What new words have you learned recently?

**Yourt19** · 2021-04-27, 12:23 PM (ISO 8601)

Biblioklept - person, that steals books.

**Scarlet Knight** · 2021-04-29, 06:09 AM (ISO 8601)

Opprobrium : the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful

"Adding to the opprobrium, the family was mocked on TV nightly."

**Wizard_Lizard** · 2021-04-30, 09:15 PM (ISO 8601)

Apotheosis - The act of becoming a god.
Currently added to me 'to do' list.

**IthilanorStPete** · 2021-05-11, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)

"anent": in regards to, concerning.

**Khedrac** · 2021-05-12, 06:50 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by IthilanorStPete

"anent": in regards to, concerning.

This word was so totally new to me that I grabbed my dictionary to look it up. Because I am at work I have my big dictionary - a full OED (it would be 15 volumes if it wasn't the compact version) - and what I found was quite interesting.

Anent has 11 definitions listed, of which 9 are marked as obsolete, and the one you give above is just one of the other two, both of which come under sense III: Facing, against, towards:
7. Of position: fronting, opposite, over against, close against, close to (archaic or dialect)
11. In respect or reference to, respecting, regarding, concerning, about (Common in Scottish law phraseology and affected by many English writers)

So, thank-you for pointing me at something new and interesting.

**Scarlet Knight** · 2021-05-12, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)

irrumation: The active thrusting of a gentleman's manhood into or between one or more partners' body parts.

"That thing you just did? That's called 'irrumation'. "

**understatement** · 2021-05-22, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)

Words!!

simonize (v): to polish a motor vehicle

escritoire (n): a small writing desk with drawers and components

pangram (n): a sentence or verse that contains all letters of the alphabet

**understatement** · 2021-06-08, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)

More words:

Rithmomachy (n): an early European board game similar to chess

canard (n): an unfounded rumor

boskage (n): a growth of trees and shrubs

champaign (n): the open countryside

**Eldan** · 2021-06-10, 03:19 AM (ISO 8601)

Carcinisation: becoming crab-like. Specifically, the tendency of not closely related arthropods to evolve crab-like bodies independently, which has happened a surprising number of times.

**danzibr** · 2021-06-11, 10:13 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by understatement

More words:

Rithmomachy (n): an early European board game similar to chess

canard (n): an unfounded rumor

boskage (n): a growth of trees and shrubs

champaign (n): the open countryside

Canard also refers to the mini “neck wings” on aircraft like most variants of the Su-30. Apparently comes from French for duck or something.

**Fyraltari** · 2021-06-11, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by danzibr

Canard also refers to the mini “neck wings” on aircraft like most variants of the Su-30. Apparently comes from French for duck or something.

Correct. In French, it's also (rather old) slang for a newspaper. Probably has something to do with the "unfounded rumor" meaning.

**Peelee** · 2021-06-11, 10:26 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by danzibr

Canard also refers to the mini “neck wings” on aircraft like most variants of the Su-30. Apparently comes from French for duck or something.

I knew that from Kerbal Space Program, but not the French connection. Which is pretty neat.

**Fyraltari** · 2021-06-11, 10:37 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Peelee

I knew that from Kerbal Space Program, but not the French connection. Which is pretty neat.

Agreed. It has the scene that codified the chase scene in cinema, so I would advise you watch it.

**Rockphed** · 2021-06-11, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Fyraltari

Agreed. It has the scene that codified the chase scene in cinema, so I would advise you watch it.

Huh? I feel like I have missed something. Which probably means I am killing a joke.

**Peelee** · 2021-06-11, 05:58 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Rockphed

Huh? I feel like I have missed something. Which probably means I am killing a joke.

I deliberately avoided saying "etymology" in favor of "connection" so I could subtly reference "The French Connection", a super famous movie (for no reason other than it amused me). Fyraltari replied to the reference, regarding a scene in the movie.

**snowblizz** · 2021-06-12, 05:12 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Fyraltari

Correct. In French, it's also (rather old) slang for a newspaper. Probably has something to do with the "unfounded rumor" meaning.

Funnily enough, in Swedish we say "newspaper duck" about what I do not want call fake news because it's so much more innocent than what this 4 year old phrase means. Inaccurate news-story, something written up bigger than it should be.

Apparently according to wiki we took it from German.

It's very mobile that duck.

**Dr. G. Ravenpie** · 2021-06-20, 04:45 PM (ISO 8601)

I learned today that the Spanish word 'popurrí' (colloquially, a mix of different things, especially if it is strange or confusing) comes from the French word 'pot-pourri' (a mixture of dried petals and spices placed in a bowl or small sack to perfume clothing or a room) wich comes from the Spanish word 'olla podrida' (a Spanish stew made with chickpeas or beans, meats like pork, beef, bacon, partridge, chicken, ham, sausage, and vegetables such as carrots, leeks, cabbage, potatoes and onions).

Something was lost in its way from one language to the other, it seems. So next time someone tells me that there is some popurrí in the room, I will say: 'Come on, that's not true! Where is the beef? And the bacon, the partridge, the chicken...?'.

**Eldan** · 2021-06-21, 03:00 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by snowblizz

Funnily enough, in Swedish we say "newspaper duck" about what I do not want call fake news because it's so much more innocent than what this 4 year old phrase means. Inaccurate news-story, something written up bigger than it should be.

Apparently according to wiki we took it from German.

It's very mobile that duck.

Not impossible, "Zeitungsente"/"Newspaper Duck" is also a German term.

**Scarlet Knight** · 2021-06-24, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)

Condottieri : Italian captains in command of mercenary companies

"There were women who gained fame as condottieri."

**Imbalance** · 2021-06-26, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)

Metamictization
"The process of disruption of the structure of a crystal by radiations from contained radioactive atoms, rendering the material partly or wholly amorphous."

**Fyraltari** · 2021-06-26, 09:17 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Imbalance

Metamictization
"The process of disruption of the structure of a crystal by radiations from contained radioactive atoms, rendering the material partly or wholly amorphous."

Spoiler: Hmmmm...

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**Lysbeth** · 2021-07-14, 06:28 PM (ISO 8601)

the archaic "retch" - aka "reck" as in "reckless"... that's a verb though. To take into account, to think, to concern, to be important, etc. Everything that could slow someone down, whereas a reckless one charges in ^-^
laity - the quality of being a layperson (initially, "in a church but not ordained clergy or clerics")

**understatement** · 2021-08-04, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)

Some more words:

eclogue (n): a poem which shepherds converse

sequela (n): condition which is the consequences of a previous disease or injury

onsen (n): a hot spring or a resort developed around a hot spring

**Scarlet Knight** · 2021-08-05, 09:12 AM (ISO 8601)

Anatomise: 1. To dissect (an animal or other organism) to study the structure and relation of the parts. 2. To analyze (something) in minute detail.

"The magazine’s writers set out to anatomise Simone, 'the victim of passion'."

**Wizard_Lizard** · 2021-08-12, 11:58 PM (ISO 8601)

My new favourite word: Sequipedalian!, means to use really long words to explain things! Encountered it in the wild whilst reading Earth Unaware (one of the ender's game prequels)

**Bohandas** · 2021-08-29, 10:30 PM (ISO 8601)

Holonomy- rotation resulting from sliding along a non-euclidean polygon

**dafrca** · 2021-09-23, 06:18 PM (ISO 8601)

Coefficient of Friction, or COF: It is the number rating system used to indicate how slippery a flooring is. Tiles for example would be rated with a COR number. People who design public spaces have to take the COF into consideration when selecting the flooring. It was more interesting than I am making it sound. LOL

**Scarlet Knight** · 2021-09-27, 07:28 AM (ISO 8601)

Here's a word I have never seen, but guessed at:

Gyre - a circular or spiral motion or form; especially : a giant circular oceanic surface current.

"The author explained the Pacific's tides and gyres."

**Velaryon** · 2021-10-01, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)

I ran into a new one yesterday:

Abecedary (or abecedarium) - a primer for teaching the alphabet.

**dafrca** · 2021-10-06, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)

Specie: Money in the form of coins.

Never heard of it until today.

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