Funny words and definitions

[oldbike54]

 Callipygian             Having a cute butt

 What words tickle you ?

 Dusty

[fotoguzzi]

Tightwad

:   miser, cheapskate, penny-pincher, skinflint, Scrooge IE Guzziologist.

[balvenie]

Slovenry
slovenliness

[oldbike54]

 Just for educational purposes , include the definition please .

 Dusty

[Guzzistajohn]

Yes, sometimes I have an Austin Powers sense of humor.

WENIS;
  1. The stretchy area of skin located on the posterior of the elbow centered particularly over the olecranon

[TodkaVonic]

Words I like to use? I like bespectacled (wearing glasses) and betwixt (between) and bespoke (custom made). As for words I find amusing, formication (tingling, ant-crawling sensation, see also formic acid) and mastication (to chew), mostly because they both sound a lot like other more titilating words. I also like micturition (passing urine) because it's almost extinct, which reminds me, I like extant (opposite of extinct) too. My current favorite made-up words though are shavocado (a shorn scrotum) and the acronym FOOBA (Found On Othopedics, Barely Alive).

[Nic in Western NYS]

Mt Chimborazo in Ecuador.
The highest point on Earth - if you count distance from the center of the Earth (factoring our planet's equatorial bulge!)  Thank you Neil deGrasse Tyson!

[oldbike54]

 Pettifogger       Someone who tries to confuse others with his speech .

 Dusty

[Scud]

Pusillanimous:

Do you know someone who has a small, weak spirit, someone whose reserve of inner strength is too small to draw from in times of danger and adversity? If so, you'll find pusillanimous to be the perfect descriptor for that person. The Latin roots of this derisive adjective are pusillus, meaning "very small" (and related to pusus, meaning "boy") and animus, which means "spirit" and is the ancestor to many words in our language, including "animal" and "animate." Pusillanimous first appeared in English in the 16th century, but it gained prominence in the 1970s when Vice President Spiro Agnew famously accused his ideological rivals of "pusillanimous pussyfooting." And despite what you may have heard, pusillanimous does not serve as the basis for pussyfoot, pussycat, or a certain related vulgarism.

[twowings]

Ennui -  a reaction to too much useless information about Harley-Davidsons

[RANDM]

Inuendo - an Italian Supository.

Maurie.

[tris]

Grockle - a visitor to the Isle of White

BREXIT - ask me in 5 years time 

[sib]

...mostly because they both sound a lot like other more titilating words....

Intestate (dying without leaving a will)

[sib]

....when Vice President Spiro Agnew famously accused his ideological rivals of "pusillanimous pussyfooting."....

We may or may not have had better politicians in those days, but we certainly had better speechwriters, and Agnew's was one of the best, William Safire.  Other memorable phrases he supplied to Agnew are "nattering nabobs of negativism" and "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history."

[John A]

Balderdash: foolish words or ideas.
WC Field: "Great Sphericals of Balderdash "

[Scud]

We may or may not have had better politicians in those days, but we certainly had better speechwriters, and Agnew's was one of the best, William Safire.  Other memorable phrases he supplied to Agnew are "nattering nabobs of negativism" and "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history."

Amazing achievement in alliteration.  Now the speech-writers have to fit statements into 140 characters for tweets - and they often prevaricate:  to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.

note: the above is an apolitical statement.

[John A]

I used the word "trousers" at Christmas , most of the kids and a few of the adults ( I assume) didn't know it was in reference to jeans. Now I use the word as often as possible. It reminds me of Nick Park's "The Wrong Trousers". I think I remember Wallace using "prevaricate"

[Phang]

Gung ho

no matter how many times I read the meaning in a dictionary or sentances, I still can't catch the meaning accurately.

[Kent in Upstate NY]

Gung ho

no matter how many times I read the meaning in a dictionary or sentances, I still can't catch the meaning accurately.

Gung-ho /ˈɡʌŋˈhoʊ/ is an English term used to mean "enthusiastic" or "overzealous". It is an anglicised pronunciation of "gōng hé" (工合), which is also sometimes anglicised as "kung-ho".
http://www.orientaloutpost.com/shufa.php?q=%E5%B7%A5%E5%90%88

[Nic in Western NYS]

FOOBA (Found On Othopedics, Barely Alive).

More medical tragic/comic phrases here:  http://o.canada.com/news/toronto-doctor-reveals-secrets-of-hospital-slang

A particularly ugly one is GOMER or Get Out of My Emergency Room.  Reserved for behavioral health/substance abuse folks whom most ED docs did not choose their residency in order to care for.

[Phang]

Gung-ho /ˈɡʌŋˈhoʊ/ is an English term used to mean "enthusiastic" or "overzealous". It is an anglicised pronunciation of "gōng h�" (工合), which is also sometimes anglicised as "kung-ho".
http://www.orientaloutpost.com/shufa.php?q=%E5%B7%A5%E5%90%88

The meaning in Chinese confused me even further, I guess I need to ignore the meaning of gung ho in Chinese entirely.

Is gung ho a verbal, noun or adjective?

[Penderic]

I thought those 'gremlins' were involved!



 

[Fuzzy]

borborygmi - stomach growling
bifurcate - divide into two branches. It sound like a titillating word and a sophomoric one

[Penderic]

[webmost]

Apocope, apophasis, and apopemptic. Apocope (uh-POCK-uh-pee) is dropping the last bit off a word. Apophasis (uh-POFF-us-sis) is mentioning something by saying you're not mentioning it. Apopemptic (app-uh-PEMP-tick) is a farewell address. So to use all three in one sentence:

"Not sayin I'm leavin, but so long."

[geoff in almonte]

Gilly Woggle

- The little bow on a ballet slipper

G

[tris]

Murmuration - a group of starlings

[Demar]

taint

an unpleasant odor and flavor in a human foodstuff of animal origin. Caused by the ingestion of the substance, commonly a plant such as Hexham scent, or while in storage, e.g. milk stored with pineapples, or as a result of animal metabolism, e.g. boar taint.

[redrider90]

The meaning in Chinese confused me even further, I guess I need to ignore the meaning of gung ho in Chinese entirely.

Is gung ho a verbal, noun or adjective?

It is an adjective.
This is what Wiki says about the history of gung ho:

 The linguist Albert Moe studied both the origin and the usage in English. He concludes that the term is an "Americanism that is derived from the Chinese, but its several accepted American meanings have no resemblance whatsoever to the recognized meaning in the original language" and that its "various linguistic uses, as they have developed in the United States, have been peculiar to American speech." In Chinese, concludes Moe, "this is neither a slogan nor a battle cry; it is only a name for an organization."[1]

The term was picked up by United States Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson from his New Zealand friend, Rewi Alley, one of the founders of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Carlson explained in a 1943 interview: "I was trying to build up the same sort of working spirit I had seen in China where all the soldiers dedicated themselves to one idea and worked together to put that idea over. I told the boys about it again and again. I told them of the motto of the Chinese Cooperatives, Gung Ho. It means Work Together-Work in Harmony...."[2]

Later Carlson used gung-ho during his (unconventional) command of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. From there, it spread throughout the U.S. Marine Corps (hence the association between the two), where it was used as an expression of spirit and into American society as a whole when the phrase became the title of a 1943 war film, Gung Ho!, about the 2nd Raider Battalion's raid on Makin Island in 1942.

[redrider90]

Pink slip which dates back to the early 1900s.
It refers to the  practice, by a personnel department, of including a discharge notice in an employee's pay envelope to notify the worker of getting laid off.
"pink slip" is a term called a Metonymy. Metonymy which I found when looking up the origin of pink slip  is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by a metonym, the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept. Other example of metonymy would be calling a business executive " a suit".