Whats your favourite uncommon word?

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Not sure if this is uncommon or not, but as I've just used it in an email and suspect the non-native English speaker may not know what I'm on about, I thought I'd post it here:-
Fettle
 
After a few drinks on Friday, me and the girlfriend put our surnames into urban dictionary, to my joy mine came out as;

"a term used to describe one with great influence and great natural charisma"

hers (Penk) came out as;

"The fluff that get stuck inbetween keys on a keyboard"
 
As in "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?" ?

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Please see #8549. Although by the post time stamps looks like I could've had the opportunity to nick the answer from you instead of the deliberate and careful detective-like skills i employed on those web sheets :facepalm: THANKS MATE!! :nono: :D
 
Sorry about that :( I had completely forgotten about your detectoring skills. :oops:
 
Paraprosdokian
 
Confabulate- the psychology meaning. To fill in gaps in your memory with made up stuff you believe to be real.
 
Have you managed to squeeze that into a work email yet?

I'm finding it hard to write an email without it to be honest.
 
A few more that go well together....

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****ybollocky

A word my ex-boss used to describe something that wasn't straight or even.

:)
 
Probably come up already, but I like 'Salubrious'.
 
Plethora
Kerfuffle
Shennanigans
 
Wow, I remember this thread. Thanks to the sidebar it just popped up on my screen, imagine that?
 
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