Word of the Day

Does that come in a bottle?

For some it does.

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.

Bit like logjammin’

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.

schadenfreude

pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.

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.

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

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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