Never too old to learn

[billeyler]

Not long ago I heard this word, having no idea what it meant.  I'm sure I had never heard it before in my prior 53 years.  Since I first heard it, I've heard it again and again and have seen it in print a couple of times.  I think I've been living in an alternate universe where this word didn't exist.  If I had known it, I'd have used it...rolls of the tounge and has a happy, lush sound to it...

louche

adjective

of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting"

 Yet another word that I saw in a magazine earlier in the year, also never having heard or seen it before is...

eponymous 

1846, from Gk. eponymos "given as a name, giving one's name to something," from epi- "upon" + onyma, Aeolic dial. variant of onoma "name

I used to hear that one called self-styled and such, but never the word 'eponymous,'  as in calling an album you've released by your own name.  Now that term is all over the place.

Comments

one of my favorites

[pierbear.livejournal.com]

I have to say that louche is one of my favorite words. It has so many uses! I think of it as incorporating a concept of laziness or boredom -- someone or something that falls into loucheness easily and comfortably. It almost has a slight feel of "degenerate".

Re: one of my favorites

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

He's alive! He's alive!

:-)

Ain't English fun?