madmouth has looked up 5365 words, created 127 lists, listed 7438 words, written 3025 comments, added 515 tags, and loved 317 words.
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Pleased to introduce you to Futility Closet. A ton of interesting stuff there that I imagine you're discovering on your own. Cheerio!
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I have been acquired by a reasonably tame possum who will come down and eat apple cores, banana peels and other tastykins if I leave them out on the deck before nightfall. Should I ask him if he eats blackberry trifle?
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I back now. In time for blackberry season - will likely be wording about trifle before long
What's new in the marsupial world?
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Been missing you and your expansive sandwormery!
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For two days now, the phrase HOOBA PORKRIND! has been going through my head.
HOOBA PORKRIND! -
I'm probably unofficial leader of the HP fan club. I even made a pilgrimage to his home town where I managed to get my hands on a history of Bairnsdale that is just breathtaking.
I'll accept the compliment if you'll point me to the Blushing Room! -
HOT DOG. second to the OED, you're my favourite thing about the internet, bilby
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You might like the stories of Hal Porter.
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I was just wondering about that the other day. I work downtown so I can drink coffee, eat sushi, and all manner of other things pretty much whenever I want. My email's on my librarything profile.
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I've added a link to your fine Reduples list in the description of my list of Scots reduplicative words.
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Tickling suists is one of my favorite ways to pass the time.
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You rock.
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hot dog!
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"mad mouth has added 88 lists containing 5,464 words, 2,788 comments, 513 tags, 331 favorites, and 18 pronunciations."
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My mom was Latvian, but I grew up on the prairie in the middle of the U.S.
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Your pronunciations are fantastic!
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thx for contributing to the 'gods' list! :D
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Thanks madz!
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Thanks! You fought the good fight :-7
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Hi Madz. Are there negative connotations associated with 현미 hyeonmi in Korea?
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Madmouth:
You are not imagining the word, because I too have a pair of lines in my head, something like:
"he's got no feloorum,
he's lost his dingdoorum"
But I have no idea how the words in question might actually be spelled. -
You're back! *somerflipouettes in joy*
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ooo your lists are excellent!
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Oh, I was only in metaphorical stitches about something you wrote. Still, I made a full recovery :-)
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How's yer mouf?
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I'll try to, but I'm not sure of some of them - I found a few in lyrics to dancehall songs.
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a silver filđan
or two, perchance to abide
this company, shine -
madmouth are a:
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Congratulations on reaching 1000 comments! And in such a short time! Your contributions are much appreciated and enjoyed.
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madmouth, what frogapplause said!
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It's birds and bees (and begonias), rather than the facts of life, if that's what you're wondering. But remember, pretty-pretty words only! I'm sure you have a bazillion.
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Would you call an inhabitant of jeju a jejune?
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I take it you're not in Vancouver just now, which is a shame because it's a stupendously beautiful morning! the kind that makes your earlobes tingle and your voice box quiver in a joyous contralto.
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Madmouth: I'm enjoying your comments and word lists a lot!
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I'd love to see more SCBM (BSCM/CSBM/CBSM?) words on Wordie (like mrš!). It's a language I'm picking up in bits and pieces, partly because it occasionally crops up in Slovene texts (often in the form of swear words, which Slovenes claim all derive from army Serbian).
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Thanks for the additions to and citations on Yiddishkeit, they're great. Much appreciated!
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To madmouth: Fate is like that.
To C_B and Pro: I suppose my passions for Baltimoriana and Ljubljaniana (and more generally Sloveniana) can seem confusing. -
I know for sure that he (he?) mentioned it in two recent conversations, one about Baltimore and one about Forvo.
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Why did I think you were a Slovenian living in America? *time for bed*
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No, I'm an American, but I live in Slovenia. Welcome to Wordie!
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Are you Croatian, madmouth?
madmouth commented on the user oroboros
Thank you kindly for Futility Closet!
Apr 16, 2013
madmouth commented on the list insulting-animals
Capt. Haddock's dream brother lexicon
Apr 16, 2013
madmouth commented on the word wrasse
OED suggests this is a variant on the spelling of "wraths", "wrath" being the name of this fish as derived from Cornish. A beautiful exclamation when a single wrath will not do, also compoundable, e.g. wrasse and ires! Of course it is a different meaning, but beautifully suggestive nonetheless
Apr 16, 2013
madmouth commented on the list english-words-derived-from-hindi
so good for mouthfeel!
of interest is the obverse: http://briansteel.wordpress.com/tag/english-loanwords-in-hindi/
Mar 21, 2013
madmouth commented on the word dogodavštine
a suffix onto "dogođaji" (events) that creates the meaning "blah blah eventcakes" or "big fat useless events". Perhaps one could term it a dismissive suffix, akin to that evident in Hindi in "filmi-shilmi" and "beauty-shooty" (e.g. "who cares about your beauty-shooty salon?")
Mar 21, 2013
madmouth commented on the word krvna loza
lit. blood-vine, meaning "family line" or "lineage"
Mar 21, 2013
madmouth commented on the word yarsagumbu
is a-a-u-u Antipodean for hubba-hubba?
Mar 19, 2013
madmouth commented on the word yarsagumbu
great stats both as regards mouthfeel and meaning
Mar 19, 2013
madmouth commented on the word the sound of a dictionary falling down
Apropos of Dylan Thomas' "Now"
Mar 10, 2013
madmouth commented on the word thirtytwomo
This one wins the word game by basically inventing criteria for lexical coolness - there is nobody in thirtytwomo's freaky league
Nov 29, 2012
madmouth commented on the word fattrels
fattrels and cant! fattrels and cant!
Nov 29, 2012
madmouth commented on the list quaintnesses
bosoms awry!
Nov 29, 2012
madmouth commented on the user seraphim7210
We need a word for the beauty of a user with 1 list with 3000+ items (of good quality!!) on it!
Nov 29, 2012
madmouth commented on the list zoomorphic-weapons
most excellent
Nov 24, 2012
madmouth commented on the word hoddy
Archaic term for 'cheerful', lending in compound to hoddypoll a.k.a. cuckold or fool (with noddypoll and doddypoll having roughly the same meaning)
Nov 18, 2012
madmouth commented on the list quaintnesses
have done, with its buddy unbosom, which serves also perhaps as a very funky noun.
Nov 13, 2012
madmouth commented on the word rayah
it trickled into Bosnian (sp. 'raja') to mean rabble (folk) and/or buddies. I don't know what you'd call tax-exempt buddies, though
Aug 25, 2012
madmouth commented on the word venomous porridge
c/o Dylan Thomas, from the longer but more sublime "venomous porridge unknown to toxicologists"
Aug 25, 2012
madmouth commented on the user madmouth
I back now. In time for blackberry season - will likely be wording about trifle before long
What's new in the marsupial world?
Jul 7, 2012
madmouth commented on the word English riding coat
archaic euphemism for Dr. Condom's marvelous invention
Jul 6, 2012
madmouth commented on the user lamxung
o what can ail thee, spam-at-arms,
alone and palely festering?
Jul 6, 2012
madmouth commented on the word veronicle
variant of vernicle with more kicks to the humerus
Mar 13, 2012
madmouth commented on the list white-winter-hymnal
great title!
Dec 29, 2011
madmouth commented on the word catechumen
if mispronounced, fun to say. catachoomin! cata-cumin!
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word The church even asked von Hagens to plastinate the heelbone of Hildegard of Bingen.
insufferable gynocrats, the lot of 'em
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Johnson noise
hehehehehe
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word keeps your sand worm company
as a preteen I fantasized about having a sandworm for a pet, those big scary ones from Beetlejuice...and a big giant roomful of sand for it. yeah.
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word tail-napkin
good work, foxy - combining gooses and cabooses
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word sod off shotgun
once again fbjarjo rides in on his Magnificent Incomprehensibilitator...mortals beware ^-^
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Londons under siege
I am smelling the composition on voles in Waugh's Scoop all over this, yarb old boy
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word thews
my, how thy thews shew in the snew
...but the shrews in your trews disagrews?
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word dwine
has occasioned dwive, poss. d'wive, a hypothetical abbreviation of a more gender-specific synonym for 'divorce' :D
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word If Ruzuzu is infinitely powerful, can she also be infinitely good
the mark of Can?
Nov 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Londons under siege
that one is getting odder as one ages is a comforting thought ^^
ruzuzu, there needs to be a title for your special kind of assistance round these parts - Wee Wordie Wirgil?
Nov 10, 2011
madmouth commented on the word suckers born every two minutes
that's 1 sucker per second!
Nov 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word halter
Apparently Yeoman of the halter is the hangman's assistant.
Nov 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word yeoman of the mouth
"an Officer belonging to his Majesties pantry" (OED)
Nov 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word airbrush, banana squash, enameled canning kettle
...was so aligned on the left as to make me think there was a cool new list with such entries as "airbrush, banana" and "squash, enameled"
Nov 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word we possess very few authentic details about a people whose written annals were burnt by the ignorant "conquistadores"
"daddy, why aren't you in bed yet?"
"I can't sleep...someone on the internet is wrong"
-Eddie Campbell
Nov 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word in the best of clothes to sit shivah
all sculptures I have seen seem to indicate that Shiva sits you, not the other way around ^^
Nov 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word wadmeal
with wadmeal gloves, yes? or would that be 'yaaaairs' a la White
Nov 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word wadmeal
NICE ONE
how does one, now that the profile comment function is as dead as the list comment function, get hold of a bilby? it is the sad of all
Nov 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word shrab
cf. sharaab
Nov 2, 2011
madmouth commented on the word an enomoty of Spartans
where is that list of madeupical collective nouns?
Nov 2, 2011
madmouth commented on the word dright
Not to be confused with Mright
Nov 2, 2011
madmouth commented on the word herpes grinch
def.: one who wishes herpes upon another. as coined by a dear friend
Oct 11, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Godspeed and may life give you sausages
or GSYBE! cover band composed entirely of butchers?
Oct 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word banaba
distant faunal cousin of the bonobo
Oct 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word apple fruit crinkle
fun to say, at any rate ^^
I wouldn't wish anthracnose on anyone really
Oct 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word fessways
in no way like arsiversie? this makes me sad
Oct 3, 2011