tankexmortis has looked up 128 words, created 8 lists, listed 223 words, written 125 comments, added 4 tags, and loved 0 words.
tankexmortis has looked up 128 words, created 8 lists, listed 223 words, written 125 comments, added 4 tags, and loved 0 words.
tankexmortis commented on the word cockchafer
"That really chafes my cock!" is my new catchphrase.
Aug 20, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word vaginervose
Not to be confused with vaginernose, which means something VERY DIFFERENT.
Aug 20, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word spermaceti
Ewww. EWWWWWWW!
Aug 20, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word throttlebottom
I think it sounds great, personally. Reminds me of snickerdoodle or swashbuckle.
Aug 20, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word kafkaesque
Interesting article, whichbe. I gotta wonder what idiot started the idea of Kafka's supposed "saintly image" - did they ever actually read his work?
Aug 11, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word hiplings
Pre-adolescent hipsters?
Aug 9, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the list oligosemantonyms
Hoho, so you can! Oh, the advances Wordie has made since my heyday.
Aug 9, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word ascites
I thought it said "serious fluid" at first. I was imagining a bowl of grim, determined fluid with a face like >:(
Aug 8, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word upper decker
:(
Aug 8, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word tyremesis
n. vomiting of curd-like matter.
Aug 8, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the list words-i-wish-i-hadn-t-looked-up
leint.
Aug 8, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the list oligosemantonyms
Great list! I love the title - I had to do a double-take.
EDIT: And a double post, apparently.
Aug 8, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word folie a deux
Harley Quinn Syndrome?
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word apotemnophilia
The desire to have limbs amputated.
I have this, but only for other people's limbs.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word pica syndrome
A rare condition where a person craves eating non-food items, usually small things like nails, paperclips, plastic bags, etc.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word reduplicative paramnesia
"Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been ‘relocated’ to another site. For example, a person may believe that they are in fact not in the hospital to which they were admitted, but an identical-looking hospital in a different part of the country."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word paris syndrome
"Paris syndrome is a condition exclusive to Japanese tourists and nationals, which causes them to have a mental breakdown while in the famous city."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word fregoli syndrome
"A rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word capgras’s syndrome
"A rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that an acquaintance, usually a spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical looking impostor. "
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word canoodle
"So I was canoodling my cat last night..."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word callipygian
See also cacopygian.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word logogram
Not, in fact, a message written on a poo.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word leint
WHAT
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word cacopygian
"Having ugly buttocks."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word fecaloid
I believe there's a synonym, or at least a similar word, but I can't recall it. Anyone?
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word deutschebag
A bag full of Germans.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word penology
One of the most disappointing definitions ever. Hands up all who hoped for another penis word to giggle at? *raises hand*
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word procrustean
For others who were curious about the method of torture referred to: "Procrustes (the stretcher), also known as Damastes (subduer) and Polypemon (harming much), is a figure from Greek mythology. He was a bandit from Attica, with a stronghold in the hills outside Eleusis. There, he had an iron bed into which he invited every passerby to lie down. If the guest proved too tall, he would amputate the excess length; victims who were too short were stretched on the rack until they were long enough. Nobody ever fit in the bed because it was secretly adjustable: Procrustes would stretch or shrink it upon sizing his victims from afar."
From Wikipedia, naturally.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word deutchebag
Whoops. Left out the "s".
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word krebstar
The Acme of The Adventures of Pete & Pete. They make everything!
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word chantepleure
How very emo.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word contestaire
"French. A person who challenges the established order." Sort of a combination of an iconoclast and a troll.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word maya
Also a Sanskrit word referring to "the mistaken belief that a symbol is the same as what it represents."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word weltschmerz
This seems to be used particularly when referring to the suffering of privileged youth.
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word sabsung
"Thai. To slake an emotional or spiritual thirst, to be revitalized."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word nârâchâstra prayoga
"Sanskrit. Men who worship their own sexual organ."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word biqa viseki
"Kiriniwa, New Guinea. Use of metaphors as disguised speech."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word épater les bourgeois
"To deliberately shock people with conventional values."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word suilk
"Scottish. To swallow, gulp, suck with a slobbering noise."
Aug 7, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word spoo
From Wikipedia: "Spoo is a fictional food product that served as a running joke within the Babylon 5 science fiction television series. In the series' fictional universe, spoo is made from alien worm-like creatures of the same name, and is considered to be the most delicious food in the galaxy, regardless of which species is asked. Although it is a universally loved foodstuff and an actively traded commodity, the creature itself is regarded with contempt by the races that consume it."
Aug 1, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word post-adolescent
Someone stuck in the kind of thinking typical of adolescence, in particular someone often found in omphaloskepsis.
Jul 31, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word wainscoting
Ratcatcher: Oh, I gather you've got a little rodental problem.
Mrs Concrete: Oh, blimey. You'd think he was awake all the night, scrabbling down by the wainscoting.
Ratcatcher: Um, that's an interesting word, isn't it?
Mrs Concrete: What?
Ratcatcher: Wainscoting ... Wainscoting ... Wainscoting ... sounds like a little Dorset village, doesn't it? Wainscoting.
Cut to the village of Wains Cotting. A woman rushes out of a house.
Woman: We've been mentioned on telly!
Jul 31, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word ack ack
As immortalized by the Urinals in their song "Ack Ack Ack Ack".
Jul 31, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word pear shaped
Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes.
Q: What's green and pear shaped?
A: A pear.
Jul 31, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word meraki
Ewwwww!
Jul 31, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the list words-of-the-cthulhu-mythos
Definitely needs eldritch and cyclopean.
Jul 31, 2008
tankexmortis commented on the word shibboleth
I've also heard it used to mean general behaviors (such as wearing a baseball cap backwards for 80s hip-hop kids), and not just phrasing.
Dec 27, 2007
tankexmortis commented on the word shibboleth
This is an awesome word. I totally thought it was an H.P. Lovecraft creature when I first heard it.
THAT MAKES IT EXTRA AWESOME
Dec 9, 2007
tankexmortis commented on the list the-no-no-list
Wow, this list is so much better than mine. :(
Aug 13, 2007
tankexmortis commented on the list esoteric-bs
But how will you talk about nuzzling deified dystopian caboose glyphs?!
Feb 1, 2007