Interesting Words (moved from Games)

[Pacifica]

Eruditulus — a cuter way to say semidoctus.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

I do say 'fanny', but only as a Britishism. I didn't realize it had so vulgar a meaning in the UK, but don't English people just use it = 'rump' also?

 

[Terry S.]

I've never heard it used in Britain or Ireland that way. fanny = vulva

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Wow, man. 26 yeers auld, an' I dinnae ken!

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Do you guys use the term 'fanny pack'?

 

[Terry S.]

No, but I'd say most people are aware of the term from US TV etc. To my ear 'fanny pack' sounds like a dressing after a procedure in the GUM clinic.

 

[Terry S.]

'Fanny' and its synonym 'fud' are also used as insults against men. Listen out for Scottish children's reaction when they hear of the Bugs Bunny character Elmer Fudd for the first time.

 

[Terry S.]

As evidenced here:

 

[Glabrigausapes]

frabjous

"Callooh! Callay!" he chortled in his joy.

 

[Bitmap]

Do you guys use the term 'fanny pack'?

They call it bumbag.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Zounds!

 

[Pacifica]

"Cotton", as a verb: https://www.lexico.com/definition/cotton

 

[Pacifica]

"Pasquinade", especially the origin: https://www.lexico.com/definition/pasquinade

 

[Issacus Divus]

"Sangita", a Sanskrit word for "song" that looks like a cognate of song to the untrained eye. However, the word "song" comes from PIE *sengʷʰ-, and Old Grimm shows that [gʷʰ] becomes [gh] in Sanskrit, not [g] or [ǵ]. I suddenly was enlightened that this is a gloriously coincidental compound of "saṃ-", "together", and "gita", song, like the Bhagavad-Gita.

 

[Callaina]

Makes me think of sangria. I could use a nice glass of sangria right about now

 

[Tironis]

They call it bumbag.

And in Germany I think it's called a body bag.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

"Callooh! Callay!" he chortled in his joy.

Some pretty freaky stuff. I made this post and then later that night (at work) my lad Kenny says to me,
"O frabjous day." out of the blue! 'n I says,
"Were we talking about that recently, that you said it?"
'n he says,
"No, it's just my favorite part."
I finished out the line & we bonded as only two yung boyz can do. (and I'm not talking about the porta-potties).

 

[Bitmap]

And in Germany I think it's called a body bag.

No, we call it belt bag.

I think there actually was a joke with Germans who didn't understand what a body bag was ... or even a news headline -- but I forgot what it was.

 

[Pacifica]

In French it's a banana bag.

 

[Terry S.]

Sac des bananes?