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alexz commented on the word bos'n
spotted as Boatswain -
Was watching a documentary by DownieLive about training on the west coast in the Royal Canadian Navy.
The examples listed in Wordnik also match this.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word joglo
An open-sided Javanese hall. https://blue.kumparan.com/image/upload/fl_progressive,fl_lossy,c_fill,q_auto:best,w_640/v1634025439/01811812e9daa2e2d6db12ed45414b0e.jpg
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word bankshall
Hmmm. The Javanese structure referred to is typically called a joglo and looks like this: https://blue.kumparan.com/image/upload/fl_progressive,fl_lossy,c_fill,q_auto:best,w_640/v1634025439/01811812e9daa2e2d6db12ed45414b0e.jpg
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word biffin
Biff, Betty and Bill buffed a big bellyful of beefy baked biffins.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word biffin
Another QMS classic. Far out.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word grain-soap
Give soap the finger!
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word Dorking fowl
Sounds like a minced oath.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word deckled
Etymology available at deckle.
May 4, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word sigma
talking about the semantics of the phrase what the sigma and more generally, brainrot. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6Y5AISC78A/
May 3, 2024
bilby commented on the word short manure
Thank you vendy.
May 3, 2024
bilby commented on the word fecifork
Wow.
May 3, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word and shit
See and crap.
May 2, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word and crap
See also and shit.
May 2, 2024
hillfoul007 commented on the user hillfoul007
Hello everyone
May 2, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word long manure
See short manure.
May 2, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word short manure
Since chicken manure was scarce, most pre-twentieth century market gardeners depended on seemingly unlimited supplies of "short manure," generally from horses. The difference between the "long" and the "short" manure was bedding. Long manure contained straw from the stall while short manure was pure street sweepings without adulterants. Hopefully, the straw portion of long manure had absorbed a quantity of urine.
People of that era knew the fine points of hay quality as well as people today know their gasoline. Horses expected to do a day's work were fed on grass or grass/clover mixes that had been cut and dried while they still had a high protein content. Leafy hay was highly prized while hay that upon close inspection revealed lots of stems and seed heads would be rejected by a smart buyer. The working horse's diet was supplemented with a daily ration of grain. Consequently, uncomposted fresh short manure probably started out with a C/N around 15:1. However, don't count on anything that good from horses these days. Most horses aren't worked daily so their fodder is often poor. Judging from the stemmy, cut-too-late grass hay our local horses have to try to survive on, if I could find bedding-free horse manure it would probably have a C/N more like 20:1. Manure from physically fit thoroughbred race horses is probably excellent.
Using fresh horse manure in soil gave many vegetables a harsh flavor so it was first composted by mixing in some soil (a good idea because otherwise a great deal of ammonia would escape the heap). Market gardeners raising highly demanding crops like cauliflower and celery amended composted short manure by the inches-thick layer. Lesser nutrient-demanding crops like snap beans, lettuce, and roots followed these intensively fertilized vegetables without further compost.
Long manures containing lots of straw were considered useful only for field crops or root vegetables. Wise farmers conserved the nitrogen and promptly composted long manures. After heating and turning the resulting C/N would probably be in a little below 20:1. After tilling it in, a short period of time was allowed while the soil digested this compost before sowing seeds. Lazy farmers spread raw manure load by load as it came from the barn and tilled it in once the entire field was covered. This easy method allows much nitrogen to escape as ammonia while the manure dries in the sun. Commercial vegetable growers had little use for long manure.
https://www.wilderness-survival.net/composting/making-superior-compost
May 2, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word short manure
It helps to have a spare short manure handle.
https://www.eqsaddlery.com.au/products/spare-short-manure-handle
May 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word ambulance cemetery
"Ambulance Cemetery:
A new term coined by Israeli army at Al-Amal Hospital in #Gaza, where they destroyed all medical ambulances & buried them under rubble.
They not only killed doctors & wounded but also aimed to prevent any chance of survival for injured, ensuring their demise."
- https://x.com/NourNaim88/status/1785676704221966533
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word camass-rat
Finally, the ass-rat we've been looking for.
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word short manure
Stock trading strategy? Slur on dwarfs? The mind boggles.
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word bag
Compare etymology of budget.
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the user jrex167
Never mind. Commenting only costs two cents.
May 1, 2024
jrex167 commented on the user jrex167
Most of my vocabulary is worthless!
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word parlor-jumping
Feels like this is a terrible omission from the Paris Olympics.
May 1, 2024
kalayzich commented on the list collins-dictionary-new-words-2023-FayWxH5OwCBD5n41R9fF8
craftspeople dropped
May 1, 2024
lunette commented on the user lunette
Imghttps://i.postimg.cc/Nj8qKH4z/cat-eat.gifimg
April 30, 2024
lunette commented on the user lunette
tema
April 30, 2024
darianovember commented on the word AMF
Animated movie fan
April 30, 2024
darianovember commented on the word darklight
a feeling of hope when everything seems to be sad and hopeless
April 30, 2024
darianovember commented on the word sadouching
sad and touching scenes in movies
April 30, 2024
darianovember commented on the word fundorable
funny and adorable moments in movies
April 30, 2024
darianovember commented on the word lifarious
lively, hilarious moments in movies
April 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word atrochous
Next time I get a puncture while out riding my bike I can stoically tell myself: "Wheelless, as a rotifer."
April 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word swough
Ideal for pronunciation roulette.
April 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word argentaffin
New flavour of fuflun just dropped.
April 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word moral injury
Dr Saul said that at the time of writing our 2024/25 budget submission, the service operated on 0.8 of a psychiatrist, three nurses and a 0.4 registrar. The Registrar position would not continue this year, thereby halving the medical cover for the prison.
"The only positions funded as part of the prison mental health service are the psychiatrist and one nursing position.
"Staff working in the service are at risk of burnout due to stress and moral injury, that is, burnout caused by witnessing adverse patient outcomes due to a lack of resources."
- https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/04/bed-block-causing-hobart-hospital-crisis/
April 30, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word YTP
YouTube Poop - a genre of video mashup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phQEjyM3Xp0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_poop
reminds me of shitposting
April 30, 2024
rasbona commented on the word education
pendagogy
April 30, 2024
royalstudio commented on the user royalstudio
hello
April 30, 2024
kalayzich commented on the list collins-dictionary-new-words-2023-FayWxH5OwCBD5n41R9fF8
consequentialist (16 letters)
April 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word fishify
A feisty firefly fishified fifty-five finely-frilled file-filled folders of fee-free Fife firefighter photos.
April 29, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word woketivity
Woketivity, a portmanteau of woke and activity.
April 29, 2024
keklol commented on the user keklol
keklol
April 29, 2024
kalayzich commented on the list collins-dictionary-new-words-2023-FayWxH5OwCBD5n41R9fF8
ceratopsid (dropped)
April 29, 2024
hernesheir commented on the word shinrin-yoku
I’ll say again, we nemophilists are everywhere.
As a sometime desert /treeless plain dweller, I’d appreciate terms that denote treeless open plains or desert lovers. In my case rolling hills and bluffs with cliffs, folds, glens, valleys, burrens, rills, mesas, ravines, hummocky terrain, hanging valleys and bergschrunds are my preference.
April 28, 2024
hernesheir commented on the word grizzerly
My lists are so old that I’m new here.
April 28, 2024
hernesheir commented on the word grizzerly
Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, in his childrens’ book “Little Tricker the Squirrel meets Big Double the Bear”. Viking Penguin, 1990. Illus. Barry Moser.
It was a bear, a grizzerly bear, so big and hairy and horrible it looked like the two biggest baddest bears in the Ozarks had teamed up to make one.
April 28, 2024
gleymdi commented on the word lebes
These example need review! Some of them are completely unrelated to the definition, being a separate word in dialectal English or creole, and some are all in Latin.
April 28, 2024
omegadragon01 commented on the word Time
SOMEONE HELP!!!
It's killing me!
Time is killing me!
It will kill us all!!!!
April 28, 2024
omegadragon01 commented on the user omegadragon01
I'm feeling lucky button gave me splurting which is only defined by splurt, but it didn't link to the word splurt so now I don't know what I'm splurting all over my splurtee. Egad!
April 28, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word teenado
Teenado, a portmanteau of teen and tornado.
April 27, 2024
kalayzich commented on the list collins-dictionary-new-words-2023-FayWxH5OwCBD5n41R9fF8
thuggo and thuggos not in dictionary but is in online dictionary
April 27, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word qunt
feeling qunt. An intensified drag algorithm-avoidant version of cunt.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx0m4A8rIVW/
April 26, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word gunbrella
Gunbrella, a portmanteau of gun and umbrella.
April 26, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word pizzadilla
Pizzadilla, a portmanteau of pizza and quesadilla.
April 26, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word pizzarito
Pizzarito, a portmanteau of pizza and burrito.
April 26, 2024
kauanff21 commented on the user kauanff21
Bonito
April 26, 2024
kauanff21 commented on the user kauanff21
Lindo demais
April 26, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word anyweird
Anyweird, a portmanteau of anyway and weird.
April 25, 2024
zenseiderz commented on the list cosmic-horrors
You nailed so many of them!
April 25, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word toadpole
Toadpole, a portmanteau of toad and tadpole.
April 25, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word matchelor
Matchelor, a portmanteau of match and bachelor.
April 25, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the list victorian-cemetery-symbolism-OoVLgWk7jSgkkQv6YXng6
Birds in Flight: graves of children, eternal life.
Dove: holy spirit, purity, devotion, divine spirit. When shown with an olive sprig it means hope or promise.
Dog: loyalty.
Lamb: child’s grave, purity and innocence.
Lion: courage, resurrection.
Arms Outstretched: the plea for mercy.
Hands: symbol of leaving.
Hands, clasped: marriage, close bond between individuals, farewell or last good-bye. The person who died first holds the other’s hand.
Hands, holding an open book: the embodiment of Faith.
Hands, joined hearts: marriage.
Hand, pointing downward: mortality or sudden death.
Hand, pointing upward: confirmation of life after death, heavenly reward.
Hands, praying: connote devotion, asking God for eternal life.
Latin Cross: eternity or never-ending existence.
Cross: eternity or never-ending existence.
Angels: guardians of the dead, symbolizing spirituality.
Flying Angel: rebirth.
Weeping Angel: grief, mourning an untimely death.
Bible: religious lay person or a cleric.
Book: faith, knowledge (commonly a double page spread).
Cherubs: graves of children.
Column, broken: early grief, end of life, sorrow, life cut short too soon. Usually represents the loss of the family head.
Columns, with archway: heavenly entrance.
Drapery, over anything: sorrow, mourning.
Obelisk: marks a family plot.
Scroll: symbol of life and time, life that is unfolding, past and future hidden, honor and commemoration.
Stones, shaped like tree stumps: woodman of the world.
Sun Setting: death.
Sun Shining/Rising: renewed life.
Urn: mourning.
Urn, draped: death, often of an older person.
Calla Lily: symbolizes marriage.
Daffodil: death of youth, desire, deep regard.
Dogwood: Christianity, triumph of eternal life.
Fern: sincerity, sorrow.
Flower: frailty of life.
Ivy: memory, immortality, friendship, fidelity, faithfulness, undying affection, eternal life.
Grapes: represent Christ.
Grapes and Leaves: Christian faith.
Holly: foresight.
Laurel Leaves: special achievement, distinction, success, triumph.
Lily: majesty, innocence, purity and resurrection.
Oak Tree: hospitality, stability, strength, honor, eternity, endurance, liberty.
Rose: love, beauty, hope, unfailing love. Whether a rose is a bud, flower or somewhere in between indicates how old the person was at time of death.
Tree: tree of life.
Tree, severed branch: mortality.
Vine: the sacraments, God’s blood, God.
Weeping Willow: nature’s lament, a symbol of sorrow and mourning.
Wheat: resurrection, bread and wine, fertility.
Wheat, sheaves: the aged.
April 25, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word cemetery rules
It shall be unlawful to operate a motor vehicle within the cemetery at a speed in excess of fifteen (15) miles per hour; all vehicles shall be restricted to the cemetery roads and shall drive and park on the right side. No undue noise shall be permitted by vehicles traveling through the cemetery and only licensed drivers may operate vehicles within the cemetery grounds.
No drinking, picnicking or participation in any sporting event of game activities shall be permitted within the grounds.
All persons are reminded that the grounds are sacredly devoted to the burial of the dead and that the provisions and penalties of the law as provided by State Statute and City Code, shall be strictly enforced in all cases of wanton injury, disturbances or disregard of these rules.
April 25, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word purchase of unused grave
Purchase of Unused Grave (by City) is $76.
--Found on cityofls.net website (Schedule of Fees)
April 25, 2024
edensgate commented on the user edensgate
why
April 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word postils
Didn't Jesus have 12 of these?
April 24, 2024
bilby commented on the word rooster tail
From a coroner's report into the death of three idiots:
"21. The three were seen by several people between 12 noon and 12.30pm coming into the beach at Boat Harbour. The boat was run up onto the beach. Photographs taken by a tourist show the boat leaving the Boat Harbour Beach at 12.42pm.
22. A witness described seeing the boat also leave the Boat Harbour region with a “huge rooster tail”, that is to say a large volume of water being caused by the angle of the outboard engine. A rooster tail is ordinarily caused by an engine being poorly trimmed."
- Simon Cooper, 'Coroner's findings following the investigation into the death (Without Inquest) of Dixon, Isaiah Solomon; Thomas, Bree-Anna Mary Jennifer; Courto, Thomas James', 23 April 2024.
The full tale of woe is here: https://www.magistratescourt.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/757461/Dixon,-Thomas-and-Courto-SJC-WEB.pdf
April 23, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word tenderqueer
play off of genderqueer? found in reddit post as a dismissive insult to drag performer Dawn. https://www.reddit.com/r/dragrace/comments/1carofu/is_this_true/
April 23, 2024
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
frick = fuck
shippy = shitty
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5_2fj4Pans/
April 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word dawnest
Dawn + honest. Written as dawnest or Dawnest
A particular brand of reading that is offered up as constructive criticism. Popularized by the drag artist Dawn throughout her run on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16.
Often used in the phrase "Can I be Dawnest?" as a coy introduction to a cutting remark. https://twitter.com/XunamiMuse/status/1762248219621212599
https://twitter.com/ssimplyysam/status/1778414456050975212
April 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word soy boy
spelling variant soy-boiz used ironically when talking about cancelling trees for liberal tendencies: https://www.instagram.com/p/C536UiXPsCp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
April 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
Examples of emoji censorship of audio captions (Clips from Conan O'Brian Hot Ones episode)
salute emoji = erect
chicken emoji = clucking
https://youtube.com/shorts/dNUrqQXpvj0?si=qA_AFTkih7ezt5m2
April 22, 2024
summerblooms commented on the user summerblooms
Parafear = a fear of a particular experience that happened to someone else.
Aprilain = the flowing of dandelline seeds trough the air in a group.
Lavender-Heart = a person who is nice, innocent, or a person who belives theres good in everything and only sees the pozitive aspects; can also be used to refer to light-hearted people.
Litrogenic = a person who only reads books of a certain genra.
Colseptic = fear of a certain color.
Stiffel = the sound that a cloth, usualy silk, when its brushed against anything.
April 22, 2024
kalayzich commented on the list collins-dictionary-new-words-2023-FayWxH5OwCBD5n41R9fF8
jamon iberico we have jamon as adj and serrano
April 22, 2024
aayush_gamer commented on the user aayush_gamer
hi
April 22, 2024
kalayzich commented on the list collins-dictionary-14th-phrasesabbreviations-etHRg5rzTEI7TiRQTDGUB
bilby
/ˈbɪlbi/ (say 'bilbee)
noun (plural bilbies)
either of the rabbit-eared bandicoots of the genus Macrotis, of the regions west of the Australian Great Dividing Range: 1. the greater bilby, Macrotis lagotis; dalgite.
2. Also, SA, pinkie. the lesser bilby, Macrotis leucura, now thought to be extinct; yallara.
Yuwaalaraay bilbi
© Pan Macmillan Australia 2024
April 21, 2024
kalayzich commented on the list collins-dictionary-new-words-2023-FayWxH5OwCBD5n41R9fF8
ack interjection used to express alarm or dismay
aro a person with no romatic feelings toward others- aros
avi an avatar in social media or online gaming-avis
baw Scot a ball or testicle- baws
fam short for family -fams
fav favorite- favs
owo interjection slang an expression of surprise used in text messaging and social media
uwu interjection slang an expression of admiration for something that is considered cute used especially in text messaging and social media
April 21, 2024
dogdoc commented on the word bibliographe
bibliographer
April 21, 2024
kalayzich commented on the list collins-dictionary-new-words-2023-FayWxH5OwCBD5n41R9fF8
ceratopsid has been removed- a dinosaur
April 21, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word -pilled
"Based and hanukkia-pilled."
https://twitter.com/boom_tentpeg/status/1781669621566685462
April 20, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word be SO FR RN
be SO FR RN: be so for real right now
April 20, 2024
dogdoc commented on the word goatmilker
1611–1911
goat-milker, n.
The nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus; (a.k.a. goatsucker, n.)
April 20, 2024
dogdoc commented on the word fol's yellow
Fool's Gold paint color
April 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word freesia
Like many flowers it can serve as a girl's name, as with the famous Siberian stripper Freesia Bitzov.
April 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word concrete juice
See GNU definition on gutta-percha.
April 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word gutta-percha
See also pachonta.
April 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word eumitosis
Like, um, dividing the European Union between western and former eastern bloc countries?
April 20, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word solidarity spring
https://www.tumblr.com/shutyourmoustache/748237292558319616/college-students-have-kicked-off-solidarity "COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE KICKED OFF SOLIDARITY SPRING!!! 🇵🇸FREE PALESTINE!!!🇵🇸 "
April 20, 2024
dogdoc commented on the word dwarmy
faint, languid
April 19, 2024
bilby commented on the list animals
Hi. Lists are either open, or collaborative, or closed.
open - anyone can add to the list
collaborative - named users can add
closed - only the list creator can add
In the cased of closed, it's often the practice here that users make suggestions. Like:
How about xxxx, would that fit?
April 19, 2024
petaler commented on the list animals
Can I add more animals from here: https://www.wordsdetail.com/animals-that-start-with-a/
Or I need to create my own list?
April 19, 2024
zimpa commented on the list ★
More start symbols: https://www.madeintext.com/star-symbols/
April 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word undesexed
Wrong because of the double negative. Right because, well, her point was that the dishlicker was supposed to have been desexed according to racing 'industry' regulations, but hadn't been. And stylistically undesexed is surely preferable to the unwieldy alternative 'that had not been desexed'.
April 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word undesexed
An activist said this about an ex-racing greyhound today and it sounded right but also wrong. I'll see if I can find the transcript.
April 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word natte
FWIW I feel natte is nattier than nat.
April 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word cafe bird
Spotted on Twitter:
"You can report any bird species - we welcome reports of new behaviours, anywhere across Australia: Big City Birds app or website https://spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/info
Please report the cafe birds you see sneaking a free-feed at cafes, restaurants, etc 😉 @BigCityBirds1" - https://x.com/Wingtags/status/1780839872594583944
April 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word skibidi
Also very Ned Flanders.
April 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word amphibious turducken situation
Some day I may have to account for what I have done on this site over the years and I will plead the Fifth.
April 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word amphibious turducken situation
See hellbender.
April 18, 2024