Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

[THX1138]

Wardcorn: Payment of corn in place of military service.
AND
Ward-Corn: The duty of keeping watch and ward, with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise.

There seems to be more than one meaning of this word, depending on the time period and use.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Decuman: The largest in a series; the tenth wave in a series of waves, thought to be the largest.

 

[THX1138]

Ullagone: Cry of lamentation; funeral lament.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is a condition where you have difficulty recognizing people's faces.

I picked this up from a bit in National Geographic. Never heard of such a thing. The author compared her affliction to trying to identify an individual bird in a giant horde of sand hill cranes.

 

[THX1138]

Good one @Alex The G and T!

I thought of your pre groomed self on this one.
Ulotrichous: Having woolly hair

 

[Pyan]

Crwth - a Welsh lyre played with a bow.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Eideteker: Someone who has an eidetic, or visually perfect, memory.

 

[Harpo]

Aha, found it. Too late now

https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/570237/page-11#post-2735320

 

[Harpo]

Quafftide: the time when one feels entitled to a drink.

I keep a Sir Edric file for one liners, and have added quite a few words, including the one above, having read them on Susie Dent's Twitter account.

Susie Dent’s word for today:

 

[Pyan]

Excellent, @Harpo.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Susie Dent’s word for today:

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Is her last name Dent because she is a pedant?

I'm a Bad Boy! And Proud!
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[Ursa major]

Is her last name Dent because she is a pedant?

Or is it because she's amaizing...?

 

[Pyan]

Rareminacious - a feeling of doom and dread about forthcoming events.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Rareminacious - a feeling of doom and dread about forthcoming events.

very apt.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Hypocorism. Pet name, or nickname.