Word of the Day

[Lord Snow]

I was watching Walking Dead season 2 and one of the characters used a word that I hadn't heard before. Anyone recently run across odd words that aren't normally used?

ca·thar·sis
kəˈTHärsis/
noun
noun: catharsis; plural noun: catharses

1.
the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

[Lilith]

There is this phrase I don't hear used enough-







































Yes ma'am, may I have another?



or


Yes, your majesty :p

[Lord Snow]

Not quite what I meant Oh Mistress.

[Oldfart]

It's usually used as "I found the experience cathartic".

[Lilith]

Right. Like this "A beating from Lilith proved to be very cathartic" or " I found a beating from Lilith to be a catharsis." :D

[Oldfart]

Exactly! I could travel from the antarctic to the arctic and find nothing so cathartic.

[dicksbro]

:faint:

[BIBI]

An encounter with a "strumpet" can be viewed as being cathartic.


Love the word strumpet. My old granny used to use it.



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[gekkogecko]

Ah, but you left out "Tart", "Lady of the Evening", "Escort", numerous others.

[Oldfart]

Lubricitous. I'm stuck on lubricitous. It's another word like clitoris which just rolls off the tongue.

[dicksbro]

mayhap

ˈmeɪˌhæp

adv
an archaic word for perhaps

[WildIrish]

I notice that nobody I speak to uses "ascertain" or "discern". I'm the only nerd in the conversations, apparently. lol

And the other day, I heard someone use a word only used previously by Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter.....jocularity.

[gekkogecko]

No, that was Father Mulcahy, when he got drunk at a "bachelor" party.

[WildIrish]

Oooooh...I stand erected! Good catch.