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Fellow Logophiles…… 22:54 - Nov 18 with 1672 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

…….I,m currently doing a word or words of the day to replace plants of the day on Facebook and try to bring a little chuckle or a little smile to my friends on there, many of whom are going through a bit of a rough time with various different problems that life is throwing their way.

Looking for genuine words that are rarely or now never used in the English language and was hoping some of you might have some interesting ones I could use with accompanying meanings. Rude or risqué most welcome too.

Thanks.

We have no village green, or a shop. It's very, very quiet. I can walk to the pub.

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 23:02 - Nov 18 with 1623 viewsGlasgowBlue

rapscallion
/rapˈskalɪən/
nounARCHAIC•HUMOROUS
a mischievous person.
"they were the rapscallions behind this practical joke"

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 23:06 - Nov 18 with 1608 viewsLord_Lucan

Mugwump
a person who remains aloof or independent, especially from party politics.

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 01:06 - Nov 19 with 1549 viewsYou_Bloo_Right

Syllepsis.

A syllepsis is a specific kind of zeugma and can be used as a synonym for zeugma; a syllepsis is a figure of speech where a word is applied to two other words with different meanings, for example: "She caught the ball and a sharp look from the coach."

What I was particularly attracted to was that the explanation of the meaning of a word cntained a word that I had to look up the meaning of.

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 02:31 - Nov 19 with 1516 viewswitchdoctor

Zounds…
…is an archaic interjection used to express surprise or anger, and is a mild oath. It is a shortened version of the oath “by God's wounds
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Fellow Logophiles…… on 03:51 - Nov 19 with 1457 viewsKeno

Maybe susie dent could give you a hand


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Fellow Logophiles…… on 06:10 - Nov 19 with 1397 viewsKropotkin123

Verily, I shall wend thither and with fain heart bestow upon thee a trove of archaic words, forsooth!

Lief - readily or willingly
Quoth - said
Doff - to remove (clothing)

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 06:33 - Nov 19 with 1371 viewsIndependentlyBlue

Gongoozle - to stand or sit idly and watch the goings on of a canal.

Tmesis - the insertion of another word into a compound word, I.e for emphasis. For example ‘Budgies generally are an abso-farkin-lutely deluded bunch’.

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 06:41 - Nov 19 with 1358 viewsgtsb1966

Fellow Logophiles…… on 02:31 - Nov 19 by witchdoctor

Zounds…
…is an archaic interjection used to express surprise or anger, and is a mild oath. It is a shortened version of the oath “by God's wounds


And also the name of a 70's punk band.
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Fellow Logophiles…… on 07:05 - Nov 19 with 1340 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

Fellow Logophiles…… on 06:33 - Nov 19 by IndependentlyBlue

Gongoozle - to stand or sit idly and watch the goings on of a canal.

Tmesis - the insertion of another word into a compound word, I.e for emphasis. For example ‘Budgies generally are an abso-farkin-lutely deluded bunch’.


Just used gongoozle 👍.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

Please keep them coming.

We have no village green, or a shop. It's very, very quiet. I can walk to the pub.

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 07:09 - Nov 19 with 1339 viewsBrianTablet

Parkdabuss: (v) to set up your team to defend your goal and show no attacking intent whatsoever.
Michael set them up to parkdabuss, as they had a tough game away at Burton.
[ARCHAIC] Origin: Dark Ages from parke dabuss derived from Calcio Latin

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 07:24 - Nov 19 with 1309 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

Fellow Logophiles…… on 07:09 - Nov 19 by BrianTablet

Parkdabuss: (v) to set up your team to defend your goal and show no attacking intent whatsoever.
Michael set them up to parkdabuss, as they had a tough game away at Burton.
[ARCHAIC] Origin: Dark Ages from parke dabuss derived from Calcio Latin


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Might use this as a spoof tomorrow, excellent stuff.

We have no village green, or a shop. It's very, very quiet. I can walk to the pub.

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 07:31 - Nov 19 with 1297 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

You should listen to Unspeakable on Radio 4... very funny, all about words and making up new words, plus has Susie Dent talking about lesser known words and word etymology.

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 07:53 - Nov 19 with 1284 viewsMeadowlark

"Like"

A word that can and must be placed randomly in every sentence before or after any other word.

For example:

A like word that like can and must like be like placed in like every sentence like before or like after like any other word.


Oops! I just spotted that you're looking for words that are rarely or never used. Like sorry.
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Fellow Logophiles…… on 08:43 - Nov 19 with 1262 viewsGuthrum

Fellow Logophiles…… on 02:31 - Nov 19 by witchdoctor

Zounds…
…is an archaic interjection used to express surprise or anger, and is a mild oath. It is a shortened version of the oath “by God's wounds


Similarly "Gadzooks!", a contraction of God's hooks, i.e. the nails from the cross.

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 10:17 - Nov 19 with 1167 viewsBasingstokeBlue

Fellow Logophiles…… on 02:31 - Nov 19 by witchdoctor

Zounds…
…is an archaic interjection used to express surprise or anger, and is a mild oath. It is a shortened version of the oath “by God's wounds


Crivens!

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 22:45 - Nov 19 with 1045 viewsIndependentlyBlue

Muselet - the wire cage holding the cork on a bottle of sparkling wine (sometimes also known as an Agraffe)

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 08:04 - Nov 20 with 941 viewsChurchman

There’s some interesting old phrases and lost words here

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53529/56-delightful-victorian-slang-terms-yo
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Fellow Logophiles…… on 08:54 - Nov 20 with 918 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

Fellow Logophiles…… on 08:04 - Nov 20 by Churchman

There’s some interesting old phrases and lost words here

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53529/56-delightful-victorian-slang-terms-yo


Thanks, some good ones there.

We have no village green, or a shop. It's very, very quiet. I can walk to the pub.

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Fellow Logophiles…… on 09:58 - Nov 20 with 882 viewsTangledupin_Blue

Fellow Logophiles…… on 07:31 - Nov 19 by The_Flashing_Smile

You should listen to Unspeakable on Radio 4... very funny, all about words and making up new words, plus has Susie Dent talking about lesser known words and word etymology.


Yes... the other week they had 'testiculate'. It's when you wave your arms about whilst talking boll9cks.

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