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It’s the heavy-browed splaining: ‘You’re not understanding me.’ It’s the meeting without end: ‘Let me circle back to my first point.’ It’s the performance art that offers neither performance nor art: ‘Foo la la. My spleen is a dream.’

Bored.

What are some lesser-used words that can be employed to describe head-banging boredom?

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The Oxford English Historical Thesaurus offers a range of boredom-related options. Here’s a sampling, with definitions in our own words.

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Bagpipe
From the early 1600s. This person is loud; they screech on and on. But, don’t expect them to say anything of interest.

Binder
A dull person and their dull diatribes.

Bored out of one’s skull
Self-explanatory, but so relatable.

Boree
The poor sod who is bored.

Dreep
Aka a ‘drip’

Dull as a fish
Thank you, 15^th century borees.

Fastidium
So bored. Actively turned off.

Forirk
To inch towards feelings of great tedium.

Heigh-Ho
Said to originate in the 17^th Century. That deep-gutted groan of boredom.

Humdrummery
Same, same.

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Infestivity
The party is most definitely not here.

Leadenness
Wooden and dull.

Longsomeness
Just so long and tedious.

Monochrome
More of the same.

Noddee
Another 17^th Century gem. This person is so boring that listeners are nodding off.

Palaver
Much tedious ado about nothing.

Pedestrianize
To render something utterly ordinary.

Toujours perdrix
A little was good, a lot is not. Too much of a seemingly good thing. Stems from 1800s diners who discovered that one can indeed have too much partridge.

Mouldiness
A full descent into boredom.

Tediation
Just so fed up and worn out.

Vicarage Tea Party
Put your bonnet back on. Nothing even the slightest bit exciting will happen here.

Witling
A 17^th Century dig for someone who mistakenly thinks they are funny. See also: penny-wit, underwit, wit-would, and witticaster.

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