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DipS commented on the word flawesome
something that has flaws but still is awesome .
June 29, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list drug-store-items-that-would-make-horrible-superhero-names
Exactly--with his aviator glasses and bomber jacket (which he'd have picked up last winter in the "seasonal" section).
June 28, 2017
NotMatt commented on the list drug-store-items-that-would-make-horrible-superhero-names
ruzuzu Thanks! I think Ace Bandage is a solid addition. I imagine he would be the grizzled leader constantly grumbling and shaking his head at the antics of the others.
June 28, 2017
CCDell commented on the user CCDell
Okay
June 28, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list drug-store-items-that-would-make-horrible-superhero-names
Stellar list!
June 28, 2017
qms commented on the word nutrimental
The scheme of the vegan is gentle
With quinoa and kale and the lentil.
Are benefits real
As followers feel,
Or is its appeal nutrimental?
June 28, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list brokeneyes-words
Fantastic!
June 27, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list poetic-notions
Or paradelle?
June 27, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word logothete
Nice one, qms.
Also, I'm adding this to my hence list.
June 27, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list confused-pairs
Oh, fun!
June 27, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list every-word-ive-seen-objected-to-on-grammatical-grounds
Alright!
June 27, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word civet
Compare zibet.
June 27, 2017
qms commented on the user qms
The Word of the Day limerick for July 27, 2017 is meant to be read in the context of the comment posted at logothete on September 4, 2014.
June 27, 2017
qms commented on the word logothete
The warhorse was no longer fleet
So had to be shrewd and discreet.
Where stronger words failed
Old Teddy assailed
His foe with the slur, logothete.
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word 4ever
forever
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word 5ever
more than 4ever
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word cugly
definition spotted on twitter "cute ugly"
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word porte cochere
sounds like a car port
June 27, 2017
qms commented on the word porte cochere
See porte cochère.
June 27, 2017
gma commented on the word porte cochere
Merriam Webster: a covered entryway into a courtyard.
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word meteotsunami
Yes it was. Sounds similar to a storm surge
June 27, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word meteotsunami
I saw something about that, too--was it about one of the Great Lakes?
June 26, 2017
Jottomadai commented on the word stockline
Stockline seems to refer to a list of livestock held by its owner, relating especially to their genealogy and blood lines.
June 26, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word doughwich
https://www.eater.com/2017/6/26/15858180/raw-cookie-dough-trend
When pitching their idea, Schmid and Pacetti claimed their product was the only edible cookie dough on the market made to be eaten as-is. Not anymore: Between new shops, expansions, and menu upgrades, 2017 is set to be the breakout year for edible cookie dough. Dō — based in New York City, where there is a line for everything — certainly garnered a lot of publicity during its January opening, but it wasn’t the only doughy debut of the year. In February, Tart Sweets bakery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, started selling its dough in “doughwiches” and by the scoop through its cookie dough bar, which is only open Fridays and Saturdays. Earlier this year, Yoyo Berri frozen yogurt shops in Nebraska and South Dakota started offering raw cookie dough to liven up yesterday’s snack craze. And four flavors of the stuff, served with a side of “ice milk,” will be among the newest items featured at this year’s Minnesota State Fair.
June 26, 2017
erinmckean commented on the word carnist
"Vegan psychologist Melanie Joy would describe me as a “carnist”. It’s a neologism that means I’m conditioned to accept meat-eating is natural and that animals are categorised into edible, inedible, pets and predators, rather than equals." The Guardian
June 26, 2017
qms commented on the word onfall
At Daisy Mae's regular onfall
The hollow resounds to her bonk call:
"Come old men and young
The wee and well-hung
It don't matter none. I want y'all!"
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word Sbux
abbreviation for Starbucks
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word replatform
early sighting of this term 1997 or 1998 in a software sense
Department of Veteran's Affairs.
"- Education System Replatform/Redesign
- to replatform or redesign all Education benefit delivery systems to operate on the VBA Stage 1 environment"
https://books.google.ca/books?id=wG0eAAAAMAAJ&q=replatform&dq=replatform
1994 example by the IEEE
"Determine how COBOL/SRE might help to re-platform our code and subsequently support new development within APG "
previous non-tech sense of this word is related to trains and train platforms.
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word nginx
I've heard this pronounced as Engine X
For non-techies, it's a web page server thingy.
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word LEMP
website speak - from the examples "Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP5"
similar to LAMP
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word marcom
marketing, or 'marketing and communications'
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word MEAN
in software developerspeak "(MongoDB, Express, Angular, node.js)"
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word rando
random stranger
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word mktg
abbreviation of marketing
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word tech stack
a software industry buzzword bingo jargon word.
it's a term that implies that all these technical things work together nicely and flawlessly, but the reality is that a tech stack is a cross between square pegs hammered into round holes, a Rube Goldberg machine and a Jenga tower which stops working and falls apart at the slightest disturbance.
Also, powered by hamsters. x1636
June 26, 2017
qms commented on the word head-hung
All night fans in frenzy gave tongue -
Gargantuan efforts of lung!
Despite boastful songs
The team failed its throngs,
Who slouched sadly homeward, head-hung.
June 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word meteotsunami
spotted in news as a weather generated tsunami
June 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word sploof
an air filter for marijuana smokers to exhale without stinking up the place.
June 25, 2017
brueckl100 commented on the word dichtung
DICHTUNG means "Poetry" in German.
June 24, 2017
qms commented on the word fraudsman
Some think that the Donald's an odd man,
But others, a sweet-natured Lord's man.
I must give the nod
To the party of odd;
His piety reeks of the fraudsman.
June 24, 2017
Fireheart00 commented on the word fathers-forth
I think it refers to when something is 'brought into existence,' which makes sense when you say "He fathers-forth all things that shine."
June 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word sourtoe
I don't know why. The 19th c. Had whiskey as part of frostbite treatment. (google book search "whisky frostbite" 19th c.)
June 23, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word zooid
See citation on pyrosome.
June 23, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word pyrosome
"Each pyrosome is made up of individual zooids – small, multicellular organisms – linked together in a tunic to form a tube-like colony that is closed on one end. They are filter feeders and use cilia to draw plankton into their mucous filter."
-- "Researchers probe explosion of pyrosomes off the Northwest Coast" (https://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/news/features/pyrosomes/index.cfm)
June 23, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word frugivore
I haven't had enough coffee for a limerick, so I'll default to haiku:
qms plants seeds
and encourages us to
cultivate our own.
June 23, 2017
qms commented on the word locodescriptive
While "nut job" and "loon" are dismissive
Yet "mad" and "insane" echo fictive.
The language amazes
With terms for our crazes;
It's supple and locodescriptive.
June 23, 2017
qms commented on the word frugivore
ruzuzu and bilby combine
Lamenting my poor withered vine,
But if there's an ointment
For cruel disappointment
That comforting unction is mine.
For limericks are careless of clime
And ripen regardless of time.
Their happiest chore
Is spreading of spore
To generate offspring in rhyme.
June 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word poemoji
emoji poetry
most emoji poetry is non english
June 23, 2017
abiabiname commented on the word Pinarayi
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pinarayi&defid=11721275
June 23, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word sourtoe
Why a cocktail? Wouldn't jam make more sense?
June 22, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word frugivore
Chimps and fruit bats are picky.
When it comes to their lunch, it's sticky.
Why eat cheese or meat?
Choose fruits or a beet.
(But maybe not a durian--they're icky.)
June 22, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word matta
I was thinking something more like the university from Rocky and Bullwinkle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSVq7X7OPeQ
June 22, 2017
Aarif commented on the word Magfirat
Maghrirat is nothing but to get forgiven from the GOD i.e.ALLLAH
June 22, 2017
maya_nk99 commented on the user maya_nk99
kjdnq
June 22, 2017
bilby commented on the word frugivore
But what about fruit, mister qms?
From bananas and grapes you digress
I'll pop me a melon
When breakfast desire is swellin'
And laugh like a pineapple, more or less
June 22, 2017
bilby commented on the word sourtoe
Rubbish, there must be something like 60 billion toes on the planet.
June 22, 2017
qms commented on the word frugivore
The pattern is hard to ignore:
Buy local and you are a locavore;
If seeking cheap eats
In veggies and meats
You're frugal and known as a frugivore.
June 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word sourtoe
This refers to the sourtoe drink which has a mummified toe.
Fron the Guardian article:
"For more than 40 years the Downtown hotel in Dawson City has served up the sourtoe cocktail, a shot of whisky with a blackened toe – nail and all – bobbing inside. Those who manage to touch the gnarled, severed toe to their lips earn a certificate.
On Saturday a customer took it one step further, allegedly making off with the wrinkled digit after swallowing his drink. “We are furious,” said Terry Lee of the hotel. “Toes are very hard to come by.”"
June 22, 2017
bilby commented on the word matta
Ruzuzu, you need to meet Joe Dolce: https://youtu.be/9jwPqDVtsTU
June 22, 2017
gma commented on the word kyphobic
Wikipedia says kyphobic refers to a curvature of the spine past 45 degrees. The medical condition is called kyphosis.
June 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word spinor
physics - "Other physicists figured out that this quantum state represented spin.
And the up and down degrees of freedom with direction of pointing along the angular momentum axis. We now call these component waveforms spinors"
June 22, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word enby
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/877637588529561600
(And that's for cis women--for society that has trouble remembering trans women, enbys, etc. exist, the HORROR that they would take the mic)
June 21, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list woolfs-to-the-lighthouse
Arrived here after getting liftman as a random word. What a nice list!
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word nfi
Spotted as "no f'ing idea"
Has nfi, had nfi. Or nfi as an adjective.
June 21, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word matta
What's a matta?
June 21, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the user lanas
Your lists are lovely.
June 21, 2017
bilby commented on the word shank job
In Australia a half-job Harry.
June 21, 2017
qms commented on the word jobation
Expressions of disapprobation
Have many a nasty mutation:
The cold look that lingers,
The wagging of fingers,
But worst is the endless jobation.
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word gillnetter
most of the examples point to the boat being called a gilnetter.
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word lbd
LBD twitterspeak for 'little black dress'.
June 21, 2017
jodi commented on the word efrit
See also ifrit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifrit
June 20, 2017
jodi commented on the word shank job
Also shankjob via Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shankjob
"A shankjob is someone who can't do anything correctly and/or does really shoddy work."
June 20, 2017
jodi commented on the word gillnetter
Wiktionary: "One who fishes using a gillnet."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gillnetter
June 20, 2017
gma commented on the word egule
Wikipedia suggests egule is of Manchurian origin and refers to a cloud of suspended water droplets.
June 20, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word rubato
""|Hélène| Grimaud doesn't sound like most pianists: she is a rubato artist, a reinventor of phrasings, a taker of chances. "A wrong note that is played out of élan, you hear it differently than one that is played out of fear," she says.""
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Grimaud&oldid=778559561
June 20, 2017
qms commented on the word hermeneut
A poet who's really astute
Is neither obscure nor too cute.
His work ought to dart
Straight to the heart
Not needing a shrewd hermeneut.
June 20, 2017
qms commented on the word Goodman
See goodman.
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word All Hallows
Nov 1st.
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word thingamy
spotted in 1787 as a Mr Thingamy
https://books.google.ca/books?id=leo5AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA457&dq=Thingamy
spotted again in 1851 as Mr. Thingamy along with Mr. So-and-so and Mr. Thing'embob
https://books.google.ca/books?id=-MVNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA305&dq="what%27s+his+name";
and again in 1870 as Mr. What's-his-name Thingamy
https://books.google.ca/books?id=sdFZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA104&dq="what%27s+his+name";
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
thanks.
new words discovered are ihy, aftselakhis ,Meteorological Summer,
burlesquercise , Malama Honua , cishet , ponv , resilient Thessaloniki , covfefe
June 20, 2017
Picassette commented on the word Goodman
A Goodman is an old word meaning "owner of a house," or there about.
June 20, 2017
MaryW commented on the word protomusics
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 55June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word protomusic
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 55June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word drawbar
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 48June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word pianoness
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 46June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word overtone
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 46June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word trumpetiness
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 46June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word declarative knowledge
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 38June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word tonotopic map
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 28June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word tonotopic
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 28June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word basilar
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 28June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word prosodic cue
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 27Sing. pinna
June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word pinnae
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 24Sing. pinna
June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word timbre
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 19June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word separable
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 17June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word psychophysicist
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 17June 19, 2017
Syreal commented on the user Syreal
What are words worth
June 19, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
I've added it to my list.
June 19, 2017
bilby commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
I'm fairly sure aftselakhis are things ruzuzu puts on an overhead projector in order to make interesting shapes, colours and patterns.
June 19, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
This is great!
June 19, 2017