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  • Bag

    March 19, 2024

  • Alright!

    March 19, 2024

  • The common name of the animal is derived from the thickets of the shrub locally known as tamma (Allocasuarina campestris) that sheltered it in Western Australia according to the Department of Environment and Conservation - https://web.archive.org/web/20110225064720/http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/component/option%2Ccom_docman/task%2Cdoc_download/gid%2C133/Itemid%2C/

    March 19, 2024

  • What if the passenger is a double amputee?

    March 19, 2024

  • The rhyming slang definition is interesting with nowadays dog racing being considered a cruel form a animal exploitation in most civilised countries*.

    A racist caricature as rhyming slang for an abomination, hoo-boy.

    March 19, 2024

  • A bit like a catamaran. A yacht on each side and a sman in the middle.

    March 18, 2024

  • But isn't a yacht a kind of ship? Might as well say yachtsmanyacht.

    March 18, 2024

  • Podría

    March 18, 2024

  • ashamed

    March 18, 2024

  • might

    March 18, 2024

  • even

    March 18, 2024

  • Apart from anything else it reminds of yucky stuff like upskirt.

    March 18, 2024

  • I'm glad this has not escaped from the whiffy confines of geekdom.

    March 18, 2024

  • Yes, pitylessly is the way to drink wine.

    March 18, 2024

  • a zebra

    March 17, 2024

  • A zebra is a prison pony

    March 17, 2024

  • See danger zebra.

    March 17, 2024

  • What's a zebra then? Picket fence pony? Pedestrian crossing of the savannah?

    March 17, 2024

  • meme name for a Tiger

    March 16, 2024

  • "Disco Chicken"...

    aka The Peacock

    March 16, 2024

  • You've just been hiding because England can't win the Ashes to Ashes, eh.

    March 16, 2024

  • Hello bilby - just noticed your question from a few years back. I always considered this an open list. Seems that status slipped away sometime. I have re-openstatused it.

    March 15, 2024

  • listed by gangerh but created by vendingmachine

    March 15, 2024

  • Why, thank you vendingmachine! 'tis a while since I visited the Community, tho' Wordnik is still my go to dictionary look-up. Am delighted that you love the Sweet Tooth Fairies. You may like to know that I have now found time to write their book. It's entitled 'A SATISFYING POP OF ABSURDITY' - a phrase coined by erinmckean in her column in The Boston Globe. It will contain many illustrations depicting a selection of STFs. As for 'schrodinger's cat on a hot tin roof', that's brilliant!

    March 15, 2024

  • Strawbango, a portmanteau of strawberry and mango.

    March 15, 2024

  • Presumably an audio show about these would be an azipodcast.

    March 15, 2024

  • I feel like I'm punching down a bit here given this is quite a modest little two syllable word but I just don't like the way it sounds.

    March 14, 2024

  • Same root as shelter.

    March 14, 2024

  • Hannah Conna mentioned she has a UK boyfriend, maybe it's from him.

    March 14, 2024

  • I could really forthrist a fresh orange juice right about now.

    March 14, 2024

  • I have never heard it in Australia. Mind you, I haven't been to this kind of show in about the last 5 years.

    March 14, 2024

  • On Drag Race: UK vs the World 2, Australian drag qheen Hannah Conda has been encouraging other performers by saying "you're gonna kick it in the dick!" like "fuck em up! you got this!" A good luck blessing. Kinda like merde for ballerinas. Not sure if it's Australian or UK slang. Found it in a stand-up comedy vocab slang post from Dec 2016: https://medium.com/@bokla/the-comedy-urban-dictionary-89933a54515b

    March 14, 2024

  • Hi everyone I am here to learn new words, make word lists, and be here if you need a definition of a word.

    March 13, 2024

  • Also seggar.

    March 13, 2024

  • A preppie but snippy hippie papprazzi chappie snapped happy clappers happily clapping claptrap.

    March 13, 2024

  • tyring daily to be better

    March 13, 2024

  • Leaflute, a portmanteau of leaf and flute.

    March 13, 2024

  • The most important and unique feature of English (I think).

    You can just change words without a paper trail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPq0-8dyl8I

    Nouns to verbs without -ify or -ate, verbs to nouns without -tion or -er

    Parts of Speech? Gender? No thank you. Don't need em.

    Allows for nuance in synonym implications amd levels of formality, infinite loanwords, great for flexibility and wordplay. But! Has few signposts for new learners - a bad feature for the current lingua franca.

    March 12, 2024

  • I refer to rainy days as "It's a good day to be a duck"

    March 12, 2024

  • Related: a John Mulaney bit about an eccentric boss "Too Old To Be a Duckling": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxrnbmdm9s

    March 12, 2024

  • Spelling should be reseg-ment-ati-on.

    March 12, 2024

  • Funpetition, a portmanteau of fun and competition.

    March 12, 2024

  • (roller derby, slang) Skin injury caused by abrasion against the floor of the rink.

    March 12, 2024

  • (colloquial) skin and bone injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces. See gravel rash. Coordinate term: rink rash.

    March 12, 2024

  • (Britain, figuratively, broadcasting) A period of stony, unresponsive silence. See dead air.

    From the motif in western movies where the wind blows tumbleweeds through the scene, usually to establish that the place is desolate or empty.
     

    March 12, 2024

  • The rounded seed of the nicker tree.

    March 12, 2024

  • (Philippines) bird's nest soup (Chinese soup made from edible bird's nest)

    March 12, 2024

  • A relatively small and specialist, yet profitable, market.

    March 12, 2024

  • Rainy weather.

    March 12, 2024

  • (ceramics) A wheel or disc used to throw pots, turned by kicking or pushing a heavy stone or concrete base with the foot. See pottery wheel.

    March 12, 2024

  • (medicine, pathology) Elongated labia, a feature of certain Khoikhoi and other African women who develop, naturally or though artificial stretching, relatively elongated labia minora.

    March 12, 2024

  • See also shits-and-giggles.

    March 12, 2024

  • Amusement without any serious purpose; fun.

    March 12, 2024

  • A service, offered by some hotels, of the use of a baby monitor in a guest's room.

    March 12, 2024

  • See also tuk-tuk.

    March 12, 2024

  • Raise you bellow.

    March 12, 2024

  • Huh. The page won't expand the 5-letter and 6-letter word list to show me the 26 names alphabetically after patty and murphy. Must return to this project later or find an internet friend to help me bypass the error message I'm getting.

    March 11, 2024

  • Oh, fun--I have a list like this, too, but yours is more official. See scrabble-names.

    March 11, 2024

  • hippo is not a word with letters in alphabetical order. My favourite word is below.

    Dirty is also in alphabetical order? Are there no longer in words?

    March 11, 2024

  • "The word surloin or sirloin is often said to be derived from the fact that the loin was knighted as Sir Loin by Charles II, or (according to early 19c. English dictionary writer Charles Richardson) by James I. Chronology makes short work of this statement; the word being in use long before James I was born. It is one of those unscrupulous inventions with which English 'etymology' abounds, and which many people admire because they are 'so clever.' The number of those who literally prefer a story about a word to a more prosaic account of it, is only too large." - Walter W. Skeat, 'An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language', 1882

    March 11, 2024

  • Who knew?

    March 10, 2024

  • See pomette bleue.

    March 10, 2024

  • (informal) The temporary inability to think properly, or to remember something

    Synonym: brain fog.

    March 10, 2024

  • (palmistry) Lines going around the wrist, associated with Neptune.

    March 10, 2024

  • (idiomatic, informal, derogatory) Prim, prudish, or easily offended.

    Synonym: pearl-clutching.

    March 10, 2024

  • A form of silk made more humanely than by traditional methods, without killing the creatures that create the silk. Synonym:  peace silk.

    March 10, 2024

  • See alcohol enema.

    March 10, 2024

  • An act of consuming alcohol via the anus in order to induce intoxication.

    Synonym: butt chug.

    March 10, 2024

  • A vasculopathy caused by E. coli that affects greyhounds.

    March 10, 2024

  • (dated, endearing) Spouse.

    c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: ... Isaac Iaggard, and Edward Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:

    Parolles: He wears his honour in a box, unseen

    That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home

    Spending his manly marrow in her arms

    March 10, 2024

  • The number of bushels of corn equal in value to 100 pounds of live hogs, used by farmers to decide whether it is more lucrative to sell their corn or to feed hogs with it and sell those.

    March 10, 2024

  • hog-whimpering (comparative more hog-whimpering, superlative most hog-whimpering)

    (UK, slang) Extremely drunk, to the point of incoherence.

    March 10, 2024

  • (slang, neologism) The state of being unapologetically lethargic, slovenly, and prone to odd and self-indulgent behavior.

    From modern fantasy depictions of goblins as filthy, brutish, cave-dwelling creatures, a departure from older folkloric depictions first used by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit (1937). The term is first attested on Twitter in 2009, but gained popularity in 2022.

    March 10, 2024

  • go bitchcakes (third-person singular simple present goes bitchcakes, present participle going bitchcakes, simple past went bitchcakes, past participle gone bitchcakes)

    (slang, vulgar) To go crazy; to get extremely angry; to flip out.

    Synonym: go apeshit.

    March 10, 2024

  • A minimalist style of visual art.

    March 10, 2024

  • A full moon occurring in July... so called because the new antlers of a buck emerge around this time of year.

    March 10, 2024

  • (US, slang) A bubble butt.

    2004, Bobby Heenan, Steve Anderson, Chair Shots and Other Obstacles:

    "They'll find someone new with a bubble ass and a short dress."

    March 10, 2024

  • A relatively rare form of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, bright sections, and lasts longer than the usual discharge channel.

    March 10, 2024

  • Itchiness of the skin underneath a beard.

    2011, Don Pendleton, Assassin's Code, Toronto: Worldwide Library, page 108:

    "Bolan knew through personal experience that by day three the beard-itch would become almost unbearable."

    March 10, 2024

  • A rod-shaped implement used by the aboriginal people of Australia to dig yam and as a combat weapon.

    "She thrust her yamstick into the hard ground to reach the prized tuber."

    March 10, 2024

  • (music) A simple musical instrument consisting of a wooden tube with a hole in it, used like a modern kazoo.

    2011, Christopher Welch, Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other Flutes in Relation to Literature:

    Now there was in Shakespeare's time a pipe called the eunuch flute. It was not an instrument that could generate sound but only a contrivance for imparting to the voice a trembling or buzzing sort of tone not unlike that which children produce by means of a piece of paper folded over a comb.

    March 10, 2024

  • (slang) the best; great success

    March 10, 2024

  • A chronic condition of unknown etiology, characterized by recurring attacks of intense nausea, vomiting, and sometimes abdominal pain and headaches.

    March 10, 2024

  • The collection of live fish, generally for an aquarium, by spraying a sodium cyanide mixture into the water in order to incapacitate the fish.

    March 10, 2024

  • (Britain) A pedestrian crossing with traffic-lights operated by pedestrians

    March 10, 2024

  • (Britain, regional) A pedestrian crossing equipped with traffic lights operated by the pedestrians, same as pelican crossing, but also allowing bicycles to cross.

    March 10, 2024

  • (now archaic, regional) Urine, especially as used for domestic or agricultural purposes. from 16th c.

    March 10, 2024

  • (US) A large aquatic true bug with pincer-like front legs, Lethocerus americanus.

    March 10, 2024

  • 1881, Adam Woolbever, Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs, page 464:

    A viceroy of Ireland asked one of his guests at a public dinner why there were no toads in Ireland? to which he replied, “because there are so many toad eaters."

    March 10, 2024

  • A traditional drink made by soaking hard toast in water.


    • 1884 October 15, The Annals of Hygiene, volume 1, number 4, page 96:
      Toast water simple, good in cases of thirst and nausea from diarrhœa, is about one-fourth of a pound of bread toasted slowly to a very dark brown color (not burned), broken into a hot mug or pitcher, with a quart of boiling water poured upon it, covered close until cold.

    March 10, 2024

  • oaf-rocked (comparative more/ oaf-rocked, superlative most/ oaf-rocked)

    (UK, Yorkshire dialect, obsolete) Weak of intellect from infancy.

    (UK, Yorkshire dialect, obsolete) Badly brought up; spoiled.

    March 10, 2024

  • female practitioner of voodoo.

    March 10, 2024

  • (genetics) An individual who may be clinically unaffected but who must carry a gene mutation based on analysis of the family history; this usually applies to disorders inherited in an autosomal recessive and X-linked recessive manner.

    March 10, 2024

  • One who practices voodoo.

    March 10, 2024

  • (slang, archaic) A truncheon.

    March 10, 2024

  • (archaeology) The initial piece of stone from which a tool is made.

    March 10, 2024

  • A flowering plant in the mint family, Physostegia virginiana, native to eastern North America and known for the way that individual flowers stay in the position they're moved to when pushed to one side or the other.

    March 10, 2024

  • A spicy Asian dish of chicken cooked with dried chili peppers, spring onion, peanuts, etc.

    March 10, 2024

  • Afrikaans:

    stukkend (attributive stukkende, comparative stukkender, superlative stukkendste)

    broken

    (slang) drunk

    Audio: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stukkend

    March 10, 2024

  • short for "I know that's right"

    different from ikr: "I know, right?"

    March 10, 2024

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