Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In surgery, an operation for the attachment of a too movable portion of the colon to the abdominal wall.
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Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Worse Than They Sound
fistula, cryptosporidium, debride, donnybrook, decerebrate, pillory, flagellate, disembogue, minatory, micturate, coprolite, nosocomial and 160 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Eeeew!
Things encountered on wordie that make me say Eeeew!.
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Tweets
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reesetee I don't know if I'd call it a pretty word, but it's not as bad as it sounds. Still, the thought of a colon repair can be eeew-worthy, don't you think?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go discuss this loudly in the lunch room.
Wait...we don't have a lunch room. Apr 10, 2008
chained_bear Oh. Well, OK, I'm glad the "eeew!" was a happy "eeew!" of curiosity. Apr 10, 2008
trivet I didn't say I didn't like these words - I guess it will be a list of cringeworthy, but interesting words. Apr 10, 2008
frindley Your colleagues are participating in what I believe is known as an 'organ recital'. Apr 10, 2008
chained_bear Also, I just want to point out that listing weird words that happen to have gross definitions is not the same thing as loudly discussing, in the lunch room at work, the finer points of giving birth. This is something I would not do, but apparently my coworkers are not above it. Apr 10, 2008
chained_bear Sorry trivet... But why is the idea of someone having their colon fixed surgically gross? Wouldn't it be grosser to not have it fixed? (I'm just curious why this word elicits an eew more than some of the many other, grosser ones on the site.)
You have to admit it's a pretty word though. Don't you think? Like apoplexy? Apr 10, 2008
trivet Eeeew!
I think I'm going to have to make a list of things people like chained_bear have posted on wordie that make me say Eeeew! Apr 10, 2008
chained_bear OED: "The operation of fixing part of the colon to the abdominal wall."
Worse than it sounds... Apr 10, 2008