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qms commented on the word head-hung
All night fans in frenzy gave tongue -
Gargantuan efforts of lung!
Despite boastful songs
The team failed its throngs,
Who slouched sadly homeward, head-hung.
June 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word meteotsunami
spotted in news as a weather generated tsunami
June 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word sploof
an air filter for marijuana smokers to exhale without stinking up the place.
June 25, 2017
brueckl100 commented on the word dichtung
DICHTUNG means "Poetry" in German.
June 24, 2017
qms commented on the word fraudsman
Some think that the Donald's an odd man,
But others, a sweet-natured Lord's man.
I must give the nod
To the party of odd;
His piety reeks of the fraudsman.
June 24, 2017
Fireheart00 commented on the word fathers-forth
I think it refers to when something is 'brought into existence,' which makes sense when you say "He fathers-forth all things that shine."
June 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word sourtoe
I don't know why. The 19th c. Had whiskey as part of frostbite treatment. (google book search "whisky frostbite" 19th c.)
June 23, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word zooid
See citation on pyrosome.
June 23, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word pyrosome
"Each pyrosome is made up of individual zooids – small, multicellular organisms – linked together in a tunic to form a tube-like colony that is closed on one end. They are filter feeders and use cilia to draw plankton into their mucous filter."
-- "Researchers probe explosion of pyrosomes off the Northwest Coast" (https://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/news/features/pyrosomes/index.cfm)
June 23, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word frugivore
I haven't had enough coffee for a limerick, so I'll default to haiku:
qms plants seeds
and encourages us to
cultivate our own.
June 23, 2017
qms commented on the word locodescriptive
While "nut job" and "loon" are dismissive
Yet "mad" and "insane" echo fictive.
The language amazes
With terms for our crazes;
It's supple and locodescriptive.
June 23, 2017
qms commented on the word frugivore
ruzuzu and bilby combine
Lamenting my poor withered vine,
But if there's an ointment
For cruel disappointment
That comforting unction is mine.
For limericks are careless of clime
And ripen regardless of time.
Their happiest chore
Is spreading of spore
To generate offspring in rhyme.
June 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word poemoji
emoji poetry
most emoji poetry is non english
June 23, 2017
abiabiname commented on the word Pinarayi
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pinarayi&defid=11721275
June 23, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word sourtoe
Why a cocktail? Wouldn't jam make more sense?
June 22, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word frugivore
Chimps and fruit bats are picky.
When it comes to their lunch, it's sticky.
Why eat cheese or meat?
Choose fruits or a beet.
(But maybe not a durian--they're icky.)
June 22, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word matta
I was thinking something more like the university from Rocky and Bullwinkle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSVq7X7OPeQ
June 22, 2017
Aarif commented on the word Magfirat
Maghrirat is nothing but to get forgiven from the GOD i.e.ALLLAH
June 22, 2017
maya_nk99 commented on the user maya_nk99
kjdnq
June 22, 2017
bilby commented on the word frugivore
But what about fruit, mister qms?
From bananas and grapes you digress
I'll pop me a melon
When breakfast desire is swellin'
And laugh like a pineapple, more or less
June 22, 2017
bilby commented on the word sourtoe
Rubbish, there must be something like 60 billion toes on the planet.
June 22, 2017
qms commented on the word frugivore
The pattern is hard to ignore:
Buy local and you are a locavore;
If seeking cheap eats
In veggies and meats
You're frugal and known as a frugivore.
June 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word sourtoe
This refers to the sourtoe drink which has a mummified toe.
Fron the Guardian article:
"For more than 40 years the Downtown hotel in Dawson City has served up the sourtoe cocktail, a shot of whisky with a blackened toe – nail and all – bobbing inside. Those who manage to touch the gnarled, severed toe to their lips earn a certificate.
On Saturday a customer took it one step further, allegedly making off with the wrinkled digit after swallowing his drink. “We are furious,” said Terry Lee of the hotel. “Toes are very hard to come by.”"
June 22, 2017
bilby commented on the word matta
Ruzuzu, you need to meet Joe Dolce: https://youtu.be/9jwPqDVtsTU
June 22, 2017
gma commented on the word kyphobic
Wikipedia says kyphobic refers to a curvature of the spine past 45 degrees. The medical condition is called kyphosis.
June 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word spinor
physics - "Other physicists figured out that this quantum state represented spin.
And the up and down degrees of freedom with direction of pointing along the angular momentum axis. We now call these component waveforms spinors"
June 22, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word enby
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/877637588529561600
(And that's for cis women--for society that has trouble remembering trans women, enbys, etc. exist, the HORROR that they would take the mic)
June 21, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list woolfs-to-the-lighthouse
Arrived here after getting liftman as a random word. What a nice list!
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word nfi
Spotted as "no f'ing idea"
Has nfi, had nfi. Or nfi as an adjective.
June 21, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word matta
What's a matta?
June 21, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the user lanas
Your lists are lovely.
June 21, 2017
bilby commented on the word shank job
In Australia a half-job Harry.
June 21, 2017
qms commented on the word jobation
Expressions of disapprobation
Have many a nasty mutation:
The cold look that lingers,
The wagging of fingers,
But worst is the endless jobation.
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word gillnetter
most of the examples point to the boat being called a gilnetter.
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word lbd
LBD twitterspeak for 'little black dress'.
June 21, 2017
jodi commented on the word efrit
See also ifrit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifrit
June 20, 2017
jodi commented on the word shank job
Also shankjob via Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shankjob
"A shankjob is someone who can't do anything correctly and/or does really shoddy work."
June 20, 2017
jodi commented on the word gillnetter
Wiktionary: "One who fishes using a gillnet."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gillnetter
June 20, 2017
gma commented on the word egule
Wikipedia suggests egule is of Manchurian origin and refers to a cloud of suspended water droplets.
June 20, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word rubato
""|Hélène| Grimaud doesn't sound like most pianists: she is a rubato artist, a reinventor of phrasings, a taker of chances. "A wrong note that is played out of élan, you hear it differently than one that is played out of fear," she says.""
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Grimaud&oldid=778559561
June 20, 2017
qms commented on the word hermeneut
A poet who's really astute
Is neither obscure nor too cute.
His work ought to dart
Straight to the heart
Not needing a shrewd hermeneut.
June 20, 2017
qms commented on the word Goodman
See goodman.
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word All Hallows
Nov 1st.
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word thingamy
spotted in 1787 as a Mr Thingamy
https://books.google.ca/books?id=leo5AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA457&dq=Thingamy
spotted again in 1851 as Mr. Thingamy along with Mr. So-and-so and Mr. Thing'embob
https://books.google.ca/books?id=-MVNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA305&dq="what%27s+his+name";
and again in 1870 as Mr. What's-his-name Thingamy
https://books.google.ca/books?id=sdFZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA104&dq="what%27s+his+name";
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
thanks.
new words discovered are ihy, aftselakhis ,Meteorological Summer,
burlesquercise , Malama Honua , cishet , ponv , resilient Thessaloniki , covfefe
June 20, 2017
Picassette commented on the word Goodman
A Goodman is an old word meaning "owner of a house," or there about.
June 20, 2017
MaryW commented on the word protomusics
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 55June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word protomusic
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 55June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word drawbar
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 48June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word pianoness
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 46June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word overtone
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 46June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word trumpetiness
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 46June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word declarative knowledge
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 38June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word tonotopic map
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 28June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word tonotopic
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 28June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word basilar
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 28June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word prosodic cue
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 27Sing. pinna
June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word pinnae
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 24Sing. pinna
June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word timbre
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 19June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word separable
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 17June 19, 2017
MaryW commented on the word psychophysicist
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 17June 19, 2017
Syreal commented on the user Syreal
What are words worth
June 19, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
I've added it to my list.
June 19, 2017
bilby commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
I'm fairly sure aftselakhis are things ruzuzu puts on an overhead projector in order to make interesting shapes, colours and patterns.
June 19, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
This is great!
June 19, 2017
qms commented on the word dewfall
Meditation is surely our true call,
Let light that's inside us imbue all
The mists that conceal
Resolve and congeal
And peace will descend like the dewfall.
June 19, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word jean dimmock
adagio
June 19, 2017
rajeshjohn commented on the list blah-blah-blah
Scrumptious
June 19, 2017
kalayzich commented on the list love--20
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/love
June 19, 2017
kalayzich commented on the list yoruba
http://ourlanguages.org.au/wiradjuri-words-show-the-power-of-learning-australias-first-languages/
June 19, 2017
kalayzich commented on the list yoruba
http://ourlanguages.org.au/wiradjuri-words-show-the-power-of-learning-australias-first-languages/
June 19, 2017
kalayzich commented on the list yoruba
ni ife
June 19, 2017
kalayzich commented on the list yoruba
Wiradjuri
/wɪˈradʒuri/ (say wi'rahjoohree)
noun 1. an Australian Aboriginal people of the area of the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan rivers in central NSW.
2. the language of this people.
–adjective 3. of or relating to this people or their language.
Also, Wiradhuri.
The Wiradjuri, traditionally occupying a large area of inland NSW, were one of the largest Indigenous peoples in both area and population. Systematic resistance to white settlement in the 1820s, under a leader known to the British as Windradyne, caused Governor Brisbane to declare martial law and to institute a military campaign against the Wiradjuri in the Bathurst area. The Anglican Church Missionary Society established a mission in the Wellington Valley in the 1830s; the annual reports of the mission commented on the deleterious effects of white settlement on the people.
Rival spellings of Indigenous names are often due to mishearings by English speakers or their attempts to find ways to write unfamiliar sounds, but the two spellings of this name reflect a dialect distinction: northerners said Wiradhuri and southerners Wiradjuri. The name is based on wirray `no': that is, the Wiradjuri are the people who have the word wirray for `no', as opposed, for example, to the Kamilaroi, who use the word kamil for `no'. The English word billabong comes from Wiradjuri.
June 19, 2017
kalayzich commented on the list yoruba
ife ti ẹwa
June 19, 2017
kalayzich commented on the list detachment
detachment
/dəˈtætʃmənt/ (say duh'tachmuhnt)
noun 1. the act of detaching.
2. the condition of being detached.
3. a state of aloofness, as from worldly affairs or from the concerns of others.
4. freedom from prejudice or partiality.
5. the act of sending out a detached force of troops or naval ships.
6. something detached, as a number of troops separated from a main force for some special combat or other task.
© Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, 2017
June 19, 2017
kalayzich commented on the list attachment
attachment
/əˈtætʃmənt/ (say uh'tachmuhnt)
noun 1. the act of attaching.
2. the state of being attached.
3. affection that binds one to another person or to a thing; regard.
4. that which attaches; a fastening or tie: the attachments of a pair of skis; the attachments of a harness.
5. an adjunct or supplementary device: attachments to a vacuum cleaner.
6.
a. a document which accompanies a primary document, especially one providing additional information.
b. an addendum to a text.
c. a document, image, etc., attached to an email.
7. Law
a. arrest of a person, for contempt of court, by legal authority.
b. the process of ordering someone (the garnishee) who owes money to a judgement debtor, to pay this money to the judgement creditor, in settlement of the judgement.
June 19, 2017
vendingmachine commented on the word eight
St Edmund's College Boat Club (SECBC) is the boat club for members of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
SECBC uses the Cambridge '99 RC boathouse for training and storing its boats. The club has two boats, 'Lily' a men's eight and 'Dotty' a women's eight.
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word resilient Thessaloniki
refers to the resilient city concept
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Meteorological Summer
term goes back to 1848 or so.
June July August
I think I like Meteorological seasons over trying to remember the 21st or 22nd or so of the month for an astronomical season.
More info at NOAA https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/meteorological-versus-astronomical-summer%E2%80%94what%E2%80%99s-difference
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word aftselakhis
Quick books search shows this showing up in 1997.
allegedly yiddish for doing something to spite the rest of world.
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Malama Honua
spotted on twitter "‘Malama Honua,’is defined as #CareForIslandEarth "
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word cishet
spotted as cishetero or cis heterosexual
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word ihy
textspeak for 'i hate you'
June 19, 2017
opencoup commented on the word collabracy
Collabracy coll-ab-racy “a state or society governed by the people through an open and collaborative political system”
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word despactio
mispelling of despacito
June 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word omnichannel
... some buzzword businessspeak
June 18, 2017
tech189 commented on the word atthidographer
According to wikipedia this is a local historian of Athens.
June 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word magnetohydrodynamics
According to XKCD 1851 , just replace this word with magic
June 18, 2017
Imakeabunchoflists commented on the list it-s-not-the-real-thing-baby
Is google not a word?
June 18, 2017
Imakeabunchoflists commented on the list something-is-wrong-here
What's wrong with abolishment, bored of, buttload, exhilarator, imbedded, in other words, in lieu of, buttload, pratfall, protagonist, whelp?
June 18, 2017
Imakeabunchoflists commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly
costed, guesstimate, and utilize, aren't mispronunciations, they're just words. ice tea is no worse than ice cream. heighth is older than height.
June 18, 2017
RedBot commented on the user RedBot
Redbot :)
June 18, 2017
qms commented on the word ekphrasis
As patience and rhyming time passes
The evidence clearly amasses:
If not quite deplorable
At least it's ignorable.
A word we don't need is ekphrasis.
June 18, 2017
vendingmachine commented on the word ruby-topaz
I concur. Check out the hummingbird images!
June 18, 2017
vendingmachine commented on the word █████
orange IS the new black, after all.
June 18, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word begleri
https://www.artofplay.com/collections/amusements/products/copper-begleri
Break out your EDC ninja moves with this stylish brass Begleri. Inspired by traditional Greek worry beads, the Begleri is a popular skill toy that's kind of like nunchaku for your fingers.
June 17, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word green cake
Bricks made from ashes in Gaza: http://www.palestinechronicle.com/rising-from-ruins-gazas-engineers-use-ashes-to-make-bricks/
June 17, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word sanguinarian
https://thefederalist.com/2017/06/16/trans-mainstreaming-blood-drinking-twerking-second-graders-will-ever-say-enough/
Yesterday I learned a new word: sanguinarian. It’s as bad as it sounds, as I discovered in the secret vampire group, where 2,000 group members exchange resources for best ways to find willing human donors for their blood consumption and how to keep the habit a secret from their immediate circles who would never understand what it’s like to be an actual vampire. It’s an elevated life form, one that common folk could never understand. But still not hurting anyone…okay, well at least not without their consent. So what’s the problem?
June 17, 2017
hernesheir commented on the word ruby-topaz
The hummingbird images associated with this descriptive bird adjective are worth the time to see them.
June 17, 2017
bilby commented on the word jean dimmock
gangrene?
June 17, 2017