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elderorb

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nasher168 said:
Not entirely sure if this fits in... but it's mildly amusing and might make you chuckle a little inside.
Moronic Acid -a carbon based compound (C30H46O3) also called 3-oxoolean-18-en-28-oic acid.

Arsole -C4H5As also referred to as arsacyclopentadiene
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Moronic acid is awesome, but I am sad because I can't find any Dutch sources using it, making me unable to use it often...

And for more fun witch chemicals:

Megaphone: a ketone derived from the root of Aniba megaphylla.

Traumatic acid: a substance occurring in plants, with a role in healing damaged tissue.
 
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Anachronous Rex

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Odious - deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.

Jejune -without interest or significance; dull; insipid; juvenile; immature; childish.

Vapid - without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious.

Odious, jejune, and vapid - Worldquest.
 
Prolescum

Prolescum

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Muliebrity: The female equivalent of virility, the quality of being womanly.

Mussitation: Murmuring, grumbling in a low voice without articulating words. The sort of sound young teenagers make.
 
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Lallapalalable

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Loquacious-talking or tending to talk much or frequently.
Concertation-cooperation, as among opposing factions, aimed at effecting a unified proposal or concerted action.
Cahoots-questionable collaboration, secret partnership (okay, maybe not that rare, but c'mon, it deserves more than it gets)
 
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nasher168

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Croggy
-The act of riding a bicycle standing up whilst another sits on the seat behind you holding on for dear life.
 
Prolescum

Prolescum

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I cannot believe it's been nearly a year since I posted on this thread...

Palimpsest - a manuscript whose original text has been treated to enable superimposition of a second layer (of writing).

When someone asks you to read their Battlestar Galactica fan fiction, you can say "I think I can see the the basis for a great palimpsest here".
 
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Memeticemetic

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A few words I use regularly in speech because I would hate to see them lost to antiquity:

lugubrious: Depressive or mournful, especially for an extended period or exaggerated for effect.

pulchritudinous: Physically appealing or beautiful

callipygian: Possessing shapely or appealing buttocks.
 
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Lallapalalable

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Please-Used to make a polite request.
Epic-Trivially impressive; usually associated with accidents and failure.

:lol: but srsly,

Frottage-A method of making a design by placing a piece of paper on top of an object and then rubbing over it, as with a pencil or charcoal.

Kakistocracy-A nation governed by the worst possible citizens (opposed to aristocrocy, which is governed by the best possible citizens).

Aegrotat-A medical certificate that a student is too ill to complete the course's required materials.
 
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RichardMNixon

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Just saw this today on facebook, seems mildly appropriate here: http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/20-awesomely-untranslatable-words-from-around-the-world/

Prozvonit may be unique as a word, but is more common among my European officemates than I'd care for.
 
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Yfelsung

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Ubiquitous - Existing everywhere, especially at the same time. Synonymous with Omnipresent. Personally used often when dealing with a particularly annoying person whom I refer to as "A ubiquitous fuck" so as to imply that the level of his fuckery is all encompassing and omnipresent.

Homunculus - Latin for "little man". Often personally used to describe someone as petty or insignificant.
 
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Prolescum

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Yfelsung said:
Ubiquitous - Existing everywhere, especially at the same time. Synonymous with Omnipresent. Personally used often when dealing with a particularly annoying person whom I refer to as "A ubiquitous fuck" so as to imply that the level of his fuckery is all encompassing and omnipresent.
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Neither rare nor obscure. Ubiquitous, you might say.
 
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Yfelsung

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Prolescum said:
Yfelsung said:
Ubiquitous - Existing everywhere, especially at the same time. Synonymous with Omnipresent. Personally used often when dealing with a particularly annoying person whom I refer to as "A ubiquitous fuck" so as to imply that the level of his fuckery is all encompassing and omnipresent.
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Neither rare nor obscure. Ubiquitous, you might say.
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I'm the only person I've ever seen use the word, personally.
 
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Yfelsung

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Prolescum said:
Yfelsung said:
I'm the only person I've ever seen use the word, personally.
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I do not believe you.
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Okay, don't believe me.

I first saw the word as it was a song on an Origin album, I looked up the meaning and every time I've ever used the word in speech I've had to explain what it means.

I've never met a person who knew what it meant without me explaining it first.

That would make it rare and obscure, at least in the area I live in.
 
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Welshidiot

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Yfelsung said:
I've never met a person who knew what it meant without me explaining it first.

That would make it rare and obscure, at least in the area I live in.
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Perhaps you need to hang out with a brighter crowd.
BTW homunculus isn't that rare either.
 
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