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Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.

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[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"scruple" as a verb, meaning "hesitate due to conscience".

[–] MinusPi@pawb.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People probably know a word based on it, unscrupulous, meaning having or showing no moral principles

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, and folks know "scruples" as a noun which some people have and some don't, but "scruple" as a verb is a nice archaic version that I really like, which you don't encounter much outside of, say, a Jane Austen novel.

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] CaffeinatedMoth@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can't just say "perchance"!

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I like penultimate, next to last.

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[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Ultracrepidarian

An ultracrepidarian—from ultra- ("beyond") and crepidarian ("things related to shoes")—is a person considered to have ignored this advice and to be offering opinions they know nothing about.

The word is derived from a longer Latin phrase and refers to a story from Pliny the Elder

The phrase is recorded in Book 35 of Pliny the Elder's Natural History as ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret[1] ("Let the cobbler not judge beyond the crepida") and ascribed to the Greek painter Apelles of Kos. Supposedly, Apelles would put new paintings on public display and hide behind them to hear and act on their reception.[2] On one occasion, a shoemaker (Latin sutor) noted that one of the crepides[a] in a painting had the wrong number of straps and was so delighted when he found the error corrected the next day that he started in on criticizing the legs.[2] Indignant, Apelles came from his hiding place and admonished him to confine his opinions to the shoes.[2] Pliny then states that since that time it had become proverbial.[2]

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Internecine, meaning "destructive to both sides in a conflict".

Petty bickering like that divorce where they had a judge adjudicate the distribution of their beanie baby collection was internecine.

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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Übermorgen, the german word for overmorrow, is in abundant use in Germany. It's far from obsolete or obscure over here.

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] alexc@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Autodefenestration is one of my faves. The act of throwing yourself out of a window.

If you’re throwing someone or something out, then it’s just plain defenestration

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I'm currently reading through all of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries, and one fun feature is that he almost always includes one or more very obscure words. It's a nice little thing to look out for.

In the one I'm currently reading it's, "peculate," meaning to embezzle or steal money. Others include:

  • Plerophory - Fullness, especially of conviction or persuasion
  • Apodictically - From apodictic: clearly established or beyond dispute
  • Usufruct - The right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance
  • Acarpous - Not producing fruit; sterile; barren
  • Yclept - By the name of
  • Eruction - A belch or burp

I had a look to see if I could find a full list but sadly not. However most Wikipedia entries for the individual novels include a section called, "The unfamiliar word," if you want to find more.

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[–] fool@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Grandiloquent/sesquipedalian. It's what you get when you use everything in this thread ₍^ >ヮ<^₎ .ᐟ.ᐟ

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Vituperative. Means vicious.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

"Philomot" was always pretty charming. "The color of a dead leaf."

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I agree that we should use overmorrow more. Japanese has a similar word and it gets frequent use.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I am now adding overmorrow to my vocabulary. I can't wait to confuse the shit out of people I hate.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

übermorgen

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[–] conc@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

philalethist, A lover of truth.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Vulgar Argot - a word or phrase that is obsolete or incredibly obscure.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Defenestrate means to throw out of a window.

For example, "Someone should defenestrate Putin."

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Uxorious: devoted to one's wife.

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[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My contribution is katzenjammer, which is a word describing a really bad hangover (in the English language). I believe it is used a bit differently in the German language, but don't take my word for it.

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