Word of the Day

Culture
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There’s a few boys here …

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Applicable to hosts of RTE talk shows. Byrne, Tubbs, Darcy…the lot.

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Characterised by constant logrolling.

Logrolling

Mutual and excruciating exchange of pleasantries and compliments

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Very apt.

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Bit like logjammin’

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noun

  1. the writing of the lives of saints.
  • a biography that treats its subject with undue reverence.

plural noun: hagiographies

“a hagiography which is designed to serve a political agenda”

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Presaging

A sign or warning of a future event

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Internecine

of or relating to conflict or struggle within a group:

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Bromodosis

smelly feet

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snoutband

someone who consistently interrupts a conversation in order to contradict or correct the speaker.

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schadenfreude

pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.

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solipsism

the quality of being self-centred or selfish.

@Julio_Geordio who I’m sure knows this anyway :grinning:

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Tartle

To hesitate and to be uncertain in recognising a person or an object

Tartling is The embarrassed and extended pause you make when forced to introduce a friend to someone whose name you have forgotten. The ums and ahs are tartles.

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throttlebottom- a bumbling, inept individual in public office…word of the day in so many ways…

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Scaltheen

A drink made from whiskey and butter

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ipsedixitism - the dogmatic assertion that something is ‘fact’ without any proof to back it up, or because someone, somewhere said it.

You’ll get plenty of use for that one around here …

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‘gobemouche’ (19th century): a credulous person who believes everything they are told. (French for ‘fly-swallower’).

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Grumbletonian

Somebody who is unhappy with their government

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You’ve to heat it with a red hot poker. The drink of choice in the hell fire clubs of Ireland. Of which there is a less famous one still standing in ruins in Ashkayton. The OPW are carrying out works there, which have been going on for longer than it took to build the thing in the first place.

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l’esprit d’escalier

the infuriating tendency to think too late of the consummate riposte

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