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- n. Alternative form of l'esprit de l'escalier.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘esprit d'escalier’.
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soma's list
esprit d'escalier, triskelion, borborygmus, lalochezia, pareidolia, octothorpe, pandiculation, semihemidemisemiq..., phosphenes, lucent, seraphim, phantasmagoria and 8 more...
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It's All Just Words.
quixotic, penisaurus rex, plibt, pot, polaroid, gemütlichkeit, hey! pooper scoop..., nowhere, anywhere, somewhere, elsewhere, wherever and 80 more...
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Desultory Digressions
Also known as EsotericWench's Word Holding Tank. These are words that have caught my fancy but I have yet to file in the appropriate list. If I don't capture them here, I won't capture them at all.
desultory, abjure, immethodical, mentalist, subvertising, schmaltzy, fartlek, interstitial, ear-rent, brouhaha, crufty, malefactor and 34 more...
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Hard to Translate
Words which exceed the common problems one finds in translation.
radioustukacz, shlimazl, gezellig, saudade, selathirupavar, pochernuchka, klloshar, ilunga, filotimo, plenipotentiary, taarradhin, guanxi and 33 more...
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Miscellaneous
‽, ☤, mandelbrot, angora rabbit, psychrolutes marc..., vampyroteuthis in..., basking shark, mano de desierto, underwater sculpt..., surgical dining, gyroscope, Derinkuyu and 161 more...
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ymmez22's Words
despotic, fiefdom, demagogue, vignette, chavvy, esoteric, stalwarts, unpalatable, eradicated, rapacious, repugnant, zeitgeist and 89 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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Words I Like
Random vocabulary words that I am particularly fond of.
absquatulate, anthropophagy, bibliobibuli, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, brobdingnagian, brummagem, bugaboo, callipygian, cataglottism, chiaroscuro and 92 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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words
quidnunc, evening, froth, eleemosynary, portend, chthonic, aestival, malinger, schadenfreude, bagatelle, anatidaephobic, fecund and 16 more...
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chained_bear Other conversations on esprit de l'escalier and l'esprit de l'escalier. Mar 2, 2009
reesetee :-D Mar 2, 2009
chained_bear And I just about posted this comment: "it has a name?!" before I realized, "Hey, I bet this is on reesetee's "it has a name??" list. And lo...
Those French... they have a different word for everything. Dec 8, 2007
reesetee Haha! Dec 7, 2007
misterpolly I wish I'd posted this one! Dec 7, 2007
cydonian I just thought it was me. :-|
(You can be sure I'll come back to this comment in an hour or two, and edit it with a further witticism). Sep 24, 2007
jennarenn *Always* happens to me. May 15, 2007
sionnach also known as treppenwitz for the same reason. Or, depending on your reaction time, esprit de metro. Mar 1, 2007
reesetee Roughly, "wit of the staircase" in French. That feeling you have after you just missed a great chance to fling a witty comeback at someone. Mar 1, 2007