Cool words

[Anonymous No.16624520]

Can we have a comfy thread about cool/rare/interesting/funny English words?

I'll start: "ostrobogulous" and "scintillescent." The latter is the longest English word where every letter that appears in it appears exactly twice.

[Anonymous No.16624533]

Smooth is a good word.

[Anonymous No.16624536]

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[Anonymous No.16624542]

henid ('h?nid) Philos. [ad. G. henide, coined by Weininger on the basis of Gr. ??- one; cf. HENISM.] In the philosophy of Otto Weininger (1880-1903): see quots. Hence henidical a.
1906 tr. O. Weininger's Sex & Character II. iii. 99, I propose for psychical data at this earliest stage of their existence the word Henid (from the Greek ??, because in them it is impossible to distinguish perception and sensation as two analytically seperable factors, and because, therefore, there is no trace of duality in them)... The very of a henid forbids its description; it is merely a something. 1909 J. London Martin Eden xxxvii. 322 By some henidical process - henidical, by the way, is a favourite word of mine which nobody understands - by some henidical process you persuade yourself that you believe in the competitive system and the survival of the strong. 1914 --- Let. 10 Sept. (1966) 428 The word henid was coined by a crazy German philosopher... all persons possess henids. 1915 --- Jacket xiv. 160 'I'll - ' he began explosively, proving , by his inability to conclude the remark , that he thought in henids. 1946 D. ABRAHAMSEN Mind & Death of a Genius 112 Weininger introduces a special name for the psychological data at the earliest stage before clarification has begun. He calls the vague perception the henid. Ibid. 113 According to Weininger, the henid is the form of perception known to the lower types of organism. In mankind development from the henid to the completely differentiated form of perception and idea is possible.

[Anonymous No.16624622]

"Weird" is a very common word today, but it has an interesting history. It derives from the Old English word "wyrd," meaning "fate." The word died out in Modern English, but it survived in Scots. Shakespeare used it for the Weird Sisters in Macbeth, but because the audience by and large didn't know the word's meaning, they assumed it meant "strange," and thus its current use was born.

[Anonymous No.16624675]

>>16624542
>>16624622
nice

[Anonymous No.16625098]

Cellar door.

[Anonymous No.16625332]

“Halcyon” comes from the Latin word for kingfisher. In the Middle Ages the kingfisher supposedly calmed the seas when they hatched their eggs, so fishermen called that period of time “halcyon days.”

[Anonymous No.16625344]

>>16625098
Stfu faggot

[Anonymous No.16625669]

>>16624622
That explains the d&d monster by that name. Interesting