lmfao

Knacker - One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.

That’s a weird one

Where did you come across this

Yea I had to edit it quick the irony was too much

Bro never heard flummoxed before

Pompously

Words I've looked up or highlighted in the past month or two

Fillip
Verb
Stimulate, project quickly, to make a filling motion with "filliped him on the nose" "fillip crumbs off the table" "with this fillip to his spirits"

Imprimatur
Noun
Sanction, approval, a license to print or publish (especially by Roman Catholic episcopal authority)

Peregrinate
Verb
To travel especially on foot, walk

Baobab
Noun
A broad trunked tropical tree

Amortize
Verb
To pay off gradually, to gradually reduce

Apposite
Adjective
Highly pertinent or appropriate

Catafalque
Noun
An ornamental structure sometimes used in funeral for the lying in state of the body

Eidetic
Adjective
Marked by or involving extraordinary accurate and vivid recall especially of visual images

Flinders
Noun
Splinters, fragments

Hangdog
Adjective
Sad, dejected

Ballyhoo
Noun/Verb
Flamboyant, exaggerated, attention getting

Hegira
Noun
A journey especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation

Opprobrium
Noun
Public disgrace, contempt, reproach

Oubliette
Noun
A dungeon with an opening at the top

Recidivist
Noun
One who relapses (specifically a habitual criminal)

Somnolence
Noun
The quality or state of being sleepy

I been learning español so too many

hard

It was linked to a definition of carnifex, which is a term for an executioner

This linguistic rabbit hole just keep going

Where did you run into carnifex??

I was reading the wikipedia summary of a Gene Wolfe novel, not really into high fantasy but apparently he’s known for a Nabokovian fixation with outdated thousand dollar words - carnifex was a hyperlinked example

wensday

zigzorg

zoinky

sploinky

doohickey

brainsk

i’m hangdog

Vitiate (verb)
1. to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.

2. to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.

Vitrify (verb)
convert (something) into glass or a glasslike substance, typically by exposure to heat.

Idk but I’ve said a word yesterday I haven’t said in years I just forgot what it was

im not allowed to say it

Darth Vitiate

Concupiscence
Inclined to sin

This is a pulchritudinously effervescent ass thread

I read a little Gene Wolfe. Maybe the indexes are better

I really liked this sentence. Three great words in it

The jehu flicks his persuader and they are off, careening pellmell through the labyrinthine passages of Greenwich Village

Locomotive