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bilby commented on the word shy Susan
"Lauren Bird, Biodiversity Coordinator with NRM North, works with land managers and the community to monitor and protect remaining populations of the critically endangered plant shy Susan.
'Shy Susan is a native plant adorned in purple flowers in spring and the only place in the world that it is found is in the Beaconsfield foothills in Tasmania. As of 2021 there were less than 200 shy Susan plants remaining in the wild,' Lauren said."
- 'Source Firewood Sustainably', https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/06/source-firewood-sustainably/
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word musk
Sooo, Elon Testicle. Perfect.
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the list a-testicle-by-any-other-name
musk
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word Arabian goggles
Wiktionary is the new Urban Dictionary?
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word kain-hen
RELIABLE CHICKENS WANTED FOR PAID WORK, APPLY NOW.
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word uterus unicornis
Wot.
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word A.U.
Unit of length equal to one hundred millionth of a centimeter (used to measure wavelengths of light), 1892, named for Swedish physicist Anders Ångström (1814-1874).
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
greeble
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word knick-knack
Which is quite a lot, even more that Republican which has three.
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word knick-knack
If you accept that nic-nac would be pronounced the same way, then this word has four silent ks.
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word mantrap
a woman's commodity - Grose, 'Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', London, 1785.
June 26, 2022
rayb commented on the user rayb
Not up to this. Found site while
seeking a spanish to english translation. // Love words, though.
June 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word pitilacker
According to Etymonline, on scofflaw;
"'person who disregards laws,' 1924, from scoff (v.) + law (n.). The winning entry (from among more than 25,000) in a national contest during Prohibition to coin a word to characterize a person who drinks illegally. The $200 prize was shared by two contestants who sent in the word separately: Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler.
Similar attempts did not stick, such as pitilacker (1926), winning entry in a contest by the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to establish a scolding word for one who deliberately mistreats animals (submitted by Mrs. M. McIlvaine Bready of Mickleton, N.J.)."
June 25, 2022
bilby commented on the list double-trouble
moosemise
June 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word pug
In John Milesius any man may reade
Of divels in Sarmatia honored
Call'd Kottri or Kibaldi ; such as wee
Pugs and hobgoblins call. Their dwellings bee
In corners of old houses least frequented,
Or beneath stacks of wood ; and these convented
Make fearfull noise in buttries and in dairies,
Robin good-fellowes some, some call them fairies.
- Thomas Heywood, 'Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells', 1635
June 25, 2022
etumos commented on the list words-with-letters-in-alphabetical-order
hippo(informal) letters are not in alphabetical order. My favorite is your biopsy!
How about chimp also (informal)?
June 24, 2022
juannerima commented on the word insincere
Describes my ex, most sincerely.
June 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word keach
As in, what, ladle yourself a glass from the punch bowl.
June 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word maccaboy
Fast food urchin?
June 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word agender agenda
Schwa ending for both for me :-/
June 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word vote bank
In Australia we usually say rusted on.
e.g. The rusted on Wordnik Party vote is about 9%.
June 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word agender agenda
Are there dialects where would these be pronounced the same? (non-rhotic something?)
June 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word NIRMA
The Nuclear Information and Records Management Association
June 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blorbo
blorbo from your ads: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/kingkirkwall/687106166764011520
June 23, 2022
sdrew332 commented on the list apples-to-apples--red-cards
Hi - you missed the Tina Fey card and what card is the common loon? is it the common cold?
June 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quindecennial
vendingmachine how do you pronounce it? This is a new term to me, but based on quintet and bicentennial, that robot man's pronunciation sounds good to me.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word haptodysphoria
Peach fondlers look away now.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word alantolactone
Clearly Helen and Alan have a thing going.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word sacred ax
Consider upgrading to holy hand grenade.
June 23, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word quindecennial
Is this a new thing or have I been clueless all along? I accidentally clicked on the big bold quindecennial and a male voice pronounced quindecennial. I'm assuming it's correct.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word Mutton Jeff
Mutt 'n' Jeff, comic strip characters.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word theanthropos
The God-man. Koo koo kajoob.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word mash-fat
Paula Deen cooking :-/
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word becquerel
Are you feeling run down, like you just lost a bequerel?
Stonkered, as if butt-slapped with a mackerel?
If you're seeking a means
To recharge your bounce beans
Perhaps a holiday and mango daquiri 'll?
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word pulls above his belt
Martial arts reference, where belt is measure of proven ability?
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word carnivorous
Anagram of coronavirus.
June 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word eggcorn
Check out the eggcorn database for more. My favorite is firstable for first of all. https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
June 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word pulls above his belt
An eggcorn I heard in a meeting today said during a compliment to a one-man team. Some kind of mashup with punches above his weight class or pulls his own weight. Not sure where belt is coming from.
June 22, 2022
stuartmathergibson commented on the word plangent
plangent
Loud and resounding.
adjective Expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive.
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word scopophobia
How much is reasonable?
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word Skinner box
Hey ruzuzu look what I found.
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word andscape
"I wrote andscape instead of landscape & it feels like exactly the kind of word that could have some meaningfully meaningful meaning that has people scratching their chins.
andscape: the idea that place is neither complete nor finished."
- Imogen Wegman, via Twitter
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the list zamboni-palin
somepody
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word copaline
Often prescribed after a course of hopium has been unsuccessful.
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word walrus
See also rosmarine.
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word bucket
BUG - If you scroll up you'll see there's a list titled Flanges &c but if you click the link you get a 404.
June 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word eulogium
Sounds like a room where you give eulogies. #RandomWord
June 21, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word ergatandry
Whoa! I don't want to look more into this, but I'm intrigued. #RandomWord
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word redshirt
Compare redskirt.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word frambaesia
Probably from the "yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries.":
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word waffle
Also, #crimesagainstfalafel.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word waffle
Ooh, that's very good.
June 21, 2022
alexz commented on the word waffle
How much awful can an offal waffle falafel be if an awful falafel used awful offal waffles?
June 21, 2022
alexz commented on the word hieratica
I think this gives me the idea of making a Heirovetica font.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word waffle
alexz has been appointed to create a tongue twister on this theme. Thank you.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word waffle
Etymologically-speaking, goes back to the same root as weave. Possibly weevil does too.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word stick-lac
Imma paddywhack this.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word carnival glass
Also aurora glass.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word precocial
See also autophagi.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the list animaliskt
serpent-kame?
June 21, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word OLS
OLS: Ordinary Least Squares regression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_least_squares
June 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word hieratica
Was only available in select papyrus shops, not online.
June 19, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word truck system
A truck system includes one or both of the following practices under which truck wages are used to defraud and/or exploit workers.
1) The truck wages are demonstrably of a lesser market value than the amount of money that would normally be paid for the same work.
2) Truck systems limit employees' ability to choose how to spend their earnings. For example, credit or company scrip might be usable only for the purchase of goods at a monopolistic company-owned store, at which prices are set artificially high. As long as the company store is the only party able and willing to accept scrip for needed goods, there is no meaningful competition to lower prices. Hence, a truck system relies on a closed economic system in which employees are required to become subject to a retail monopoly in essential goods.
June 19, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word truck wages
Truck wages are wages paid not in conventional money but instead in the form of payment in kind (i.e. commodities, including goods and/or services); credit with retailers; or a money substitute, such as scrip, chits, vouchers or tokens. Truck wages are a characteristic of a truck system.
"Truck", in this context, is a relatively archaic English word meaning "exchange" or "barter".
June 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word despairers
Misery loves company :-/
June 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the user pugnatio
Welcome pugnatio! The New Yorker style is proudly eccentric, with their use of the diaeresis https://www.grammarly.com/blog/diaeresis/ and their refusal to move forward at the speed of tech for things like Web site and e-mail. The New York Times is also slow to adopt revisions to their style guide. Maybe it's an East Coast thing.
June 17, 2022
smartestdev2 commented on the user smartestdev2
hello
June 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word vegetalin
I just drink it :-)
June 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word hanitiser
Eggcorn of hand sanitiser.
June 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word tulwar
A weapon with the word war in the name :-/
June 17, 2022
pugnatio commented on the user pugnatio
Just stumbled onto this Web site. That's right, I said "Web site." That's because I just saw it in a New Yorker article (https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/saudi-arabia-astroturfs-the-golf-course).
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word catmeat
Third definition is...wow!
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word raffia ruffia
Who else wants to see raffia ruffia and tuft-taffeta do-si-do the hokey-pokey?
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the list zamboni-palin
slungshot
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the list specific-excrement
faecalith
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word stound
So many definitions for a word I've never come across.
June 16, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word SNUPPS
Standard Nuclear Unit Power Plant System
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word opakapaka
Parker Packer poked a pack of pickled puckered opakapakas.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word landwardness
Ever needed a fancy way to say hick?
June 15, 2022
alexz commented on the word opakapaka
How many opakapakas can an alpaca pack if an alpaca could pack opakapakas?
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word scalma
Good thing Mr Dieckerhoff didn't have to grow up in Australia with a name like that :-/
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word pellet
Compare platoon, peloton.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word jobfish
The Wiktionary etymology contributor really putting in the big ones here.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word opakapaka
You can say that again!
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word serinette
I imagine ruzuzu collects these.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word horseradish
Etymologically the horse- bit of this is as in hoarse/coarse, not as in hi-ho Silver.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word testicular fortitude
This! From transcript of 'American Morning' on CNN, 1 May 2008. https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ltm/date/2008-05-01/segment/03
MOOS: The candidates tend to do a lot of pointing during these tours. They do a lot of touching as well. Pass by objects that could be felt anyone. What is this thing, is it a missile, does it fly? It is a wind turbine.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It looks like a big surfboard.
MOOS: Just begging to be autographed. The candidates seem happiest during the tours when they are meeting the works especially ones that address them as Mr. President.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you doing, Mr. President?
OBAMA: Good to see you. It's got a ring to it.
MOOS: He thinks that has a nice ring to it. Listen to what Hillary heard from a steelworkers' union official talking about looking for a leader.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That has testicular fortitude. You know, that's exactly right.
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I do think I have fortitude. Women can have it as well as men.
MOOS: These tours sure require fortitude. Candidates better be prepared to do a lot of nodding.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every one of those ports can be fitted with special probes to measure like oxygen concentration.
MOOS: Nodding, nodding. Remind you of anything? At least going on all these tours is good preparation to become nodder in chief. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
ROBERTS: Do you think he meant to say intestinal fortitude?
PHILLIPS: That is exactly what he meant to say.
ROBERTS: My goodness.
PHILLIPS: And she stomached it well.
ROBERTS: Yes. There you are.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word demand signal
I would like to signal my demand for fewer demand signals.
June 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word battologize
Can you repeat that? #RandomWord
June 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word demand signal
Just heard this in a business meeting in reference to a group that is supposed to be advised, but this person couldn't think of a reason for them to have a demand signal for this document/issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_signal It's about the chain of notifications, and if someone doesn't care, why are they in the chain?
June 14, 2022
stuartmathergibson commented on the word profligate
profligate
Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation.
adjective Given to or characterized by reckless waste; wildly extravagant.
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word Martin's Mistake
As described on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cash
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word medium-sized leaf-eating monkey
See douc.
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word bergamottin
Oh for those of us with memory porous and rotten
Would that no words were ever, ever forgotten!
For it is after an age
I find me back on this page:
Grapefruit gone, but not bergamottin
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the list not-the-sum-of-their-parts
periodicities
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word bilbydactyl
Still waiting for a call-up from the Jurassic movie franchise.
June 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word pereutectic
Same as peritectic? https://www.answers.com/Q/Difference_between_eutectic_and_pereutectic_points
June 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word zone
IN rock climbing bouldering competitions, you get half points on a problem for getting halfway through the wall to the zone hold during your 4 minutes of attempts, and full points if you can maneuver around to the top hold as well.
June 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word match
In rock climbing, when you match a hold, you have both hands on the same hold at the same time. Sometimes in competitions, there's only room for 3 fingers in a hold, but competitors still find a way to transition from one hand's 3 fingers to the others' to make progress on a boulder problem. In competitions, you top a wall (complete it) by matching both hands to the hold labeled Top.
June 13, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word gauss's formula
https://nrich.maths.org/2478
June 13, 2022