Name some!

Example: vicarious

metacognition

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Spice

Cymek

DRM

Fnord

Monetize

Revenate

Hyperbole

Phoenixity

Philocalist

Jiggerypokery

Cattywampus. Everything was cattywampus.

We need to start a thread called "words in mainstream society that should fuck off and die".

In that case, I would be voting for anything with "blog".

Ignomoron

I'd reccomend anything with over three syllables, actually...

Sometimes it's good to have an esoteric word now and again. It seperates the fans from the poseurs and the geniuses from the ignoramuses.

Speaking of: "esoteric", "poseur", and "ignoramus" should be used more often. I know "poseur" is used a lot but people always spell it "poser" which is technically correct but just sort of lazy and blasé.

>I know "poseur" is used a lot but people always spell it "poser" which is technically correct but just sort of lazy and blasé.

In other words, it's not pretentious enough? Oh the horror.

"sesquipedalian"

works well when followed by "motherfucker" and preceded by either "gtfo" or "stfu" and then a comma

I've always been partial to "niggardly", if only for the off-hand juvenile troll aspect.

>>3
"spice" isn't used in mainstream society? And "fnord" seems a bit silly because, outside of some little literary injoke, it doesn't serve any useful purpose in modern day society.
>>5
and the corallary, "hypobole." It's really fun to say outloud. Try it!

flotsam
fjord
picaresque
miasma
indelible
melancholy
alabaster
chambarral
destitute
scourge
cad
rake

a-splode

>>17

>>15

"Fnord" is actually useful. I'm pretty sure that in your life you've sometimes felt like referencing 1984 in a political context but couldn't because just naming the Big Brother isn't enough and constructing a sentence in Newspeak is too long and it's difficult to make a funny one. Well, "fnord" comes in handy in that kind of situations.

pungent

Puerile.

Or maybe it's better off being uncommon, because that way, when you use it your contempt is more clearly conveyed.

Macabre
Delectable
Flibbertigibbet
Asinine
Eponymous

pernicious
lugubrious
smarmy

I think betwixt sounds better than between.

PARBLES!

>>24
Oh, good. I'm not alone.

Absquatulate

Penultimate.
Obfuscation.
Sesquipedalian.
Riparian.

words pwn.

>>23
I agree with smarmy, 100%.

>>22 A world having to use the word "macabre" more...is not a pretty world.

And after looking at all the ridiculous words in this thread, I have to say that being verbose doesn't mean you're smart.

I give my vote to smarmy.

lolilicious

refrobnicate!

"Let's refrobnicate the defoobarizer!"

Vexed

Plasmic

>>33

in the uk that has become quite common, mostly among urban kids/teenagers in the poorer areas. and the rich kids who try to copy them.

Taciturn

Verisimilitude and Avaricious. I'm surprised avaricious isn't used too often...

Mastication

vicissitude

Genuflect.

Semen.

Sermon

persnickety

"scumcunt"

Fuck.

>>46
That's in mainstream society.

>>47
Silly, this thread has obviously de-railed.

monastic

>>22

> asinine

For some reason I hear and see this word way too often among teenagers, and it seems out of place in their otherwise terrible sentences. I wish they wouldn't use it, and I also wish they would stop spelling it 'assinine.'

imho. just as a word.

>>52
So you want people advertising their employment status as a prostitute.
Are you some kind of narc?

Gnarly

Cowabunga

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Cromulent

> Antidisestablishmentarianism

This is not really a word in modern English, so it's floccinaucinihilipilification is justified. Please stop using it as an example of a hippopotomonstrosesquipidelian word.

dokkyun.

dagnabbit

Quasar

Milquetoast

Kameda

thumbing

yea

no word is badass like yea

Sugar Tits

childlove

Ablution.

(God damn, I feel like a nerd...)

>>62
The internet has ruined that word for me. I now assume it's "yeah" written by some idiot who can't spell.

>>66

has the internet left you in....despair?

>>63
Sports Racer?

Brouhaha.

>>69
This one is mainstream where I live...

I really like 'Obliteration'.

gynofascism

>>54

I second "cromulent".

Dapper

Sanguine
Choleric
Phlegmatic
Melancholic

>>70

Obliteration/obliterated is good. Thank you for reminding me of it, I shall try to use it more often.

>>74

Yup, I like this one. I use it quite a lot as a compliment when somebody has dressed up nice.

shit-ticket

Exsufflation
Tawdry
Lurid
Deplorable
Sordid

"childlove"

"outwith"

to forlese

Thirding "Cromulent"

bloviate.

bloviated.

bloviation.

overblovation.

overdebloviated.

overdebloviation.

It means full of hot air.

Corpulent

>>75
Sanguine is one of the neatest words on earth, imho.

Bitchtits.

It's in circulation, but clearly not used enough.

That and hiatus.

"Malaise" always struck me as pretty neat.

>>86
What about sugartits?

Whither, whence, thence, hence

I third the call for betwixt ('twixt is fine too, of course).

Antidisestablishmentarianism FTW.

Alas.

Cornucopia

>>90
Seconded! I've no idea how to express that meaning without that word.

Many, maybe even most of these words are used in mainstream society enough to make it unfair to claim they 'aren't in it'.

Outwith.

Gnarly.

>>94 What's the difference between "Outwith" and "Out with?"

>>96

Here's some examples to illustrate the differences:

"Tonight I'm going out with some friends."

"This discussion is outwith the realms of formal linguistics."

"Outwith" is similar in meaning to "outside of".

>>92
Where I'm from, "well, fuck!" is a perfectly acceptable alternative.

tumescence

burgher

Abderian

abcidarian

>>102
abecedarian?

stentorian
omphaloskeptic
celerity

People should say "Make haste!" more often.

>>104

I like that, but it's a bit awkward to say. Gonna have to practice it

I'm trying to use "Godspeed" more often with my friends. This salutation sounds great.

I enjoy Elizabethan cursing. Christ's feet!! See, it's fun.

dalliance

Poppycock!

I'm going to start biting my thumb at people.

>>75
Agreed

Laconic

sardonic

hep (the corruption, hip, is in common use, but I just like hep better)

cat

grass (n. informent[s] or spie[s], v. to inform on)

Newspeak

Doublespeak

Doublethink

Duckspeak

Bellyfeel

Any other Newspeak words.

>>112

No.

>>111
stop being 14 and listening to ska.

vapid

>>114
...No, I just like to 50s and 60s.

Floccinaucinihilipilification!

Mycoxafloppin

>>113

Why?

Autochthonous, and its antonym allochthonous.

Pulchritude.

Lawfull

doughty

Suffice

balderdash

Callipygian - Adjective describing a perfectly formed ass.
Sesquipedalian - Pretentiously verbose.
Satyriasis - Male version of 'nymphomania'

ecdysiast

Crapulous
Squamous
Feculent

But if we all talk about them, they will get famous, and then we'll all have to condemn them as over-rated, badly-written crap.

Wat?

deliquesce

paroxysm
pinnacle
nadir
woe
godspeed
derelict
expurgation

niger

I don't know what you guys are talking about, here in the south we use most of these words every day.

lol,d

Someone compile these words and their meanings and make it out official list of words!

rhetoric

mierdebiel

>>136

OP said mainstream society, not dictionary.

lilliputian

brobdignagian
phallic
cuckold
juxtaposition
despot
dipsomaniac

tetradecagon
voluminous
expedite
philosophic
lethargic
necrophiliac
flora
fauna
Australopithecus
catatonic
fisticuffs
irate
livid
colossal
despondant
caliber
centrifuge
anthropological

Here is a few good general emphatics. Try to replace some of your very''s, really''s, etc. with them!

startlingly
quite
truly
stupendously
does + verb
indeed

>>143
I say all of those except stupendously. I don't say startlingly often, though.

Every known word society views as negative. Cuss words naturally included.

orthogonal

Saphic
Cunt

"evil-smellin"

>>133

FUCK. YOU.

>>149

Why do you hate Niger?