Word of the Day 2024

In honor of Songbird's nomination of "chuffed" in late March 2024, I am starting this thread to honor the word of the day as a run-up to a possible "SJ Word/Phrase of the Year" at the bell end of 2024.

 

My older kid got VERY into Thomas the Tank Engine and started using words like chuffed and cross all of the time. It was both cute and a little creepy for a 5 year old to talk like Madonna.

 

My oldest was into Thomas around 2 years old. He’d wake up at 3 a.m. wanting to watch Thomas. Since I typically would have just come home from work on the copy desk, I would be the one to pop the tape in the VCR, constantly hear the annoying song before each episode, and doze on the couch while my kid was fascinated.

I also used to find it strange that they would call it Thomas and his friends, but if you watched the show, all the engines would do is complain about each other. Not much friendship there.

And don’t get me started about the Machiavellian efforts of Sir Topham Hatt. He makes the trains work their boilers off and only offer the occasional proclamation that they were a “really useful engine.”

On the other hand, if the situation calls for it, I sometimes like to say that something will cause “confusion and delay”, just for my own amusement.

 

If I'm going to come to this thread for a word, that word is poontang.

— Animal Swingline

 

"Contumacious"

 

If this doesn’t bring docquant back, he’s truly gone like the wild goose in winter.

 

My favorite part of the Saturday opening band for Hold Steady in London -- SLADY -- was the bassist saying she was "chuffed to bits" to be playing the Electric Ballroom on a Saturday night.

 

They also could have used a word that rhymed with "commit" ...