JCC the "i learned a new word" thread

post the word and maybe where you learned it and/or a little bit about what it means to you

 

pulchritude - one definition is "physical beauty"

learned from (michael parker-stainback's english translation of) sergio gonzalez rodriguez's "the femicide machine", a text on the crazy insane rate of horrific murder of young women in ciudad juarez

 

Skuddy is Scottish slang for nekkid.

 

yup, that's a new one for me

 

Poor Suzuki_Akira.

 

pizza

 

Pulchritude. It means "physical beauty". I learned its meaning on an internet forum thread dedicated to words you recently learned.

 

i suggested "the femicide machine" as his hip hop name. he never got back to me

 

i googled for a new word to learn, but i couldn't find any. so i'm either terrible at googling or i know all the words in the entire universe

 

"Propinquity" - forming a bond between people with whom we frequently interact. Came across it whilst catching up on the Freakonomics podcast. I may have encountered before but I can't recall.

 

Mahlneid. Means "meal-envy" in German, or as this article puts it, "coveting thy neighbor's restaurant order".