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Leicester tigers are building a new stand

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a blurb describes as follows

"Another sunny day at Welford Road as the new West Stand sees its first vomitory take shape "


i learn that a vomitory is

" One of the tunnellike passages of an amphitheater or stadium between the seats and the outside wall or passageway."

never knew that

Not found today's one yet, but spotted a good one yesterday, in the excellent Vicky Coren piece that Tal Bloke linked to.


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/29/victoria-coren-fifty-shades-of-grey


...and the word was

posit

As in.....



That, I posit, is the erotic charge of Fifty Shades Of Grey.


Mr Dictionary says this.....



put forward as fact or as a basis for argument.
"the Confucian view posits a perfectible human nature"


synonyms: postulate, put forward, advance, propound, submit, predicate, hypothesize, take as a hypothesis, set forth, propose, pose, assert; More
presuppose, assume, presume


"there are those who posit a purely biological basis for this phenomenon"


•base something on the truth of (a particular assumption).
"these plots are posited on a false premise about women's nature as inferior"


2.


put in position; place.


It makes perfect sense, too - our position on something.

In these days of abbreviations & shortened words, that just works.

By chance, a repeat "Blackadder the Third" was shown last night, with Robbie Coltrane, in the episode in which he penned the first ever.....dictionary, & Blackadder ruined it with a bunch of made up words.

Wish we got to see more of Robbie Coltrane, no idea what he does these days.

He likes fiddling about with engines and is a big fan of the 2 stroke.

He was in all or most of the Harry Potter films.

I think that it is also the source of the myth that Romans used to have massive feasts, then throw up all that they'd eaten, just so they could eat some more, because historians saw reference to 'vomitorium' and assumed it was a place specifically for this to be done, when instead it was, as you say, a passageway (literally, a place through which people are ejected)

I posit that the use of the word excellent here is redundant.

So I gather, Ralph, but he used to feature in a lot of TV stuff, originally dramas & comedies, & then, later, in documentaries, driving his car round Britain, taking engines to bits & re-assembling them with his own hands, that sort of thing. Very watchable.

Diacritics

I have always called the little lines and symbols above letters in foreign words accents. Things like ěèéëàîç and so on. Officially known as diacritics.

When I saw the thread title it made me think of that episode, still amuses me now when I watch it.

Second piece of vocabulary sourced via VCM in the first page of this thread  ;)

Such a shame that Balderdash & Piffle isn't still on.

Whilst at work this evening i found the word cuntwaffles scratched into a school desk.

I believe it to be an old Norfolk saying dating from the early 1800s meaning soggy batter.

Well then Mr Bates, you struck lucky, as that Episode is repeated at 8.40pm this evening, on GOLD.


contrafibularity


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSYiT2iG08

Ha!

Yes. I had an episode to catch up on.

I have a friend who introduced me to the word "Firkytoodle"  A 17th  century term, obsolete by the 19th  century, meaning to caress sexually, to pet, to canoodle; what is known today as foreplay.

Sent me another the other day. Flâneur, A gentleman who saunters about exploring the city streets, taking in the culture & atmosphere.

Guess which one I do most?

At your age the latter.  ;nanana;

I have been known to do both at the same time.

But it doesn't count when you Firkytoodle yourself Tom.

Busted   ;marks;

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Came across another today.

Gentrification


Gentrification is the buying and renovating of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by wealthier individuals, which in effect improves property values but also can displace low-income families and small businesses. This is a common and widespread controversial topic and term in urban planning. It refers to shifts in an urban community lifestyle and an increasing share of wealthier residents and/or businesses and increasing property values.

"fiat"

As in " the King ruled by fiat".

Minimax.

Minimax (sometimes MinMax or MM[1]) is a decision rule used in decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case (maximum loss) scenario. Originally formulated for two-player zero-sum game theory, covering both the cases where players take alternate moves and those where they make simultaneous moves, it has also been extended to more complex games and to general decision making in the presence of uncertainty.

So there.

Strangely enough, "gentrification" (anti) hit the news headlines only yesterday. Scary stuff. 


http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/27/shoreditch-cereal-cafe-targeted-by-anti-gentrification-protesters



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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJgosg7O40

I have been using this word for years.....but never in this context. Myself (and others) use this word when referring to my Son. His name is actually Max. I use his name in part of my online alias so folk say things like 'how is minimax today?/Is minimax enjoying his new school?' etc.

This was one of the favourite words (and concepts) that I learned on my degree.

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Although it wasn't a word that I learned 'today' (so strictly speaking doesn't meet the criteria of the thread title) a word I only learned when my fiancee started her degree last year was "phylogeny" -
this is the study of evolution.

When people show an evolutionary tree of life like this

(http://www.spindriftpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Evolutionary-Tree-Simplified-copy.jpg)

 - the more scientific name is phylogenetic tree

They can get quite complicated
(http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/log/wp-content/Evo_large.gif)

love that diagram

I love neologism - newly minted words.

Not a new word for me, but certainly a lovely one.

Tighty had an absolute corker the other day - hagiography.

Finally a new one for me, from German but I found today it's also now an English word:

bildungsroman - a novel primarily concerned with the changing of a boy into a man. (Literally: education novel, auf Deutsch)

Yes it's incredible, and only marginally more complicated than the preceding! :D

Mnemonic - a system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something.

Big Elephants Can Always Upset Small Elephants!

I was in a restaurant last night and on the sweet menu was a "lemon posset".

A posset is:

noun
noun: posset; plural noun: possets

    1.
    a cold dessert made from thickened cream, typically flavoured with lemon.
    "lemon posset glazed with a sugar caramel"
    2.
    historical
    a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other alcohol and typically flavoured with spices.

verb
verb: posset; 3rd person present: possets; past tense: possetted; past participle: possetted; gerund or present participle: possetting

    1.
    (of a baby) regurgitate curdled milk.
    "bless its little heart, it's possetting again"

I googled exactly the same thing on Tuesday. Is lemon posset getting a dessert Renaissance or where you in a Manchester Chop Shop? I went for Apple pie instead...

It was in Darlington, so posset is spreading like wildfire.

I've got one!!!!!!!

Nimiety

The state of being more than is necessary or desirable

 quantity much larger than is needed

quantity that is more than what is appropriate

As in a "nimiety of exclamation marks".

Or "I watched the film John Wick today in which Keanu Reeves dispatched a nimiety of Russian gangsters to avenge his dog" 

Interesting, I thought posset would be a fairly common turn but I guess just because my mum makes it doesn't mean that's true. Mnemonics were fairly commonplace when I was at school, not that most people from my year would know what it mean.

Etymology has always been fascinating to me. I will try and find a new word to post today.

For a while, etymonline.com was my home page.

In Macau the Chinese are constantly saying a word that's pronounced 'nigguh' and obviously us westerners ears pop up when we hear it.

It means 'that one'

Just came across another.

INGRATE

ingrate
 (ˈɪnɡreɪt; ɪnˈɡreɪt)
n
1. an ungrateful person

adj
2. ungrateful

A couple of years ago i started getting into the habit of looking up absolutely any unfamiliar words i came across, which i would then proceed to make a note of in my iPhone. That has now ended up being a pretty long list. Always nice to scroll through when waiting for a tube.

Personal favourite at a glance:

'Axiomatic' - self evident or unquestionable.

I always thought this was their version of "ummm" - like when we're thinking mid sentence of what to say next?

Russell Peters did a pretty funny stand up bit on this. If only i was savvy enough to imbed a youtube video... :D

petrichor


a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.

decaphobia

The fear of the number "10". Learned it from something 2XUp posted elsewhere. As Scot's go, he knows quite a lot.

When I was looking that word up, I also discovered......


Triskaidekaphobia

...which is fear of the number 13. (13th person at the Last Supper, & from that Friday 13th, etc etc).

I just have to find a way to weave these seamlessly into convo now. 

Don't forget "Paraskavedekatriaphobia".

Anyone, without Googling, want to guess what that is the fear of?

I'll give you one clue, it's related to one of the two fears Tikay posted above.

 ;technophobe;
 ;indestructable;

I can read Greek though.

How about this one?

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

That would be the fear of the number 666, I believe.

 ;topman;

Talopopoulos is champ

Miscommunicated.

Thoughts on the legality? I wanted to say "I was informed by Stars that they had miscommunicated the information to me". It looks wrong, they apologised for the miscommunication though. How to relay that correctly though?


Tatterdemalion is my contribution, it means ragamuffin.

epicaricacy (EP-i-kar-ik-i-see) — taking pleasure in other's misfortune; schadenfreude.

This word has caused a lot of discussion of late on a couple of forums that discuss these sorts of things. It's an English word, albeit probably an inkhorn term, for a concept that isn't supposed to have a word in English. quoting Nathan Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, which is a very olde dictionary indeed (1721): "Epicharikaky — from the Greek words or roots for 'upon', 'joy', and 'evil': 'A Joy at the Misfortunes of others'".


http://www.vocabula.com/VRbestwords.asp#G

Tidbits.

I thought it was a spelling mistake but apparently it's the plural of titbit.

oh ye of little faith.

FYP.

Bugger!

...which brings us neatly to this strange word, strange because I can't recall ever seeing it except when linked with "hoist upon your own"

petard

A petard was a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. It is of French origin and dates back to the 16th century. A typical petard was a conical or rectangular metal device containing 2–3 kg (5 or 6 pounds) of gunpowder, with a slow match for a fuse.

Think I read somewhere that 99% of all uses of the phrase "grassy knoll" relate to the Kennedy assassination.

I've seen it used in the context of a question.

'is yer petard?

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Oh dear.

Oh very dear.

Pre 2005 maybe, Halo came out with a level with the same name

Maybe so, but you get the point I was making.

Anyway, wtf is Halo?

I just remembered you wrote that a few days ago.

I've no idea how you describe someone who regularly practices it - other than complete knob - but don't you just loathe those sorts?

We used to have a really bad example here, positively loved other peoples discomfort.

Great word though. Not sure I could ever remember the epicaricacy (sp?) version.

Still, the question for many producers is whether the strength in Chicago wheat, the world benchmark, in being fuelled at least in part by idiosyncratic factors, is really applicable to contracts in other markets too.

First thoughts were this must be an idiot aristocrat!!

Abstruse was one for me. It means what I always thought Obtuse meant.

http://grammarist.com/usage/abstruse-obtuse/

It's like many years ago when I learned sympathetic and empathetic meant the opposite of what I thought they meant.

Collins' dictionary Words of the Year, plus definitions

    binge-watch (verb): to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
    clean eating (noun): following a diet that contains only natural foods, and is low in sugar, salt, and fat
    contactless (adjective): referring to payments, smart cards, etc that utilize RFID (radio-frequency identity) technology and do not require a PIN or signature from the customer
    Corbynomics (noun): the economic policies advocated by the UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
    dadbod (noun): an untoned and slightly plump male physique, especially one considered attractive
    ghosting (noun): ending a relationship by ignoring all communication from the other person
    manspreading (noun): the act or an instance of a male passenger in a bus or train splaying his legs in a way that denies space to the passenger sitting next to him
    shaming (noun): attempting to embarrass a person or group by drawing attention to their perceived offence, especially on social media
    swipe (verb): to move a finger across a touchscreen on a mobile phone in order to approve (swipe right) or dismiss (swipe left) an image
    transgender (adjective): of or relating to a person whose gender identity does not fully correspond to the sex assigned to them at birth

That's a new one on me

Crytoscopophilia

The urge to look through peoples windows as you pass by their houses.

Chrimbophobia:

An aversion to Christmas.

I thought tatterdemalions were posh folk who dressed up/down as ragamuffins.

I've just had a look at the etymology and there's nothing to suggest it's posh folk playing down.

Desmaillier is an old French verb of to remove (chain)mail but, in practice, to tear clothing (in other words, removing the protection of the clothing).

Tatter is shredding like it means today.

Looks like it was either invented by or used around the time of my favourite writer, Ben Jonson, in the early seventeenth century. It does have the feel of a Jacobean word, certainly.

Jonson once wrote that someone was a capricious gallant with more beard than brain. Hard to top that.

I think it must have been in a piece about posh folk dressing as tatterdemalions that I first came across the word which made me draw that conclusion.

We used to go out collecting old rags and woollens. We called them tats.

We were tatters, tatting for tats.

http://www.patrin.org.uk/tom-mccready-snr-unloading-the-tats/

Great picture, love the hair Tom. Very interesting read too. Loved the last sentence about the knife.

A lovely read, Tom.

Octimated

to reduce something in size by an eighth.

I wonder how often we'd get opportunity to use that word?

I suppose a slice of pizza, or cake, might octimate it?

the liberal democrats were almost octimated this morning (Carmichael in Orkney)

sitzpinklers and stehpinklers

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Taking the p1ss aren't they?

Abiogenesis

Life being created from organic material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

crepuscular

resembling or relating to twilight.

Ultracrepidarian ~ a person who gives views or advice on matters outside of their knowledge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism





More to be found here...

http://matadornetwork.com/notebook/illustrations-unusual-words-amazing/

Reckon you can use this in sport as well.

"Daniel Levy put his head in his hands as Soldado missed again from 6 yards and octimated his transfer value". 

Synecdoche-
From Wikipedia

A synecdoche (/sɪˈnɛkdəkiː/, si-NEK-də-kee; from Greek συνεκδοχή, synekdoche, lit. "simultaneous understanding")[1] is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.[2] A synecdoche is a class of metonymy, often by means of either mentioning a part for the whole or conversely the whole for one of its parts. Examples from common English expressions include "bread and butter" (for "livelihood"), "suits" (for "businesspeople"), and "boots" (for "soldiers").[3] Synecdoche also appears in the use of government buildings to refer to their occupant or agency, as "No. 10" for the British Prime Minister or "The Pentagon" for the United States Department of Defense.

much call for that in the black country?

good word though, filed away!

I see what you did there.. I think you answered your own question Tighty. Please tell me you meant it?

Used this one at work today. 

Oligarchs.


Obama said it today. I think it was a dig at the Russians.

Oligos means a few, I believe. Archy is authority, rule, etc.

It's all Greek to me.

Monarchy = rule by one sovereign
Oligarchy = rule by a few
Patriarchy = rule by a man
Matriarchy = rule by a woman
Anarchy = rule by no one
Synarchy = rule by two or more parties

Oligarchs have become more prevalent in recent years with the emergence of money from powerful (particularly) Eastern Europeans. Lots of fine art, for instance, has gone into private hands.

I was under the impression that in regular day to day use, "oligarch" particularly applied to Russians?

Maybe it is because Russia has so many of them.

Thank you.

I can't believe I've never linked words like monarchy and anarchy before.

They don't live in Russia, they live loudly in the west and hope that Putin makes the judgement that they are too famous to be retired from public view.

Courtesy of Radio 4.


1. Owl Jacket

Taken from the Italian ‘Giacca civetta', which refers to a jacket left on the back of a chair at work, so it looks like you are in the office working, rather than skiving at Costa.

“I’ve just noticed that Brian’s owl jacket has been there since 1994, which was the last time I actually saw him.”

2. Flype

An Old English word meaning to roll up your socks, stockings, leggings or jeggings, before putting them on. Though the word is originally English, it has been lost in England but still survives in Scotland to this day!

“I’ll be out in a minute Your Eminence, just need to flype my socks and slip my sandals on.”

3. Leper juice

An old medical term that refers to the pus found in the wounds of the afflicted. Thankfully it fell out of use due to its general horribleness.

“Thanks a lot Nigel, now you’ve got leper juice all over me.”

4. Vizzying-hole

A Scots word for a peephole in a door, derived from the Old French word visée meaning ‘look’.

“Sheila, have a quick shufty through the vizzying-hole and see if the maid’s coming while I stuff these towels in the suitcase.”

5. Uhtceare

An Old English word meaning to lie awake anxiously before dawn. Literally translated from the Old English it means the 'dawn-care'. It's similar to insomnia'(though more time-specific) in that it is a name (or noun) given to the state of being sleepless.

“Sorry about all the yawning, I had uhtceare because I was worrying about how I'm going to use up all of the courgettes.”

6. Sloom

To gently sleep or lightly slumber, from the Middle English slumen and the Old English slūmian.

“Sorry about the slooming, I had a bit of uhtceare because of my courgettes.”

7. Biffin

A deep red cooking apple. The name derives from ‘beefing’, in reference to the colour of the fruit. People would often exchange biffins at Christmastime.

“Great, I’ve got Norman in the Secret Santa. I hope he likes biffins because that’s all he’s getting.”

8. Gongoozler

A person who likes to mindlessly stare (at anything). If only we all had more time to stare idly and do nothing. The word survives in and around the canal boat community, to this day.

“Yeah, I’ll try and make it to your wedding, but I’ve got a lot of gongoozling planned for that weekend.”

9. Snollygoster

A 19th century American term for an unprincipled, dishonest person, especially a politician.

“That snollygoster came up to kiss my baby, but nicked my phone when I wasn’t looking.”

10. Mumpsimus

An obstinate person who holds on rigidly to a certain set of beliefs even though they are wrong or disproved. The term may have been coined by Erasmus.

“That silly mumpsimus still thinks Sporty was the best Spice Girl when everybody knows it was Posh.”

11. Wamblecropt

To have digestive issues that are so severe, you can’t physically move.

“I should never have had that sixteen piece chicken finger combo pack and Viennetta all to myself, now I’m wamblecropt.”

12. Groke

An old Scots word originally used to describe dogs staring longingly at food in order to be given some, but extended to refer to anyone gazing at grub.

“Please don’t groke at my sixteen piece chicken finger combo pack and Viennetta, it’s starting to upset me.”

13. Trullibubs

Another word for a person’s entrails, but can also be an insulting term aimed at an overweight person.

“Oi, trullibubs, did you just scoff my sixteen piece chicken finger combo pack and Viennetta?”

14. Sprunt

Not the soft drink that Alan Partridge was sponsored by, but a Victorian-era Scottish word meaning to chase girls around a haystack after dark. Possibly a combination of ‘spring’ and ‘hunt’.

“I really fancy a sprunt. All we need is a haystack, some girls and to wait for eight hours.”

I think we know a mumpsimus quite well, in fact I'm going to refer to him as His Mumpsiness henceforth.

Great collection Red Dog, thanks!

I came across this word, bizarrely on a youtube comments show. Is it common?

gamut
ˈɡamət/
noun
1.
the complete range or scope of something.

Yes, at least I'm familiar with it. "The whole gamut of emotions".

Bigly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37483869

It's a very common word where I come from, but I've only ever heard it used in that exact context (see "grassy knoll") - whole gamut of emotions, or the whole gamut.

Wiki has it far more specialised - as in a complete subset of colours in photography or computer graphics = a gamut of colours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut

Quick question for the wordley wise.

Is it "Sunk without trace" or "Sank without trace" or is it like that well known Sarf London couple Eva/Ivor?

i'd always used sunk but thinking about it think either is fine depending on sentence construction

"it sank without trace" or "the titanic sunk without trace"

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sink

Historically, the past tense of sink has been both sank and sunk (the boat sank; the boat sunk) and the past participle has been both sunk and sunken (the boat had already sunk; the boat had already sunken). In modern English the past is generally sank and the past participle is sunk, with the form sunken now surviving only as an adjective, as in a sunken garden or sunken cheeks

It sank.

It has sunk.

Exactly

Chapter and verse, that's what I wanted. Not some vague "either is fine depending on sentence construction".

I seem to have lost a word today. It means to change someone's mind and would be used in a sentence like, "I'll soon - - - - you of that notion".

disavow?

Disabuse?

disabuse?

Rid?

Disabuse. Thank you guys. I did know it, but the wire that connects the rest of my brain to the place where I stored it seems have been disconnected.

I've moved it to a fresh, more accessible place now.

Rid works perfectly, and I almost used it but I just knew there was another word floating in about that I just couldn't grasp.

relieve?

I would probably use that if someone were labouring under a misapprehension.

So I'm partially right?

I wouldn't go that far. Perhaps moderately correct.

You're a hard man to please Mr Dog

We have to be careful on here Andrew, We have the likes of Tal, Karabiner, Doobs etc looking over our shoulder.

Ah, the astucious ternion.