One of my hobby is to use extremely accurate, outdated, uncommon words, and often, put a twist on them. As a friday rewards, here are a few words that you can start using that will make your colleagues instantly love or hate you, there will be no more in-between!

Expect some fun words, all with a simple definition and of course, a contextual quote!

coprolith

This is a fossil of fecal matter, or as a I would call if, a solid piece of shit. Isn’t it a perfect word to qualify this colleague behaving as a jerk.

Instead of being a coprolith, could you actually provide constructive feedback on the pull request?

logorrhea / graphorrhea

This one is easy if you remember another word that is similar : diarrhea. Add the prefix log- for speaking or graph- for writing. Basically, qualifies someone someone that speaks or writes volume, often with very low density of information.

Would you mind stopping this logorrhea and focussing on increasing your signal over noise ratio?

proclivity

This one means a predisposition at doing something. Usually tends to be used in a positive context, so twisting it in a snarky way lands more nicely.

Despite your proclivity for phasing out, would you mind answering the question ?

callipygian

This one is really hard to pull in a work context (and actually, even I would not recommend it), but I’m sure some creative folks will find a use in a more romantic context. The meaning is directly from the greek, and means simply who has a nice butt. For remembering, most people will know calligraphy (the art of nice writing). Sadly, most other words using the pygian root will be either offensive (steatopygian) or very scientific (dolychopygian), so unlikely to be known by more people.

To be such a callipygian lady, I assume a combination of good genetics and perfect life hygiene.