Words you don't hear much anymore.

[Tom Collins]

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


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

Stella, do you mean...

syl·vi·an (slv-n)
adj.
Relating to or described by Franciscus Sylvius (Franz de la Boö; 1614-1672), German-born Dutch physician and anatomist, or Jacobus Sylvius (Jaques Dubois; 1478-1555), French anatomist.

Or...

syl·van also sil·van Pronunciation Key (slvn)
adj.
Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions.
Located in or inhabiting a wood or forest.
Abounding in trees; wooded.

n.
One that lives in or frequents the woods.

?

 

[yui]

Stella, do you mean...

syl·vi·an (slv-n)
adj.
Relating to or described by Franciscus Sylvius (Franz de la Boö; 1614-1672), German-born Dutch physician and anatomist, or Jacobus Sylvius (Jaques Dubois; 1478-1555), French anatomist.

Or...

syl·van also sil·van Pronunciation Key (slvn)
adj.
Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions.
Located in or inhabiting a wood or forest.
Abounding in trees; wooded.

n.
One that lives in or frequents the woods.

?

Turn off the Don Williams ....

 

[Tom Collins]

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.
and pismire!

Uhhhh...*shuddering*...Stella...I actually had to look pimire up...This must be what love feels like!

copse
coppice
extravaganza
bazaar

 

[Stella_Omega]

Stella, do you mean...

syl·vi·an (slv-n)
adj.
Relating to or described by Franciscus Sylvius (Franz de la Boö; 1614-1672), German-born Dutch physician and anatomist, or Jacobus Sylvius (Jaques Dubois; 1478-1555), French anatomist.

Or...

syl·van also sil·van Pronunciation Key (slvn)
adj.
Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions.
Located in or inhabiting a wood or forest.
Abounding in trees; wooded.

n.
One that lives in or frequents the woods.

?

Whoops! Second one, dammit.
The name "Sylvius" means "man from the woods' - as does "Sylvester" and the feminine "Sylvia" so it's all one...

 

[Tom Collins]

Turn off the Don Williams ....

ROTF...listening to Dolly right now.

drunkard

 

[Liar]

Whoops! Second one, dammit.
The name "Sylvius" means "man from the woods' - as does "Sylvester" and the feminine "Sylvia" so it's all one...

Then what does Woody mean?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Then what does Woody mean?

...hard-on?

 

[Tom Collins]

Then what does Woody mean?

n. wood·ie (wd)pl. wood·ies
A station wagon with exterior wood paneling.
Vulgar Slang. An erection of the penis.
*leacherus grin*

faux pas
non sequitur
double entendre

 

[joeys-game]

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

Interesting you should say that, thats exactly what im listening to right now!!!

 

[joeys-game]

boner...

 

[Blackie Malone]

Where are the chicanos?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Flummoxed

Hobo

Tooshie

 

[Tom Collins]

unadulterated
pretense
hypocrisy
deceitful
earnest
fervent
vehement

 

[Tom Collins]

foofaraw

 

[Black Thunder]

jimmy/jimmy hat

 

[joeys-game]

loaded
thrashed
wasted
fucked
trashed
bombed

 

[Stella_Omega]

n. wood·ie (wd)pl. wood·ies
A station wagon with exterior wood paneling.
Vulgar Slang. An erection of the penis.
*leacherus grin*

My dad had Ford woody wagons the whole time I was growing up- Lotta fun to ride in those!
leacherus?
try "lecherous" dollink

Chicano words you don't hear so much any more;
Zoot-Suit, Pachuco, Beehive Chola...
Lowriders are driven mostly by white guys now.

 

[Tom Collins]

leacherus?
try "lecherous" dollink

I said I love words, not that I could spell them, Sweet Stella.

thatch
The Year of our Lord (shitty religious connotations, but I still like the way it sounds.)

 

[logophile]

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

Just got back in and saw my rose.
Thanks so much.
We could hook up in a literary sense, but I've a got a girl who owns my heart so that's all the hooking up I can manage right now.


Words:
hullabaloo
hootenany
hobo (not PC, but I always liked it)
hazmat

Also:
bumpercrop
bumbershoot
blitzkrieg
bonzo

And:
dirigibles
daisychain
downy
damp (not uncommon, but still moisture inducing...)


This is a fabulous thread.
I'm going to bed and am certain to wake with more words for sharing....

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

GROOVY

HONORABLE

PICKANINNY

ETHYL (gasoline additive)

DISCRIMINATING (as is: Able to recognize or draw fine distinctions; perceptive. Showing careful judgment or fine taste)

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Tom Collins]

Just got back in and saw my rose.
Thanks so much.
We could hook up in a literary sense, but I've a got a girl who owns my heart so that's all the hooking up I can manage right now.

I'm happy for you, I just hope thinks she's lucky. Will you flirt with me, that's all I ask.


grok (see Stranger in a Strange Land~Heinline)
chivalry(Is it dead?)
masquerade

 

[Unsung Muse]

rummy
shindig
to-do (as in 'a big' one)
looker
slacks
smart and/or sharp (as in 'looking' and/or 'dresser')

 

[The_Darkness]

It makes me happy that I use a majority of these words at least once a week in the factory I work at. Except the odd ones...."Rummy" is a little hard to work into a conversation about hydraulic cylinders....

I have noticed though, that the conversation around there seems to revolve around four key phrases:

Fuck you.
Fuck them.
Fuck that.
Fuck this.

My vernacular is perpetually pummeled by hooligans assailing our tongues and quashing our ears with the uterance of the spiteful and vulgar.

 

[Tom Collins]

It makes me happy that I use a majority of these words at least once a week in the factory I work at. Except the odd ones...."Rummy" is a little hard to work into a conversation about hydraulic cylinders....

I have noticed though, that the conversation around there seems to revolve around four key phrases:

Fuck you.
Fuck them.
Fuck that.
Fuck this.

My vernacular is perpetually pummeled by hooligans assailing our tongues and quashing our ears with the uterance of the spiteful and vulgar.

*wallowing in The_Darkness*
something is only vulgar if it's intended that way. Hooligans are too young to understand how fluid language is. They believe it's a solid world that they can depend on.
Unfortunatly it's a truism that language is only used by adults. It's the children that create a language. This means that it's made in ignorance, through trial and error.

 

[The_Darkness]

*wallowing in The_Darkness*
something is only vulgar if it's intended that way. Hooligans are too young to understand how fluid language is. They believe it's a solid world that they can depend on.
Unfortunatly it's a truism that language is only used by adults. It's the children that create a language. This means that it's made in ignorance, through trial and error.

Exactly. Remember the foundation and failing of language. Language is created by illiterate people. For the spoken word, that's okay. For the written word....well.....that's another thing completely.