Good words

[Retinend]

I just learned what histrionic means and it's much underused as an insult or description of acting. What other good ones are there?

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Hornswoggle.

[Dead kate moss]

Nincompoopery.

[Absorb the anus burn]

Shilly-shallying.

Rapscallion.

Curmudgeon.

Picturesque.

Shitehawk (really bad Hawkwind tribute act)

[Smeraldina Rima]

Ostiary. This is the lowest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church.

Major orders: Bishop, Priest, Deacon, Subdeacon
Minor orders: Acolyte, Exorcist, Lector, Ostiary

Once a holy student has had his tonsure, he first becomes an ostiary, who is in charge of opening and closing the church door. With the added responsibility of refusing the Blessed Sacrament to the unbaptised, this is an early forerunner of our secular bouncer, who only has to deal with admission of the over seventeens. Spare a thought for the ostiary: 'If your name's not down, you're not having paedocommunion, now more commonly known as the infant eucharist'.

[Calistan]

Galoot.

Gallivant.

Dilly-dallying.

Chazwozza.

[Default to the negative]

^Galoot is a good one.

Concupiscent.

Coitus interruptus.

Changeling.

Saphead.

[morgs]

Garrulous

adj.
1. Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative eg many Verbwhores
2. Wordy and rambling: a garrulous speech.

Loquacious means the same.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Duvet

Macilent

Bottom

[the midnight watch baboon]

'Ingredients', which means 'pretty Englishman'.

[BlodwynPig]

Duvet

Macilent

Bottom

Snuggle

[Doomy Dwyer]

Lambent.

Tufts.

Dissipate.

Lugubrious.

Parvenu.

Squelch.

[alan nagsworth]

Pudding has to be my favourite word of all time. It sounds so plump and sickly, squat right in the middle of a dish, gelatinous and wobbling. Say it. Say it now and tell me your mind doesn't instantly think "no, man. It's too early for that sort of food. Now I feel sick."

[the midnight watch baboon]

Quip

Oaken

Aberrant

Wristy

Bumptious

Bundled

[Jim_MacLaine]

Tribbing

Sounds like the name of a gentle pastime[nb]and kind of is[/nb].

[Neville Chamberlain]

Crytoscopophilia

Meconium

[alan nagsworth]

Crypt. It sounds like cracking open something old and dusty, like a brittle wooden tomb, or a long-decomposed ribcage covered in cobwebs. It's a creepy word. It feels spindly and ornate, there's dust in my lungs just saying it.

[mook]

balderdash.

escutcheon.

roll mop.

badinage.

gable.

cantilever.

velouté.

[biggytitbo]

buffoon

cunninlingus

rombus


pimhole

[the midnight watch baboon]

Jodhpur.

Shack.

Oil.

Apothecary

I like how this is called Good words, excellent underwhelming use!

[the midnight watch baboon]

Clatter

Midwifery - haha, they whiff!

[Serge]

'Discrepancy' is one I try and slip into as many conversations as possible.

[Absorb the anus burn]

Ombudsman.

Filibuster.

Animal-husbandry.

[mook]

junta.

quango.

aquiline.

gobshite.

radge.

[petula dusty]

pumpkin

clack

bobble

litigious

[mook]

mellifluous

ephemera

terpsichore

spot of grumble

[Doomy Dwyer]

Pinguidity.

Maladroit.

Oubliette.

Scintillant.

Gibble-gabble.

[mook]

obligata

scintilla

headcheese.

[Lee Van Cleef]

Verisimilitude, now that's a word (I think).

[Don_Preston]

Bacchanal

Devizes

Skellington