Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Tatters; rags in a fluttering state.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tatterwallop’.
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 280 more...
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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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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2253 more...
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Cat Kisses Favorites
leprechaunic hair, a dinky grin, strangled giggle, a waft of words, comatose fun, a grisly shooting..., jim bag clothes, to quench and fuss, shutter hole, tearful sludge, dead-eye blue, coughing curtains... and 97 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 158 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Creative Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean, but they're not *technically* onomatopoetic.
(another edit: this list is morphing into something I can't quite describe. But I still like it.)ugly, icon, hang, weenie, bell, zit, ennui, sour, speed, rankle, muddle, disgruntle and 129 more...
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random assortment
antinomian ranter, supercilious, minion, carmine, circumlocution, mellisma, riverward, microtextual, callipygian, confelicitous, googlewhackery, dovetail and 179 more...
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To Learn
I need to learn and/or go over these words someday.
saccharine, chalumeau, elephantine, cerograph, tautology, galactagogue, woundwort, betony, sagination, endomorph, immiscible, kin and 17 more...
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a•mus•ing
'un, claptrap, abysmal, drivel, potpourri, confounded, bewildered, befuddled, offending odor, chortle, behoove, crazed and 22 more...
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Found on the front page of Wordnik
I tell you, there's some pretty awesome stuff there that I want to remember.
vraic, wayz-goose, ombrophobous, tapsalteerie, wharfinger, saltigrade, addax, spooniness, calibogus, ignimbrite, obnubilation, iconomachy and 14 more...
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My favorite words
A list of words that invoke brain-gasms or create lovely imagery in my head.
sea, ivory, older, chest, bird, mermaid, autumn, ship, winter, circus, atomic, forest and 21 more...
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(re-)discovered on wordie
volley, auric, quickening, tatterwallop, spooniness, wharfinger, salutatory, vivary, perspicacity, recede, cauterize, cozen and 3 more...
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carolchrist Rags with attitude! Apr 14, 2010
reesuh Would one use this word to describe a flag blowing in the wind or clothes hanging on a line? I can't think of another example than those. Jan 2, 2010