“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 of [...]
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Tintinnabulation
Tintinnabulation is the ringing our sounding of bells. There is, of course, no reason you would ever actually say “tintinnabulation” when it takes three times as long as just saying “ringing”. Why this word is still around is a mystery, but it has a simple and direct etymology from Latin, so it may simply be [...]
Shit-Ton
A shit-ton is an extremely large quantity of something. It has not yet been added to any respectable dictionary that I can find, but is not an uncommon expression to see. My guess is that this word is a conflation of “ton” and “shitload”, and doesn’t appear to have been around for very long. It [...]
Barf
We have plenty of words for regurgitation in English:
Throw up
Vomit
Puke
Upchuck
Hurl
Spew
Blow chunks
Cough up
Heave
Spit up
And for such a wonderfully repugnant activity, it’s great to have so many words at our disposal. But “barf” is the king. Besides representing both the action and the product of regurgitation (a quality shared with throw up, vomit, and puke) it is [...]