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Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Overmorrow" is actually not obscure or obsolete at all in german.
"Übermorgen" is quite often used (at least around me)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Uxorious: devoted to one's wife.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Wait overmorrow is correct English? We have "morgen" and "overmorgen" in Dutch which is tomorrow and overmorrow respectively, so I always missed an overmorrow in English. Is it actually commonly understood or will people look at me like I'm a weird foreigner when I use it?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Jocund: cheerful and lighthearted.

From Romeo and Juliet:

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Defenestrate means to throw out of a window.

For example, "Someone should defenestrate Putin."

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Something I learnt recently and which is rampant on gay social apps: sphallolalia - flirting that doesn't lead to meeting irl.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Lugubrious - because it means the opposite of how it sounds!

It's fun to say, but is defined as sadness, which the word can't evoke

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Salitter is my answer to this one every time.

The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind.

Here, also.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Seems like every time you use it you'll end up having to explain what it means unless you're playing D&D

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Verantwortungsbewusstsein. Let's get back to our roots.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Is that obsolete or obscure (in German speaking areas)?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The concept might be, but the word itself is a compound of the words "verantwortung" and "bewusstsein". They mean responsibility and consciousness respectively, and are both perfectly common and simple words. The whole thing means what you think it does, nothing special.

German doesn't really have those hyper specific super obscure words, they're almost always compound words made up of common words.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Crepuscular. Related to twilight, dimness, the golden hour.

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