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Mine's 'Pulchritudinous' (means beautiful)

2006-12-10 06:22:08 · 29 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture Languages

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Extrapolate - to gain meaning from text

2006-12-10 06:25:41 · answer #1 · answered by Jenna 3 · 1 0

No use learning big words in your own language because you could just go and read them up yourself without anyone contributing them to you. Now here is a big word in an African language. You should be able to read it if you did Latin at school. If you were dozzing off during Latin, then you need to go to a book shop and buy yourself a Latin book.

Word: Inofainogarakupi

It is a rhetorical question which can be used as rhetoric or can be named to a child for the community to rhetorically pause and think about themselves and the answer to the question.

Literally, it means "Where do the dead live"

Well obviously the dead do not live so the question does not arise in any thinking person's head. But some people who are thinking commercially, such as witches, may well make money from rhetorically answering that question in the head of a person afflicted with a disease called "poverty of thought". This is a very common disease in those whose parents did not pay for phylosophy private lessons with a guru.

2006-12-10 14:44:59 · answer #2 · answered by braman22 b 2 · 0 0

Donaudampfschiffsgesellschaftsschiffskapitän. (Ship's Captain working for the Donau Steamship company.) I guess you wanted the word in English - in which case antidis- etc. seems to be a good candidate.
During the third Reich, the Germans were obsessed with being German, which led to a projector being called a Lichtbilderanderwandwerfer (translated literally this means thrower of light pictures on the wall). Fair enough!
Yahoo can't cope with long words - the first word is completed with ...schiffskapitän.

2006-12-11 03:23:39 · answer #3 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0 0

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

This is the movement against seperation of Church and State in Great Britain, where the Church of England (Anglican/Episcopalian) has the privileged position of being state religion.

Followers of other Christian faiths have long questioned why one denomination among many should have special privileges, and recently arrived religions such as Islam view this with all the favour they would have for a pork sausage factory opening next to the mosque.

Conversely, the CoE appreciate the special privileges it gives them - direct access to the royals and to senior politicians, as well as a chance for unelected bishops to participate in making British law in the House of Lords - and will give it up as easily a a limpet lets go of its rock.

hence Antidisestablishmentarianism.

2006-12-10 14:31:30 · answer #4 · answered by AgProv 6 · 0 0

callipygian (adjective) : having beautifully shaped buttocks.

Etymology
Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (callipygos), from καλλι- (calli-, beautiful-) + πυγή (pygē, buttocks).

This is a great word and fits well with pulchritudinous. Go ahead, dazzle your friends!!

2006-12-10 14:37:41 · answer #5 · answered by lady_ikea 2 · 0 0

Large

2006-12-10 14:36:33 · answer #6 · answered by baroni2486 2 · 0 0

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

2006-12-10 14:27:43 · answer #7 · answered by Sara H 1 · 1 0

Archicrematisticamento - means wonderful in spanish slang

2006-12-11 12:13:19 · answer #8 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 0 0

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
-gogerychwyndrobwll
-llantisiliogogogoch

not that you'll be able to say it! hehehehe
(had to do it on 3 lines as it was too big to fit, and didn't all come out in my answer)

2006-12-10 14:30:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism=
inherited disorder that closely simulates the symptoms, but not the consequences of pseudohypoparathyroidism, thus it has mild or no manifestations of hypoparathyroidism or tetanic convulsions.

2006-12-10 14:27:23 · answer #10 · answered by freedom_of_speech 3 · 0 0

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