As we mentioned over at WordsIHate, these days everything from boogie boarding to buttholes can be called “awesome” (especially buttholes). And correspondingly, everything can also be called “stupid”. “Stupid” no longer means “stupid”, it just means bad. So now we don’t yell out “BAD BABY!” we shout, “STUPID BABY!” but the baby isn’t really dumb, she’s just a [...]
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Heinous
Bad is bad, and awful as more bad, and terrible is still badder. Go past unbearable, slip around horrific and atrocious (expialidocious). Long gone are crummy, raunchy, and dreadful. An inch beyond abominable, you’re at the Heinous. There is nothing in the world more heinous than a heinous thing. And while so many words have [...]
Aquiline
Sometimes a word comes along that’s so specific, you have to wonder what the inventors of the word were doing that they even needed it. First, the meaning of aquiline is as follows: of, relating to, or having characteristics of an eagle Lovely. But it isn’t used so often for this as it is used [...]
Replete
If there is a heroin for word junkies like me, it is “replete”. This word makes me feel so GOOD when I’m using it, and could I shoot it directly into my veins I would. It contains an adorable echoing long-E sound and the playful and flirty diblend P+L (stay tuned for plenipotentiary). And this [...]
Ersatz
The ugly duckling that grew up to be a beautiful word. It’s hard to say, it’s ugly to look at, and anyone who uses it is instantly declared a pretentious cock. And such a useful word for pretentious, ivory tower cocks such as myself! It just floats off the tip of the tongue like a [...]
Feckless
Dictionary.com gives two definitions of “feckless”: ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing. having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy. I’m more interested in the second definition, because I like CALLING someone feckless, especially to their face. It’s an insult! It’s like calling someone a child, except using a word a feckless person [...]
Festooned
A festoon is a festive ornament. So to be “festooned” means to be decorated in festive ornaments. A festoon used to be a specific kind of ornament, in which flowers, foliage, and fruit were fastened to and suspended by long ribbons. It has now come to mean any type of celebratory ornamentation. Considering how our [...]
Supernumerary
If I met the man who invented this word, I would give him a kiss and then suck his balls dry. And I’m not even remotely gay. If the inventor is actually a woman things could get messy and we might even spawn a whole new strain of venereal disease. Every single time I see [...]
Aubergine
I hate “aubergine” when it’s used to describe an eggplant. But I love it when it’s used to describe a color! Vegetables, to me, are not royal. They are humble, and should be spoken of with humble words, such as eggplant. Peasants eat eggplants. And we are all peasants. Except me. Which is why I [...]
Raw
“Raw” is the rawest word I know. “Raw” is intense. For a word with no hard sounds, it still sounds hardcore. Its origins are no less astonishing, with connections to Latin, Greek, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European, Old Norse, Old Irish, Sanskrit, and Slavic. The need to describe bloody, exposed and uncooked flesh goes back to the dawn [...]
