What's a word you always hear but don't actually know the meaning of?

KM792

I didn't actually realise what a vulture fund meant despite hearing it constantly in the media.

howamidifferent

That's two words

pgj2015

a fund which invests in companies or properties which are performing poorly and may therefore be undervalued.

Deebles McBeebles

Vulture Fund: https://www.4vultures.org/

Samuel T. Cogley

Dearth has completely the opposite meaning to what to thought it did.

TuringBot47

"Gullible", in fact it's not even in the dictionary.

Raconteuse

Pragmatic.

I know I can now Google it seeing as I'm thinking about it, but I don't fully know what it means. And I don't know whether it's supposed to be a good or bad thing.

Leg End Reject

TuringBot47 wrote: »

"Gullible", in fact it's not even in the dictionary.

Easily fooled, as in "Would you like to buy these magic beans?".

Leg End Reject

Raconteuse wrote: »

Pragmatic.

I know I can now Google it seeing as I'm thinking about it, but I don't fully know what it means. And I don't know whether it's supposed to be a good or bad thing.

To me it describes approaching something in a logical, dispassionate manner without sentimentality or hysteria.

TuringBot47

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Easily fooled, as in "Would you like to buy these magic beans?".

You've been gulled there.

Dr. Bre

Literally

Esel

Irregardless (not an actual word).

Purple Mountain

Female orgasm

Strawman and every other argument and debate style thing.

uch

Thanks

BuboBubo

Saws or soz?

Not sure how it's spelt, but was preceded with "My bad" which I'm not too sure of either.

I think it may be an off-hand, half arßed sorry, but I could be wrong. I didn't reply as I was unsure how to

One eyed Jack

“supercalifragilisticexpialidocious“


Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious.


It’s fcuking true too :pac:


But until the OP made me think about it, I would never have known the meaning or the origins of the word -


The word was popularised in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, in which it is used as the title of a song and defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say".


Even the lyrics of the song suddenly make sense -

Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Lyrics

764dak

howamidifferent wrote: »

That's two words

Open Compound:

A word made up of two or more existing words separated by a space, e.g. school bus, life jacket, mobile phone.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/open_compound

Quantum Erasure

Open compound

Samsgirl

Leftover wine

Or

Sharing crisps

Samuel T. Cogley

Paradigm and other business buzzwords.

764dak

Wherefore:

harry Bailey esq

No

Birneybau

BuboBubo wrote: »

Saws or soz?

Not sure how it's spelt, but was preceded with "My bad" which I'm not too sure of either.

I think it may be an off-hand, half arßed sorry, but I could be wrong. I didn't reply as I was unsure how to

It just means sorry.

Birneybau

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Literally

If you are literally legless, you're not drunk, it (should) genuinely mean you have no legs.

Leg End Reject

Birneybau wrote: »

If you are literally legless, you're not drunk, it (should) genuinely mean you have no legs.

I think it was a reference to me being literally gulled!

Widdershins

In the past, it was "heuristic ".
I now understand its meaning.

CramCycle

Esel wrote: »

Irregardless (not an actual word).

It is, i mean there is no need for it but it is a word.

Kylta

Work

Esel

CramCycle wrote: »

It is, i mean there is no need for it but it is a word.

Inanyway, I do not agree with you.

Masala

Anxiety

As in I think I have anxiety. I suffer from anxiety. Am always afraid to ash ‘ how do you know you have it’