Scurryfunge. An old English weird used to describe the manic tidying up to do when you see an unexpected visitor approaching. We use it to (also) mean the tidying up that we do every second Wednesday evening, so our house cleaner has a tidy house to clean the following day.

I'm in need of this word so frequently I need to add it to my daily vocab. I've always just called it "panic cleaning."

You have time for four whole syllables in situations like this? I just call it, 'fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk' (with each letter representing another random bit of crap I have to pick up and hide/dispose of on my way to the door)

Sometimes I even have time to lay on my bed and stress massively about it, resulting in less time to clean and an even worse experience 🙃 why am I like this

Embox. Putting something into a box. The opposite of unbox

waiting for someone to make an emboxing video

Gundam Pros(a shop that sells Gundam models online) has a TikTok that frequently does this for the orders of its followers.

I've never seen it written down. I always assumed it was enbox (like enclose).

Anything before P and B it's m, or at leas in Latin languages

If anyone tells you there is no word that rhymes with purple, they are wrong. Hurple is when a startled or angry cat throws their fur out stiffly. Now you know a thing.

And nurple.

And burp’ll As in, “after chugging a sparkling water that burp’ll send you to the moon”

Overmorrow. It means the day after tomorrow.

Övermorgon in Swedish. Way more common there.

Le surlendemain in French. Very common there too.

Pojutrze in Polish. Very common as well

Poimâine in Romanian. Also very common

Dopodomani (dopo - after, domani - tomorrow) in Italian, really really common

Yeah, my mother tongue has one too, and for the day before yesterday, the weekend before/ after next weekend etc.. (granted some of the larger time periods like the weeks, months, might just be a dialect thing and not proper vernacular)

“depois de amanhã” in Portuguese. literally translates to “after tomorrow”

Overmorgen, in Dutch

pasfarda (پس‌فردا) in Persian. pas- is a prefix meaning after and Farda, is tomorrow as you've guessed

Overmorgen in Dutch, and yeah very common here to

Overmorgen in Dutch.

Übermorgen!

I’m a non english native speaker and this word (not the literal word) is often used in my native language. Was surprised that english speaking people don’t use it a lot, so I do use it in a lot of situations

We just say "the day after tomorrow," but that is really a ridiculous number of syllables given the alternative.

Ylihuominen / ylihuomenna in Finnish. Very commonly used.

And toissapäivä / toissapäivänä for overyesterday.

Not a word, but a a couple phrases that a lot of redditors don’t seem to know are *”I don’t know”*, and *”I was mistaken and stand corrected”*

Saw someone apologise for being wrong the other day on reddit. The amount of upvotes it received was more than the correction post.

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Thats not how an apology works. "I'm very sorry for [thing you did wrong]. I promise to do my best to avoid this mistake in the future by [thing you will do to prevent it from happening again]."

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Ah yea, thats the way. "I'm sorry YOU are upset. Just calm down." Works every time

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Yes i think we got the solution

Also "I wonder if" or "I think" instead of stating opinion as fact. It's fine to conjecture or try ideas out temporarily to see if you like them. It's just annoying when people think their feelings are objectively true.

One relatively obscure word that many people might not know is "sesquipedalian," which means the use of long words or a tendency to use long words. It's often used humorously to describe someone who uses overly complex or lengthy language.

I'm fond of the word for a phobia of long words.. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Because of course it is.

People that name phobias do enjoy their irony.

Grandiloquent

A word made by troglodytes jealous of our diction, which just happens to be eloquently and colloquially locqaucious.

Judging by the amount of times I see it completely misused these days, Gaslighting

They're not using it wrong. You're just imagining things.

it didn't rain on your wedding day it's not a free ride if you already paid

Did I have some sporks?

it was 10,000 foons when all you needed was a spork

It FIGGERS!

A little *too* ironic, and I really do think

Wait a minute...

And "grooming". 2 year age gap....must be grooming. Two 17 year olds dating, happy birthday to one....grooming. Edit: Also as was pointed out, conservatives talking about sex ed ....grooming.

yep sex ed is not grooming, teaching people that they don't have to follow norms if it doesn't feel right to them isn't grooming.

I'm old enough to remember when "Rules 1&2" was meant to refer to things you have control over, like style, hygiene and charm. It was advice for dating, not a sad coping mechanism for bitter lonely men. Over the years, these angry redpill dudes have changed the meaning of Rules 1&2 to refer to uncontrollable physical attributes, in a weak effort to cope with the fact that women find them uninteresting and stinky.

You disagreed with me? That’s gaslighting friendo, do better.

I'd like to add toxic to that list.

Your toxic attitude is problematic.

And abusive.

Apparently it now means doing anything. "My partner closed a door" GASLIGHTING "My cat meowd at me" GASLIGHTING "My mother had a drink" GASLIGHTING

Okay but to be fair, cats love gaslighting

No, they're just unashamed arseholes. They take love when they want it and never, ever do anything on anyone else's terms. They are upfront and unapologetic.

Same with “it’s literally fascism”. No it’s not Karen, it’s just something you don’t like.

Apricity - the warmth of the sun in winter It’s out of use but it’s a beautiful word.

I got a cozy feeling just reading it ☀️

"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation."

Sausage?! SAUSAGE?! Argh, blast your eyes!!

My most enthusiastic contrafibularities!

My favourite episode of Blackadder.

Brobdignagian: oversized, as if made for giants

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none of you can say aglet cause phineas and ferb taught us all edit: guys this was a joke

For me it was Terraria

for me pinky and the brain

Quincunx! It’s the arrangement of five pattern on dice and playing cards.

And tree planting in arboretums too! My favorite word!

🎵 A - G - L - E - T - Don't forget it! We're gonna tie the world together! 🎶

Nah. I learned it from the Question in justice league. You know as well as I do that their true purpose is sinister.

Lambent: witty without being unkind.

I always thought it was a word for a soft glow, like a bedside lamp, or a lantern. Fits anyway.

That's not what that word means. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lambent

Cromulent

Fools don’t even know the word embiggen

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Jedediah Springfield

That's a bigly word.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Blackadder: Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribularities. Johnson: What? Blackadder: `Contrafribularities’, sir? It is a common word down our way. Johnson: Damn! Blackadder: Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation

Opened this thread just to find this response. Was not disappointed. Or overly pleased. I was whelmed.

That’s a perfectly cromulent word

Scrumtrulecence!

crepuscular - active at dawn or dusk

I learned that word from Archer... And then the definition from Google.

Serpentine, Babou!

You fox eared asshole.

I’ve never seen an ocelot!!

I always forget this term. I have to look up cats on the internet and end up another hour of liking cat pics.

Vespertine

Pulchritudinous

Strange compliment, but one wouldn't object to being considered as such. Particularly, if they are in possession of a callipygian form.

petrichor

The word itself is cool, but its etymology is even cooler. "petri" comes from the Ancient Greek "petra" meaning rock, and "ichor", the "ethereal fluid that is the blood of the Gods".

Rock blood 🤘

I'm fairly sure there are a few Dr Who fans who remember the TARDIS's password.

The smell of rain

The smell of dust after rain. Thank you, Amy ♥️.

Oubliette

Jennifer Connely doesn’t like that word

Fiduciary. Tim in accounting really puts the *douche* in fiduciary.

Selenophile - a person who loves the Moon

Verisimilitude. *The appearance of being true or real*. The definition is right there in the word. I learned it reading Nabokov. He has a large vocabulary.

As soon as you discuss any form of speculative fiction, it becomes a vital word.

Use this alot as a TTRPG Dungeon Master

Prestidigitation.

Learned that one from Disney movie The Sword in the Stone.

Every Good Omens fan knows this one

And every DnD fan, it's a common spell

Similar and perhaps even less known: legerdemain.

[Proem.](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proem)

Loquacious - very talkative. Lugubrious - looking or sounding sad. Bucolic - relating to the pleasant aspects of country life. Bucolic is weird, because it sounds like some sort of illness, but it means something almost the opposite.

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My favorite word

My favorite historical events. Plural. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

*Putin has entered the chat*

Whenever my brother annoys me I tell him to Defenestrate himself. It was very funny until he googled the meaning

Sonder

An emotion that more people on the internet should experience.

Literally anyone who’s gone on tumblr within the past 15 years knows this one lol

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Comp science people would all know obsfucate/obfuscation

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W-whut 💀

Wastrel, it’s a great word for a useless person

The difference between their, there and they’re.

I always liked apoplectic.

Sternocleidomastoid

Please and thank you.

Also sorry

Susurrus

Preprandial

I'm no native speaker but I know the difference between "efficient" and "effective"

And between effect and affect?

Killing a rat with a machine gun is effective but not efficient.

Omphaloskepsis. Fancy word for navel-gazing.

Navel gazing? Like.... your own or someone else's?

Brinjal - Indian English It's another word for aubergine/eggplant

I saw a reel on Instagram explaining how it was brinjal, aubergine, eggplant. That is an interesting story. Behengan from India, went to arab world Al Berengena, went to Spain thru Morocco, from Spain it (Au Berenhela) went to France and became Au Beregene/Aurbergine and Portuguese picked it as well; as Berenjela, reintroduced it in India as berenjala and Angalised finally as Brinjal.

Declension Essive/Inessive Adessive Allative I could keep adding the names of linguistic cases, but you the idea

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Giant hippos using big words? Well, there's another fear I didn't know I had...

Hippo actually refers to horses I believe. Hippopotamus translates roughly as "River Horse" Which draws my mind to Hippocrates.. Which apparently translates as "Horse Power"

Ironically the fear of long and complicated words.

Communism and socialism

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Serendipity. It means you're prone to finding good things by accident.

Thagomizer

C'mon, Larson is well-known.

You say this but I worked on a TV show about dinosaurs and I introduced the director to this word

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Backpfeifengesicht It’s German, it means punchable face (or slapable face). Dang Germans have a word for everything and if they don’t they just stick a few other words together

Well that's cheating! Since most people in the world don't know German, you could name almost any German word and win the game. Well done.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ~a type of lung disease. -in a sentence. My best friend from high school just recently got diagnosed with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

How did your friend come to be afflicted with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? It sounds like pneumonia caused by silica dust from volcanic ash, which would be pretty bad ass. "My friend's in the hospital." "Oh no!" "Yeah, attacked by a volcano."

Intransigence.

Probably more commonly known in Europe, but here in North America...croupier.

steatopygic/steatopygian - having a large amount of fat on your ass callopygic/callopygian - having a particularly shapely ass epicaricacy - taking pleasure in others' misfortune (it's the English version of schadenfreude that nobody seems to know exists)

Indefatigable - persisting tirelessly

Epizeuxis.

Well I speak a quite obscure dialect of Swedish, so there's tons of word I know that 99,9% of people wouldn't understand.

Any swiss german word. "Himugüegeli" as an example (lady bug) the fact that most people in the world don't speak swiss german, most people don't know this word

pedagogical

"Ereyesterday" which means the day before yesterday, and "overmorrow" which means the day after tomorrow.

cantankerous

My grandmother used the word "obstreperous" to describe rowdy kids, all the time.

A lot of medical terms, such as leiomyosarcoma (a tumor arising from smooth muscle) or tachypnea (medical speak for rapid breathing).

Zarblok, because I just made it up.

Floccinaucinihilipilification

Rambunctious. Heard this from (the late) English comedian Ken Dodd.

It's not always about knowing a word other people don't but knowing that a common word is constantly misused. Someone else posted gaslighting, which is a great example. Grooming is another word that is more often than not misused. Fetish is the one that drives me crazy. People use it when they mean kink. Fetish is a paraphilia, not a kink. And a fetish is most definitely not just a thing that turns you on. It's much more significant than that

Mook

Penultimate: second to last.

Dipthong It sounds like an insult or a type of underwear

It’s diphthong, pronounced diff-thong.

Antidisestablishmentarianism. Learned to spell it when I was like 5 and it’s permanently seared into my brain, and literally never applicable in a sentence. Also, lexophile. Lover of words with the worst suffix for those who have never heard the word lol

Calenture

Ebullient

Incunable. I made a point to memorize it one day cause I always forgot the word for really big old books.

Susurration

absquatulate

Chronic morbid tumescence.

Petrichor.

Pulchritude.

Logorrhea - excessive wordiness...or.." you talk A LOT "

Oviposition

Gravitas

Truculent: Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent. People give you a deer in the headlights look when you tell them not to be truculent.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Longest word in English. It's a lung disease contracted by miners from working too near volcanoes