My feeble vocabulary

[matticus]

or: What words did you Fail to Understand Today?
(Also a chance for the smarty-pants to show off)
Here's my most recent ones:
iatrogenesis
Ressentiment
Synecdoche
Furlough*


*I did work this one out quite quickly from the context.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

To furlough someone is to make them run a furlong to assess their fitness.

 

[anothersam]

Here's an entire movie to not understand:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzsNDkDJso
(I hated it fiercely until I loved it.)

 

[ColinJ]

Here's an entire movie to not understand:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzsNDkDJso
(I hated it fiercely until I loved it.)

Ah, I only got as few minutes into it... I might give it another go then!

 

[anothersam]

Ah, I only got as few minutes into it... I might give it another go then!

No guarantees. I may have been influenced by an Ebert review (and I often disagreed with the guy):

I think you have to see Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" twice. I watched it the first time and knew it was a great film and that I had not mastered it. The second time because I needed to. The third time because I will want to. It will open to confused audiences and live indefinitely. A lot of people these days don't even go to a movie once. There are alternatives. It doesn't have to be the movies, but we must somehow dream. If we don't "go to the movies" in any form, our minds wither and sicken.

 

[PeteXXX]

I used to think that emancipated women were very thin..

And that erudite was a sort of superglue

 

[Cycleops]

Or how about some alternative definitions of more familiar words in the Uxbridge English Dictionary:
Cardiologist. A knitting enthusiast.
Circumspect. Jewish Y fronts
Wallaby. Someone aspiring to be a Kangaroo.
Negligent. A man who wears lingerie.
Rectitude. The angle at which s thermometer should be inserted.

Anyone got any more?

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Buy a Thesaurus.

I have one but its rubbish. What's more its rubbish.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Buy a Thesaurus.

I have one but its rubbish. What's more its rubbish.

It must be as it's missing two apostrophes

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Metonymy

 

[Drago]

My grammatical and oratorical prowess is outstanding, so I have no problem knowing what words mean, like, y'know.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

You're no sesquipedalian then?

I love some of Will Self's books, but boy, do you need a dictionary to hand.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/how-to-read-will-self-9704979.html

 

[MichaelW2]

You have my deepest contrafibularities.

 

[EltonFrog]

In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, purient pscosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

You have my deepest contrafibularities.

I shall return... interfrastically.