Who likes obscure words? I have just come across this one anthropophagi.
Niblings is how I describe my sister’s kids, but alas, I am pedantic.
Pentotenatotricalcicoberilico with chocolate flavor
Dictionary.com did not know that word nor did Google search.
@azzow2 it's not a word but a memory of my younger days in middle school many years ago. It did come back out of the blue when I was reading this posting and it was typed out just like that. Also, it's not English. It's funnier in my mother's tongue anyway. If you would've found it online then I would've been more surprised. Long story short, it's a bogus word built with three concatenated real words, meant as a joke.
sesquipedalian or hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Love it when I worked for Stroh's in Pennsylvania the guys would say don't use them there ten dollar words say what you need to say in English lol.
another A word - Alemite........ a grease fitting.
That seems more like a company name
@azzow2 I got to use this one the other day...pogonip
@hankster I just copied and pasted it to dictionary.com [dictionary.com]
LiterateHiker is mostly right, it was synonymous with cannibal for most of it time in which is was used.
It is an older version of the term, and refers to a race of people who were cannibals as a defining feature. Comes from the Greeks and was used some by Shakespeare.
Skeuomorph - Something designed to look as though it does the job it is supposed to do. Apple is famous for this: making the Notepad app look like a real paper notepad, making the delete tool look like a real rubbish bin. It doesn't have to be visual: The fake shutter-click noise of digital cameras is a skeuomorph.
One of my favorites.
that 1st sentence is so much a politician of any stripe.
Iconoclastic.
I will have to comment in group on that one.
@azzow2 I enjoy contradicting established religious beliefs. Sounds good, what group were you referring to? I had sent you another message by the way.
@SpikeTalon I will look at it on the computer later
@SpikeTalon sleep has not been my friend the last few days.
@azzow2 That's not good. I don't sleep as well as I used to either, been that way for a few years now, alot on my mind at times.
"Anthropophagi" means eaters of human flesh; cannibals. Dictionary.com.
Just leaned a new word, "anodyne," by reading Time magazine. It means:
anything that relieves distress or pain; or
a medicine that relieves distress or pain.
I'm gonna take a guess before I look it up... A viral infection that comes from humans..? ??
No, it, however, is an ancient practice some of the tribes did it to their enemies and the old.
@azzow2 Ah... Alas, I'm a vegetarian.