I like words. I know a fair few of them. I want to know more. What are your favorite esoteric words?
Palimpsest - it’s like a document that’s been re-used but still shows some of the previous words underneath. Or a bit like a whiteboard that has ‘burnt-in’ marker showing after being erased.
Source: Merriam-Webster https://share.google/8S38DanhSZubSlMdX
Toxicognath
Try these on for size:
Epicaricacy - Schadenfreude, but sounds fancier
Coprophagous - shit eating. As in: “A coprophagous grin”
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Used to be known by pretty much every kid in at least the US.
(Edited to clarify that maybe outside the US also)
Was The Sound of Music only popular in the US? I’d assumed it was also popular in Europe given the setting.
Also, this word was an exercise in the gifted classes I got put in in elementary school. The idea was to try to spell it without looking it up.
I don’t know about The Sound of Music (I’ve only seen clips) but supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was popularized here (and maybe elsewhere) by Mary Poppins.
Am I mixing up the movies maybe? It’s quite early here so my brain may not be working at 100%.
Contemporaneously. (At precisely the same time).
Hapax legomenon.
Tell me more.
It’s a word that only appears once in a given corpus.
Discombobulated!
I love disconcerting
sesquipedalian: • a foot and a half • a really long word • referring to a user of really long wordsStonks.
