Author Topic: Whats that word ? (Read 2920 times)

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 ?

tinkerman · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2011, 21:23:20 PM »

Member of parliament?

Julesp · « **Reply #2 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

Steve A · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2011, 21:28:46 PM »

Good ones but not the one Im looking for

Highlander · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2011, 21:30:56 PM »

Muppet [?]

Scunner · « **Reply #5 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.

KKOB · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2011, 21:32:11 PM »

A Bullsh1tter !

Old Daffodil · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2011, 21:34:43 PM »

Del Boy!:D
Mange tout!

Highlander · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2011, 21:35:04 PM »

Hope you find a cure soon Scunner

Scunner · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2011, 21:36:06 PM »

Ostentatious, pretentious, tw4t

Who are we slagging off here anyway

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