Excellent words and phrases

Dr Awesome

Techsteppin'
There is a great Australianism (I think) of saying "Slime" in place of "Fuck".

Eg: "I'd slime the shit out of her"
"Would love slime that"
 
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Lichen

Well-known member
Sou'wester

I guess because in the UK heavy rain is often borne on a south westerly wind the (often yellow) fisherman's hat adopted the wind as a name.

When one is blowing you need wear one.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
dil·et·tante   [dil-i-tahnt, dil-i-tahnt, -tahn-tey, -tan-tee]

no one knows... i'd always presumed the second. the hazards of nicking words from the french?
 

viktorvaughn

Well-known member
Phew looks like I'm in the clear.

One never knows how far to take the borrowed words things. I pronounce genre zhon-ruh but there are other variants.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Guess it would be four syllables in Italian, three in French.

There's a great Orwell quote which goes something like "The English regard the correct pronunciation of any foreign word as both effeminate and suspicious".
 

sufi

lala
"edifying spectacle"
i only ever heard it used sarcasticly - was there ever an original edifying spectacle & was it actually edifying (or spectacular?)?
 

viktorvaughn

Well-known member
Hidrotic
Hippodrome
hirsute
Importunate
Impricated
Inchoate
Ineluct
internecine
Jarvey
Lacuna
lambdacism

(Random few from my google doc of interesting words:) I haven't even looked up some of them so still don't know what they mean, obvs I know what some mean already but like the sound)
 
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