bilby has looked up 14637 words, created 195 lists, listed 21153 words, written 22119 comments, added 715 tags, and loved 40 words.
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I came back to give you this.
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Yeh, it's weird that it's smack bang in Anonymousville in the middle the page among comments of mine elsewhere and of other people here.
Thanks rol! -
But the comment box is hard to find.
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Yes.
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testing. can other users read this comment?
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You cannot escape the charge that you have previously engaged in the amazing pastime that is IDENTIFY THE WORDIE.
You are therefore prime target material for inviting to IDENTIFY THE WORDIENIK.
The whole of the bit of Wordnik that joins in on this would be truly honoured should you participate this time round.
Easily find the right page right now because it is currently the most commented on list shown on the Community page. -
Getting ready for those arduous Paschal responsibilities, oh floppy-eared one?
All the Parisian bells are clearing things with air traffic control in Rome for their flight back with the chocolate. -
So, I get it. You've entered the witness protection program somewhere theredownunda (where women glow and men chunder). But aren't those big floppy leather ears a dead giveaway in the WPP?
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Flesh-fly, eh? I'm watching you, too.
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I'm watching you!
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@bilby Thanks for your guidance, well as you have suggested I'll add my also ons. i hope you keep a track of my site too, lest I go astray. I would have followed you, but I didn't see any follow link here anywhere. I'll live and learn. Thanks again.
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@bilby I guess that's a more civilized way of directing new comers. Thanks and I have adhered to your advise. I hope to keep getting directions from Guides like you. I have removed all my links from also on. I shall put in just one or two but only after I know the rules of the community well. Thanks a lot again for the advise.
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I love fuflunderwear. It's soooooo sooooooft and icing-full.
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*leaves in a huff, taking fuflumbrage along*
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I knew you'd fuflunderstand.
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Umbrage! I haven't been able to say "flings fuflumbrage" yet.
Oh! There I said it!
Okay, fine.
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Shoo, shoo! Off my profile now! I'll already be scraping collateral fuflun damage off the walls for weeks.
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Thanks, r.
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*hands ruzuzu a glass of water*
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flings... kerfuflun....
Nope. Can't get it. -
have I missed a kerfuffle here?
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Flighty Fifi flung four fufluns forcefully.
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flings fluff...
fings fuf...
flings... fuf... lumbrage.
Gah. -
Feel free to take some of mine.
*flings fuflumbrage*
Try saying that as fast as you can. -
When I've collected enough I'll knit some angsty long fuflunderwear to get me through the winter.
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Hullo, gangerh! Bilby takes fuflumbrage, if that's any help in the what-to-do-with-fufluns department.
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Hi, 'score!
Ta for your invite on my profile.
You just caught me on my return to UK from a few weeks in NZ.
Don't recall ever having flung a fuflun (if, indeed, that's what one does), but if it helps you I'd be happy to cause a diversion by creating a bit of dismayhem. -
*resells t-shirt to PossU*
*uses profit to buy more fufluns* -
Hey! I wanted a t-shirt too!
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*buys all t-shirts, smokes pi(pe), jitterbugs out*
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*accepts both pipe and waltz*
*silkscreens t-shirts which say "Make fufluns, not war"* -
*waltzes in*
*accepts*
Anyone else fancy a waltz? -
*offers peace pi(pe)*
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*wipes 3.1415926 off face*
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*throws pi at reesetee, just for good measure*
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*sprints back*
Brackets around fuflumbrage, please!
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I'm not sure which side reesetee is on...
*begins flinging pies and fufluns all willy-nilly* -
*flings cupcakes*
*flees* -
I take fuflumbrage at being interrupted!
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What? Bilby already added volte-face to my list?
*starts throwing pies*
*does not stop at two per ear* -
Brackets around feeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww-splat, please!
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Did you just call me volte-faced? I love it!
*wanders off to add it to a list*
*tosses an armful of fufluns, almost as an afterthought*
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Desist, you volte-faced, vol-au-vent launching v-bomber!
I have a pun and I keep it loaded. -
*switches from fufluns to pi*
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Ha ha bloody ha. Not punny.
;-)
Ruzuzu! I sort of need some help over here! -
*sprays PUndies with fire extinguisher*
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Oh! Right, I nearly missed my cue...
Aim... FIRE!!!!
*fires*
*grabs some hummus for good measure*
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I'm glad you didn't mention anything about my hummus addiction.
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Imagining a grocery clerk calling in a fuflun air strike is possibly a stage of Wordnik addiction.
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So then I said, "But edamame hummus has such a lovely texture," and the grocery clerk said, "Now, possible_underscore, throw the fufluns now!" *aims for bilby's left ear*
bilby commented on the word Glass–Steagall Act
I had to hear this about ten times before I could NOT hear it as glassed eagle.
May 25, 2012
bilby commented on the word beside the point
It's not impointant.
May 25, 2012
bilby commented on the word International Fund for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficienty
Efficienty?
May 24, 2012
bilby commented on the word doesn't know whether he's arseholes or breakfast
Australian slang: dazed, concussed. Tends to be said of rugby players after heavy collisions.
May 24, 2012
bilby commented on the word fallen
In a lapsed or
degraded state;
prostrated; ruined:
as, the fallen
angels.
May 24, 2012
bilby commented on the word beside the point
Pointer sisters.
May 24, 2012
bilby commented on the word drachmageddon
"Not ominous enough? Well, there is the ticking time bomb now being referred to as drachmageddon, or the prospect that Greece will abandon -- or be forced out of -- the eurozone in the near future. European politicians, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, have taken to the airwaves to huff and puff about the apparent wish of Greek voters to possess and simultaneously devour their cake. 'They cannot just vote for saying, 'could people just carry on giving us some money so we do not have to change anything,' Britain's Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke (a former chancellor of the exchequer) pointedly warned, cautioning the Greeks against the ramifications of electing 'cranky extremists.'
The news on drachmageddon -- or the possibility that the Greeks will wake up one morning this summer to find that the euros in their bank accounts have been swapped back into drachma, their pre-euro currency -- wasn't any better today."
- Suzanne McGee, 'Investors fear end of world as we know it', The Fiscal Times, 24 May 2012.
May 24, 2012
bilby commented on the word turbine disc liberation event
"While the analysis of the engine failure is ongoing, it has been identified that the leakage of oil into the HP/IP bearing structure buffer space (and a subsequent oil fire within that area) was central to the engine failure and IP turbine disc liberation event."
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau, 'Safety Recommendation: Rolls-Royce plc Trent 900 engines", December 2010.
Translation: the plane's engine fell off.
May 23, 2012
bilby commented on the word latrine
I suppose there was terrible confusion with people using the third person singular of the verb 'to lat'.
May 23, 2012
bilby commented on the word robustly
"My oar is broken," said Tom robustly.
May 23, 2012
bilby commented on the list no-thanks-i-m-fle
snuffle
May 18, 2012
bilby commented on the word sequel
Ouch! Squerverts!
May 18, 2012
bilby commented on the word visa about to expire
Dear Visa,
It's really tough working for gods. When they're not plotting with apples and serpents they're chucking lightning hammers and making up weird stories for Sunday school and waving their many arms about like an octopus drowning in custard. Do you think working for Wordnik gods would be any funner? They'd probably be plop-dropping great galloping gobs of umbrage from a great height right on yer noggin.
Abby
p.s. Have you thought about MasterCard?
May 18, 2012
bilby commented on the word visa about to expire
Prolagus Dear Abby,
How can I convince the Wordnik gods to hire me?
Signed,
Visa About to Expire May 16, 2012 ⋅ Spam?
May 18, 2012
bilby commented on the word sequel
No-one's sequelling me on Twitter :-)
May 16, 2012
bilby commented on the word hallux
Earlier comments were in relation to the Weirdnet definition:
"the first largest innermost toe".
May 16, 2012
bilby commented on the word Pocatello
Very good fbh!
May 16, 2012
bilby commented on the word macrotis
The hallux wanting indeed! Who writes this stuff?
May 16, 2012
bilby commented on the word sequel
No-one's sequelling me on Twitter :-(
May 16, 2012
bilby commented on the word macrotis
A genus
of bandicoots
of the family Peramelidæ, having long pointed ears like those
of a rabbit, proportionally longer hind limbs than
the typical bandicoots,
the hallux wanting,
the tail long and hairy, and
the pouch opening
forward.
May 15, 2012
bilby commented on the word Gubbio
A gorgeous town in Umbria, Italy.
May 15, 2012
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
There's a whole bunch of words that mean 'getting smaller' rather than small in an absolute sense. Perhaps they fit here.
"See the Finance Manager about a trade-in and you could be driving away in an all-new Ford Downsize today!"
May 15, 2012
bilby commented on the word ex situ
I can't imagine screaming that at the linesman.
May 15, 2012
bilby commented on the list towns-cities-that-should-have-been-marx-brothers
By the powers vested in me, I hereby...
May 15, 2012
bilby commented on the word cloud-built
At least my coffee's not cloud-built.
May 15, 2012
bilby commented on the list film--1
honeywagon
May 14, 2012
bilby commented on the word honey bucket
See also honeywagon, or honey wagon.
May 14, 2012
bilby commented on the word Dubbo
A largish outback centre in New South Wales, Australia.
May 13, 2012
bilby commented on the word totally disagree
Anyone dispute that this is a trending word?
May 13, 2012
bilby commented on the word nixie tube
"First of all, what are nixie tubes? They were once commonly used for electronic displays, and consist of a gas-filled glass tube, inside of which are nestled ten cathodes, each one formed into a different numeral from 0 to 9. Those cathodes are stacked one on top of the other, any one of which can be made to glow orange when voltage is applied to it. If the selected number is at the bottom of the stack, you can actually see it shining through its unlit bunkmates."
- Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com, cited 11 May 2012.
May 13, 2012
bilby commented on the list the-porn-birds
Added. Thanks!
May 12, 2012
bilby commented on the word quarantine
isolation
to prevent the spread of infectious
disease enforced
isolation
of patients suffering from a contagious disease in
order to prevent the spread of
disease place into enforced
isolation,
as for medical reasons
May 12, 2012
bilby commented on the word quarantine
Do people still die seized these days? Of mansion houses? Sounds like quite a way to go, if you're a gothic eccentric or something like that.
May 12, 2012
bilby commented on the word iä
Oh yeah.
May 12, 2012
bilby commented on the list found-poetry
I favourited it.
May 10, 2012
bilby commented on the word Job's tears
A.k.a. coix seed.
May 10, 2012
bilby commented on the word mind map
cannabis?
May 10, 2012
bilby commented on the word scatter
Difficult to make sense of this, and the blog seemingly no longer exists:
“Turn a ends of a scatter up as good as in to a join stipend creation certain a complete scatter is inside of a accomplished width of a shade, or 5/8 from a edge.”
May 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word commit
A poem by Wiktionary (apologies to ruzuzu):
to give in trust; to put into
charge
or keeping; to intrust; to consign;
to put in
charge
of a jailor; to imprison.
to do; to perpetrate, as a
crime,
sin, or
fault.
to join a contest; to match;
to pledge or bind; to compromise,
expose, or endanger
by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to
commit oneself to a certain
action, to
commit oneself to doing
something.
to confound.
to sin; especially, to
be
incontinent.
May 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word cat
blafferty Why is this always a "trending word"? May 12, 2011 ⋅ Spam?
Has our moggy notched up a year of trending?!
May 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word ex- silentio
...
May 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word koro
"Forty-three years ago, a strange series of events unfolded on the island of Singapore. Hundreds of men rushed to the hospitals of the island with the terrifying belief that their penises were shrinking. Each feared that if his penis shrank away completely, he would die. Some came with lucky red strings tightly wrapped around their penises to prevent the lethal disappearance. Others had clamps holding their wayward organs in place. Most often it was a firm grasp of a hand, their own or a frightened family member's, that prevented the shrinking penis from slipping away and taking their life with it. Oddly enough, about a dozen women also fell victim to the panic. This was the Great Singapore Penis Panic, or what doctors refer to as an epidemic of the psychiatric condition called Koro. The Great Singapore Penis Panic and the Future of American Mass Hysteria explains the basis of koro in Chinese medicine, and how and why something so peculiar as the Singapore Koro epidemic could have happened when it did."
- blurb, 'The Great Singapore Penis Panic, 17 Jan 2011.
May 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word twitchfork
Not like facebooccaneers who use their social networks to coordinate attacks on Spanish shipping.
May 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word microbiota
"There are microbes everywhere, including in the built environment, but the composition is different between natural environments and human-built areas," explained co-author Ilkka Hanski from the University of Helsinki. "The microbiota in natural environments is more beneficial for us," he told BBC News."
- Mark Kinver, 'Lack of contact with nature 'increasing allergies'', bbc.co.uk, 8 May 2012.
May 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word just effective
"Well, AJ Burnett is back in the game and he's certainly been pitching very effectively. Or just effective."
- baseball commentator, WSH v PIT, 9 May 2012.
I have no idea why you would 'correct' a perfectly fine adjectival use with a substandard one. Extra jock?
May 8, 2012
bilby commented on the word rueturn
Nup, not even eurues.
May 8, 2012
bilby commented on the word pre-reclined
"The real reason is that Spirit (and many other LCCs that have installed non-reclining chairs) can seat 33 more passengers in the pre-reclined seats in the airline's new Airbus A320s than in an older A320s with conventional reclining seats. It’s all about money and economics."
- Clive Dorman, 'Gotcha! Extra fees are the future for cheap flights', theage.com.au, 8 May 2012.
May 7, 2012
bilby commented on the word rueturn
Refund only available in ruebles.
May 7, 2012
bilby commented on the word rag-picker
Also ragpicker apparently.
May 7, 2012
bilby commented on the list the-nerve
bottle
May 7, 2012