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Numbskull
Higgledy-piggledy
.Yeah. The future is now apparently
TIL my entire adulthood has been one long latibulation…
I actually started using this word after that post spread around a few months ago.
Pumpernickel, codswallop, hornswoggle, gobbledegook, flummoxed, collywobbles.
Fun fact, pumpernickel means “goblin fart.” https://www.etymonline.com/word/pumpernickel
Perfectly fitting name IMO
Cromulent even.
Oh they are beauties
Indubitably.
Pumpernickel? I 'ardly know 'er!
Widdershins
Kumquat
Diddly-squat
English: “wug”. I love how it means nothing, and it’s used because of that, so you can test how children generate grammatical forms without their previous knowledge influencing it:
Portuguese: “traquitana”. Dictionary says it is (was) used for a type of horse carriage, but I’ve always heard it being used for either 1) that old motorcar falling into pieces, or 2) cheap, small things for sale. It sounds funny.
Italian: “zuzzurellone”. It’s basically “manchild” but not in an insulting way. Ditto, it also sounds funny.
i’ve got the whole test somewhere. it’s gorgeous. also a wug is light blue, almost cyan
spower loves his teait’s obviously “weg”, ez test
(Love your examples, never heard the other two!)
Interestingly enough I remember reading somewhere that, if the test is made with German-speaking children, they automatically pluralise “der Wug” /vu:k/ as “die Wüge” /vy:gə/. And English does show some umlaut words, so… “one wug, two weg” doesn’t sound that weird!
Ahhh the only other language I speak (very poorly at this point) is Deutsch, so that totally scans!
I’m going to start referring to my car as my traquitana and see if there’s any reaction …
A perfectly cromulent list
It embiggens even the smallest man
Paraphernalia is another good one
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Chicanery!
He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
does “scram” qualify? its one of my favorites. i really hope someone uses it for me one day. I’d be overjoyed
“Now, scram!”
and I’d be giddy like 😊😊 heheheee.
Skullduggery
Oh that’s a beauty
The Power of Discombobulation
Flummoxed.
I prefer flabbergasted myself. Been feeling it a lot since 2016.
I actually use 4 of these regularly in my work as a rigger.
Cattywampus (catty) is actually a term of art. When you need to hang something between two beams, you connect a peice of steel to each beam and then bring them together where they dangle, making a bridle, to get the point in space where you want your thing to hang. It becomes cattywampus (catty) when your bridal legs arent perpendicular to the beams you are hanging them from - typically because you need to dodge obstacles in the way.
The others I use myself and am trying to get to catch on
A kerfuffle (kerfuff) is a messy or complicated problem that probably takes longer than you want to solve. For example, if you drop your rope in but it gets tangled in a bridal 20’ below the beams, it’s a kerfuffle, and your rope is kerfuffed
Shenanigans (shenan) unconventional, creative, and often somewhat unkosher or uncomfortable things you do to solve problems - often how you solve a kerfuffle. If you are straight pulling a motor chain, but then run out of chain right at the top and then tie a foot loop on the rope so you can step off the beam, pull the motor itself into the air, and make the point while you balance/dangle from the foot loop, then that is some shenan.
Bamboozled is when you spend a bunch of time and effort doing something, only to be told that someone else was wrong about something and you need to re-do all your work.
