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Words you don’t hear much these days

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  • Piano*DadP Offline
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    Piano*Dad
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    niggardly

    Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.

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    • AdagioMA Offline
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      AdagioM
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      Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

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      • AdagioMA AdagioM

        Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

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        @AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

        Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

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          I see (and hear) kerfuffle often in the media.

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          • AxtremusA Offline
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            Axtremus
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            #46

            Malarkey

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              AndyD
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              #47

              Yes to kerfuffle (occasionally)
              and also brouhaha when things are more disruptive

              Ventosa viri restabit

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              • ShiroKuroS Offline
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                #48

                Kerfuffle, brouhaha and malarkey are all great words!!

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                  Steve Miller
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                  Tommyrot!

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                  • wtgW Offline
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                    wtg
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                    Balderdash!

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                    • ShiroKuroS Offline
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                      ShiroKuro
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                      These are both great!

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                        Steve Miller
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                        #52

                        Twaddle!

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                        • wtgW Offline
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                          wtg
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                          Phooey. Or, if you're Nero Wolfe, pfui.

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                            ShiroKuro
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                            I actually use phooey a fair amount.

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                            • AxtremusA Axtremus

                              Malarkey

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                              jon-nyc
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                              @Axtremus said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

                              Malarkey

                              But for Biden it would have been decades since I heard it.

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                                jon-nyc
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                                Defenestrate

                                Fastidious

                                Overmorrow

                                Garrulous.

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                                  jon-nyc
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                                  Another interesting thing are words, usually adjectives, that you only ever hear used with one particular noun.

                                  It actually can a little funny to hear them used with another.

                                  Examples, copious notes. Unbridled capitalism. (Or unfettered)

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                                    AdagioM
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                                    Defenestrate seems to be more in the news in Russia than anywhere else.

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                                      Chiapet

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                                      @Mik said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

                                      Chiapet

                                      Speak of the devil. Saw the first commercial today.

                                      “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
                                      ― Douglas Adams

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                                      • AdagioMA AdagioM

                                        Defenestrate seems to be more in the news in Russia than anywhere else.

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                                        @AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

                                        Defenestrate seems to be more in the news in Russia than anywhere else.

                                        And transfenestrate

                                        Ventosa viri restabit

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                                        • J jon-nyc

                                          Another interesting thing are words, usually adjectives, that you only ever hear used with one particular noun.

                                          It actually can a little funny to hear them used with another.

                                          Examples, copious notes. Unbridled capitalism. (Or unfettered)

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                                          dolmansaxlil
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                                          @jon-nyc said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

                                          Another interesting thing are words, usually adjectives, that you only ever hear used with one particular noun.

                                          It actually can a little funny to hear them used with another.

                                          Examples, copious notes. Unbridled capitalism. (Or unfettered)

                                          I use both of these but with other word pairings. Copious quantities of… and Unbridled optimism or Unbridled joy. Though I’m not sure I use unbridled in any other way.

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