WELC0ME to THURSDAY MARCH 14. 2024
Here are some of the 40 Funniest Words in the English Language—And How to Use Them (4AngieT)
THESE FANTY-SHEENY WORDS WILL BUMFUZZLE ALL YOUR FRIENDS!
- Brouhaha
If you tweet something divisive the generates a lot of conversation, you might
say that you started a bit of a brouhaha. That’s a way better word for it than “commotion” or “uproar.”
Example: “Her speech started a brouhaha on all the 24-hour news channels.” - Pettifogger
You’ve seen them in movies and on local commercials: lawyers who are willing
to do anything to score a client or get a win. In other words, pettifoggers.
Example: “The prosecution’s pettifogger called some pretty shady witnesses.” - Sozzled
Hammered. Wrecked. Drunk. Forget all those boring words for being
intoxicated—”sozzled” makes it sound almost sophisticated.
Example: “Don’t let him order another drink, he’s already sozzled.” - Wassail
If you enjoy warmed, spiced wine, you can get sozzled on wassail. - Inkle
Okay, so maybe this one only comes up in conversation if you’re a weaver, but it’s
still a funny word. According to Merriam-Webster, an inkle is “a colored linen tape
or braid woven on a very narrow loom and used for trimming.”
Example: “My inkle won’t stay in place!” - Mollycoddle
Have a lot of siblings? Your parents probably mollycoddle the youngest, meaning
that they baby and indulge them, no matter what they do.
Example: “Stop mollycoddling her, she’s a grown woman!” - Skirl
If you travel to Scotland (or go to a Scottish pride event), you’ll almost
certainly hear someone skirl, i.e. play the bagpipes.
Example: “Let’s get closer, the bagpipers are about to start skirling.” - Hoosegow
A wild night out could land you in the hoosegow for breaking the law.
It’s just a funny word for jail!
Example: “Come on, we’ve gotta bail him out of the hoosegow.” - Rigmarole
Try to do anything with a government agency and it’ll be a lot of rigmarole. That
can either mean a lot of circular discussion or just a generally tedious ordeal.
Example: “Let’s get the rigmarole of the paperwork taken care of.” - Impignorate
Despite the reputation of the animal within this word, impignorate actually
means to pawn off or mortgage something in your possession.
Example: “I’m going to impignorate this watch for some extra cash.” - Bumfuzzle
We all find ourselves confused and flustered from time to time, perhaps even to the
point where we might describe ourselves as perplexed. But if those words don’t quite
capture your bewildered state of mind, then you may want to use the term bumfuzzle.
Example: “That movie was bumfuzzling and left me, well, bumfuzzled.” - Winklepicker
While a winklepicker sounds like it should refer to someone who picks winkles (whatever
those might be), a winklepicker is, in fact, a shoe or boot that features a sharp-pointed toe.
Example: “I’ve been looking for the perfect winklepicker to go with these pants.” - Hullaballoo
A perfect example of a word that sounds like its meaning, hullaballoo refers to a
ruckus or uproar that’s on the unpleasant side.
Example: “The hullaballoo was totally wild.” - Argle-bargle
Blah, blah, blah, some people like to drone on for as long as others are willing to listen and
there are those particular kinds of mind-numbing conversations that never seem to end.
Meaningless arguments and worthless chatter—whether done by talking or writing—is called argle-bargle.
Example: “This is just a bunch of pointless argle-bargle.” - Doodlesack
Scottish musicians are well-known for their skill with the bagpipes, but they’re not as
famous for their talents with the doodlesack. And that’s kind of funny considering this
funniest word is just another word for bagpipes.
Example: “What songs do you like to play on a doodlesack?”
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! Have a GREAT THURSDAY, people, stay safe,
and whatever you do, don’t forget to laff it up! Peace, I am outta here! Eucman! 😁
q u o t e s o f t h e d a y
A national debt, if it is not excessive,
will be to us a national blessing.
–Alexander Hamilton
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take
in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully.
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
–Cicero
When you have loved as she has loved,
you grow old beautifully.
–W. Somerset Maugham
Guaranteed to Roll Your Eyes
Good Writing Advice
January 15, 2011
In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial
sentimentalities and amicable philosophical or psychological observations,
beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications
possess a compacted conciseness, a clarified comprehensibility, a coalescent
cogency and a concatenated consistency. Eschew obfuscation and all conglomeration
of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations.
Let your extemporaneous descants and unpremeditated expatiations have
intelligibility and voracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast.
Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolificacy and vain vapid verbosity.
If you are really interested to know, the above means: “Be brief and don’t use big words.” 😳😳
Wednesday’s’ Movie Trivia of the day! What movie is this quote from??? “
“I’m sure that you will understand that I am going through a destructive phase.”
Answer: “Look Who’s Talking” (1989)
Kirstie Alley played Mollie in “Look Who’s Talking” (1989). Mollie was an accountant who had an affair with another accountant named Albert (George Segal). Albert was married, and he kept telling Mollie he was going to leave his wife for her. Then he found reasons not to leave. Mollie was with her best friend Rona (Twink Caplan) when they caught Albert with another woman in a dressing room. Mollie went into labor and hailed a cab.
Later, Albert wanted to meet his son (Mikey, voiced by Bruce Willis) who was now about a year old. Mollie and Mikey went to Albert’s office; Albert was a jerk. Mollie finally was done when he told her not to change Mikey’s diaper on the desk which cost so much. She took the dirty typer (dirty side down) slammed it on the desk and yelled, “Now it’s junk.” Then she delivered the line about going through a destructive phase as she and Mikey trashed the office before they left it.
Thursday’s Movie Trivia of the day! What movie is this quote from???
“Yeah, I guess that’s what you would see.”
Wednesday’s Quizzler is….
David showed a piece of paper to Kenneth, while covering the top part of it with his hand.
The visible portion below his hand read as follows:
THIRD
FOURTH
FIFTH
SIXTH
SEVENTH
EIGHTH
NINTH
TENTH
David said, “My hand is covering two words, the first two words in this list of ten words. The list follows a completely and indisputably logical sequence. None of the words are repeated. I’ll bet you $50 that you cannot tell me what those two words are on your first try. You can say the two words in either order.” Kenneth could not see any reason not to accept this wager, and said “First and second” for the easy $50 win. However, after David moved his hand away, Kenneth realized he had lost, and indeed, there was not even an argument to be made. What were the two hidden wor
ANSWER: “Whole” and “Half.” The obvious idea is that the list is of ordinal numbers. However, it is actually a list of the names of the inverse fractions of the natural numbers. That is, 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, etc.
Thursday’s Quizzler is….
A 3-letter word has been taken out of each of the following words.
The letters may not be adjacent, but they are in order. Can you figure it out?
_ _ S _
_ H _ M _
_ O _ _ LE
_ R _ M _ LE
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