What new word did you learn today?

[Rath Darkblade]

fucktion - what someone hanging on by a thread does

Um, was this meant to be in the "Wonky Dictionary" thread? I tried googling this word and couldn't find it, except in Urban Dictionary as "A tale of sex that never actually happened." (So ... anything by E. L. James, then? Got it)

 

[Louanne Learning]

I tried googling this word and couldn't find it,

Sometimes Google is behind.

i came across this word in a post my sister forwarded to me on Instagram. And actually, the whole word is "barelyfucktioning"

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[Rath Darkblade]

Ah. Sounds like a good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon word.

We need more of them. Like ... Earsling (pron. Ars-ling): Moving backwards, or "going in the direction of your arse".

And while this word isn't quite Anglo-Saxon (and dates 'only' from 1536), how about:

Crapulous. The crap feeling you get from eating and drinking too much. As in, 'I'm not hungover. I'm just crapulous.' (It comes from the Latin word crapula, which simply means “intoxication.”)

 

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Um, was this meant to be in the "Wonky Dictionary" thread? I tried googling this word and couldn't find it, except in Urban Dictionary as "A tale of sex that never actually happened." (So ... anything by E. L. James, then? Got it)

It may originally have been misheard from someone with a head cold and severe congestion.

 

[Trish]

The crap feeling you get from eating and drinking too much

I think this is called "meat sweats"

 

[Stuart Dren]

I only ever thought of smut in it's most common use today...

noun: smut; plural noun: smuts

1. 1.
   a small flake of soot or other dirt.
   "all those black smuts from the engine"
   
   
2. 2.
   a fungal disease of grains in which parts of the ear change to black powder.
   "a few bad crop years with smut and drought and frost"
   
   
3. 3.
   obscene or lascivious talk, writing, or pictures.
   
   "porn, in this view, is far from being harmless smut"​
   
   Which leads to...
   

   smutter​

   noun​

   smut·ter
   ˈsmətə(r)
   
   plural-s
   : one that smuts
   specifically : an operator of machinery for cleaning smut and other impurities from grain