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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Having a good word power
is always a bonus, but knowing when it is overkill is also important.

Ironically, there's a fucking word for that and I can't for the life of me remember what it is.
(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 2:05, 10 replies)

circumspect? moderation?
I too know there is a more apposite word . . . .bugger
(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 2:21, closed)
The word meaning
'using big words when you don't really need to'. I'm fairly sure it was a Word of the Day on some website or other. Not AskOxford though, because their WotD tends to be something that you wouldn't even find on Call My Bluff.
(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 2:34, closed)
Orotund? Verbose? Loquacious?

(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 11:05, closed)
Magniloquent?

(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 12:26, closed)
Or on the streets of my dear home city
"Fuckin...pure posh cunt!"
(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 14:40, closed)
sesquipedalian

(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 3:26, closed)
Frank Muir is alive, well and checking out B3ta...
You'll like this one Frank, it's the one funny line from 'Two pints of lager...'
Smith: "Skankarific's not a word!"
Casey: "It means teriffically skankified, it was on Call My Bluff"
(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 4:09, closed)
Best I can come up with...
...is 'prolix'.
(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 4:19, closed)
"a good word power"
Vocabulary?
(, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 5:41, closed)
How about
logorrhea?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 22:27, closed)

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