Epeolatry
The next time you want to impress a prospective employer with your vast vocabulary, try using a snazzy word to get their attention. You know, if you don’t really need the job.  Â
Got words?Â
Here are some of my favorites:Â Hoosegow, Janky, Dank, Bosky, Jackass, Ort, Serendipity, Ai, Moonglade, Eesome
July 6th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I love it when someone suddenly uses a seldom used word and you’re like “good one”. I had a word but I can’t remember it. I actually read it in an advice column in the Times and had to look it up. I will figure it out and get back to you as it was a good one.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:52 am
“taciturn”, of course.
Also, “quixotic”, “lassitude”,”puerile”,”inchoate”,”peripatetic”,”dour”,”gregarious”,”bucolic”,”cantankerous”.
More after lunch.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I believe the Cubs had a pitcher in the 90s named Shawn Boskie.
But this is the first time I’ve encountered “bosky”.
“ort” is not bad, either.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Good ones, bc317. Oaf is nice, too.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
BOGART
(slang verb) To keep something all for oneself, thus depriving anyone else of having any.
The word ” COOTER ” is usally used in the Southeastern USA to describe the ” Gopher ” Turtle .
“Dang, my girlfriend sure does bogart that cooter.”
July 6th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
…as in “hey Spicoli, don’t bogart the J.”
July 6th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Tomfoolery.
Shenanigans.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I have no idea how “quixotic” wound up on top of “cantankerous”.
Forgot about “chimera”, “tertiary”, “obloquy” and “ineluctable”.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Research on “bosky” indicates that it is found in “Henry IV”.
How very Shakesperean!!
July 6th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
ninnyhammer
July 7th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I must go masticate. That is, to chew — as in gum or food!
July 7th, 2008 at 8:43 am
truculent
July 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Let’s matriculate the ball down the field, boys.
-Hank Stram
July 7th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Masticating is a normal and natural part of human nature, Sonja.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Nice use of those words in a sentence, Tommy! Why do I suddenly feel like a grade school teacher?
And you gotta love the misuse of these words in life!
Fisticuffs
Strumpet
Sentence, Tommy?
July 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Sonja, go to your room.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
“If I know Mary as well as I think I do, she’ll invite us right in for tea and strumpets!”
July 7th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
LOL jchristie!
July 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
a wise man will never resort to fisticuffs over a strumpet.
sorry but thats kind of lame.
trying to come up with something with “cameltoe” but having writers block. may be for the best though.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
NUGGERY
When one speaks in a light airy voice, as if the sound is coming soley from the lungs, not from the diaphragm.
“As the hours waned, her voice became more and more nuggery.”
still struggling with cameltoe……….
July 7th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
JEEPERS
oldschool word For excitement. similar in use to “golly” and “gee willikers”
“jeepers, thats a large box of ants! “
July 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
“Jeepers, that’s a swell cameltoe.”
July 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Well, I guess it’s too late to take that last post back.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Ha! I’m suprised that didn’t end up in “awaiting moderation”, jchristie. Apparently the KTBS security check doesn’t recognize cameltoe as a questionable word.
Tommy, dare me to use Jeepers! on the air? “Jeepers, Joe! You call that a cold front?”
July 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
double dare ya! and a $100 if u can get gerry to say “cameltoe.”
July 7th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
jchristie should get a prize or t-shirt for that post. Hilarious stuff.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
The only way Gerry is saying that is if we run a story on the feet of camels.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Camel Tow http://www.sacscreenprinting.com/catalog/images/camel.gif
July 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
MOOSE KNUCKLE
The male version of a cameltoe. Usually found on older rotund gentlemen wearing a suit.
“that guy in the business meeting was so big, his moose knuckle was sticking out of his front of his pants and it looked like a fanny pack gone wrong.”
July 7th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
And to think it all started with Sonja masticating.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Thanks, CT. That’s what I thought it was in the first place!
July 7th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I think Tommy should be sent to his room although I will be looking for the opportunity to use moose knuckle next time I’m in the Wal-Martz.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Ok I know I am way late on this but I finally remembered my word.
Main Entry: ame·lio·rate
Pronunciation: \?-?m?l-y?-?r?t, -?m?-l?-?-\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): ame·lio·rat·ed; ame·lio·rat·ing
Etymology: alteration of meliorate
Date: 1767
transitive verb
: to make better or more tolerable
intransitive verb
: to grow better
July 9th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Ok I know I am way late on this but I finally remembered my word.
ameliorate-to make better or more tolerable
July 9th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Mel, I see you ameliorated your second entry there.
July 9th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I didn’t think the first one went but good one Sher!