Spelunking.......I Learnt A New Word Today.

[Rsquared]

I do enjoy reading novels, and since I have had my Kindle, I have read many books that I probably would not even look sideways at.

But today I came across a word that had me perplexed.........and with the beauty of Kindle, it has a built-in dictionary.....and it is so easy to look-up a word's meaning by pressing a few buttons, then back to the story.

I did not know that "spelunking" meant the exploration of caves.........I would have called it caving, but then I like to keep things simple.

I know I should be learning a new "thai" word every day......but spelunking just threw a googly at me.

So, are there any new words, Thai or English that you have come across that have made you do a double-take?

[Puschl]

But today I came across a word that had me perplexed........

I was flabbergasted when I first came across, well, flabbergasted.

Spelunking is a nice one. My first guess would have been 'bar crawling', as there's a German word Spelunke, meaning shoddy tavern / drinking den. It has a common root, the Latin spelunca (cave).

[xen]

Spelunking may be a useful word to describe the previous nights activities after the barfine has been paid .

Sorry

[bkkjames]

fuk tong, tried that once...but in my defense, she was a bit heavy

[JimShortz]

Spelunking is very much an American term for cave exploration. In the UK we just call it caving, or potholing if involving the decent of deep underground shafts. Just so you know!

[StreetCowboy]

Sadly, I don't make the effort to practice using new words that I come across, and so they don't lodge in my vocabulary.

I am still looking for a good word for something which is the epitome of what it criticises;

for example the narrow-mindedness of people who criticise bigots; or people who suddenly introduce a discussion of digressions. We are lucky that never happens on the rugby league thread, by way of example.

SC

[baboon]

My latest new word: tintinnabulation. Of course the rest of you will know what it means...

[kevjohn]

This word could quite well relate to this topic.

" Inaniloquent "

[StreetCowboy]

This word could quite well relate to this topic.

" Inaniloquent "

Pretty much every topic in general

[StreetCowboy]

My latest new word: tintinnabulation. Of course the rest of you will know what it means...

WHAT?

;

EDIT: I beg your pardon, I had the wrong meaning for that; I was getting confused with tinnitus.

My apologies

Edited August 4, 2012 by StreetCowboy

[villagefarang]

My latest new word: tintinnabulation. Of course the rest of you will know what it means...

Edgar Allan Poe, perhaps?

I

Hear the sledges with the bells -

Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

In the icy air of night!

While the stars that oversprinkle

All the heavens, seem to twinkle

With a crystalline delight;

Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells -

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

[BuckarooBanzai]

manichaean - this word has always struck me as one of the key descriptors of both the TV and Thai communities.

To save you the time of looking it up "of or characterized by dualistic contrast or conflict between opposites."

[Rsquared]

This word could quite well relate to this topic.

" Inaniloquent "

Thanks KJ...........I thought you were a decent bloke.

I'll have to flick that one down leg-side.

[kevjohn]

My new word for today is

Nudiustertian

The day before yesterday

[kevjohn]

This word could quite well relate to this topic.

" Inaniloquent "

Thanks KJ...........I thought you were a decent bloke.

I'll have to flick that one down leg-side.

After reading some of the topics on Thaivisa, this could possibly apply to me

"hypergelast"

[onionluke]

Peribleptic - the wild uncanny stare in a mad man's eyes . I got that word from my dad's old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia when I was a boy . I have been trying for years to put it to use .

[kevjohn]

This could apply to some members of this forum

"Limerance"

An attempt at a scientific study into the nature of romantic love.

[Thaddeus]

This thread has left me in a state of discombobulation.

[HeavyDrinker]

but spelunking just threw a googly at me

One doesn't "throw" a googly, one "bowls" a googly.

Thank you.

[kevjohn]

This thread has left me in a state of discombobulation.

And that "state of discombobulation" is how you will remain.

[StreetCowboy]

but spelunking just threw a googly at me

One doesn't "throw" a googly, one "bowls" a googly.

Thank you.

Aren't there some chuckers about? Or am I getting confused with polo?

[kevjohn]

Hope this topic has not preterlapsed its usefulness.

[Rsquared]

but spelunking just threw a googly at me

One doesn't "throw" a googly, one "bowls" a googly.

Thank you.

Well done HeavyDrinker........wasn't sure anyone was reading this thread.......glad to see you noticed my deliberate mistake and I can now look forward to a good nights sleep without.........

.......suffering a case of Matutolypea.....

.....or getting up from the wrong side of the bed.

[Rsquared]

Oh......ye TV members will like this one.........that we can only converse with each other via a keyboard....

.....as opposed to sqiuddle with each other.

To waste time with idle talk

[TwoDogz]

but spelunking just threw a googly at me

One doesn't "throw" a googly, one "bowls" a googly.

Thank you.

Aren't there some chuckers about? Or am I getting confused with polo?

Known a few good chuckers.

Played a few chuckers.

Known some good girls that were cavers.