Whatzat mean? Word origins.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by homoe

I think smitten is such a non-threatening way of telling someone you like them in a 'special way" without making them or yourself uncomfortable...

i love the word “smitten” .......

[homoe]

lethologica I just "borrowed" this word from another thread.....LOL



The inability to remember a particular word or name.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by homoe

lethologica I just "borrowed" this word from another thread.....LOL



The inability to remember a particular word or name.

yup ..... thats a word i love, but can never remember

[homoe]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

yup ..... thats a word i love, but can never remember

Thanks for letting me "borrow" it......LOL

[homoe]

sally forth............To leave a place and move on

[homoe]

Jactitation.............a tossing to and fro or jerking and twitching of the body during an illness.


In the 17th century, lawyers began tossing around the word jactitation, which can be traced back to the Latin verb jactare, meaning "to throw." Originally, jactitation was used as a word for a false claim or assertion being publicly thrown about to the detriment of another person. Run-of-the-mill slander and false claims of being married to someone were two common types of jactitation brought to court. Before long, jactitation had jumped over to the medical profession, where it continues to serve as a word for restless, jerky, or twitchy body movements. In 1761, British writer Laurence Sterne threw jactitation into his novel Tristram Shandy as a substitute for discussion, but that meaning never caught on.

[puddin']

intersectionality
[in-ter-sek-shuh-nal-i-tee]

noun
1.
the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively):
Her paper uses a queer intersectionality approach.
2.
the oppression and discrimination resulting from the overlap of an individual’s various social identities:
the intersectionality of oppression experienced by black women.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by homoe

lethologica I just "borrowed" this word from another thread.....LOL



The inability to remember a particular word or name.

OMG i was trying to remember this word, and i couldn’t. What’s it called when you can’t remember the word that means forgetting the names of words??