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piquant - \PEE-kunt\ - adjective
1. agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
2. agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive: a piquant glance.
3. of an interestingly provocative or lively character: a piquant wit.
4. Archaic. sharp or stinging, esp. to the feelings.

Examples:

BBC passes a piquant glance in Cheryl's direction.

Andreas took a bite from his Spicy piquant chicken :pie:


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Sofa

I'm a Staffooooooordian
BBC - is that just an excuse to write PEE and kunt in the same post? And surely Andreas' chicken was more likely to be piquant than the bite that he took of it?

Yours semantically,
Mr A. Pedant
 
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i hardly think correctly defining a word, in a thread about the definition of words, is pedantic :teef:

punctilious - puhngk-til-ee-uhs - adjective
- strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- extremely attentive to minute details of action or behavior.
 
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#chaplife
BBC said:
zomotherapy
n. medical treatment by raw meat or meat juice. zomotherapeutic, a.

meat juice :D
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that is fabulous.. i cannot wait to use it in general parlance.. i'm sure i can turn it into a double entendre..
 
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Monquey

Dressed like Cadfael
Cromulant

(crom-you-lənt)

1. (adj.) Being well-formed; legitimate; of a word, especially a neologism, that is not previously
attested in the language but obeys its rules of word-formation.

In itself a neologism, and damn fine word.
 
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Monquey said:
Cromulant

(crom-you-lənt)

1. (adj.) Being well-formed; legitimate; of a word, especially a neologism, that is not previously
attested in the language but obeys its rules of word-formation.

In itself a neologism, and damn fine word.
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you're kidding - "cromulent" isn't actually in the dictionary now, is it?? if so, that's brilliant lol..
 
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Mr J C

Well-Known Forumite
Ok - so I'm bored and have decided that my love of word games needs a bit of new input word wise, so lets have some of your favourite unusual words (and there meanings).......now I know that there will be many of you that have a plethora of them and I look forward to learning some new ones!!

To get us started:

apodyopsis - the act of mentally undressing someone
borborygmus - the rumbling sound of gas passing through the intestine (the ex can tell you I'm world class when it comes to this one!!!)




Admin edit: Threads merged, as there were a few good ones in this old thread that I thought belonged together. :)
 
Ecker

Ecker

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Tergiversation: The act of turning one's back; abandoning something or someone; betrayal.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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I'm fond of litotes, more for the definition than the word itself

Litotes - affirmation by negation of the contrary. (ie not bad = good)
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
A chap I worked with had a habit of coming up with words that weren't right, but weren't wholly wrong, either. Mexican headed bolts - he had a car with declining seats - and he once claimed that he was going to do something 'disregardlessly' - we never really knew what he meant by that.
 
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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Another one, with no sense humour, once complained about an assembly arrangement that we had with a factory in the USA - "These Americans - they're just a bunch of cowboys!" When it was pointed out to him that some of them might be Indians, he took that to mean that they were using cheap immigrant labour - how we laughed...
 
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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I once used the word 'gravitas' to Colossal, whilst we were wandering home from the Grapes at 2am, in reference to the Derek Holt performance that we had just witnessed. He was previously unaware of this word and has now adopted it as his own.
 
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Mr J C

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Mr J C said:
Ok - so I'm bored and have decided that my love of word games needs a bit of new input word wise, so lets have some of your favourite unusual words (and there meanings).......now I know that there will be many of you that have a plethora of them and I look forward to learning some new ones!!

To get us started:

apodyopsis - the act of mentally undressing someone
borborygmus - the rumbling sound of gas passing through the intestine (the ex can tell you I'm world class when it comes to this one!!!)




Admin edit: Threads merged, as there were a few good ones in this old thread that I thought belonged together. :)
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Thanks Admin - I missed this thread when I was looking for similar :)
 
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