sionnach has looked up 3110 words, created 265 lists, listed 21404 words, written 10716 comments, added 378 tags, and loved 34 words.
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Oh, very busy all round with the jelly shoes marketing initiative. And in the annoyingly real world, have not long ago moved across the continent to a new abode where the sky is low enough to touch and pademelons kindly trim (and fertilise) the lawn by night. It's not a bad place; I might have to do a list about same.
You are overdue an Exotic Language Adventure As Told In Alternately Quirky And Obscure Blog. What's next, foxbrother? -
I know you're probably busy this time of year--not that there's any particular reason you would be... I mean it's not like you're the Santa Fox or something. Ahem. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that every time I see the word droll, I think of you.
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Crapola! Thank you! I think there was a bit of interference in my head from Yiddish kvetch.
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Bilby:
Have you tried looking it up under "Quatsch"? It's a perfectly common word, quite legit, meaning -- as you surmised -- "Rubbish!"
Here is a link: flubdub and taradiddle -
I was watching a German language movie last night in which the following scene took place. I'll render most of it in English as I'm only interested in one word.
(Family is sitting at table. Son, a football tragic, is sulking because his favourite team lost.)
Mother: Why aren't you eating?
Daughter: Rot-Weiss Essen lost 1-0.
Mother: So what, they always lose.
Son: Kvatsch! (runs out of room)
So what is this kvatsch? From the context it would mean something like 'nonsense' but I can't find it in dictionaries that I regularly use online. Are you familiar with it? Coulld I be regional dialect? The family in the movie had the name Lubanski and were Catholic so I've ruled out a Yiddish borrowing. -
Thank you for your kind words.
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Thanks. Yes. I have already revised and activated many of the links that were faulty. I will continue to do so.
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In the "About me" section of my profile, I have provided information about the accessibility of the citations that I have made in Comments section of various pages (screens) on words.
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You are my love, dear. I wish to spend every moment of my existence in your company.
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Merci, 'zuzu!
Reynard is back on U.S. soil. Enjoying a day in YOUR NATION'S CAPITAL before heading back to San Francisco for WAGNER WEEK. (Eine ganze Woche vollgestopft mit Wotan, Walkueren, und anderem wagnerischen Ungeziefer) -
Well, to be more precise: J'aime les cartes postales. J'adore le renard santa.
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J'adore! Merci, Reynard.
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Go to bed, foxy!
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Very cool! Thanks, Teresa.
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Inspired by your wonderful list change one letter! -
Whipping Cats Special 100th Post, now with video!
cancerous moth
Don't miss the final 20 seconds of the 3-minute video, as the soul of Siegfried, decked out in his best ABBA outfit, crawls up the Venetian blinds like a cancerous moth ! No wonder the producer was roundly booed when he appeared on stage at the end. -
You've changed your "About me" description. I like it. :-)
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The comment feature on my Whipping Cats blog should now be fixed, so that there should no longer be any difficulty in posting comments. Please let me know (e.g. by sending me a message here, or by e-mail) if you encounter problems.
Even anonymous marsupials should be able to comment. -
Thanks, Bill B. I'm hoping to come back here in the autumn because, indeed, there is something about Paris that lifts my foxy spirits. Plus, I love learning French, which is a step above Thpanish in difficulty. But I intend to subdue it and bend it to my will. Because until that is done I can't move on to Italian.
I would post this on your profile, but you are invisible to us all here in the material world. Do marsupials ever leave the DUMPP (down-under marsupial protection program)? -
You seem in good form, foxy. We should organise to despatch you to Paris every year.
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It's another one of Foxy's infamous grammar rants , this time about the hideosity of prepositional verbs in general, with special attention given to the ludicrosity of Russian verbs of motion, and the mondo bizarro of the infamous bog of Irish prepositional pronouns.
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Way after "Midnight in Paris" and Foxy isn't even remotely sleepy. Damn you, August Strindberg, with your disturbing plays!
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Fleiſʒiger Foxy -
After my umpteenth attempt in a month to comment on your blog using my openID account, which works everyweb else, I just give up. I hope you will forgive me. I even reported the bug to the Wordpress guys (my openID is Wordpress) but they have no idea why that happens.
Signé,
Le pika sarde -
Pas piqué des hannetons
Merci, Bill B ! -
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Do you know/have this amazing book?
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It's bloody terrifying.
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That is a little unnerving.
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Yes, it was. But I moved it elsewhere, so maybe it's visible now?
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I think the image is protected (was it in an email?)
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I am keeping my eyes on you all:
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Congrats on the 10,000!
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Congratulations!
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Macroticonniculation for the win.
Multiplicity of peeves is the province of the peef-witted, methinks.
Congratulations on the 10 grand! -
Thanks, db: I think "burrowing" is a correct, but unimaginative, translation of rataconniculation, as it fails to capture the animal connotations of the latter,having to do with rats, puppies & bunnies. "Cannicula" is, according to Webster's, a common misspelling of "Canicula", another name for Sirius, the dog-star, and related to the Latin word for puppies; "Karnickel" is also a German word for "bunny", which is derived from the word "cunicula", which I think means "rabbit" in Latin.
By the way, though I don't necessarily agree with you on the particular instance, I greatly admire the passion of your lexicological rant over on gasometer. As somebody else mentioned, everyone is entitled to a few particular pet peeves (see discussion under data, for instance), and what is Wordnik for, if not to allow one to vent one's frustrations about one's word-related peeves? -
Thank you for your comment on robidilardic and fanfreluches. Do you know anything about rataconniculation?
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I'm with bilby. I miss those faketymologies.
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I'd like a juicy fake etymology. Just like the good old days.
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Which language will you pick--does it have to be English?
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No, but I am gradually inching towards a comment milestone, my own self.
Nominations accepted for shiny comment #10,000. No poop-related suggestions, please! -
Have you done any calculations about how many comments the great capitonym/Capitonym debate has generated?
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"Despite the fact that there is no sub-footnote anchor in footnote 6, footnote 6(A) can be considered to be also referring to the preceding note 6 on the basis of the numbering scheme. The narrative thus subtly and ambivalently simulates self-reflexivity as second-order narration."
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I note that the French non-reflexive verbs that have être rather than avoir as an auxiliary verb are a similar bunch semantically to the Italian ones (that take essere rather than avere as auxiliary).
A lesson learned at the Alamo! -
You cannot escape the charge that you have previously engaged in the amazing pastime that is IDENTIFY THE WORDIE.
You are therefore prime target material for inviting to IDENTIFY THE WORDIENIK.
The whole of the bit of Wordnik that joins in on this would be truly honoured should you participate this time round.
Easily find the right page right now because it is currently the most commented on list shown on the Community page. -
Yes, busy busy. We have a new line by Assorted Chocolate Macropod Enterprises that should do well this year. Distribution though continues to be a nightmare...the hired help are somewhat unfit for duty.
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There are muffins today. But otherwise I am too exhausted for creativity.
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Operation Wise Food Choices ... no wonder the Circulation Dept has been groaning about this month's figures.
Can't you come up with a polar bear that poops organic celery or something?
sionnach commented on the word cork, berlin, carolina, jersey, california, ...... quixote
Some interesting visuals here ....
May 25, 2012
sionnach commented on the user bilby
Hey leather-ears. Wassssssuppppp???
May 25, 2012
sionnach commented on the list crash-blossoms
How did "jelly shoes" get on this list, eh?
May 25, 2012
sionnach commented on the word jelly shoes
I've been away for a while. But it's a relief to see that jelly shoes is still trending.
May 25, 2012
sionnach commented on the list french-gout-and-spanish-pox
When in doubt, blame it on the foreigners.
Jan 17, 2012
sionnach commented on the list poetrie-ballade-of-good-doctrine-to-those-of-evil-life
Added yet another translation, from 1911
Dec 19, 2011
sionnach commented on the word French words consisting only of vowels
No, I did not mean "French words consisting only of bowels".
It's the French skinhead chant: Oie! Oie!
Nov 17, 2011
sionnach commented on the word bilby
Hi, leather-ears! Greetings from San Francisco, aka Baghdad by the Bay.
Nov 17, 2011
sionnach commented on the word occide
You know, if you just CHANGE ONE LETTER in this word, you get oocide.
As the frogs say, you can't make an oeuf miroir without a leetle oocide.
Es gibt kein Spiegelei ohne Eimord.
Del punto de vista de los huevos, el cocinero es nada mas que un sicario.
Nov 15, 2011
sionnach commented on the word occide
The Barbicide website link should work better now, sionnach.
Erm, I think you may have missed my leetle joke; what I said was there was nothing to see at the barmecide website.
Nov 15, 2011
sionnach commented on the word occide
I accidentally went to the barmecide website, belonging to the barber's brother. There was nothing there.
Nov 14, 2011
sionnach commented on the word abcdefghijklmnñopqrstuvwxyz
Frankly, I've always thought that 'k' was pretty unnecessary in Thpanish. In Thpain, at least, it could be eliminated and they could add a useful 'theta' letter inthtead.
Nov 14, 2011
sionnach commented on the word abcdefghijklmnñopqrstuvwxyz
It'll always be "i griega" to me! But why would you think "rr" might be a separate letter?
Nov 14, 2011
sionnach commented on the word steed for Aphrodite
Nov 13, 2011
sionnach commented on the word The Royall and Most Pleasant Game of the Goose
a broadside printed with a circular track over which players raced through hazards, guided by throws of the dice
See this site, about popular culture in Colonial Williamsburg:
http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring08/pop.cfm
Nov 13, 2011
sionnach commented on the word spiegeleisen
or, as the french call it, an oeuf miroir:
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/298983_2664763383794_1397299807_33008368_1889141225_n.jpg
Nov 13, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Luca Turin on modern men's fragrances
Where would you like those brackets, 'zuzu?
Nov 13, 2011
sionnach commented on the word hogweed
It's a hogweed. It's a cowparsnip. It's a horseradish. It's catnip. It's a lambkin.
It's very confused.
Nov 12, 2011
sionnach commented on the word use for a goose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_nFeEcOYQ
Nov 12, 2011
sionnach commented on the word use for a goose
Afterwards I wiped my tail with a hen, with a cock, with a pullet, with a calf's skin, with a hare, with a pigeon, with a cormorant, with an attorney's bag, with a montero, with a coif, with a falconer's lure. But, to conclude, I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs. And believe me therein upon mine honour, for you will thereby feel in your nockhole a most wonderful pleasure, both in regard of the softness of the said down and of the temporate heat of the goose, which is easily communicated to the bum-gut and the rest of the inwards, in so far as to come even to the regions of the heart and brains. And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus.
(Gargantua, Chapter XIII)
Nov 12, 2011
sionnach commented on the word If Ruzuzu is infinitely powerful, can she also be infinitely good
No matter what one thinks about reduplicative canning (and I am not altogether swayed by rolig's loopy, though delightful, logic), classifying canning as sinful seems like a slippery logical slope. Because then canting would necessarily be a virtue, and decanting would be a sin. Which would mean that every time I decanted the port I would be flirting with damnation. Harsh.
On the trigonometric front, if we are to make moral value judgements about sining, where does that leave cosining and tanning. Are we to denounce all those working in the leather industry, or anyone who cosines a loan? No, I'm not buying it.
Nov 12, 2011
sionnach commented on the word mancandle
http://www.e-junkie.info/2011/06/13-year-old-launches-his-own-range-of.html
I thought these were called mandles. Apparently not. Anyone remember on what Wordie page this concept has already been discussed?
Nov 11, 2011
sionnach commented on the word I'm not Listerine
I'm not anti-American (Listerine = antiseptic; septic = short for 'septic tank' = rhyming slang for 'yank')
Nov 11, 2011
sionnach commented on the word rubber gregory
a check that bounces (from rhyming slang for check = Gregory Peck)
Nov 11, 2011
sionnach commented on the word corduroy appreciation day
It's today!!!
11/11/11
http://racked.com/archives/2011/11/09/this-friday-111111-is-corduroy-appreciation-day.php
Nov 11, 2011
sionnach commented on the word If Ruzuzu is infinitely powerful, can she also be infinitely good
But canning and sinning are two quite different activities!
Nov 11, 2011
sionnach commented on the word greasy pablo
The act of rubbing your unwiped anus (typically following a bowel movement) on a doorknob, thereby leaving a slimy, shi**y doorknob for the next unlucky soul who touches it.
(Urban Dictionary)
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word epic translation fail
roast salmon paving stone
crunch mister
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word If Ruzuzu is infinitely powerful, can she also be infinitely good
Can Ruzuzu invent a word that Ruzuzu can't spell? Hmmmm?
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word week†™ s
What's with this "†™" stuff?
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Penny in Italy
Alf Tupper
By Kevin Raymond
http://www.footballpoets.org
There was a man, who some say ran
For pleasure pure & sweet
Whatever type of weather
He was there pounding the streets
At the crack of dawn, he washed & yawned
Then put on his running shoes
He then set off on his training run
As the locals still did snooze
He never ran for money
As an amateur he stayed
He ran for fun to beat the best
To win was all he craved
Never ever cheated
No sarcastic quips
The secret of this mans success?
Good old fish'n chips
In snooty clubs where harriers
Thought they were the best
He raced them to the finish line
Then beat them like the rest
Working class men aren't runners
We used to say at school
But Alf Tupper changed all that
As he said himself "I run em all !"
As halcyon days and Alfs kind ways
Are but a distant dream
Comic hero's were our inspiration
They inspired us to succeed!
Working class men & women
That was who we knew
who ran at Battersea Park running track
No posh athletics clubs thank you
We were Alf, not Claude or Ralph
Who had expensive spikes
A pair of shorts and plimsolls
Was what we wore on training hikes!
So cheers Alf mate!
You made us great
A role model for those
Who wanted to win so much it hurt
"I run em all!" our favourite prose!
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Penny in Italy
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Grimly Feendish
Best. Villain. Ever.
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/grimfien.htm
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Penny in Italy
Though I have to admit that Grimly Feendish was da bomb!
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Penny in Italy
This new story of the irrepressible Penny Andrews tells how an accident at a local gymkhana led to an unexpected holiday in Italy. There Penny, with her usual instinct for adventure, found herself mixed up in an intriguing mystery that involved an elderly English lady, a cosmopolitan art collector and an Italian museum official.
But Penny did not allow complications of this sort to spoil her delight in her first holiday abroad. She found the people, the language and above all the city of Florence absolutely fascinating.
Six weeks was much too short a time for all the things she wanted to do and see, but coming home again was wonderful, too, especially when Penny was introduced to the new friend that awaited her there.
As a teen, I loved other "irrepressible teen" stories. I didn't care if they were about buoys or gulls.
There, I've said it. I also read all my sister's copies of "Bunty" and "Judy". They were all about the interpersonal relationships, dude, and so much more interesting than the Beano or Wham.
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Londons under siege
This is as good a place as any to ask a question that has always bothered me:
"What, if any, is the relationship between Wee Willie Winkie and Winken, of Winken, Blinken, and Nod?" Enquiring minds etc etc
Nov 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Is Your Poo Specific Enough
I'm hoping that one of the panelists will have something to say about the specific effects of a diet of umbrage and fufluns on poo, Fernando. Maybe we can tap into CB's experience.
Nov 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word The Joy of Umbrage
My parents went to Umbria and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!
Nov 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word tsunamis
Waaaaait a minute, here! So, leaden is really pigpen?
http://www.secretcodebreaker.com/pigpen.gif
Nov 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Londons under siege
This may actually be the most bizarre list I have come across on Wordienik. Or anywhere else, for that matter.
(I do, of course, mean that as a compliment)
Nov 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word gossypiboma
The "examples" for this word seem to have gone a bit off the rails. Eh, Tiger?
Nov 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word vin
I think you have to pay a special non-renewable energy tax.
Because, you know, "Vin Diesel is duper bad!"
Nov 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word vin
I believe that when you pass through the customs hall here, you have to choose between two doors:
Vin blank - nothing to declare
Vin rouge - STOP; something to declare
Nov 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word blue straggler
Yes. Whenever I want to touch up my youthful appearance, I immediately reach for the blue makeup.
Nov 9, 2011
sionnach commented on the word tsunamis
In my dreams, I regularly save the world through my mastery of French irregular verbs. A classic example of wish fulfillment. Would that it were so!
Nov 8, 2011
sionnach commented on the word poem
lonely starlet
blue-winged
standeth
like beats
pentatomic
Nov 8, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Would Nietzsche have taken Prozac
http://gossypiboma.wordpress.com/2009/08/
Nov 8, 2011
sionnach commented on the word tool-carrying banshees get the hurly-burly done
http://gossypiboma.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/library-renovations-the-hoardings-are-up-but-its-business-as-usual/
The title of this post alone is enough to launch a minor internet crush on "gossypiboma". The name of the blog is just icing on the cake!
Nov 8, 2011
sionnach commented on the word the troubling reality of sexual lubricants
http://gossypiboma.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/lubricants/
"while promising enhanced pleasure, they facilitate infection"
Bummer!
Nov 8, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
He's a wave. he's a particle. He's a disturbed teen. He's a gang member. He's a media darling.
We can only be talking about BILBEEZ!
Nov 8, 2011