Are you 'boondoggling'?? Or are you 'hypnopompic' ??!?

Question

London, July 24 : A British author has in a book revealed about words used through history to define hard-to-describe body parts and their functions.
Adam Jacot de Boinod, an ex researcher for TV panel game QI, wrote the book 'I Never Knew There Was A Word For That', which has been published by Penguin and costs 12.99 pounds, after discovering the words.

Boinod discovered that a person who collects teddy bears is known as an 'arctophile', and that the act of pretending to be busy is termed as 'boondoggling',

'Crepitation' is said to describe the crackling of a wood fire, while 'hypnopompic' describes the fuzzy state between being asleep and awake, and 'desiderium' is the yearning for a thing one has lost.

If one is not able to recognise familiar faces 'prosopagnosia' is the word to use, and if a person is thinking about death then it is 'thanatopsis'.

Want to make money by any means possible? Then the word 'quomodocunquize' describes it best...
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Answer 1

its nice to know i have a name, arctophile, it has a ring to it.



this is a word i just love, new to me, but wonderful and its

onomatopœia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make") (adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar". Onomatopoeias are not universally the same across all languages; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of; hence the sound of a clock may be tick tock in English, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese.



i have yet to be able to casually throw it into a conversation but its a tongue twister all right.



LB oh ho, wait till one of them complains.

Answer 2

No, I'm boondoggling on Yahoo Answers. Boondoggling is accepted by the Yahoo dictionary.

Answer 3

Boondoggling now that could be applied to town hall staff and most of OFSTED.

Answer 4

Whilst articulating ones esoteric cogitations one should beware of platitudinous ponderosity.



Edit;You may find this of interest and quite amusing.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/caitlinmoran/article2587583.ece

Answer 5

In an attempt at spontanaity I'll say my omphaloskepsis tells me the answer's no.

Answer 6

neither a pontiforcator. actually these olde words will play havoc with the spellchecker, let alone the nice americans lol.

Answer 7

Indubitably.



The 'British' wrote stuff with a sink plunger to their arrses in

their Roman baths.

Or in twos at face sitting sessions in Chelsea villas.

Cash for 'onners' etc.

Looking up an old friend.

And other turd burgling exaggerated tales of heroism.

Answer 8

Do you mind ? I am just attempting a quick JR

Answer 9

You've discombobulated me with your question !

Answer 10

How about gobbledygook?