ry has looked up 9161 words, created 55 lists, listed 5605 words, written 464 comments, added 8 tags, and loved 123 words.
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Have you ever taken the GRE?
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Hello!
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i've fallen off the "top listers" sidebar. woe.
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duplicitous flibbertigibbet! declivitous vicissitudes indicate this's titty-twisting, innit?
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Thanks for the "evanid" suggestion, ry!
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I use >a href="URL">LINKTEXT< but you'll need to flip the direction of the initial > and final < to make it work.
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Oh, q.v. is nice. I have entire lists devoted to some of those signals (my favorites are hence and see cut under).
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I like how traditional lexicographers used q.v. where wordniks use brackets.
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A general comment:
Slang and Its Analogues, John S. Farmer ed., 1890
is available at the Gutenberg pjt: http://archive.org/details/slangitsanalogue01farmuoft
and it is enthralling—literally: I am now its thrall
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Welcome to Wordnik! Hope you're having fun--it's so nice to see that another user has discovered the incogitable randomness around here.
ry commented on the word your problem is that you lack structure, said he, donning his welder's mask
trying to figure out the poetic meter of this sentence. does it have one? anyone know this stuff?
your prob′ lem is that′ you lack struc′ ture said he′
don′ ning his weld′ ers mask′
May 24, 2013
ry commented on the word taking a header
alexz I always picture the faller with their head aimed roughly in the direction of the fall when take a header is used, whether protecting it or not; for instance, a sot passes out while leaning on the railing of a pier and takes a header into the water.
May 24, 2013
ry commented on the word cheesed
ian.squire.92, I think you are looking for the third definition in the Wiktionary entry under cheese. Any tense would be perfectly permissible in Scrabble, except maybe cheesen.
May 24, 2013
ry commented on the word deepity
came across this in an old Guardian UK article and find it's been attended to by assiduous wiktionarists. The gratifyingly droll phrase beware of deepities is the subheading beginning the paragraph in the article
May 24, 2013
ry commented on the word take something as read
by far the most common usage of this phrase is "to take it as read that...(something is the case)"
also commonly mis- or alternately-phrased as take it as written or sometimes take it as writ
May 23, 2013
ry commented on the word survenue
this is one of those "there's a name for that" kind of words.
(Is there an adjective that? Something that means "having a detailed meaning"?)
May 22, 2013
ry commented on the word plis
dolan pls
May 21, 2013
ry commented on the list ill-drink-to-that
thanks for the addition, danama.
May 20, 2013
ry commented on the list words-in-which-u-is-pronounced-yu
I just started adding a bunch of words then realized the scope of my undertaking. *ule *ular *ute etc. return a plethora of words that could be added to this list...
May 17, 2013
ry commented on the word achievement unlocked
a meme-ish phrase used when one has reached a milestone or accomplished something noteworthy. Derived from video games in which the player works through a hierarchical sequence or tree of goals; "unlocking" one allows further progress through the game, access to more difficult achievements, and often new powers, abilities, etc.
May 17, 2013
ry commented on the word make a big production of
to infuse some undertaking or event with great efforts, weighty gestures, and/or elaborate histrionics
May 15, 2013
ry commented on the word kanpai
乾杯, a toast in Japanese: "drain the glass"
May 15, 2013
ry commented on the user feedback
good morrow all
i found a way—i think—for you to remove terms added to your open lists by others. see my comment up in here: http://support.wordnik.com/wordnik/topics/cant_delete_other_users_words_on_own_list
May 15, 2013
ry commented on the word sangrail
alternate/archaic spelling of sangreal
May 15, 2013
ry commented on the word couac
funnily enough, I have fond memories of producing this sound, back in the fifth grade.
also: not listed?!
May 15, 2013
ry commented on the word Chinese gooseberry
thus tag it, then
May 14, 2013
ry commented on the word butler lie
from Wikipedia:
A term coined by researchers in Cornell University's Social Media Lab that describes small/innate lies which are usually sent electronically, and are used to terminate conversations or to save face. For example sending an SMS to someone reading "I have to go, the waiter is here" when you are not at a restaurant is an example of a butler lie.
http://birnholtz.hci.cornell.edu/paper0940-hancock.pdf
May 13, 2013
ry commented on the list lies--1
so this is _mostly_ a list of acts or types of verbal deception.
see also:
Fubbery and Blaflum
Pants on fire
Not Quite The Real Thang
Misdirector's Cut
Loaded Dice
May 13, 2013
ry commented on the user serean
I've not.
May 11, 2013
ry commented on the word plumbum
seeing this word caused the phrase plumbum oscillans to dredge itself up from the back of some rattling, rusted file cabinet of my brain. at first i could not remember a thing about it.
May 10, 2013
ry commented on the word plumbum oscillans
(probably pseudo-) Latin for "swinging the lead"; British doctors' slang for malingering, or seeking a sick note to take time off work. I believe I saw this a while back in an old Eric Partridge slang dictionary. It may originally have been a British armed forces' slang term, equivalent to the U.S. goldbricking
May 10, 2013
ry commented on the word the die is cast
I'm a fan of the origin of this phrase; it's an attribution to Julius Caesar (usually "alea iacta est"), supposedly stated as he gave the command to his army to begin crossing the river Rubicon, enter Roman territory, and thereby irrevocably commit to civil war. Thus also the phrase cross the Rubicon.
May 10, 2013
ry commented on the word smrad
Slovak, "stink"
May 8, 2013
ry commented on the user serean
Howdy.
May 8, 2013
ry commented on the list unenthusiastic-interjections
merci mille fois, chezmoi, I have added it.
May 7, 2013
ry commented on the word wurly
do bilbies inhabit these?
May 7, 2013
ry commented on the word wurked
this is notable for the fact that the definition not only states nothing about the word but seems entirely unrelated. Perhaps just a bug though.
May 7, 2013
ry commented on the word gestate
a bizarre new addition to corpspeak lexicon?
Today in a meeting one of my coworkers said "Let's gestate this," as some kind of coda, tabling a discussion.
Also: twitter spambots seem to have this word in heavy rotation at the moment: see Tweets
May 3, 2013
ry commented on the word said no one ever
A nullified attribution intended to convey the absurdity of a statement.
"Thank god it's Monday," said no one ever.
from urbandictionary.com
(copied from carlos-words--1)
May 2, 2013
ry commented on the word hedgehog
the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing
May 1, 2013
ry commented on the word Dunning-Kruger effect
from wikipedia:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.
May 1, 2013
ry commented on the word theronym
from The Scarcliff Dictionary of Branding
theronym
Posted on December 30, 2007 by Brent
A brand name derived from the name of an animal.
Ford Mustang sports car
Chicago Bears American football team
May 1, 2013
ry commented on the word m'am
variant of ma'am
Apr 30, 2013
ry commented on the word circular palindrome
dudette
Apr 30, 2013
ry commented on the word circular palindrome
so basically two consecutive palindromes (lexical or not) that can be concatenated to produce an acceptable word eg debedded. In fact, the simple plural of most single-word noun palindromes would be a circular palindrome: madams, ewes, rotators
Apr 30, 2013
ry commented on the list science-fact-or-fiction
metadex? tabuloplex? hyperlist?
Apr 25, 2013
ry commented on the word gray goo
see grey goo
Apr 25, 2013
ry commented on the list science-fact-or-fiction
lots of folks have sciency-fictiony (I just made that up) lists just like this one. Here are the ones I have been raiding:
Artificial Intelligence
Humanoids
Blinded with Science
Technical Terms for Fictional Concepts
akmed13's Words
[Open] Scientifictional
Criswell Predicts
Science Fiction Double Feature
They Came From Outer Space!
technobabble
Star Trek and Star Wars
words... of the FUTURE
nanomenclature
Transhumanity
this modern world
and deinonychus' dazzling Pure science
plus a couple others I can't find now.
thanks everyone!
(that said, a lot of these were not otherwise listed, very surprisingly so in some cases)
Apr 25, 2013
ry commented on the word drone
can be a transitive verb:
-To assault or attack, as a target or location, by means of drone(s).
"That feeling...gripped me when my village was droned just days ago." -- Farea al-Muslimi, Yemeni journalist, before a US Senate subcommittee, 2013-04-23
Apr 24, 2013
ry commented on the word devop
great find! I am recalled of a twitter parody account called DEVOPS BORAT, rife with esoteric jokes and broken English. I find it hilarious but perhaps that's just me.
Apr 23, 2013
ry commented on the list phrases--cool
I am tidally locked in childlike wonder to this list. whole oceans of choice words and hidden gems in unlimited detail! You've a rare talent.
Apr 17, 2013
ry commented on the word surface of last scattering
"The surface of last scattering refers to the set of points in space at the right distance from us so that we are now receiving photons originally emitted from those points at the time of photon decoupling."
from Cosmic microwave background radiation on wikipedia
I find this a remarkable phrase on several levels
Apr 17, 2013
ry commented on the list thresholds
“There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors of perception.” Aldous Huxley
Apr 10, 2013
ry commented on the word Legionnaire's
I pretty much agree, especially in terms of usage vs. convention...I mainly wanted to have a link to where the entry is found
Apr 9, 2013
ry commented on the word rock and roll
also used as an interjection, meaning "let us begin"
Apr 9, 2013
ry commented on the word Ion
your fathers name was Ion as in Beam? or Lon as in Cheney?
Apr 9, 2013
ry commented on the word Legionnaire's
notwithstanding ALL the examples, I believe the proper form is Legionnaires' disease
Apr 9, 2013
ry commented on the word zOMG
carlosG commented this on his list, but I wanted to also have it here because I like it a lot:
zOMG:
zOMG is a variant of the all-too-popular acronym "OMG", meaning "Oh My God".
The "z" was originally a mistake while attempting to hit the shift key with the left hand, and type "OMG"
Also used in all-caps, 'ZOMG' is generally used in a sarcastic manner, more often than not a humiliating fasion. It is also used as a device for stating the obvious.
"zOMG! you r teh winz!!one!!eleven!"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zomg
Apr 8, 2013
ry commented on the word Ion
This is a contraction of "I don't". See tweets at right. Commonly heard, but I did not realize people had started spelling it phonetically as such.
Apr 8, 2013
ry commented on the word exclamation mark
exclamation point is definitely more common here in California. I couldn't speak for all the hill people, desert dwellers and fancy-pants east coasters around. I say we squash the beef and all start calling it the ecphoneme! (found that in an unretraceable "Related Words" meander from here).
Also, it looks like frogapplause as well feels somewhat strongly about this phrasing!!!
Apr 5, 2013