Back when I was young, this English phrase referred to pool hustling skills. What does it refer to for the later generations, I wonder?

I remember my mum telling me about a word

it's the name for the small things in life that can make you happy. the things that'll distract you from the daily cycle of "wake up, eat, work, sleep." I forgot what the word was?? another example is "my dad's _____ is staying up playing video games while drinking"

i forgot the word, anyone know??

I love really fantastical adventure novels (Melissa Bashardoust is my favorite!!) and I want to make my business something that embodies that ethereal fairy kind of aesthetic (think gold and pearls), but also I want that adventure novel kind of aesthetic (amethyst and bronze and copper and darker colors)

Do you know what I mean? Like they have the same vibe, I just don't have words for it like ethereal+warrior princess 🤣

I make wire-wrapped jewelry!

What do you think of the dictionary of obscure sorrows? Any favorite words?

What feeling/ meaning would you want a word for?

Precipitevolissimevolmente (very hastily)

Heya there, I'm writing a novel and I was thinking of title ideas, I was wondering about possibly just using an especially cool word. It's a tragedy, between two childhood friends, I want the word to symbolize that while their relationship (and one of their lives) was short, it held great meaning and an impact. The same vibe as a word like 'ephemeral'.

Thanks for reading by blabbering, lol. :)

Not your mother tongue language‼️‼️

I've got two words that speak to me so far; Savor or Success.

Sweat, Swear, Savor

Sweat, Swear, Success

I also am considering the end words Strive, Sacrifice, Struggle, or Suffer, though those last three seem to trend to hard on the negative.

The idea is if Live, Laugh, Love is in the living room, kitchen, whatever, then Sweat, Swear, _ would be in the garage, shop, or wherever projects or work happen the most.

The phrase catch-22 is used a lot, but words like "conundrum" or "paradox" don't work sometimes. As nouns they speak to the phenomena of confusion around the event or situation. But often there is no confusion or paradox. We need a word to describe something that is both good and bad on its own.

For example: We have some good/bad news. The court case against your family was dropped, but now you have to pay the legal defense fees yourself.

The [good/bad] here could be a dedicated word that would aid when speaking. What does the community think of this need?

P.S.

Why need there be an exact word for this?

Because saying "good slash bad" or "good and bad" is awkward and also could give the wrong idea that I was communicating a belief that I think "my dad dying but leaving me money" is a good thing. It is not a good thing. It is not a bad thing. Its a superposition of both that is not neutral as opposing charges would suggest.

American society (I can only speak to my experience, maybe its a world-wide thing) suffering from app-brain has reached a point where nuance has to communicated as quickly as possible and as succinct as possible, or people will either get the wrong impression, misquote you, or simply never receive the nuance.

I am starting an LLC for my freelance interior design business and I am not a wordsmith at all! I want a word/phrase that embodies my belief in being true to oneself when it comes to how I design spaces and how I approach life. I just need help coming up with something that is catchy and intriguing!

I was thinking about the word canny today and it struck me that uncanny is not really a direct antonym, at least in their most common usages. I was wondering if there are other words that structurally seem like they should be antonyms (i.e., because one of the pair starts with in-, un-, dis-, etc.), but whose meanings have diverged.

Edit: The title should be "aren't antonyms"!

Hello fellow logophiles. I need a specific word or clever neologism to describe the feeling a musician gets when either they (1) are frustrated that it is so difficult to write an original tune/riff because everything has likely already been written by other musicians, or (2) have an unsettling epiphany that no tune/riff is original anymore.

This is just for the memes/jokes Just to clear any confusion i’m talking about words that you feel disgusted after but they are funny. I can think of one example,

The word: pusillanimous (not a graphic one but sounds funny)

Hi again, everybody.

Merriam-Webster's seems to suggest that "foundered," when used regarding a boat, means "to sink to the bottom of the sea" and that it is not used in the sense of "to struggle or go lame."

Is that correct?

If you use "founder" to describe a boat must it mean that it is no longer afloat at all?

Or can it mean that the boat is merely struggling--taking on water, etc?

Hi guys.

So I've got a question about "lighter"--the process of moving, say, oil from one tanker onto another tanker.

Should you say "lightered onto" another tanker or "lightered into?"

Okay so what is it called when someone has done something wrong and they begin to feel guilty so they then publically either joke about it or just say it out loud as a “what if” statement but people don’t know about what they have done yet.

Examples -

Louis CK - just before it was made public what he had done he played an inappropriate weather reporter. The character would expose himself and m*sturbate in the skit. Then it came out that he himself was actually doing that in real life

Chris D’ella - he literally got casted to play a pedophile Character like 1 year before it came out that he was an actual pedophile

I know there is like a specific word for when this happens and I for the life of me cannot remember it.

Thanks!

i know equinox or solstice wouldn’t fit here, what’s one word for the turning of the seasons regarding the climate?

I'm writing about a fictional medieval scholarly order, and one of their specializations is the writing of letters and legal documents as well as the practice of pigeonry, as sending letters is an important job for a scholar who is serving a lord. Scribery or scrivenry are the best I could think of (though I'm unsure if those are real words now...) but I feel like I'm just missing a word that more precisely describes the practice of writing. If there's already a word that encompasses managing both letters and the birds that carry them, that would also work

You call something from outside of your planet (generally earth), extraterrestrial. You call something from a different dimension, extradimensional. However, what would you call something from an entirely separate timeline? Originally I was going to extratemporal, but I'm pretty sure that would be describing a being that is outside of a timestream not one from a separate timestream.

When you hang around certain people you feel like you're top of the world and you can walk around with confidence. However it dosent require a commitment. Its just a feeling. But it does play a good role while making friends For example: She is just a (insert word) chaser, she wont be there at your lowest My(insert word) is not much as it used to be with her

It could also be a made-up word by you

If the word sapphic describes a woman to woman love. What is the opposite of this term?

Edit: Thank you all for your suggestions. And I don’t think I’ll be back to revisit this subreddit.🫠

I just discovered your subredit in an early morning gallivant through the net in a search for an opposite to "schadenfreude". I found lots of great stuff right here among you Word-Lovin' Redditeers! Downside...there goes yet another piece of my offline life. I wonder if I should use the word "lif" instead. Maybe "ife"?

Stuff like “You’re such a jerk” but laughing it off.

Hello guys! I noticed how a friend always says that she was on 'autopilot' when she does something without any thought.

This has made me wonder what words or phrases were used to convey this very feeling before autopilot was a thing? I'm not looking for words like 'habit' because it doesn't convey the state of your mind while doing a task, it tells that you did a task because you've always done so and not much about your own awareness of it.

Thank you :)

I recently fell in love with the word inamorata and am now eager to find more that have a similar meaning or can be used to call someone very dear by. They can be made up or a little eerie too.

Many thanks in advance! :))

(This is merely for my personal word collection)

I recently learned to my embarrassment that Euler uses a Houston style pronunciation, rather than the Greek style, as in Euclid. What other words tripped you up for the longest time?

Hey guys 👋🏼 I'm writing an essay and I can't find a word for someone who uses others as stepping stones to meet their goal. If there isn't one, do you know any idoms or phrases denoting the same? Thank you!

I was going through my library to throw away some outdated technical books and saw one that mentioned the "information superhighway" on the cover. I had to laugh because that term feels so dated now.

Anyway it made me curious: what are some words that you have witnessed rise into the popular lexicon only to dissappear entirely?