"commiserating" from "all the small things"
― teledyldonix, Saturday, 28 April 2012 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Parthenogenesis.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Council Tenancy.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
'Verisimilitude' from the song of that name by Teenage Fanclub.
'Intuition' from the song of that name by Linx (I was ten).
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cobblestones - "Feelin' Groovy"Eclectic - The Cars, "Hello Again"Skate Key - "Happiness" (from You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown)Genuflect - "The Vatican Rag" (Tom Lehrer)IMF - "Call It Democracy" (Bruce Cockburn)
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think I probably got 'verisimilitude' from Teenage Fanclub, too.
Most of the examples I can think of are where foreign words or phrases have stuck in my head - 'verschwende deine jugend', etc...
― emil.y, Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pompatus !
― Lee626, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Eep Op Ork Ah-Ah.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mostly foreign words: "WACs" - Cheap Trick, "tenner" - Kate Bush, "nappies" - Squeeze
― poxen, Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
As a kid, I learned the word 'mongoloid' from the Devo song of the same name. I learned what it meant after I unwittingly sang the song around my mom's friend (who has a son with Down's Syndrome).
― O Aquaman (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 29 April 2012 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I learned "mendacious" from Deadsy's "She Likes Big Words." God bless son of Cher and his masturbatory love of vocabs.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Sunday, 29 April 2012 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Loads of these http://members.shaw.ca/brlexicon/lexftext.htm
― StanM, Sunday, 29 April 2012 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Heard "Free Man in Paris" in the car today--can't remember whether it registered when I was 13, but I'm positive that would have been the first time I ever encountered "unfettered" (probably "stoking," too).
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
'unrequited'
― Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Learned "agrophile" from Alice Cooper's "Dead Babies." Still not entirely sure what that word means; think it's another word for "drifter." Also learned "genocide" from the "Diamond Dogs" intro (which I initially heard as "jazz time.")
― henry s, Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:44 (1 year ago) Permalink