yarb has looked up 10150 words, created 88 lists, listed 6947 words, written 7722 comments, added 342 tags, and loved 186 words.
Comments by yarb
Comments for yarb
-
If you're still looking for prizes, you should ask the bear about miniature trebuchets.
-
Is it time for another identify-the-wordienik?
-
Plumbum. Is it the new crumb bum?
-
You are what in Italian we call uno stronzo.
-
You two crack me up.
-
Screw you!
-
I heart you.
-
Yarb, clivose is derived from Latin clῑvōsus, which means hilly, steep, precipitous.
Cliff is derived from Old English and Middle English words. -
Yarb, I just came across your villanelle on sustainism and am truly impressed. Kudos!
-
oh, Yarb-thing - why in the world haven't we had a coffee yet??
-
*favorited*
-
Visiting the parentals in North Wales with pitstops in London at either end.
-
Hey! Whereabouts in the UK, yarb?
-
Hurrah! Now I'm treating myself to a well=deserved vacation (really: I'm in the UK this week).
-
You won! You won!
-
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. -
Marvelous! I've half a mind to join you in a re-read, although this sudden interest in Greek is taking up more time than I intended it to at the outset.
hh: it's always a pleasure to have one's lists pillaged, especially by such a luminary as you. -
I'm diving into Gargantua and Pantagruel. I will never think of bacon in the same way again.
-
Thanks for your comments on my list Things We've Seen Moved By Ants, and providing a link to your list Of Ants and Men. I'll raid terms from that list to add to various of my lists, if you please, beginning with topochemical.
-
glad to hear it
-
Thank for adding “appendice” to my list; I particularly enjoyed the associated comments.
P.S.: Have you tried “nuncle”? It’s Shakespearean, rebracketed, and proscribed, so you can hardly loose. -
Check the Wordnik blog for tips for searching comments, lists, etc.
-
its witty
-
test the line talking bird with wit
-
It wasnt you who insulted the crown and if you help me defend it i shall offer you my friendship
-
Hey yarb do you know anyone who can promote the single and give it the rightfully Halfholy place in the shops of england it should have?
-
thx 4 listing Thor.. how could I have missed that god!?
-
thx 4 listing Brazil.. how could I have missed that movie!?
-
Fantastico! I hear there was a bad mudslide in Oaxaca--ten cuidado.
-
Thank you very much. I'm just sitting here in the airport waiting to leave Mexico for Honduras so I'll probably get all crumb bum on you soon enough. Who knew I actually did have a mic on my laptop all this time?!
-
The pronunciations are fantastic! Are you taking requests? If so, please add crumb bum to the list.
-
*grabs microphone, but then begins to ramble about Temple Grandin's dancing in Beyonce's video*
-
Someone get yarb a microphone, stat!
-
Thanks! I'm really quite proud of not having a microphone.
-
Congratulations!
-
"yarb has added 2 children, 1 new job, and 0 microphones."
-
"yarb has added 73 lists containing 6,066 words, 6,191 comments, 338 tags, 327 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."
-
Thanks, yarb! I'd never have predicted "bungaloidest"!
-
I've been enjoying your "Things Move Around" blog. You're deliciously funny, and your writing is beautiful. Kindly explain (define) the following:
1. "I plan to get my hump on."
2. "... carked it." -
I listed cark it on my list of euphemisms for dying.
-
Thank you Froggo, for the compliment and the daily dose of frog-bloggery. To get one's hump on probably means something but I'm not sure what, I just like the sound of it. To "cark it" is UK slang for to expire, to pass away, to snuff it, kick the bucket, die.
-
Loving these ancient (well, okay, archaic) texts. Keep 'em coming! :)
-
Hey yarb -- we're having a discussion over at Vancouver, about the proper way to pronounce the name of that delightful city. Can you enlighten us?
-
Thanks for your comment on Scientific papers with delightful titles!
-
Arby! Please tell me you at least have a fondness for eel.
Bilby, I think abry is a she. -
How about abry? I don't recall him liking sour plums.
-
Sadly, I don't care for sour plums. And so the great arby-yarb twinship project of 2009 came to a screeching halt.
-
Crumb bum chums.
-
I too love crumb bum.
-
Hey, thanks! Anything cool and new that I should know about, now that we've been Wordnikized?
yarb commented on the word nisgul
And a particularly piercing call?
May 5, 2013
yarb commented on the word weyant
I dreamt about weyant recently. I was pointing at the internet and saying to my wife "look, it's real, it's real! They've found them" - it was aliens on Mars, large bright grublike things - and she replied "weyant, it's weyant."
May 3, 2013
yarb commented on the list fingernails-on-my-chalkboard
The heighth of ignoranth.
May 3, 2013
yarb commented on the word tyrology
The scholar in this particular mental image is wearing horn-rimmed spectacles. Should suffice against eruptions of larvae.
May 1, 2013
yarb commented on the word notch
Ha! c.f. oche then, I suppose.
Apr 30, 2013
yarb commented on the word cutting-tool
I can't decide if the CD is being cutting, or boring.
Apr 30, 2013
yarb commented on the word tyrology
Calls to mind the image of a scholar peering intently at a piece of cheese.
Apr 30, 2013
yarb commented on the word hebetude
A favourite of Conrad, along with desuetude and mansuetude.
Apr 30, 2013
yarb commented on the word bone oil
I would have listed it, if I weren't so bone-oidle.
Apr 15, 2013
yarb commented on the word Ion
The tweets are occasionally useful.
Apr 8, 2013
yarb commented on the word Ion
Wow, totally new to me.
Apr 8, 2013
yarb commented on the word night crawlers
Well that's cool. I always thought night crawlers were hookers or johns, being an amalgam of ladies of the night and kerb-crawlers, We had a little night crawler here tonight, snuck in just after sundown with rugged gusts.
Apr 6, 2013
yarb commented on the word night crawler
See comment on night crawlers.
Apr 6, 2013
yarb commented on the user AnWulf
I am really enjoying your esoteric contributions to Wordnik. Forgive my not rendering this in Anglish.
Apr 6, 2013
yarb commented on the word AGF
Did you notice that vancouverism is panvocalic?
Apr 6, 2013
yarb commented on the word pronkers anonymous
Have you pronked today, gangerh?
Apr 4, 2013
yarb commented on the word herethere
I'm glad Koontz added the explanation. I always thought Joyce would have done better writing "Snotgreen sea, making a single adjective from an adjective and a noun".
Apr 4, 2013
yarb commented on the word binged
They should have called it "Purg" instead.
Apr 4, 2013
yarb commented on the word herethere
Got the quote?
Apr 3, 2013
yarb commented on the word cheese
#cdcwtfbbq
Mar 29, 2013
yarb commented on the word baffoon
One baffled as to the spelling of buffoon.
Mar 29, 2013
yarb commented on the word rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
You don't have the house rule allowing bendy words?
Mar 29, 2013
yarb commented on the word bedraggled
I like reesetee's "bed-raggled". I can well imagine how an intense twelve-hour sleep could raggle a person, top to bottom.
Mar 26, 2013
yarb commented on the word rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Not a valid scrabble word. Presumably because of the umlaut?
Mar 25, 2013
yarb commented on the list and-i-will-tell-the-night
Absolutely, this is the night. Good list.
Mar 25, 2013
yarb commented on the word dorp
'...his ministry was here, here in the wilderness of conscience; this sodden dorp and river midden where he preached each week from a teepee...'
- Gass, Omensetter's Luck
Mar 24, 2013
yarb commented on the word furfuraceous
'His soul scaly ... furfuraceous scalp ...'
- Gass, Omensetter's Luck
Mar 24, 2013
yarb commented on the word hispidulous
'Mat's right eye rose, his hispidulous cheeks bulged with air: puff pop, he spoke.'
- Gass, Omensetter's Luck
Mar 24, 2013
yarb commented on the list identify-the-word-ie-nik--2013
Well after the initial rush of excitement, we have run into a doldrum. Come on, hurry up and submit words before I get busy again.
Mar 23, 2013
yarb commented on the list x-up-or-x-down
Nice job. Possibly there's something on my Yo-yo words list that you've missed, but I doubt it.
Mar 23, 2013
yarb commented on the word lego
Just stopping by to make the exact same comment I made in October 2010.
Mar 20, 2013
yarb commented on the word competitive arousal
I'm not sure which I find more arousing: competitive arousal or foggy-windowed marathons of phony umbrage-taking.
Mar 20, 2013
yarb commented on the word competitive arousal
I find this term arousing.
Mar 20, 2013
yarb commented on the word poka-yoke
Derivation of this term anyone?
Mar 20, 2013
yarb commented on the list encapsulations
Cool list (to quote marky).
Mar 20, 2013
yarb commented on the word yarsagumbu
No tweets found. Someone really ought to tweet about yarsagumbu.
Mar 20, 2013
yarb commented on the list identify-the-word-ie-nik--2013
No deadline. I'm enjoying inferring things about people based on how long they agonise over their words.
Mar 20, 2013
yarb commented on the list identify-the-word-ie-nik--2013
No, a thinking cap is one of those caps with yellow, red, blue and green segments to it and a flower or whirligig sprouting from the top.
Mar 19, 2013
yarb commented on the word yarsagumbu
Yarsagumbu... you probably think this song is about clam stew.
Mar 19, 2013
yarb commented on the list words-lurking-in-lovecraft
Hello Harry. I have read Houellebecq on Lovecraft. Can't say I agree with most of what he says, but as a spectacle of literary nihilism it's just tits.
Mar 19, 2013
yarb commented on the list things-that-freak-me-out
How are you with hiccupping cows?
Mar 19, 2013
yarb commented on the word surd
I got into a fight after playing this word in scrabble once.
Mar 14, 2013
yarb commented on the list resolutions
It's a mixed bag bilby. Eat no chips is still intact. Drink no soda, almost intact. Nose-picking is dscreet, I'm not adept but less inept than formerly with tools.
The spelling one was Ruzuzu I believe. The cats are as bloody lazy buggers as ever.
Mar 13, 2013
yarb commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
Please email your words to idthewordienik13 at gmail dot com!
Mar 13, 2013
yarb commented on the word necessary
That's fine for my poop, but what about my tween deck, my orlop and my gun deck?
Mar 13, 2013
yarb commented on the word snowdrop
I read a novel called "Snowdrops" recently, set in Moscow. Wasn't really my cuppa but I love the snowdrop concept.
Mar 13, 2013
yarb commented on the word jounce
Looks like normal Twitter fare to me, bilby.
Mar 13, 2013
yarb commented on the word &c.
I much prefer this to etc and use it frequently.
Mar 13, 2013
yarb commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
OK, I'll do it! I'll be getting this show on the road pronto. All interested apply within. Ideas for a trophy? I'm loth to surrender my heavily tea-stained "molotov cocktail waitress" mug, but I'm sure I could arrange for a STF mug of the winner's choosing.
Mar 6, 2013
yarb commented on the word stick a fork in it
I understand the usage, but doesn't one stick a fork in it to determine whether it is in fact done?
Jan 15, 2013