Jubjub has looked up 2300 words, created 7 lists, listed 159 words, written 161 comments, added 1 tag, and loved 26 words.
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Comments for Jubjub
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Potato list by a native Idahoan - who'd have thought it possible?
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Aww, gee whiz. You're putting too much mush in my room. ;)
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You're a fungi. I like this in a person.
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No. Should I have? :)
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Did you grow up in Delaware?
Jubjub commented on the user hernesheir
I don't know how to express my gratefulness for all your entries on potatoes except by saying they made me quite hungry.
Jun 13, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word mince
In Japanese culture, the mincing gait seems to describe the behavior and effects associated with foot binding.
Jun 12, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word revenant
Dawn-sniffing revenant,
Plodder through midnight rain,
Question me again.
from "Casualty" by Seamus Heaney
Jun 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word tumbril
Something of his sad freedom
As he rode the tumbril
Should come to me, driving,
Saying the names
Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard,
Watching the pointing hands
Of country people,
Not knowing their tongue.
Out here in Jutland
In the old man-killing parishes
I will feel lost,
Unhappy and at home.
from "The Tollund Man" by Seamus Heaney
Jun 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word opsonin
There's ketchup in our blood?
Jun 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word mince
I'm trying to understand the connection between the definition of mince in phrases like minced oath and mince your words and its etymology "minūtiāre"-- to make smaller. Because every time I hear "I'm not one to mince my words", the first thing I picture is someone with a bunch of words on a chopping board and a cleaver.
Is the idea that a minced oath, in general, was not only euphemized, but also contracted, i.e. made smaller?
Jun 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word pas de chat
Alors, du chien, oui?
Jun 10, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word snarfing
I seem to remember Vonnegut giving it a rather different and disturbing definition.
Jun 10, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word noctivagant
(12 months late) Peripate?
Jun 10, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word avast
5 examples here, but only one uses the word avast. Avast, a bug!
Feb 1, 2010
Jubjub commented on the list words-i-made-up-the-definitons-to
You might want to put your definition in the comment section of the word veteranarian rather than here on the comment section of your list. Less confusing that way, especially if you intend to add more words to your list.
Jan 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word munch
Are munches always given in bunches? My wife used to smother our kids with oodles of smooches. Never knew what to call that.
Jan 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word get my goat
How 'bout some chevre o' lait?
Jan 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word must needs
Oh no! I've spilt perfume on my legs. I have musk-knees!
Jan 7, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word racist
A blatant case of brunettism!
Jan 7, 2010
Jubjub commented on the list lost-for-word
Wow. I sort of feel like I'm a part of CSI:Wordnik :)
Jan 6, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word w♥rdnik
pronounced w-heart-erd-nik? :)
Jan 6, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word I miss wordie
It's got connections with Sputnik and Beatnik. (But I think more with the latter than the former, hence the hippy-heart in w♥rdnik.) It's striving to be the "first" in a Sputnik way, but also it wants to be counter-cultural in a Beatnik way: to revolutionize the way dictionaries work. (See Erin Mckean's video on TED)
Jan 6, 2010
Jubjub commented on the list lost-for-word
Looks like it can be abbreviated as autopod as well.
Jan 5, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word 2000 - 2009
Was there ever a consensus on what to call this decade? The naughties or the 2000s? Or will it simply become that-decade-whose-name-should-not-be-said?
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word Z
I know ... looking at the pile of letters I've heaped on Zeitgeist, I'm embarrassed.
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word Z
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word Y
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word X
Boy or Girl?
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word W
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word V
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word U
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word T
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word S
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word R
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word Q
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word P
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word O
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word N
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word M
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word L
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word K
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word J
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word I
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word H
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word G
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word F
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word E
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word D
Boy
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word C
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word B
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word A
Girl
Jan 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word rhinoceroses
@ruzuzu, 20 percent only if the service is absolutely bovine.
Dec 31, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word returning movies
Even if I've checked 6 or 7 times that the right movie is in the right case, if I don't check the second before I drop it down the slot, I am quite convinced it either had no movie in it or it was the wrong movie.
Dec 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word grappa
A sip of it will put hair on your hair.
Dec 30, 2009