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qms commented on the word casuistry
Pale daybreak reveals a new mystery -
Will ever we know the true history?
The drinker's evasions
On wounds and abrasions
Amuse but are clear casuistry.
September 19, 2017
palhazi commented on the user palhazi
Hi
September 19, 2017
Cashstock commented on the word margin trading
A process by which investors buy stocks more than the amount of money they have with themselves. - Margin Trading
September 19, 2017
coco1635 commented on the word cellmates
iron buddies: cellmates
September 19, 2017
lajksdgbiu commented on the word puckies
Henry spent that day in hiding--hiding in the puckies beside Route 9.
- 'It', Stephen King.
September 19, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word gutter
It certainly stands out--I guess I'd never thought about where it comes from before.
September 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word gutter
I remember this term being used in the Computer To Plate printing industry referring to the area of paper which will not be used in the final folded book or magazine. also margins
September 18, 2017
qms commented on the word minarchism
Philosophers pursuing wisdom
Are always at risk of simplism.
Each elegant plan
Will least govern man
Achieving unique minarchism.
September 18, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word gutter
I like this part from the Century: "In printing, one of a number of pieces of wood or metal, channeled in the center with a groove or gutter, used to separate the pages of type in a form. Also gutter-stick."
September 18, 2017
qms commented on the word physiocrat
Though long past her mouse-catching day
She thinks current comforts her pay.
This dizzy old cat
Is a physiocrat,
Convinced this is nature's true way.
September 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word neologism
once upon a time neologism was a neologism
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ErY_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA233
September 18, 2017
biocon commented on the word arduus
L. arduus = 1. high, elevated, lofty, steep; 2. that is difficult to reach or attain, difficult, laborious, hard, arduous; 3. troublesome; 4. unpleasant; 5. adverse, inauspicious.
September 18, 2017
biocon commented on the word clivose
l'appel du vide: See http://pimediaonline.co.uk/science-tech/lappel-du-vide-the-call-of-the-void/
September 18, 2017
bilby commented on the word goose-turd green
Which came first, the goose or the...
September 18, 2017
bilby commented on the word fraturday
A monobrow of days, it seems.
September 18, 2017
bilby commented on the word goose-turd green
A greenish-yellow dye popular in the 17th century. Possibly a calque from French caca d'oie.
September 17, 2017
qms commented on the word agitprop
In waiting rooms outside the docs'
The tv persistently squawks.
Oh, please make it stop!
It's crude agitprop -
That 'news' they distribute at Fox!
September 17, 2017
marooncrimson commented on the word bricks
(n.) a long period of time
"I haven't been there in bricks."
September 17, 2017
marooncrimson commented on the word spanglish
(n.) a mix of Spanish and English typically used by native speakers of one of the languages attempting to learn the other
September 17, 2017
marooncrimson commented on the word complexisize
(v.) to make more complex
September 17, 2017
marooncrimson commented on the word pivnert
(n.) another term for the Ideal Gas Law Equation, PV=nRT
September 17, 2017
biocon commented on the word pont-levis
pont-levis = 1. a drawbridge; 2. repeated or persistent rearing up by a horse, in resistance to its rider (OED).
September 17, 2017
qms commented on the word equipoise
A wise soul takes pause and enjoys
The balance of duties and joys.
When harsh day is done
Yet night not begun
He savors the brief equipoise.
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word bluetiful
spotted on CNN "But critics say the name will teach children a nonword. It prompted a hue and cry (pun intended) on Twitter."
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word gn
texting/tweeting abbreviation of 'good night'
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word choreo
spotted as short for choreography
dance moves
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word fraturday
Fraturday (friday/saturday)
September 16, 2017
biocon commented on the word algefacient
algefacient = A (adjective): having a cooling effect; B (noun): a substance that has a cooling effect or a cooling sensation.
September 15, 2017
biocon commented on the word frigify
frigify = A: (transitive verb) to make cold, to cool or B: (intransitive verb) to become cold (OED). See frigefy.
September 15, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word threatcasting
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/threatcasting_in_futurism_attempts_to_imagine_the_risks_we_might_face.html
Threatcasting emerged in 2007 as a variation on the futurecasting process that one of us, Brian, created when working as a futurist and trying to imagine what individuals would expect from their technology products in the future. Threatcasting is also a descendent of scenario planning, a tool that allows organizations to image a range of possible and probable futures based upon overlapping forces or trends. Imagine you’re a car company that envisions the possible futures of gas prices and the unemployment rate. If gas prices rise and unemployment falls, what might your sales look like? But what if both gas prices and unemployment rise? From these basic components, you can develop specific scenarios for your company and plan for them.
September 15, 2017
qms commented on the word objurgatory
Old Dante told so lurid a story
Of suffering down in purgatory
To make a good case
That divine distaste
Is stronger than objurgatory.
September 15, 2017
ndperels commented on the word strail
Example of Strailfrom 'Rain in the Doorway' by Thorne Smith, 1933 Ballantine Books: 'The roots of his fine, light, strailing hair seemed to be unduly sensitive today.'
September 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word w'd
See AHD etymology on byssus.
September 15, 2017
hugovk commented on the word squeezewax
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/s/squeeze-wax.html
A cutthroat compound.
September 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word awoo
doggo speak for a wolf howl
spotted in my FB feed as 'pupper does an awoo' .
Also spotted an 'awoo everyword' twitter handle
September 15, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word premium mediocre
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
A few months ago, while dining at Veggie Grill (one of the new breed of Chipotle-class fast-casual restaurants), a phrase popped unbidden into my head: premium mediocre. The food, I opined to my wife, was premium mediocre. She instantly got what I meant, though she didn’t quite agree that Veggie Grill qualified. In the weeks that followed, premium mediocre turned into a term of art for us, and we gleefully went around labeling various things with the term, sometimes disagreeing, but mostly agreeing. And it wasn’t just us. When I tried the term on my Facebook wall, and on Twitter, again everybody instantly got the idea, and into the spirit of the labeling game.
September 15, 2017
qms commented on the word Patrimoney
See patrimony.
September 15, 2017
Interregnum-man commented on the word Patrimoney
Patrimoney is the word to describe money gifted to the Church of Rome. It was often extracted from a dying person just before last rites were performed. The full title was St. Peter's patrimoney. The member churches of the Roman Catholic faith also paid a subscription to Rome. Oliver. Cromwell condemned the practice in his 'Declaratio' in early 1650.
September 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word bow-stay
Okay, a guy who stays. What if he, you know, overstays? Can you kick him out without your mainsail chucking a billydunevan.
September 14, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word sea silk
See comment on byssus.
September 14, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word byssus
"Sea silk sounds like the stuff of legend. Harvested from rare clams, this thread flashes gold in the sunlight, weighs almost nothing, and comes with a heavy load of misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and misinformation. But the fiber itself is no myth. Its flaxen strands come from Pinna nobilis, or the pen shell, a giant Mediterranean mollusk that measures up to a yard in length. To attach themselves to rocks or the seafloor, some clams secrete proteins that, upon contact with seawater, harden into a silky filament called byssus. The byssus of the pen shell makes sea silk, the world’s rarest thread."
-- http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sea-silk-rarest-thread-italy-clams-textiles-fabric
September 14, 2017
qms commented on the word latitudinarian
To some he's a bad grammarian,
To others a mad contrarian,
But Ernest prefers
Unfetttered words.
He's truly a latitudinarian.
Find out more about Ernest Bafflewit
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word bow-stay
You might be interested in the Sailor's word book. 1876
https://books.google.ca/books?id=y7HqO9XAwk8C
September 14, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word carnism
https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/carnism-why-do-we-eat-animals-3-copy
Carnism describes the invisible belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals. The ideology sees the wide-spread acceptance of meat-eating as 'natural', 'normal', and 'necessary'.
In addition, it sees its opposing ideology - veganism - as unnatural, and not 'normal'.
September 14, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word limber-team
A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed. The trail is the hinder end of the stock of a gun-carriage, which rests or slides on the ground when the carriage is unlimbered.1
A caisson is a two-wheeled cart designed to carry artillery ammunition.2 The British term was "ammunition wagon". Caissons are used to bear the casket of the deceased in some state and military funerals in certain Western cultures, including the United States.
September 14, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word napeless
Having no nape.
September 14, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word malandered
OED:
mallender, n.
Forms: lME malandere, lME malaundyr, lME malawnder, 15 malandre, 15
malandrie...
Etymology: < Middle French malandre a sore behind a horse's knee
(c... )
Veterinary Med. Now rare.
Originally: †a sore located behind a horse's knee (obs.). Later
(in pl. and †sing.): a kind of chronic dermatitis of horses,
characterized by the presence of such sores.
mallendered adj. Obs. suffering from mallenders.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3248/4, A strong..Rigil Horse,..malender'd
on the near leg.
September 14, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word almagre
Portuguese
Alternative forms
almagra
Noun
almagre m (plural almagres)
almagra (a deep red ochre found in Spain)
September 14, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word bow-stay
A stay is a guy-rope (now steel
cable) that stops the mast moving fore-and-aft often one to the bow and
one to the stern from the top of (or near the top of) the mast. For some
reason the same things that prevent side-to-side motion are called
shrouds. Sails attached to the stay (i.e. between the mainsail and
foresail) are called stay-sails. How that translates to a cart I have NO
idea.
In this photo
http://www.svsarah.com/Sarah/Images/Sails/20080311StaySail3.jpg
the staysail is flying, the main and foresails are wrapped up in brown
material.
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word macOS
How Google and Apple refer to the Macintosh OS according to their style guides
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word NANP
North American Numbering Plan
This is what gives us our (222) 555-1234 style phone numbers.
spotted term in the Google documentation style guide .
September 14, 2017
qms commented on the word fulminate
On such things do they ruminate in Oz.
September 14, 2017
stew commented on the word fatberg
"'Total monster': fatberg blocks London sewage system" - The Guardian 2017-09-12
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/12/total-monster-concrete-fatberg-blocks-london-sewage-system
September 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word shoegaze
this is one of those words where, in Wiktionary's attempt to have a briefly written definition like a paper dictionary, they miss out on explaining what the word means.
the 90's are 20 years in the past, and this is the first time I heard this word, and wiktionary failed to explain this colour of music to a non-musicblind person.
the recursive verb definition is the cherry on top of the unclear definition.
September 13, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word creepshot
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/08/16/toronto-woman-leads-the-fight-against-creepshot-image-sites/
Toronto woman joins the fight against creepshot image sites
There’s a Toronto woman named Roxanne who has an on-again, off-again hobby. For the past four years, she’s spent her time reaching out to those whose photos, some explicit, she’s found on a site dedicated to titillating men by, among other things, humiliating women by posting their stolen images and personal details.
September 13, 2017
bilby commented on the word fulminate
If I were culminate or aluminate I'd be, well, fulminating.
September 13, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word taints
This is covered more on the singular taint page, but taints could mean 3 things:
Verb: to taint, to poison, to sully
Noun: body part: skin between genitals and anus (perimneum). (Possibly from contraction meaning).
Contraction: it ain't. "'taint what you do, it's the way that you do it."
September 12, 2017
akinhwan commented on the user akinhwan
test
September 12, 2017
qms commented on the word fulminate
From far and near hear them all ululate
As grievances endlessly pullulate.
The deeds that offend
They cannot amend
But, oh, are they able to fulminate!
September 12, 2017
bilby commented on the word chalupa
Count me in.
September 12, 2017
bilby commented on the word brag book
Brag book brag :-)
September 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word animoji
refers to the wibbly wobbly poop emojis in the upcoming new phone
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word ntn
txt shortening for nothing
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word chalupa
so, a boatload of mexican food.
September 11, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list encyclopedia-gustatorica
*favorited*
September 11, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word chalupa
It's also the name for a kind of boat. See la chalupa.
September 11, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word chalupa
Hi alexz. It's a Mexican dish that most Americans know through the Taco Bell bastard version (that's kind of like a taco but made with fried dough).
September 11, 2017
TankHughes commented on the user MrBluestone
Hi!
September 11, 2017
MrBluestone commented on the user MrBluestone
Hello There!
September 11, 2017
Prolagus commented on the word digos camionetta intercettazioni
"Intelligence Agency Wiretapping Van"
September 11, 2017
qms commented on the word heterocosm
The power of wishing is awesome
For dreaming can solve ills or cause 'em
Select your wish well
You may have to dwell
Within your own heterocosm.
September 11, 2017
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September 11, 2017
bilby commented on the word brag book
I bought one of these today and it even said brag book on the price sticker on the cover.
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word irmababies
scheduled to be born around 6/17/18 in Florida
September 11, 2017
bilby commented on the word losel
There are no definitions, comments nor examples on qhalur so I have no idea how the 'same context' bot selects it.
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word chalupa
I don't know what a chalupa is.
September 11, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word slear
The SLEAR - 1 is an automatic blanking machine designed to produce finished blanks or sheets from coil stock. The coil stock can be slit by the slitting section to obtain the correct width or to provide multiple blanks.
Perhaps means to sheet away from?
September 10, 2017
qms commented on the word losel
His phony compassionate pose'll
Be seen as a feeble proposal,
The work of a loser,
A clumsy fake newser,
A "leader" who's only a losel.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word bathboard
A board placed across a bath for sitting.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word raggedyman
Scare crow.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word quarterwise
quarterwise- at a forty-five degree angle; perhaps also kitty-corner.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word tailorwise
The Roxburghshire word-book: being a record of the special
vernacular ...
by George Watson - Foreign Language Study - 1923 - 344 pages
Page 199
Having one leg over the other, tailor-wise.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word scurvid
scurvid is not in any dictionary; McCarthy seems to have made the word up himself with the (supposedly no longer active) suffix '-id' tacked on to 'scurvy.' So, scurvid probably means despicable and diseased, in context. (p97)
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word horn spread
Horn-spread definition, (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word hitching rail
hitching rail. I like the walkway behind this one- keeps it away from the building, and provides space to safely approach tied horses.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word deadcart
Alternative forms
dead-cart
Etymology
dead + cart
Noun
deadcart (plural deadcarts)
(historical) A cart for transporting the bodies of the dead in times of plague.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word bung starter
bung starter. : a wooden mallet used for loosening the bung of a cask
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word leadmark
Marks a bullet makes when shot.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word halms
haulm
or halm
hawm
noun
1.
stems or stalks collectively, as of grain or of peas, beans, or hops, especially as used for litter or thatching.
2.
a single stem or stalk.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word trundle-cart
Noun. (plural trundle carts). A form of wheelbarrow that is pulled rather than pushed; A fourteenth century wheelchair of similar form.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word teethful
Mouthful.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word teethfull
Mouthfull.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word hindside
Etymology
hind + side
Noun
hindside (plural hindsides)
(dialect) backside
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word forgefire
Fire of a forge.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word buckbush
Ceanothus cuneatus is a species of flowering shrub known by the common names buckbrush and wedgeleaf ceanothus.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word awap
I remember that Robert Graves in an essay called, I think, Mother Goose's Lost Goslings suggests that the rhyme which starts:
" Grey Goose and Gander
Waft your wings together,
Carry the Good King's Daughter
Over the One Strand River."
is a corruption of
" Grey Goose and Ganer
Wap your wings together,
And bear ye the good king's baner
Over the One-Strand River."
Graves argued that the poem was actually a Scottish lament for the death of King James IV at the Battle of Flodden Field.
He said that wap was what wild geese do with their wings in flight - I can't remember if it had two p's or one. He also talked about the lugubrious noise made by the geese. The theory is quite striking and the essay famous. Perhaps McCarthy has read it.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word loom shaft
Shaft of a loom.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word felloes
/ˈfelōz/
noun
plural noun: felloes; plural noun: fellies
the outer rim of a wheel, to which the spokes are fixed.
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word parlieu
purlieu
noun
1The area near or surrounding a place.
‘the photogenic purlieus of Cambridge’
1.1 A person's usual haunts.
2British historical A tract on the border of a forest, especially one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws.
‘they wished the purlieus to be completely free from the Forest law’
September 10, 2017
Gammerstang commented on the word trapdyke
A dike is "a sheet of rock that formed in a crack in a pre-existing rock
body".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dike_%28geology%29
The climbers' use of "trap dike" seems to be for a formation where the
rock of the dike has eroded faster than the surrounding rock to form a
substantial crevice.
This is a trap dike:
http://images.everytrail.com/pics/fullsize/2525757-Colden_With_L.G._Outing_Club_10-14-96_26.jpg
from:
http://www.everytrail.com/guide/mt-colden-via-the-trapdike
September 10, 2017