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

  • 01-04-2020 02:19PM
    #1
    KM792
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭


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


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  • #2
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    That's two words


  • #3
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,463 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


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


  • #4
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


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


  • #5
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


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


  • #6
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


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


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  • #7
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,628 ✭✭✭✭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?".

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #9
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,628 ✭✭✭✭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.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #10
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Easily fooled, as in "Would you like to buy these magic beans?".

    You've been gulled there.


  • #11
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Literally


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  • #12
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,759 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Irregardless (not an actual word).

    Not your ornery onager



  • #13
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,869 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Female orgasm :)

    To thine own self be true



  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Strawman and every other argument and debate style thing.


  • #15
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,034 ✭✭✭uch


    Thanks

    22/25



  • #16
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭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 :D


  • #17
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,305 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #18
    764dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭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


  • #19
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,477 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Open compound


  • #20
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Leftover wine

    Or

    Sharing crisps


  • #21
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Paradigm and other business buzzwords.


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  • #22
    764dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭764dak


    Wherefore:



  • #23
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    No


  • #24
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,446 ✭✭✭✭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 :D

    It just means sorry.


  • #25
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,446 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Literally

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


  • #26
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,628 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


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

    :D

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

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #27
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


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


  • #28
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Esel wrote: »
    Irregardless (not an actual word).

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


  • #29
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Work


  • #30
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,759 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    CramCycle wrote: »
    It is, i mean there is no need for it but it is a word.
    Inanyway, I do not agree with you.

    Not your ornery onager



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  • #31
    Masala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,585 ✭✭✭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’


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