Dotage: the age of a dot which is a long time.

example: Why Harrietta, so good to see you !! Why I haven't seen you in a dotage!!!

Chownah

Chownah your just to much

'BOOTLESS'

I have seen a swan

With bootless labour swim against the tide.

-- Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III

PERIPATETIC

PERIPATETIC

I had to travel from place to place to discover the meaning of this one!!! It was hard work…

SUBALTERN

SUBALTERN

I googled it, I knew it, I just couldn't be bothered typing my description.

"A subaltern is a military term for a junior officer. Literally meaning "subordinate", subaltern is used to describe commissioned officers below the rank of captain and generally comprises the various grades of lieutenant. In the British Army the senior subaltern rank was captain-lieutenant, obsolete since the 18th century.

Prior to the Cardwell reforms of the British Army in 1871, the ranks of cornet and ensign were the junior subaltern ranks in the cavalry and infantry respectively.

In British ceremonial, a subaltern takes temporary command of proceedings during Trooping the Colour."

SUBALTERN

You get this in crosswords all the time.

Her's another one.

'harmattan'

MOLLIFY

SUBALTERN

You get this in crosswords all the time.

Her's another one.

'harmattan'

(on the west coast of Africa) a dry, parching land breeze, charged with dust.

Clever boy

MOLLIFY

To appease or mitigate the anger of, also to reduce the severity of, depends on the context.

Here's a tough one.

'Vacherin'

I new a woman named Molly once who baked the bread at a restaurant where I worked and it was really really good stuff and when people asked what made it so good we just old them it was mollyfied.

I new a woman named Molly once who baked the bread at a restaurant where I worked and it was really really good stuff and when people asked what made it so good we just old them it was mollyfied.

Most excellent!

trencherman

MOLLIFY

To appease or mitigate the anger of, also to reduce the severity of, depends on the context.

Here's a tough one.

'Vacherin'

'Vacherin' hails from a town in Switzerland (Also mont-d'or a dessert cheese to be had with red/white wine) a winter specialty hot from the oven

ogogogoch

I always remembered this bit but not the b..... rest okay

Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gerychwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogogoch

I was going to have that Tattoed on my willy. But settled for Rhyl instead

ogogogoch

I always remembered this bit but not the b..... rest okay

Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gerychwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogogoch

I was going to have that Tattoed on my willy. But settled for Rhyl instead

I met a Welsh man tonight, his pronunciation of this word was dire to say the least.

http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndro...h.co.uk/say.php

Zenzizenzizenzic

ogogogoch

I always remembered this bit but not the b..... rest okay

Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gerychwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogogoch

I was going to have that Tattoed on my willy. But settled for Rhyl instead

I met a Welsh man tonight, his pronunciation of this word was dire to say the least.

http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndro...h.co.uk/say.php

Zenzizenzizenzic

The eighth power of a number.

This word is long obsolete, so much so that the Oxford English Dictionary only has one citation for it, from a famous work by the Welsh-born mathematician Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Wit, published in 1557. It turns up from time to time as one of those weird words which is best known for being held up as an example of a weird word.

The root word, also obsolete, is zenzic. This was borrowed from German (the Germans were very big in algebra in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries). They got it from the medieval Italian word censo, which is a close relative of the Latin census. The Italians (who were big in algebra even earlier) used censo to translate the Arabic word mál, literally “possessions; property”, which was the usual word in that language for the square of a number. This came about because the Arabs, like most mathematicians of those and earlier times, thought of a squared number as a depiction of an area, especially of land, hence property. So censo, and later our English zenzic, was for a while the word for a squared number.

Even by Robert Recorde’s time, there was no easy way of denoting the powers of numbers, a great hindrance to effective mathematics. The only term he had apart from the square was the cube, the third power of a number, and formulae were usually written out in words. Recorde, like his predecessors, represented a fourth power by the square of a square, zenzizenzic, which is just a condensed form of the Italian censo di censo, used by Leonardo of Pisa in his famous book Liber Abaci of 1202. An eighth power was by obvious extension zenzizenzizenzic. And similarly the sixth power was zenzicube, the square of a cube. None of these words survives in the language except as historical curiosities.

avoirdupois

Isn't a fat person considered to be "avoirdupois"?

Isn't a fat person considered to be "avoirdupois"?

No, it's a systm of weights based on a pound of 16 ounces.

Suegha,

Do you speak French?

Chownah

Well done Suegha

Here's another teaser

recalcitrant

Well done Suegha

Here's another teaser

recalcitrant

Recalcitrant is a word I use in general conversation with obstinate reluctance!

To chownah, of the many languages I speak French is not one of them!

Oh, here's one of my fav words

'Tmesis' (it's the only word in the English language with a 'tm' start!

what about tmorrow? or "I gave a kiss tmy sweetheart."

chownah

what about tmorrow? or "I gave a kiss tmy sweetheart."

chownah

Sorry, forgot about those ones!

patchouli

frangipani

zucchini

which one does not belong

Chownah

patchouli

frangipani

zucchini

which one does not belong

Chownah

Logically it would be zucchini, but I can't fathom how yur mind works. So which is it?

what about tmorrow? or "I gave a kiss tmy sweetheart."

chownah

Not without a ' you didn't..... sorry, no such words.

In comes the Microsoft Paper Clip.

"You appear to be trying to create a new language, would you like some help?"

equivocate

patchouli

frangipani

zucchini

which one does not belong

Chownah

Logically it would be zucchini, but I can't fathom how yur mind works. So which is it?

I think you're right but I'm not sure.....I'm hoping someone else can come and help us out with this.

Chownah