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Post by MJB on May 1, 2024 8:23:26 GMT
My favourite word (more the meaning I guess) is Kuchisabishii. It is a shame I can never ever remember it though when I want it. "A uniquely Japanese word that literally means “lonely mouth” or “longing to have or put something in one’s mouth.........People use this word a lot to mean ‘eating when bored’ or sometimes, stress eating,”It's a bit of a mouthful to say as well. |
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Post by aitch on May 1, 2024 8:54:52 GMT
Good idea for a thread. I've been trying to learn how to do The Times' crossword. Even though the on-line version allows you to cheat the answers I find my vocabulary, which I thought was good, failing. Today we had as answers: musette, sienese and trainband. Often I can't relate the clue to the answer. If I'd been asked to guess at those meanings, I've had said that musette was just a little muse, sienese was something from Siena perhaps and a trainband was a mariachi band on the underground. I assume they're all incorrect? Well, I knew that the musette was a musical instrument, and guessed that Sienese was to do with Siena (capital letters go out the window in crosswords), but I did have to look up trainband. 1.5 out of 3 isn't too bad, is it?  |
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Post by kate on May 1, 2024 10:33:44 GMT
If I'd been asked to guess at those meanings, I've had said that musette was just a little muse, sienese was something from Siena perhaps and a trainband was a mariachi band on the underground. I assume they're all incorrect? Well, I knew that the musette was a musical instrument, and guessed that Sienese was to do with Siena (capital letters go out the window in crosswords), but I did have to look up trainband. 1.5 out of 3 isn't too bad, is it? I tackle the Times crossword most days (on paper). Deciding on which bit is the answer and which bits are the clues, then breaking up that part into even smaller bits takes up most of my day! In the paper, there's the easy Times2, then the 'easy' cryptic - and if I have the energy, the biggie (back page). I do like to be able to work back and figure out the clue and match to the answer. Some words though are beyond my comprehension, for example when they stray into card games or bridge terms - or biblical. Good luck! Before I forget, apologies to Kath for being flippant about her word of the day. I must have had my glass of wine. Great idea for a thread though. |
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Post by mick on May 1, 2024 10:53:26 GMT
A word I learnt of recently that I like and tend to use a lot is "Scurryfudge" It describes what you do when a friend calls and says "I thought I'd pop round be there in 10 minutes" and you run round frantically trying to tidy up before they turn up I think that it is scurryfunge.
Mick
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Post by Kath on May 1, 2024 11:15:05 GMT
Before I forget, apologies to Kath for being flippant about her word of the day. I must have had my glass of wine. Great idea for a thread though. No apologies required - I thought it was funny! |
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Post by Kath on May 1, 2024 11:21:53 GMT
One of my own favourite words is Mulligrubb. Originally used to mean a despondent mood, it was adopted by my grandmother as a verb to mean moping about underfoot. "Stop mulligrubbing in here - get out to play or do something useful."
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Post by kate on May 1, 2024 13:00:26 GMT
I think the first word I learned to play with was yacht - which my dad used to tease me was really ya cht. I'd laugh and correct him but never forgot how it was spelt.
I remember we had a similar 'game' in an office environment where someone had a word of the day and we had to use it. This was in London, by the way. We also had a variety of newspapers and in break times, we worked through as many crosswords as we could manage.
Simple pleasures. These days I guess it would be solitary noses in phones.
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Post by willien on May 1, 2024 13:11:43 GMT
I think the first word I learned to play with was yacht - which my dad used to tease me was really ya cht. I'd laugh and correct him but never forgot how it was spelt. I remember we had a similar 'game' in an office environment where someone had a word of the day and we had to use it. This was in London, by the way. We also had a variety of newspapers and in break times, we worked through as many crosswords as we could manage. Simple pleasures. These days I guess it would be solitary noses in phones. Checking the job vacancies. |
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Post by zou on May 1, 2024 13:50:21 GMT
My favourite word (more the meaning I guess) is Kuchisabishii. It is a shame I can never ever remember it though when I want it. "A uniquely Japanese word that literally means “lonely mouth” or “longing to have or put something in one’s mouth.........People use this word a lot to mean ‘eating when bored’ or sometimes, stress eating,”It's a bit of a mouthful to say as well. Easy enough for me.  |
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Post by zou on May 1, 2024 13:51:55 GMT
If I'd been asked to guess at those meanings, I've had said that musette was just a little muse, sienese was something from Siena perhaps and a trainband was a mariachi band on the underground. I assume they're all incorrect? Well, I knew that the musette was a musical instrument, and guessed that Sienese was to do with Siena (capital letters go out the window in crosswords), but I did have to look up trainband. 1.5 out of 3 isn't too bad, is it? I only know musette as the wee food bag cyclists use in races. |
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Post by peterob on May 1, 2024 14:10:50 GMT
Good idea for a thread. I've been trying to learn how to do The Times' crossword. Even though the on-line version allows you to cheat the answers I find my vocabulary, which I thought was good, failing. Today we had as answers: musette, sienese and trainband. Often I can't relate the clue to the answer. If I'd been asked to guess at those meanings, I've had said that musette was just a little muse, sienese was something from Siena perhaps and a trainband was a mariachi band on the underground. I assume they're all incorrect? You got sienese right! I'm very poor on place names and had never heard of Siena otherwise I might have got that one. |
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Post by JohnY on May 1, 2024 18:03:35 GMT
A former colleague always pronounced the word chaos so that the 'chao' rhymed with 'chow' as in chow mein.
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Post by kate on May 1, 2024 18:17:38 GMT
A former colleague always pronounced the word chaos so that the 'chao' rhymed with 'chow' as in chow mein. Very military. |
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Post by willien on May 1, 2024 18:29:49 GMT
One time I had to do an in head translation before responding was when a (thankfully brief) line manager said to me "See if wafe can do anything".
Not only was he imposing a thoroughly alien [mis]pronounciation of a Progress Clark called Ralph's name but he had compounded it by topping it off with his ex Royal Naval officer affected "wobbie wabbit wules" speech defect. Why said defect was affected by RN officers I have no idea.
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Post by dreampolice on May 1, 2024 19:30:39 GMT
Royal Naval officer affected "wobbie wabbit wules" speech defect. ...... I had a sergeant many moons ago, who TBH was a knob. He couldn't pronounce his R's. One day for parade at the start of duty we made up an item for the parade clip for observations for a Red Reliant Robin with a registration mark of RRR 333R (obviously read out using the phonetic alphabet) with the occupant wanted for robbery. Oh, how we laughed, albeit it was a shitty thing to do. He was a knob though. |
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