Flipping the bird seems to be the most common name, but where I grew up in Southeastern Massachusetts, we always called it "pegging a finger." I wonder if it's a regionalism, or maybe it's died out since I was a kid (early 1970s). Any insights?

What’s a good word you’ve learnt that you find particularly useful. Something that’s not just an impressive word but something worth learning because it’s applicable in your day-to-day.

My example: (v) "obfuscate" - to make something unclear, confusing, or harder to understand, often intentionally. Like when a politician gets a simple yes or no question and talks for three minutes without answering it. Now I see it all the time.

I've been stuck on this for a while and need an opinion from some "professionals"

Is the term self depricative, or is there another term? Hell is there even an actual term for it?

Intimations are hints or suggestions of something without explicitly doing/saying the action thereof. To give an example, if you find a birthday cake in the fridge and the number of candles in the cake matches your age, that’s a pretty good intimation your family and friends are throwing a party for you.

Used to describe the aftershave + shit odors present after a certain type of man uses the toilet.

Whoa buddy, you might want to give it a minute, it’s hegseth in there.

Derived from proper noun, but uncapitalized on purpose.

Is it the same thing as citing something? If I adduced a ten year old newspaper to bolster my argument, would that be a valid use of the word? Would the ten year old newspaper article be my adducing?

I’m trying to think of a word that describes a naturally occurring entryway, but it doesn’t have any like “arch” or “roof” or anything like that.. like it’s almost like a canyon or ravine, but the ravine part is super short, and the bottom of it is ground level instead of the top, when I tried looking it up on google, I was coming up empty handed on results. Here’s some doodles to help describe what I’m picturing

abundinsate (verb): to provide or produce something in great quantities that yet fails to meet one's needs.

Examples

Despite my best efforts to make her happy, I ended up abundinsating her.

Abundinsation is quite common when students memorize a topic without understanding it.

'The test results,' said the teacher exhausted, 'are abundinsatful'.

He expected less from his friends, but the gifts were really abundinsatless.

Etymology

Latin roots, from the words 'abundantia' and 'insatiatus' reduced to 'abund' and 'insatus'. I decided to keep the prefix 'in' in the word insatiatus; in is used oftentimes to express negation or opposition to something, in this case, satiate.

(EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: Abundinsatful means that something is full of abundinsation, thus is very much unsatisfying despite the great quantities. Contrariwise, abundinsatless means that something is lacking abundinsation, thus is not unsatisfying because of the great quantities.)

I'm writing a book series and want a collective noun for the creatures in it. I've chosen "coven" as a placeholder but I'd like the universe to feel more lived in.

It seems like collective nouns are chosen almost entirely at random, so I'm not sure how one would go about it. Yes, I know I can just pick whatever since I'm making it up, but I'd like to understand the process so I can make it feel more authentic.

Let me preface this by saying I’m not referring to its primary definition, I’m talking about its lesser known meaning. The one that talks about a concept, idea, or premise. What does that mean? If I’m referring to the conceit of a film or movie, does that mean I’m referring to its premise? Like would the conceit of Super Mario 64 be its the first Mario game in 3D?

I feel like there's a subtle difference between these two words, but in two different dictionaries, the definitions are identical. Sentence: "The seagulls were finding something to eat amongst the seaweed.' "Among the seaweed" doesn't sound right.

That's all, y'all!

If I have this right, distill means to take something and extract the most important bit. For instance, if someone makes a massive paragraph, you could distill it down to its primary points

Does anyone else feel like the phrase “hope this helps” always connotes an air of passive aggression? Does it drive anyone else crazy seeing it? When did this phrase blow up like this?

It often gets used (not always, but often enough) when responding to something that no one was actually asking for help with as well

There's a particular feeling I get when I have a cold, and I'm wondering if there's an actual word for it.

It's usually on one of those gray, gloomy days when my nose is stuffy, my throat feels weird, and all I want to do is stay under a warm blanket with some tea and something to watch on TV.

For some reason, being slightly sick makes the whole atmosphere feel unusually warm and comforting. It almost reminds me of Christmas, though I can't really explain why.

What's interesting is that the cold symptoms seem to be part of the feeling. If I were healthy, I'd still enjoy the cozy atmosphere, but it wouldn't feel quite the same.

I've felt this since I was a kid, so I thought about nostalgia, but that doesn't really fit. I'm not thinking about the past when it happens. I've also come across words like hygge and Geborgenheit, but they don't seem to cover the illness part.

I've started calling it "cozillness" (cozy + illness), but I'd be interested to know if English, or perhaps another language, already has a word for something like this.

What does it mean when someone says, "I wasn't born yesterday. And even if I was, I wasn't born with my eyes and ears completely tight shut."?

My partner and I are watching a movie called Rose of Nevada. Rose of Nevada is the name of a boat featured in the movie. We’re debating whether the boat is “the titular Rose of Nevada” or “the eponymous Rose of Nevada.”

I’m of the impression that “eponymous” refers to things named after specific persons, as in Jayne Eyre or Robin Hood, while “titular” refers to things referred to but not named directly, as in The Irishman or The Man Who Would Be King. But I’m a bit thrown for a loop by how these words apply to non-persons. Merriam-Webster’s definition says that eponymous refers to people and things, suggesting that “eponymous” would be correct. But my gut says that the boat is the titular Rose of Nevada, not the eponymous.

Does the use in literature and film differ? Learned opinions appreciated.

Does it mean like to organize information? Like to collate all your notes about your classes into distinct, separate folders?

In English, "butterfly" is made up of "butter" and "fly," which doesn't really make sense. In French, a kite is called a "cerf-volant" (literally "flying deer").

Do you have any similar examples in your language?