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The AH 'Use An Odd Word' challenge

  • 18-01-2016 10:14am
    #1
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭


    What's the heck is this?
    No - it's not another thread by kneemos...
    It's the first annual AH



    'Use An Odd Word' Challenge!


    And here is your host..... me!


    How to play?
    Each day, an odd word shall be posted by myself, or someone assigned by me.
    It is your duty to use that word in as a professional capacity where possible - work meeting / email etc... or even random person.
    Then, you must report back in what context you used it and if anyone noticed the glorious inclusion of the odd word goodness!

    Today's word:

    HUBBUB
    (Loud noise; confusion; tumult).

    So, away yee go now!
    Email your boss and say that you're concerned about the hubbub created around the new report you're working on...


Comments

  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I rang directory enquiries, said hubbub, giggled, then hung up.


  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I rang directory enquiries, said hubbub, giggled, then hung up.

    I did that and they put me on to a food distribution company. There was such a hubbub when I tried to explain what it was about.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Seven


  • #5
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,639 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I emailed my boss to say that I'm concerned about the rhubarb created around the new report I'm working on...

    Feck.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Seven
    That's not a word, that's a number.


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  • #7
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    My boss is french and when speaking to him in my broken french I threw in the word hubub.

    He smiled which usually indicates he understood what I was saying. I think.


  • #8
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Is "gee-eyed" counted as one word or two?


  • #9
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Menas wrote: »
    My boss is french and when speaking to him in my broken french I threw in the word hubub.

    He smiled which usually indicates he understood what I was saying. I think.


    Was it a condescending smile?


  • #10
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    Anyone remember hubabuba chewing gum


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Give us another word whiskeyman, this one's boring already!


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  • #12
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    kneemos wrote: »
    Was it a condescending smile?

    Yeah - it was as it happens. And now I cant log in to my computer....


  • #13
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    This thread will embiggeon our vocabulary in no time


  • #14
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I nominate "embiggen" as tomorrow's word!


  • #15
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,639 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    everlast75 wrote: »
    I nominate "embiggen" as tomorrow's word!
    You'll need to check the cromulenticity of it first.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    That's not a word, that's a number.

    I actually totally misread the OP anyway. Whoops....


  • #17
    eamonnq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I actually totally misread the OP anyway. Whoops....

    Seven is a word, 7 is a number :p


  • #18
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Seven



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZmnqY5iJUg


  • #19
    somesoldiers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,844 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    Reminds me of Blackadder when he meets Samuel Johnson who's just finished the first dictionary, he congratulates Johnson on having not left out a single word
    "Allow me to be the first to offer Dr. Johnson my most sincere contrafibularities"
    "Oh I'm sorry sir, I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even conpunctuos to have cased you such pericombobulations"


  • #20
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    Hey, whats all the hubbub is here?!!!

    Get back to not working.


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