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?
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.
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)
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.
I heard that this might be the name for a type of elephant, turtle, or dog. I think also someone said it was the name of blue flower? Pretty impressive word, though.
What an interesting word! Why bed? Sure, the water lies there, but it also runs there as well. Might as well be rivertrack. But it's not-- and I think it shouldn't be. I wonder how this concept is played out in other languages.
Cyberman: Daleks, be warned; you have declared war upon the Cybermen. Dalek: This is not war. This is pest control! Cyberman: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you? Dalek: Four. Cyberman: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks? Dalek: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You are superior in only one respect. Cyberman: What is that? Dalek: You are better at dying!
Sorry, was just watching this and thought this quote did a good job of expressing the essence of the dalek.
I would guess, according to its etymology, that a Christmas carol is one that sung in a chorus, going door-to-door. A Christmas song is just a more general category? So "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" is a Christmas song, but not one you'd really sing in a group at someone's doorstep.
Plural of halfa grass. Also halfassed form of halfass. I guess technically speaking it's sixseventhsassed form of halfass. (Or would that be oneseventhassed?)
Hmm... I'm sorry. Not sure what I was thinking-- there was supposed to be a pun in there, which, now, totally escapes me. I guess my comment was a prime example of halfasseddumbassery.
It would be nice if we could add a picture of an illuminated manuscript to illustrate the etymology. (Or is it not so much a manuscript but an ancient legal document? Hard to tell ...)
Don't like words like these. It's almost like they are trying to making fun of language itself. Whoever coined this word liked using dumbass so much that they had to expand its usage. It's almost self-referential in that sense.
Although ... if the pronunciation de-silenced the 'B,' I might like it. As in dum-BASS-ery.
It's like a combination of fraught + throughout. What do you call these type of words, i.e., the unintentional combination of similar words (Like "regardless + irrespective = irregardless")?
"However, she has to do it under the noses of both Ordell, the ATF man and a local cop." Both? Someone's missing a nose. Sounds like a job for Gogolumbo.
OK ALREADY! My guilt builds, builds, and builds each day! I admit it-- they are my words! Are you happy? These words that I used to love, I now hate! Pygopagus, sanglant, Astacus, sweetbread, checkerberry, sparple, horse coursing ... I admit it. OUT, DAMNED SPOT! OUT, I SAY!! It was me. I broke the favorites machine! These things of darkness, I acknowledge mine!
But any such etymological regression must eventually lead to the rootless root and the unrooted rooter. The fabulous first fount of phrases. The majestic magician of madeupicals.
I wonder if that's too narrow still. What about words like runcible that are pure nonsense and can't be strictly understood? I'd say they're still words. And I'd like to think that I am free to make up words, and they are indeed words (in the barest sense), even if the rest of the population never happens to adopt or understand them. They may not be very good words, but what else would they be?(Maybe in that case, the communicator and communicatee are one and the same?)
I'm going to quote this possible etymology and let it speak for itself:
O.E. cudele "the cuttlefish;" perhaps related to M.L.G. küdel "container, pocket;" O.N. koddi "cushion, testicle;" and O.E. codd (see cod).
No-- that can't speak for itself; I'll have to ruin it. But something to note: the prominence of the 'd' in the provenance of the 't'. (Makes you wonder where the 't' comes from.)
Good point, rolig. "Piece" in that sense, then, doesn't mean "part" but is more like "piece" in "piece of art." An example, a paragon? So something like "what an example of workmanship?"
Uselessness-- then there's something else. Else than what?
Any more words like this- the necessary double negative? While it means the same as abled, you can't actually use abled without coming across as insensitive.
I can't stop myself from reading this as alla-tonce-ness. Is Tonce a cat? (CF SNL Toonces) Does alla = allah? or does alla = "other" (greek)? Or alla = "but" (Greek). Othercatness or Buttcatness?
This word doesn't work. It never has. It's too ... too what? Too sweet? Too obvious? Too forced? Too tongue-tying? And the imagery it evokes is sticky, slow, and viscous-- sort of the opposite of what it wants to do.
Was wondering about "Random word" link at top. Last night it was great fun, giving me plenty of new words to think about. But today it was the opposite-- spitting out mostly typos like "Goolge" or randomly culled proper names or even computer code. I'm sure this is something on your radar, but just thought I'd point it out.
The etymologies don't help much. One gives us the impression of some sort of clean, baptismal rebirth: new, fresh. The other claims it derives from mold and mucus. So I guess the resolution is to see moist in the sense of a new and fresh, moldy mucus. (As in, "Hey that's some new mold on that there mucus!")
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
Jubjub commented on the word those wingnuts on my roof
You're right-- a little spilled salt over the shoulder should do the trick.
Dec 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Common Object Art
For a second there, I thought you said grappa Fanta. Now that would be some pop!
Dec 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word those wingnuts on my roof
Oops. All out of um ... bridges. Would you like to take a fence instead? I'll even throw in a grain of salt!
Dec 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Jubjub
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
Dec 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Meredith
I don't know ... Burgess Meredith is quite something.
Dec 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Kennesaw Mountain
_Best Name Ever!_ His name alone might be the reason I've followed baseball all these years.
Dec 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word those wingnuts on my roof
I find birdwatchers to be terrible ice-guardians. Too busy watching birds, silly wingnuts!
Dec 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
I heard that this might be the name for a type of elephant, turtle, or dog. I think also someone said it was the name of blue flower? Pretty impressive word, though.
Dec 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word woty09
ln÷oæΣï
Dec 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word assonant
Oops, I think I sat on him.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word assistant
Perhaps I should help the bug out?
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word assailant
That poor little bug looks like his bottom is hurting.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word depressant
I shouldn't have smooshed that poor little bug.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word consonant
That dirty little bug would swindle his own child.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word coolant
That's the tiniest leather jacket I've ever seen.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word adamant
Aw shoot! I must have left the sugar out.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word snailpapers
Derived from snail-mail.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word strenth
Without the 'g' it's not so stron.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word ... v :
What are these: ***?
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Bubo
Mechanical Owl in "Clash of the Titans" commissioned by Athena, built by Hephaestus, and given to Perseus to provide him wisdom.
Dec 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word riverbed
What an interesting word! Why bed? Sure, the water lies there, but it also runs there as well. Might as well be rivertrack. But it's not-- and I think it shouldn't be. I wonder how this concept is played out in other languages.
Dec 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word rick
Gives new meaning to being rick-rolled.
Dec 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dalek
Cyberman: Daleks, be warned; you have declared war upon the Cybermen.
Dalek: This is not war. This is pest control!
Cyberman: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?
Dalek: Four.
Cyberman: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?
Dalek: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You are superior in only one respect.
Cyberman: What is that?
Dalek: You are better at dying!
Sorry, was just watching this and thought this quote did a good job of expressing the essence of the dalek.
Dec 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the list wilfred-j--funks--ten-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language--1932--1933
Maybe unicorns too.
Dec 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the list wilfred-j--funks--ten-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language--1932--1933
I'm surprised this list doesn't have cute, frolicking, faeries, hugging, and kissing on it.
Dec 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the list wilfred-j--funks--ten-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language--1932--1933
I second!
Dec 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word irrefragable
I fragged you! No take-backs!
Dec 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word cross-dressers
Another name for members of the Fig-Leaf Campaign?
Dec 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word have yourself a merry little christmas
I would guess, according to its etymology, that a Christmas carol is one that sung in a chorus, going door-to-door. A Christmas song is just a more general category? So "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" is a Christmas song, but not one you'd really sing in a group at someone's doorstep.
Dec 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word nice
I suppose I'm really not supposed to be here. Although it looks rather... uh, nice.
Dec 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word naughty
Ah! Here I am.
Dec 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word good
Oops. I'm not supposed to be here.
Dec 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word racist
gangerh, I'm all about breed and chese and good ale.
EDIT: Oops-- That came out the wrong way. I was just commenting on the meaning of jub, where breed is used as ME word for bread.
Dec 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word racist
What's the word for someone who really is pro-races? Like Foot races, car races, bike races, and wheel-barrow races?
Dec 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word have yourself a merry little christmas
If you play it backwards, you can hear "santa is dead" over and over again.
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word halfas
Plural of halfa grass. Also halfassed form of halfass. I guess technically speaking it's sixseventhsassed form of halfass. (Or would that be oneseventhassed?)
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dabble
Hmm... I'm sorry. Not sure what I was thinking-- there was supposed to be a pun in there, which, now, totally escapes me. I guess my comment was a prime example of halfassed dumbassery.
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word stealer of milky butterfly poop
We should farm them and market a new butter substitute!
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word paramnesia
I always thought deja vu was more trippy rather than dreadful.
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dabble
Anyone notice that American Heritage half-asses their etymologies? It's like a task they really don't want to do.
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word surfline
Words that need a hyphen. Otherwise, you read it like sur-fline. Sort of supine but on a flint-like substance.
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word rubric
It would be nice if we could add a picture of an illuminated manuscript to illustrate the etymology. (Or is it not so much a manuscript but an ancient legal document? Hard to tell ...)
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word haeccity
Misspelling of haecceity. Whoever wrote this is not a dunce.
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dumbassery
Don't like words like these. It's almost like they are trying to making fun of language itself. Whoever coined this word liked using dumbass so much that they had to expand its usage. It's almost self-referential in that sense.
Although ... if the pronunciation de-silenced the 'B,' I might like it. As in dum-BASS-ery.
Dec 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word throught
It's like a combination of fraught + throughout. What do you call these type of words, i.e., the unintentional combination of similar words (Like "regardless + irrespective = irregardless")?
Dec 19, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word belilaced
From a Robert Frost poem, "But only a belilaced cellar hole,/Now slowly closing like a dent in dough."
I always want to read it as belly-laced, rather than be-lilac-ed.
Dec 19, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word colorway
This seems like a word of lazy origins. Is there a better word to describe the arrangement of colors?
Dec 19, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word the da vinci cod
What is the wordie way of laughing very hard? Teach me, so that I may express my enjoyment of this comment.
Nov 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word beetlestomper
"Though we now know you actively stomped a fairy and its insides were rainbow. ;-)"
Oh my! But I kinda figured as much. Them and unicorns.
Nov 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word hour-and
Potential nickname for modern analysand? (Sorry, the best I got for this random word.)
Nov 29, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Cromwell's
No Irish fare served at this restaurant.
Nov 29, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Unabashed
I hope she's not shamed. Hopefully, just mended and mused.
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word wordie treatment
Other anagrams:
Wrote, terminated.
A tormented write.
We terminated rot.
Demean tot writer.
Moderate net writ.
Teamed retort win.
I'm sorry, I'm on an anagram kick ('A Grammarian's Moronic Kinky')
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word value-conscious
Is vacuous clone.
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Flypaper
Flap Pyre
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Half-Marathon
A half-ton harm.
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Thalidomide
Anagram: A limited Doh!
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Heliocentrics
Anagram: "Is hot, encircle."
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word I am lying when I say this
"I am lying when I say this hasn't been tagged yet." Well, at least it's honest. Or is it?
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word It
"It hasn't been tagged yet." Then how did he get to be it?
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word reggie
Hmmm. A verbification? I reggie, you reggie, he/she reggies. But what does it mean?
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word prision
As in "Oshifer, (hic) pleashe don't take me to prision(hic).
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word kunjungan
kunjungan-jungan, what's your fungan?
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word STRONG
Once you see it in all caps, you really can't write it any other way.
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Disneyland's
Come try our Big Mick, Mickey nuggets and Mick Rib at Disneyland's!
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Ordell
"However, she has to do it under the noses of both Ordell, the ATF man and a local cop." Both? Someone's missing a nose. Sounds like a job for Gogolumbo.
Nov 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dramastically
In 8th grade, I used this word in a speech, and once I was told of my error, I was samultimeously flubbergasted and reppauled by my ignoranity.
Nov 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word morular
Or perhaps she really did see the writing on the wall....
Nov 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the user midsamme
"Force factor claims to build muscles ..." rachelpriest doesn't seem too sold on her own product.
Nov 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the user Jubjub
Aww, gee whiz. You're putting too much mush in my room. ;)
Nov 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Recent Favorites
But the funny thing is, I have no qualms. (that is, I didn't favorite that word.)
Nov 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Recent Favorites
OK ALREADY! My guilt builds, builds, and builds each day! I admit it-- they are my words! Are you happy? These words that I used to love, I now hate! Pygopagus, sanglant, Astacus, sweetbread, checkerberry, sparple, horse coursing ... I admit it. OUT, DAMNED SPOT! OUT, I SAY!! It was me. I broke the favorites machine! These things of darkness, I acknowledge mine!
Nov 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word turkey
You turkey!
Nov 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word beauregard
I think it's pronounced, the more southern you are, bore-regard.
Nov 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word bottoms
Bottoms are tops.
Nov 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word madeupical
But any such etymological regression must eventually lead to the rootless root and the unrooted rooter. The fabulous first fount of phrases. The majestic magician of madeupicals.
Nov 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word madeupical
I wonder if that's too narrow still. What about words like runcible that are pure nonsense and can't be strictly understood? I'd say they're still words. And I'd like to think that I am free to make up words, and they are indeed words (in the barest sense), even if the rest of the population never happens to adopt or understand them. They may not be very good words, but what else would they be?(Maybe in that case, the communicator and communicatee are one and the same?)
Nov 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word cuttlefish
I'm going to quote this possible etymology and let it speak for itself:
O.E. cudele "the cuttlefish;" perhaps related to M.L.G. küdel "container, pocket;" O.N. koddi "cushion, testicle;" and O.E. codd (see cod).
No-- that can't speak for itself; I'll have to ruin it. But something to note: the prominence of the 'd' in the provenance of the 't'. (Makes you wonder where the 't' comes from.)
Nov 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word piece of work
Good point, rolig. "Piece" in that sense, then, doesn't mean "part" but is more like "piece" in "piece of art." An example, a paragon? So something like "what an example of workmanship?"
Uselessness-- then there's something else. Else than what?
Nov 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word efective
Another cheap-as word. The 'd' fell off!
Nov 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Arakawa
Part of a famous palindrome: "A wak, a ra, Arakawa.
Nov 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Rebholz
Where Luke's friends hid during the Hoth invasion.
Nov 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word hypomagnesaemia
Nor to be confused with hypomilkofmagnesaemia, also known as hypomommamia.
Nov 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word trouver
Clearly, one who trouves.
Nov 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word sistance
It's like resistance, but doing it one less time.
It's also snobbishly above subsisting.
Nov 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word hypomagnesaemia
The example says this is also known as grass staggers, which is by far a better word(s).
Nov 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word comatoes
Just walk it off, kid. Walk it off.
Nov 23, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word a-time
When B.A. Baracus had his aristeia.
Nov 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word non-disabled
Any more words like this- the necessary double negative? While it means the same as abled, you can't actually use abled without coming across as insensitive.
Nov 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word downfa
This is a cheap-as word.
Nov 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word cheap-as
So cheap, they skimped on the last S.
As in: "Being a cheap-as can lead to your downfa
Nov 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word gB»ÛÚš
Even a merely good Britain is doubly better than a twice United states.
Nov 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Psychol
It will leave your soul smelling like a Carolina pine forest.
Nov 19, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word misspeaks
The same one who found Marsha and Mel Lowes distasteful and couldn't stand to listen to their daughter Belle?
Nov 18, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word misspeaks
I heard she pells too.
Nov 18, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word ln÷oæΣï
I think this is one of those words that, when pronounced correctly, is inaudible to the human ear. Only gods and dogs can hear it.
Nov 18, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word basilateral
It's a sheepish farewell to Al.
Nov 18, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word ln÷oæΣï
This word is absolutely gorgeous.
Nov 18, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word self-referential
See self-referential.
Nov 17, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word allatonceness
I can't stop myself from reading this as alla-tonce-ness. Is Tonce a cat? (CF SNL Toonces) Does alla = allah? or does alla = "other" (greek)? Or alla = "but" (Greek). Othercatness or Buttcatness?
Nov 15, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word firkin
Firkin Robert Frost firkin firkins "forty firkins" in his firkin firkinly poem "Directive." (said in the voice of a displaced Smurf.)
Nov 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word beauteous
This word is absolutely horrible. Or should I say horrideous?
Nov 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word mellifluous
This word doesn't work. It never has. It's too ... too what? Too sweet? Too obvious? Too forced? Too tongue-tying? And the imagery it evokes is sticky, slow, and viscous-- sort of the opposite of what it wants to do.
Nov 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word ☃
My computer's font is giving me a picture of a conch. Maybe to represent Frosty's conch-ousness? Happy Birthday!
Nov 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word comments
Was wondering about "Random word" link at top. Last night it was great fun, giving me plenty of new words to think about. But today it was the opposite-- spitting out mostly typos like "Goolge" or randomly culled proper names or even computer code. I'm sure this is something on your radar, but just thought I'd point it out.
Nov 12, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word moist
The etymologies don't help much. One gives us the impression of some sort of clean, baptismal rebirth: new, fresh. The other claims it derives from mold and mucus. So I guess the resolution is to see moist in the sense of a new and fresh, moldy mucus. (As in, "Hey that's some new mold on that there mucus!")
Nov 12, 2009
Jubjub commented on the user Jubjub
No. Should I have? :)
Nov 12, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word form-factor
I get the form, but why the factor?
Nov 11, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word carinaria
Mmm. I could go for some carinaria in a marinara sauce.
Nov 11, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word fireplace fender bender
So a theater would be a playsplace? A shirtsleeve, an aceplace? Eyes, a maceplace?
Nov 10, 2009