Time to boost your vocabulary!

@ElwoodBlues I've got to work all these words into conversation some how :P

@JimboSaturn I give you a "pollexes up" for not stubbing your hallux!

@DrWatson Your approval makes me want to unfasten a agraffe to celebrate!

@4meAndyou I don't know, should you?!?!?!

@DrWatson Yes?!?!?! 🤣🤣🤣

@FreddieUK...
Tittle tittle tittle

@candycane I hope you're a person who feels entittled. 😂

@FreddieUK when it's cold they tittle out

@JimboSaturn I knew very few. And of those, some of them I would have only been able to get if I were given a multiple-choice test, rather than having to come up with the word on my own.

@DrWatson Yes I got tines, but aglet, I would only remember if I saw the word.

@Piper My mother used the word "tine" regularly, so I knew that one.

I had seen aglet and tittle before, but I probably would not have been able to recall them without a good deal of prodding.

@DrWatson The only reason I knew what "aglet" means, for certain, is because I recently did an online search about "too long shoelaces". 😃

@Piper Well , you know what they say: as soon as you learn a new word, you seem to hear people using it all the time!

@bijouxbroussard

In classical Latin, "vagitus" meant a crying or wailing. On the other hand, "vagina" meant "sheath". They might not be related at all, etymologically. I have never seen the latter word used, in ancient Roman sources, to refer to human anatomy. The Cassels Latin-English dictionary does not give an anatomical meaning either. That came later, apparently.


I actually had heard the term crapulence a long time ago. But that still leaves open the question of how "official" it is!

@JimboSaturn I decided to go to the Merriam-Webster website:

@DrWatson Vagitus sounds like post natal vaginal sound :P