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Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Steve A on February 24, 2011, 21:21:31 PM
Anyone know what the word is for someone who uses long or complicated words to make themselves appear more intelligent than they actually are ?
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: tinkerman on February 24, 2011, 21:23:20 PM
Member of parliament?
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Julesp on February 24, 2011, 21:27:51 PM
Googled it and it came up with this

grandiloquent - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Steve A on February 24, 2011, 21:28:46 PM
Good ones but not the one Im looking for
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Post by: Highlander on February 24, 2011, 21:30:56 PM
Muppet [?]
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Scunner on February 24, 2011, 21:31:17 PM
Sorry Steve, I know what you mean and I can't think of the word. Memory loss may have been caused by my mild pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: KKOB on February 24, 2011, 21:32:11 PM
A Bullsh1tter !
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Post by: Old Daffodil on February 24, 2011, 21:34:43 PM
Del Boy!:D
Mange tout!
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Highlander on February 24, 2011, 21:35:04 PM
Hope you find a cure soon Scunner :)
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Scunner on February 24, 2011, 21:36:06 PM
Ostentatious, pretentious, tw4t

Who are we slagging off here anyway :D
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Julesp on February 24, 2011, 21:38:44 PM
Ok also found on Google
Sesquipedalian:
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Old Daffodil on February 24, 2011, 21:38:49 PM
Sesquipedalian maybe.
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: tinkerman on February 24, 2011, 21:41:34 PM

Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness to be precise
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Old Daffodil on February 24, 2011, 21:43:43 PM
Stanley Unwins?[?]
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Scunner on February 24, 2011, 21:46:54 PM
Verbose?
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Highlander on February 24, 2011, 21:47:19 PM
quote:
Originally posted by tinkerman


Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness to be precise


That's surely what the person does not the person doing it.

Innit ;)
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Scunner on February 24, 2011, 21:49:54 PM
There can't be many forums where you get two pages of suggestions within the first half hour.

And still not know the word :D
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: badger on February 24, 2011, 22:15:14 PM

 amagivinnitcharliebiggapotatoes [?]
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Scunner on February 24, 2011, 22:24:22 PM
Nurse!
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Diverbaz 1 on February 25, 2011, 07:13:41 AM

See you all missed the obvious, it's EPK!!!!!
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Steve A on February 25, 2011, 08:43:40 AM
All good but my 15yrd old daughter has it on the tip of her tongue and its none of these suggestions,its really frustrating her now !
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Post by: Toky on February 25, 2011, 09:12:19 AM
Pompous?
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Post by: Colwyn on February 25, 2011, 09:39:57 AM
A bombast?
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Post by: BM06 on February 25, 2011, 10:15:50 AM
Rachel Riley ;) :)
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Post by: scouser2 on February 25, 2011, 11:50:27 AM
Egotist?
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: tinkerman on February 25, 2011, 11:52:40 AM
Scousers
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Post by: scouser2 on February 25, 2011, 11:59:43 AM
OOOWER!! Cheeky Tinx!!
quote:
Originally posted by tinkerman

Scousers
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Post by: Scunner on February 25, 2011, 12:06:02 PM
I think you are right Tinx, scousers do use long words. Such as Ahhhhhhhhhh kiiiiiiiiiiid
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Colwyn on February 25, 2011, 12:49:34 PM
Anyone know the word for someone who gets other people to list long or complicated words to make themselves appear more stupid than they actually are ?
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Steve A on February 25, 2011, 14:10:02 PM
Why so offensive Colwyn?
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Scunner on February 25, 2011, 14:18:00 PM
I think he meant the people listing long words making themselves look stupid, rather than the person who asked them to Steve?
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Colwyn on February 25, 2011, 15:32:43 PM
No offence intended Steve. I merely took your question and turned it round a bit to suggest in looking for a word you had turned many of us, including me, into people who used long and/or complicated words. And then we when got it wrong we - not you - looked stupid. Just a thought that amused me.

So I guess my contribution is wrong then?
Title: Whats that word ?
Post by: Steve A on February 25, 2011, 15:40:02 PM
Sorry Colwyn,I was too quick to jump there.I have checked with my daughter who is the driver of this and she says no one has it yet .I bet she is totally mixed up about what she means anyway,teenage girls often are !
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Post by: scouser2 on February 25, 2011, 16:40:14 PM
Yes quite right Scunner....They also say chiiiiikkkkkennn. I can take the p*ss as I'm only an honoury scouser.
quote:
Originally posted by Scunner

I think you are right Tinx, scousers do use long words. Such as Ahhhhhhhhhh kiiiiiiiiiiid