Excellent words and phrases

IdleRich

IdleRich
Peregrination, rotund, malarky, gunge, fling, gallivant, dinky (interesting - just found out that in the UK that means small and cute but in the US it means small and crap).
This is fun anyway.
 

mixed_biscuits

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schlemazel (unlucky person)
hizzoner (contraction of 'his honour')
puzzleheaded
facund (= 'eloquent,' not fecund)
zooxanthellae (some kind of plankton)
xiphiplastrum (part of the bottom of a tortoise shell)
upadaisy
scabland (deserty waste land)
youthquake
fescennine (extremely rude, outrageously coarse)
boustrephedon (lit. 'ox-turning' - writing alternate right-left, left-right lines)
callipygous ('fair-buttocked')
ouistiti (French for 'marmoset')

I quite like using 'discombobulate', 'solecism' and 'abstruse'

Latinate words are cool: periclitate (to endanger), abrogate, oppilate

(please stop me)
 
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