Word Of The Day

[Poppy]

'Catchfart'

An C18th insult for anyone who fawns and sucks up to you/the boss/your mother. The idea is they follow behind far too closely.

 

Boy, did I know some of those ovr the years when I was still working

Feel free to add to the list.

[MauriceMynah]

Sesquipedalophobia ...   The fear of long words

[grendel]

for months now i have been posting a word of the day to the whattsapp group we have for the office at work, I purchased some magnetic letters from lidls, and write the word using those on the door of the refrigerator, which I then photograph to post on whats app.

[grendel]

Here are some from earlier this week.

[MauriceMynah]

That leads me to ask, Can something be "fridgerated"?

[OldBerkshireBoy]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/refrigerated

[webntweb]

12 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:

That leads me to ask, Can something be "fridgerated"?

Frigerate is an obsolete verb meaning "to make cool".

Originally the short version of Refrigerator was 'Frig' (pronounced fridge). The Guardian Frigerator Company of the USA was founded in 1916 and in 1919 was renamed 'Frigidaire' which is when it is believed the shortened version of Refrigerator became 'Fridge".

[Poppy]

'kalsarikännit', Finnish.

"To get drunk at home in your underwear, with no intention of doing anything else"

 

 

[Gracie]

15 minutes ago, Poppy said:

'kalsarikännit', Finnish.

"To get drunk at home in your underwear, with no intention of doing anything else"

 

 

That's a normal Friday night for me  x

[CambridgeCabby]

I thought of this a couple of days ago
 

NUDIUSTERTIAN
 

the day before yesterday 

[Regulo]

Mauricemynaherification 

State of unrelenting idiocy

[JennyMorgan]

38 minutes ago, Gracie said:

That's a normal Friday night for me  x

Waiting for the old man to come home then?

I have a Chinese fried who frequently, and with great feeling, comes out with what sounds like 'Fee-key-yow', of course that's phonetic and I haven't a clue what it means but seemingly it often refers to annoying customers! 

[SteveO]

2 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:

That leads me to ask, Can something be "fridgerated"?

Only if it has never been fridgerated before.

 

[Regulo]

Despite my post of 20 minutes ago, here's a word I actually learnt from MauriceMynah - Transesterification (I think). Good word, haven't a clue what it means!! Something to do with making Diesel out of chip oil. Or is it vice versa? 

[Springsong]

Ionly learnt this word a couple of years ago discombobulated 

it means discombobulated.

[JennyMorgan]

1 hour ago, Springsong said:

Ionly learnt this word a couple of years ago discombobulated 

it means discombobulated.

Very confusing!

[SANTED]

As Ken Dodd would say   "It’s very discomknockerating”

[Poppy]

40 minutes ago, SANTED said:

As Ken Dodd would say   "It’s very discomknockerating”

Was that about his tax affairs ?

[Victoryv]

My word of the day, "aloud"

My wife recently saw a sign in a fish and chip shop, "No Dogs Aloud"

Which raises two questions,

Could you take a quite dog into the fishing chip shop?

And what was she doing in the fish and chip shop we these are currently on the banned list!

[JennyMorgan]

1 hour ago, Victoryv said:

And what was she doing in the fish and chip shop we these are currently on the banned list!

Standing in a queue at a take-away is permissible, even in the rain, at least it is South of The Wash!

[SANTED]

2 hours ago, Poppy said:

Was that about his tax affairs ?

Ken Dodd  on income tax

In the 1800s, one of the MPs in London decided to introduce tax. In those days it was 2p in the pound. I thought it still was."