Big Words for Smart People
Eric and Frankie are not linguists. What Eric and Frankie lack in bona fides (boring fides, more like it) they make up for in sibling jocularity, rampaging tangents, and lighthearted ribbing. They already know you're a smart person, you don't need to be told that. Instead, join them every Wednesday to learn a new, cool, big word to enrich your new, cool, big brain and listen in on a casual conversation loosely connected to the word. BW4SP releases weekly to enrich your lexicon, ~30 minutes at a time. All thoughts, ideas, and opinions expressed in Big Words for Smart People are their own. Interested in joining our community? Join the Discord! Have a suggestion for us and don't like Discord? Email us at bigwordsforsmartpeople@gmail.com! Support us! https://ko-fi.com/bw4sp
Episodes
Loosen those coin-purses, the word of the week is:
Parsimonious - adjective
1: exhibiting or marked by parsimony especially : frugal to the point of stinginess 2: sparing, restrained In this episode:- Call Me Maybe Roulette
- Millennial grand-aunt
- Tree Anxiety
- Caked-Up Geeses for the Nieces
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Hey, come quick! The word of the week is:
Expeditious - adjective
: marked by or acting with prompt efficiency
In this episode:
- Snow Day Qualms
- Bird Calling
- Fish or Motorcycle
- Fast Family
- Dementia Clock
- Bonus: Ruben Sneezes
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Just a heads up... lot's of pee talk in this one, folks.
Exude - intransitive verb
1: to ooze out 2: to undergo diffusiontransitive verb
1: to cause to ooze or spread out in all directions 2: to display conspicuously or abundantly In this episode:- Eric is still vaguely sick
- Dry guys go to heaven
Hearken back once more to a time when farmers farmed farms and the Gak was abundant, the word for the week is:
Pastoral - adjective
a(1): of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen (2): devoted to or based on livestock raising
b: of or relating to the countryside : not urban c: portraying or expressive of the life of shepherds or country people especially in an idealized and conventionalized manner pastoral poetry ...Just when you thought we couldn't be more childish, the word of the week is:
Puerile - Adjective
1: juvenile 2: childish, silly In this episode:- College Radio… um… college radio
- Foot condoms
- Ostrich dating
- In defense of bad action movies
- Minecraft horror mods
- Read more
Ken you dig it? That's the word. It's ken.
Ken - Noun
1: the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge 2a: the range of vision b: sight, viewKen - Verb
1 (archaic) : see 2 (chiefly dialectal) : recognize 3 (chiefly Scotland) : knowIn this episode:
- Social anxiety phone problems
- Hotel ghosts
- Benevolent voy...
This word comes with a warning: don't use this word. At least, change how you use it.
Pulchritudinous - Adjective
: physical comeliness
In this episode:
- Pwe’re psorry pfor pthe pplosives
- Ulysses Quotes - Circe never disappoints
- Hot tips for sexy orchids
- Ruben does not have sexy phone voice
- Read more
It's whatever, but the word for the week is:
Sprezzatura - Noun
: studied nonchalance
: graceful conduct or performance without apparent effort
: the state of Eric being a huge fartbag1
In this episode:
- Not a dilf, just a dil
- I’m a Sprouts 6
- Almost no Twilight references in this one
- Furry Raves and Crypto ...
WOOOOOOORDS… werecast.
It’s the final word of our octobword spooktacular! The word of the week is:
Lycanthropy - Noun
1: a delusion that one has become a wolf 2: the assumption of the form and characteristics of a wolf held to be possible by witchcraft or magicIn this episode:
- The Omegaverse Recap
- The story of Bisclavret
- My weekl...
It's the penultimate word for Octobword and this one stinks! Also, trigger warning: dead animals (squirrels, deer)
Fetid - Adjective
: having a heavy offensive smell
In this episode:
- Post-poop-cold-coffee
- A thousand years of latent piss
- A very bad soup
- Dead Skull speriment
- "I wa...
It's time for another spoooooooky word!
Lugubrious - Adjective
1: mournful especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly (see affected entry 2 sense 1a) 2: dismalIn this episode:
- Vampire Water Bed
- Bernd das Brot
- Airbud XIII - Now He Plays Baseball
- Droopy Dog “Impressions”
- Frank is...
It's the first Wednesday of spooky season and we've got twoOOOooOOOoo words to celebrate!
Inauspicious - Adjective
1: being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
Auspicious - Adjective
1: showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious 2: attended by good auspices : fortunate, prosperous
In this episode:
- The narrowest ass in North Carolina
- Cat coughs - Draw what...
It's our 'worst' episode (yet), but not like you think!
Worst - verb (transitive)
: to get the better of : defeatIn this episode:
- Conquering your challengees (sic)
- Frankie uses “Java” as a reference to ‘cool coding…’
- Reasons I can’t get a job
- Parenting metaphors
- “I’m gonn...
We're still figuring things out, I guess you could say that, when it comes to podcasting, we're still a:
Tyro - noun
: a beginner in learning : novice
In this episode:
- Tyro Banks
- Master's in Pokemonology
- What are you happy to be terrible at?
- Read more
Make using this word a key part of your identity, the word of the week is:
Endemic - adjective
1a: belonging or native to a particular people or country b: characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment 2: restricted or peculiar to a locality or regionEndemic - noun
1: an organism that is restricted or peculiar to a locality or region : an endemic org...Go off, Quang! It's a new word for Word Wednesday:
Idiosyncrasy - Noun
1a: a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality b: individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food) 2: characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament)
In this episode:
- Tiny little, semi-transparent Stewie Griffin knockoff tee
- Diagn...
Eric's word for the week is that saucy little tail on the bottom of a 'c,' that's more fun to say than it is to type, it's 'cedilla.'
Cedilla - noun
: the diacritical mark ¸ placed under a letter (such as ç in French) to indicate an alteration or modification of its usual phonetic value (as in the French word façade)
In this episode:
- C is a stupid letter
- Ambush ha...
Happy Jejaugust! It's our highest energy, most hype episode yet! Jk, this ep is jejune af, y'all. Frankie and Eric are taking a relaxed stroll through their travel woes in this, BW4SPs quaternary episode.
Jejune - adjective
In th...The word of the week is: Fontanelle! Eric and Frankie are asking the tough questions. Questions like: what would you put in your soft fontanelle?
Fontanelle - noun (or fontanel)
- : a membrane-covered opening in bone or between bones
In this episode:
- Avoid the top-of-baby danger button (no soup allowed)
- Unqualif...
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