What theme or special property do these five words share?

I was going to say they’re all pretentious, but I use some of them.

Stop wondering…, it’s Bush.

They are all negative judgements typically assigned upon another person.

They are all ingredients needed to make a good Haggis.

I can’t take credit for it, but here’s the answer.

Don’t have time to look them all up right now, but I would start with a dictionary that gives history and derivations. They are all adjectives, but that’s nothing special. Here’s what they’re not:

They are not all derived from someone’s name.
They are not all from the same language of origin.
They do not have a distinctive feature such as using all the vowels or having a double letter.
They’re not all from some famous or memorable quote.

I’m curious too and will check back later.

@fireside, “arcadian” doesn’t fit that category.

[Edit} Harp was posting while I was composing.

My favorite sentence in that manner is:

“Oh, I see you ate one too!”

I had to look at @Harp‘s answer. There’s no WAY I ever would’ve guessed that on my own. Very cool!

Wow, that’s hard. I remember I had a book as kid called “CDB” (See the Bee) that had stuff like that in it, but I don’t think I would have ever gotten that.

@Harp That’s pretty close. I think you almost had it, but asinine doesn’t really fit like the others:

odious = ODS
asinine = S9?
cagey = KG
arcadian = RKDN
devious = DVS

Asinine just doesn’t fit the scheme as well as the others because it’s pronounced “Ass-uh-nyn.”

@drdoombot

They’re probably going for SN9. Too much “n” sound, though. But a lot of them are a stretch.

See the list: “SN9 asinine”

Damn, I guess that’s right. I never would have gotten that. Thanks, @Harp!

FUNEM? S, VFM. FUNEX? S, VFXNM. OKLFXNM.

@DominicX “Have you any ham?” “Yes, we have ham.” “Have you any eggs?” “Yes, we have ham and eggs.” “Okay, I’ll have eggs and ham!”

Earlier I posted
“Oh, I see you ate one, too!”
OICU812

@Yetanotheruser

Correct!

William Steig (author of “Shrek”) wrote two books, one called CDB! (See the Bee!) and one called CDC? (See the Sea?). I have them both (though I’m not sure where they are) and they’re full of sentences composed of letters like that.

I remember on Recess the cartoon, Randall was making fun of Mikey the fat kid and was like “how does Mikey spell refrigerator? OICURMT!”. lol

@DominicX I probably should have indicated a heavy CHERMUN accent!

When my son was little, we had a toy called “Speak n spell”. Push the letters and it would voice them He quickly learned (my fault) to type:

IMPN RUPN2

I have been slapped, hard, in the face right after having one of them used to describe what I just said aloud.

@Blondesjon, I don’t understand what you just said.

@Jeruba . . .it’s ok. i don’t half the time either

Can we ask jonsblond? I bet she has the universal translator.

A while back there was a new sticker that was making the rounds at the sales tables at clown conventions ( yes, I do go to them to learn new stuff and shop for interesting new equipment) and kids loved them once they figured it out.

OURAQT !

@Jeruba . . .i’ll bet she just shrugs, smiles, and says, “there’s only one jon.”

—Reminds me of a time I was working for a manager named “Kay”. The bar was full, the co-worker called across the room to me:

“IF YOU SEE KAY,...”