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qms commented on the word tufthunter
Their scorn could hardly be blunter
But insults or slights don’t affront her.
In rock she’s a “roadie,”
More generally - “toady,”
And formerly known as tufthunter.
Michael Quinion has an excellent discussion of this word at
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-tuf2.htm
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word monotwist
Goto monotwist.
A Rubik's cube transformation that twists 2 corner pieces.
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word come-down
"They were foot ballers from all over the state, had their come downs in Adelaide"
- Spotted in an Objectivity video, so I assume it's real Australianese for 'come down for a visit'.
watch?v=FtEQuM7JmdI
On Twitter, it seems to refer to withdrawal symptoms from caffeine or some substance.
April 25, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word manosphere
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/suspect-in-deadly-toronto-van-rampage-to-face-court-hearing-as-motive-for-attack-remains-unclear/2018/04/24/ef9aa956-474e-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html
Rodger, who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after the 2014 attack, left behind an extensive digital history, including a YouTube video in which he vowed a “day of retribution” against the women who had sexually rejected him. Rodger’s online history indicated he may have identified himself as an “incel,” or an involuntary celibate, and of the anti-feminist “manosphere.”
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word Hulse
Missed opportunity to call it a "hulsar".
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word Thyme Lord
Think of Alton Brown and you'll know what a Thyme Lord is.
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word revisionist history
Basically, it's what Adam Conover does.
April 24, 2018
MaryW commented on the word bibliometrics
Po-Shen Lee, Jevin D. West & Bill Howe, Viziometrics: Analyzing Visual Information in the Scientific Literature, IEEE Transactions in Big Data, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 1, 2018)April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word devilatry
Worship of devils; worship of the Devil.
April 24, 2018
MaryW commented on the word scientometrics
Po-Shen Lee, Jevin D. West & Bill Howe, Viziometrics: Analyzing Visual Information in the Scientific Literature, IEEE Transactions in Big Data, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 1, 2018)April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word spirit animal
...
April 24, 2018
MaryW commented on the word viziometrics
Po-Shen Lee, Jevin D. West & Bill Howe, Viziometrics: Analyzing Visual Information in the Scientific Literature, IEEE Transactions in Big Data, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 1, 2018)April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word timepleaser
Antonym: freethinker
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word Satanolatry
The worship of Satan.
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word Belialatry
Worship of Belial.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word Human Interference Task Force
See also atomic priesthood.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word kthnxby
Was nice knowing you.
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word atomic priesthood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word electron capture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_capture
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word millisecond pulsar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millisecond_pulsar
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word ARPANET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word kthnxby
Okay, thank you. Goodbye.
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word aiight
https://tinyurl.com/pc5szge
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word ringularity
https://tinyurl.com/yckfw7a3
April 24, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word fish-ball
It's something that sounds infinitely more appetizing than a foot-ball.
April 24, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word tzitzit
No pronunciation available.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word fish-ball
If fish-ball = fish-cake, then clearly ball = cake.
So what is a cake ball?
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word scoggan
Also scoggin.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word out-curve
CDC's resident hyphenator has been putting in the overtime.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word youthening
"Only 9 percent of white Christians are young millennials, compared with 21 percent of Asian Christians and 16 percent of Latino Christians. Some 17 percent of white Christians are from the so-called silent generation. No other group comes close. In other words, white Christians are aging. Christians of color are youthening."
- Stephen Carter, Bloomberg, 24 April 2018, https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-ugly-coded-critique-of-chick-fil-as-christianity/ar-AAwg9Dg?ocid=spartanntp
April 24, 2018
qms commented on the word bibliopolist
The pages of books can offer this:
A personal mental Acropolis,
A temple and shrine
That’s uniquely mine
Whose priest is the old bibliopolist.
April 24, 2018
ismailvtl commented on the user ismailvtl
dictionary
April 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word atlantification
The warming of the arctic ocean and the influx of Atlantic species. Probably should be Capitalized
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word frik
frick.
April 23, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word ntz
Same as oontz but pronounced quickly without the "oo".
April 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word Stanicky
Bollocks. The capital of Paraguay is Asunción and using online maps I can't find any city in the world called Stanicky.
April 23, 2018
turgutbekil commented on the list turgut-first-list
testing
April 23, 2018
turgutbekil commented on the list turgut-first-list
test
April 23, 2018
MaryW commented on the word cliometrics
Robert D. Hershey Jr., Douglass C. North, Maverick Economist and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 95, N.Y. Times (Nov. 24, 2015)April 23, 2018
bilby commented on the user Gammerstang
Calm down a bit. If you post too many comments in a row it floods them off the Community page before anyone actually gets a chance to see them.
April 23, 2018
qms commented on the word vowess
They prayed, “May the Good Lord endow us
With a novice of kitchen skill prowess.”
He answered their plea
With well-fed Marie,
The convent’s most welcome new vowess.
April 23, 2018
CMunk commented on the word they'm
I've just come across this word. From what little research I have done, it looks like a contraction of "they am" used in the Bristol dialect. (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:T9p1H-4MuxsJ:www.thedialectdictionary.com/view/letter/Bristol/7703/+&cd=1&hl=da&ct=clnk&gl=uk)
April 23, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word magnetotail
An odd-looking word.
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word lamb's-wool
(noun) - (1) A favorite liquor among the common people, composed of ale and roasted apples. The pulp of the roasted apple was worked up with the ale till the mixture formed a smooth beverage. Fanciful etymologies for this popular word have been thought of, but it was probably named from its smoothness, resembling the wool of lambs. --Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859 (2) The pulpe of the roasted apples, in number foure or five, according to the greatnesse of the apples, mixed in a quart of faire water, laboured together untill it come to be as apples and ale, which we call lambes-wooll. --Thomas Johnson's Gerard's Herball, 1633 (3) A corruption of la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word gipsying-party
(noun) - A party who meet to frolic in the open air. --John Ogilvie's Comprehensive English Dictionary, 1865
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word fletcherize
(verb) - To chew thoroughly. --Mitford Mathews' Dictionary of Americanisms, 1956
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word basket-fortune
(noun) - A small fortune, said of a girl's marriage-portion. --William Cope's Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases, 1883
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word manners-bit
(noun) - (1) A portion of a dish left by the guests, that the host may not feel himself reproached for insufficient preparation. --Joseph Hunter's Hallamshire Glossary, 1829 (2) A morsel left in a dish to avoid the imputation of greediness. --T. Ellwood Zell's Popular Encyclopedia, 1871
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word bauk
(noun) - (1) A ridge of land left unploughed. --Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 (2) As used in Scotland, a strip two or three feet in breadth. --John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word dismurderized
(adjective) - Divested of the character of murder; pronounced to be not murder. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word lottery-barber
(noun) - Where a man, for being shaved and paying three-pence, may stand a chance of getting ten pound. --The London Annual Register, 1777
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word aeroflation
(noun) - Passing through the air in balloons. --Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, 1806
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word bone-orchard
(noun) - A slang name for a cemetery. --Ramon Adams' Western Words: A Dictionary of the Range, Cow Camps, and Trail, 1946
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word neezled
(adjective) - A little drunk or intoxicated. --Walter Skeat's North of England Words, 1873
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word Jerusalem-pony
(noun) - A donkey or ass, evidently allusive to our Savior's entrance into Jerusalem on an ass. --G.F. Northall's Warwickshire Word-Book, 1896
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word forakers
(noun) - The "closet of decency," or "house of office." Very likely from "four acres," the original "necessary" having been, in all likelihood, a field behind the school. --John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word pollincter
(noun) - One who prepares materials for embalming the dead; from Latin pollinctus, French polingère, to wash and prepare a corpse for a funeral. --William Whitney's Century Dictionary, 1889
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word false generations
(pl. noun) - Bastard offspring. Cymbeline. --C.H. Herford's Notes on the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word cliquant
(adjective) - Glittering with gold. The word was properly used of thin sheets of gold, and hence already suggests the golden sheen made more definite by the words: "Today the French, all cliquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, shone down the English." Henry VIII. --C.H. Herford's Glossary of the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word three outs
(pl. noun) - When three persons go into a public-house, call for liquor generally considered sufficient for two, and have a glass which will divide it into three equal portions, they are said to "drink three outs." --James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word womblety-cropt
(noun) - The indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch. --James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word friar's chicken
(noun) - Chicken broth with eggs dropped in it, or eggs beaten and mixed in it. --William Whitney's Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word monographer
(noun) - A writer of a monograph, a paper or treatise written on one particular subject. --Daniel Lyons' The American Dictionary of the English Language, 1897
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word pulletier
(noun) - The keeper of the sacred chickens observed for purposes of augury; adopted from Old French pouletier, poultry-keeper. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1909
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word Yorkshire compliment
(noun) - A gift of something useless to the giver. Sometimes called a "North-country compliment." --John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word neck and crop
(adverb) - The medieval English croppe and the Anglo-Saxon cropp both meant the top of a plant; the Old French croup meant the top of a hill. Thus, crop has come to mean the top of anything, including the ears of corn at the top of the stalk and the head of a man. The Norwegian nakk meant a knoll, or top of a hill. Thus neck and crop is simply a strengthening of the idea. To fall neck and crop is to crash completely. --Edwin Radford's Encyclopaedia of Phrases and Origins, 1945
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word awarpen
(adjective) - Thrown or cast. --Richard Verstegan's A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, 1605
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word hello girl
(noun) - (1) A girl who operates a telephone switchboard. --William Craigie's Dictionary of American English, 1940 (2) The use of the word "hello" is rigorously barred to the "hello girl." --Booklover's Magazine, October 1903 (3) We had visitors anxious to listen to the sweet voice of the "hello girl." --Boston Transcript, February 1908
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word pigsnye
(noun) - A darling; a "dear little pig's eye." Commonly used as an endearing form of address to a girl. Charles Dickens called his wife "dearest mouse" and "dearest darling pig." --Walter Skeat's Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, 1914
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word vowelled
(adjective) - Supplied or provided with vowels, especially to an unusual extent. Also with qualifying terms, as well-vowelled. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word bobbersome
(adjective) - Elated; in high spirits. --John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 1825
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word seabeat
(adjective) - Dashed about by the waves. --William Perry's Royal Standard English Dictionary, 1809
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word prayer-bones
(pl. noun) - The knees. --John Farmer's Americanisms Old and New, 1889
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word rollipoke
(noun) - (1) Coarse hempen cloth; Eastern England. --James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855 (2) Hempen cloth of very coarse texture. Perhaps so named because only fit to be used as bags or wrappers for rolls or bales of finer goods. --Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word begunked
(adjective) - Bewildered, surprised, disappointed. --Michael Traynor's The English Dialect of Donegal, 1953
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word slocket
(verb) - To commit a petty theft; to pilfer. --Major B. Lowsley's Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, 1888
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word gone dead
(adjective) - Always used for dead. --J.D. Robertson's Glossary of Archaic Gloucestershire Words, 1890
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word vivers
(pl. noun) - (1) Food provisions, victuals, eatables; adaptation of Old French vivres, plural of vivre, food, sustenance. Only Scottish until the nineteenth century. Its later currency is probably due to its frequent occurrence in Waverly novels. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928 (2) From Latin vivo, to live. --Edward Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1895
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word rhetoricate
(verb) - To play the actor. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word All Sir Garnet
(slang phrase) - Going well. A reference to the brilliant military successes of Sir Garnet Wolseley during the Egyptian campaign of the '80s. "How's the war? All Sir Garnet." --Edwin Radford's Encyclopaedia of Phrases and Origins, 1945
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word starry-gazy-pie
(noun) - A pie made of herring-like pilchards and leeks, the heads of the pilchards appearing throughout the crust as if they were studying the sky. --James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word blurry
(noun/verb) - A breakdown. To commit a blunder. --Rev. Alfred Easther's Glossary of Almondbury and Huddersfield, 1883
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word furk
(verb) - To expell; to be furked, to be expelled; Winchester School Glossary. --William Cope's Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases, 1883
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word tut-bargain
(noun) - Among miners, a bargain "by the lump." --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word chincough
(noun) - A disease, often epidemic among children; the whooping-cough. From Dutch kind, a child, and kuch, cough. --John Ogilvie's Comprehensive English Dictionary, 1865
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word pulicosity
(noun) - An abundance of, or being full of fleas. --Daniel Fenning's Royal English Dictionary, 1775
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word muckinger
(noun) - A pocket handkerchief. --Walter Skeat's Glossary of English Dialects in Poetry, 1896
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word poothery
(adjective) - Muggy, sultry; spoken of the weather. --William Marshall's Agricultural Provincialisms of the Midland Station, 1790
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word manqueller
(noun) - A murderer, a killer of men; from man, and Saxon cwellan, to kill. More anciently it meant an executioner. Dame Quickly in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV adds woman-queller, which shows that she understood the first word: "Thou art a honyseed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller." --Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word buckle and tongue
(slang) - To make buckle and tongue meet, to make ends meet. "Beginning without money, he had as much as he could do to make buckle and tongue meet," as the phrase goes. Harper's Magazine, April 1888. --William Cragie's Dictionary of American English, 1940
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word rope-sick
(adjective) - Diseased in the ropes, or entrails. --T. Lewis Davies' Supplimental English Glossary, 1881
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word steehopping
(verb) - (1) Gadding abroad idly to hear or carry news. Possibly from eve-droppings, and may denote the conduct of eve-droppers, who harken for news under windows; expressive of the talebearer's chief employment, to carry stories from house to house. --Frederick Elworthy's Specimens of English Dialects, 1778 (2) Usually applied to women, but not always; not used in any other sense. "Her is always steehopping about; better fit her would abide at home and mind her own house, same as I be forced to." --Frederick Elworthy's The West Somerset Word Book, 1888
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word blackwork
(noun) - An undertaker's business. --Granville Leveson-Gower's A Glossary of Surrey Words, 1893
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word whitwhat
(adjective) - Unstable; changeable. --W.E.T. Morgan's Radnorshire Words, 1881
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word horse-bread
(noun) - (1) A peculiar sort of bread made for feeding horses. --Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859 (2) Take two bushels of good clean beans and one bushel of wheat, and grind them together. Then, through a fine sieve bolt out the quantity of two pecks of pure meal and bake it in two or three loaves by itself. The rest sift through a meal sieve and knead it with water and good store of barme yeast. And so, bake it in great loaves, and with the coarser bread feed your horse in his rest. --Gervase Markham's Country Contentments, 1615
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word uts
(interjection) - A term of encouragement to dogs, generally to incite them to fight. "Uts! Uts to 'n!" --R. Pearse Chope's The Dialect of Hartland, Devonshire, 1891
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word flahooler
(noun) - A generous, big-hearted, good-natured person, with also an implied sense of gaity or flippancy. --Michael Traynor's The English Dialect of Donegal, 1953
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word peat-reek-whisky
(noun) - Highland whisky, distilled over peat fires. --Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word chronogram
(noun) - One of the simplest devices of the word-juggler, and as old as the Romans. It consists in selecting certain letters indicating a date from a name or an inscription on a tomb, an arch, or a medal, printing them larger than the others, and obtaining thereby a date which is regarded as an augury. In some chronograms only the initial letters are counted as forming the solutions to the puzzle, but in others all the characters used for Roman numerals are taken into account. History supplies many first-rate chronograms. In fact it was once the custom to strike medals with chronogramic sentences in which the date of the occasion commemorated was set forth by the letters selected. --Henry Reddall's Fact, Fancy, and Fable, 1889
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word sleeveless
(adjective) - As the meaning of the expression, "to sleeve a two," appears plainly to be to twist or fold silk thread so subtle that it is difficult to untwist it, sleeveless then should seem to mean "that which cannot be unfolded or explained." --John Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities, 1813
April 23, 2018