Mumpsimus

I’ve just a minute ago seen somebody say fizog (fizzog, phisog, not sure how you spell it) on another thread - a lovely word, I haven’t heard it for many years until then.

Oh, I thought it was an alternative name for mumps!

Fizzog - haven't heard that for quite a while.

Casdon thank you for the reminder. My late husband always referred to his phizog.

Curmudgeonly, which perfectly describes me at times.

Oh yeah, Dad used to say phizz or phizog as in ‘ he put his ugly phizz round the door and said…’

Mumpsimus is an excellent word😂 sounds Roman.

I rather like "copacetic" (hard first & last c, short vowels and hissing middle c) meaning good, fine, splendid.
"Hi, how are you?"
"Oh, everything is copacetic."
I think it may have originated in America but have never found out exactly how.

My granddaughter, when little, loved the song which went ‘there’s a tiny house, by a tiny stream’. One of the words in the song was ‘unexpectedly’ but she couldn’t manage that. To this day, 20 years later, the whole family says ‘unexpeckedleak’!

NonGrannyMoll

I rather like "copacetic" (hard first & last c, short vowels and hissing middle c) meaning good, fine, splendid.
"Hi, how are you?"
"Oh, everything is copacetic."
I think it may have originated in America but have never found out exactly how.

Never heard that one! I rather like it but would never use it as I think most people would, like me, not know what it means! Or is it just me who’s ignorant??

There are two old English words that I think should make a comeback.
I like ibobbed meaning insulted. "Well, I've never been so ibobbed in all my life."
Afterblismed meaning pregnant. It's a lovely word.

Fizzog used to be used a lot when I was young (many years ago) as a slang word for face. The term must be related to physiognomy. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physiognomy

Crossstitchfan

My granddaughter, when little, loved the song which went ‘there’s a tiny house, by a tiny stream’. One of the words in the song was ‘unexpectedly’ but she couldn’t manage that. To this day, 20 years later, the whole family says ‘unexpeckedleak’!

"In Gillygillyossenfefferkatzenellenbogenbythesee-ee-ee-ee-ee"

Crossstitchfan

My granddaughter, when little, loved the song which went ‘there’s a tiny house, by a tiny stream’. One of the words in the song was ‘unexpectedly’ but she couldn’t manage that. To this day, 20 years later, the whole family says ‘unexpeckedleak’!

In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea! 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

And the last I heard, they still lived happily . . .

mumpsimus, - or as DH says 'They have made up their mind. Do not confuse them with facts.'

I’ve always liked the word shenanigans.

Just finished my evening hot chocolate, sipped from my mug emblazoned with the word, 'Fopdoodle'.
"A person who constantly makes poor choices."

Elegran

And the last I heard, they still lived happily . . .

😁
In .... 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵

I recently discovered Librocubicularist - a person who reads in bed

That’s me!

I always use the word titfer for a hat and the young people think I m off my rocker and round here you say something is on the ‘huh’ if isn’t straight
I Iike phizog too

Gosh Grannybags, I never knew I was one of those...... every night. 😁

Grannybags

I recently discovered Librocubicularist - a person who reads in bed

That’s me!

That's me too.

In fact, I'm off to do a bit of Librocubicularism!

Then here is a gazunder (because it goes under the bed for you to use at night, instead of trailing out across the backyard to the privy)

Misog....my mum used this about my dad.

I thought it maybe meant a miserable fizzog.

But just realised probably shortened from misogynist.
But realused as I got older it could be

Elegran

Then here is a gazunder (because it goes under the bed for you to use at night, instead of trailing out across the backyard to the privy)

I have a gazunder but it's on a shelf and sometimes has a pot plant in it. 😀