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Looking Words Up is Time-Consuming, Dangerous, and Leads to Too Many Lists

A list of 131 words by chained_bear.

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Stuff found while looking up other stuff, and there's no place to put this stuff.

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  • yarb A species of weevil found in the hulls of whaling vessels. Jan 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu *should be wary, but isn't*

    What's a balrog? Jan 4, 2011

  • chained_bear Also, I think that whole concept came up on the Aubrey/Maturin list, which (if you think THIS is a black hole) I recommend not delving too deeply or greedily, because a balrog may come up. Jan 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Oh, man... now you've got me looking. It seems to be a panacea and a mithridate. And there's something to do with Galen.

    *starts muttering to self* Jan 4, 2011

  • chained_bear Well, no, because I still haven't found out WTF it is. Jan 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu *flounces in*

    Couldn't you just make a confectio Damocritis list?

    *flounces off*
    Jan 4, 2011

  • chained_bear Ha ha ha!!! That's perfect! This list is all Wikipedia's fault. Dec 3, 2008

  • pterodactyl I love this list! It reminds me of this cartoon. Dec 3, 2008

  • chained_bear To say nothing of the fact that I'd really like to put some kind of note on the word to remind me what I was looking for when I found it. For example, in my innocent attempt to tag (with something) my months-old entry confectio Damocritis (which I STILL cannot spell without looking), I found about fifty new words that begged to be listed, somewhere. But I'll never remember that I found it when looking for confectio Damocritis, without a note. This may be the perfect use of private notes, it's true, but it seems like something other Wordie denizens might want to see.

    But then, if I put a note on each one of those words, there'd be this huge long list of identical comments streaming past on the front page and someone's bound to get ticked.

    Oh well. I'll figure out a solution someday. Oct 16, 2008

  • reesetee Ha! That's why I have 26 separate lists by alphabet.

    *sigh* Oct 15, 2008