yarb has looked up 9739 words, created 84 lists, listed 6763 words, written 7518 comments, added 342 tags, and loved 182 words.
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You are what in Italian we call uno stronzo.
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You two crack me up.
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Screw you!
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I heart you.
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Yarb, clivose is derived from Latin clῑvōsus, which means hilly, steep, precipitous.
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Yarb, I just came across your villanelle on sustainism and am truly impressed. Kudos!
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oh, Yarb-thing - why in the world haven't we had a coffee yet??
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*favorited*
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Visiting the parentals in North Wales with pitstops in London at either end.
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Hey! Whereabouts in the UK, yarb?
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Hurrah! Now I'm treating myself to a well=deserved vacation (really: I'm in the UK this week).
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You won! You won!
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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.
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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.
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glad to hear it
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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. -
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its witty
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test the line talking bird with wit
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It wasnt you who insulted the crown and if you help me defend it i shall offer you my friendship
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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?
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thx 4 listing Thor.. how could I have missed that god!?
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thx 4 listing Brazil.. how could I have missed that movie!?
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Fantastico! I hear there was a bad mudslide in Oaxaca--ten cuidado.
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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?!
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The pronunciations are fantastic! Are you taking requests? If so, please add crumb bum to the list.
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*grabs microphone, but then begins to ramble about Temple Grandin's dancing in Beyonce's video*
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Someone get yarb a microphone, stat!
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Thanks! I'm really quite proud of not having a microphone.
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Congratulations!
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"yarb has added 2 children, 1 new job, and 0 microphones."
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"yarb has added 73 lists containing 6,066 words, 6,191 comments, 338 tags, 327 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."
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Thanks, yarb! I'd never have predicted "bungaloidest"!
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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."
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I listed cark it on my list of euphemisms for dying.
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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.
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Loving these ancient (well, okay, archaic) texts. Keep 'em coming! :)
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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?
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Thanks for your comment on Scientific papers with delightful titles!
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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.
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Sadly, I don't care for sour plums. And so the great arby-yarb twinship project of 2009 came to a screeching halt.
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Crumb bum chums.
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I too love crumb bum.
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Hey, thanks! Anything cool and new that I should know about, now that we've been Wordnikized?
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Thank you for adding to my list. I think your elephant trap is amusing.
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Not me. I'm off to Narnia. :-P
yarb commented on the word hock
Those of us who do not pronounce "hawk" the same as "hock" prefer to "hock" a loogie. Were we to "hawk" one, we would wait in vain for buyers.
May 21, 2012
yarb commented on the word hallux
If a girl were to say that to me I'd be hers forever.
May 21, 2012
yarb commented on the list old-western-slang
Superb list!
May 21, 2012
yarb commented on the list chop
Can I offer saex?
May 21, 2012
yarb commented on the word Memorical Day
I sometimes find the phrase "Moronical Day" in my head.
May 21, 2012
yarb commented on the list we-re-a-band
Has it happened yet? And if so, whidch of the six did you opt for? My vote would be for ugly t-shirt.
May 21, 2012
yarb commented on the word iä
Pronunciation. "Ee-yeah?"
May 11, 2012
yarb commented on the list flanges-c
I like the way there are two kinds of vortex finder. If you're not satisfied with a polyurethane vortex finder, would you consider a ceramic one?
Soon after this visit, or maybe even before (I have visited many warehouses and always enjoy them) I wrote a short story about a warehouse employee who comes across an alien item which alters his consciousness. I lost interest before long but the fact that I even began the thing shows that industrial wareouses (and their contents) are dear to my heart.
May 5, 2012
yarb commented on the word otium
A crafty translation!
May 5, 2012
yarb commented on the word slacks
Just came here in outrage at the New Yorker article, only to find my comment of 4+ years ago. I stand by what I said then!
May 5, 2012
yarb commented on the word beauty factory
That definition has the scent of Century about it.
May 5, 2012
yarb commented on the word interlock
Anthology please.
May 5, 2012
yarb commented on the list the-23-types-of-vagabond
Which are you, zuzu?
May 5, 2012
yarb commented on the word even
So even is translating particles in Hebrew and Greek?
I know zip about Hebrew, but from my scant knowledge of Greek, the "men... de..." construction connotes a sense of internal opposition, sometimes translated as "on the one hand... on the other hand..." or "while... whereas...", but not as strong as these English constructions and much more frequently employed, so often left untranslated.
So I would argue that while even in the Biblical examples is translating a kind of emphatic construction, it would be more appropriate, in this case, not to attempt a translation in English (notwithstanding the timbre the KJB derives from this kind of distinctive usage). However, perhaps there is an equivalent in Arabic?
Apr 4, 2012
yarb commented on the word gerund
Ha ha! Transvestite verbs.
Apr 4, 2012
yarb commented on the word even
I have also often wondered about this archaic sense of even. It doesn't seem to be adequately addressed in the definitions given here.
Mar 31, 2012
yarb commented on the word dactyl
I agree with his reasoning, but to me "Crowley" is more trochaic than spondulic.
Mar 28, 2012
yarb commented on the word shop
Lady Gaga... where have I heard that name before?
Mar 28, 2012
yarb commented on the word Marsala
Like a character from a story by Forster or Maugham.
Mar 28, 2012
yarb commented on the list sound--quiet
Cool list!
Mar 27, 2012
yarb commented on the word robotrix
Evidently he waited for the robotrix attendant to finish fueling up his ship.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word irreal
"That's very important," Westerburg said earnestly. "KR-3 is a major breakthrough. Anyone affected by it is forced to perceive irreal universes, whether they want to or not."
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word Memory of Your Nose
Later, they sat in a booth at a coffee shop, a clean and attractive place with young waitresses and a reasonably loose patronage. The jukebox drummed out Louis Panda's "Memory of Your Nose."
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word flipflap
She handed him the keys and crept into the rear seat of the flipflap. Jason, his heart pulsing with relief, got in behind the wheel, stuck the key into the ignition, turned the motor on, and, in a moment, sent the flipflap flipflapping up into the sky, at its maximum speed of forty knots an hour. It was, he noted for some odd reason, a very inexpensive model flipflap: a Ford Greyhound. An economy flipflap. And not new.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word pourout
...he felt his vision fail and his sense of gravity shift: his middle ear fluctuated in its pressures so that the room caromed around him, silently in perpetual ball motion. Like a pourout of Ferris wheel at a child's circus.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word fantidulous
"Your red," Jason said, "is fantidulous."
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word pyloric
Ignoring him, Alys continued, "Felix especially likes Basque cuisine, but they cook with so much butter that it gives him pyloric spasms."
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word balky
Alys shut off the quibble, kicked open a balky door.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word styroflex
Jason a moment later found himself seated in a leather-covered chair, leaning back into the softness of styroflex.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word shucky
It hadn't even occurred to Jason, and probably not to Ruth Rae either... except perhaps as a heavy, shucky gesture, thought of but never really considered.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word pornochord
No TV sets muttering, no thump of feet against the floor above their heads. Not even a pornochord somewhere, blasting out from a quad. "Are the walls fairly thick in these apartments?" he asked Ruth sharply.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word lipperty lipperty lipperty
"A woman I knew, married, with three kids; she had two kittens and then she got one of those big gray Belgian rabbits that go lipperty lipperty lipperty on those huge hind legs."
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word nerdish
Citation on thermo-radex.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word thermo-radex
On the screen the features of the nerdish Las Vegas functionary captain formed. "Our thermo-radex shows a male of Taverner's weight and height and general body structure in one of the as yet unapproached remaining apartments."
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word unexist
Alys, observing everything, said, "A man who's unexisted himself. Has that ever happened before?"
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word fake frosty slime drinks made out of nothing
Citation on quad system.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word dietetic
Citation on quad system.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word quad system
In her New York apartment at one time she had set up a huge quad system and more or less lived inside it, eating dietetic sandwiches and drinking fake frosty slime drinks made out of nothing. Listening forty-eight hours at a stretch to disc after disc by the Purple People Strings, which he abominated.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word upsweep
Citation on featherplastic.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word featherplastic
...Ruth still had beautiful black hair, all coiled in an upsweep at the back of her head. Featherplastic eyelashes, brilliant purple streaks across her cheek, as if she had been seared by psychedelic tiger claws.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word fob jazzy
...a first-rate cocktail lounge. The kind many women go to, with a three-man combo playing fob jazzy, preferably blacks. Well dressed.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word hype-up
On the screen McNulty's rumpled hyped-up features appeared.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word diddle
Citation on pleasure-nodule.
Mar 26, 2012
yarb commented on the word pleasure nodule
..."you," he said chokingly, "are a reflex machine that diddles itself endlessly like a rat in an experiment. You're wired into the pleasure nodule of your brain and you push the switch five thousand times an hour every day of your life when you're not sleeping. It's a mystery to me why you bother to sleep; why not diddle yourself a full twenty-four hours a day?"
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 25, 2012
yarb commented on the word drug
Citation on fetish.
Mar 25, 2012
yarb commented on the word fetish
Whenever she had been heavily fetishing and/or drugging she crashed her in his main office.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 25, 2012
yarb commented on the word hexophenophrine hydrosulphate
"What was it this time?" he demanded. "Termaline?"
"No." Her speech, of course, came out slurred. "Hexophenophrine hydrolsulphate. Uncut. Subcutaneous. She opened her great pale eyes, stared at him with rebellious displeasure.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 25, 2012
yarb commented on the word Dixie cup
...at the coffee machine, a female officer drinking from a Dixie cup.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 25, 2012
yarb commented on the word express descent sphincter
With his rank key he opened the building's express descent sphincter, dropped rapidly by chute to his own level, fourteen. Where he had worked most of his adult life.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 25, 2012
yarb commented on the word bloblike
Large tears slid down her cheeks and dropped, bloblike, onto her blouse.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Mar 25, 2012