vagel wrote:

myrtle - as in name, not beach

Moaning Myrtle is a current character in Harry Potter books now. Name still in use, at least in fiction.

mtrlgrl wrote:
Moaning Myrtle is a current character in Harry Potter books now. Name still in use, at least in fiction.

Not having read the books, I must ask: what makes Myrtle moan?

qwertyuiop001 wrote:

Not having read the books, I must ask: what makes Myrtle moan?

She's dead. no-one visits her in the bathroom she died in (she's a ghost).

She was killed by a basilisk, BTW.

umpteen

Archipluvian.

Definition: multi-colored. Adjective.

I will swear to the Jason Toon almighty that it is a word, it was driven into my head every day during 6th grade . . .

killingtime wrote:umpteen

I use that all the time. Particularly umpteen hundred.

IlleDuce wrote:Archipluvian.

Definition: multi-colored. Adjective.

I will swear to the Jason Toon almighty that it is a word, it was driven into my head every day during 6th grade . . .

chiaroscuro

Well, I certainly don't use it.

pooflady wrote:

I use that all the time. Particularly umpteen hundred.

Pfft...

killingtime wrote:

Pfft...

I use "pfft" all the time!

qwertyuiop001 wrote:

I use "pfft" all the time!

So do I. It was a commentary on Poof's comment.

monogamy

This isn't a word you don't hear anymore but a phrase:
"cheap gas"

More of an oxymoron, don't ya think?

<wonders if "oxymoron" qualifies as a word for this thread subject>

Also this word:

Honesty
(according to Billy Joel)

mtrlgrl wrote:This isn't a word you don't hear anymore but a phrase:
"cheap gas"

More of an oxymoron, don't ya think?

<wonders if "oxymoron" qualifies as a word for this thread subject>

Thank you, I couldn't remeber what word I was looking for. I kept wanting to say idiom, but I knew that wasn't corect.

killingtime wrote:

So do I. It was a commentary on Poof's comment.

When I was young, a smiley like would mean that what I was saying was a joke. *sigh*

qwertyuiop001 wrote:

When I was young, a smiley like would mean that what I was saying was a joke. *sigh*

Do we want to know what it means now?

FenStar wrote:

Do we want to know what it means now?

Whatever it means, apparently "don't take this statement too seriously" ain't it.

I hear and see Davenport everyday. I live in the Quad Cities. Davenport, IA
But when I was a child, I was told not to put my feet on the davenport as it was not proper.

Dungarees - The word is used often when one is in the Navy.

Pocketbook - You have never met my aunt Gladys, have you?

Icebox - Okay, I do not hear that word much anymore.

borttorb wrote:I hear and see Davenport everyday. I live in the Quad Cities. Davenport, IA
But when I was a child, I was told not to put my feet on the davenport as it was not proper.

Dungarees - The word is used often when one is in the Navy.

Pocketbook - You have never met my aunt Gladys, have you?

Icebox - Okay, I do not hear that word much anymore.

Yea, everone knows your ass is cleaner than your feet.

humdinger

harbinger

pooflady wrote:humdinger

domesticity (from another thread)

borttorb wrote:

Icebox - Okay, I do not hear that word much anymore.

Regional use. I heard it all the time growing up (and I'm not that old).

(from children) Mr./Mrs./M(is)s. [ LAST name]

sesquipedalian

IBM Selectric

dustysmom wrote:IBM Selectric

floppy disk

lulu

whillikers

apoplectic

stlwooter wrote:apoplectic

consumption (as the disease)

AZGman wrote:


consumption (as the disease)

galloping consumption

pooflady wrote:

galloping consumption

prance

stlwooter wrote:

prance

I still use that.

pooflady wrote:

I still use that.

how about panache

stlwooter wrote:

how about panache

I still have that!

AZGman wrote:

I still have that!

fine! How about thurible

stlwooter wrote:

fine! How about thurible

Isn't that just terrible with a lisp?

AZGman wrote:

Isn't that just terrible with a lisp?

pugnacious

stlwooter wrote: pugnacious

pugilist (without the folding chair.)