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scarequotes commented on the word chud
From UrbanDictionary:
October 31, 2020
52james commented on the word pop-holes
from the first sentence of Chapter 1 in George Orwell's Animal Farm, and featured in Martin Amis' Money, where John Self can't manage to find out what pop-holes are. Seems they are holes that let the hens in and out of the coop. You can get an automatic pop-hole opener if, like Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, you tend to get "too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes."
October 31, 2020
bmsandra commented on the word hangline
Hangline (verb): It's the action of getting together with your friends or family using a video communication application (e.g. Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, WhatsApp, Skype, etc).
"This Saturday I'm going to hangline in a Halloween party."
October 31, 2020
xiaofeifei171 commented on the user xiaofeifei171
this is so good
https://www.escortsaffair.com
October 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word peanut butt
A comment that could ONLY come from the brilliant and creative mind of you, bilby.
October 30, 2020
anttone commented on the user anttone
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October 30, 2020
qlast65 commented on the user qlast65
Crazed and amazed
October 30, 2020
alya commented on the list diseases-that-make-lovely-baby-girls-names
Silesia isn't a disease. It's a place in Europe.
October 30, 2020
bilby commented on the word peanut butt
Key ingredient of peanut butter.
October 30, 2020
phamduclong commented on the user phamduclong
hello . I'm Long
October 29, 2020
kisky commented on the user kisky
hello
October 29, 2020
kisky commented on the user kisky
word
October 29, 2020
vuduy6220 commented on the user vuduy6220
Project
October 28, 2020
bilby commented on the list a-testicle-by-any-other-name
See yarble.
October 28, 2020
bilby commented on the user 0511831
Site is case sensitive so anything that is not a proper noun should not be capitalised.
October 28, 2020
bilby commented on the word wooden spooner
Yes.
October 28, 2020
bilby commented on the word sus
After the state-owned timber company Forestry Tasmania renamed itself Sustainable Timber Tasmania, critics who saw the move as mere greenwashing took to calling it Sus Timber Tasmania.
October 28, 2020
c-man commented on the user c-man
Trumps the American doldrums
October 27, 2020
alexz commented on the word jear desus
I like how this is a phrase now.
October 27, 2020
ry commented on the word volocopter
a small, electrically powered multi-rotor helicopter, designed for use as an air taxi.
The private company Volocopter GmbH seems to have originated the term and immediately and completely diluted its trademark in the early 2010s.
October 26, 2020
ry commented on the word got curare
I like this one
October 26, 2020
bhushanapp commented on the user bhushanapp
Hello
October 26, 2020
52james commented on the word yarble
In Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore, pg. 239 (NY: Harper Collins, 2002): ""At first I arranged the monks in a large pile, trying to keep the elbows and knees out of the eyes and yarbles, out of respect and in the spirit of the infinitely compassionate Buddha and stuff." Seems "yarbles" is from Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, in which "Nadsat" takes yarbles from Russian "yarblicka," for apples, meaning testicles.
October 26, 2020
0511831 commented on the word Fabamazing
Something that's fabulous or amazing
October 26, 2020
0511831 commented on the word Cheekiness
Bold or brave
October 26, 2020
0511831 commented on the word Squishilishous
Very squishy
October 26, 2020
0511831 commented on the word Sapple
Plants that grow in space
October 26, 2020
0511831 commented on the word Sukram
A very hot object
October 26, 2020
0511831 commented on the word Waterplug
The action of water conducting electricity
October 26, 2020
0511831 commented on the word Nexxit
The action of staying in a room for a given amount of time
October 26, 2020
biocon commented on the word sanitude
sanitude = healthy condition (OED).
October 25, 2020
dicktionary commented on the word lithomancy
This divination art once chose the fate of accused persons. Think a jury of 12 is still unfair?
October 25, 2020
fuspy commented on the user fuspy
I have looked high and low for a source for my favorite word, "Fuspy". Years ago, probably sometime in the '60's, my husband and I found this word (we always have loved words) but I don't remember where. Granted it is a very old word, and while I'm pretty sure it's an English word, I may be wrong; it may be from another language. I do know the definition. It means "chubby" or "plump" and it was my husband's pet name for me. I'm sad it may have slipped into oblivion. Maybe I can encourage y'all to start using it and bring it back to life. If anyone can tell me it's origin, I'd be eternally grateful.
October 24, 2020
scarequotes commented on the word fullnaming
https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/fullname-famous-composers-racism-sexism.html
October 24, 2020
jboyd commented on the word saunter
Thoreau has a spurious but appealing etymology as he opens his essay, “Walking” (1862).
October 24, 2020
merlo1995 commented on the user merlo1995
mario
October 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word wooden spooner
Really? Has anyone ever heard of a wooden spooner?
October 24, 2020
ry commented on the word felgercarb
coined word for bullshit, used on the TV show Battlestar Galactica
also rendered feldercarb
October 23, 2020
ry commented on the word feldercarb
felgercarb was correct on the show, but feldercarb is more frequently used in popular culture. It has at least 2x the Google search results. Probably because it is easier to say for most English speakers.
October 23, 2020
scarequotes commented on the word incon
October 23, 2020
yabbadabba commented on the word feldercarb
It's spelled felgercarb.
October 23, 2020
52james commented on the word grimpen
OED has Grimp listed as a rare word, A trans vb to cause to mount; to elevate, haul up (0bs), b) intrans. to clamber, climb. As the French "grimper" is not at all rare, I'd guess T.S.Eliot was thinking of a steep place, where you could only move by tediously careful climbing. "There is no foothold," and you move at the risk of falling. So I would not expect a marshy swamp area would be a grimpen at all. Though when you read an abstruse poem like Eliot's Four Quartets, you have to do a lot of grimping, with no security and no guarantee that any particular reading is secure.
October 23, 2020
ry commented on the word blepharo-
combining form referring to the eyelids. Defined at blepharo– with an en-dash for some reason.
October 22, 2020
ry commented on the word irrupt
author China Mieville kind of turned me off this word, personally, when he used it 3 or 4 times in one novel in sentences where interrupt, intrude, or cut in would have worked just as well.
October 22, 2020
ry commented on the word zaitech
this is very cyberpunk
October 22, 2020
ry commented on the list macquarie-dictionary-8th-new-words-BRqQR647WHud
why are they mostly A's and B's?
October 22, 2020
ry commented on the word yeet
slang term of inchoate and amorphous definition, but primarily used to refer to throwing or discarding something forcefully, and as a general interjection when doing so.
October 22, 2020
ry commented on the word yought
facetious past participle form of the slang term yeet
October 22, 2020
ry commented on the word sus
also a slang clipping of suspicious. "Acting sus" is a common usage.
currently seeing a spike in use, stemming from its use as shorthand in the popular video game Among Us.
The word also appears in various other languages, notably in Spanish as plural possessive determiner
October 22, 2020
nurs commented on the user nurs
sdg
October 22, 2020
nurs commented on the user nurs
\asdgsdg
October 22, 2020
maheswaran commented on the user maheswaran
Ok
October 22, 2020
bilby commented on the word Spooktober
It's almost like we need an October list.
October 22, 2020
bilby commented on the user arjun8421
Same.
October 22, 2020
alexz commented on the word Spooktober
Spotted in my twitter feed. suspect this word has been around since 1985 at least.
October 22, 2020
amitmall commented on the user amitmall
learner
October 21, 2020
arjun8421 commented on the user arjun8421
no comments
October 21, 2020
alexz commented on the word mother of pearl clouds
a polar stratospheric cloud -
a cloud in high latitudes which is formed of Ice crystals instead of water vapour, and when lit by a low sun, produces a rainbow effect.
October 21, 2020
bilby commented on the word dilligaf
In Australia it was popularised by a certain 'musical comedian' who released an album with this title in 2006.
October 21, 2020
bilby commented on the word gaf
See also dilligaf.
October 21, 2020
ry commented on the word desire path
see also comments at nerd path
October 20, 2020
ry commented on the word DiFi
see comments at DIFI
October 20, 2020
ry commented on the word DIFI
Fun to note that in Northern California, where Senator Feinstein has been a political fixture for more than 4 decades, this usage has been around in local media for at least the last ~25.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Hotline/3OktAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=difi
making me nostalgic for the political rows of the 90s...a more innocent time
October 20, 2020
ry commented on the user 0oopzie
sea-king
October 20, 2020
0oopzie commented on the user 0oopzie
Sea-king is a noun that borrows from Chinese internet slang. The first definition is someone who is very good at time management. The second definition is a man dating more than two women at the same time without their knowledge.
October 20, 2020
alexz commented on the word gaf
spotted on twitter for 'give a f...'
October 20, 2020
bilby commented on the word yarmulke
Can't imagine those things keeping much rain off. Just saying.
October 20, 2020
bilby commented on the list big--3
One of my daughter's madeupicals when she was little was make-bigger for magnifying glass.
October 20, 2020
kalayzich commented on the list macquarie-dictionary-phrases-3-3ROGDyolCh_m
1.belt to engage in vocal belting
October 20, 2020
appineers commented on the user appineers
watch
October 19, 2020
tshepiso commented on the user tshepiso
Tshepiso mohetlwa
October 19, 2020
bradd commented on the user bradd
Add your two cents...
October 19, 2020
hamzataougar commented on the user hamzataougar
thank you
October 18, 2020
alexz commented on the word DIFI
Spotted as a twitterese shortening of Dianne Fienstein
October 18, 2020
azharali commented on the user azharali
best
October 18, 2020
bilby commented on the list inabsolutis-the-flowering-of-the-absence-Q_8HVzdtc1nV
Lovely list! *applause*
October 18, 2020
bilby commented on the word attainted
Hey ruzuzu remember that wild Almost Solveig gig at the Pollutiones Nocturnas nightclub in Port Bangerang? Those were the days.
October 18, 2020
soli commented on the user soli
good
October 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word attainted
"Shortly afterwards, Anne was asked for her consent to an annulment, to which she agreed. Cromwell, the moving force behind the marriage, was attainted for treason. The marriage was annulled on 9 July 1540, on the grounds of non-consummation and her pre-contract to Francis of Lorraine. Henry VIII's physician stated that after the wedding night, Henry said he was not impotent because he experienced "duas pollutiones nocturnas in somno" (two nocturnal pollutions while in sleep; i.e., two wet dreams)."
--Anne of Cleves, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Cleves
October 18, 2020
kalayzich commented on the list macquarie-dictionary-phrases-3-3ROGDyolCh_m
1.action -sexual activity
October 17, 2020
alexz commented on the word cdns
spotted on twitter as a shortening of Canadians
October 17, 2020
alexz commented on the word candy chute
keeping halloween candy giving physically distant.
October 17, 2020
ellensf commented on the word pirate path
From What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020):
October 17, 2020
ellensf commented on the word cow path
From What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020):
October 17, 2020
ellensf commented on the word desire path
From What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren (Riverhead Books, 2020):
In any sizable park or green space, you’ll likely find two kinds of paths: the formal kind, paved with brick or concrete, and the informal kind, the paths made by people walking over and over a stretch of grass, wearing away the green and carving a scruffy emergent line in its place. These are paths made by sheer repetitive use; they’re not anyone’s executive decision but arise one choice at a time, collected in aggregate. Most of us know them as friendly disobedience: they’re shortcuts, maybe, or just the most commonsense pathway from one frequented site to another. Urban planners call these paths “desire lines,” or sometimes “cow paths,” “pirate paths,” or the slightly stuffier “counter-grid trajectories.” They indicate yearning, some planners say—either to have formal paved lines where there are none or to actively carve out a different path where one had been prescribed.
October 17, 2020
bilby commented on the list verba-tuberum
Looked up 0 words...I have more broken legs than I have looked-up words :-/
October 17, 2020
bilby commented on the list verba-tuberum
"Hey, bilby. You've adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 210 lists, listed 23453 words, written 27411 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 54 words."
October 17, 2020
bilby commented on the list verba-tuberum
Should not stick my tuberositas in I suppose.
October 17, 2020
bilby commented on the list verba-tuberum
Thank you alexz. To me 'new lists' and 'recently updated lists' are not the same thing but I guess I'm new here.
October 17, 2020
alexz commented on the list verba-tuberum
usually when you add a new word to a list, the list gets updated, and it shows up as a new list.
October 17, 2020
bilby commented on the list verba-tuberum
Why is this showing in the 'new lists' bit on Community when there are comments here going back to 2011?
October 17, 2020
alexz commented on the word snowtober
I've seen Snowtember, but not Snowtober before, maybe because in Canada October snow is expected.
October 16, 2020
ruzuzu commented on the user haiduong2010
Even better if the books being cooked are cook books.
October 15, 2020
bilby commented on the user haiduong2010
Betcha he's cooking the books, ay.
October 15, 2020
haiduong2010 commented on the user haiduong2010
accountant chef
October 15, 2020
taeyoon commented on the user taeyoon
Fancy
October 14, 2020
alexz commented on the word igate
spotted in amateur radio twitter as an internet gateway
also igated igates
October 14, 2020
alexz commented on the word igated
to connect amateur radio to the internet - internet gatewayed
see also igates igate
October 14, 2020
alexz commented on the word igates
spotted on Amateur radio twitter for Internet Gateways - a radio to internet linkl
also igated as a verb
spotted phrase "...Digipeaters retransmit the packet, and iGates refile the packets on the internet. These beacons were heard on 10/30/2018."
twitter search phrase: 'igates radio'
October 13, 2020
bilby commented on the user lbwitt
Anyone else need love lessons while I'm here? Some of the advanced units are *interesting* :->
October 13, 2020