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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Words of this December
I have just discovered this website, and have just delved once more into the exciting world of highly specific or nice-sounding words. This will be chock full of the best ones I discover this month.
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chelster OED: That roars loudly; noisy, boisterous.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 675 We leave that‥to critics of a more polyphloisboian note.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv, Two men are walking by the polyphlœsbœan ocean.
1881 Fortn. Rev. No. 179. 560 The unreliable, erratic, polyphloisbean Loewenbruk also put in an appearance.
1997 D. Albright Quantum Poetics ii. 200 A genuinely polyphloisboian line would have been wholly out of place in this poem. Jun 24, 2011
tantet Was awakened at 4:15 this morning by polyphloisboian thunder and heavy rain, beating my alarm by forty-five minutes. It's going to be a loooonnggg day... May 31, 2010
jmjarmstrong JM has tried to convince the Polyphloisboian Society to consider the neighbours. Apr 2, 2010