English: "wug". I love how it means nothing, and it's used because of that, so you can test how children generate grammatical forms without their previous knowledge influencing it:
Portuguese: "traquitana". Dictionary says it is (was) used for a type of horse carriage, but I've always heard it being used for either 1) that old motorcar falling into pieces, or 2) cheap, small things for sale. It sounds funny.
Italian: "zuzzurellone". It's basically "manchild" but not in an insulting way. Ditto, it also sounds funny.
Interestingly enough I remember reading somewhere that, if the test is made with German-speaking children, they automatically pluralise "der Wug" /vu:k/ as "die Wüge" /vy:gə/. And English does show some umlaut words, so… "one wug, two weg" doesn't sound that weird!
I actually use 4 of these regularly in my work as a rigger.
Cattywampus (catty) is actually a term of art. When you need to hang something between two beams, you connect a peice of steel to each beam and then bring them together where they dangle, making a bridle, to get the point in space where you want your thing to hang. It becomes cattywampus (catty) when your bridal legs arent perpendicular to the beams you are hanging them from - typically because you need to dodge obstacles in the way.
The others I use myself and am trying to get to catch on
A kerfuffle (kerfuff) is a messy or complicated problem that probably takes longer than you want to solve. For example, if you drop your rope in but it gets tangled in a bridal 20' below the beams, it's a kerfuffle, and your rope is kerfuffed
Shenanigans (shenan) unconventional, creative, and often somewhat unkosher or uncomfortable things you do to solve problems - often how you solve a kerfuffle. If you are straight pulling a motor chain, but then run out of chain right at the top and then tie a foot loop on the rope so you can step off the beam, pull the motor itself into the air, and make the point while you balance/dangle from the foot loop, then that is some shenan.
Bamboozled is when you spend a bunch of time and effort doing something, only to be told that someone else was wrong about something and you need to re-do all your work.
I use some of these sometimes. My favorites are discombobulated (because of the meme) and lollygagging (idk, it just sounds funny and I know it best from a line of guard dialog in Skyrim and I use that same tone of voice with my dog when she's sniffing one spot for too long).
I just showed this list to my Asian wife and she described it as "white people deep magics" 😂
It's my attempt at describing the 1,000 hobbies that encompass amateur radio, it's called "Foundations of Amateur Radio" and (including a rename four years in) it's been going for over 15 years. Episodes are on average about five minutes and as I said, published weekly at 01:00 UTC on Saturday morning.
It comes as audio, text, email, YouTube and is included in several other podcasts, news broadcasts and magazines. You can find it in pretty much every podcast directory and to ensure that it outlives me, it's archived on the Internet Archive.
Lollygagger's Bubkus Discombobulation Syndrome (or LBDS) is a serious illness affecting men over 30. If you're reading this and remember LMFAO at the height of their popularity, get tested today.
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Yeah. The future is now apparently
TIL my entire adulthood has been one long latibulation...
I actually started using this word after that post spread around a few months ago.
Pumpernickel, codswallop, hornswoggle, gobbledegook, flummoxed, collywobbles.
Fun fact, pumpernickel means "goblin fart." https://www.etymonline.com/word/pumpernickel
Perfectly fitting name IMO
Cromulent even.
Oh they are beauties
Indubitably.
Pumpernickel? I 'ardly know 'er!
Widdershins
A perfectly cromulent list
It embiggens even the smallest man
Kumquat
Diddly-squat
Paraphernalia is another good one
English: "wug". I love how it means nothing, and it's used because of that, so you can test how children generate grammatical forms without their previous knowledge influencing it:
Portuguese: "traquitana". Dictionary says it is (was) used for a type of horse carriage, but I've always heard it being used for either 1) that old motorcar falling into pieces, or 2) cheap, small things for sale. It sounds funny.
Italian: "zuzzurellone". It's basically "manchild" but not in an insulting way. Ditto, it also sounds funny.
i've got the whole test somewhere. it's gorgeous. also a wug is light blue, almost cyan
spower loves his tea
it’s obviously “weg”, ez test
(Love your examples, never heard the other two!)
Interestingly enough I remember reading somewhere that, if the test is made with German-speaking children, they automatically pluralise "der Wug" /vu:k/ as "die Wüge" /vy:gə/. And English does show some umlaut words, so… "one wug, two weg" doesn't sound that weird!
Ahhh the only other language I speak (very poorly at this point) is Deutsch, so that totally scans!
I'm going to start referring to my car as my traquitana and see if there's any reaction ...
Skullduggery
Chicanery!
He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
does "scram" qualify? its one of my favorites. i really hope someone uses it for me one day. I'd be overjoyed
"Now, scram!"
and I'd be giddy like 😊😊 heheheee.
defenestration
doohickey
thingamajig
gizmo
gadget
Kajigger
Watchamacallit
bubkus
mollycoddle
kibosh
pizzazz
pusillanimous
Oooh! Razamataz!
Discombobulate
Oh that's a beauty
The Power of Discombobulation
I actually use 4 of these regularly in my work as a rigger.
Cattywampus (catty) is actually a term of art. When you need to hang something between two beams, you connect a peice of steel to each beam and then bring them together where they dangle, making a bridle, to get the point in space where you want your thing to hang. It becomes cattywampus (catty) when your bridal legs arent perpendicular to the beams you are hanging them from - typically because you need to dodge obstacles in the way.
The others I use myself and am trying to get to catch on
A kerfuffle (kerfuff) is a messy or complicated problem that probably takes longer than you want to solve. For example, if you drop your rope in but it gets tangled in a bridal 20' below the beams, it's a kerfuffle, and your rope is kerfuffed
Shenanigans (shenan) unconventional, creative, and often somewhat unkosher or uncomfortable things you do to solve problems - often how you solve a kerfuffle. If you are straight pulling a motor chain, but then run out of chain right at the top and then tie a foot loop on the rope so you can step off the beam, pull the motor itself into the air, and make the point while you balance/dangle from the foot loop, then that is some shenan.
Bamboozled is when you spend a bunch of time and effort doing something, only to be told that someone else was wrong about something and you need to re-do all your work.
All this hullabaloo and they forget the best one?!
obstreperous
my friends and I used to deliberately use it incorrectly as a synonym for recalcitrant
"Stop being so obstreperous!"
https://literature.cafe/comment/20360081
I just read that
I dropped recalcitrant to the IT guy about the printer/copier/mental torture device at work and he legitimately smiled.
Made my day!
May I suggest "obdurate"?
Flummoxed.
I prefer flabbergasted myself. Been feeling it a lot since 2016.
Hifalutin
Juxtaposition
I used "kerfuffle" at a meeting at work the other week and it's gotten to be quite popular.
Oh Raymond.
Sounds like you raised one.
Loquacious
I like hippopotamus
Hip. Hip-hop. Hipopop. You give him all the easy ones!!
Rapscallion
Ferroequinologist: one who studies trains
"Iron Horse Wise Man"
brilliant.
Did you learn that term from Ologies like I did?
Alie Ward is the bee's knees and so are all the passionate smart people she asks (not actually) stupid questions 🥰
I think I found it on a random internet list, but thanks for the link. Now I know many more ology words...
Oh now that's a word
My gasts have been flabbered
It's been far too long since my lolly was last gagged.
🥵
Minutia
Copacetic
Lugubrious
Cloaca
Wazoo
Higgledy piggledy
Preposterous!
Inconceivable!
I'm positively miffed!
I use most of these words regularly. They’re so much fun to say.
At least one of those probably has racist origins
Scallywags
Gobbledygook
I use some of these sometimes. My favorites are discombobulated (because of the meme) and lollygagging (idk, it just sounds funny and I know it best from a line of guard dialog in Skyrim and I use that same tone of voice with my dog when she's sniffing one spot for too long).
I just showed this list to my Asian wife and she described it as "white people deep magics" 😂
I mean, Discombobulate is a counter spell in magic as well.
Blubber blubber blubber blubber
Macadamia!
"Caribou nibbling at the croquet hoops""
Swash-buckling
Bumfuzzled
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumfuzzled
I enjoy molybdenum personally
Shitweasel, Fucktangular and Fuckwit are some personal favorites
shitass is my current favorite
Wingnut is a good option if children are present.
Numbskull
hornswogglin' scallywags!
Scoundrels of the highest order!
Pretty sure I've used most of those in my weekly podcast about amateur radio. I'm going to make it my mission to use them all!
Tell me more about this podcast...
It's my attempt at describing the 1,000 hobbies that encompass amateur radio, it's called "Foundations of Amateur Radio" and (including a rename four years in) it's been going for over 15 years. Episodes are on average about five minutes and as I said, published weekly at 01:00 UTC on Saturday morning.
It comes as audio, text, email, YouTube and is included in several other podcasts, news broadcasts and magazines. You can find it in pretty much every podcast directory and to ensure that it outlives me, it's archived on the Internet Archive.
It's a lot of work, but I love making it.
Thanks for asking.
My podcast home page is here: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/
That sounds nice, subscribed!
Btw, all the subscribe links on your site do a weird google.com redirect before going to the actual URL. Why is that?
Nice!
As for the redirect, it's a "feature" imposed by Google sites. I have no control over it unfortunately.
I get it'd be a bit of work, but if you ever have the time, I'd ditch Google Sites. Don't need to give them more control than they already have.
Very cool, I'll be checking that out! Thanks!!
73 de AF4V
Pneumonoultrammicroscopicsilacovolcanaconiosis
Gobsmacked
Rescinded
Shenanigan
Higgledy-piggledy
Doomahockey is another words for thingamajig
I use all of these, daily.
Am...am I old?
If you're feeling discombobulated by these shenanigans, then perhaps it's time to skedaddle?
Polywog
Dirigibilivious: comparable to a dirigible, usually size, but could also be hot air, or a big gasbag.
If your waistline is high enough these words automatically enter into your vocabulary.
Oh. Cattywampus means cockeyed.
Cunctator.
Castrametation.
Cattywampus!
Of that list, anyway. It sounds awesome, and it relates to a very interesting thing https://appalachianhistorian.org/the-wampus-cat-of-appalachia-catawampus-critters-cherokee-masks-and-mountain-memory/
Malarkey reminds me of maclunckey
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/maclunkey
Pussyfoot!
There be some good ones here - dictionary of obscure sorrows
https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
Squeehaw'd, generally applicable in the same situations as cattywampus
Sounds like an episode of Black Adder.
Thabks, I learned 3 new words.
This post made me go brouhaha
In Britain, those would all be very serious names for diseases or some shit.
Lollygagger's Bubkus Discombobulation Syndrome (or LBDS) is a serious illness affecting men over 30. If you're reading this and remember LMFAO at the height of their popularity, get tested today.
Higglypiggly Cromulent
Oh they're like music to my ears
Kurdupiel
I can't believe Schemozzle isn't there
Hassenfeffer incorporated
Quiproquo
I believe most of these came from the same period of American history
Brouhaha
Contrafibularities and pericombobulation
"Trousers" as an expletive. "Oh trousers! I've stubbed my toe!" (Not my idea, Jay Foreman from YT)
I've always been partial to catterwalling myself
All great except for malarkey
Can’t enjoy that one the same way after the previous president abused it to be cute