4/20/05 Weird Word of the Day...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

I'm sure many of you have seen this one before, but it's such a useful worthless word!

floccinaucinihilipilification

floksin awsi nyhil pilli fikay' shun

• noun the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.

— ORIGIN from Latin flocci, nauci, nihili, pili (words meaning ‘at little value’).


Now use it in a sentence:
After 8 years of monkey business, the American people were so disheartened by the floccinaucinihilipilification of the office of the Presidency, that they decided to outsource the positiom.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. Its the longest word in the english language!!!!

woohoo!
:woohoo:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Cheers!

:beer:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. mmm sounds good to me

:beer:

I learned the word from a bunch of my friends from london. It sounds even better in their accents.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. I would like to hear that!

:D

[eyepaddle]

6. I'm sure there's longer

how 'bout pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis?

This is a form of silicosis--a friend once busted this out, and then like two weeks later it was used in an episode of the Simpson's (the one where grampa shows Homer how to make the Simpson and Son revitalizing tonic aka aphrodisiac!)

I was floored by that coincidence!

:beer:

[bridgit]

3. her serendipitous floccinaucinihilipilification itself...

produced a flaccid conundrum.