Hey Pandas, What’s An Odd Word You Know? (Closed)

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Metacognition. It means thinking about your thinking.

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Madeleine Flowers

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iLoVeGrOoT.... 2 years ago

I do it all the time!!

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Spoonerism,( I think)

Saying boiled sprat instead of spoiled brat

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KitFrey

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Huddo's sister 2 years ago

My step dad says spoonerisms all the time and I pretend they are funny, but it's gotten so old!

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Šviesotamsa. It means light-darkness, a dynamic between light and darkness.

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Titas Burinskas

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crouton.crunch 2 years ago

Ooooo snazzy :)

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I don’t know if it’s unusual but I recently learned the word “Somnambulist”.

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TyrantrumGogoat

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Huddo's sister 2 years ago

I was going to mention that one :)

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The one that I have heard a lot recently is petrichor- the smell of dust/the ground after rain. The first time I heard it though was about 10-15 years ago on Doctor Who :)

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Huddo's sister

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Ellie Vanille 2 years ago

Crimson Eleven Delight Petrichor

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anatidaephobia. the fear that somewhere somehow a duck is watching you. i’m not even joking

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chaotic awesome

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MMQ 2 years ago

I have this, no joke

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It'd have to be callipygian (having nice buttocks) for me. Weirdly specific.

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Speedgoat

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crouton.crunch 2 years ago

Wow that’s quite specific 😂😂

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As English is not my mother tongue, I rarely use strong words in daily convos with friends/family. But I've been using 'Loathe' instead of 'deeply hate' nowadays during informal convos. :)

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DUN DUN

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DUN DUN (she/her) (Submission author) 2 years ago

Wrong post. It's supposed to be in another post. Ignore this.

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Animus
1. “Hostility or ill feeling.”
2. “Motivation to do something.”
3. “Jung’s term for the masculine part of a woman’s personality.”
4. “The rational mind.”
Definitions are from google, hence why they’re in quotes; I’m very bad at wording things so I apologize.

(P.S. There’s a specific reason I know this word and if you can guess why, I think you’re pretty awesome!)

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Louieeeeee

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#10

Some other ones I know:
Mouldwarp, which is an old word for mole
Tunny, an old name for tuna
Sennight, which is a week (like fortnight is two weeks)

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Huddo's sister

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The danish woman 2 years ago

The danish word for mole is "muldvarp".

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Absquatulate - to abruptly leave/exit a place. Also can be used as a substitute for yeet

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Just_a_gay_cat

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Circumnavigation

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Ellie Vanille

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Ellie Vanille (Submission author) 2 years ago

Sorry, forgot to add the definition : Going around the world by navigating on a boat.

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Diphthong
Definition from google: a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another (as in coin, loud, and side ).
a digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat ).
a compound vowel character; a ligature (such as æ ).

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MicrowaveGoddess

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Cornhobbling.

The act of slapping someone in the face with a fish.

So you're meaning to say that theres a word for that, but not for "The day after tomorrow" or "The day before yesterday"

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