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[Marietta Graziella]

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

The state of being able to achieve honours.

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William Shakespeare (in Love's Labour Lost)

Act 5, Scene 1:

I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon.

Can we get a phoenetic spelling on that one? 

[DeadBishop]

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Honorificabilitudinitatibus!
Even though the sound of it Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Honorificabilitudinitatibus!
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay........

[MissBubu]

Can we get a phoenetic spelling on that one? 

hawn or if ih ca bil ih too din ih tat ih bus

[MissBubu]

Incarnadine

[in-kahr-nuh-dahyn, -din, -deen]
–adjective 1. blood-red; crimson. 
2. flesh-colored; pale pink. 
–noun 3. an incarnadine color. 
–verb (used with object) 4. to make incarnadine. 


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[Origin: 1585–95; < MF, fem. of incarnadin flesh-colored < It incarnatino, equiv. to incarnat(o) made flesh (see incarnate) + -ino -ine1; see carnation]
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Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red".

[MissBubu]

Inglenook

[ing-guhl-nook] –noun

a corner or nook near a fireplace; chimney corner. 


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[Origin: 1765–75; ingle + nook]
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear: "Finally he lit his pipe, and sitting in the inglenook of the old village inn he talked slowly and at random about his case, rather as one who thinks aloud than as one who makes a considered statement".

[MissBubu]

Jocund

[jok-uhnd, joh-kuhnd]–adjective
cheerful; merry; gay; blithe; glad: a witty and jocund group. 


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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME jocound < LL jocundus, alter. of L j?cundus pleasant, equiv. to ju(v?re) to help, benefit, please, delight + -cundus adj. suffix]

—Related forms
joc·und·ly, adverb


—Synonyms joyous, joyful, blithesome, jolly. See jovial.
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Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet: "Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops".

[MissBubu]

Killick

[kil-ik] –noun
1. a small anchor or weight for mooring a boat, sometimes consisting of a stone secured by pieces of wood. 
2. any anchor. 

Also called killock.


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[Origin: 1620–30; orig. uncert.]
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The fishermen dropped their killick in a small bay rumored to be rife with fish.

[MissBubu]

Lexiphanic

(l[e^]ks`[i^]*f[a^]n"[i^]k)

Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

I suppose, as the main contributor to this thread, that I could at times be considered lexiphanic.

[MissBubu]

liripipe

[lir-ee-pahyp] –noun
1. a hood with a long, hanging peak, worn originally by medieval academics and later adopted for general wear in the 14th and 15th centuries. 
2. a long strip or tail of fabric hanging from a garment or headdress, esp. the peak of this hood or a streamer on a chaperon; tippet. 


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[Origin: 1540–50; < ML liripipium, of obscure orig.]
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His liripipe was so long it tripped him as he walked.

[MissBubu]

Macaronic

[mak-uh-ron-ik] 
–adjective 1. composed of or characterized by Latin words mixed with vernacular words or non-Latin words given Latin endings. 
2. composed of a mixture of languages. 
3. mixed; jumbled. 
–noun 4. macaronics, macaronic language. 
5. a macaronic verse or other piece of writing. 


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[Origin: 1605–15; < ML macar?nicus < dial. It maccarone macaroni + L -icus -ic]

—Related forms
mac·a·ron·i·cal·ly, adverb
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I've noticed that most "foreigners" at faires tend to speak in macaronic sentences, throwing in made up words.

[MissBubu]

Machicolation

[muh-chik-uh-ley-shuhn]–noun Architecture.
1. an opening in the floor between the corbels of a projecting gallery or parapet, as on a wall or in the vault of a passage, through which missiles, molten lead, etc., might be cast upon an enemy beneath. 
2. a projecting gallery or parapet with such openings. 


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[Origin: 1780–90; machicolate + -ion]
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The chemotherapy to fight my cancer was like dropping boiling oil on the enemy from the machicolations.

[MissBubu]

Macilent

[mas"i*lent] -
Lean, shrivelled, or excessively thin.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

"A reviewer of Britney Spears's album In the Zone in 2003 described it as 'Britney's most personal statement. Because it's as lost and macilent and alluring and eager to please and disturbingly empty-eyed as she is.' "

[renren]

hahaha!
That's Britney, allright!

[MissBubu]

Makebate

[meyk-beyt] –noun Archaic.

a person who causes contention or discord. 

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[Origin: 1520–30; make1 + bate contention, discord (ME, deriv. of baten to fight, strive; see bate2)]
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Sir Walter Scott in The Abbot (1820): "Elsewhere he may be an useful and profitable member of the commonweal — here he is but a makebate, and a stumbling-block of offence."

[MissBubu]

Malapert

[mal-uh-purt]
-adjectective 1. unbecomingly bold or saucy. 
–noun 2. a malapert person. 


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[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME: insolent < MF: unskillful. See mal-, pert]

—Related forms
mal·a·pert·ly, adverb
mal·a·pert·ness, noun
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"Caxton's Book of Curtesye of about 1477-78. In modern form, the line would be 'Don't play Jack Malapert, that is, don't be presumptuous'."