Instead, I’ll contribute _ingrata, hubieras, muslo, enloquecer_, and dozens of other Spanish words, courtesy of Café Tacuba, Maná, and Shakira, who were topping the charts in Mexico when I was learning Spanish in 1996-97. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/51 "2014-05-25T10:39:01Z")
BTW, those words mean “ungrateful woman” (I wasn’t aware of the English word “ingrate” at the time), “you would have,” “thigh,” and “to go crazy.” ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/52 "2014-05-25T11:24:36Z")
Effloresce and Deliquesce From the album Submarine Bells by The Chills. Dunedin Sound, NZ. Indie. Sort of our local REM whom The Chills performed with 15 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/53 "2014-05-25T14:24:00Z")
politesse ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/54 "2014-05-25T16:17:29Z")
[Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTvhKZHAP8U) (It’s the most remarkable word I’ve ever seen!) ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/55 "2014-05-26T14:52:50Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > "Scylla and Charybdis " from the Police’s _Wrapped Around Your Finger_ That’s the one that first came to mind for me. I actually had to look that up. Going back to childhood, I’d add “precocious” from the _Mary Poppins_ song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/56 "2014-05-26T15:30:53Z")
Synchronicity. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054/57 "2014-05-30T01:29:06Z")
“Vestal” as in " one of sixteen vestal virgins" from _A Whiter Shade of Pale_ by Procol Harum. I initially was thinking it was the Moody Blue’s _Nights in White Satin_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-learned-from-rock-or-pop/689054.md?page=2)