Words you don't hear much anymore.

[Liar]

jocular

I don't even know what that means.

*off to flip dictionary*

 

[Guest]

Guerilla Everyone is either a terrorist, a rebel or an insurgent these days. Some of them are clearly terrorists, as in people who attack civilian targets to inflict terror. But are there no guerillas anymore? They were big in the 80's and the early 90's.

Is this because nobody use the traditional guerilla tactics, or because the word was inconvenient when trying to demonize the enemy?

The word (with two R's) was derived from the Spanish for war, guerra. The word was coined for those who were fighting as in war but were not in an official army. They still exist in Latin America, perhaps elsewhere. Guerrilla (not at all pronounced like the ape family member) does not equal terrorist.

Perdita

 

[Tom Collins]

joc·u·lar Pronunciation Key (jky-lr)
adj.
1. Characterized by joking.
2. Given to joking.

Does that help, Liar?

 

[Liar]

joc·u·lar Pronunciation Key (jky-lr)
adj.
1. Characterized by joking.
2. Given to joking.

Does that help, Liar?

Thanks. I found it too.

 

[Liar]

Fax


Becoming slowly extinct.

 

[Tom Collins]

ruddy

 

[Tom Collins]

hinny (female offspring of a male horse, and a female ass)
buttocks

Sorry if I'm adding too many cents, but I adore words.
You wanna get me hot? Just talk dirty with big/out moded words.

 

[Tom Collins]

flame (as in, "he goes out everyweekend because he's got a new flame.)
sparking(old euphemism for making out.)
beau

 

[Liar]

Sorry if I'm adding too many cents, but I adore words.
You wanna get me hot? Just talk dirty with big/out moded words.

You and logo should hook up and have a red hot theasarus night or something.

 

[rgraham666]

Society

Over here in North America it's been replaced by stakeholders.

 

[Whisky7up]

Carriage

 

[Tom Collins]

Society

Over here in North America it's been replaced by stakeholders.

Funny...I alway thought it ment a bunch of people who live in the same locality and try to tell everyone who isn't exactly like them how they should live. *shrugs* Learn something new every day, eh?


Another contribution
rivulet

 

[Bishonen]

darling

 

[Stella_Omega]

flame (as in, "he goes out everyweekend because he's got a new flame.)
sparking(old euphemism for making out.)
beau

Ohh... Tom...
You sweet talker you!

vouchsafe
ravaged
avow

 

[Tom Collins]

You and logo should hook up and have a red hot theasarus night or something.

I sure as hell wouldn't object to that proposal. for logo

 

[Liar]

Tuner



Everything is digital these days, baby.

 

[Stella_Omega]

darling

I use it all the time, although I like to write it
darlin'
delicious (in any other context than food)
gossip (meaning a friend)

 

[Huckleman2000]

Guerilla


Everyone is either a terrorist, a rebel or an insurgent these days. Some of them are clearly terrorists, as in people who attack civilian targets to inflict terror. But are there no guerillas anymore? They were big in the 80's and the early 90's.

Is this because nobody use the traditional guerilla tactics, or because the word was inconvenient when trying to demonize the enemy?

Not to drag the topic into the dirt, but politicians [and Republicans especially] continuously attack words and their meaning. "Liberal" is an epithet. "Freedom" seems to be a code-word for "Christianity, of a particularly virulent form". "Evil-doers" means "those who disagree with us", in addition to "those who attack us".

 

[Tom Collins]

Ohh... Tom...
You sweet talker you!

vouchsafe
ravaged
avow

Ohh...Stella...
I'd sweet talk you anytime you wanted me to. I avow that I couldn't sincerely vouchsafe your virtue. I would happily ravage you.

virtue
vagabond

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ohh...Stella...
I'd sweet talk you anytime you wanted me to. I avow that I couldn't sincerely vouchsafe your virtue. I would happily ravage you.

virtue
vagabond

montebank
(goes with vagabond) also
tinker and
rover
I'm about to break into a chorus of "Black Jack Davey", any minute!

 

[Tom Collins]

montebank
(goes with vagabond) also
tinker and
rover
I'm about to break into a chorus of "Black Jack Davey", any minute!

Shyt...I was about to break into Roll Me Over in the Clover.

Roll me ooooover in the cloooover, roll me over, jack me up and do it again...

jubilee
aroma
incendiary

 

[Liar]

Not to drag the topic into the dirt, but politicians [and Republicans especially] continuously attack words and their meaning. "Liberal" is an epithet. "Freedom" seems to be a code-word for "Christianity, of a particularly virulent form". "Evil-doers" means "those who disagree with us", in addition to "those who attack us".

And "Liberal" originally means someone who wants liberty above all, govermnemt as amall as possible, and personal integrity intact.

(I knew I'd get the opportunity to get that said in this thread somehow)

 

[Stella_Omega]

And "Liberal" originally means someone who wants liberty above all, govermnemt as amall as possible, and personal integrity intact.

(I knew I'd get the opportunity to get that said in this thread somehow)

I thought that was a "Libertine" another word that got turned into something dirty by it's detractors

Shyt...I was about to break into Roll Me Over in the Clover.

Roll me ooooover in the cloooover, roll me over, jack me up and do it again...

jubilee
aroma
incendiary

ball of yarn... ball of yarn...It was then I spun her pretty ball of yarn...
empyrean
pellucid
Sylvian

 

[Tom Collins]

dandy ( as in good, or as in effeminate male...whichever you like)
piss-ant

 

[Stella_Omega]

dandy ( as in good, or as in effeminate male...whichever you like)

aren't our newest invented gender- the metro-sexuals- sort of like dandies? I'm all for it, personally. I like the old fashioned word Dandy, myself.

piss-ant

and pismire!