New Word for the Day

[Grandad]

I came across this one in a book of pictures.

PAREIDOLIA

We seem to have a word for everything......you just have to search for them.

[Horus]

Good word Grandad, I often suffer from that

[Grandad]

Good word Grandad, I often suffer from that

So do I H, especially when laying on a lounger on a summers day looking skywards.

[LovelyLadyLux]

OMG I actually have this! Grandad you've finally diagnosed me!

Interesting word. I'd never heard of it before.

[LovelyLadyLux]

FROSTAGE: NEW Canadian word that means being held hostage by cold weather!

[LovelyLadyLux]

IGANNATION - don't cheat looking up the meaning!

[Horus]

very cryptic LLL I thought it may have meant 'being bitten by an Iguana'
Like your FROSTAGE by the way

[LovelyLadyLux]

I personally like "Frostage." Don't know who thought it up but it is pertinent and a word I can easily remember.

[LovelyLadyLux]

FLUMMERY - and I really don't like it

[Horus]

But did you know that it is also a whipped up sweet pudding?

[Mad Dilys]

I thought I knew it, as a dessert only thank you Horus will look it up.

[LovelyLadyLux]

I didn't know Flummery as anything but - interesting - it is both a dessert AND empty emotions.

I sometimes wonder how words are assigned their meaning(s)? How one word OR really set of sounds comes to mean this while another set of sounds comes to mean something else.

[LovelyLadyLux]

Zabernism - misuse of military power, bullying

Never heard of this word before.

[Horus]

Seems like the world is full of Zabernists

[LovelyLadyLux]

Definitely these days the world seems full (although I suspect we were ALWAYS full of Zabernists 'cept we never heard about them immediately in graphic living colour daily!)

[LovelyLadyLux]

NESCIENCE - didn't have a clue what this word meant - NESCIENCE

[Horus]

Me too LLL

[Grandad]

I had to Google that one LLL. Apparently it means 'lack of knowledge or awareness: ignorance'

They were talking on Breakfast TV this morning about new words now officially in the Oxford English dictionary.
Words like 'twerk' and 'mint' and a latest one 'forsure' that I hear increasingly particularly among the sporting fraternity.

But one I really like is 'Affluenza' a social disease resulting from extreme materialism and excessive consumerism.

[LovelyLadyLux]

I like Affluenza too - will add that word to my own personal dictionary of words I use