Words you learned from rock or pop

I think you mean pompatus.

On a dark dessert highway, Cool-Whip in my hair. :smiley:

byre and bothy

as well as Border Reiver

Chaff, as in “make fun of,” “tease”

I learned the word *bromodrosis *from Frank Zappa.

Bromidrosis? (I had to look it up.)

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.

Why, yes it is - see it right there at the end of line 3 ? :slight_smile:

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 …

The humuhumunukunukuāpua’a

Philomath
“Can’t Get There From Here”-R.E.M.

Mareseedotes.

(Just came back to charge up the time machine.)

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.

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.”

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.

politesse

Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (It’s the most remarkable word I’ve ever seen!)

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”.

Synchronicity.

“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.