i have a few favorite words i fixate on every week

[minxnim]

it's a little past time of mine.
this week it's:

Mitts (ie, keep your mitts off my sandwich)
keester (because i don't even know what it is, i just know i need to get it to the office manager's desk quickly sometimes)
nefarious (because it sounds weird)

 

[avi]

the new word I learned this weekend:

bajs - svensk for poo-poo

 

[minxnim]

how do you pronounce that?

 

[minxnim]

omg i spelled it wrong!!!

keis·ter ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kstr)
n. Slang
The buttocks.
The anus.


WHO KNEW?

 

[avi]

beats me, ask zander. my swedish pronunciation is probably pretty bad since I have no one to bounce things off of besides poorly singing along with records I own.

 

[FuSoYa]

my current word is 'utilitarian'.

I don't even like it that much, but I keep fucking using it.

 

[xfer]

My heart told me my current word was "scrimshaw", but my mind told me I wouldn't be able to figure out how to work it into conversation more than once or twice. The eternal human conflict playing out in my own self.

 

[XzanderX]

keester is such a british word

 

[XzanderX]

bajs:
beyes, like add a b infront of eye and an s on the end. BAJS!

 

[minxnim]

Originally posted by xfer
My heart told me my current word was "scrimshaw", but my mind told me I wouldn't be able to figure out how to work it into conversation more than once or twice. The eternal human conflict playing out in my own self.

allow me to perhaps help:

"i would totally date that girl except i think her father would scrimshaw my face like a whalebone."

 

[xfer]

Not bad!

Do people outside the Northeast do scrimshaw, or is it just us?

 

[minxnim]

i think there is a japanese version of scrimshaw but i doubt they would call it that.

 

[xfer]

sclimshaw?

 

[XzanderX]

do you say a piece of scrimshaw (when taking about the art)?

 

[minxnim]

!!!!!

here's another use:

"man, i had such a bad flu last week i feel like my head has been scrimshawed". trust me, you'll use it eventually!

 

[XzanderX]

I'm thinking about getting me teeth scrimshawed....





is that a ok way to use the word?

 

[azal]

my favorite words are serbian one being "gnezda" which means nest...

it's just cool that they pronounce g and n sounds together where as we puss out and keep the g silent with stuff like gnu...

I also like 'Smirgla' pronounced SHMEERGLA which weans sand paperor one of those power tools that uses sand paper to sand shit down....

I like the SHM sound...I always wanted my name to be Shmendrick...it just sounds really funny...

like the magician in The Last Unicorn

"some magician.....you couldn't turn cream into cheese...you Shmendrick you...."

 

[The Dope]

The Red Bull is metal as fuck!

 

[avi]

german has lots of nice 'schm' words like schmutzig

 

[xfer]

ok, scrimshaw is either a verb or a noun, so yeah, you can say "a piece of scrimshaw" but you can also just say "some scrimshaw". Scrimshaw necessarily includes the component of whalebone or tooth, so if you refer to scrimshawing anything other than whalebone, you are speaking metaphorically.

since i--nay, everyone around me--seem to be suffering from a lack of whalebone in my life, i seem doomed to live without frequent scrimshaw usage.