Example: I defenestrated my brother ereyesterday. I shall defenestrate my sister overmorrow! Because I hate my family and also windows.
english has some of the best examples of stupidly specific words, tbh
Rhotacism (n): excessive use of the letter “R”
Lingible (adj): meant to be licked
Whipjack (n): a beggar, specifically one who is pretending to have been shipwrecked
Yerd (v): to beat with an object with a stick
Roddikin (n): the fourth stomach of a cow or a deer
Balbriggan (n): a type of fine cotton, most often used in underwear
and my personal favorite
Cornobble (v): to slap or beat another person with a fish
This makes the English nerd in me extremely happy.
Why not?
Defenestration. That’s only five syllables, and whereas the action it describes “the action of throwing someone out a window,” contains seven words and 12 syllables.
True. It is quicker to say; just unlikely for people to want to say it often enough to bother remembering a word.
… honestly though, “throwing someone out a window” does have a very nice cadence to it!
