What's your favourite
(midwest.social)
Lady Butterfly she/herDirigibilivious: comparable to a dirigible, usually size, but could also be hot air, or a big gasbag.
doohickey
thingamajig
gizmo
gadget
hornswogglin' scallywags!
I used "kerfuffle" at a meeting at work the other week and it's gotten to be quite popular.
If your waistline is high enough these words automatically enter into your vocabulary.
All this hullabaloo and they forget the best one?!
bubkus
mollycoddle
kibosh
pizzazz
pusillanimous
This post made me go brouhaha
Minutia
Copacetic
Lugubrious
Cloaca
defenestration
Loquacious
Skullduggery
I use some of these sometimes. My favorites are discombobulated (because of the meme) and lollygagging (idk, it just sounds funny and I know it best from a line of guard dialog in Skyrim and I use that same tone of voice with my dog when she's sniffing one spot for too long).
I just showed this list to my Asian wife and she described it as "white people deep magics" 😂
A perfectly cromulent list
It embiggens even the smallest man
Preposterous!
Inconceivable!
I'm positively miffed!
Pneumonoultrammicroscopicsilacovolcanaconiosis
In Britain, those would all be very serious names for diseases or some shit.
Lollygagger's Bubkus Discombobulation Syndrome (or LBDS) is a serious illness affecting men over 30. If you're reading this and remember LMFAO at the height of their popularity, get tested today.
Gobsmacked
Rescinded
Higglypiggly Cromulent
Oh they're like music to my ears
obstreperous
my friends and I used to deliberately use it incorrectly as a synonym for recalcitrant
"Stop being so obstreperous!"
I dropped recalcitrant to the IT guy about the printer/copier/mental torture device at work and he legitimately smiled.
Made my day!
May I suggest "obdurate"?
https://literature.cafe/comment/20360081
I just read that
Shenanigan
Pumpernickel, codswallop, hornswoggle, gobbledegook, flummoxed, collywobbles.
Pumpernickel? I 'ardly know 'er!
Fun fact, pumpernickel means "goblin fart." https://www.etymonline.com/word/pumpernickel
Perfectly fitting name IMO
Indubitably.
Oh they are beauties
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I actually started using this word after that post spread around a few months ago.
TIL my entire adulthood has been one long latibulation...
Yeah. The future is now apparently
My gasts have been flabbered
It's been far too long since my lolly was last gagged.
🥵
Gobbledygook
Cattywampus!
Of that list, anyway. It sounds awesome, and it relates to a very interesting thing https://appalachianhistorian.org/the-wampus-cat-of-appalachia-catawampus-critters-cherokee-masks-and-mountain-memory/
Paraphernalia is another good one
There be some good ones here - dictionary of obscure sorrows
https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
Scallywags
English: "wug". I love how it means nothing, and it's used because of that, so you can test how children generate grammatical forms without their previous knowledge influencing it:
Portuguese: "traquitana". Dictionary says it is (was) used for a type of horse carriage, but I've always heard it being used for either 1) that old motorcar falling into pieces, or 2) cheap, small things for sale. It sounds funny.
Italian: "zuzzurellone". It's basically "manchild" but not in an insulting way. Ditto, it also sounds funny.
it’s obviously “weg”, ez test
(Love your examples, never heard the other two!)
I'm going to start referring to my car as my traquitana and see if there's any reaction ...
Malarkey reminds me of maclunckey
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/maclunkey
Hifalutin
All great except for malarkey
Can’t enjoy that one the same way after the previous president abused it to be cute
Rapscallion
Pussyfoot!
Chicanery!
He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
Higgledy piggledy
Juxtaposition
Kurdupiel
I use most of these words regularly. They’re so much fun to say.
Widdershins
Kumquat
Diddly-squat
The Power of Discombobulation
Oh that's a beauty
I can't believe Schemozzle isn't there
Hassenfeffer incorporated
Quiproquo
Ferroequinologist: one who studies trains
Did you learn that term from Ologies like I did?
Alie Ward is the bee's knees and so are all the passionate smart people she asks (not actually) stupid questions 🥰
I think I found it on a random internet list, but thanks for the link. Now I know many more ology words...
"Iron Horse Wise Man"
brilliant.
Oh now that's a word
I actually use 4 of these regularly in my work as a rigger.
Cattywampus (catty) is actually a term of art. When you need to hang something between two beams, you connect a peice of steel to each beam and then bring them together where they dangle, making a bridle, to get the point in space where you want your thing to hang. It becomes cattywampus (catty) when your bridal legs arent perpendicular to the beams you are hanging them from - typically because you need to dodge obstacles in the way.
The others I use myself and am trying to get to catch on
A kerfuffle (kerfuff) is a messy or complicated problem that probably takes longer than you want to solve. For example, if you drop your rope in but it gets tangled in a bridal 20' below the beams, it's a kerfuffle, and your rope is kerfuffed
Shenanigans (shenan) unconventional, creative, and often somewhat unkosher or uncomfortable things you do to solve problems - often how you solve a kerfuffle. If you are straight pulling a motor chain, but then run out of chain right at the top and then tie a foot loop on the rope so you can step off the beam, pull the motor itself into the air, and make the point while you balance/dangle from the foot loop, then that is some shenan.
Bamboozled is when you spend a bunch of time and effort doing something, only to be told that someone else was wrong about something and you need to re-do all your work.
does "scram" qualify? its one of my favorites. i really hope someone uses it for me one day. I'd be overjoyed
"Now, scram!"
and I'd be giddy like 😊😊 heheheee.
I like hippopotamus
Hip. Hip-hop. Hipopop. You give him all the easy ones!!
Wazoo
Flummoxed.
I prefer flabbergasted myself. Been feeling it a lot since 2016.
Swash-buckling
Bumfuzzled
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumfuzzled
Squeehaw'd, generally applicable in the same situations as cattywampus
Polywog
Pretty sure I've used most of those in my weekly podcast about amateur radio. I'm going to make it my mission to use them all!
Tell me more about this podcast...
It's my attempt at describing the 1,000 hobbies that encompass amateur radio, it's called "Foundations of Amateur Radio" and (including a rename four years in) it's been going for over 15 years. Episodes are on average about five minutes and as I said, published weekly at 01:00 UTC on Saturday morning.
It comes as audio, text, email, YouTube and is included in several other podcasts, news broadcasts and magazines. You can find it in pretty much every podcast directory and to ensure that it outlives me, it's archived on the Internet Archive.
It's a lot of work, but I love making it.
Thanks for asking.
My podcast home page is here: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/
That sounds nice, subscribed!
Btw, all the subscribe links on your site do a weird google.com redirect before going to the actual URL. Why is that?
Nice!
As for the redirect, it's a "feature" imposed by Google sites. I have no control over it unfortunately.
I get it'd be a bit of work, but if you ever have the time, I'd ditch Google Sites. Don't need to give them more control than they already have.
Very cool, I'll be checking that out! Thanks!!
73 de AF4V
Sounds like an episode of Black Adder.
"Trousers" as an expletive. "Oh trousers! I've stubbed my toe!" (Not my idea, Jay Foreman from YT)
I've always been partial to catterwalling myself
Thabks, I learned 3 new words.
I believe most of these came from the same period of American history
Brouhaha
Three of those words are part of my normal vocabulary 😂
Contrafibularities and pericombobulation
