Interesting Words (moved from Games)

[Pacifica]

Paraclausithyron.

 

[Adrian]

The verb arnaquer ("to rip off") derives from the slang harnacher, meaning "to entertain with the intention of swindling." Then the word lost its first letter, h-, in the nineteenth century, and the French used the word to mean "to cheat." In 1900, the spelling of this word evolved to its present form, but its definition shifted to mean "fixing a game." You will certainly hear the phrase C'est l'arnaque ("It's a rip-off") in many mouths in France, too.

 

[Pacifica]

Les goddams - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A variant of that term occurs in this song, where the English king is called "petit roy godon".

 

[Issacus Divus]

Yea, I saw that a while ago.

Asiarch - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

 

[Pacifica]

Les goddams - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Nowadays I guess it would "les fuckings".

 

[Glabrigausapes]

As always, it's on the way to find something hum-drum that you happen across pure gold:
Featured as part of a phrase, Hebrew 'ešekh (= אשׁך, which I think is a hapax, Lev. 21:20) is translated as G μόνορχις 'having one testicle'. The Vulgate has hirniosus which, if I'm understanding it, seems a bit shy of the mark.

And another thing: one English version says, '...if his stones be broken.'... Here I had been thinking that 'stones' was strictly slang (& a tad on the coarse side, at that), as in someone from the Bronx sayin':
'Jesus Christ, this muddafucka du'dnt got da stones for it.'

 

[Pacifica]

I guess it's just a case of a word changing register over time.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Yeah, I guess so. Then again, I suppose 'coarseness' in this case goes without saying. Can't really think of a 'polite term' along the lines of 'bottom' or 'rear-end'. If I ever found myself needing to discuss the matter in a professional context, I s'pose I'd have to use the medical term.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

glimer - one who squints (that is 'glimes'); glossed in the Catholicon Anglicum, where written 'glymyr', as luscus, limus.

 

[Pacifica]

bucculentus

 

[Glabrigausapes]

That one'd be nifty to revive, if pronounced like ModE 'succulent'. Cognate with Latvian buča, Lith bučius, both 'kiss'.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Thought I'd seen this one on the forum somewhere, but search didn't come up with anything (for this thread at least):

crapulous - 'well steeped in drink, sodden, pissed', from the L crapula (ultimately < G) 'bender'.

 

[Pacifica]

That one'd be nifty to revive, if pronounced like ModE 'succulent'.

Hey, yes, that's a great idea! Actually, "bucculent" is attested, but only once in a 1656 glossary, according to the OED.

 

[Pacifica]

Squint-bright.

 

[Pacifica]

Quorum, as an English noun.

 

[Bitmap]

Never come across that before?

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

The Finnish word for 'cat lover' is kissafani, and there is a magazine with that title. Something for speakers of either American or British English to chuckle immaturely over, though slightly differently.

 

[Pacifica]

Something for speakers of either American or British English to chuckle immaturely over, though slightly differently.

Oh, interesting. I didn't know that.

fanny
noun fannies

• 1 British vulgar slang A woman's genitals.
• 2 North American informal A person's buttocks.
  

 

[Issacus Divus]

No one says that.

 

[Pacifica]

Oh, I didn't know that you knew everyone.