Definitions
Etymologies
- From obsolete spelunk, cave, from Middle English, from Old French spelunque, from Latin spēlunca, from Greek spēlunx. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term "spelunker" was abandoned sometime in the late 1950s.”
“Among serious cavers, "spelunker" has come to mean "person who goes underground without the proper equipment or training".”
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“Never, ever, have I heard anyone speak of himself as a "spelunker," and the thought that someone might be about to spelunk is droll.”
“My husband called the cat spelunker, saying, What do you think, little spelunker?”
“Carl, a reckless billionaire adventurer, has financed an expedition by an expert spelunker and diver named Frank McGuire Richard Roxburgh, to chart the unexplored portions of Esa'ala and discover a previously uncharted route through Esa'ala and back to the ocean coast.”
“LOL you are nothing more then a anal spelunker. and it looks like while Shara was in the green room the make-up person must have printed the wrong answers to the softball questions on her palm.”
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“Cardinals and doves develop their melody progressively caught in beat/heart echoes, as with spelunker canaries fluting noxious gas”
“The $20 ticket also includes a tour of the tunnel, and a civic history lesson, from " urban spelunker " Bob Diamond.”
“Michoacán's topography is ideal for the professional and amateur spelunker.”
“Bob Diamond, an "urban spelunker" will be also sharing the history of the tunnel.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spelunker’.
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Very Silly Words
A list of very silly sounding words, as well as words that are fun to say
badot, gardyloo, dingbat, gaffer, kine, haberdashery, forsooth, whey-faced, hoddypeak, brouhaha, widdershins, decemnovenarianize and 115 more...
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Dirty Words?
flange, shunt, dictum, angina, cunctator, mastication, spelunker, shiitake, rimshot, arsole, forebulge, fecund and 34 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 456 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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funny sounding words
pretty much
footle, lollygag, dawdle, kumquat, warble, besmirch, boondoggle, neckerchief, pantaloons, seersucker, tatterdemalion, gardyloo and 24 more...
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Mangomousse's Favorites :]
sfumato, aardvark, cwm, agog, alpenglow, amok, anomaly, apogee, apricity, balalaika, bibulous, bilious and 87 more...
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Funny Words
Funny sounding words
befuddled, gizmo, teeter-totter, lollygag, cahoots, whippersnapper, kitty-corner, shenanigan, skedaddle, tomfoolery, hornswoggle, humdinger and 38 more...
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crinkled's Words
unstalktacular, avatart, peonies, spelunker, weltschmerz, twaddle, stalkesque, meatpundit, arg, toastaphobia, cheedle, premblememblemation and 18 more...
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