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TEU commented on the word teu
Trusted, Energetic, Unique.. TEU Real Estate Corporation
http://www.teurealestate.com/
January 23, 2019
scarequotes commented on the word swolemate
https://www.elitedaily.com/wellness/swolemate-exercising-bae-soulmate/1382005
Nowadays, it's very common to see romantic partners work out together. One of the more popular terms you will see is “swolemates,” which is a catchy phrase used to define two partners in a relationship who are maintaining a life of being healthy and fit together.
January 23, 2019
Londheart commented on the list etymological-curiosities
Hi, Sarra! You may be interested to know that I, with the help of a friend, arrived at the phrase convergent homonym independently of you, yesterday evening, 21.1.19, and additionally coined the phrase 'disparate homonym' (sounds a bit like 'Desperate Dan,' doesn't it?) for homonyms seemingly unrelated in meaning to each other, while noting that there is also a grey area (see e.g., *check* mate).
January 23, 2019
qms commented on the word circumferentor
As Fortune’s wheel turns on its center
The wise need no circumferentor.
Your rising has meant
A fatal descent -
Let cries of the crushed be your mentor.
January 23, 2019
erinmckean commented on the word report
Thanks citizenbfk! The images do look odd ... we do pull from the Flickr API, based on text or tags associated with the image. Lots of things are 'reported on' so that's why we see the images we do. I guess people don't photograph their reports (or share their report photographs under an open license) as much as there are photographs featured *in* reports.
January 22, 2019
qms commented on the word quillon
A sharp tongue may silence a villain
And rapier wit may well still him,
But should doltish guise
Be barbed by surprise
Be sure that your sword bears a quillon.
January 22, 2019
qms commented on the word swinge
It’s sad that our welfare should hinge
On pols who will cower and cringe
And dread to lose face
‘Fore the almighty ‘base’
That’s herded by Murdoch’s vile swinge.
January 21, 2019
alexz commented on the word popty ping
not really the Welsh word for microwave
January 21, 2019
bilby commented on the word report
When photos were first added here it was algorithm pulling photos up from Flickr depending on how they'd been tagged. I have no idea how it works these days.
January 20, 2019
qms commented on the word philopena
The gentlemen dodged Philomena
(As you would if ever you’d seen her).
They never could trust her:
That ersatz nut buster
Was famed for her false, “Philopena!”
January 20, 2019
citizenbfk commented on the word report
Great page, as usual! -- But...um, strange pictures in the Visual section, must be a joke or a mistake. Offhand my personal first reaction to this word would be to think of a document being presented, or a 'report' being verbally given....so I would think of somethings like that for at least one of the visuals...😶
January 20, 2019
oroboros commented on the word sedentes
People who live their whole lives close to where they were born, according to NPR's Says You!.
January 19, 2019
oroboros commented on the word gedackt
The organ pipe in a cuckoo clock, according to NPR's Says You!.
January 19, 2019
qms commented on the word obreptitious
See also comments at subreption.
January 19, 2019
qms commented on the word subreption
Two years of news and reflection
Regarding the Russian connection
Has still not induced
The foolish seduced
To see any sign of subreption.
See also comments at obreptitious.
January 19, 2019
citizenbfk commented on the word gold fever
In a PBS series about 'The West,' there was an episode called Gold Fever,
It quoted an etymology ABOUT THE NAME OF CALIFORNIA...
etymology from Native Americans BUT I DOUBT, WONDER IF IT'S TRUE, OR A JOKE. It said: "Prospectors liked to say that the name "California," came from a combination of the Indian word kali, which meant "gold" and fornia, which meant, "wouldn't you like some?"
This is my essential question about this phrase: did it come from Native Americans...or were Native Americans the first to use the phrase?
info about this Gold Fever TV episode, at: https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/three/goldfever.htm
January 18, 2019
citizenbfk commented on the word gold fever
Hubert Howe Bancroft (May 5, 1832 – March 2, 1918) was an American historian and ethnologist
Found this quote, from around 1890's by Hubert Howe Bancroft,(May 5, 1832 – March 2, 1918) was an American historian and ethnologist writing: "A frenzy seized my soul... Piles of gold rose up before me... castles of marble, thousands of slaves... myriads of fair virgins contending with each other for my love -- were among the fancies of my fevered imagination....In short, I had a very violent attack of the gold fever. "
January 18, 2019
citizenbfk commented on the word gold fever
I discovered there was a TV series called: "Gold Fever" -- I wonder about the roots of the phrase; it's etymology --
The TV series described as an "Adventure, Family, Reality-TV and had a lot of material about prospecting for gold, and some 'gold rush' stories.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1710911/
January 18, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word jean dimmock
chomp?
January 18, 2019
qms commented on the word connate
The beasts have convened to debate:
Should jackal or louse bear the weight,
Or lizard take blame
Sparing others the shame
That Donald and they be connate.
January 18, 2019
alexz commented on the word hair ice
Video explainer of hair ice spotted in my local news https://globalnews.ca/news/4855862/no-its-not-hair-unusual-ice-formations-turn-up-on-vancouver-island/?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=MostPopular&utm_campaign=2014
January 17, 2019
qms commented on the word jean dimmock
carburetor
January 17, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word jean dimmock
alogical?
January 17, 2019
qms commented on the word faunistic
One weather chat characteristic
Is rather a linguistic missed trick:
Why rain dogs and cats
Not pigeons and bats,
A figure more aptly faunistic?
January 17, 2019
bilby commented on the user MichaelHarris259
No.
January 17, 2019
bilby commented on the word tombac
*looks sideways at jean dimmock*
January 17, 2019
alexz commented on the word tombac
Laurtal Yanni
January 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac
Mottled tarmac.
January 16, 2019
qms commented on the word tombac
Doomed cromlech
January 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac
Cy Twombly
January 16, 2019
qms commented on the word stound
His voice and his pictures surround,
Like a pair of assailants they pound.
They stab and they wound
And leave us in stound
Then kick us when we’re on the ground.
January 16, 2019
bilby commented on the word tombac
toum batch
January 16, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word casemate-truck
"A heavy low carriage mounted on three wheels, the forward wheel being pivoted to facilitate changes of direction: used for transporting cannon and ammunition within the galleries of permanent works."
--from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
January 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word windage
"The play between the spindle of the De Bange gas-cheek and its cavity in the breech-screw: it is expressed in decimal parts of an inch, and is measured by the difference between the diameters of the spindle and its cavity."
--from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
January 15, 2019
alexz commented on the word ducco
Spotted as a form of doggo speak on twitter
Also ducc
January 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word fomite
Also see fomes.
January 15, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac
emetic ipecac
January 15, 2019
alexz commented on the word wdym
textspeak for 'what do you mean'
January 15, 2019
qms commented on the word nobby
Could a name for “enforcer of law” be
More cozy than plain British “bobby?”
See “peeler” that was
Supplanted because
The cockneys considered it nobby.
January 15, 2019
qms commented on the word tombac
Thumb thwack
January 15, 2019
bilby commented on the word tombac
bum tack
January 15, 2019
qms commented on the word tombac
rampant poppycock
January 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac
Montserrat Caballé.
January 14, 2019
qms commented on the word tombac
Carpal dog snot
January 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word tombac
larval COM port
January 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word tombac
Portal tomcat.
January 14, 2019
qms commented on the word tombac
Vorpal wombat
January 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word tombac
Mortal Compote
January 14, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word lewth
Forsooth.
January 14, 2019
qms commented on the word cephalalgia
I’ve rhymed my long weary way
Five years without missing a day.
Now rest on nostalgia
Or choose cephalalgia,
The price the obsessive must pay?
January 14, 2019
bilby commented on the word lewth
Strewth!
January 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word battlestation
Spotted as a marketing term for a computer desk setup for gaming
Also, Star Wars
January 14, 2019
knitandpurl commented on the word haver
"Then again she liked the idea of herself up in the air with her compound eyes, hovering, havering, gathering data."
Crudo by Olivia Laing, p 10
January 13, 2019
qms commented on the word lewth
High sentiments can’t hide the truth
That much of our lives is uncouth.
We desperately muddle
And struggle to huddle
Like penguins in search of some lewth.
January 13, 2019
bilby commented on the word tombac
Mortal tombac.
January 12, 2019
knitandpurl commented on the word miotic
""We're not hurting anyone," Beth said, still rocking, but with a new composure, her lips wiped, her eyes miotic, blue."
"Show Recent Some Love" by Sam Lipsyte, p 65 of the November 19, 2018 issues of the New Yorker
January 12, 2019
Gammerstang commented on the word skeinast
Old Icelandic: To get a scratch, to get a slight wound
January 12, 2019
qms commented on the word tombac
Reality’s under attack,
Each speech a stinging gob smack.
His gilt is amazin’;
It seems as if brazen
But even his brass is tombac.
January 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word full stack developer
snarky comment left under full stack
January 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word full stack
full stack developer.
In myth, it's someone who knows everything from the bare metal to the application level.
January 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word elim
gaming shortening for elimination
January 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word elims
gaming short version of eliminations
January 12, 2019
mezzanine commented on the word stand like greyhounds in the slips
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/191850.html
January 12, 2019
mezzanine commented on the word fall to wrack and ruin
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/rack-and-ruin.html
January 12, 2019
mezzanine commented on the word wrack and ruin
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/rack-and-ruin.html
January 12, 2019
MaryW commented on the word fog computing
Fog Computing, Wikipedia (visited Jan. 11, 2019Fox Computing, Technopedia (visited Jan. 11, 2019)January 12, 2019
MaryW commented on the word femtocell
Femtocell, Wikipedia
Femtocell, Technopedia
January 12, 2019
Scotsmanic commented on the list riding-on-the-metro
In Glasgow, the underground is known as the 'clockwork orange.'
https://visit-glasgow.info/history-and-people/glasgow%E2%80%99s-clockwork-orange/
January 11, 2019
qms commented on the word maslin
From cold northern seas to the Tasman,
And islands perfumed with sweet jasmine,
O’er endless bleak fetches
The transported wretches
Survived on slim hope and coarse maslin.
January 11, 2019
alexz commented on the word resos
spotted again as restaurant reservations.
The twitter examples also have it being a shortening of Resolutions (computer plus new year's)
January 11, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word lenok
"Lenoks (otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout) are a genus, Brachymystax, of salmonid fishes native to rivers and lakes in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, wider Siberia (Russia), Northern China, and Korea."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lenok&oldid=853445221
January 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word mellophone
Dude.
January 10, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word almost Solveig
Anyone have a mellophone I can borrow?
January 10, 2019
rolig commented on the word sooterkin
Seconded.
January 10, 2019
qms commented on the word sipple
An infant who’s fierce for the nipple
Once grown may be given to tipple
And if so accursed
Must manage his thirst,
Not guzzle but daintily sipple.
January 10, 2019
bilby commented on the user ashok1811
Good idea ashok.
January 10, 2019
ashok1811 commented on the user ashok1811
Only for hobby
January 10, 2019
boobook commented on the word amel
re my previous comment: in the example from Dunham's book, the word amel seems to be used metaphorically, as a synonym for lustre, or sheen, rather than referring specifically to enamel.
January 10, 2019
boobook commented on the word amel
None of the examples given actually relate to the English word amel, so, here is a relevant example. "Swafurlam admired his sword and its splendid accoutrements, the curious richness of the workmanship, the yellow gloss of the gold, the blue amel of the steel, the straps of scarlet leather, and the buckle studded with precious stones."
From: A History of Europe During the Middle Ages, Volume 2, Samuel Astley Dunham, 1833, page 319.
January 10, 2019
qms commented on the word mellophone
That's cool, man. Pas de problemo.
January 9, 2019
bilby commented on the word mellophone
Sorry, due to government shutdown all visitors, limericks, cats and jazzbears must leave the park.
January 9, 2019
reginaldo commented on the user reginaldo
I'm Brazilian and learning about api
January 9, 2019
qms commented on the word mellophone
Though legal, leave pot well alone;
It made my backyard Yellowstone.
There Old Faithful spat
And frightened the cat
While a bear played a fine mellophone.
January 9, 2019
bilby commented on the word galea
Nope, not explaining.
January 8, 2019
sicarol commented on the word à perte de vue
French: "as far as the eye can see"; within sightline
January 8, 2019
qms commented on the word galea
There once was a youth in Australia
Who slept in odd paraphernalia -
Wore armor to bed,
To cushion his head
A pillow was stuffed in his galea.
January 9, 2019
aminah0001@gmail.com commented on the word mira
I personally do not have an issue with the word mira. When I looked into it its feminine form for latin word meaning "wonder" "wonderful"; Sanskrit feminine form for "ocean" "sea" "limit" "boundary"; also in Hebrew it is a derivative of Miriam, as well as the feminine equivalent to "meir" meaning "light". Its good to know vocabulary can be so versatile. But hey, that's just me out many others whom disagree, but to each is own. Love the game overall😊.
January 8, 2019
alexz commented on the word electron guzzler
spotted as an old version electric car, or an electric car which is inefficient.
January 8, 2019
bilby commented on the word sooterkin
Best use of nates so far in 2019.
January 8, 2019
qms commented on the word sooterkin
The Dutch have odd habits, by Jove!
And sooterkin shows us a trove:
Just why should Dutch ladies
Be toasting their nates
Or want to sit over a stove?
January 7, 2019
alexz commented on the word 👏🏽
In 2018, this was commonly used as the SHOUT 👏🏽 CLAP
Where a phrase was to be read as if it were in all caps with a tempo.
As in
NEXT 👏🏽 YEAR 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 WILL 👏🏽 BE 👏🏽 EMOJI 👏🏽 OF 👏🏽 THE 👏🏽 YEAR
January 6, 2019
fbharjo commented on the word elote
corn-on-the-cob
January 6, 2019
fbharjo commented on the word guajolote
turkey
January 6, 2019
qms commented on the word theophany
Some credit strange creatures from space
Or think that a ghost haunts the place
But don’t often see
The theophany
Made plain in a babe’s smiling face.
January 6, 2019
lukasiwicz commented on the user lukasiwicz
I originally subscribed to Wordnik quite a while ago, but for at least the past year and a half stopped receiving your Word of the Day transmissions, though I hadn't canceled my subscription. Any idea what happened? In any event, I am herewith re-establishing contact.
January 5, 2019
qms commented on the word beanfeast
The suffering drones who are seen least
Will say that their boss is a mean beast
But turns a fine fellow
When workers grow mellow
At the annual company beanfeast.
January 5, 2019
qms commented on the word swage
The poets of old made a song
With anvil and hammer and tong,
Now rap’s all the rage
That’s stamped by a swage
So writers need never be strong.
January 4, 2019
alexz commented on the word chine
Coquitlam BC has a neighbourhood called Harbour Chines
January 3, 2019
annarose commented on the user annarose
check out best and funny wifi names on https://funnywifi.name
January 3, 2019
qms commented on the word chine
The barbering tar would opine,
“The hardest to shave’s the jawline.
The prow of the chin
Is easy as sin
But not the damned barnacled chine.”
January 3, 2019