Word of the Day
 

I was watching Walking Dead season 2 and one of the characters used a word that I hadn't heard before. Anyone recently run across odd words that aren't normally used?

ca·thar·sis
kəˈTHärsis/
noun
noun: catharsis; plural noun: catharses

1.
the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

There is this phrase I don't hear used enough-







































Yes ma'am, may I have another?



or


Yes, your majesty :p

Not quite what I meant Oh Mistress.

It's usually used as "I found the experience cathartic".

Right. Like this "A beating from Lilith proved to be very cathartic" or " I found a beating from Lilith to be a catharsis." :D

Exactly! I could travel from the antarctic to the arctic and find nothing so cathartic.

:faint:

An encounter with a "strumpet" can be viewed as being cathartic.


Love the word strumpet. My old granny used to use it.



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Ah, but you left out "Tart", "Lady of the Evening", "Escort", numerous others.

Lubricitous. I'm stuck on lubricitous. It's another word like clitoris which just rolls off the tongue.

mayhap

ˈmeɪˌhæp

adv
an archaic word for perhaps

I notice that nobody I speak to uses "ascertain" or "discern". I'm the only nerd in the conversations, apparently. lol

And the other day, I heard someone use a word only used previously by Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter.....jocularity.

No, that was Father Mulcahy, when he got drunk at a "bachelor" party.

Oooooh...I stand erected! Good catch.