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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    ABSQUATULATE

    To leave abruptly.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    BEHOOVE

    to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for


    Not an unfamiliar word, but It rolls nicely around the tongue.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I would say behove. I think behoove is an Americanism.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Me too @BenCotto but the American version would be more satisfying to say.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Adscititious

    Something that is extra but not essential.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    edited December 2022
    Some lovely words here. I must expand my vocabulary.

    One word that makes my blood boil, is
    UBIQUITOUS.
    The ability to be everywhere at once.

    I like
    MACHICOLATIONS.
    An opening through which arrows can be fired. (I have an interest in castles!!)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    MACHICOLATION sounds  like the making of designer coffee.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    edited December 2022
    I like local dialect words.

    In Norfolk we have Bishy barnabees.

    🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞 - ladybirds to everyone else
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    B3 said:
    MACHICOLATION sounds  like the making of designer coffee.
    What a great idea!!  :)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    BLOVIATION 
    is a style of empty, pompous, political speech that originated in     Ohio and was used by US President Warren G. Harding, who described it as "the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing".
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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