Words you don’t hear much these days
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Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.
wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 02:47 last edited by@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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wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 02:50 last edited by
I see (and hear) kerfuffle often in the media.
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wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 08:17 last edited by
Malarkey
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wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 08:17 last edited by
Yes to kerfuffle (occasionally)
and also brouhaha when things are more disruptive -
wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 09:47 last edited by
Kerfuffle, brouhaha and malarkey are all great words!!
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wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 14:50 last edited by
Balderdash!
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wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 11:28 last edited by
These are both great!
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wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 12:05 last edited by
Twaddle!
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wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 14:17 last edited by
Phooey. Or, if you're Nero Wolfe, pfui.
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wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 17:10 last edited by
I actually use phooey a fair amount.
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wrote on 14 Dec 2024, 13:55 last edited by
@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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wrote on 14 Dec 2024, 14:00 last edited by
Defenestrate
Fastidious
Overmorrow
Garrulous.
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wrote on 14 Dec 2024, 14:06 last edited by
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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wrote on 14 Dec 2024, 23:36 last edited by
Defenestrate seems to be more in the news in Russia than anywhere else.
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wrote on 15 Dec 2024, 03:27 last edited by
@Mik said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
Chiapet
Speak of the devil. Saw the first commercial today.
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wrote on 16 Dec 2024, 12:04 last edited by
@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
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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)
wrote on 17 Dec 2024, 00:55 last edited by@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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wrote on 17 Dec 2024, 18:39 last edited by
or in the case of the Trump family and friends, unbridled greed!
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wrote on 21 Dec 2024, 06:05 last edited by
Bagatelle
