quotato has looked up 41 words, created 44 lists, listed 447 words, written 93 comments, added 3 tags, and loved 7 words.
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I like your list. If Star Trek is any indicator of the future, I'd say the words Enterprise and Voyager will still be around.
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Quotato! Welcome back. If you are back.
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Quotato! Where have you been, person with one of the best Wordie usernames ever?!
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Funny, billifer--I always envisioned it as quoting Hamlet.... ;->
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I simply adore your username. So portmanteau, semi-onomatopoeiac, and illusory all in one succinct word: I envision a half-pound Idaho baker spouting Shakespearian soliloquy -- King Lear, perhaps -- while awaiting its fate in the microwave.
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I like your name.
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"appoggiatura"!!!
This is a beautiful word. I like it. I may have to steal it. ;P
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Definition
Onomatopoeia is the use of a word that denotes a
* sound suggested by the phonetic quality of the word, or
* thing that produces such a sound.
Examples (English)
* gong
* crackle
* twitter
quotato commented on the word bibliotaph
Yes, what a waste of a book. Yet, sometimes we have to lock our books up in a storage bin because we can't walk on the floor anymore...:*)
Feb 24, 2010
quotato commented on the user ruzuzu
thx for NASA list add. I wonder how many specialized words that NASA uses today will be used 1000 years from now? :*)
Feb 23, 2010
quotato commented on the word epigone
The "singer" Taylor Swift is a epigone of Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks...
Feb 22, 2010
quotato commented on the word tranbleman
The above word translates to earthquake
Jan 25, 2010
quotato commented on the word mancession
Is entering a word on wordnik considered to be work? :*)
Jan 8, 2010
quotato commented on the word I miss wordie
Wordnik reminds me of the retro word beatnik. Old 1950's and early 1960's poets and activists being intellectual in the pre-Starbucks era. Wordie had more of humorous 21st Century intellectual self deprecating feeling about it.
Jan 5, 2010
quotato commented on the word I miss wordie
Yes (me too too), when I first saw that wordie became wordnik I wanted to quit logging in. At first my password did not work, and I put the browser bookmark into the dead site office. Then I got a new password and I am back. Kinda reminds me of when Coke a Cola got rid of the classic taste and then went back to the original formula....
Jan 3, 2010
quotato commented on the list unique-words-and-acronyms-used-in-the-vietnam-war
A cherry was a newly arrived replacement troop in Vietnam who was seen by seasoned troops as a virgin.
Dec 30, 2009
quotato commented on the list unique-words-and-acronyms-used-in-the-vietnam-war
Used by Vietnamese, picked up by the Veterans of the Vietnam War. Means "a lot of" or "many." derived from the French word "beaucoup" meaning 'much.'
We've got buku charlies just on the other side of hill 445.
Dec 29, 2009
quotato commented on the list unique-words-and-acronyms-used-in-the-vietnam-war
Many people have thought that this is a song about drugs (as is the case with many other songs by Alice In Chains), but guitarist Jerry Cantrell, who wrote the song, has said that "Rooster" is about his father, whose nickname was "Rooster" when he served in Vietnam. In the liner notes for the "Music Bank" box set, Jerry Cantrell says "Rooster was my
dad."
Dec 28, 2009
quotato commented on the word DEROS
DEROS, Date Eligible for Return From Overseas
Dec 28, 2009
quotato commented on the word REMF
In Vietnam REMF was an acronym for Rear Echelon Mother Fu_ker
Dec 28, 2009
quotato commented on the word bookworm
The early bird catches the worm and the bookworm catches the owl. "Quotato"
Dec 28, 2009
quotato commented on the list musican-jamming-jargon
The phrase "in the pocket" is used to describe something or someone playing in such a way that the groove is very solid and with a great feel. When a drummer keeps a good metronomic pulse, often referred to as keeping time, and makes the groove feel really good, and maintains this feel for an extended period of time, never wavering, this is often referred to as a deep pocket.
Nov 9, 2009
quotato commented on the word concupiscence
concupiscene is a sophisticated word for lust
Oct 21, 2009
quotato commented on the word cephalization
1864, coined by U.S. zoologist James D. Dana (1813-1895) from Gk. kephale "head" on model of specialization, etc.
It is harder to keep your head together when it keeps enlarging....
Oct 8, 2009
quotato commented on the word superfetation
Baby, oh baby!
Sep 26, 2009
quotato commented on the word intendance
superintendence; supervision.
Now I get the meaning behind superintendence or superintendent...
Hey, we all make spelling errors now and than...could "intendance" be the dance employees do when the superintendent is not around?
Sep 3, 2009
quotato commented on the list guitar-performance-terms
Without persuasiveness all guitar performances fail.
Aug 23, 2009
quotato commented on the list words-that-mean-lazy
You must be a lollygagger if you have time to enter words like lollygag on wordie...
Jul 30, 2009
quotato commented on the word antipode
Is the antipode to the antipode called a "pode"?
Jul 23, 2009
quotato commented on the word penultimate
He who laughs last does not laugh penultimately.
Jun 24, 2009
quotato commented on the word deus ex machina
When World War Two ended with Atomic Bombs, those Atomic Bombs were the ultimate Deus ex machina...
Jun 21, 2009
quotato commented on the word peripatetic
Modern peripatetic:
a person who surfs from webpage to webpage
May 2, 2009
quotato commented on the word diigo
as in http://diigo.com
Mar 27, 2009
quotato commented on the word desecrate
Is it possible to desecrate the word desecrate?
Dec 29, 2008
quotato commented on the word famine
DENVER -- A longtime mall Santa said he was shocked and saddened to hear kid's Christmas wishes included food for their family instead of toys.
Rich Lopez has been playing Santa in Boulder for eight years.
He told Denver TV station KMGH that he loves that job because he enjoys listening to kids talk about their Christmas wish list.
"I'll get requests from girls for Barbie dolls or play sets," Lopez said. "Boys ask for Power Rangers or games."
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But he said several recent requests nearly brought tears to his eyes.
"This year, for the first time, I had several kids ask for food. Food for their grandparents, food for their family," he said. "It just broke my heart."
Aside his side Santa job, Lopez is chairman of the board of directors at The Denver Foundation, a community group dedicated to improving life in Denver through philanthropy and leadership.
He asked the foundation to help. It responded, creating a to help replenish shelves at area food pantries.
"The shelves are bare here," said Jeff Hirota, the foundation's vice president of programs. "The money and the food go out faster than we can keep up with it. It's just going to get harder through the winter."
Hirota said The Denver Foundation wants to raise $500,000 to help combat hunger.
"We're going to send that aid directly to front line and get it out to the most vulnerable in our community as fast as we can," Hirota said.
Jon Holmer, of the Metro CareRing food shelf, said need has skyrocketed.
"It's been through the roof in terms of increase. We've been seeing an increase since last February and March," said Holmer.
Dec 19, 2008
quotato commented on the word cryptomnesia
Mary had a big black sheep
His fleece was black as coal
Looks like I fleeced somebody's poem...
Dec 12, 2008
quotato commented on the word pipe dream
The only pipe dream that ever worked is when a plumber got a job.
Dec 2, 2008
quotato commented on the word dulcet
What a sweet melodious word dulcet is...
Nov 27, 2008
quotato commented on the user chained_bear
A paper page dictionary has more than 15,000 words, and, it does not even need an electric plug to keep it charged up.
Of course, a human being does need to use muscular power to open its pages too view it's many many words...
I must admit...my mind shall never remember every word in that Great Book.
Oct 11, 2008
quotato commented on the word lacunae
The media behemoth slouching after the senator is scouring his every word, expression, bead of sweat, basketball shot and accessory — are those hiking boots too Bremer? Are the sunglasses too rapper? Will he leave enough time for his glittery groupie, Carla Bruni? — for hints of imperfection that would foretell lacunae in presidential judgment.
Jul 24, 2008
quotato commented on the word divination
successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck, conversely; good insight or unusual luck...
Jul 22, 2008
quotato commented on the word teetotalism
Nephalism, temperance, abstinence and restraint are synonyms for teetotalism. Abstinence and restraint have other, sometimes sexual connotations.
Numerous idioms and slang terms imply abstinence from alcohol. Common American terms includes "on the wagon," which frequently means those who have had a problem with alcohol, as well as the terms "dry" and "sober." "Straight-edge" is one of the newer idioms for abstaining from alcohol and other intoxicants.
Jul 3, 2008
quotato commented on the word senescence
Young pop stars never die---they just fake away
Jun 30, 2008
quotato commented on the word subjunctive
I am really getting tired of discovering new words that keep popping up out of nowhere...
Jun 13, 2008
quotato commented on the word discomfiture
discomfit used to used as "to be defeated"
c.1225, from O.Fr. desconfit, pp. of desconfire "to defeat, destroy," from des- "not" + confire "make, prepare, accomplish." Weaker sense of "disconcert" is first recorded 1530 in Eng., probably by confusion with discomfort (q.v.).
Mar 29, 2008
quotato commented on the word misspeak
The word "misspeak" has a long and varied history, says John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
"It goes back to the Old English period before the Norman Conquest to mean to murmur or grumble.
"But it's got quite a wide sense of meanings, to speak insultingly or improperly or to speak disparagingly or disrespectfully or to speak evil of. Then in the mid to late Middle Ages, it was to pronounce incorrectly."
Mar 26, 2008
quotato commented on the word flagitious
Latin meaning of flagitious= To incite to lewdness
Mar 18, 2008
quotato commented on the list dictionary-com-word-of-the-day
insolence was Yahoo word of the day for 15Feb2008
Feb 16, 2008
quotato commented on the word vertiginous
Looking at that word vertiginous is making me dizzy.
Feb 13, 2008
quotato commented on the word gormless
A place where everyone is happy: a gormitory
Jan 17, 2008
quotato commented on the list i-must-emancipate-these-words-from-my-brain-i-m-goin-crazy
Me to. I am vexed by the word vexed:*)
Jan 16, 2008
quotato commented on the word cohort
A legion of Wordies marching through the dictionary.
1422, from L. cohortem, acc. of cohors "enclosure," meaning extended to "infantry company" in Roman army (a tenth part of a legion) through notion of "enclosed group, retinue," from com- "with" + root akin to hortus "garden," from PIE *ghr-ti-, from base *gher- "to grasp, enclose" (see yard (1)). Sense of "accomplice" is first recorded 1952, Amer.Eng.
Jan 5, 2008
quotato commented on the word hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Add another wicked wordie to the hexakosioihexekontahexaphobialist
Jan 2, 2008
quotato commented on the word decorum
In accordance with its etymology, is that
which is becoming in outward act or appearance;
as,the decorum of a public assembly. Dignity springs from an inward elevation of soul producing a corresponding effect on the manners; as, dignity of personal appearance.
Jan 2, 2008
quotato commented on the word vade mecum
Latin "Go With Me"---a pocket handbook=vade mecum
Dec 7, 2007
quotato commented on the word chastisement
Are too many words a form of chastisement?
Nov 28, 2007
quotato commented on the word triptych
word
word
word
Nov 15, 2007
quotato commented on the word avulsed
to pull off or tear away forcibly: to avulse a ligament.
Oct 19, 2007