Dan337 has looked up 4315 words, created 28 lists, listed 826 words, written 187 comments, added 670 tags, and loved 176 words.
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Did you ever find an answer for your question about transformed words or phrases?
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Is there a word that describes a phrase or word that, when all of its voiced consonants are replaced with their respective unvoiced counterparts and conversely, continues to be a bona fide phrase or word? For example, “bat” (/bæt/) and “pad” (/pæd/) become one another under this transformation; as do (the General American pronunciations of) “dog” (/dɔɡ/) and “talk” (/tɔk/).
If not, what would be a good neologism to describe this? -
Thanks for all your entertaining contributions and for the kind offer of your nuncle.
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Those anadromes are awesome. Welcome to Wordnik--hope you're having fun here!
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Thanks, Dan. It looks like the only other instance your search found with two i's changing to a's is Mimi / mama, so the pattern is rarer than I thought. The only others I know of are ibis, iris, pipi, and titi.
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@mollusque: That’s an odd one, but sure, why not? (Beware that I added an invisible Unicode word joiner after each left square-bracket to keep Wordnik from rendering it as a link to a word, so you’ll have to kill them if you cut-and-paste this.)
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That gives you the transformed words; you’ll have to deduce the originals. And the words are
grep --fixed-strings --ignore-case --no-filename a \
/usr/share/dict/*-english |
tr -dc '\n:alpha:' |
tr ':upper:' ':lower:' |
tr a i |
sort --unique
grep --fixed-strings --ignore-case --no-filename i \
/usr/share/dict/*-english |
grep --fixed-strings --ignore-case --invert-match a |
tr -dc '\n:alpha:' |
tr ':upper:' ':lower:' |
sort --unique
} |
sort |
uniq --repeated |
sed 's/./&^[:alpha:]*/g; s/.*/^^[:alpha:]*&$/' |
grep --file=- --ignore-case --no-filename \
/usr/share/dict/*-english |
sort --uniquebegin, Begin, Bi, bicker, bickers, bid, bidder, bide, big, biggie, biggies, biggie's, bike, biked, biker, bikers, bikes, bike's, biking, bile, bile's, bilk, bilked, bilking, bilks, bill, Bill, billed, billet, billets, billet's, billing, bills, bill's, Bill's, bin, bind, binding, binds, binged, binging, binned, binning, bins, bin's, bird, Bird, birds, bird's, Bird's, birth, births, birth's, Bi's, bisque, bisque's, bit, bitch, bitched, bitches, bitching, bitch's, bite, bites, biting, bits, bit's, bitten, bitter, bitters, blind, blinder, blindest, blindly, blindness, blindness's, blink, blinked, blinker, blinking, blinks, blister, blisters, blister's, blitz, blitz's, Brice, Brice's, brig, Briggs, brigs, brig's, Brit, Brits, Brit's, chid, chimp, chimps, chimp's, chin, Ch'in, chins, chip, chipped, chipping, chips, chip's, chit, chits, chit's, Christi, Christi's, Ci, Cid, Cid's, Cindy, Cindy's, civil, click, clicked, clicking, clicks, click's, climber, climbers, climber's, cling, clinging, clings, clink, clinked, clinking, clinks, clip, clipped, clipper, clippers, clipper's, clipping, clips, coil, coiled, coiling, coils, collectible, collectibles, countersink, cretin, crib, cribbed, cribbing, cribs, crib's, crick, Crick, cricked, cricking, cricks, crick's, Crick's, crimp, crimped, crimping, crimps, debited, debiting, debris, decide, decides, Denis, deprive, deprived, deprives, depriving, dibble, dibbled, dibbles, dibble's, dibbling, did, Dido, Dido's, digger, diggers, digger's, dillies, dilly, dim, dime, dimes, dime's, dimmed, dimming, dims, din, dine, dines, dins, din's, dipper, Dipper, dippers, dipper's, Dipper's, dire, dirk, Dirk, dirt, dirt's, dish, dished, dishes, dishing, district, districts, district's, dive, dives, Doris, drift, drifted, drifting, drifts, drink, Elinor, Elinor's, elite, elites, elite's, Ellis, Elvis, Eris, extendible, fices, fiction, fictions, fiction's, fictitious, fig, figged, figging, figs, fig's, fill, filling, fills, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, filter's, fin, finny, fins, fin's, fir, fire, fired, fires, fire's, firing, firm, firmed, firmer, firming, firms, fist, fists, fist's, fit, fitness, fitness's, fits, fit's, fitter, fittest, fix, fixed, fixes, fixing, flick, flicks, flip, flipped, flipper, flippers, flipper's, flipping, flips, flit, flits, flitted, flitting, foil, foiled, foiling, foils, forbid, forgive, friction, friction's, frizzle, frizzled, frizzles, frizzling, gig, gigged, gigging, giggle, giggles, gigs, gig's, Gil, Giles, gill, Gill, gills, gill's, Gill's, Gil's, girth, girths, girth's, Gish, give, glide, glides, grid, griding, grids, grid's, grim, grind, grinder, grinds, gripe, griped, gripes, griping, Gris's, groin, groins, groin's, heir, heirs, heir's, hi, hick, hicks, hick's, Hicks, hid, hided, hides, hiding, hike, hikes, hill, Hill, hills, hill's, Hill's, hilt, hilts, hilt's, him, hims, hind, hinds, hinged, hinging, hippier, hippiest, hippy, hire, hired, hires, hiring, his, hit, hitch, hitched, hitches, hitching, hits, hitter, hitters, hitter's, hitting, hive, hives, hive's, hiving, i, I, ibises, ice, iced, ices, ice's, icing, id, I'd, idler, idlers, idler's, ids, id's, ill, Ill, I'll, illusion, illusions, illusion's, illusive, I'm, imminence, imminent, imp, imply, imps, imp's, in, In, Ind, Ind's, Indy, Indy's, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibits, inkling, inn, inns, inn's, instil, instill, instilled, instilling, instills, instils, interior, inti, intone, intones, Ir, ire, ires, ire's, iris, Iris, irises, irk, irks, iron, irons, iron's, Ir's, is, Ispell, Ispell's, isthmi, it, It, its, it's, I've, Ives, jib, jibbed, jibbing, jibs, jib's, jig, jigged, jigger, jiggers, jigger's, jigs, jig's, Jim, Jim's, jingle, jingled, jingles, jingling, jinni, jinnis, jinni's, join, joins, Joni's, kins, kin's, kite, kites, kite's, knickers, knives, Kristi, Kristi's, lei, Leiden, Leif, Leif's, leis, lei's, Li, lib, libel, libeled, libeling, libelled, libelling, libels, libel's, libs, lib's, lice, lice's, lick, licked, licking, licks, lid, lids, lid's, like, liked, likes, liking, limb, limbs, limb's, lime, limed, limes, lime's, liming, limp, limps, Lin, Lind, Lind's, line, lines, line's, link, linker, Lin's, lip, lips, lip's, Li's, list, listed, listing, lists, list's, lite, liter, lithe, lither, litter, loin, loins, loin's, Lori, Lori's, mi, mice, mice's, Mich, Mich's, Mick, Mick's, microcosm, microcosms, microcosm's, micron, microns, micron's, microscopic, mid, midge, midges, midge's, mike, Mike, mikes, mike's, Mike's, miking, mile, miles, mile's, Miles, mill, Mill, milled, millet, Millet, millet's, Millet's, milling, mills, mill's, Mills, Mill's, Mimi, Mimi's, Min, Mindy, Mindy's, mine, mines, mingle, mingled, mingles, mingling, mini, minis, Minn, Minn's, minor, minors, Min's, minx, Mir, mire, mires, mire's, Mir's, mi's, miss, Miss, missed, misses, Misses, missing, missive, mist, mister, Mister, misters, mister's, Mister's, mists, mist's, MIT, Mitch, Mitch's, mite, mites, mite's, MIT's, mitt, mitts, mitt's, mix, mixed, mixes, mixing, Morin, Morin's, Neil, Neil's, Nevis, Ni, nib, nibbed, nibbing, nibs, nib's, ninnies, ninny, ninny's, nip, nipped, nippier, nippiest, nipping, nippy, nips, Ni's, nit, nits, nit's, Oise's, O'Neil, Orin, Orin's, Pei, penis, pi, pick, picked, picker, pickers, picker's, picket, pickets, picket's, picking, pickings, picks, Pict, Pict's, piddle, piddled, piddles, piddling, pile, piled, piles, pile's, piling, pilings, piling's, pill, pills, pill's, pin, pine, pines, pine's, ping, pinged, pinging, pings, ping's, pinned, pinning, pins, pin's, pint, pints, pint's, pip, piper, pipers, piper's, pipped, pipping, pips, pip's, pis, piss, pissed, pisses, pissing, pit, pitch, pitched, pitches, pitching, pith, pith's, pits, pit's, pitted, pitting, preshrink, preventible, prim, prince, Prince, princes, prince's, Prince's, protein, proteins, protein's, pupil, quick, quid, quids, quid's, quirk, quirks, quirk's, quiver, quivered, quivering, quivers, Reggie, Reggie's, Reich, Reid, Reid's, Reilly, remind, reminded, reminding, reminds, rice, Rice, riced, rices, rice's, Rice's, ricing, rick, Rick, ricked, rickets, ricking, ricks, rick's, Rick's, riffle, riffled, riffles, riffling, rift, rifted, rifting, rifts, rift's, rig, rigged, rigging, rigs, rim, rimmed, rimming, rims, rim's, rind, rinds, rind's, ring, ringed, ringer, ringers, ringer's, ringing, rink, rinked, rinking, rinks, rink's, rip, ripe, riped, ripes, riping, ripped, ripper, rippers, ripper's, ripping, rips, rite, rites, rite's, rive, riven, rives, roister, roisters, scribble, scribbled, scribbles, scribbling, scrip, scrips, scrip's, sedition, sedition's, shift, shifted, shifting, shifts, shill, shim, shimmed, shimming, shims, shim's, shine, shines, shire, shires, shire's, shirk, shirked, shirking, shirks, shit, shiver, shivers, shrink, sibling, sic, sick, sicked, sicking, sicks, sics, Sid, side, sides, side's, silk, silks, silk's, sillies, silly, silt, silted, silting, silts, silt's, silver, silvers, silver's, simple, simpled, simpler, simples, simpling, Simpson, Simpson's, Sims, sin, since, sine, sine's, sing, singer, Singer, singers, singer's, Singer's, sings, sink, sins, sin's, sip, sipped, sipping, sips, sisses, sissier, sissiest, sissy, sit, site, sited, sites, site's, siting, sits, six, sixes, six's, skited, skiting, slick, slicked, slicker, slickers, slicker's, slickest, slicking, slickly, slickness, slickness's, slicks, slim, slimmed, slimmer, slimming, slims, sling, slings, sling's, slip, slipped, slipping, slips, slit, slither, slithered, slithering, slithers, slits, sliver, slivered, slivering, slivers, sliver's, sniffle, sniffled, sniffles, sniffling, snip, snipped, snippier, snippiest, snipping, snippy, snips, snitch, snitched, snitches, snitching, spice, spiced, spices, spice's, spicier, spiciest, spicing, spicy, spike, spin, spinner, spinners, spinner's, spinning, spins, spire, spires, spire's, spit, spite, spites, spite's, spits, spitted, spitting, split, splits, splitting, spring, springs, squid, squidded, squidding, squids, squid's, squire, squired, squires, squire's, squiring, squish, squished, squishes, squishier, squishiest, squishing, squishy, stick, sticking, sticks, stick's, stiff, stiffed, stiffer, stiffing, stiffs, stile, stiled, stiles, stile's, stiling, still, stilled, stilling, stills, stink, stinks, stir, Stirling, Stirling's, stirred, stirring, stirs, strife, strife's, stringer, stringers, stringer's, strip, stripped, stripping, strips, swig, swigged, swigging, swigs, swig's, swim, swish, swished, swishes, swishing, switch, switches, switch's, Terri, Terri's, thin, think, thinking, thinks, thrice, thrill, thrilled, thrilling, thrills, thrill's, ti, Ti, tick, ticked, ticking, tickle, tickled, tickles, tickling, ticks, tick's, tike, tikes, tike's, tile, tiles, tile's, till, tiller, Tim, time, timed, timely, timer, timers, timer's, times, time's, timing, Timmy, Timmy's, Tim's, tin, ting, Ting, tingle, tingled, tingles, tingling, tings, Ting's, tinker, tinkers, tinker's, tinned, tinning, tins, tin's, tip, tipped, tipping, tips, tire, tired, tires, tire's, tiring, ti's, Ti's, tit, tits, tit's, titted, titter, tittered, tittering, titters, titting, tittle, tittled, tittles, tittle's, tittling, trice, trice's, trick, tricked, tricking, tricks, trick's, trim, trimmed, trimming, trims, trip, tripped, tripping, trips, trip's, Tunis, twiddle, twiddled, twiddles, twiddling, twinged, twinging, uninhibited, unpick, veil, veiled, veiling, veils, veil's, vile, Vince, Vince's, vine, vines, vine's, vise, vises, vise's, weir, weiring, weirs, weir's, while, whiled, whiles, whiling, whim, whimmed, whimming, whims, whim's, whit, whits, whit's, wide, wider, wig, wigged, wigging, wiggle, wiggled, wiggles, wiggling, Wigner, Wigner's, wigs, wig's, wild, wilds, wile, wiled, wiles, wile's, wiling, will, Will, willed, willing, Willis, willow, willows, willow's, wills, Will's, wilt, Wilton, Wilton's, wilts, win, wind, winds, wind's, wine, wined, wines, wine's, wing, wings, wing's, wining, winner, wire, wires, wire's, wirier, wiriest, wiriness, wiring, wiring's, wiry, Wis, wises, Wise's, wish, wished, wisher, wishers, wishes, wishing, wisp, wisps, wisp's, witch, witched, witches, witching, Witt, Witt's, wive, wives, writhed, writhing, yip, yipped, yipping, yips, yogi, yogis, yogi's, zip, zipped, zipping, zips, & zip's
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Hi Dan, I like your computation on Anadromes. Could you run one that looks for words that remain words if all the a's are changed to i's, e.g., asthma, isthmi; quacksalver, quicksilver. Thanks, Mollusque
Dan337 commented on the word Kundry
Well played.
Sep 25, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word adumbration
Embarrassed, Dan slinks off into an [umbra.]
Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word adumbration
It’s peculiar that the same creepy guy from the umbrage page also appears here. (I apologize in advance on the off chance that he’s one of you creepy guys.) He’s not on the adumbrage page—I checked.
Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word éclat
(I started thumbing through my copy for it, but Google’s faster.)
“Bankruptcy and repudiation are the spring-boards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine. Yet the Middlesex Cattle Show goes off here with éclat annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent.”
— Henry David Thoreau. “Economy”. Walden. 1854.
Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word alnwick
Don’t provoke me into starting an “Alnwick and Sundry” list.
Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word d'autres chats à fouetter
See avoir d'autres chats à fouetter.
Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word nobody expects the French Inquisition!
Thanks. I can’t express how valuable the idiom avoir d'autres chats à fouetter will be to me.
Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word penguin
Ah. I found a thinner one (“ ”), propping up a table leg. With some cropping, your fledgy friend can use this for his visa:
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Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word penguin
Shirley bilby: Here’s a non-breaking space: “ ”. I’ve been using them for indentation ever since we lost the blockquote tag. (It’s a flimsy substitute therefor, but adequate for short lines that won’t wrap.)
Here’s Apsley looking almost into the camera:
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(I’ve got some other widths around here somewhere . . . .)
Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word inchoate
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Do I win? Will you please stop now? Or is this some sort of Bizarro-World book review in which the entire text of a work must appear under the single word that best describes it?
Sep 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word bling
Google Books’ premature presbyopia render it useless for finding early citations of this particular word. I am nonetheless cheered to be reminded of H.G. Wells’ classic story, “The Country of the Bling”:
http://books.google.com/books?id=sok7HQAACAAJ
Sep 23, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word !
Good point. (Sorry—couldn’t resist.) When exclaiming not admiration but disgust (or just clearing one’s throat), one might therefore prefer to employ a probang.
Sep 23, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word cachous
“I am the walrusser.”
Sep 22, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word rhetoric
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Sep 22, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word botel
. . . Than a floating bijouterie?
Sep 22, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word oz
“. . . If ever a vis there was, &c.”
— Harry Arȝ
Sep 21, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word stile
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:
1. A former spelling of style.
Pointedly clears throat. Scans room over bifocals.
2. A former and more correct spelling of style.
(Thanks for the find, ruzuzu.)
Sep 21, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word sporadic
Words that represent “the sound of the thing signified” are onomatopoeic (or, if you prefer, onomatopœic or onomatopoetic); the property itself (as well as its use) is called onomatopoeia. (Wordnik is crawling with lists of examples.)
Sep 20, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word new interface
Running in circles, arms flailing Gaaah! My Wordnik is broken!
Oh, it’s back. I’m OK. Just gotta lie down for a second.
Sep 19, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word bacon
Expanding on whichbe’s suggestion, see also
http://bacolicio.us/http://www.wordnik.com/words/bacon
and, of course,
http://bacolicio.us/http://bacolicio.us/
Sep 19, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word biracial
Printed—especially with Latin alphas—it has a lovely, delicately imperfect symmetry.
Sep 19, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word hoi polloi
Applauds bilby [working the unworkable] The construction bilby describes is also known as tmesis.
Sep 19, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word spatterdash
I’m skeptical of attempts to introduce novel punctuation marks, but if someone comes up with a spatterdash, the name alone might sway me.
Sep 18, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word apocope
I want to build a table on this word, invite over adelaide (she’s too “modern” for capitalization) and her pal the abbé, and serve them edda.
Sep 18, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word rarification
“I do not know,” he began, “if you have ever considered the nature of sound. Suffice to say that it consists of a series of waves moving through the air. Not, however, waves like those on the surface of the sea — oh dear no! Those waves are up and down movements. Sound waves consist of alternate compressions and rarefactions.”
“Rare-what?”
“Rarefactions.”
“Don’t you mean ‘rarefications’?”
“I do not. I doubt if such a word exists, and if it does, it shouldn’t,” retorted Purvis, with the aplomb of Sir Alan Herbert dropping a particularly revolting neologism into his killing-bottle. . . .
— Arthur C. Clarke. “Silence, Please”.
Sep 18, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word frequentative
More examples may be found (or recorded) on the lists “Frequentative”and “Infrequentative”.
Sep 18, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word splatterdash
Spatterdash written with a leaky pen.
Sep 18, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word qooq
A reflection of poop, or a rotation of boob.
Sep 18, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word boob
See also the rotation qooq, and the reflections dood and (as long as we’re all tittering like adolescent schoolboys) poop.
Sep 18, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word swell
It’s comforting to know that a dandy swell is the same thing as a swell dandy.
Sep 17, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word redistribute the poverty
Sep 17, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word gardyloo
See also (the probably unrelated) loo.
Sep 17, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word loo
Slowly backing away Golly, bilby, that sounds . . . swell . . . , but I gotta go . . . uh . . . manicure my . . . um . . . thesauri . . . now. On a different website! Planet! Yeah. OK, gotta go, bye! Flees
Sep 17, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word abandannad
For those who don’t read Arabic, here’s Google’s eloquent translation of sinnoch’s sciscitating verse:
What say? Who me? Rich
Amended and ad? Alawaz? For? About the heart? Na? E?
Mother? DNA? Zdyark? ? J father? J. Waller? Quba?
Heart? Know? O Adhul? B? Disease? E?
More ...
Photo provided
Sep 17, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word Scrabble word
“How ironic! You came here with a mouse in a bottle, now you are the mouse!”
Sep 17, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word kurunj
Barbara Walters: “What kind of Scrabble™ word are you, if you think you’re a valid Scrabble word?”
Katharine Hepburn: “I hope I’m not leguminous.”
Sep 16, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word semitorque
Thank you. I have no further questions.
Sep 16, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word loo
The etymology here appears to refer to division loo (although this wouldn’t be bad terminology for the quite practical arrangement bilby described). I assumed the (currently) more common “loo” was anglicized from l’eau, as in the splendidly historical word gardyloo* (garde à l’eau), but the Online Etymology Dictionary† suggests it’s “probably from Fr. lieux d’aisances, ‘lavatory,’ lit. ‘place of ease’.”
* I am compelled to mention this word, as it was one of many that doomed me to a life of logophilia.
† The other (less reliable) OED
Sep 16, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word loo
(Damn your typo, sionnach—I thought “hidesous” might be an actual word, presumably involving hidden old French copper nickels. Now, if you’ll pardon me, I must visit the lavoratory.)
Sep 16, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word knapbottle
At first glance, I though the definition read “The bladder champion (Silene Inflata).” What, I thought, did Silene do to win such an honor?
(By way of useful comments, see also bladder campion, Silene inflata, Silene vulgaris, Pink family, and inflated calyx.)
Sep 16, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word knapbottle
I have no further questions.
Sep 16, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word pedantize
I try to get up an hour or two early every morning to pedantize before breakfast.
Sep 8, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word mendaciloquence
I prefer* the phrasing “adroit prevarication”—it has a nice rhythm, and bundles notions of direction and misdirection together in a metaphor of motion. Adroit descends from Latin directus—“straight”—and to prevaricate from Latin praevaricari—literally, “to walk crookedly”, so there’s also an etymological oxymoron hidden inside. Honestly. Trust me.
(Or see http://OneLook.com/?w=mendaciloquence if you don't.)
* Ignoring, of course, the important principle that dictionaries should always use the simplest language possible.
Sep 8, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word illicit
“The lawyer tries to elicit a description of the attacker from the witness. ‘Elicit’ is always a verb. ‘Illicit,’ in contrast, is always an adjective describing something illegal or naughty.”
— Paul Brians. “Elicit/Illicit”. Common Errors in English Usage
Sep 7, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word elicit
“The lawyer tries to elicit a description of the attacker from the witness. ‘Elicit’ is always a verb. ‘Illicit,’ in contrast, is always an adjective describing something illegal or naughty.”
— Paul Brians. “Elicit/Illicit”. Common Errors in English Usage
Sep 7, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word cloudwords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Sep 7, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word jimson weed
Oh, well done, ruzuzu—now Boston Harbor is full of fish who think they’re British solders, “makings mows” and demanding three centuries of back pay. (I must admit, however, that they are more antic than a Dutch droll.)
Sep 6, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word automobubbling
Present participle of automobubble.
See http://www.archive.org/details/InMyMerr1932
Sep 6, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word craptastic
See also craptacular.
Sep 5, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word craptastick
Did you mean craptastic?
(Shaking fist You win this round, Bilby, but I’ll be back!)
Sep 5, 2011