The last word of your mother tongue you have learnt ?

Michael · Postby **Michael** » 2018-01-26, 7:08

swatch a piece, pattern or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material

linguoboy · Postby **linguoboy** » 2018-01-26, 22:29

undercroft vaulted cellar in a manor house; ground-level car park in a multistorey building

Postby **Dormouse559** » 2018-01-28, 4:05

benignant - (archaic) kindly, benevolent, beneficial, benign
cellarette - drinks cabinet

Oxford Dictionary says a cellarette is a cabinet, but the meaning must be broader because I learned the term watching the appraisal of a chest.

linguoboy · Postby **linguoboy** » 2018-02-01, 15:30

nubbin stretcher n. humorous (U.S. regional) a heavy rain that causes ears of maize to develop fully. [OED]

Postby **vijayjohn** » 2018-02-01, 15:41

I had a big smile on my face from joking around with księżycowy and then saw "nubbin stretcher," and my face immediately went blank as I thought, "What's that? Something that stretches out a condom or something?" (Nubbin managed to make me think of rubber).

linguoboy · Postby **linguoboy** » 2018-02-01, 15:43

vijayjohn wrote:I had a big smile on my face from joking around with księżycowy and then saw "nubbin stretcher," and my face immediately went blank as I thought, "What's that? Something that stretches out a condom or something?" (Nubbin managed to make me think of rubber).

According to Wiktionary, it can also mean "clitoris". I haven't been able to corroborate that elsewhere, but it is a pretty natural extension (as it were).

księżycowy · Postby **księżycowy** » 2018-02-01, 18:51

vijayjohn wrote:I had a big smile on my face from joking around with księżycowy

Aww....

and then saw "nubbin stretcher," and my face immediately went blank as I thought, "What's that? Something that stretches out a condom or something?" (Nubbin managed to make me think of rubber).

Postby **Dormouse559** » 2018-02-01, 20:09

I'd only heard "nubbin" in a single context before now - a book from the Berenstain Bears children's series. One of the children gets into the habit of biting her nails, and the parents say multiple times, "You've nibbled your nails down to nubbins."

Postby **vijayjohn** » 2018-02-01, 21:07

I think I've read that one before, or tried to, but not very carefully because it was at someone else's house.

Actually, what I meant to say before was "my face immediately sank"...but "sank" might be too strong. Maybe "dropped."

księżycowy · Postby **księżycowy** » 2018-02-01, 21:52

To the floor? Might want to pick that up. Seems like something to hold on to.

Postby **vijayjohn** » 2018-02-01, 22:15

That sounds even stronger than "sank" to me.

linguoboy · Postby **linguoboy** » 2018-02-08, 22:24

intergluteal cleft

linguoboy · Postby **linguoboy** » 2018-02-12, 17:56

illeism the practice of referring to oneself in the third person

Postby **Dormouse559** » 2018-02-12, 20:53

linguoboy wrote: illeism the practice of referring to oneself in the third person

Huh, I learned that one just a few months ago, though I don't remember how.

coreligionist - someone of the same religion as another person

linguoboy · Postby **linguoboy** » 2018-02-19, 20:52

zorb

renitent

linguoboy · Postby **linguoboy** » 2018-02-28, 15:25

swivet

confidante

suruvaippa · Postby **suruvaippa** » 2018-03-11, 8:35

(slang) wasband ex-husband

linguoboy · Postby **linguoboy** » 2018-03-12, 17:34

toorie the pompom on a tam o' shanter (which I always thought was called a "tam")

Ashucky · Postby **Ashucky** » 2018-03-14, 10:54

A fairly recent word that I've seen used in news and social media:

dražilnik - a film teaser

It's pretty much a calque of "teaser", coming from the verb drážiti "to tease" (not to be confused with dražíti "to auction; to make more expensive").