A list of 122 words by sionnach.
- sanctum appears on 25 other lists
- akimbo appears on 169 other lists
- amok appears on 58 other lists
- riddance appears on 6 other lists
- druthers appears on 49 other lists
- trove appears on 17 other lists
- caboodle appears on 21 other lists
- immemorial appears on 20 other lists
- blithering appears on 9 other lists
- dudgeon appears on 70 other lists
- swaddling appears on 9 other lists
- askance appears on 104 other lists
- gainful appears on 6 other lists
- kith appears on 41 other lists
- shebang appears on 22 other lists
- bygones appears on 7 other lists
- aforethought appears on 1 other list
- flotsam appears on 80 other lists
- jetsam appears on 42 other lists
- brimstone appears on 28 other lists
- betwixt appears on 93 other lists
- escutcheon appears on 93 other lists
- aback appears on 13 other lists
- cahoots appears on 54 other lists
- bumpkin appears on 42 other lists
- loggerheads appears on 12 other lists
- haywire appears on 11 other lists
- lickety appears on just this list
- breakneck appears on 8 other lists
- roughshod appears on 13 other lists
- spick appears on 4 other lists
- thataway appears on 6 other lists
- foregone appears on 5 other lists
- sleight appears on 25 other lists
- graven appears on 15 other lists
- raring appears on 4 other lists
- dragout appears on just this list
- pinking appears on just this list
- aweigh appears on 4 other lists
- wreak appears on 17 other lists
- turpitude appears on 118 other lists
- fettle appears on 28 other lists
- shrift appears on 14 other lists
- dander appears on 19 other lists
- aspersions appears on 14 other lists
- edgewise appears on 5 other lists
- umbrage appears on 182 other lists
- fritz appears on 12 other lists
- knoll appears on 27 other lists
- duress appears on 46 other lists
- muchness appears on 3 other lists
- fro appears on 5 other lists
- beck appears on 16 other lists
- hunker appears on 14 other lists
- dribs appears on 1 other list
- drabs appears on 1 other list
- arrant appears on 75 other lists
- cranny appears on 11 other lists
- doggo appears on 4 other lists
- sheep's clothing appears on 1 other list
- ulterior appears on 41 other lists
- scantily appears on 5 other lists
- fangled appears on 1 other list
- pimpernel appears on 6 other lists
- pottage appears on 12 other lists
- wrack appears on 26 other lists
- yore appears on 25 other lists
- craw appears on 7 other lists
- grist appears on 26 other lists
- snook appears on 10 other lists
- trice appears on 30 other lists
- wend appears on 62 other lists
- cropper appears on 5 other lists
- gunpoint appears on 3 other lists
- retrospect appears on 27 other lists
- run-around appears on just this list
- light fantastic appears on just this list
- dint appears on 45 other lists
- unbeknownst appears on 24 other lists
- curiouser appears on 8 other lists
- deaf ears appears on just this list
- wherefores appears on just this list
- red-handed appears on 4 other lists
- lam appears on 5 other lists
- vantage appears on 11 other lists
- unsung appears on 8 other lists
- briny appears on 18 other lists
- misspent appears on just this list
- ill-gotten appears on 2 other lists
- wishful appears on 9 other lists
- barefaced appears on 18 other lists
- unquote appears on just this list
- reflux appears on 7 other lists
- pyrrhic appears on 94 other lists
- circadian appears on 33 other lists
- neap appears on 12 other lists
- aggrandizement appears on 20 other lists
- alack appears on 18 other lists
- suasion appears on 16 other lists
- lucre appears on 58 other lists
- madding appears on 3 other lists
- scaredy appears on 1 other list
- unmitigated appears on 27 other lists
- best-laid appears on just this list
- sleekit appears on 12 other lists
- agley appears on 7 other lists
- inalienable appears on 12 other lists
- whited appears on 2 other lists
- jughandle appears on 1 other list
- extenuating appears on 6 other lists
- kamikaze appears on 17 other lists
- deadbeat appears on 12 other lists
- aurora appears on 81 other lists
- petrarchan appears on 2 other lists
- rosy-fingered appears on 4 other lists
- wine-dark appears on 2 other lists
- snotgreen appears on 2 other lists
- scrotumtightening appears on 2 other lists
- wuthering appears on 14 other lists
- witchetty appears on 2 other lists
- site-directed appears on just this list
- damsel appears on 27 other lists
bilby Whaddyall think about bystander? Maybe not amber enough, yet. Mar 28, 2011
yarb mete Mar 28, 2011
bilby luke Nov 1, 2009
bilby madding? Aug 27, 2009
mollusque Scaredy? May 31, 2009
sionnach There is a second, reasonably common, phrase involving "craythur": "Stick to the craythur", so I must, with regret, leave it off the list. Dec 30, 2008
bilby Wicket? Can't agree there. Craythur came up yesterday. Dec 12, 2008
yaybob This is a terrific idea - giving this concept a name. I shall add it to my vocabulary and begin posting them when I notice one.
How about wicket? fair-weathered? tuck? unbeknownst?
Dec 11, 2008
sionnach Thanks, sarra. Duly added. Nov 2, 2008
sarra I submit fro, and beck. Nov 1, 2008
sarra abetting too, though I was reminded of it just now by seeing it alone! Feb 14, 2008
sarra pique has two separate applications, but little more. Might it count?
dander is like haw for me: mostly, it stands alone. betwixt too, to a lesser degree. Jan 27, 2008
mollusque Does zoot qualify? It never had a much of separate existence, though OED2 does list zoot-shirt and zooty. Nov 9, 2007
reesetee Wouldn't that be great? A knell of joy. :-) Nov 8, 2007
yarb Ha. I read (and dare I say enjoyed) that poem at university but no, memorisation was not required.
Even here though the sense is of departure, death. Could one, for example have a knell of joy? Nov 8, 2007
sionnach yarb: Guess you didn't have to memorize Gray's "Elegy' in school then?
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
and on, for many more stanzas ..... Nov 8, 2007
yarb Knoll is not an amber word for me, nor I suspect for other non-American post-Kennedy English speakers. Knell, on the other hand, is fossilised in "death knell". Nov 8, 2007
sionnach I'm adding knoll to this list because it seems to me that, ever since November 1963, it is inextricably linked to the adjective grassy. Nov 8, 2007
reesetee Quite so. Tough list--I love the challenge! Feb 27, 2007
sionnach I've seen haw used to designate a kind of shrub; also, given the prevalence of the term "to off s.o." in the context of assorted TV reality shows of the "Survivor" genre, I reluctantly rejected "offing" as it could now plausibly appear in sentences such as "who are the WAAMU tribe offing this week?" Feb 27, 2007
reesetee How about fritz, as in "on the fritz"? Then there's haw ("hem and haw"), offing ("in the offing"), and umbrage ("take umbrage"). Feb 27, 2007
sionnach how about trollop? perhaps brazenness is already intrinsic to trollopdom.
considered, but not included gibbous, briny, fatted, scruff, because I have seen these words refer to something other than the moon, the deep, a calf, or one's neck, though rarely. Similarly, unsung.
on the fence about reflux, nitty, beck Feb 26, 2007
seanahan I prefer to use hussy by itself, and pair brazen with harlot. I believe I first saw the latter paired in a Clive Cussler novel. Feb 26, 2007
trivet You're right, even if I still think that brazen & hussy go together like rama lama ding dong.
How about wreak? Feb 26, 2007
pamelad Escutcheons only come with blots. Feb 25, 2007
sionnach I'm guessing you are thinking of 'brazen hussey', but since brazen shows up in other contexts, e.g. 'to brazen it out', I don't think it's eligible. 'Hearth' doesn't seem like a word that occurs in only one phrase. I'm on the fence about 'hale'. Feb 25, 2007
trivet Neat list!
brazen, hither/thither, hale, betwixt, hearth, flotsam, brimstone? Feb 25, 2007
sionnach In some sense, simply being on this list should imply that no further explanation of the word in question is necessary, because the reader should be able to associate it immediately with the single expression in which it occurs, obviating the need for further explication.
if you know what i mean.. Feb 25, 2007