Big Words for Smart People

By Eric and Frankie

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 lighthearte

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The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.

Big Words for Smart People episodes:

January 07, 202624: Harrowing
Just in time for the new year, the word of the week is:

Harrowing - Adjective
: acutely distressing or painful

In this episode:
What is the hottest tattoo?
Self-broken bones
Things to talk about while getting a tattoo
The Twilight slippery slope
Like, seriously, a lot of tattoo talk

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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary
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41min
December 31, 202523: Termagant
Another addition to our growing collection of "slurs for hot people," the word of the week is:

Termagant - Noun
1Termagant : a deity erroneously ascribed to Islam by medieval European Christians and represented in early English drama as a violent character
2: an overbearing or nagging woman : shrew

In this episode:
Exposing lifeguards
Funny eyebrow bird
We all secretly want a mommy-dommy
More like mummy-dommy
St. Thomas’ Knuckle-Bones: 1 for $3 or 12 for $20!
Power Rangers Skate School
Women’s Bible Review
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Additional Links:
The Actual History of Eating Mummies as Medicine by Abby Cox
Ptarmigan audio courtesy of the National Park Service audio gallery: Look at this beautiful bird
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38min
December 24, 202522: Parsimonious
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
Ways to ruin Frankie’s Birthday
Links to local charities
Support people experiencing homelessness in Eric's area here.

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45min
December 17, 202521: Expeditious
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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40min
December 10, 202520: Exude
Just a heads up... lot's of pee talk in this one, folks.

Exude - intransitive verb
1: to ooze out
2: to undergo diffusion
transitive 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
It ain't easy bein' greasy
An embarrassing pee story
Sweaty and confusing, but he’s an okay dad
The vegetarian deerhunter

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36min
December 03, 202519: Pastoral
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
d: pleasingly peaceful and innocent : idyllic

In this episode:
Cat rivals
I want a farm, but not, like, a real farm
Oh wait, actually, never mind, farming is hard as hell
Intentional Orpheus
A brief '90s meditation
Rural white-people code-switching
What's your pastoral dream?

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40min
November 26, 202518: Puerile
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
Garbage hall pass
Current stats: 80000 to 2000000
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53min
November 19, 202517: Ken
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, view
Ken - Verb
1 (archaic) : see

2 (chiefly dialectal) : recognize

3 (chiefly Scotland) : know
In this episode:
Social anxiety phone problems
Hotel ghosts
Benevolent voyeurism
B R I A N
Shut up and let’s talk about kennings
Fill our inbox with the gnarliest kennings you can imagine
The french OrbeezTM guy video (we know it was staged, but it's still funny)

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47min
November 12, 202516: Pulchritudinous
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
No shade to North Carolina towns, we love you too
Pants shopping - fit check for my Doug Funny era
What’s pulchritudinous to you?

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37min
November 05, 202515: Sprezzatura
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 Currency
Fit check for my Garbodor era
Lesbian Cheat Codes
Smoking Cattails

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Show-notes definition pulled from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary

1 Additional definition brought to you by the Club Penguin Dictionary for Dingleberries
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43min

FAQs about Big Words for Smart People:

How many episodes does Big Words for Smart People have?

The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.