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bilby commented on the list in-cookery
It's like which see with bearnaise sauce.
December 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word preditor
Making of: Makeupman v Preditor.
December 15, 2018
MaryW commented on the word murderabilia
Keri Blakinger, A Look at the Weirdest and Creepiest Murderabilia, Houston Chronicle (July 10, 2017)December 14, 2018
MaryW commented on the word cannabiculture
cannabis + agriculture
Ryan B. Stoa, Marijuana Appellations: The Case for Cannabicultural Designations of Origin, 11 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 513-539 (2017)
December 14, 2018
MaryW commented on the word cannibicultural
cannabis + agricultural
Ryan B. Stoa, Marijuana Appellations: The Case for Cannabicultural Designations of Origin, 11 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 513-539 (2017)
December 14, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word deffervescent
Heard on Jeopardy, means "loss of heat". I found it in some books on Google but I can't find it in a dictionary, just medical texts.
December 14, 2018
slumry commented on the word feel facts
Fell facts: They are not technically true, but you just feel they are.
December 14, 2018
namliz commented on the word Becloaks
Becloaks is the word I looked up. Word Cheats told me they use your information. I can’t find it on you website.
Thanx
Neysa McFarland
December 14, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word preditor
I wonder whether Predator had a preditor.
December 14, 2018
bilby commented on the word quatuor
Great ending!
December 14, 2018
qms commented on the word quatuor
You’d hardly believe it, just what furor
Was stirred by that tuneless loud quatuor!
Hell’s recesses shook
In every dark nook;
The doors blew off and bats flew o’er.
December 14, 2018
qms commented on the word visitatorial
At beauty fests times immemorial
He claimed rights visitatorial
And cheekily breached
The dressing room niche
As though he had privilege seigneurial.
December 14, 2018
bilby commented on the word quatuor
Another tough rhymer.
December 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word oxime
ox-team ?
December 14, 2018
qms commented on the word oxime
From the pronunciation guidance I find it rhymes with mock steam, but I have not found a true two-syllable, one-word rhyme.
December 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word oxime
rhymes with box mime
December 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word deagle
Computer gaming - refers to the Desert Eagle pistol in a computer game.
December 14, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word Boops boops
See bogue.
December 13, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word crimp
"One who brings persons into a place or condition of restraint, in order to subject them to swindling, forced labor, or the like; especially, one who, for a commission, supplies recruits for the army or sailors for ships by nefarious means or false inducements; a decoy; a kidnapper. Such practices have been suppressed in the army and navy, and made highly penal in connection with merchant ships."
-- From The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
December 13, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word ci-devant
The words found under "same context" are fantastic:
67-year-old
abstinent
arvernian
be-ribboned
chid
crutched
curmudgeonly
ever-popular
ever-youthful
gray-uniformed
moire
n'est-ce
natural-born
nursemaid
pro-german
rebuffingthe
shrivelled-up
unfrocked
vivant
yellow-bearded
your
December 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word procaffeinating
I'm going to stop procrastinating tomorrow.
December 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word procaffeinating
But first, coffee
December 13, 2018
bilbyzcat commented on the word drinked
*purrz*
December 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word drinked
Wiktionary now being edited by lolcats.
December 13, 2018
qms commented on the word chorology
Just where might you look for a wallaby
Or find a big prairie dog colony?
What habitats boast
The least and the most
And why, is the realm of chorology.
December 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word oxime
Rhymes with ...
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word hajduk
Also heiduk.
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word latinx
What's for dinner tonight? A few tacxx, a burritx with salsx, nachxx or a great big enchiladx with jalapenx? I know these are gringx choices, but hey, I'll wash it down with tequilx.
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word coypu
Cute word.
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word strickle
Probably the origin of trickle.
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word duroc
Surely there can't be too many etymologies that trace back to individual horses.
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the list strange-homonyms
Nice work!
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word foeniculum
Fennel.
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word bayou
Sometimes I wish we had more search options. For example if I wanted to find more words that had Choctaw origins.
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word crank
'A person full of crotchets'
December 12, 2018
bilby commented on the list woty-nominations-for-2018
Raw water...is it gluten free?
December 12, 2018
qms commented on the word skopos
In the matter of Moses’s toes
Just what may the scholar suppose?
The text could be comical
Or else anatomical.
He’d better define the skopos.
Any unfamiliar with the matter of Moses’s toes can be enlightened at this link:
https://youtu.be/cQLnrBxVw3M
December 12, 2018
alexz commented on the list woty-nominations-for-2018
In looking back at this list, I don't think most of these words will be used much in 10 years from now.
looking up 'it me' shows low usage. I haven't heard 'zaddy' in months.
I think the shout clap emoji and cryptojacking will be around 10 years from now.
December 12, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
So, cake, obviously. But also Witter Bynner, who appears in the index of a book I've been reading--even though he's nowhere in the text--and who apparently wrote a play called Cake as revenge against Mabel Dodge Luhan. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Witter_Bynner&oldid=867008750)
December 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word cake
Yum! In Latvian, the word for cake sounds a bit like "kooks."
December 11, 2018
qms commented on the word cake
One of the nicest Swedish deserts is a big sponge cake coated in whipped cream and studded with strawberries. In my wife’s family this is called by a name that translates to “maternal grandmother’s cake” but phonetically it is “murmur’s caca.” This give pause to those who are first introduced to it.
December 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word finska kakor
Delightful! I accept.
Should we make a party? I could probably whip up some fufluns.
December 11, 2018
LePetiteOurse commented on the word ka-plow
The word 'ka-plow' is an Onomatopoeia which usually can be found in Comic books imitating the sound of a punch, or perhaps an explosion.
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word saltie
Compare freshie.
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word freshie
Far be it from me to lit-crit
The chronicles of reptiles, one bit
But a saltie, so fond
Of Darwin's sewage pond,
Became notorious as a big croc of sh*t
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-23/sewerage-ponds-twitcher-feathers-ruffled-crocodile-leanyer/5214928
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word finska kakor
You deserve a head of cabbage.
December 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word cake
"From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka ("cake") . . . ."
Remind me to think twice before I call something a "piece of cake."
December 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word finska kakor
All these pepparkakors and finska kakors and shortcakes and piparkūkas have me wondering (yet again) about the etymology for cake.
December 11, 2018
woiqhyyi commented on the word gardeviance
A chest for valuables
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word finska kakor
You're something of a nut stud, aren't you?
December 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word finska kakor
My ancient Betty Crocker cookbook calls these "Nut-studded butter strips from Finland."
December 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word incult
Ooh, bilby bilby, it's a wild world.
December 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the list cookie-monster
Oh! I wonder whether they're like Latvian piparkūkas.
December 11, 2018
qms commented on the word freshie
The forms of address can get messy
When croc and newcomer are freshie.
I’d stumble, by gosh,
‘Cause we call them frosh
And ‘gators are what might distress me.
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word freshie
Was popular in Australia long before Irwin.
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word fluviatile
Oh, we have freshies too.
December 11, 2018
qms commented on the word fluviatile
Old crocs that are cruising the Nile
To Aussie eyes look juvenile.
They are mighty paltry
Compared to a saltie
And prosaically fluviatile.
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word outdid
When Katy comes out.
December 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word infinitely variable seasonal Swedish bakepalooza
See https://www.wordnik.com/lists/cookie-monster
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word wully
See gorriman.
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word wully-wus
Needed! A devotional and not a fine lecture
From the lord in his lofty prefecture.
Surely we are owed
At least a brief ode to woad?
But that's just my wussy conjecture.
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word kookia fried mind balls
Yoinked from the neural network cookie thingy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17arPr6EZxX2CXNw8vQJoA5SLWsuRgDy1zrQcEBQPzO4/edit
December 10, 2018
qms commented on the list cookie-monster
The pepparkakor is one of the seemingly infinite variety of cookies my wife’s Swedish family bakes at Christmas.
December 10, 2018
qms commented on the word wully-wus
Ol’ bilby persists in his pranks
But, weary, I tell him, “No thanks.”
He may embrace fully
The wus and the wully
But my brief stops well short of Manx.
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word handicapped-parking
Definition!
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word zaman
Also zamang.
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word abhominable
THE BILBY HAS SPOKEN.
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word abhominable
I like it.
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word wully-wus
Clearly needs a limerick.
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word wully-wus
See gorriman.
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the list cookie-monster
Hey qms, give us a cookie!
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word incult
It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy...
December 10, 2018
qms commented on the word incult
A young person’s mind is in tumult,
While fertile and green it is uncult,
So passionate youth
Neglects tact for truth
And old withered ears hear an insult.
December 10, 2018
Prolagus commented on the word fog
HA!
December 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word fog
Etymology lost in the mists of time, it seems.
December 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word detank
To empty a fuel tank
December 9, 2018
biocon commented on the word noctipotent
noctipotent = powerful at night (OED)
December 9, 2018
qms commented on the word borrel
To set a tone lofty and moral
Some leaders eschew petty quarrel.
The goblin by contrast
Loves insult and bombast.
He’s hopelessly clumsy and borrel.
December 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word safed
dunno.
The rocket launch industry likes to shorten words, verbing nouns, nouning verbs.
December 9, 2018
slumry commented on the word fobi
fear of being irrelevant; comes wit]h advancing years cf superannuated
December 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word safed
What about 'put in a safe'?
December 8, 2018
qms commented on the word empyreal
Some suitors use comic material;
Others are sweet and ethereal.
Some try derring-do
But the most daring woo
Is feigning the sexless empyreal.
December 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word safed
NASA speak for having been made safe.
a radio call you may hear is "Stage 1 FTS safed"
spotted this in a discussion about the recent water landing of a rocket.
December 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word ftlog
text speak - 'for the love of god'
December 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word butt-weld
*snigger*
December 7, 2018
slumry commented on the word butt-weld
Also happens when you sit too long on a vinyl chair while wearing a bathing suit.
December 7, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the list against-nature
Wait. So is it like a cowcatcher? (Add it if you like--it's an open list.)
December 7, 2018
Ronsta3 commented on the word khouwndjiva
Khouwndjiva Koon•dji•va
adjective
Being unable to do something you want because you are obliged to do it.
"I was going to take the trash out, but when my mom told me to do it, I became khouwndjiva."
"I love learning about the human physiology, but during exams I am khouwndjiva."
December 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word dolphin-striker
Take that, Flipper!
December 7, 2018
bilby commented on the list against-nature
dolphin-striker?
December 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word tramontane
Cf. superultramontane.
December 7, 2018
qms commented on the word tramontane
Cf. ultramontaine.
December 7, 2018
qms commented on the word ultramontane
The still mists stifle and stain
Befouling the air of the plain.
Skies formerly bright
With reason’s clear light
Need fresh gusts ultramontaine.
Cf. tramontane.
December 7, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word chapter two
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/12/4/18116543/widow-dating-site-widower
Of course, plenty of widows meet a great “chapter two” (widow parlance for a love after loss) and are able to move on to a new relationship.
December 7, 2018
slumry commented on the word shitstorm
And it sounds like a German word to boot...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/world/europe/merkel-storm-translation-germany.html
December 6, 2018
bilby commented on the user MilindPradhan
SPAM
December 6, 2018
bilby commented on the word ideum
This company is so creative that they spam sites that have nothing to do with them :-/
December 6, 2018
qms commented on the word pandect
He’ll hunt and he’ll peck to collect,
To source, classify and connect,
But Ernest’s best hope is
An eccentric opus.
He’ll never compose a pandect.
Find out more about Ernest Bafflewit
December 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word resiliência
Mozambique's 2018 word of the year.
resiliência - resilience
December 6, 2018
biocon commented on the word longeve
longeve= longevous (OED).
December 6, 2018