Recently-Learned New-to-You Word(s) in your Native Language(s)

[elemtilas]

Not a new word to me, but I recently observed ombre being used verbally in the wild.

[Keenir]

clanging: conlanging in a psychotic way...

I confess, I never thought of Clangers as psychotic.

though I can see how their obsessiveness can venture into that...what with things like only eating the Soup Dragon's soup.

Soup Dragons? Like the alternative band?

I've heard of a band named Bowling For Soup (as a passing reference in an episode of Phineas And Ferb, but not a band named Soup Dragons, sorry.

here's what I mean by Soup Dragons: https://youtu.be/3DTftM-hvMw?si=qh7dy7jcgfqlTN6N

[Khemehekis]

clanging: conlanging in a psychotic way...

I confess, I never thought of Clangers as psychotic.

though I can see how their obsessiveness can venture into that...what with things like only eating the Soup Dragon's soup.

Soup Dragons? Like the alternative band?

I've heard of a band named Bowling For Soup (as a passing reference in an episode of Phineas And Ferb, but not a band named Soup Dragons, sorry.

This is Bowling for Soup's most famous song, in case you were curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxI_euTX4A

As for the Soup Dragons, I have heard of them, but never actually heard their music, as far as I'm aware.

here's what I mean by Soup Dragons: https://youtu.be/3DTftM-hvMw?si=qh7dy7jcgfqlTN6N

I've never even seen that Clangers before!

[Omzinesý]

I played the Finnish version of Wordle game with difficult words. The word was "siepi". I googled and it seems to be a fish and 'Common dace' in English.

[Khemehekis]

I played the Finnish version of Wordle game with difficult words. The word was "siepi". I googled and it seems to be a fish and 'Common dace' in English.

I've heard of dace before (the common dace is called batsha in Kankonian), but I didn't know the Finnish word for it.

Edit: And it seems I'm now the seventh-spammiest poster here.

[Dormouse559]

moreish adj - (UK, of food or drink) causing one to want more; addictive

I heard this on a baking Youtube channel when a host was describing a brownie. I thought they’d said “Moorish,” and the subtitles (auto-generated) did too, but Wiktionary came to the rescue.

[Khemehekis]

moreish adj - (UK, of food or drink) causing one to want more; addictive

I heard this on a baking Youtube channel when a host was describing a brownie. I thought they’d said “Moorish,” and the subtitles (auto-generated) did too, but Wiktionary came to the rescue.

I first learned this word in 2008, when I posted a questionnaire of random questions onto the 4thkingdom website. Question #16 on my questionnaire was "If you drank heroin, what do you think it would taste like?", and some lad from Yorkshire said in his answer sheet: "I think it would be very moreish."

[Omzinesý]

I was reading a fantasy book in Finnish and met word leikari. It means 'a bard'. I remember I read Robin Hobb's fantasy books in Finnish and there 'bard' was translated as kiertelevä laulaja 'a wandering singer'. I think leikari is much more elegant. According to Wiktionary, leikari is borrowed from Skandinavic and is identical with an Icelandic word meaning 'actor' or 'player'.

[YoungConlanger]

Russian "шунт" - a shunt, & also all the words derived from it:
"шунтировать" - to shunt,
"шунтованный" - shunted (adj.)
The word is so similair not coincidentally - it's borrowed from English.