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On the word 'assignation', over 3 years ago

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:19:47 -0800

Has anyone ever seen this word used to mean anything other than tryst?

On the word 'gorgeous', over 3 years ago

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:13:54 -0800

I find it funny that a word meaning "surpassingly beautiful" has gorge as its root, given that the only time anyone uses the word gorge in that sense today is talking about vomiting.

On the word 'strength', over 3 years ago

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:53:39 -0800

By gum, you're right. And now the barbell is even more lopsided...

On the word 'strength', over 3 years ago

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:48:21 -0800

I've always liked this word because it's the longest word in the language with just one vowel: I have this goofy image of the e in the middle as a bodybuilder lifting a massive barbell composed of the other letters.

On the word 'snippid', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:59:00 -0800

If we are to believe Hobbes, the way that wet leaves smell

On the word 'hot-diggety-dog', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:54:30 -0800

It helps if you imagine that you're Archie Andrews when you say this.

On the word 'coruscating', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:43:45 -0800

Another word that, to me at least, communicates something of its meaning through its sound-I always picture the light playing along the word as the syllables roll out.

On the word 'skiver', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 19:57:56 -0800

I use this as a synonmym for "shirker," which is apparently not a terribly common usage. Huh.

On the word 'carcharodon', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:26:21 -0800

Literally, "ragged tooth"

On the word 'cacophony', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:01:00 -0800

I actually think it's a great word because it sounds like what it is-a particularly complex onomatopeia.

On the word 'haver', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:59:05 -0800

To hesitate

On the word 'rannygazoo', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:58:27 -0800

The run-around, nonsense: "Don't give me any rannygazoo." P.G. Wodehouse era slang.

On the word 'intelligentsia', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:38:47 -0800

There's an connotation to this word of futile oppositionism; I'm not entirely sure I'd use it for most groupings of intellectuals.

On the word 'inexactitude', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:34:52 -0800

This, like sesquipedalian, is a word that describes itself, or so think I.

On the word 'awesomeness', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:28:21 -0800

No one's got this yet? Awesomeness!

On the word 'psephology', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:07:21 -0800

Derived from the pebbles used to vote in ancient Greece.

On the word 'selachophobia', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:04:57 -0800

A fear of, among other things, Carcharodon carcharias.

On the word 'catalanotto', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:01:16 -0800

It's a name, but it's a good one.

On the word 'carcherodon', over 3 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:51:27 -0800

Ragged tooth.