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"scruple" as a verb, meaning "hesitate due to conscience".

Sorry

Übermorgen, the german word for overmorrow, is in abundant use in Germany. It's far from obsolete or obscure over here.

Autodefenestration is one of my faves. The act of throwing yourself out of a window.

If you’re throwing someone or something out, then it’s just plain defenestration

Internecine, meaning "destructive to both sides in a conflict".

Petty bickering like that divorce where they had a judge adjudicate the distribution of their beanie baby collection was internecine.

I like penultimate, next to last.

I'm currently reading through all of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries, and one fun feature is that he almost always includes one or more very obscure words. It's a nice little thing to look out for.

In the one I'm currently reading it's, "peculate," meaning to embezzle or steal money. Others include:

• Plerophory - Fullness, especially of conviction or persuasion
• Apodictically - From apodictic: clearly established or beyond dispute
• Usufruct - The right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance
• Acarpous - Not producing fruit; sterile; barren
• Yclept - By the name of
• Eruction - A belch or burp

I had a look to see if I could find a full list but sadly not. However most Wikipedia entries for the individual novels include a section called, "The unfamiliar word," if you want to find more.

Vituperative. Means vicious.

Grandiloquent/sesquipedalian. It's what you get when you use everything in this thread ₍^ >ヮ<^₎ .ᐟ.ᐟ

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"Philomot" was always pretty charming. "The color of a dead leaf."

I am now adding overmorrow to my vocabulary. I can't wait to confuse the shit out of people I hate.

I agree that we should use overmorrow more. Japanese has a similar word and it gets frequent use.

Defenestrate means to throw out of a window.

For example, "Someone should defenestrate Putin."

Vulgar Argot - a word or phrase that is obsolete or incredibly obscure.

Uxorious: devoted to one's wife.

Twaddle: something insignificant or worthless or another word Nonsense.

Discovered this word while reading the dictionary during silent reading in English and they wouldn’t let me play games.

"Overmorrow" is actually not obscure or obsolete at all in german.
"Übermorgen" is quite often used (at least around me)

My contribution is katzenjammer, which is a word describing a really bad hangover (in the English language). I believe it is used a bit differently in the German language, but don't take my word for it.

philalethist, A lover of truth.

Scrofulous - a) having a diseased run-down appearance. b) morally contaminated

I learned this word when I heard someone being described as a 'scrofulous drinkist' lol