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Comments by reesetee

  • Heehee. Added. :-)

    December 4, 2011

  • Oh, what a lovely place it would be. *dreams*

    October 29, 2011

  • Jenn, you can reach me on FB if you'd like.

    October 29, 2011

  • You know what would be really cool? Wordie.

    October 28, 2011

  • *sigh*

    October 25, 2011

  • I've whittled my FB car down to a nice little bicycle.

    October 20, 2011

  • Hi, everyone. Checking in with some freshly baked umbrage and jam-filled fufluns. Been having a tough time here. I'm on FB and Google+, too, so for now, hope to see you there.

    *parks old clunker in the garage and takes newer, less-loved car*

    October 14, 2011

  • *marginalizes own discourse, then flings toasted harshmallows at "new interface" page*

    Pro, sionnach: I'm with you. *raises beharshmallowed fist in solidarity*

    September 29, 2011

  • *yoink*

    September 21, 2011

  • *hands sionnach a flaky umbrage pastry*

    September 18, 2011

  • Hi all. Rolig, my sentiments match yours. I'm willing to wait out the Big Tangle if it means that I'll be able to stay in contact with my good old Wordnikian friends, especially since many are not on FB or other such sites. But I've lost my enthusiasm for Wordnik. I'm hoping it's temporary, because I still don’t believe there’s another site where you can blather on happily with like-minded word lovers who are so funny, civil, and intelligent. Wouldn’t it be great if we could have that back again? And I miss my lists, and everyone else’s lists, and flinging fufluns. I’m still around, but I’m waiting. In the meantime, I hope to see all of you elsewhere. *sigh*

    September 17, 2011

  • I haven't been here in a while either--can't get the pages to load before a millennium passes. (Also in the Beating a Dead Horse Dept.)

    September 4, 2011

  • Well, if you're going to judder them around, Chained....I mean, really.

    August 29, 2011

  • I only take them out of the china cabinet for special occasions.

    August 29, 2011

  • Yes, I was disappointed that way as well. ;-)

    August 29, 2011

  • Right here.

    August 25, 2011

  • What? Umbrage!

    *flees*

    August 24, 2011

  • Hey! Stop looking at Chained's citations!

    Oh, wait.

    August 24, 2011

  • However, it is still not a valid Scrabble word.

    August 24, 2011

  • Here it is.

    August 20, 2011

  • This sounds quite painful.

    August 20, 2011

  • I can only answer your question with a question: How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

    August 20, 2011

  • *hands out glowing green fufluns as a distraction*

    *snarfs up umbrage*

    *flees*

    August 20, 2011

  • Bilby, that is exquisite.

    August 20, 2011

  • *groan*

    August 20, 2011

  • What are they sitting around for? Look at all those sacks that need delivering!

    August 16, 2011

  • Not to worry--plenty more ideas where that came from. ;-)

    August 16, 2011

  • Ruzuzu? Wrong nun.

    August 16, 2011

  • Neat! I just found out that it's also used in Tasmania as a name for the Eastern Spinebill.

    August 16, 2011

  • What if Sr. Bertrille renunciated her nunhood before becoming a ninja?

    August 16, 2011

  • *hides Umbrage Sweeper*

    August 16, 2011

  • Oh, you'd think so, wouldn't you, asylumhead? Fortunately, I always travel with my Super 2000 Umbrage Sweeper.

    *sweeps up umbrage*

    *flees*

    August 15, 2011

  • I must confess that the long page load time is what's been keeping me away for a while. It is frustrating.

    August 15, 2011

  • *swipe*

    A-ha! I have it!

    *flees*

    August 8, 2011

  • Give it back, you umbrage thief!

    August 8, 2011

  • *catches fuflun, now stale, and eats it anyway*

    August 8, 2011

  • They've all been eaten.

    August 8, 2011

  • I like the dated comments too. Thanks for adding that.

    July 31, 2011

  • You beat me to this page--another record! :-)

    July 29, 2011

  • See ruzuzu's comment on her Mold list.

    July 29, 2011

  • Well now, I think that's a first--making a list that you yourself have already created. I think this needs to be added to the Several Stages of Wordie Addiction list.

    July 29, 2011

  • Be careful. I don't think Wordnik has a resident dentist.

    July 29, 2011

  • Weirdnet again....

    This is how my dad says "coleslaw"--as though using the entire word is just too exacting. Likewise, hot dogs are simply "dogs."

    July 29, 2011

  • Love it! :-)

    July 29, 2011

  • *facepalm*

    July 28, 2011

  • Can you break your teeth on those too?

    July 28, 2011

  • Aaaaahahaha! Why haven't I seen this list before now? Favorited!

    Do these international fufluns come with grape riffles?

    July 26, 2011

  • Holy cow.

    July 25, 2011

  • Wait'll you try the fufluns topped with whipped umbrage.

    July 25, 2011

  • Ruzuzu, you wouldn't believe how many of us have copyeditor tendencies. ;-)

    Edit: Antisocial? You? HAHAHAHAHA!

    July 19, 2011

  • Plinth.

    July 19, 2011

  • Plinth!

    July 19, 2011

  • Ohhhh, this is good. :-)

    July 16, 2011

  • *groan*

    July 14, 2011

  • I forgot to wink. ;-> But please note that philornithic is currently my favorite word.

    July 14, 2011

  • Hi Erin. For what it's worth--since bilby and marky already supplied information--I'm usually using Firefox v.3.6.16. I also use Chrome (on another computer--don't have version # handy), but haven't checked to see whether it's happening there. Thanks!

    If it's only happening on lists with more than 100 words, I'm in big trouble. ;-)

    July 14, 2011

  • With instructions! No wonder the Internet is so big!

    July 13, 2011

  • Or suspishy.

    July 13, 2011

  • Is everyone still having problems adding words to lists (on the list page itself)? I'm still seeing the word in the add field after I press "add"--and it doesn't immediately show up on the list unless I refresh the page.

    Also, I was seeing a notification when a word I'm adding is already on the list, and that's gone now.

    On a positive note, I see that a "view" option now pops up near each of my list names on every word page. Thanks!

    July 13, 2011

  • ...and that I would ever leave a word about birds off my lists?

    July 13, 2011

  • Heehee!

    July 11, 2011

  • Sorry all--didn't see your comments until now. Yes, according to OED Online, it's meant to be an adjective. Here's the sole example:

    "1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 111 By the inchanted transportation of the eyes and eares of its spectabundal auditorie."

    July 10, 2011

  • :-)

    July 10, 2011

  • I feel glad that it's out there and that you feel powerful. :-)

    July 10, 2011

  • Lovely.

    July 10, 2011

  • *blurp*

    July 10, 2011

  • "The macabre object is housed in a Queen Anne case and has been on display in the hallway of the Meath house – removed only when young children visit."

    Priceless.

    July 10, 2011

  • "Bell-Ringing Lore" sounds like a potential list. :-)

    July 10, 2011

  • I almost hate to say that I agree with Pro, frogapplause, mollusque, oro, rolig, et al., because somehow admitting it means it's so--but I'm feeling rather extraneous myself here lately. Like mollusque, I'm curious about where the Wordniks-That-Be see this site going. My feeling of late is that it may be traveling in a different direction than I'd hoped it would, and that makes me very sad indeed.

    July 10, 2011

  • Rubabness, the definition is right below your own comment.

    July 6, 2011

  • McKenzie would "roar around the office shouting 'Ferret up your trouser!'" whenever he wanted to alter made-up pages at top speed. "Then he might shout, 'Reverse ferret!' and all the pages would have to be changed all over again." -- "Rupert Murdoch and the Reverse Ferret," Slate.com, 11/17/08

    July 5, 2011

  • Great list!

    July 5, 2011

  • Ah, New Jersey....

    July 5, 2011

  • Here, hernesheir. I bought a bottle of the new Umbrage-Out Stain Remover, specially formulated for Wordnik pages. This oughta do the trick.

    July 5, 2011

  • All right, you've all convinced me. Not standing near the edge of any cliff with any of you. Especially since I aim to please fairly frequently.

    July 5, 2011

  • *jealous!*

    July 5, 2011

  • See stalking horse bidder.

    July 1, 2011

  • I've been seeing that big, weird font all over Wordnik since the new design rollout. Maybe it's sionnach's doing....

    July 1, 2011

  • "The U.S.’s second-largest bookstore chain announced Thursday that it has chosen private equity firm Najafi Companies as its so-called 'stalking horse bidder,' which means it will open the bidding at the bookseller's bankruptcy auction on July 19. Any deal would still need to be approved by a bankruptcy court." -- "Bankrupt Borders Finds a Buyer," Slate 7/1/11

    July 1, 2011

  • Nooooo, sorry. *sigh* But glad you had a great time. New Mexico is on my dream list of vacation spots. :-)

    July 1, 2011

  • You mean an urge or a tingly, god-I-hope-I-don't-fall-to-my-death feeling? If it's the latter, I have it too.

    If it's the former, remind me never to stand on the edge of a cliff with any of you.

    July 1, 2011

  • *flees, seeking lost umbrage*

    July 1, 2011

  • *is relieved*

    July 1, 2011

  • "Ah" for me.

    July 1, 2011

  • A fell beast makes an excellent house guard.

    July 1, 2011

  • Ruzuzu, I just took a heaping helping of umbrage over on Real Hernesheir's profile page, so I'm in the lead until someone takes umbrage at my umbrage-taking.

    July 1, 2011

  • You know, all the clouds I've seen lately have been happily socializing with other clouds.

    July 1, 2011

  • Ruzuzu, aren't those your photos?

    July 1, 2011

  • Hope you had a good time!

    *searches for b's wotd under desk*

    July 1, 2011

  • See? That's why I come to Wordnik--for the literary excellence.

    July 1, 2011

  • It would probably be the wrong image. ;-)

    July 1, 2011

  • PossU, it feels a bit cold to me as well. I did like the side-by-side display, simply because I could see more at a glance.

    July 1, 2011

  • 5. To turn someone into a person named Pat.

    July 1, 2011

  • I'm usually hopped up on coffee. At least in the morning. Then I come to Wordnik and get hopped up on words.

    July 1, 2011

  • *guffaw*

    July 1, 2011

  • Hmm....

    ;-)

    July 1, 2011

  • I never! Umbrage! Umbrage!

    Oh, sorry, hernesheir. I spilled umbrage all over your profile.

    July 1, 2011

  • Time warp? Black hole?

    June 29, 2011

  • Is it possible that two Wordniks have the same screen name? Or could it be some bizarre glitch that came with the new interface?

    June 29, 2011

  • Yep. He outpaced me a while ago.

    June 29, 2011

  • Yeah. Scary, right? ;-)

    June 29, 2011

  • Heehee.

    June 29, 2011

  • No, no, I'm all for serial ruthlessness and practice it frequently, being an editor. But wouldn't you think that after several swoops, one's fell begins to tire?

    June 29, 2011

  • How could it not be, with a name like that? ;-)

    June 29, 2011

  • What does "quesadilla" sound like when you're trying to eat fufluns?

    June 29, 2011

  • *munches happily, unaware of suspicious syntax*

    June 29, 2011

  • Oh. Carry on, then.

    June 29, 2011

  • I wouldn't answer that; it's a trap.

    June 29, 2011

  • Please! No feeding the animals!

    June 28, 2011

  • *hands out new quesadillas*

    *avoids applauding*

    June 28, 2011

  • Ooh, look at all those yummy tortilla ligers in the photos down there....

    June 28, 2011

  • *hands over salsa*

    *applauds milosrdenstvi*

    *drops quesadilla while applauding*

    *curses*

    June 28, 2011

  • *hands out quesadillers*

    June 28, 2011

  • Neat list! Found some cities, though they're a bit obscure. Up to you whether you want to keep them. :-)

    June 28, 2011

  • Milos, that's excellent! If Wordnik were a photo, that would be it. :-)

    Okay, that would be one of them....

    June 28, 2011

  • Pro, just mentioned the same on blafferty's profile page--lc "t" looks fine on my MacBook, not so fine on my PC.

    June 28, 2011

  • Welcome back, blaff! Was wondering where you were hiding. :-)

    Pro, I didn't see the "t" issue until I logged on using my desktop PC (I usually work on a Mac laptop). Don't know whether that makes any difference....

    June 28, 2011

  • See liger.

    June 28, 2011

  • Hmm. Guess I didn't grow up in a bike shed area. We always conducted that sort of business behind the local bakery.

    June 28, 2011

  • You have a point, yarb. I suppose if more than one swoop was fell, it would be more fellish than fell.

    June 28, 2011

  • That's because I was busy over at philornithic.

    June 28, 2011

  • Thanks, marky! This is one of my oldies.

    June 28, 2011

  • Heehee.

    *bails out Foxy-Loxy lickety-split*

    June 26, 2011

  • I never even heard of a shed specifically for bicycles until I saw this word.

    June 26, 2011

  • See whiskeranto.

    June 26, 2011

  • You bet. Looks like a Wiktionary definition just arrived on this page, too.

    June 26, 2011

  • Urban Dictionary says that it refers to "Technical disputes over minor, marginal issues conducted while more serious ones are being overlooked. The implied image is of people arguing over what color to paint the bicycle shed while the house is not finished."

    June 25, 2011

  • And here's a list. :-)

    Edit: Ooh, here's another!

    June 25, 2011

  • And international waffle day.

    June 25, 2011

  • And waffle iron day.

    June 25, 2011

  • Also see national waffle week.

    June 25, 2011

  • And here I thought this was nervousness or unease around cookware.

    June 25, 2011

  • "Actions of ejectment" = ♥

    June 25, 2011

  • Okay, well then how about making it Naked Orange Strangely Hiking Snack Appreciation Day?

    June 25, 2011

  • We could ask the Patriot Guard Riders to protect us.

    June 24, 2011

  • That sounds like an awful lot of work. Can't we just take snack packs?

    June 24, 2011

  • Perhaps--but none of the other letter lists include lubberwort. :-)

    June 23, 2011

  • Thanks! Still working on this. I expected to list about ten words or so. :-)

    June 22, 2011

  • Nickname for the Roseate Spoonbill.

    June 22, 2011

  • Strangely Naked Orange Snack Hiking Appreciation Day?

    June 22, 2011

  • Heard about this a little while ago but I didn't know why the little critters were targeting Mazda6. Love it. :-)

    Of course, I don't own a Mazda6....

    June 22, 2011

  • It's nier Tangiers, yes indeed.

    June 22, 2011

  • Strangely Orange Snack Appreciation Day may have all the flash, but let's not forget this holiday.

    June 21, 2011

  • Yum. *drinks Tang*

    June 21, 2011

  • Why, thank you! Happy Strangely Orange Snack Appreciation Day to you too!

    *offers Cheez-Its, Doritos, and cheese curls all around*

    By the way, it's also naked hiking day. I do not advise celebrating both at the same time.

    June 21, 2011

  • Yeth, but nothing thpecial.

    June 21, 2011

  • I was just coming here to plead for the same thing, marky (albeit in slightly different words). A great portion of my time on Wordnik is spent furiously adding words to my lists. I'm paralyzed.

    As for the new interface in general, admittedly I need to spend more time using it, but I do agree with fellow Wordieniks about feeling blindsided by the change while the list of requests on this page seemingly went ignored. I managed to roll with previous overhauls, but this one, visually pleasing as it is, seems functionally clunky and confusing to me thus far.

    Off to play with it a little more....

    June 21, 2011

  • Thanks for the list, ruzuzu, and for including me in it. Thanks for the poem, sionnach.

    June 18, 2011

  • Math bee.

    June 18, 2011

  • Then there's bookiodical.

    June 18, 2011

  • I don't want to know, anyhow.

    June 18, 2011

  • Very nice list!

    June 18, 2011

  • Never heard that one before--but duly added. Thanks.

    June 18, 2011

  • I brought a mola piece home from a Panama Canal cruise a few months ago. Beautiful work.

    June 18, 2011

  • I first read this as "nitflapping" and I wondered what those nits were up to now.

    June 18, 2011

  • Love the font on Comments! The one used for comments below links is a bit hard on the eyes, though. I think someone else mentioned that it would be great if the Comments section were higher up on the page rather then relegated to the bottom half. :-)

    June 18, 2011

  • And the previous comment, which I posted a few seconds ago, has time-traveled and was apparently posted 15 hours ago. *scratches head*

    June 18, 2011

  • Wow. That's what I get for being away for a week or so. Need to go figure this out now....

    June 18, 2011

  • Thanks, m.

    June 12, 2011

  • But good grief; who could sheathe that?

    June 10, 2011

  • Yes. But there's no time for that now.

    June 10, 2011

  • Agreed on both counts, m. Well put. :-)

    June 10, 2011

  • Well, I wouldn't do it too often. You can imagine what people would think.

    June 10, 2011

  • It's a serious word?

    June 10, 2011

  • The kohlrabi? That rotund little Santa Claus of a vegetable? Surely you jest, sionnach.

    Besides, beets don't blush. They're ruddy because they're the picture of health. Health and dignity.

    *stuffs fistfuls of phony umbrage into a pot to steam*

    June 10, 2011

  • I'd vote for the beet. Quite a dignified vegetable, and never involved in any scandalous E. coli scares.

    June 10, 2011

  • That is a good book. :-)

    June 9, 2011

  • Thanks! Just added a bunch more.

    June 9, 2011

  • Maybe a nice comic book instead.... ;-)

    June 9, 2011

  • And here I was thinking "Silent Cornballs."

    June 9, 2011

  • No. Seriously?

    June 9, 2011

  • Blaff, you need to check plinth (lowercase). Although you do have a point--uppercase Plinths are even more stately.

    Plinth.

    June 9, 2011

  • As we all have, blafferty. As we all have.

    June 9, 2011

  • Welcome, juliefa! You'll have fun here. :-)

    June 9, 2011

  • *snort*

    June 9, 2011

  • Oh dear.

    June 9, 2011

  • *wishes anything were called smokos here*

    June 9, 2011

  • Dontcry, it appears that sentence requires brackets by popular acclaim.

    June 9, 2011

  • You said a mouthful, Pro.

    June 9, 2011

  • Ha! That makes two of us. (Or more.)

    June 8, 2011

  • It is, sionnach. Truly it is. As bilby so aply put it, "Sometimes you can sort of explain Wordie to your friends. And sometimes ... "

    June 8, 2011

  • So that's what I like about ampersands. Thanks, sionnach--I hadn't made the connection before!

    June 8, 2011

  • Did you like that fuflun, dontcry? That was an exceptionally moist batch of ampersands.

    June 7, 2011

  • "Of course you cannot escape the fact that gatekeeping is about excluding work that is deemed not to be good enough. No wonder this makes many people (not only rejected authors) strongly dislike editors. But nature abhors a vacuum of opinion, particularly on the internet, and someone is always going to make quality assessments. Publishers back their judgment by investing in development (i.e. editing), production and promotion. They are thus better placed to be doorbitches than most other candidates." —Mandy Brett, "Why the World Needs Editors, Even If It Doesn't Need Books"

    June 7, 2011

  • I must confess: I do like ampersands. And pampersands, too.

    June 6, 2011

  • Any time, r.

    June 6, 2011

  • Somehow I missed the entire bingo. :-(

    June 6, 2011

  • I concur with the advice about concurring with rolig.

    June 6, 2011

  • I'd wager that we can't do much about it, though, since the man died in 2000. :-/

    June 6, 2011

  • Ooh, just rediscovered this article (also cited on the mackerel page).

    June 6, 2011

  • Thanks! Now I have to run off and tell ruzuzu about it. :-)

    June 6, 2011

  • Did you know that Pistanbul was Pconstantinople?

    June 6, 2011

  • Pellipses too, I'm sure.

    June 6, 2011

  • Good grief! My sincerest apologies, Mr. Fox. Consider my comment duly edited.

    And while I'm at it, I take umbrage at the implication that I am a shapeshifting eco-terrorist. Umbrage, I say!

    Signed,

    Ignis Fatuus

    June 6, 2011

  • Great minds, sionnach. I think we added "plottery" at the same time.

    June 5, 2011

  • Now we're cookin'.

    June 5, 2011

  • Oh, I just can't add to this list. I'd be here for a week. Most of my citations, however, would be from careless authors whom I've caught while editing. ;->

    June 5, 2011

  • Yes! Automatic fake ellipses. How hideous.

    *tops fufluns with one ampersand each, except for a special ampersand-free one for frogapplause*

    June 5, 2011

  • I've taken to calling it the Infernal Revenue Service. But that doesn't fit the list. :-)

    June 5, 2011

  • No, but Rupssia may be. ;-)

    June 5, 2011

  • Well, now that you put it that way....

    June 5, 2011

  • Whatever do you mean? It's only one sentence.

    June 5, 2011

  • Heehee.

    June 5, 2011

  • You bet. Nifty list!

    June 5, 2011

  • Were you looking for weyant jelly shoes for cat who enjoy jello-wrestling at the south pole or weyant jelly shoes for cat who enjoy Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole?

    June 4, 2011

  • Haha! Great advice. :-)

    June 4, 2011

  • Yes! It happens every time I poke my nose into the OED. There are worse addictions, I suppose.

    June 4, 2011

  • I've often wondered what good low dudgeon would do anyone.

    June 4, 2011

  • Methinks we need oroboros' input.

    June 4, 2011

  • Hummingbirds have some of the best names ever.

    June 4, 2011

  • I might, but I'm not comfterbull saying.

    June 4, 2011

  • I think I know a grump and coke.

    June 4, 2011

  • Bilby is also the creator of the hilarious Porn Birds list. (I'd link to it, but his account either doesn't exist or isn't public.)

    June 4, 2011

  • *hands dontcry a stale doughnut and a box of bandages*

    Sorry, ruzuzu. If it's any consolation, I appear to have left myself off the mailing list too.

    June 4, 2011

  • You may want to include this fish on your list (look under "Senate Chamber" subhead).

    June 4, 2011

  • Foolish; silly. (Obsolete)

    June 4, 2011

  • OED Online does list "white" as a definition, but with a caveat:

    "White. (Usually with reference to other meanings, or in translation from Latin.) Obs. or arch.

    1630 T. Jackson Comm. Apostles Creed viii. xxvi, in Wks. VIII. 105 Sending Him back to Pilate in a white or candid robe.

    1700 Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 505 The Stones came candid forth: The Hue of Innocence.

    1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 54 That candid Appearance, which‥does result from the Mixture of all Kinds of Colours.

    1805 J. M. Good Lucretius i. 298 The candid milk."

    Just sayin'. :-)

    June 4, 2011

  • Milk that tastes like bacon? Blecch.

    June 4, 2011

  • ...and...ellipses....

    June 4, 2011

  • You know what else? I don't like? Question marks--don't you?

    June 4, 2011

  • I don't know about the Winter Olympics, but it definitely belongs on Chained's "Holy Pantheon of WTF" list.

    June 4, 2011

  • *chortle*

    June 4, 2011

  • Does Hansen eat burston?

    June 4, 2011

  • *wonders whether Pontus was a pilot*

    June 4, 2011

  • Apparently this means "a beggar feigning to be deaf and dumb," "a madman," or "one who pretends to have had his tongue cut out, and to be dumb."

    Nice WOTD, Prolagus. :-)

    June 4, 2011

  • Happy National Doughnut Day (again), everyone!

    For some reason, this seems to be the one food holiday I've remembered three years running. Go figure.

    *munches on yet another cream-filled doughnut, but not the one from last year or the year before*

    Still looking for the Spanish Inquisition mailing list, however.

    June 3, 2011

  • Added, thanks! (On my older lists, I'm sticking with all lowercase.)

    June 2, 2011

  • Good idea.

    *stumbles to Fattiehead*

    June 2, 2011

  • That is one good-looking Pedum.

    That just didn't sound right.

    June 2, 2011

  • *makes note not to get dontcry started*

    June 2, 2011

  • *checks big fat fancy-ass DVD for possible answer*

    ...I got nothin'.

    June 2, 2011

  • Ah, yes, dear old PFH.

    June 2, 2011

  • I have two: Raphael and Harold.

    June 2, 2011

  • Crows don't scare that easily. You may need to graduate to T. Rex.

    June 2, 2011

  • Now it's going to trend ruthlessly.

    *wonders where Ruth is*

    June 2, 2011

  • That's nobody's business but the Turks'.

    But since this is June, you could probably ask one of them.

    June 2, 2011

  • Stonechat or wheatear, I believe.

    June 2, 2011

  • Heehee!

    June 2, 2011

  • *lurv*

    Now we need a list of fish birds.

    June 2, 2011

  • Blecch. What an appropriate name.

    June 2, 2011

  • I'd thought you were too. ;-)

    Thanks for the suggestion!

    June 2, 2011

  • Also corn crake.

    June 2, 2011

  • *attempts to walk danglingly*

    *falls flat on face*

    June 2, 2011

  • The iris variety or the pants? ;-)

    June 2, 2011

  • If you like this plist, then check out this glist too. :-)

    June 2, 2011

  • Honestly. Everyone knows it isn't wise to raise wind-bells in water.

    June 1, 2011

  • No. Really?

    June 1, 2011

  • Aww.

    June 1, 2011

  • A woodpecker, I believe.

    June 1, 2011

  • At first I read that as "A bear laid across a river to prevent salmon from getting up," and I thought of chained.

    June 1, 2011

  • I haven't heard that here, but they do become as wordy (not Wordie, unfortunately) as humanly possible: "At approximately 7:30 p.m. last night...."

    Also, no cars. Only motor vehicles.

    June 1, 2011

  • Excellent! No umberage-taking here.

    June 1, 2011

  • Aww, how nice.

    June 1, 2011

  • Cute.

    June 1, 2011

  • As do I. :-)

    June 1, 2011

  • And here I am thinking this was a toenail situation.

    June 1, 2011

  • Priceless.

    June 1, 2011

  • I remember it too, dontcry. In fact, I just watched that episode last week. :-) (I received the big fat fancy-ass DVD M*A*S*H collection as a gift a few years ago.)

    June 1, 2011

  • I like it!

    June 1, 2011

  • Does anyone else get the feeling that language is far more boring today than in Dr. Jamieson's day?

    June 1, 2011

  • There is! See here.

    June 1, 2011

  • Likewise. :-)

    June 1, 2011

  • *snicker*

    June 1, 2011

  • *snort*

    June 1, 2011

  • If these are all red herrings, then hernesheir is the consummate red-herringist. Also, I'd have to delete them all from my bird nicknames list. ;-)

    Bilby, you've created a very bizarre earworm. *sigh*

    June 1, 2011

  • Also see herald-duck.

    June 1, 2011

  • Dun-diver is itself a nickname for the merganser or Ruddy Duck.

    June 1, 2011

  • Poor Cubans.

    June 1, 2011

  • :-D

    June 1, 2011

  • Must...have...this.

    June 1, 2011

  • Also see gowk.

    June 1, 2011

  • Oh, joy! You've reminded me of plethora's delightful squid list. Thanks, r!

    June 1, 2011

  • Wonder whether this came from the name of the raven genus (Corvus).

    June 1, 2011

  • Nifty list! Favorited.

    June 1, 2011

  • Better than calumniation, I'd wager. :-)

    June 1, 2011

  • Is too.

    June 1, 2011

  • Ptero: I just had the same problem with removing tags from two of my entries, both of which include apostrophes. Now that I see your post about "Hawai'i," I'm wondering whether the apostrophe is somehow the problem.

    June 1, 2011

  • Perfect.

    June 1, 2011

  • lampbane: Yes, precisely!

    June 1, 2011

  • National bilby day duly added. *orders pin*

    Au contraire, my good fox. There is indeed a Fox Day, albeit local.

    June 1, 2011

  • Well...no, I don't think so. Purple seems to be the predominant color of many varieties. But this site might help.

    Sionnach, if you're looking for even more fun with flowers, may I suggest these lists?

    Rose words by mollusque

    Rose varieties by mollusque

    Tulip Names I by Yours Truly

    Tulip Names II: You Know My Name by YT

    A Dalliance of Dahlias by YT

    I'm sure I've missed some, but mollusque is the only other wordienik I know who shares this obsession. Please post here if you know of others. :-)

    May 31, 2011

  • Thank you for bracketing ecclesiastical haberdashery.

    So it's red socks for the fox, eh?

    May 31, 2011

  • You'd be great at that. But I can't see you in a little red hat.

    May 31, 2011

  • My dream is to get a job naming flowers. ;-)

    May 31, 2011

  • *spits out mouthful of coffee*

    Sionnach, funny you should mention the general's corpse. It was exhumed and re-buried twice, but I doubt that had anything to do with ersatz coffee, or my predilection for writing zombie Civil War novels.

    blafferty, you simply must bracket "something more serious than a fart."

    May 27, 2011

  • I hope everyone has recovered by now.

    May 27, 2011

  • Ooh, nice! Thanks!

    May 26, 2011

  • Actually, this wasn't my first--it should probably be Bad Guys, officially. (See my comment on your list page.)

    Back in the mists of Wordie-time, my first list was simply a catch-all of my favorite words. That list grew too big, so I divided it (several times), until it morphed into the "'Cause I Like Them" alphabet lists. "B" now looks like it was first because it had the most words when I divided, so it was easiest to keep where it was rather than delete and start from scratch.

    *wonders whether that makes any sense at all in the new Wordnik world*

    May 20, 2011

  • My first list with any kind of "theme" was Bad Guys, although like sionnach, my actual first list was a catch-all of favorite words. It's been changed many times since then so it doesn't actually exist anymore.

    Can't even begin to figure out what my first word here was.

    May 20, 2011

  • I'd suggest another list in which you add "World" in Step #2, but I haven't done much research on it. :-)

    May 20, 2011

  • Hmm. Maybe The Powers would let us start it up again....

    *looks around to see who's listening*

    May 20, 2011

  • *spits out mouthful of coffee*

    Interesting. I'm just now working on a book about a Confederate general, and his corps is on its way to Gettysburg in search of shoes. I'll let you know whether they also find ersatz coffee.

    May 20, 2011

  • Pro: True. I'm yoinking from your wotd list like crazy. Also, I have intended to start my own for...oh, two months now....

    I've noticed no comments too on emailed wotd lists, but I thought that was the lister's choice, no?

    May 20, 2011

  • Since this list doesn't appear to be open anymore (*sigh*), may I suggest this fabulous acronym for the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination: PANCE? It's just pants! :-)

    May 20, 2011

  • Seen here.

    May 18, 2011

  • Seen here.

    May 18, 2011

  • No worries, hernesheir. I've been (guiltily) stealing every one of the Scottish bird names you've been listing. (Well, almost every one; a few are already on my "nicknames" list.) It's a delight seeing them scroll by. :-)

    As for the birdwatching--I'm insanely jealous! I don't think any of the birds you mentioned have made it to my life list yet, except Canada Goose, mallard, and Red-Tail. How lucky! You must live in an avian wonderland.

    May 17, 2011

  • That sounds like far too much work. I'd rather forget to read every poem ever written, then remember later a few poems at a time.

    May 17, 2011

  • Well, as you can see, the current stock is limited to two designs.

    May 17, 2011

  • *pulls thorn out of arm*

    Uh...No! Absolutely not!

    *scratches arm*

    May 17, 2011

  • Ha! I was waiting to see who'd say that!

    May 17, 2011

  • And...well, here.

    May 17, 2011

  • I'm being told to wear numerous nightgowns. I don't think this is working properly today.

    May 17, 2011

  • Apparently a wodge of porch is now missing.

    May 17, 2011

  • I thought we were talking about forgetting. Or possibly I read that I'd forgotten that I hadn't not read a poem.

    I don't remember.

    May 17, 2011

  • Yes, and on zazzle too. But see here, blafferty--the remnants of the original Wordie shop! (I used my crappuccino mug just this morning.)

    May 17, 2011

  • Congratulations, Word! :-) Ah, I remember the fun days of spelling bees...I believe I managed as far as fourth in the state in my day as well.

    Don't ask how long ago it was. ;-)

    I have the same question as PossU: what was the winning word?

    May 16, 2011

  • *hands rolig a glass of water*

    May 15, 2011

  • *bares teeth while laughing*

    *chokes*

    May 15, 2011

  • Well, at least it has emollient properties.

    May 15, 2011

  • As is the referred article for snowclone. :-)

    May 15, 2011

  • *searches in vain for cub's name*

    May 15, 2011

  • And my niece! Happy Birthday to sionnach-sister as well. :-)

    May 15, 2011

  • Well, I'm new at this, but wouldn't you have to forget not to decide not to read a completely different Wisława Szymborska poem next weekend, seeing as how you've already read this particular Wisława Szymborska poem?

    I'm just guessing here.

    May 15, 2011

  • Chicago style, of which I am an adherent, places the period immediately after the last word and then adds ellipses: "Then bilby got his ears caught in the frivolous blades of the Wordnik copter....The ears were never seen again."

    Inverted commas: "Blecch."

    May 15, 2011

  • So you forgot not to decide not to read that Wisława Szymborska poem?

    May 15, 2011

  • Congrats on the new cub! :-D

    May 15, 2011

  • Happy Proctofoam, chained!

    May 15, 2011

  • Just read an article in Slate that argues for the British style of outside punctuation (which it calls "logical") vs. the presumably illogical American style. While I see the merits, I still can't bring myself to change after eons of being an American editor. :-)

    May 15, 2011

  • Judging by the Google results, it's apparently gypsy-speak.

    May 15, 2011

  • *crosses legs*

    May 15, 2011

  • What's left of it, you mean.

    May 15, 2011

  • I agree. Fargin brilliant, and far better than firkin.

    May 15, 2011

  • I thought you were only in for a smidge? That wodge is likely to collapse the porch.

    *crashbangthudaaaaaaah!

    Uh oh.

    May 14, 2011

  • And she's doing it whilst preferring a smidge of pie!

    May 14, 2011

  • Dontcry, in my family we'd call that a sliver.

    *enjoys being imprudent*

    May 14, 2011

  • Also a nickname for the smew (which is also called white nun).

    May 14, 2011

  • Powit-gull is also a nickname; the bird's common name is Black-Headed Gull. :-)

    May 14, 2011

  • Good to know. I've been yoinking like crazy these days.

    May 13, 2011

  • Of course! Let me just...

    *rolls in enormous pie on forklift*

    ...okay, here you go.

    *serves up wodge of pie to blafferty*

    May 13, 2011

  • I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not going near that question.

    May 13, 2011

  • Because you were busy typing paraskevidekatriaphobia into the search box. ;->

    May 13, 2011

  • *types*

    You're right! Spooky!

    May 13, 2011

  • Oh! Sorry. I couldn't hear you.

    May 13, 2011

  • I hope everyone has his/her chicken suit ready. The dancing begins tomorrow.

    May 13, 2011

  • Come and get it!

    *serves up giant wedges of apple pie*

    May 13, 2011

  • WHAT??

    May 13, 2011

  • Nifty! I'm yoinking a few for my No Ap-ology list. :-)

    May 13, 2011

  • Seen here.

    May 12, 2011

  • Pro: Haha!

    May 12, 2011

  • Sionnach's kitties at the keyboard again.

    May 12, 2011

  • PossU, just move the date and make it your very own Eat What You Want Day!

    *serves up a heaping dish of chocolate ice cream and sauerkraut*

    May 12, 2011

  • I'd say it's okay lowercased. Unless, of course, you're trying to MacGyver something. ;-)

    May 12, 2011

  • Take a subitizing test.

    May 12, 2011

  • Here you go.

    *hands over grape riffles with ketchup*

    May 11, 2011

  • Was I looking for courage bag? Absolutely not. I wasn't even looking for courage-bag.

    May 11, 2011

  • That's our uselessness.... ;-)

    May 11, 2011

  • Brackets around yoinkage, please.

    May 11, 2011

  • That is one odd-looking horse.

    May 11, 2011

  • Black-capped chickadee? Or another black-cap?

    May 11, 2011

  • Not surprising. Also see thunder-pumper for a host of other bittern nicknames.

    May 11, 2011

  • *wonders whether it's related to the fitmouse*

    May 11, 2011

  • I say we record all of our comments and send them to you in a file, so you can listen on your iPod whenever you want.

    May 11, 2011

  • And for that "easy" one, chained, I thank you. From the bottom of my almost-in-last-place Wordienik heart.

    *flings fuflun-decorated tiaras at fellow contestants*

    May 11, 2011

  • H, I'm loving all these bird names you're posting. Hope you don't mind if I shamelessly nab them. Would it help if you could access my list? :-)

    May 11, 2011

  • FYI, oldsquaw is no longer used in ornithology because "squaw" is considered pejorative. :-)

    May 11, 2011

  • Good idea. And stay out of dark...uh...sea caves.

    May 11, 2011

  • Happy Day!

    *munches on fufluns topped with anchovies, whipped cream, and salsa*

    May 11, 2011

  • Yikes. Do you know any of these guys, mollusque?

    May 10, 2011

  • To cleanse it?

    May 10, 2011

  • Nice list, utarcher. :-)

    May 10, 2011

  • Who would possibly have decided that we needed a word for this?

    May 10, 2011

  • You bet. Glad to see you here after so long!

    May 10, 2011

  • *changes date on tag*

    May 9, 2011

  • Trivet! Holy cow, you're here! Good to read you again! :-)

    May 9, 2011

  • Oh dear.

    May 9, 2011

  • Hey! For me? Gosh, thank you, ruzuzu!

    May 7, 2011

  • Oh, Samuel Johnson--of course!

    May 7, 2011

  • A 1792 Bible printed in Oxford, England, which substitutes Philip for Peter as the disciple who denied Jesus in Luke 22:34.

    May 6, 2011

  • An 1823 Bible that takes its nickname from a misprint in Genesis 24:61. The correct reading is "And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way." The Camels Bible instead reads, "And Rebekah arose, and her camels...."

    May 6, 2011

  • In the 1551 edition of Becke’s revision of the Thomas Matthew Bible, Psalm 91:5 reads, "So that thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for any bugges at night," using "bugges" in place of "terror," which appears in the King James and later translations.

    May 6, 2011

  • The Geneva Bible of 1560, so called because Genesis 3:7 refers to Adam and Eve clothing themselves in "breeches" made from fig leaves.

    May 6, 2011

  • Would you like to be stuck in an elevator with them too? :-)

    May 6, 2011

  • Seen here. (Thanks, chained.)

    May 6, 2011

  • *double snort*

    May 6, 2011

  • It would behoove all of you to stop joking about this.

    May 6, 2011

  • Somehow, pyecrust sounds tastier than piecrust.

    May 6, 2011

  • Though I still haven't figured out why its creator calls it Love-love.

    May 6, 2011

  • Yeah. That's right.

    May 6, 2011

  • Blecch.

    May 6, 2011

  • Indeed! Say, you really are getting the hang of this addiction. :-)

    May 6, 2011

  • Smop the hoople?

    May 6, 2011

  • Seen here.

    May 6, 2011

  • *thud*

    Ouch.

    May 6, 2011

  • I'm a little piecrust, short and crisp.

    May 6, 2011

  • Well, you just can't get more specific than that. ;-)

    May 6, 2011

  • Oooh, they're delicious. Is this recipe similar to the one in your cookbook, dontcry?

    May 5, 2011

  • *hands over fresh towel*

    May 5, 2011

  • I would offer a blow dry, but....

    May 5, 2011

  • Swing, swang, swung.

    May 5, 2011

  • So, you wouldn't be able to call a wodge swad, then? No such thing as a swad wodge?

    May 5, 2011

  • Love the list. I especially enjoy lists about trades, skills, and such. :-)

    May 5, 2011

  • Hernesheir, you find the best stuff. :-)

    May 5, 2011

  • But...sometimes he is a marsupial, isn't he?

    May 5, 2011

  • Ah, well. To each his/her own.

    *sips*

    May 5, 2011

  • Incorporated into the logo for the Corning Museum of Glass (which, by the way, is a glorious museum).

    May 5, 2011

  • Oh no, that's on the glassblowing list.

    May 5, 2011

  • *speechless*

    May 5, 2011

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  • Well if it looks like a duck ... it might be a shoveler? Modern life is very hard :-/

    December 1, 2023

  • Hiya! Came across spoonie today, appears to be a duck.

    December 1, 2023

  • Wow, I still see people I know here! Although it took me about five minutes to figure out where to write this comment....

    October 2, 2015

  • Or my teeth should come with reinforcement!

    April 16, 2014

  • Sorry--those things should come with a warning!

    April 16, 2014

  • Soitenly!

    *takes fuflun with grape riffles*

    Yum! *cracks tooth on grape riffle*

    Ouch. They get me every time.

    April 16, 2014

  • Oh, I have more. Would you like one with grape riffles?

    April 10, 2014

  • *grabs fuflun; stuffs in mouth*

    Oh, sorry; did you want some?

    April 10, 2014

  • *sets down fuflun*

    *backs away slowly*

    *waits*

    April 9, 2014

  • Ha. :-)

    October 21, 2012

  • Indeed she was. Slightly older than I am. :-)

    October 21, 2012

  • I was just revisiting my ruination-day list. I think Anne Sullivan was born April 14, 1866.

    October 17, 2012

  • Yum! *cracks tooth on grape riffle*

    Ouch. They get me every time.

    September 15, 2012

  • *sets out a tray of celebratory fufluns (with grape riffles!)*

    September 14, 2012

  • Thanks, r! Nope, no clue what the word was. I didn't even realize I was that close!

    September 14, 2012

  • Congratulations! Do you remember what your 30000th word was?

    September 10, 2012

  • Ooooh. You're at 29973 words listed.

    June 8, 2012

  • Holy cow, this profile page is even more confusing than it was when we were segregated.

    Yes, yes! Irish Potato Candy! I just saw your comment on the other page. Congratulations on your initiation. They're good, but they'd be better without that nasty coconut, if you ask me. :-)

    March 22, 2012

  • Have you ever had any potato-shaped candies? I was asking dontcry about them over on the are-you-from-pennsylvania list.

    March 21, 2012

  • As am I. *pops*

    March 15, 2012

  • Thanks! You too, and nice to be back, although right now I'm mostly doing pop-ins.

    March 14, 2012

  • Ooh, fufluns and tea! How lovely! And hearts too! Well, I certainly heart you back, r. Thanks for the love. :-)

    January 14, 2012

  • I heart <3' that Pro, yarb, the pterodactyl, and I have figured out how to send secret messages to' you.

    January 14, 2012

  • Hi!

    *brings over a tray of tea and fufluns*

    January 10, 2012

  • Hi everyone. :-)

    January 10, 2012

  • You're awesome.

    January 4, 2012

  • Hernesheir, I've checked the privacy settings and all seems in order. Apparently, I'm not the only one having such trouble. See ruzuzu's comment about http://support.wordnik.com/wordnik/topics/seeing_other_peoples_lists (and the workaround).

    December 8, 2011

  • Thanks, ruzuzu! I have to remind myself to keep checking for glitches on the support site. :-)

    December 8, 2011

  • Hi Carmaella and reesetee,

    I wandered over to http://support.wordnik.com/wordnik/topics/seeing_other_peoples_lists and saw that there's a ticket for this issue already. In the meantime, one suggestion would be to try adding the word "lists" to the end of the Wordnik user's address--like so: http://www.wordnik.com/users/reesetee/lists

    Good luck!

    December 8, 2011

  • I don't see your lists either, reesetee. Perhaps your profile privacy settings prevent others from seeing your lists?

    December 8, 2011

  • Hi Carmaella. I'm seeing a list of my lists on the right side of my profile page, with the list names in hypertext. That should get you where you want to go. Does that not work on your screen?

    December 8, 2011

  • I love you, ReeseTee. Be my mistress and I will never leave you nor will you leave me because we love one another so.

    July 29, 2011

  • Plinth?

    July 19, 2011

  • Plinth.

    July 19, 2011

  • Yep. He outpaced me a while ago.

    June 29, 2011

  • Have you looked at hernesheir's?

    June 29, 2011

  • Well, a little--but in a good way.

    June 29, 2011

  • Yeah. Scary, right? ;-)

    June 29, 2011

  • Um, 29,587?

    Wow.

    June 29, 2011

  • Happy Strangely Orange Snack Appreciation Day!

    June 21, 2011

  • I ran across ha'-bible in Dr. Jamieson's Dictionary:

    June 15, 2011

  • I think of you each time I add a Scots bird (nick)name to my Dr. Jamieson's Birds list. Guiltily, I might add - you're the resident "birdlister".

    Btw - I see Gambel's quail, mallards, and Canada geese every day. This week I observed 3 fuzzy red-tailed hawk chicks in a nest in a stand of scrubby locust trees, watched chukar partridges hunkering in the lee of some sagebrush during a snowstorm atop a mountain (and hiding from the red fox that was roaming around), and upslope from the partridges flushed a ruffed grouse...I'm in bird-watching heaven lately!

    May 17, 2011

  • Thanks, friend!

    May 10, 2011

  • barley-bird

    May 7, 2011

  • I'm guessing the bird--I've seen it in some older birding books. Thanks, h.

    May 5, 2011

  • Some pigeonly C-words from Grose's A Provincial Glossary, 1787: cushets - wild pigeons (Yorksh.); culvers - pigeons (Exmoor); cruchet - a wood pigeon (north of Britain).

    Of crotch-tail I'm not sure. Grose's definition is "kite", but I've not yet sussed out whether that refers to the toy or the bird.

    May 5, 2011

  • Hey, thanks bilby!

    May 2, 2011

  • Ah! Thanks! I knew it looked familiar, but couldn't make it say anything, even after waterboarding.

    May 2, 2011

  • milosrdenstvi

    May 2, 2011

  • Okay, I give up. Who is devils mi snort/livid monsters?

    May 2, 2011