I like “recalcitrant”. I like recalcitrant people, and I count myself among their number. — Noble Dust
Tenebrous. — Baden
Brassicas are also referenced as 'coles'; cole slaw is a cabbage salad. Old King Cole was a cabbage head.
Old King Cabbage was a sharp witted savage
and a sharp witted savage was he.
He called for his pipe, he called for his stash
and he called for his brass players three.
He asked to be chopped, and then be slopped
with mayonnaise, sugar, and cream.
Cole, apples and bananas, odd it may seem,
for a fine supper salad can't be topped. — Bitter Crank
I forgot to say "No doggerel," another good word. Although it means verse or words that are badly written or expressed, it aught to mean the fenced area where dogs are kept before the big drive to Abilene. — T Clark
My word for today is "woebegone." - looking sad, pitiful. — T Clark
Tenebrous.
Came up regularly in a book I once edited and I had to look it up. It still sounds to me to be the opposite of what it is. But maybe that's just me. — Baden
To speakers of Slavic languages it should sound just right: the first syllable stands of "shadow" or "darkness." — SophistiCat
You were probably thinking of "ought" as in "you can't derive an 'is' from an 'ought', or 'aught' either. — Bitter Crank
My doggerel is bigger than your doggerel. — Bitter Crank
craptacular — T Clark
excrement. — Bitter Crank
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin tremendus (gerundive of tremere ‘tremble’) + -ous. — oxford dictionaries.com
Tenebrous. — Baden
I forgot to say "No doggerel," another good word. — T Clark
Effervescent is one of my favourites. — Benkei
The word 'tremendously' is tremendously important and valuable and I am tremendously fond of it. Unfortunately, due to quantitive easing, it now means 'very slightly'. — unenlightened
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