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What's a word that most people wouldn't know the meaning of?

2007-07-26 18:37:05 · 35 answers · asked by Mo 7 in Entertainment & Music Polls & Surveys

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sure

2007-07-26 18:39:40 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0 2

Hmmm.. Not sure. I probably do not run with the smartest of people. Myself being one. So to others this may not be a big word. But I stumped a couple in conversation when I used it. It was unequivocal.

2007-07-26 18:40:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

yeah..umm

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS ~ (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)


SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (34 letters) from the movie Mary Poppins is not the longest word in English, although many people believe it is. The word is in the OED, which has the following as the first four citations:

2007-07-26 18:41:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

2007-07-26 18:45:06 · answer #4 · answered by Spyder 4 · 0 0

Supercalifragilisticexpeali d0ciious :)


i honestly doesn't know what that means, but it's an actual word!

2007-07-26 18:41:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/21054/
Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg
Actually all one word. My father was a camp counselor on the lake and the camp name ran all the way around the bus!

2007-07-26 18:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 2 0

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

2007-07-26 18:39:27 · answer #7 · answered by dynamite_boy619 4 · 0 1

DISCOMBOBULATE is a fun word...

Definition: confuse or disconcert somebody: to throw somebody into a state of confusion ( informal ) ( often passive )

I wonder if this question has discombobulated others - LOL!

2007-07-26 18:44:43 · answer #8 · answered by Miss Jamie 4 · 0 0

Antidisestablishmenterriorism

2007-07-26 18:39:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis learned that word in 7th grade, think it meant

2007-07-26 18:40:55 · answer #10 · answered by Curt 2 · 0 1

Work ethic. At least it doesn't seem like many do.

Well technically that's two words but still...

2007-07-26 18:40:34 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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