FabSwingers.com forum: All Words Are Made Up

By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

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I didn't realise 'questment' is a word in use, and has dictionary credentials. Of course it is entirely possible and probable I have come across but diddn't remember it.

Last century I coined 'testerical' for use in the way 'hysterical' is used about womeen. I even checked in the queen lexicographer of this land. It hadn't been recorded. Now it is used on TwitTwat, and on telly. Not down to me, but because it has emerged.

I do enjoy a bit of etymology. Give me your quirky favourite and its origin.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Sycophant. Exact etymology uncertain. By classical Greek times, it meant vexatious litigant.

The parts of the word would suggest something like "fig revealer". Perhaps this is a reference to the clampdown on luxury items in Solonian Athens.

... Or it's a pussy joke.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All words are made up. Those words that are made up then have spelling that is made up. Both the words and the spellings change over time. The Turkish language and most of its words is only 100 and a bit years old. They literally (whoop, a proper use of the word literally

) had scholars working for decades inventing words, and agreeing them by committee.

I enjoy the new additions to the OED each year, but sometimes I feel they have gone for a buzzword that will clearly not last the test of time.

Similar to the OP, a favourite of mine is Correctile Disfunction, aka mansplaining.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I thought I invented the bommiknocker...however one turned up on the telly about six months later

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Sycophant. Exact etymology uncertain. By classical Greek times, it meant vexatious litigant.

The parts of the word would suggest something like "fig revealer". Perhaps this is a reference to the clampdown on luxury items in Solonian Athens.

... Or it's a pussy joke."

I love 'fig revealer'.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"All words are made up. Those words that are made up then have spelling that is made up. Both the words and the spellings change over time. The Turkish language and most of its words is only 100 and a bit years old. They literally (whoop, a proper use of the word literally

) had scholars working for decades inventing words, and agreeing them by committee.

I enjoy the new additions to the OED each year, but sometimes I feel they have gone for a buzzword that will clearly not last the test of time.

Similar to the OP, a favourite of mine is Correctile Disfunction, aka mansplaining. "

And words change meaning over time. Apparently awful used to mean "liable to fill someone with awe"

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Sycophant. Exact etymology uncertain. By classical Greek times, it meant vexatious litigant.

The parts of the word would suggest something like "fig revealer". Perhaps this is a reference to the clampdown on luxury items in Solonian Athens.

... Or it's a pussy joke.

I love 'fig revealer'.

Classicists have incredibly crude senses of humour.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

) had scholars working for decades inventing words, and agreeing them by committee.

I enjoy the new additions to the OED each year, but sometimes I feel they have gone for a buzzword that will clearly not last the test of time.

Similar to the OP, a favourite of mine is Correctile Disfunction, aka mansplaining. "

I may deploy Correctile Dysfunction.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

On a similar vein, martyr.

Classical Greek: witness. Legal cases have headings saying "marturos" (witness)

Hundreds of years later, if you witnessed for Christ in the early Roman empire, you may find yourself facing lions and becoming a martyr in the sense we understand today.

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By *ister CMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Clue...

From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.

He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.

Didn't get used again until 1500s.

Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Clue...

From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.

He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.

Didn't get used again until 1500s.

Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew. "

In which dialect of Greek is there a letter W?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I thought I invented the bommiknocker...however one turned up on the telly about six months later

The internet spells it with a y.

What is your meaning for the word?

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By *enelope2UWoman
over a year ago

Fife

Well whatchacallit was always used to mean whatever you call it and now it's a candy bar.. lol had to remove some of the pretentious sophistication of this post

Just teasing carry on

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Lesbians come from the island of lesbos...where the poetess sappho lived ..she had lady lovers in what we now call sapphic relationships

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"I thought I invented the bommiknocker...however one turned up on the telly about six months later

The internet spells it with a y.

What is your meaning for the word?

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it's a fictional club made of soft material..something like mallets mallet...only used as a non serious threat...."I'm going to biff you with my bommiknocker"

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I shall come back to these tomorrow.

Now I must retire.

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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago

london stratford

Finery whatnots

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"I shall come back to these tomorrow.

Now I must retire.

A domain xx

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Has anyone got a haha?

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By *ister CMan
over a year ago

liverpool

"Clue...

From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.

He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.

Didn't get used again until 1500s.

Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew.

In which dialect of Greek is there a letter W?"

None im aware of...? Clew is middle English... 'ew'... probably proto European but from what I know it could of been a ball of clay too...

Essentially coming from ariadnes string...

So I'd assume proto european.

That ok flower?

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Clue...

From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.

He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.

Didn't get used again until 1500s.

Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew.

In which dialect of Greek is there a letter W?

None im aware of...? Clew is middle English... 'ew'... probably proto European but from what I know it could of been a ball of clay too...

Essentially coming from ariadnes string...

So I'd assume proto european.

That ok flower?"

Apologies for asking for clarification

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Sycophant. Exact etymology uncertain. By classical Greek times, it meant vexatious litigant.

The parts of the word would suggest something like "fig revealer". Perhaps this is a reference to the clampdown on luxury items in Solonian Athens.

... Or it's a pussy joke."

Psychophant - a very annoyed elephant...

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

I like satisfice. It’s been around about 50 years and is an effective way to make decisions very quickly combining suffice and satisfy rather than optimising

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"Clue...

From the Greek... clew... a ball of string used when Thesius killed the minotaur.

He unravelled his clew to help him find his way back out.

Didn't get used again until 1500s.

Quite a few people on this site could do with a clew. "

Clew....smelly clue

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

I didn't know that there was such a word as FEJ till I thought about disposing of one of personalised registration numbers that's really now surplus to requirements. According to the urban dictionary on Google FEJ is the name for female ejaculation, and the context sentence that's quoted is,"Last night I went down on my bitch and she fejed all over my face." Amazing what you learn each day!

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"I didn't know that there was such a word as FEJ till I thought about disposing of one of personalised registration numbers that's really now surplus to requirements. According to the urban dictionary on Google FEJ is the name for female ejaculation, and the context sentence that's quoted is,"Last night I went down on my bitch and she fejed all over my face." Amazing what you learn each day!"
oo that's a good one ..

We need this in the fab dictionary

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

"Has anyone got a haha?

I love haha's. I remember seeing one at a posh house as a child and being much amused

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Cunt ....

The earliest known use of the word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was as part of a placename of a London street, Gropecunt Lane, c.?1230. A street synonymous with prostitution .Use of the word as a term of abuse is relatively recent, dating from the late nineteenth century.

You all wanted to know admit it

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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago

London

Well someone had to do it...

Floccinaucinihilipilification

The act of estimating something as worthless, comes from four Latin words for something of no substance, Flocci, soft plant hairs, Nauci, a trifle, Nihil, nothing and pili, short hairs.

And the longest non-compound word in the English language

You're welcome

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cap. - lie/lies/BS

As in ‘that’s cap’. ‘they’re capping’ etc.

origin- the roads.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you know German, OP ? The portmanteau words are off the scale !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just like that they changed literally to mean both literally and figuratively. Because now it literally couldn't get anymore confusing.

My head is literally going to explode.

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

The etymology of "penguin" is uncertain but it is thought it may be Welsh, meaning "white head".

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Do you know German, OP ? The portmanteau words are off the scale !"

Der Fussballweltmeisterschaftpokal. My favourite word

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"Do you know German, OP ? The portmanteau words are off the scale !

Der Fussballweltmeisterschaftpokal. My favourite word

We all like a bit of schaftpoking

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"Do you know German, OP ? The portmanteau words are off the scale !

Der Fussballweltmeisterschaftpokal. My favourite word

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my favourite German word is ausfart

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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago

London

"Do you know German, OP ? The portmanteau words are off the scale !

Der Fussballweltmeisterschaftpokal. My favourite word

my favourite German word is ausfart

Durchfall!

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Elektronischetelefonbeantwortmaschine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Only 2 words are made up and those are made and up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cunt ....

You all wanted to know admit it

I feel the word's lost its gravitas in recent years though. I prefer 'twunt' these days.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Gravitas

Stemming from the Yorkshire dialect gravy int ass....meaning diarrhoea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gravitas

Stemming from the Yorkshire dialect gravy int ass....meaning diarrhoea

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

I don't know it's etymology, but the word CLEAVE is the only word in the English language that has two meanings that are the complete opposite of each other.

Cleave can both mean to split apart and stick together

Ah such fun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't know it's etymology, but the word CLEAVE is the only word in the English language that has two meanings that are the complete opposite of each other.

Cleave can both mean to split apart and stick together

Ah such fun

There's more than one of those. They're called contronyms.

'Bolt' is one and with pretty much the same meanings as cleave. Bolt together/horse that bolts

Fast is another - move quickly/stuck fast

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

"I don't know it's etymology, but the word CLEAVE is the only word in the English language that has two meanings that are the complete opposite of each other.

Cleave can both mean to split apart and stick together

Ah such fun

There's more than one of those. They're called contronyms.

'Bolt' is one and with pretty much the same meanings as cleave. Bolt together/horse that bolts

Fast is another - move quickly/stuck fast"

Hey that's cool! Definitely learning things today. Who'd have thought a site predominantly filled with pictures of genitalia would also be a great place to brush up on your knowledge of language, it's a funny old world sometimes

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Do you know German, OP ? The portmanteau words are off the scale !"

I had to read All Quiet on the Western Front in German for A Level. Reading aloud an entire page with no full stops and some portmanteau words was a challenge.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The etymology of "penguin" is uncertain but it is thought it may be Welsh, meaning "white head". "

Pinguescence is one of my favourite words. From the Latin pinguis = fat.

I thought that was part of the root for penguin.

'Pinguinus impennis, meaning "penguin without flight feathers").'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All words are made up.

Except Edam.

That's made backwards.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Not an etymological post, but I like that "silent" and "listen" use the same letters.

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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago

London

"Not an etymological post, but I like that "silent" and "listen" use the same letters.

ONE + TWELVE = TWO + ELEVEN

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The longest word is smiles.

There's a mile between the first and last letters.

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