Interesting Words (moved from Games)

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

This reminds me of words like "whatsit" & "thingamajig" (funny enough, those words are actually in the dictionary).

Is this particularly funny? I thought a dictionary was a place for words. Now if you'd found a bottle of milk in there, or Lord Lucan, it might be worthy of comment.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

I believe I saw someone use "whatshisname" once, too.

Yeah, that has a certain je ne sais quoi about it.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

From the wiki:
She has a certain je ne sais quoi about her.
- said of Dame Pacifique

 

[Hawkwood]

Rigmarole

 

[Pacifica]

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/unhand

 

[Issacus Divus]

Iccirco.

 

[Issacus Divus]

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/unhand

I still use that one.

 

[Pacifica]

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=anno2

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=peranno&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059

 

[Pacifica]

Here's a funny-sounding word: feoffamentum.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

And in English, of course, I'm sure you remember Charivarius:

Reefer does not rhyme with deafer.
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

 

[Big Horn]

And in English, of course, I'm sure you remember Charivarius:

Reefer does not rhyme with deafer.
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

However, reef does rhyme with Deaf in an eponymous Texas County.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_Smith_County,_Texas#History

 

[Pacifica]

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=dentio1

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I wonder if there's a misprint in that. The standard spelling for the verb is 'teethe', at least nowadays.

 

[Pacifica]

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/estovers

See especially the etymology.

 

[Issacus Divus]

БЕГЕМОТ, the Russian word for "hippopotamus", resembling "behemoth."

 

[Big Horn]

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/estovers

See especially the etymology.

The etymology is controversial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estovers#CITEREFChisholm1911

 

[Iohannes Aurum]

БЕГЕМОТ, the Russian word for "hippopotamus", resembling "behemoth."

Apparently, Russian visitors to Canada's Wonderland would call one of the "American hills" "one big hippo."

Hippo American hills

 

[Issacus Divus]

And it was beaten by the Leviathan!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(roller_coaster)

What's the deal with these water monsters showing up all of a sudden?

 

[Pacifica]

Strange homonymy here.

 

[Issacus Divus]

Indeed strange.