Increase your word power

I like "jingle it". The amount of problems solved by jiggling it is more than you think.

WOW Mini Mouse what conglomeration of wonderful words.

This mornings BBC came up with a word I had not heard/noticed before "Lothario"

I was very discombobulated this afternoon when a lightbulb exploded and it left my ears very tintinnabulated Luckily the cat wasn't trans mog rified!
(BTW The bulb really did explode!)

Fissiparous always sounds more interesting than it is.

Yes Pompa - glad you like it plus it is a perfectly acceptable word to use in front of the grandchildren or persons of a refined disposition!!

Ho Jomarie, what a lovely word, I would normally say p.....ed off.but mulligrubs describes it much better.

Love this thread! My favourite old word has got to be "mulligrubs" as in "I've got a touch of the mulligrubs" meaning I feel pretty fed up and out of sorts. I find it brilliantly describes a down day that has no obvious reason for it.

Soutra, arcane is one of those words that sound right, even if you had never heard it before, I think you could guess.

I love the word arcane it just seems to have been specifically coined to describe current tax legislation

pompa

The nearest I get to the digerati is digging the garden until I'm called in for tea.

Pompa I have just realised you are one of the digerati

Yes, absent, the first was in 1419.

1618 Defenestration of Prague – funny how you remember stuff isn't it? Although now I think about it, wasn't there one a couple of hundred years earlier?

Absent, I think that is very relevant, it is interesting to know the origin of common words. It surprised me that Gadzookery is a relatively modern word.

It was only in relatively recent years that I realised "discombobulate" was a real word - I'd thought it was a jokey, made-up word. A great example of a word that sounds like what it means.

discombobulation, I am confused as to it's meaning.

I too love tintinnabulation, a very onomatopoeic word.

Another favourite is defenestration, the act of throwing something or someone out of the window. How lovely to say, casually, when asked where something is, "Oh I defenestrated it."

I love the word 'discombobulation'. Never mind the meaning, it has a cosy , rounded, bobbly feel to it ! [duh emoticon]

I wish all those words had been in the word list in the link on the Other Thread. I know all of them, but there were some on that link that foxed me. I was discombobulated.

I always liked tintinabulation after I first read it in the John Betchemin (sp?) poem 'summoned by bells' but its a hard word to introduce in everyday conversation -or at all!

Transmogrify....applied to bread that I have forgotten about!

Lovely I enjoy a nice word- here's mine - praxis. I shall go off and fossick about on the golf course today and see if it improves my score.

Not exactly relevant, but Charles Dickens can claim the first use of the word cocktail in a written work – Martin Chuzzlewit I think.

It was Charles Dickens who invented the 'Circumlocution Office' in Little Dorit - the means by which action on almost anything could be delayed almost infinitely.