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In your society/culture/whatever do you have a large number of words for another one?.. My example is

Annhilated, arseholed, battered, bladdered, bollocksed, clockfaced, drunk, gattered, hammered, lashed, pissed, pissed up, shitfaced, ****faced, ****ed, smashed, ruined, rat-arsed, wrecked, plastered, steamed, steaming, tanked up, mashed, mullered.

These are just for the later stages of drunkeness heh.
 
intoxicated

edit: Cross culture/dialect is different too.

If you said someone was 'pissed' in the US, that has nothing to do with drunkeness, ever. It means they were very angry.

edit: PS I think the title you were looking for is synonyms
 
I think the most multiple words for the same thing would be describing the male genitalia..........i don't think i need to give examples.
 
short recoil said:
I think the most multiple words for the same thing would be describing the male genitalia..........i don't think i need to give examples.
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Masturbation too. Although that falls under phrases more than single words.
 
Cumming has a weird synonym here in Belgium: "Dying the small death".
Seriously, wtf
 
Beerdude26 said:
Cumming has a weird synonym here in Belgium: "Dying the small death".
Seriously, wtf
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Same thing in french, actually. They call an orgasm "le petite mort" (something like that), or, the Little Death. I think it's rather poetic really.
 
In your society/culture/whatever do you have a large number of words for another one?..
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yes, they are often exclusive to your area.
Becuase of modern technology like TV and telephones, these differences are less and more wide-spread.


Yesterday when I wanted to find out what a word ment I was searching on the web and came across this. I liked it so much I made it my homepage.

http://www.reference.com/


Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, and Web Search engine by Google.

Awesome.
 
Greatgat said:
Same thing in french, actually. They call an orgasm "le petite mort" (something like that), or, the Little Death. I think it's rather poetic really.
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I think it's weird. :p
 
Beerdude26 said:
Cumming has a weird synonym here in Belgium: "Dying the small death".
Seriously, wtf
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I agree. thats disgusting. Reminds me of a grandmother covered in dust for some reason.

These are just for the later stages of drunkeness heh.
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I usually just say, "im ****ing drunk" or when I want to get fancy, "I am so ****ing drunk" \O/ commonly followed up by,"wooooOOO!!!" \o/

Commonly used ones by me are:
plastered, wasted, totaled, hammered, ****ed, smashed, tanked-up, shit-faced.

Top Web Results for "drunk"


20 entries found for drunk.
Main Entry: drunk
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intoxicated

Synonyms: bashed, befuddled, boozed up, buzzed, canned, crocked, drinking, drunken, flushed, flying, fuddled, gassed, glazed, groggy, hammered, high, hosed, in orbit, inebriated, jolly, jugged, juiced, laced, liquored up, lit, lush, merry, muddled, oiled, on a bun, overcome, pie-eyed, plastered, plowed, potted, seeing double, sloshed, soaked, sotted, soused, stewed, stoned, tanked, tight, tipsy, totaled, wasted, zonked


Antonyms: clearheaded, sober, straight
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
Copyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

http://www.reference.com
 
Greatgat said:
Same thing in french, actually. They call an orgasm "le petite mort" (something like that), or, the Little Death. I think it's rather poetic really.
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Actually, go back about 500 years and English writers like Shakespeare used the whole death meaning dying vs death meaning having an orgasm thing as well:

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/glossary/glossary_de.htm said:
Double Entendre [...] An example of a double entendre is the Elizabethan usage of the verb "die," which refers both to death and to orgasm.
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I was about to mention that! Damn you Zombie Shakespeare!

I don't think male genetalia and drunk count though, because those are two things where you can literally say anything. The word doesn't matter to the meaning, most of the time.
 
Sulkdodds said:
I don't think male genetalia and drunk count though, because those are two things where you can literally say anything. The word doesn't matter to the meaning, most of the time.
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Agreed.

And often it's the rest of the sentance or its context that is the clue to it's meaning.

Same goes for breasts, and female genetalia as well. Anything else?
 
Let's just name random words and see are there other words people can come up with
footpath; pavement; sidewalk
 
How about the words for soft drinks?

In my area we call it pop.

There aren't too many variations I think. There's soda... and then sodapop I guess :p

You can find a lot of different names between things in the USA and UK.
 
some people have the weirdest names for items... Like the Television Remote Controller. Someone I knew called it "the Tricks". Others call it a zapper or something along those lines.
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Sulkdodds said:
Damn you Zombie Shakespeare!
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*Sulkdodds shoots the undead William*
"Is this the end for Zombie Shakespeare?!!"
*dies*
 
kupoartist said:
some people have the weirdest names for items... Like the Television Remote Controller. Someone I knew called it "the Tricks". Others call it a zapper or something along those lines.
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Am I the only one who calls it a "Remote Control" without the extra -er? Or I call it a remote, like Kami said.
 
Soda = Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper etc...
 
I had no idea those words had so many definitions. I just wonder if I'd recognise all of those definitions if I read a list of them.
 
vegeta897 said:
How about the words for soft drinks?

In my area we call it pop.

There aren't too many variations I think. There's soda... and then sodapop I guess :p

You can find a lot of different names between things in the USA and UK.
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Usualy coke, irespective of brand, or just soft/fizzy drinks.

Funny how the same word means different things in different places. I knew 1 guy who called a radiator a rad and another that called a radio a rad.
chips=fries
but
crisps=chips

jam=jelly
but
jelly=jello

:rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling:
 
Puke tends to have a bunch:

Throw up, lose your lunch, toss your cookies, tangoing with the toilet, upchucking, chucking, coughing up a kidney, the technicolor yawn, regurgitate, etc.

Oddly enough, the more taboo the subject, the more words there are for it.

Maybe this has something to do with trying to find a euphamism?
 
ríomhaire said:
Let's just name random words and see are there other words people can come up with
footpath; pavement; sidewalk
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Um pavement != sidewalk man

pavement = asphalt = blacktop = roads

Sidewalk = concrete
 
spookymooky said:
Puke tends to have a bunch:

Throw up, lose your lunch, toss your cookies, tangoing with the toilet, upchucking, chucking, coughing up a kidney, the technicolor yawn, regurgitate, etc.

Oddly enough, the more taboo the subject, the more words there are for it.

Maybe this has something to do with trying to find a euphamism?
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Selling Buicks :eek:
 
RakuraiTenjin said:
Um pavement != sidewalk man

pavement = asphalt = blacktop = roads

Sidewalk = concrete
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I am friends with an Englishman and he asures me that they call footpaths/sidewalks the pavement. And besides, isn't asphalt tarmac? I've never known the word pavement to mean tarmac
 
ríomhaire said:
I am friends with an Englishman and he asures me that they call footpaths/sidewalks the pavement. And besides, isn't asphalt tarmac? I've never known the word pavement to mean tarmac
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We only say tarmac if we're referring to the airport.

Pavement is asphalt. Laying asphalt is the act of paving.

"The county paved my road a couple years ago, no more dirt roads for me"
 
But pavements are made out of paving stones.
These so-called 'paving stones' 'pave' the side areas of the streets.
Hence the French term: pavement!
 
Sulkdodds said:
But pavements are made out of paving stones.
These so-called 'paving stones' 'pave' the side areas of the streets.
Hence the French term: pavement!
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We have more square miles of pavement (asphalt) than most of Europe thus we overrule you.
 
Pfft. We have more paving stones than you do, in the secret Paving Stone Gallery under Buckingham Palace.
 
That's what gave us the colonial edge for all those years! :shh:
 
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