jaime_d has looked up 300 words, created 5 lists, listed 418 words, written 291 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 1 word.
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Well, there's a good idea. :-)
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But why not put in some citations so we can see how the words are being used? Can't have enough Thoreau on Wordie :-)
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Yeah, I know you're right. I hope you didn't take offence though jaime, because I didn't mean anything bad by it.
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Possible, many people use Wordie to list words or phrases they come across in reading. No big deal.
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What on Earth is with you and Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers????
jaime_d commented on the word defalcated
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word Cimmerian
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word slobber
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word guggle
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word Lanterne
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution. Meaning: a lamp post on the street, used by Parisian mobs to string up the latest object of their fury.
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word melly
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
the OED says that "melly" is an archaic word for "honey." However, in context, it looks like Carlyle meant melee. Very odd for him to spell it this way.
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word peculation
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word Almack
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution -- it's the name of a fashionable London social club of the time. "An Almack's Masquerade is not nothing; in more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: since sport they were; as Almacks may still be sincere wish for sport."
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word foisonless
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word obtestation
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word regrater
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word jurant
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word bandog
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word minatory
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word tripudiate
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word disembogue
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word caprioling
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word malison
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word vinaigrous
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word mixtiform
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word brabble
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word frondent
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word jupe
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word sabot
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word gyved
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word Kilkenny Cats
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word gerund-grinding
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word Sanhedrim
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word buckram
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word fencible
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word acetous
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word alegar
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word atrabiliar
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word Sapphic-Werterean
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word fuliginous
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word furibund
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word tile
the great mystery of From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: what does he mean by "tile-colored" (like "tile-colored beard"?)
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word suburb
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution "the Suburb" - meaning something like a place of inferior or debased habits of life.
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word glebe
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word gulosity
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: "Astonished Europe rings with the mystery for ten months; sees only lie unfold itself from lie; corruption among the lofty and the low, gulosity, credulity, imbecility, strength nowhere but in the hunger. "
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word edacity
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word eleutheromania
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word esurient
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word cynosure
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word plethorically
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word acidulent
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word solecism
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word higgle
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word viaticum
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011
jaime_d commented on the word fingent
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
Mar 6, 2011