Definitions
Etymologies
- A corruption of the Scottish crupper. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Knox's colleague, had given in and was speaking hotly against those who held out; that even the redoubtable John Durie had 'cracked his curple' [13] at last; and that the pulpits of Edinburgh were silent, except a very few 'who sigh and sob under the Cross.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘curple’.
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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benny4words's list
Words that challenge the very nature of ,"That's not a word!" and words that sound great.
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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thatd.smart's list-o-rama
tom foolery
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working list
overkill, premonition, discombobulation, golliwogs, guerilla, paraphernalia, banter, gambit, atonement, leeway, ingenuity, haberdashery and 164 more...
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Vocabulary
My ever expanding vocabulary...
feuterer, abattoir, kibosh, sequin, shiftless, scrimshanker, sic, moniker, dogsbody, contranym, autoantonym, exhortation and 306 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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Fun words
shit accelerant, highfalutin, queue, gymnosophy, adhocracy, lucubration, amphigory, vernalagnia, frabjous, saxify, sesquipedalian, basorexia and 44 more...
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Words I've Found While Reading and Di...
see title
demijohn, eiderdown, aeolotropic, haptic, fecundity, mojibake, stochastic, nibble, homoskedastic, Entscheidungsproblem, hirsute, mutule and 68 more...
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fun ones
fun to say or fun in meaning
sizzard, clou, matutolagnia, grok, xiphoid, cwm, cattywampus, scroop, loblolly, katzenjammer, sphygmus, forfex and 68 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for curple.
yarb How are you getting on with Finnegans Wake, whichbe? Sep 19, 2008
mollusque I think whichbe's sucking fumes in a tunnel. Either that or cursing out the driver in front of her.
Edit: just recalled that whichbe is male. The only other person I know who might say something like the sentences below is female. Sep 19, 2008
chained_bear *head explodes* Sep 19, 2008
whichbe Stop dagnaggin' the earwiggly horntooth knobbleknockins and tackyturn that bowfaced picky plumglum, lil' laddybug. Sep 19, 2008
reesetee Oh, that. Sep 19, 2008
whichbe Place some porridge down by the traintracks and curbswabble a stucky muck twirl with some gittyupins, ya hear! Sep 19, 2008
reesetee *more confused* Sep 19, 2008
whichbe Now dontcha get yer hindquarters in a tunnel, 'sette, we gots ta done shovel our buckets up at the boondoogy. Sep 19, 2008
reesetee You have your horse hindquarters in a tunnel, whichbe?
*confused* Sep 19, 2008
bilby Get well soon, which ;-) Sep 19, 2008
whichbe I think I might have curple tunnel syndrome. Sep 19, 2008
seanahan Rhymes with purple! Jun 19, 2008
bard 1) the small of the waist before the flare of the hips
2) a derriere, rump or behind. Jun 17, 2008
reesetee Horse's rump. May 23, 2008