@lydunka - my feeling is that the well was nearly dry, so the water level in the well was very low. More rope required to reach the water, and more time and effort required to hoist the bucket.
Slim looked much like the other fellows come to watch the rodeo, dressed in newish jeans and shirt, polished boots, with a modestly-sized oval buckle on his belt and his Sunday hat atop his head. His wife, on the other hand, was all gussied up like a jibby-horse.
Prolonged debate over whether, or not, the neoterists were in truth "just verbarians" prevented participants at the neologists' society conference from truly enjoying their plenary supper. The evening ended with toasts and cheers to the New Word Order.
I'll perform, on the whistle, a selection of jigs, hornpipes, reels and slow airs tomorrow evening in a St. Paddy's variety show. Maids of Mitchelstown, Boys of the Town, Kerfunten, Cul Aodhe, and others.
The rumor was that misdaub and surcoat were seen together on Viscount Exmouth's boat on Lake Como, and then later in the season, taking the waters at Marienbad.
Come guess me this riddle: what beats pipes and fiddle?
What's hotter than mustard and wilder than cream?
What best wets your whistle? What's clearer than crystal?
What's sweeter than honey and stronger than steam?
What will make the dumb talk? What will make the lame walk?
The elixir of life and philospher's stone.
And what helped Mr. Brunel to dig the Thames Tunnel?
Wasn't it poteen from ould Inishowen?
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature
For drowning your sorrows and raising your joys.
Oh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and thunder
Was made from the plunder of poteen me boys.
Unicode character ("modifier letter turned comma") representing the ʻokina or phonetic glottal stop used in writing Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages. Compare U+2018, the "single opening quotation mark".
Neither ONE nor TWO are airport codes, to my knowledge. However, ANE is the code for the Aéroport de Angers - Loire, in France; TRE is the Tiree Airport in Tiree, Scotland; FOR is Pinto Martins Intl Airport in Ceará, Brazil; and FIV stands for the Five Finger Coast Guard Heliport in Five Finger Alaska. There is no SIX, to my knowledge.
A family member long ago dubbed me the Word Bird, @VerbalElation. I am or have been, among other things, an antiques collector and a fossil plant systematicist. The latter of these discovers and catalogs relationships between extinct and living plant lineages. Finding words and drawing connections by means of organized or themed lists is but another exercise in collecting and organizing that offers me satisfaction. I delight in words. They humor me. I list words as a hobby, yes, and to keep them close to hand. But for broader reasons too.
The world in its variety is very finely and sometimes bewilderingly nuanced, whether one examines a just synchronic snapshot, a moment in time, or a diachronic interval that spans a particular history. Our words, the words of our language, record the manifold physical and cultural landscapes that we and our forbears have perceived. I collect words in order to learn and examine their subtleties. If I am startled because there are so many words for "snow" it is because I have not known snow it its delightful variety. If "snow" is the only word known to me for the frozen precipitation that falls from the sky in winter, then my perception of that particle of the world is restricted, and perhaps biased in its narrowness. A broad vocabulary broadens the horizon I see when I look beyond myself.
“Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.” --from the Examples.
The whole allusion and connection to coquina lies with the mussel's genus name Donax, which reminded me of the song's repetitive verse "Dona dona dona..." . I like the visuals, especially the live oak trees and the old coquina stone city gates of St. Augustine FL, both of which have been pictured on post cards and tourist souvenirs for well over a century.
adj. botany, A form of dehiscence whereby a seed capsule opens via pores or holes, allowing seeds to be dispersed like salt from a shaker. Species of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) are the most familiar plants exhibiting poricidal dehiscence. Compare septicidal, septifragal, and loculicidal.
"A character in The Tooth of Crime asks plaintfully, "Ain't there any farmers left, ranchers, cowboys, open space? Nobody just livin' their life?" --Johan Callens, Ed., 1998. Sam Shepherd: Between the Margin and the Center (1). American Theater Review, Vol. 8, Pt. 3, p.26.
Picea (see picea) is the genus name of the spruce tree. In the past, spruce resin/gum was processed into a sort of chewing gum. This gum had the pitchiness but not the blackness implied by the adjective piceous, as Robert Frost told us in this excerpt from his 1920 poem The Gum-Gatherer:
What this man brought in a cotton sack
Was gum, the gum of the mountain spruce.
He showed me lumps of the scented stuff
Like uncut jewels, dull and rough.
It comes to market golden brown;
But turns to pink between the teeth.
It's raining tonight and the sidewalks are empty,
The umbrellas are gone
And the streets are so lonely --
I lie here awake and the silence is thunder,
Even though you are gone
Your sadness remains.
A piece of a song I've been working on for some time.
Don't let the definition put a sack (wineskin) over your head. strstr() is a string function in the standard C library and in PHP. An example of entry-definition mismatch.
Makers of junk food not only battle for market share, but they also compete for stomach share. What's in your paunch, and whom did you pay for the privilege of putting it there? Thanks to John McGrath @Wordie for tweeting the NYT article that gave me this phrase.
Humorous term and Twitter.com hashtag referring to Marco Rubio's awkward and mid-sentence groping for an out-of-frame bottle of Poland Springs water during the broadcast of his Republican response/rebuttal to Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address.
"They counte Peace to be cause of ydelnes, and that it maketh
men hodipekes and cowardes."--Bp. Christopherson, _Exh. ag.
Rebel._ 1554. The Rebel was a poem, printed in Notes and Querries: A Medium of Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc., No. 33, Saturday, June 15, 1850, p. 34.
A certain alga growing on stones that, when wetted, yields a strong and pleasant odor of violets. Perfect for lining a grotto or outdoor shower, I should think.
Interesting, if not zblbl, because water-cooler is African ungulate herd-slang for the water-hole, where hackers (slang for crocodiles) lie in wait to ambush the users.
Primarily looking for the edible kind, and associated words, ruzuzu, but I'd be pleased if you'd add it anyway! It should probably go on my list of "greens", too.
James Cook named the Sandwich Islands after his benefactor, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook reported that the native name for the Islands we now know as Hawai'i was Owyhee. The so-named county in SW Idaho is derived from Cook's term, and recalls 3 Hawaiian trappers who were lost in that region.
Visuals are fairly representative of this part of Idaho.
“He is aflame, from the edge of his collar -- a patent clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, purchased at a famous travellers 'emporium in the Strand -- to the thin, silky rings of dark hair that are wearing from his high, pale temples.” --Richard Dehan, The Dop Doctor. London, Wm. Heinemann Ltd., 1910.
hernesheir commented on the word cuneator
So who's minding the mint? Some ex-checker or something?
Mar 23, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word 500 Server Error
Lot's of this going around today.
Mar 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hugger-mugger
Same context: A once-famous fun-filled foot-long interspecies.
Mar 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word aulin
It's a bird.
Mar 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word dartcapitation
Funny, my nephews launched a fusillade of whistling Nerf darts at me today.
Mar 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*stpr - postprocedural
Mar 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word duffer
For ruzuzu's cattle list:
n. A cow that does not produce milk.
n. Australia, dated; A cattle thief; one who alters the brands of cattle.
Mar 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
Happy National Bubble Week! 3/20-3/26, 2013.
Who else can blow bubbles off the tip of their tongue?
Mar 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cainito
star-apple
Mar 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word thugs-in-uniform
Who knew? I wonder whether a mismatch between term and definition is at work here.
Mar 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word undern-song
Time to wake up, tra-la-la.
Mar 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kissar
Zing went the strings, reestee.
Mar 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pianata
A peñita might perhaps look like the smaller of those rocky milestones that crop out along some or another songline, bilby.
Mar 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word yarsagumbu
It's not a clam. See also the example sentence at Yarsagumbu. YouTube has some great examples worth perusing.
Mar 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word well
@lydunka - my feeling is that the well was nearly dry, so the water level in the well was very low. More rope required to reach the water, and more time and effort required to hoist the bucket.
Mar 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pianata
A piñata shaped like a street-piano.
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list things-that-freak-me-out
It's Herr Feuerman. May I borrow some lime-liniment?
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word seasoning-machine
Pass the fat-liquor, please.
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word jagger
“My mother called whiskey 'jagger' -- I don't know why.” --from the Examples.
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sadden
To become heavy, compact, or firm; harden, as land or roads after a thaw or rain. --CD&C
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word jibby-horse
Slim looked much like the other fellows come to watch the rodeo, dressed in newish jeans and shirt, polished boots, with a modestly-sized oval buckle on his belt and his Sunday hat atop his head. His wife, on the other hand, was all gussied up like a jibby-horse.
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word nitrojute
Kaboom!
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word lipperings
Stop your blubbering. It's just a little water, blood and (whale) oil.
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word spolia opima
Let's pick up the pieces. The best belong to me now.
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word neologist
Prolonged debate over whether, or not, the neoterists were in truth "just verbarians" prevented participants at the neologists' society conference from truly enjoying their plenary supper. The evening ended with toasts and cheers to the New Word Order.
Mar 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pennywhistle
I'll perform, on the whistle, a selection of jigs, hornpipes, reels and slow airs tomorrow evening in a St. Paddy's variety show. Maids of Mitchelstown, Boys of the Town, Kerfunten, Cul Aodhe, and others.
Mar 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word totally disagree
I totally disagree that gallbladder is a word worthy of trending. And, Hey You!, Eshman! Take off those jelly shoes.
Mar 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bugong
Yum. It tastes like it rhymes with dugong.
Mar 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list words-ending-in-c
Terrific!
Mar 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Ambulyx philemon
This binomial name of a moth species contains all the vowels once; and the wye.
Mar 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word puddling
A group of butterflies is called a rabble, and also a swarm, or lek.
Mar 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word puddling
A collective noun. A puddling of ducks.
Mar 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word misdaub
The rumor was that misdaub and surcoat were seen together on Viscount Exmouth's boat on Lake Como, and then later in the season, taking the waters at Marienbad.
Mar 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word boottopping
Because some words just look funnier than others.
Mar 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word fair-maids-of-february
Sometime citizens of the Hyphen Nation.
Mar 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word carlock
Well of course! Sturgeon bladder is the key to carlock.
Mar 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word veni creator
Apropos of 3/13/13. Habemus papam francescum.
Mar 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word double-quick
This adjectival term is also employed as a noun and as an adverb in the example sentences.
Mar 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list box-it-up
Perhaps, bilby, you are looking for jockey-box? See comments under glove box.
Mar 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word paper town
Nothing remains but worthless paper money blowing down dusty paper streets.
Mar 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word high-cockalorum
Its a game, and there's not much to it.
Mar 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word nieve de pasta
A style and flavor of iced cream in Michoacán Mexico. --from the Wordnik examples under Tarascan.
Mar 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word completly
"... the rut is still hot and he how many deer were harvested in Ohio anyone around delmarva completly snowed in?" --from the Wordnik examples.
The world will end neither with bangs nor whimpers, but with choking, entropic misspellings and garbled grammar and punctuation.
Mar 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word poitin
Come guess me this riddle: what beats pipes and fiddle?
What's hotter than mustard and wilder than cream?
What best wets your whistle? What's clearer than crystal?
What's sweeter than honey and stronger than steam?
What will make the dumb talk? What will make the lame walk?
The elixir of life and philospher's stone.
And what helped Mr. Brunel to dig the Thames Tunnel?
Wasn't it poteen from ould Inishowen?
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature
For drowning your sorrows and raising your joys.
Oh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and thunder
Was made from the plunder of poteen me boys.
--Later verses of the Irish song The Humours of Whisky.
Mar 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word instagatrix
Check Google Books for the better spelling instigatrix. Marie Antoinette was called in writing an instigatrix at least as early as 1794.
Mar 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list the-way-we-dress
to kill
Mar 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word foward
Eye-rhymes with toward and coward.
Foward, ye wards of the Fo!
Drive the cowards to and fro
'Til their lower'd flag lies on the snow.
Mar 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list my-god--its-full-of-stars
instars
Mar 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pyr-steradian
Light reading, so to speak.
Feb 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word game-hawk
It's a falcon.
Feb 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word amphicribral
In plant anatomy, having the phloem surrounding the xylem in a concentric vascular bundle.
Feb 27, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Stockinger
An occupational surname. Cf. stockinger.
Feb 27, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word metamorphoscope
It's a toy.
Feb 27, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word He Long
Shorty, to his friends.
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*lfst - selfstanding
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word listrium
This word does not imply that the Romans invented Wordie/Wordnik.
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word waybung
It's a bird, by the waybung.
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word uppiesides
The Aberdeenshire loon - Now some birders will be looking to add this one to their life lists.
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list obscure-airport-codes
Hey great alexz, you found ONE! Nice ONE!
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word U+02BB
Unicode character ("modifier letter turned comma") representing the ʻokina or phonetic glottal stop used in writing Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages. Compare U+2018, the "single opening quotation mark".
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list obscure-airport-codes
Neither ONE nor TWO are airport codes, to my knowledge. However, ANE is the code for the Aéroport de Angers - Loire, in France; TRE is the Tiree Airport in Tiree, Scotland; FOR is Pinto Martins Intl Airport in Ceará, Brazil; and FIV stands for the Five Finger Coast Guard Heliport in Five Finger Alaska. There is no SIX, to my knowledge.
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list obscure-airport-codes
A family member long ago dubbed me the Word Bird, @VerbalElation. I am or have been, among other things, an antiques collector and a fossil plant systematicist. The latter of these discovers and catalogs relationships between extinct and living plant lineages. Finding words and drawing connections by means of organized or themed lists is but another exercise in collecting and organizing that offers me satisfaction. I delight in words. They humor me. I list words as a hobby, yes, and to keep them close to hand. But for broader reasons too.
The world in its variety is very finely and sometimes bewilderingly nuanced, whether one examines a just synchronic snapshot, a moment in time, or a diachronic interval that spans a particular history. Our words, the words of our language, record the manifold physical and cultural landscapes that we and our forbears have perceived. I collect words in order to learn and examine their subtleties. If I am startled because there are so many words for "snow" it is because I have not known snow it its delightful variety. If "snow" is the only word known to me for the frozen precipitation that falls from the sky in winter, then my perception of that particle of the world is restricted, and perhaps biased in its narrowness. A broad vocabulary broadens the horizon I see when I look beyond myself.
Feb 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word phthisiotherapeutist
This 20-letter mouthful contains various words within the string, including: this, is, his, other, her, era, rape, ape, and of course, therapeutist.
Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word brute fact
Outside of partisan politics, brute facts are called opinions.
Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word blondinette
Has blondinette ever been used for a shade of commercial hair-color?
Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word turdulus
It's a bird, but the word might be put to creative use as a derogative term.
Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word The Klezmatics
Theirs, one of the best performances I ever attended.
Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word proprietarian
“Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.” --from the Examples.
Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word coquina
The whole allusion and connection to coquina lies with the mussel's genus name Donax, which reminded me of the song's repetitive verse "Dona dona dona..." . I like the visuals, especially the live oak trees and the old coquina stone city gates of St. Augustine FL, both of which have been pictured on post cards and tourist souvenirs for well over a century.
Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word fiddle-beetle
Please welcome the newest member of the Organism Orchesta.
Feb 24, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sea-poacher
Yep, it's a fish.
Feb 24, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word coquina
Dona dona dona Donax
Oyfn firl ligt dos kelbl
ligt gebundn mit a shtrik
hoikh in himl flit dos shvelbl
freyt zikh dreyt zikh hin un krik.
Lakht der vint in korn
lakht un lakht un lakhtt
lakht er op a tog a gantsn
mit a halber nakht.
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, da,
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, da.
Shreit dos kelbl zogt der poyer
ver zhe heyst dikh zein a kalb
volst gekent tzu zein a foygl
volst gekent tzu zein a shvalb.
Lakht der vint in korn ...
Blinde kelber tut men bindn
un men shlept zey un men shekht
ver s'hot fligl, flit aroyftzu
iz bei keynem nit keyn knekht.
Feb 24, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ket
Carrion or a candy-treat; You pick.
Feb 23, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word thundersnow
Anagram: drown the sun.
Feb 23, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word thundersnow
Do isobronts leave tracks in the snow?
Feb 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word totanine
It's really not worth sniping at.
Feb 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bandonion
Enough to make a bibacious man cry, with abandon.
Feb 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word poricidal
adj. botany, A form of dehiscence whereby a seed capsule opens via pores or holes, allowing seeds to be dispersed like salt from a shaker. Species of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) are the most familiar plants exhibiting poricidal dehiscence. Compare septicidal, septifragal, and loculicidal.
Feb 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word loculicidal
Compare septicidal and poricidal.
Feb 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word panyar
A word derived from Portuguese penhorar, from the days of the slave trade in coastal West Africa.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kenopsia
Thanks to bilby for first listing and commenting upon the word that described a feeling I had not previously had a name for.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pagophile
An ice-lover; an organism that lives and thrives in the ice environment.
pagophilic
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word plaintfully
"A character in The Tooth of Crime asks plaintfully, "Ain't there any farmers left, ranchers, cowboys, open space? Nobody just livin' their life?" --Johan Callens, Ed., 1998. Sam Shepherd: Between the Margin and the Center (1). American Theater Review, Vol. 8, Pt. 3, p.26.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sympus
An octopus whose tentacles are conjoined teratologically might be called a sympus.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word gamelion
Neither a game nor a lion. It's the name of the seventh month in the Attic year.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Fungia
It's a coral, the mushroom coral.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word peasecod-bellied
I'm an adjective you don't meet every day.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word piceous
Picea (see picea) is the genus name of the spruce tree. In the past, spruce resin/gum was processed into a sort of chewing gum. This gum had the pitchiness but not the blackness implied by the adjective piceous, as Robert Frost told us in this excerpt from his 1920 poem The Gum-Gatherer:
What this man brought in a cotton sack
Was gum, the gum of the mountain spruce.
He showed me lumps of the scented stuff
Like uncut jewels, dull and rough.
It comes to market golden brown;
But turns to pink between the teeth.
The entire poem may be read at Bartleby.com.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kenopsia
It's raining tonight and the sidewalks are empty,
The umbrellas are gone
And the streets are so lonely --
I lie here awake and the silence is thunder,
Even though you are gone
Your sadness remains.
A piece of a song I've been working on for some time.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word chicken cannon
When pigs fly, aeronautics engineers will require a pig cannon.
Feb 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word martel-de-fer
Has a bec-de-corbin on one end.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word strstr
Don't let the definition put a sack (wineskin) over your head. strstr() is a string function in the standard C library and in PHP. An example of entry-definition mismatch.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word amarylloid
Of or like plants of the subfamily Amarylloidea.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word galanthophile
One who loves or collects species of the amarylloid genus Galanthus, the snowdrops.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stomach share
Makers of junk food not only battle for market share, but they also compete for stomach share. What's in your paunch, and whom did you pay for the privilege of putting it there? Thanks to John McGrath @Wordie for tweeting the NYT article that gave me this phrase.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word E559
Al2SiO5; aluminum silicate, a clay mineral and food additive that is better baked, not fired.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word iron filings
Wictionary calls iron filings a food additive. No wonder magnets stick to my abdomen sometimes.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word karaya gum
Eat what you can then use the leftovers to stick your upper plate to the roof of your mouth.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list russian-doll-words
chandlery
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*thsp withspeak
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word arni
Nice cow name, unless you have a lamb that needs an epithet.
Feb 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word celtomania
Just the slightest hint of goropism, Paddy.
Feb 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hempcrete
That's some heavy sh--, man.
Feb 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*mpcr hempcrete
Feb 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list sensations-and-sounds
boation
Feb 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cancrisocial
Social with crabs, but not a socialite with crabs.
Feb 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word masking
Cf. raking-piece.
Feb 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Slow Village
Took me 2 yrs., 59 days, 13 hrs., and 43 mins. to get a clock fixed there once.
Feb 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pr'ythee
prithee; (I) pray thee.
Feb 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sororize
Don't sororize with the enemy.
Feb 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word feck+all
Compare bugger all.
Feb 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bufonoid
Contrast ranoid.
Feb 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list back-to-bach
What of BBach?
Feb 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hulk
A swinesty, hogsty; a swinecote, pig-cote.
Feb 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word aqualunge
Humorous term and Twitter.com hashtag referring to Marco Rubio's awkward and mid-sentence groping for an out-of-frame bottle of Poland Springs water during the broadcast of his Republican response/rebuttal to Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address.
Feb 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word fissililiguia
The five precisely spaced dots in this word's i's spell E-S-E in Morse code.
Feb 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word peddler
The discussion thread below brings the terms despecificate and adsignification to mind.
Feb 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cinder pig
I like the flavor of pit-roasted pork. I wouldn't recommend cinder pig though. Too metallic-tasting.
Feb 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word we
From the Same Context heading: any ill-satisfied plaguey uppish tea-drinker, and, praise those thermopower weapons.
Feb 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Snellen chart
Cover your right eye and read to me the third line of letters please.
Feb 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cavell
To cast cavells -- to cast lots. Northumberland dialect.
Feb 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word brosier
brozier
Feb 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word brozier
brosier
Feb 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word crystallophone
Compare glasschord.
Feb 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word glass harmonica
Compare glasschord.
Feb 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word glasschord
Percussive cousin of Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica. Cf. crystallophone.
Feb 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*ssch: glasschord, which see.
Feb 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word corpus fetishism
Then would you insist as well that anthropologists' field-recordings should be relegated to the dung-heap and debitage of disallowed/disavowed data?
Feb 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word juke-neckit
It's a golf club. With a neck like a duck.
Feb 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word fraught
Better a fraught than a draught, of moonshine, I always say.
fraught - two bucketsful. --from the definitions.
Feb 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word festino
A feast; entertainment.
Feb 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word close-sciences
It's a plant. The pieces of it's name have an interesting (to me) derivation.
Feb 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word slice
A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. --from the definitions.
Feb 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stranger
It's a particular fish, in bilby-land.
rock-whiting
Feb 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word gunny-bag
Known as a croaker sack in the deep south of the US; the burlap bag used by frog-giggers to contain and keep their middle-of-the-night catches damp.
Feb 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word chimney-pot hat
See pot-hat.
Feb 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
List of most expensive divorces.
Feb 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
List of Hawaii tornados.
Feb 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rubber-saw
Goes in the same toolbox as your oyster-hammer.
Feb 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hoddypeak
"They counte Peace to be cause of ydelnes, and that it maketh
men hodipekes and cowardes."--Bp. Christopherson, _Exh. ag.
Rebel._ 1554. The Rebel was a poem, printed in Notes and Querries: A Medium of Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc., No. 33, Saturday, June 15, 1850, p. 34.
Feb 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rock-violet
A certain alga growing on stones that, when wetted, yields a strong and pleasant odor of violets. Perfect for lining a grotto or outdoor shower, I should think.
Feb 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word overperted
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
Feb 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word napha-water
I once purchased a bottle of orange-water perfume at a Cuban tienda in Tampa FL.
Feb 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ahuehuetl
The storied swamp-cypress of Mexico.
Feb 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word water-holing
Interesting, if not zblbl, because water-cooler is African ungulate herd-slang for the water-hole, where hackers (slang for crocodiles) lie in wait to ambush the users.
Feb 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word studdle
Compare staddle.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Battle of the Olive Grove of Koundouros
Here, Wiki.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word oli-net
An inverted umbrella device deployed beneath an olive tree that catches olives shaken from it during harvesting.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word oliviera
An olive-harvesting tool.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list olive
Primarily looking for the edible kind, and associated words, ruzuzu, but I'd be pleased if you'd add it anyway! It should probably go on my list of "greens", too.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cow-pilot
It's a fish.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word geebung
It's a tree.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word peterkin
Therefore, non habemus papam.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word anagogetical
anagogical
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bombardelle
Kaboom.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rudenture
Frayed bits of dental-floss lodged inextricably between the teeth.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cloven
sarceled. Pig butchery seems to dominate the visuals provided.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list mnemonic-devices
I like the term aide-mémoire.
Feb 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list mondayish
My favorites so far are powfagged, cubdrawn, and forswonk.
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ahole
And aholehole repeats four letters and makes it a whole fish.
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list herring
added buckling.
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word v-vat
Wh-what?
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cacik
“I really love the doner kabob at my local Turkish restaurant, and the cacik is awesome, pronounced "jawjeek" phonetically.” --from the examples.
I'll go with the cacik. Or tzatziki, if it's available.
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word glasphalt
Or glassphalt, for the more body-conscious.
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word maleberry
See peaberry.
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stagger-bush
See andromeda.
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word dargs
It's a fish.
Feb 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*ndsp sandspout.
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stank-hen
It's a bird.
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Russell's teapot
Why isn't the media reporting this threat to world security? Who is behind the conspiracy? Why has the White House been silent on this issue?
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Owyhee
James Cook named the Sandwich Islands after his benefactor, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook reported that the native name for the Islands we now know as Hawai'i was Owyhee. The so-named county in SW Idaho is derived from Cook's term, and recalls 3 Hawaiian trappers who were lost in that region.
Visuals are fairly representative of this part of Idaho.
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word akule
It's a fish.
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word uhuula
It's a fish.
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kolea
Charming definition, to which should be appended "while sipping mojitos from a cruise ship deckchair".
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word chew the scenery
*loved*
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sea-panther
It's a fish.
Feb 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word botoque
pelele
Feb 9, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word thundersnow
Thundersnow thunders now in New England's 2/8/2012 blizzard.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word khamaseen
One for those who list the winds of the world.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kast
Compare German Kiste.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ex store
A place at which to shop for others' former spouses.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word springhouse
My father sometimes uses this term for outhouse.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word vintry
A pantry, but for vin.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*rkwr arkwright
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word humidostat
Cf. humidor.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word clerical guillotine
“He is aflame, from the edge of his collar -- a patent clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, purchased at a famous travellers 'emporium in the Strand -- to the thin, silky rings of dark hair that are wearing from his high, pale temples.” --Richard Dehan, The Dop Doctor. London, Wm. Heinemann Ltd., 1910.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word lactite
Cf. galalith and ivoroid.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Fleur du Maquis
Just lovely, qroqqa!
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word peachery
Get thee to a peachery, ma chérie.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ailantery
A grovecrop of Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven) trees.
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Great job ruzuzu. Who goes next?
Feb 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
How about rotten pears?
Feb 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word mydaleine
Don't name your daughter mydaleine.
There is a herring connection, ruzuzu!
Feb 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word foliation
Sounds like a fancy air filter, ruzuzu.
Feb 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bandicoot
Is bandie a nickname for bandicoot, bilby?
Feb 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word imp of the perverse
T.S. Eliot was imp of the purr-verse in his work Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Feb 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word coff
The offal of pilchards.
Feb 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word almond
One of the tonsils. --from the definitions.
Feb 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word transient lunar phenomenon
Very moony.
Feb 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word minkery
Get thee to a minkery, minx.
Feb 7, 2013