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bilby commented on the list a-dram-too-many
I didn't nope toped, just missed it!
August 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word muah
it's a smoochy friendly kiss sound , also common to add extra letters for added effect.
August 20, 2017
qms commented on the word linctus
A skunk came last night and he stinked us.
I count this event a distinct plus:
There's little that's minus
In clearing the sinus
And giving the throat a swift linctus.
August 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word Rahu
was looking up the 'shadow snakes' effect which is seen during eclipse, and came across the Rahu legend in search results.
August 20, 2017
oroboros commented on the word rigwelted
A sheep on its back, unable to stand upright due to the weight of wool on its back, according to NPR's Says You!. Potentially fatal if not corrected expeditiously.
August 19, 2017
qms commented on the list a-dram-too-many
Is there a reason that toped (see 11/1/2016 below) is unacceptable?
August 19, 2017
bilby commented on the list a-dram-too-many
Added! Thank you :-)
August 19, 2017
qms commented on the list a-dram-too-many
ebriosity
August 19, 2017
qms commented on the word ebriosity
The worst are consumed with ferocity;
Protections alarm by their paucity.
It's tempting to yield-
Abandon the field-
And sink into deep ebriosity.
August 19, 2017
Iman326 commented on the list manhattan--essential
Manhattan Essential word for GRE
August 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word fear of dictionaries
google book search says the word for this is languophobia, but that's debatable.
August 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheetcaking
sheet caking
August 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheet caking
"Sheet caking is a grassroots movement, Colin" http://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/tina-fey-sheet-caking_us_599675d0e4b0e8cc855cce85
Thanks Tina Fey. 💗.
August 18, 2017
bilby commented on the word Roger Cary's dinner
Also where the meal is scanty due to the arrival of an unexpected guest.
August 18, 2017
bilby commented on the word Roger Cary's dinner
Purportedly a dinner where the food provided is barely enough with none to spare.
August 18, 2017
bilby commented on the word squar
Plausible.
August 18, 2017
qms commented on the word badigeon
Oh, thanks to the generous pigeon
Contributing his humble smidgen!
He's doing his part
For out-of-doors art
With dollops of fresh white badigeon.
August 18, 2017
raymack commented on the word squar
Squar: Found in a poem as a form of address to a respected visitor. Dialect for "Squire?"
August 18, 2017
bilby commented on the word pottle-pot
*wildapplause*!
August 17, 2017
qms commented on the word pottle-pot
If you would imbibe and waddle not
Give heed to the size of bottle bought.
The short road to ruin
Is steep and it's strewn
With many an empty pottle-pot.
August 17, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list test-list--23
Test.
August 17, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word amphipathic
See usage example on guaiacol.
August 17, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word guaiacol
"The researchers focused on a small amphipathic compound known as guaiacol. This molecule is linked with the smoky taste that develops when malted barley is smoked on peat fires, and is far more common in Scottish whiskies than in American or Irish ones, the researchers said."
-- https://www.livescience.com/60158-why-whiskey-tastes-good-diluted.html#undefined.uxfs
August 17, 2017
MaryW commented on the word SLH
Peter Haden, 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab, All Things Considered, Aug. 15, 2017Douglas L. Polcin et al., What Did We Learn from Our Study on Sober Living Houses and Where Do We Go from Here?, J. Psychoactive Drugs, Dec. 2010August 17, 2017
MaryW commented on the word sober home
Peter Haden, 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab, All Things Considered, Aug. 15, 2017Douglas L. Polcin et al., What Did We Learn from Our Study on Sober Living Houses and Where Do We Go from Here?, J. Psychoactive Drugs, Dec. 2010August 17, 2017
MaryW commented on the word sober living house
Peter Haden, 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab, All Things Considered, Aug. 15, 2017Douglas L. Polcin et al., What Did We Learn from Our Study on Sober Living Houses and Where Do We Go from Here?, J. Psychoactive Drugs, Dec. 2010August 17, 2017
MaryW commented on the word sober house
Peter Haden, 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab, All Things Considered, Aug. 15, 2017Douglas L. Polcin et al., What Did We Learn from Our Study on Sober Living Houses and Where Do We Go from Here?, J. Psychoactive Drugs, Dec. 2010August 17, 2017
MaryW commented on the word patient brokering
Peter Haden, 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab, All Things Considered, Aug. 15, 2017
August 17, 2017
MaryW commented on the word body brokering
Peter Haden, 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab, All Things Considered, Aug. 15, 2017
August 17, 2017
MaryW commented on the word body broker
Peter Haden, 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab, All Things Considered, Aug. 15, 2017
August 17, 2017
bilby commented on the word pottle-pot
Needs a limerick.
August 17, 2017
bilby commented on the list delicate-words--1
Nice!
August 17, 2017
bilby commented on the list 7-7-phrase
wedding bouquet
August 17, 2017
bilby commented on the list test-list--23
Test.
August 17, 2017
bilby commented on the word woyzug
Acronym of the ancient syntactical curse: 'weasel on your zeugma, ungracious grammarsnipe!'
August 17, 2017
bilby commented on the word Ginnungagap
yarb :-)
August 17, 2017
qms commented on the word yeanling
When first the spring meadows are greening
The cycle of life shows most meaning.
See four-footed young
Like flowers new sprung,
The foal and the calf and the yeanling.
August 17, 2017
stew commented on the word nothingburger
ahh look at this!: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nothing-burger
August 17, 2017
stew commented on the word nothingburger
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/nothing-burger-word-history-what-is-trnd/index.html
August 17, 2017
stew commented on the word nothing-burger
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/nothing-burger-word-history-what-is-trnd/index.html
August 17, 2017
stew commented on the word pubcrawl
Certainly "pub crawl" is in the common lexicon, but I do find the single word "pubcrawl" being used as a verb as far back as 1964 in the NY: http://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/24/birrell-ends-exile-of-7-years.html?mcubz=0
August 17, 2017
fbharjo commented on the word swaddle
Is there a danger in wallowing 'swaddling'?
August 17, 2017
maharba commented on the word woyzug
The definition of the word is: to extreme measures; measures so extreme they're extremely more extreme than the definition of extreme.
August 16, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word swaddle
"The biggest limitation to this research may be the definition of swaddling itself. The authors of the study acknowledge one of the “several” limitations to their meta-analysis is the fact that none of the studies they reviewed clearly outlined what constitutes a swaddle. And besides that, as anyone who has tried to swaddle a baby can confirm, good swaddling takes practice. Many parents, for fear of too tightly wrapping their babies, end up swaddling too loosely, which is itself a suffocation hazard. (Some daycare centers in the United States don’t allow swaddling for this reason.)"
-- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/05/is-swaddling-safe/482055/
August 16, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word sousveillance
"The term "sousveillance", coined by Steve Mann, stems from the contrasting French words sur, meaning "above", and sous, meaning "below", i.e. "surveillance" denotes the "eye-in-the-sky" watching from above, whereas "sousveillance" denotes bringing the camera or other means of observation down to human level, either physically (mounting cameras on people rather than on buildings), or hierarchically (ordinary people doing the watching, rather than higher authorities or architectures doing the watching)."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sousveillance&oldid=788558213
August 16, 2017
mheere commented on the user mheere
walk
August 16, 2017
qms commented on the word avolation
When bound for the last destination
I hope to create no sensation,
Ask no trumpet blast
To hear at the last
But subtle and sweet avolation.
August 16, 2017
alexz commented on the list jumbo-shrimp
man child , pro-am, dwarf galaxy
August 15, 2017
qms commented on the word lucullanism
See Lucullan.
August 15, 2017
jodi commented on the word lucullanism
See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lucullan
August 15, 2017
jodi commented on the word iatrophobic
The fear of doctors.
See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iatro-
iatro- "From Ancient Greek ἰᾱτρο- (iātro-), combining form of ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”)."
August 15, 2017
jodi commented on the word iatrophobe
Person who is afraid of doctors.
See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iatro-
iatro- "From Ancient Greek ἰᾱτρο- (iātro-), combining form of ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”)."
August 15, 2017
jodi commented on the word choreas
See chorea
August 15, 2017
qms commented on the word cecils
So jealous are chefs of their story
They'll quibble at terms gustatory.
Your balls in a pot
Will still get as hot
And you'll claim it's all to your glory.
August 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word cecils
What perchance is this 'fry cooking vessel'?
With such terms my inner-grammarian doth wrestle
For every chef's simple job
Is preparing morsels for gob
And if not I'll be seeking redressal
August 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word cecil
See also cecils.
August 15, 2017
bilby commented on the list jumbo-shrimp
rigidly flexible
August 15, 2017
lawhoo97 commented on the word rigidly flexible
This is a term that I heard in the USAF. It meant that you were required to be ready to engage in a certain activity, but to also realize that the timing, process, or the activity itself may (likely) change at any moment. For example, an exercise would be scheduled to kick off at 0500, but there was a very good chance that the time of commencement would change or that the exercise itself would change. However, you'd better be ready to go at 0500 no matter what.
August 15, 2017
qms commented on the word cecils
In higher class fry cooking vessels
Each savory orb of meat nestles.
What mere cooks will call
The common meatball
A master chef turns into cecils.
August 15, 2017
qms commented on the word dabster
A diplomat viewing disaster
Might say that the artist's a dabster.
Though bungling's averred
The Janus-faced word
Is heard as the praise of a master.
August 14, 2017
biocon commented on the list a-breakage--break--cleavage-or-split
Thank you, ruzuzu.
August 14, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word porexia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4787548/Women-obsessed-pore-size-porexia-flawless-skin-how.html
If you spend hours in front of the mirror each day poring over the little openings on the top of your skin and willing them to disappear before you take an Instagram selfie, you're not alone.
In fact, obsessing over our pores - from the size to the number of them - is the beauty industry's latest preoccupation.
This is so much the case that dermatologists have coined a word for this pore fixation - 'porexia'.
August 14, 2017
PeterHello commented on the word saccadomania
refers to uncontrolled eye movement; consists of rapid, involuntary, multivectorial (horizontal and vertical), unpredictable, conjugate fast eye movements without intersaccadic intervals. It is also referred to as opsoclonus or reflexive saccade. (Adapted from Wikipedia)
August 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word aluminum
Original spelling by Humphrey Davy, 1812 . https://books.google.ca/books?id=YjMwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201
August 14, 2017
DawidFolia commented on the user alexz
wow
August 13, 2017
erinmckean commented on the word perennials
"It was coined by US internet entrepreneur Gina Pell, 49, who explains, ‘Perennials are ever-blooming, relevant people of all ages who know what’s happening in the world, stay current with technology and have friends of all ages." Telegraph
August 13, 2017
qms commented on the word caynard
A fox pup must study and train hard
Or risk he's dismissed as a caynard.
The skulk's tough tuition
Achieves full fruition
In raising a wily red Reynard.
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word yoy
"year over year"
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word axin
slang - asking
August 13, 2017
Ernestopete commented on the word wropper
Wropper - a pinafore styled coverall worn by women engaged in farm work during the 19th & early 20th centuries in Britain & elsewhere.
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word tilted
from the examples on the right 'don't get "tilted," which means emotionally upset.'
spotted tilted in a video about the top Dota2 gamer versus a general Artificial Intelligence.
"At first it was easy to get titled..."
August 13, 2017
oroboros commented on the word goyle
A steep, narrow valley according to NPR's Says You!.Conan Doyle used the variant goyal.
August 12, 2017
oroboros commented on the word boculent
Fit for drinking according to NPR's Says You!.
August 12, 2017
jitendra93 commented on the list api-list
eater
August 12, 2017
qms commented on the word babblative
As talk for the troubled's a palliative
And Congress, a failing collaborative,
Inept to the hilt
Is Babel rebuilt,
It's frantic and futilely babblative.
August 12, 2017
pandasjw commented on the user pandasjw
FE worker
August 12, 2017
tbtabby commented on the word august
I just encountered this word in a crostic puzzle. It was the first time I'd ever seen it used as an adjective. Why didn't they just use "Eighth month" as the clue?
August 12, 2017
arlington commented on the user arlington
dweeberlips.
I just looked up this word. Here is how I used it in an email.
All the frustrations I dealt with today make me want to go sit in a corner and do dweeberlips.
August 11, 2017
ncsl commented on the word nyanchi
nyanchi = nyan + unchi -
“nyan” (the sound cats make in Japan,like the sound cats “meow” in English), and the “chi” from “unchi”.(unchi=Poo)
One of Japan’s most weird and iconic custom is "poo".
August 11, 2017
bilby commented on the word squaffles
*diplomatically passes around some squaffluns*
August 11, 2017
bilby commented on the word lipogram
Y'all might like Ella Minnow Pea: https://www.amazon.com/Ella-Minnow-Pea-Novel-Letters/dp/0385722435
August 11, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word pastry
From The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:
"n. A place where pies, tarts, etc., are made.
"n. Viands made of paste, or of which paste constitutes a principal ingredient; particularly, the crust or cover of a pie, tart, or the like."
August 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word hummies
hummingbirds
also found - 1994 usage slang for homies
August 11, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word squaffles
I prefer fufluns.
August 11, 2017
bilby commented on the word restage
I've always found that getting up and heading for the exit is a pretty good way to speed this up.
August 11, 2017
bilby commented on the list next-immo-com
SPAM
August 11, 2017
bilby commented on the word carstage
Compare wankar, a driver who mistakenly thinks it is their right to drive at or above the speed limit regardless of circumstances.
August 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word squaffles
"Families who would once have eaten potato waffles are now experimenting with lower carb butternut “squaffles” (slices of butternut squash cut to resemble a waffle)." Guardian article - Why we fell for clean eating.
August 11, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word twistical
Another great one. Thanks, qms.
August 11, 2017
qms commented on the word twistical
Don't fall for the cynical listicle
Where news is typically mythical.
The "ten things you must"
Are hot air and dust,
Just click-bait that's wickedly twistical.
August 11, 2017
doughboy914 commented on the word carstage
Here is my definition of carstage: Carstage: n. To be held hostage by a driver you are following on a one-lane road because that driver is driving below the speed limit. (The word is a combination of car and hostage).
August 10, 2017
doughboy914 commented on the word restage
Here's my definition for restage: Restage: n. To be held hostage by a waiter or waitress who disappears before bringing, or otherwise takes a very long time to bring, you your check. (The word is a combination of restaurant and hostage).
August 10, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word bicinia
"In music of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras, a bicinium (pl. bicinia) was a composition for only two parts, especially one for the purpose of teaching counterpoint or singing."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bicinium&oldid=782797821
August 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word hyper-power
for when the term super-power isn't good enough
August 10, 2017
bilby commented on the word concharge
Except that in English word construction con as a word-initial morpheme typically carries the meaning 'with', hence most people are not going to be able to readily decipher your word.
August 10, 2017
Be commented on the word concharge
This is my word.
It combines "control" with " in charge ".
The definition is: Used as a strong description of leadership in situations, usually as a strong admonition or as an assertion of supreme authority .
From the youngest in the family to a controlling oldest brother: " You are not in concharge of me!" (Strong admonition)
From the mother of said siblings: "I am in concharge." (Supreme authority)
August 10, 2017
bilby commented on the word curculio
I just found billbeetles in the GNU definition so, *ahem*, of course they are cute.
August 10, 2017
qms commented on the word autotheist
On tv at most he was B-list
(Absent a C- or a D- list)
But still self-assessed
As clearly the best.
The goblin's a true autotheist.
August 10, 2017
wwolfeld commented on the word diffusant
Diffusant means "A substance that diffuses through something." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diffusant.
Or "A substance which diffuses through another." https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/diffusant
August 10, 2017
adra2202 commented on the user adra2202
add your two cent
August 10, 2017