Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of kumquat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A very small orange of about the size of a pigeon's egg, the fruit of the Citrus Aurantium, var. Japonica, very abundant in China and Japan, with a sweet rind and sharp acid pulp. It is used chiefly in preserves. Also spelled cumquot.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of kumquat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) See kumquat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
Examples
“Unless it’s drenched in cumquat brandy, of course.”
“* NVIDIA cumquat marmalade GeForce ultra-toxic GT 120 with 512MB zoom possum annihilators.”
“Far, far too much, being that I am simultaneously Wiki-ing Sir Francis Bacon and the history of the cumquat (Such an interesting history, by the way.)”
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“Bangar, having tasted your cumquat brandy, I hereby pronounce you free to dip into anything you want to in this lounge.”
“God, the cumquat brandy did the trick this year filtered off three 700ml bottles for the girls.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » A Christmas card from the Playboy Mansion.
“Bacon, goes so well with this yummy cumquat jooosh.”
“Believe me, Bangar, I am no stranger to the cumquat brandy.”
“Thanks for the biscuit, I did bring my infamous cumquat brandy with me though.”
“The Provencal sun has set on tourist season here in Nice and the student body has thinned at my adorable little language school, tucked in beside the cumquat trees on Rue D'angleterre”
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“Bangar, cumquat brandy after a night of food, beer and wine? that has ill effects written all over it.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cumquat’.
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Words that sound dirty but aren't.
When you want to be pedantic AND childish.
titular, masticate, condiment, titmouse, penal, formication, social intercourse, assassination, cacophony, lucubrate, rectify, banal and 131 more...
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bianca's list of humourous words
hullabaloo, pickle, albuquerque, winkle, plump, cumquat, succotash, guacamole, bulbous, bouffant, jub-jub, poquaque and 11 more...
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kerniving, scandinavia, confectionary, mangrove, bejewelled, flesh, crystalline, gazelle, pantaloons, bluebird, caribou, albatross and 88 more...
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Words That Sound Naughty, but Aint
I'm quite sure there already must be a list for this somewhere. But I want.
coccyx, cumquat, bangkok, ramjet, titmouse, seersucker, woodpecker, hormone, phuket, cockade, dicker, country and 13 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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pixistix's Words
cumquat, circumlocution, panoply, propinquity, contumely, quietus, fardel, tmesis, tipsy, giddy, trudge, vortex and 211 more...
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Mary and Max (2009)
Words from 2009 'Mary and Max' film.
muddy, puddle, birthmark, piggyback, pensive, gumnut, pompom, salvage, takeaway, oven, shed, deliberate and 112 more...
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RabidCow's Words
piledrive, schism, poignant, garrote, reflex, fortitude, constitution, dexterity, charisma, nemesis, machiavellian, poop and 128 more...
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The "-Quats"
Mmm...kumquats and exceteras
kumquat, limequat, loquat, sunquat, yuzuquat, cumquat, orangequat, procimequat, citrangequat, mandarinquat, lemonquat, citrumquat
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Kitchen
tarragon, pomegranate, durian, persimmon, cumquat, coriander, cardamom, samovar, quince
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