Anybody got any more cool words like Galeanthropy (Im looking at you Greg 1917)

Galactophagist - one who drinks milk.

 

 

Gallophobia - Fear of the French

Galeanthropy: the delusion that you have become a cat.

Similar hillarities please

ktenology - the science of killing

 

or funny ones like

 

OPPORTUNITY, n.

A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Latebricole - (adj) living in holes. A la Saddam.

 

Logorrhea - (n) excessive and incoherent talking. sounds like...

 

Gambrinous (adj) full of beer.

 

Engastration - (n) stuffing one bird inside another. i challenge to someone to use this in everyday speech in a perfectly serious conversation.

 

Castrophenia - the belief that ones thoughts are being stolen by ones enemies.

Yup. Those would be funnier. Damn google, failed me again.

I got 'the superior persons book of words' for christmas so ive got hundreds of the lexicological lovelies.

 

On a side note, users who visit fafalone's homepage can see a list of wierd phobias.

atm got me that for Xmas.

First or second? i got the second and now want its prequel.

The Fafalonian Empire, fun for all and also home to a great list of showtunes.

greg1917 said in post # :

First or second? i got the second and now want its prequel.

Not sure actually.

 

If it specifically says "2" or "ye seconde edition" on the front cover, then one.

Ive always thought we anglophones should stick together.

I have both copies, purchased before christmas.

 

Victory for ziiiiim

 

ps.

 

Glebous (for Pseudoscience and Metaphysics)

Wel I bet your sitting there cachinnating MrL, i hate to burst your bubble but you are due quite an expergefacation if you think can claim the high ground, you niddering ruptuary.

 

And your father smelled of elderberries!

Pneumonoultramicroscopisilicovolcanoconiosis! is my word. It essentially means you have dust in your lungs.

Cap'n Refsmmat said in post # :

Pneumonoultramicroscopisilicovolcanoconiosis! is my word. It essentially means you have dust in your lungs.

No it isn't and no it doesn't.

Yes, it does. It means you have dust in your lungs, or "rocks in the box"

:edit:

Make that "lots of dust".

No. The cause and the condition are not the same thing. Look up the pathology.

 

You are this far away from a spam warning -> <-

Le yipes!

Another long word is "antidisestablishmentarianism", and a good one to use against ignorant people is "defenestrate", meaning "to throw out the window".

What a load of flimflam

I'm going to denigrate you all. A defrocking is in order, for some.

I am floccinaucinihilipilificating this thread. (Basically "calling it worthless")

Circumlocutary(sp) skirting round a subject.

It would behoove you to pay attention in class. (help you)

Cap'n Refsmmat said in post # :

It would behoove you to pay attention in class. (help you)

 

It actually means 'is necessary or proper for', not to help you.

 

If you're going to post 'cool words', at least check their meanings beforehand.