Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. A nonsense word.
Etymologies
- 1871, coined by Edward Lear in runcible spoon, runcible cat, etc. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Its most notable historical feature is the coinage of the term runcible spoon.”
“As a prequel, it possibly works better if you're already familiar with the Polity universe and its concepts, although I didn't find it too hard to get on board I had to look up what a 'runcible' was, though.”
“...when you look at that 'runcible' foto, you'd have to know i wouldn't come within a mile of the place...even if "el snobbo" was payin' for the hairy muffins...”
“The runcible and local AI become crucial to the conflict, especially when not all the humans in the area get along.”
“Two wild-card humans, a vengeance-driven soldier and a runcible technician, must now combine their talents in an attempt to stop a seemingly invincible Prador warship from incinerating yet another Polity world.”
“The crablike Prador are bloodthirsty aliens bent on crushing the Polity and stealing its runcible technology ... and they possess a frightening superiority in space warfare.”
“I'd never tried to eat a herring with a spoon, but I saw nothing resembling a fork, and dimly recalled that runcible spoons would not be in general use for quite a few years yet.”
“The somewhat runcible serving fork is based on an antique one I acquired while looking for a table.”
“In Prador Moon, Moria Salem is a runcible technician who becomes embroiled in the humans 'fight against the Prador when a supposedly routine augmentation meant to provide simple net access proves to give her abilities far beyond the norm.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘runcible’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Nonce
A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wa...
kwyjibo, fnord, wug, blicket, dax, toma, pimwit, zav, speff, tulver, gazzer, fem and 22 more...
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runciblespooner's list
skrimshanker, spooner, runcible, buffoon, bounder, dolt, palooka, ultracrepidation, umbrella, cunt, cancer
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A Few of My Favorite Words
This is a list of words I love.
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Of -ibles, not -ables
Tricksy buggers! I've not included those where neither is favorable.
accessible, admissible, alible, apprehensible, audible, coercible, cognoscible, collapsible, collectible, combustible, comestible, compactible and 103 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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euphonic logorrhea
cephalopodous, plumulaceous, oblomovism, etiolation, pavonine, somnolent, logorrhea, fulguration, gossamer, prestidigitation, daffodil, inchoate and 174 more...
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Rubbies
Words and things that rub me wrong
eclectic, canon, flesh, irregardless, conversate, can't, mandatory, war on christmas, male bonding, pissa, parochial, infallible and 98 more...
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Words that sound like they taste good
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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-bles
fine find endings
able, amble, bable, cable, cible, coble, dable, fable, gable, gible, tible, table and 241 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Greg's Words
frippet, furtive, gimcrack, indefatigable, vicissitudes, pedant, ziggurat, susurrus, sub rosa, rodomontade, interregnum, abscise and 168 more...
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courtneyah's Words
sigh, troglodyte, lithe, cambium, bark, poem, trochee, minute, ablution, hermeneutic, dogwood, mystique and 98 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for runcible.
quothly Before there was Doctor Seuss, there was Edward Lear... and the world wouldn't be the same if they hadn't blessed it with their nonsense. Mar 8, 2012
saloniste From "The Owl and the Pussycat" can not find it anywhere. Jun 9, 2009
Prolagus See runcible spoon (someone has to say that). Nov 22, 2008
reesetee Thank you, sionnach. I mean, really. Jul 21, 2008
sionnach My kitchen is full of runcible spoons. For the quinces, don't you know. So, don't be telling me they don't exist. Or I will have to come after you with my vorpal blade. Jul 16, 2008
reesetee *tearing hair* Sep 27, 2007
colleen TRUE. It is an old-timey madeupical word!
You're going to have to accept that you've been living a lie. Sep 27, 2007
reesetee What?? Nonsense! Nothing on Wordie is madeupical! Sep 27, 2007
colleen This word is, in fact, madeupical. Sep 27, 2007