I do hope at some point in history one TurboGrafx-16 fan innocently tried inviting someone to a round of Bonk and was met with grave indignation.
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Today I learned: Mary Roach bonks.
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I’ve personally never heard that usage, but it doesn’t feel so strange. Boink is so similar, and cleary means sex in my vernacular.
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bonkuality
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homologation
What does it mean though?
- how homosexuals locate each other
- something to do with organic chemistry or vehicle certification
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voters
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indexy
Came across it while reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula, could not find it in the dictionary however. Here’s the passage its from:
If that man had been an ordinary lunatic I would have taken my chance of trusting him; but he seems so mixed up with the Count in an indexy kind of way that I am afraid of doing anything wrong by helping his fads.
According to this forum exchange about the word it’s used as a way to depict Renfield as being a sort of “index” for Count Dracula, by reading into his actions you can learn about what the Count is up to.
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i’m reading the pevear and volokhonsky translation of crime and punishment for a class i’m taking, which has had some fun words in it:
timorous
fanfaronade
(and others i’ve forgotten, oops)
reading books for this class has reminded me that i enjoy reading when i do it, i just have to do it…
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kali yuga
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this is one of those words that means the opposite of what it sounds like to me. actually i think me @Bonsai and a few others had a conversation about those sorts of words not too long ago.
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it sounds akin to timidness, so it makes sense to me at least
maybe there are other words it sounds like that i don’t know, which would confuse me further
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oh yeah maybe tim- is the root there. idk to me it just “sounds” big and booming like timber or sonorous
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Does it sound like temerity for you?
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maybe some of that in there. reading over my last post i literally think my brain sees it as timber and sonorous combined lol
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How homosexuals logate each other.
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dumbwaiter
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gunshy
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exonym
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contemporaneous is a good word
and, according to merriam webster, some words contemporaneous to “contemporaneous” itself:
agnostic, anarchic,
narrate, legislate,
existential, resentful,
inapplicable, recreational,
oceanic, iconic,
dawdle, pathological,
misogamy, misogyny,
cacophony, complicity,
glacial, abysmal,
bloated, complicated,
dissidence, divergence,
unenvious, omnivorous,
validation, superposition,
epistolary, depository,
morbid, vapid,
decumbent, strident,
gastric, stomachic.
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