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[kalquessa]

Audience participation time!

I know we've done this before, but it's a good one, so here it is again:

Give me some words and/or phrases that you think should be in more common use for whatever reason.

Mine - aplomb, harridan, skulduggery (heh), and "very like a whale"

In other news: two weeks off from fencing + lots of no-parry drills = ow

Comments

[girlwslingshot]

Dilapidated

Anon

[sartorias]

coxcomb . . .balderdash! . . .humbug . . .and a whole host of out-of-fashion other slang.

[kalquessa]

Gotta love the old forsoothery vocab...there's nothing else like it!

[dessieoctavia]

Junoesque. Flummox. Squiffy. Yaffle.

[kalquessa]

Junoesque

Oooh...*makes note of shiny new word*

[ayoub]

Avid, Impetuous, Highfalutin' Maudlin', and Heinous (said in a southern accent)

[sisiphus]

Petulant!

[kalquessa]

"Thick as a whale omelet"

On one had: Cool!

On the other: wha?

[kalquessa]

Ah. So it's not really supposed to make perfect sense. Good, then I'm not missing anything, and can appreciate it for it's randomosity!