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These user-created lists contain the word ‘shoecabbage’.
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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Found Poetry
Sometimes there are definitions from the Century Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, and Wiktionary which would make lovely found poems. This is a list of words which seem to have lyrical or ...
remote, diurnally, thence, anthesis, lew, interlock, fremd, pluck, commit, meddle, cant, cloud-built and 17 more...
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Why I adore this site
A collection of words and phrases that keep me coming back for more.
a priori, why I adore this ..., Chrysotus edwadsi, bletted, casu marzu, darner, melittologist, nabob, omne trinum perfe..., pi-stachio, pinnacle of the b..., pseudomantid and 24 more...
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plasmasphere, cockatrice, delimitable, precipitancy, trellising, thermochromism, cadenza, tentaculiferous, fluctiferous, circumambient, loblolly, trailing edge and 142 more...
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A Peckerwick of Fiffoldry
fogray, whalesong, solregn, shoecabbage, thorn-bush, thistledown, pomander, thornbush, dreamy duskywing, sedge, unbunting-like, quilp and 119 more...
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Language
sprachbund, illeism, ingveonic, malapropism, paronomasia, glottogony, macaronic, aphasia, paraphasia, phatic, urheimat, sprachgefühl and 16 more...
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Speechbeholding
arawak, inkhorn term, cat kisses, catkiss, shoecabbage, arawakan, becomma, orthoepist, orthoepy, soundwise
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dontcry Is this like shoeflypie? Dec 19, 2009
frogapplause FYI: I coined this word in 1979. link Dec 19, 2009
bilby Aaarrggghhhhhhh! Oct 13, 2008
frogapplause I think you're mixing up the oddly-shaped baking dish used to make bilby pie. Oct 13, 2008
bilby In the native Australian language of Warlpathamirri, frogapplause means an oddly-shaped casserole dish for baking witchetty-grubs. Oct 13, 2008
Prolagus Hmmm. Oct 12, 2008
frogapplause Maybe she doesn't know what a shoecabbage is. Oct 12, 2008
Prolagus Why didn't frogapplause comment here? Oct 12, 2008
bilby In the teaching of Italian there is usually quite a bit of time spent on 'false friends', ie. Italian words that are identical to or closely resemble English words yet have substantially different meanings.
eg. questione and question. In Italian questione is an issue, a significant problem, not a request for information. May 9, 2008
sionnach And sometimes you can combine both elements of the shoecabbage pair to form a ouija word. May 9, 2008
adoarns Is a pair of words from two languages which sound the same but have different meanings.
For instance, English "shoe" sounds identical to French "chou," which means "cabbage." May 9, 2008