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A place to learn real new, weird words, inspired by @xist

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nincompoop

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i knew that one! :smiley:
(might have been called it once or twice over the years) :joy:

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hobbledehoy

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Let me wish you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contrafibularities

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ok, i edited my original post now, thx @Fraggles

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You want words created by TV shows? From one of the best episodes or the IT Crowd I present tnetennba. In a sentence: Good morning that’s a nice tnetennba.

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Oh I’m sorry, I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even conpunctuos, but I think you’ll find it’s a real word, a great word, I’d even say iiiiiit’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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compunctuous :male_detective:

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Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya

(no, i didn’t make that up) :joy:

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“slubberdegullion” slubberdegullion - Wiktionary

(i just remembered this)
:joy:

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y, but are we including names?

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i don’t know, i just remembered a weird long name in australia(crazy aussies) from a comic strip or something, so looked it up, and felt like putting it in regardless :smile:

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well,

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you three and a half hours to pronounce correctly. Seriously. It’s the chemical name of Titin (or connectin), a giant protein “that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle.”

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floccinaucinihilipilification
“action or habit of estimating something as worthless.”

:rofl: oh lordy look what you’ve made me do, i’ll be looking up weird words for ages now :joy:

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:+1:
“you toss a gnome a word, -and he’ll throw you an entire (online)dictionary” :joy:

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The Methionyla-la-la part of that word reminds me of this la-la-la :rofl:

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I use this word too. People often mispronouce the Lack- part as Lax-