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Macrocephalic

Having an unusually large head.

Yes, I recall when the manufacturers of IT stuff in Taiwan suffered from this.

If you required to communicate with them, you needed to ensure it was on a .tw site. (.tw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Taiwan.)

Names like gigabyte.com, and gigabyte.uk had already been taken and where being used by fraudsters.

I think the companies gave in to such blackmail, and eventually paid up, to acquire the said names.

Bowtnbeatics
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Fump, you find the meaning

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Macrocephalic

Having an unusually large head.

Macrocephalic??? ....Which head is this referring to?

Derf!

plutarchy
1. Rule by the wealthy. 2. A wealthy ruling class.

Not so much a new word - more the meaning......

Shambles - in the general sense means a mess or chaos, however its origins lie in the butchery trade. Every town and city had a 'shambles' and it was the area in which animals were slaughtered and then butchered. I watched Hidden Histories on BBC4 last night and it featured Britain's oldest family business headed by Richard Balson.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q0177/hidden-histories-britains-oldest-family-businesses-1-balson-the-butcher

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/shambles

aboulomania

pathological indecisiveness (sounds like me!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got Les Dennis's Mavis Riley impression in me bonce.

And Wavy Mavis from Open All Hours.

Corks

I've definitely got Les Dennis' voice in me head.

So have I again, NOW!

balbutient

Stammering

Just been reading an article about a vile sex-offender and learned a couple of new words.  As I'm sure did the Bays and Grils at the WEP.

Inculate - Sodomise (Please don't check the UD)

Blndishments -

blandishment

/ˈblandɪʃm(ə)nt/

noun

plural noun: blandishments

a flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something.


Here

WiganToday

calumniate

to slander; misrepresent; besmirch

Brobdingnagian... you may well ask....

Marked by tremendous size


DID YOU KNOW?
In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, Brobdingnag is the name of a land that is populated by a race of human giants "as tall as an ordinary spire steeple." In Gulliver's first close-up encounter with the giants, he is attempting to get past a stile of which every step is six feet high when a group of field-workers approach with strides ten yards long and reaping hooks as large as six scythes. Their voices he at first mistakes for thunder. Swift's book fired the imagination of the public and within two years of the 1726 publication of the story, people had begun using Brobdingnagian to refer to anything of unusually large size. (Swift himself had used Brobdingnagian as a noun to refer to the inhabitants of Brobdingnag.)

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Similar to the accepted term 'Lilliputian'.

Here's some more words for you logophiles

Caterwaul

– A shrill howling or wailing noise

Concinnity

– The skilful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something

Flapdoodle

– Nonsense

Knavery

– A roguish act

Melange

– A mixture of different things

Obambulate

– To walk about

Opsimath

– A person who studies late in life

Philistine

– A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts

Rapscallion

– A rascal

Subtopia

– Unsightly sprawling suburban development

Tan pin.

An doings made of metal what an wooden lock gate swivels on.

A bit like a spigot.

I dont think its a real word but I like

Webliography

a list of references gathered from Internet sites

Bumptious....


adjective: Self-assertive in an obnoxious way.


Probably a blend of bump + fractious or a blend of bump + presumptuous.

Mugwump.... An independent politician who does not follow any party.

I like the sound of this word

Members of 'The Municipal and General Workers Union' were often called that.

Gabbyratchet.

Research in progress.

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All credit to Weatherwax.