Word of the day2017-05-19T08:20:23+10:00

Welcome to our growing collection of obscure, yet useful, words of the day!

Commit these to memory to become the life of the party, while others gather around, swooning with delight at your witty, erudite banter.

Or perhaps use them to craft creative insults for your geeky friends… (It’s ok; this is a safe place!)

Word of the day: Paroemion

Definition: Excessive alliteration. Pestilential precipitation progressing—pub patronised. Present port prices persuade pissed people to pontificate patronisingly persistently. Paroemion prevails!

Word of the day: Apophenia

Definition: Perceiving patterns or connections in random or meaningless information. My toasted sandwich had Harry Potter’s face on it. And my salad looked a bit like Ron (must’ve been all that carrot). The waiter told me I [...]

Word of the day: Circumlocutory

Definition: Using many words where a few would do. Circumlocutory and repetitious forms of either communicating or conveying a message—verbal, written or otherwise—cause me to experience a dull pain in my cranium. As the case may [...]

Word of the day: Estivate

Definition: To travel somewhere warm in the winter. After global warming, no one will want to estivate. Winter may no longer be a thing.

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