New word!

[Cynde Route]

New word: pilwarderden - refers to any area of land that has been raided, pillaged, or settled by Vikings. I found it in the kids' magazine DIG.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Coo. That's a good one. The area of Lancashire I live in was Danelaw. Danes filtering up here from York. Towns like Garstang, meaning a gair- stone; a meeting place for a kind of local parliament, I think. But the Settlements here were peaceful, not like the earlier ones in Northumberland.

 

[Marc Joan]

Marc, you've been holding out on us! Fancy not telling us about the mackerel-trawling with pantaloons before, you meanie....

International man of mackerel?

 

[James Marinero]

Some angelic, blue-sky, not very thunderous, thunder knickers.

Nora Batty's? (it's an age thing)! LOL! - just saw the site legend under the pic - 'click to expand' !

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Nora Batty's? (it's an age thing)! LOL! - just saw the site legend under the pic - 'click to expand' !

They can't be Nora's, where's the stockings? lol yes I know who she is, I used to love watching Summer Wine, Sunday night after Antiques Roadshow

 

[Richard Sutton]

Banalosaur: an ancient saurian so completely mundane that no one ever speaks of it or wonders about it.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

OMNISTRAIN: the (obsessive?) effort to improve oneself in every respect.

This urge is to be countered with that well worn riposte, 'Enough, already.'

 

[Jennifer Stone]

mellifluous- to sound sweetly smooth

 

[tabby3]

I once tried to learn German from some audio tapes. One of the phrases we had to learn was,'Muchen die fenestre ouf' (or something like that) which means, 'Close the window'. Hence the fenestre part of fenestrated, I suppose.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Just bought a book, 'The Mellifluous Book of Hard Words'. Lots of new unusual words to learn.

 

[Marc Joan]

USUFRUCT
The legal right to use or enjoy something, especially something belonging to another. Thus, my kids consider that they have usufruct rights over the TV. Not when the cricket's on, rugrats [hard stare].

 

[Meerkat]

If you like unusual words, try the book Verbal Advantage. It contains lots of unusual but absolutely perfect words.

I used to have a whole dictionary of little-used words, but had to get rid of it (and a lot of other books) during a move. From it, I learned the word gound: eye-junk in the morning.

 

[Jay Aitch]

An auto-biography perhaps?

Does it have autos in too? Wunderbar

 

[AliG]

Ok, I'm going to toss in borborygmi - tummy rumbles. Great rolling sound.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you dance the Fandango? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Scaramouche

 

[Marc Joan]

I can't dance, I can only TITUBATE [to stagger or stumble tipsily]

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Sure you can, Marc. Just lay off the sauce, heh, and get those sequins on:

 

[Karen Gray]

Fundilymundily - utter nonsense

 

[Marc Joan]

Sure you can, Marc. Just lay off the sauce, heh, and get those sequins on:

[/MEDIA]

Hmmm. Not sure if my gammy knee could cope with all that John Wayne-style sashaying. As for the sequins--no. I've loathed dressing up ever since my parents sent five-year old me to a fancy dress party covered in balloons. I was supposed to be a bunch of grapes. The shame.

 

[Karen Gray]

Phantasmagorically
(Phantasmagorical)

My new favourite word!

 

[David Steele]

Actually, @Katie-Ellen Hazeldine , are those knickers blue-sky on black or are they white on gold?

 

[Jason Byrne]

I can donate oeuvre and outré!

blue and black, David. Has to be blue on black.

 

[Karen Gray]

I thought blue on black was a bruise? Or is that purple on yellow? lol

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Noctilucent! Noctilucent clouds....

 

[Jason Byrne]

The coolest thing ever. As seen from the ISS:

 

[Meerkat]

Noctilucent! Noctilucent clouds....

This is my new favorite word.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

I'll just sit here awhile enjoying the views

 

[Marc Joan]

DAEDAL - skilful, ingenious, intricate

 

[Karen Gray]

DAEDAL - skilful, ingenious, intricate

oooh I like that one

 

[Meerkat]

DAEDAL - skilful, ingenious, intricate

I wonder if that's from Daedalus?