onomatopoeia
Hey that's one of my favorites. It sounds great and has a unique and entertaining definition. It's up there with oxymoron. Just reapeat it hundred times and you'll love it too.Maybe we need some rules eh Dave?
OT: Lame Words
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- KVRAF
- 4878 posts since 13 Jun, 2002 from Montreal
Hey that's one of my favorites. It sounds great and has a unique and entertaining definition. It's up there with oxymoron. Just reapeat it hundred times and you'll love it too.Maybe we need some rules eh Dave?
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- KVRAF
- 6519 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from UK
Set.
How many meanings does one word need?
How many meanings does one word need?
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- Topic Starter
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
Lots of good ones there! Ointment is particular lame.
I thought of a few in my recent traveling but now I forgot. I should have written them down.
But, here's a few anyway:
uterus (anything "ute" works for a lame word I think)
pox (as in chicken pox)
pantry
hunker (as in hunker down- they say this for every hurricane)
I thought of a few in my recent traveling but now I forgot. I should have written them down.
But, here's a few anyway:
uterus (anything "ute" works for a lame word I think)
pox (as in chicken pox)
pantry
hunker (as in hunker down- they say this for every hurricane)
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- KVRAF
- 4878 posts since 13 Jun, 2002 from Montreal
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- KVRAF
- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
How about:
tad
usurp
brittle
blouse
relish (the verb)
carport (it's a garage!)
parka
rubbers (the shoe coverings)
toiletries (I don't think you use them on the toilet)
unitard (spin off from leotard)
sniffles
secretions (nothing secret about 'em)
lacquer
varnish
vanish (has nothing to do with a van)
tad
usurp
brittle
blouse
relish (the verb)
carport (it's a garage!)
parka
rubbers (the shoe coverings)
toiletries (I don't think you use them on the toilet)
unitard (spin off from leotard)
sniffles
secretions (nothing secret about 'em)
lacquer
varnish
vanish (has nothing to do with a van)
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- KVRAF
- 4878 posts since 13 Jun, 2002 from Montreal
If we keep it up there will no words left to use. THe Logical Positivists will take over. 
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- KVRAF
- 6519 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from UK
Designer and Organic. Perfectly good words made lame by the advertising industry.
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- KVRAF
- 2973 posts since 18 Oct, 2004
Mature
Pronounced "Mah-tour", that is.
God it pisses me off when people pronounce it like that, and it sounds so stupid.
It's "Mah-Choore", fools.
Pronounced "Mah-tour", that is.
God it pisses me off when people pronounce it like that, and it sounds so stupid.
It's "Mah-Choore", fools.
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- KVRAF
- 4143 posts since 7 Sep, 2001 from Melbourne, Australia
To tell you the truth I don't like oxymoron either, add that to my list.Beardedone wrote:onomatopoeia
But I agree with gestation - I actually like that word.
It sounds like I imagine the activity. Ooooh that's onomatopoeia.
I swear that word sounds like some rythmic tribal chanting - on-o-mat-o-poei-a, on-o-mat-o-poei-a...
Caleb
Happiness is the hidden behind the obvious.
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- KVRist
- 160 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Atlanta, GA USA
There is a song by that name on Todd Rundgren's "Hermit of Mink Hollow" album. It's not a chant but it is amusing.I swear that word sounds like some rythmic tribal chanting - on-o-mat-o-poei-a, on-o-mat-o-poei-a...
Ben N. Moore
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Fancy.
When a shop sells 'fancy goods', you know that it's going to be full of the most absolute tat, that will fall apart in about 2 days.
When a shop sells 'fancy goods', you know that it's going to be full of the most absolute tat, that will fall apart in about 2 days.
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- Topic Starter
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
Yes, I also don't like when people say "I don't fancy this or that".
There's been a bunch of words in the last week or so. I should have written them down. This is a good place for them when you think of one.
Here's one. "Punctual". How does THAT mean being on time? Don't we already have the word "Punctuation" which means these: ?!!!!?????!!!,,,!!!!? So, to be punctual is to have good use of those symbols and should NOT be "to be on time".
Just my feeling on that one. I'll still use the word. It's not UNITARD or anything! (btw, that's a 96!). I'd say "punctual" is probably just a 57 on the lame word scale.
By the way, lame is a good word. I mean, it's slang. Slang can often ironically be some of the BEST words. Some of my favorites come from California and England. They're often fun and even funny. Donkey Tugger has some great funny ones as do quite a few of you guys in the UK. I mean "tat" is awesome!
There's been a bunch of words in the last week or so. I should have written them down. This is a good place for them when you think of one.
Here's one. "Punctual". How does THAT mean being on time? Don't we already have the word "Punctuation" which means these: ?!!!!?????!!!,,,!!!!? So, to be punctual is to have good use of those symbols and should NOT be "to be on time".
Just my feeling on that one. I'll still use the word. It's not UNITARD or anything! (btw, that's a 96!). I'd say "punctual" is probably just a 57 on the lame word scale.
By the way, lame is a good word. I mean, it's slang. Slang can often ironically be some of the BEST words. Some of my favorites come from California and England. They're often fun and even funny. Donkey Tugger has some great funny ones as do quite a few of you guys in the UK. I mean "tat" is awesome!
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
What do you think of one of my favorite antique phrases of emphasis: hunky-dory? :-D
(BTW, punctual has to do with being right on the point in time. Punctuation marks are also called points; by comparison, in Hebrew, vowels are written using points rather than letters.)
Meffy
(BTW, punctual has to do with being right on the point in time. Punctuation marks are also called points; by comparison, in Hebrew, vowels are written using points rather than letters.)
Meffy