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24 Words The Ced Wants To Exuviate (shed)

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post #1
07 October 2008, 18:57 UTC#1
Here are a list of words the Collins English Dictionary wants to discard to make room for up to 2,000 new entries.

Abstergent: Cleansing

Agrestic: Rural

Apodeictic: Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Caducity: Perishableness

Caliginosity: Dimness

Compossible: Possible in coexistence with something else

Embrangle: To confuse

Exuviate: To shed

Fatidical: Prophetic

Fubsy: Squat

Griseous: Somewhat grey

Malison: A curse

Mansuetude: Gentleness

Muliebrity: The condition of being a woman

Niddering: Cowardly

Nitid: Bright

Olid: Foul-smelling

Oppugnant: Combative

Periapt: An amulet

Recrement: Refuse

Roborant: Tending to fortify

Skirr: A whirring sound, as of the wings of birds in flight

Vaticinate: Prophesy

Vilipend: To treat with contempt
post #2
07 October 2008, 19:02 UTC#2
Fuck pluto too.

Who has the right?

-24 + 2,000

Ohhhhh makes sense now...
post #3
07 October 2008, 19:03 UTC#3
I dont know what to say...
post #4
07 October 2008, 19:10 UTC#4
Glad were gonna exuviate these fag words.
post #5
07 October 2008, 19:12 UTC#5
I'm going to write a letter.
post #6
07 October 2008, 19:15 UTC#6
Petition?

I say we bring pluto back for sure.
post #7
07 October 2008, 19:17 UTC#7

I dont know about you, but I use these words every day!

I told my girlfriend I would Recrement to let her Fubsy over my face due to her Olid twat!
post #8
07 October 2008, 19:23 UTC#8
Scrabblers are gonna be right pissed.
post #9
07 October 2008, 19:30 UTC#9
Hahaha. I was going to say the same thing FM
post #10
08 October 2008, 02:36 UTC#10
I'm embrangled by the calignosity of the Collins publishers.

Exuviating words from the dictionary is a rather griseous area and also somewhat niddering.