bilby has adopted no words, looked up 25263 words, created 209 lists, listed 23263 words, written 25011 comments, added 728 tags, and loved 54 words.
Comments for bilby
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Bilby o bilby,
Didst thou die on latinx hill?
November 3, 2016
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Happens certain phases of Uranus.
August 31, 2016
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Hey bilby how long have you been a howling frumpmudgeon?
August 31, 2016
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*dusts badge*
November 5, 2015
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Hey are you some kind of self-appointed contribution cop, rat features?
November 5, 2015
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Wait--I thought it was turtles all the way down. Mind? Blown.
November 3, 2015
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how about a five-toad?
November 3, 2015
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Shut up you extruded rabbit.
November 2, 2015
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Are you talking to yourself again?
November 2, 2015
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I get an error trying to post either a new word or a comment here:
https://www.wordnik.com/lists/politicians-nicknames
November 2, 2015
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Nope, that's about it really.
August 28, 2015
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Do you have anything decent to say ear-whippet or are you just trying to flood these Polski doltskis off the front page?
August 28, 2015
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Hi Bilby - Just spotted a question you posed in a comment back in 2009 (!) on my aviation list ("Let's go strap on the ole air'chine and bore holes in the sky!") to wit: "what is a 'rooster tail'?" If it still matters see image here...or, since I've added it to the list: rooster tail.
June 15, 2015
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"bilby commented on the user bilby
I went to leave a comment on your page, and I arrived at a 404 and a steampunk rhino. Both of which are about right in your case."
Are you talking to yourself?
April 27, 2015
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I went to leave a comment on your page, and I arrived at a 404 and a steampunk rhino. Both of which are about right in your case.
April 27, 2015
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Did you like the new berry additions?
April 27, 2015
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Bilby is, as usual, a lode of useful information. I once went skiing in Chamonix, where les Guides des Alpes are universally admired, but I failed to understand the sense of their characteristic cries.
They're famed for feats of derring-do
But guides of the Alps are scholars too.
It's knowledge they seek
When they call from a peak
And plaintively ask, "Beaudelaire, he who?"January 11, 2015
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Bonsoir Monsieur Bilby,
Where are you, actuellement?
I am back in Paris, being forced to write about such big fat frauds as Charles "Mr Spleen" Baudelaire.
But in two more weeks I shall be free, free as a bird!
Now I need to go favourite the word "wentletrap".
Adieu !
January 10, 2015
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Where did "Community" go? Is it just my computer?
December 24, 2014
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Have I ever told you how much I like your bagpipes list?
December 15, 2014
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Are you in Bogota? I was just there! Ships passing in the cliché.
November 8, 2014
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and I you with a waistband of tittering finches. Don't disillusion me!
November 6, 2014
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Happy belated selfie day, old bean.
November 6, 2014
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...for of Afghan chutney is her soul compact
April 2, 2014
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Is there a way to search by tag?
March 27, 2014
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March 27, 2014
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oh, he do
March 14, 2014
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didn't you have a list called "Drinky-time, or the most happy of hours" or some such? Maybe it was someone else...
March 12, 2014
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Meow.
February 20, 2014
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Bilby, I wish you a happy new year. I am grateful for the comments you have given me. I have been slow to respond mostly because I could not figure out how to do it. I have been looking for an ongoing thread I could reply to but I have failed to find it, so now I have visited your dashboard. This seems rather roundabout, like exiting the house and ringing the doorbell again before replying, but it is all I can manage for the moment.
January 1, 2014
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Thanks for jomo. It's perfect.
December 16, 2013
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Bonsoir, bilby! Un salut de Paris à toi et à tous les marsupiaux, même les moins jolies.
Renard
September 22, 2013
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marky
Sorry, this user profile is LAME.
September 13, 2013
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BILBY
September 13, 2013
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Any thoughts for us about ry's question over on wurly?
May 8, 2013
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No no. Only we hopping long-ears are designated chocolatiers to outback frontiers. Cheers!
April 1, 2013
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Thanks, Easter Bilby. Do all marsupials carry chocolate in their pouches?
April 1, 2013
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happy zombie jesus day, peter gone rabid day to you too BILBY
March 31, 2013
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Happy Easter everyone! Help yourself!
March 31, 2013
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meowz
March 31, 2013
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Happy Easter Bilby is a sweet tooth fairy.
March 30, 2013
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Good lord, bilby -- hello!
March 20, 2013
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I noticed a town of Bilby in Jamaica on a topographic map today.
March 13, 2013
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I'm so glad you finally have a trilby, bilby!
February 3, 2013
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Trilby's match
What a thrill it must be!
Is it a crowning achievement?
How can you match it?
You are off on the right foot!
February 3, 2013
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At a yard sale this morning. I bought a trilby. Just thought y'all would be very happy to know that.
February 2, 2013
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*purrrrrs*
January 23, 2013
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Bilby, bilby, bill
be. Bilby be. Bilby bee.
Bilby bilby be.
January 15, 2013
%20on%20my%20aviation%20list%20(%22Let's%20go%20strap%20on%20the%20ole%20air'chine%20and%20bore%20holes%20in%20the%20sky!%22)%26nbsp%3Bto%20wit%3A%20%22what%20is%20a%20'rooster%20tail'%3F%22%20If%20it%20still%20matters%20see%20image%26nbsp%3B%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supermotors.net%2Fgetfile%2F773053%2Ffullsize%2Ff1402.jpg%22%20rel%3D%22nofollow%22%3Ehere%3C%2Fa%3E...or%2C%20since%20I've%20added%20it%20to%20the%20list%3A%20%5Brooster%20tail%5D..&subject=I%20think%20oroboros%20is%20a%20spammer%21)
Comments by bilby
bilby commented on the word ux
No ux given.
July 16, 2018
bilby commented on the word splogs
Splog me till it hurts, VM.
July 14, 2018
bilby commented on the word SP
Back in the days when off track bookmakers were illegal in Australia, an SP bookie or often just SP was a bookmaker who would take bets and then pay them out (if necessary) at the starting price, ie. the odds that were offered by on-track bookmakers at the time the event started. SP bookies were relatively common as police had better things to do than hunt down the weedy guy in the corner of the pub with a big satchel full of money. Larger operations were known to have people peering over the racecourse fence with binoculars to read the odds boards in the betting ring and these numbers would get phoned in to the SP...to the nearest payphone of course! Those were the days.
July 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word lair
Also the adjective lairy.
July 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word EZ PZ
But it's written ee-zed pea-zed :-/
July 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word the wrong type of snow
This is fabulous.
July 7, 2018
bilby commented on the list cult-leader-charisma
Promising list!
July 6, 2018
bilby commented on the word dead man's foot
July 6, 2018
bilby commented on the word nematode smackdown
See micronoodle.
July 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word sycee
*applause*
July 2, 2018
bilby commented on the word they are now very aware of my situation
Is your situation aware of your situation?
June 29, 2018
bilby commented on the word they are now very aware of my situation
Interesting visuals btw.
June 29, 2018
bilby commented on the word they are now very aware of my situation
I am not aware of your situation.
June 29, 2018
bilby commented on the word Tre Fiori
'Three Flowers', a football club based in the Republic of San Marino.
June 29, 2018
bilby commented on the word Zoo
Zoo FC is a football team who play in the Kenyan Premier League.
June 28, 2018
bilby commented on the word evidard
Ooh, I like those. Obligatory in any serialised murder mystery.
June 26, 2018
bilby commented on the word epiblast
No -blast list? No blasted lists?
June 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word Xamax
A palindromic football team from Neuchatel, Switzerland. I presume they play something like a 1-3-3-3-1 formation.
June 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word soveniht
Middle English form of sennight, a week.
June 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word roister
Sublime qms!
June 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word floxinoxinihilipilification
Maybe he was thinking of floxi, noxi and curtaintail.
June 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word Limerick
Wot, no limericks?
June 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word floxinoxinihilipilification
Oh help, it's been adopted too.
June 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word spruit
Very good, and bonus points for use of rivulet.
June 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word Schwellenangst
I think the implication is that people who are afraid to enter a place, ie. cross a threshold, are afraid of trying something new. Hence they are difficult customers to entice.
June 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word to guild the lily
May I suggest this should be gild.
June 4, 2018
bilby commented on the word comatose
When your foot goes to sleep.
June 3, 2018
bilby commented on the user billpaymart
How slovenly the purple infanticide bespoke of melaleuca puppet candlery!
June 2, 2018
bilby commented on the user billpaymart
Hi Bill!
June 2, 2018
bilby commented on the word pissfart
Australian slang: to pass the time idly; to dally with fripperies.
June 2, 2018
bilby commented on the word thrush
See also sturdy.
June 1, 2018
bilby commented on the word farnarkle
Not that we ever do that on Wordnik, oh no sir.
June 1, 2018
bilby commented on the word farnarkle
Australian slang: to waste time, to pissfart around, etc.
June 1, 2018
bilby commented on the word Billy the goose
Australian slang: a stupid person, easily fooled.
June 1, 2018
bilby commented on the word drunk as a thrush
See etymology on sturdy.
May 31, 2018
bilby commented on the user puyan
Welcome to Wordnik.
May 31, 2018
bilby commented on the word snarfly
See very-worthwhile usage at barfly.
May 31, 2018
bilby commented on the word yakamein
Apparently also known as Old Sober.
May 31, 2018
bilby commented on the word mimpfeln
German: to mumble while eating.
May 30, 2018
bilby commented on the word nipaluna
The Uni Revue - an undergrad cabaret that has something of a cult status locally - is already salivating.
May 30, 2018
bilby commented on the word barfly
I prefer bar-fly.
May 30, 2018
bilby commented on the word salooner
A bar-fly.
May 30, 2018
bilby commented on the word nipaluna
There once was a lad from nipaluna
Who fancied himself a hot-air ballooner
But his first flight went astray
- crash-landed in Geilston Bay! -
And now he's nowt but tall-tale salooner.
May 30, 2018
bilby commented on the word nipaluna
An indigenous name for the Hobart area of Tasmania, Australia.
More background - quite interesting - here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-30/hobart-aboriginal-name-suggested-as-nipaluna/9815422
May 30, 2018
bilby commented on the list hangman--6
A.
May 30, 2018
bilby commented on the word down-the-firepole type pricing moment
Warning, metaphor overload:
"Macquarie Infrastructure fell 41% in a single session in February, a direct result of the elephant in the room investors have overlooked, as outlined here by Charlie Jamieson from JCB. Charlie explicitly warns of the ‘train having left the station’ for a potential ‘down-the-firepole type pricing moment’ that all investors need be conscious of."
- livewiremarkets.com, 25 May 2018, https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/the-elephant-in-the-room-investors-have-missed
May 30, 2018
bilby commented on the word waggoner
This word's just about a goner.
May 29, 2018
bilby commented on the word harmamaxa
Which didn't see :-/
May 29, 2018
bilby commented on the word devil's milk
Euphorbia peplus, also known as petty spurge, radium weed, milkweed, cancer weed, although this name is better.
May 29, 2018
bilby commented on the word scarabaeus nauseant inalienability
I stole this from a Twitter bot. Shameless.
May 28, 2018
bilby commented on the word contemnor
Ooops, now the judge has found me in contempt :-(
May 28, 2018
bilby commented on the word contemnor
Very good qms *throws coins*.
May 28, 2018
bilby commented on the word wankle
Related to wonky.
May 28, 2018
bilby commented on the word nausrht
Probably OCR tyop.
May 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word ferly
Chiefly Scots.
May 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word Siege Perilous
Need to work out how to set phasers to this.
May 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word apena
See also harmamaxa.
May 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word harmamaxa
A which see!
May 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word assassinlessnessesiciousness
I need to rid myself of this.
Disassassinlessnessesiciousness .
May 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word ammazzacaffè
Italian: coffee murderer!
May 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word adamantane
Pleasing number of a's in this word.
May 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word Rougned Odor
As of May 2018, a professional baseballer with the Texas Rangers.
May 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word Dan van Holst Pellekaan
As of May 2018, Energy Minister in the government of South Australia.
May 24, 2018
bilby commented on the list twitter-loves
This bot sure hoovers up a lotta words!
May 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word head-first
Yeah, glitch in the way AHD definitions are fetched.
May 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word Neæra
Does æ count as one letter or two in a palindrome?
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word pest-house
A place where people with contagious diseases were confined.
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word vending machine that steals your money
Quite.
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the user Prolagus
Hello Prolagus.
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word bitter crystallizable volatile principle
See theine.
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word eidolon
Sing to the tune of Eidelweiss.
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word cateran
Give the man a loon-slatt.
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word yasss
There's a town called Yass in New South Wales, Australia.
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the list privateraws
SPAM
May 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word jostle
Go on, read yarb's comment in the context of the etymology.
May 22, 2018
bilby commented on the list curry-zone
Seems like more standard forms are bhindi, ghobi and baingan bharta. Thank you for sharing your lunch with me :-)
May 22, 2018
bilby commented on the word dandy
Female equivalent is / was dandizette.
May 22, 2018
bilby commented on the word well-heeled
It's a nice effort, bless 'em.
May 22, 2018
bilby commented on the list venus--2
Some of us here are good at worrying.
May 21, 2018
bilby commented on the word laze
To be fair there are some definitions above that pretty much describe the formation of this type of portmanteau.
May 21, 2018
bilby commented on the word serial comma
See also ha ha ha.
May 19, 2018
bilby commented on the word expunction
What, is, your, problem?
May 19, 2018
bilby commented on the list fore
*blows on knuckles*
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the word moffie
South African English / Afrikaans.
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the list simplified-spellings
Nice list rzz!
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the list under-the-kilt
Every time I visit this list I remember that prolagus had different expectations.
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the word blunty
Scots: a stupid fellow.
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the user john
Hello John.
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the word cautioners
From the examples, my interpretation:
Asian cautioners cautiousness
danced dashingly!
diggings
disposals factory falcon finality...
give greyhound
humidifier imitation.
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the word cautioners
Mate no-one gives a snob subversive for your so-called poetry.
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the word maxilliped
Put a sock in/on it.
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the word réchauffé
*wild applause*
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the word case-insensitive
Mkay I'll arrange some sensitivity training.
May 18, 2018
bilby commented on the word réchauffé
Needs a warmed up limerick, aye.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word newsless
Promising rhyme with useless.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word vnenhabited
OCR error.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word burrito
Hey MailChimp, the word chimp is available for adoption.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word bidwillii
A term found in scientific names honouring the botanist John Carne Bidwill.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word bunya nut
A traditional bush food of north-eastern Australia. The nuts come from the cones of the bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word Smooth Newts of Oxbridge
Eft, I tell you, eft!
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word eft
I like 'smooth newt' with its connotation of having gone to the right kind of finishing school.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word proteasome
Wot, no flowers?
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word dickies
Dickieeees!
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the user Robby75
I am ready to be discovered.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word womansplaining
Surely somewhere there are men working on robots to do it for them automatically.
May 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word back-coming
The two examples currently visible are more akin to homecoming or return.
May 16, 2018
bilby commented on the word shavie
Primarily Scots.
May 16, 2018
bilby commented on the word ken
Recorded in English since 900!
May 16, 2018
bilby commented on the word warpage
In modern use often refers to the tendency of 3-D printed objects to curl up a bit as they cool.
May 16, 2018
bilby commented on the user hotcollection
Do you have hot doughnuts? I like those.
May 16, 2018
bilby commented on the word dough
See etymology of lady.
May 16, 2018
bilby commented on the word isochrone
For example a line joining places that are all the same travel time from a certain point.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word pipian
A southern / central American sauce whose key ingredient varies depending where it's made: pumpkin seeds, almonds, sesame seeds, peanuts, etc. There are red - with tomato - and green - cilantro infested - varieties.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word blivet
Hmmm.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word Binley
Finding a lot of borked definitions lately.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word fleme
Run away!
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word garage-type
Always wanted to visit garage-type but the visa is hard to get.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word mistle
Also missel.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the list printer-support-phone-number-1-800-956-0247
SPAM
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word tub-thumper
See also tub.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word tub
17C slang for pulpit, hence tub-thumper.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the user sionnach
Finally found something useful to do with you:
A late Old English translation of the Medicina de Quadrupedibus of Sextus Placitus advises, for women "who suffer troubles in their inward places, work for them into a salve a foxes limbs and his grease, with old oil and with tar; apply to the womens places; quickly it healeth the troubles." It also recommends, for sexual intercourse without irritation, "the extremest end of a foxes tail hung upon the arm." Rubbing a fox's testicles on warts was supposed a means to get rid of them.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word bossage
Top limerick, qms!
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the list path-finding
Apathy rules.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word every pair of pants in Vancouver
Pants.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the word Kriegie
Aber er ist als Geisel festgesetzt worden und wird wie ein Kriegsgefangener behandelt.
Yet he is taken hostage and treated as a prisoner of war.
May 15, 2018
bilby commented on the list path-finding
Pathetic list.
May 14, 2018
bilby commented on the word queeple
So concupiscible.
May 14, 2018
bilby commented on the list printer-support-number-1-800-956-0247
SPAM
May 14, 2018
bilby commented on the word lillipilli
Also lilli pilli, lilly pilly, lillypilly.
Generally refers to trees of Syzygium genus.
May 14, 2018
bilby commented on the word steekit
Scots: closed.
May 14, 2018
bilby commented on the word minnie
Scots: mother.
May 13, 2018
bilby commented on the word dust
Etymonline has this useful rider about what it's doing in funeral rites:
Old English dust, from Proto-Germanic *dunstaz (source also of Old High German tunst "storm, breath," German Dunst "mist, vapor," Danish dyst "milldust," Dutch duist), from PIE *dheu- (1) "dust, smoke, vapor" (source also of Sanskrit dhu- "shake," Latin fumus "smoke"). Meaning "that to which living matter decays" was in Old English, hence, figuratively, "mortal life."
May 13, 2018
bilby commented on the list at-t-customer-service-number
SPAM
May 12, 2018
bilby commented on the user blafferty
Trending: I poked a blafferty with a spoon.
May 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word goller
Interesting word.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word horseback-breaker
Shakespeare: a fat person.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word goggie
A hobgoblin said to inhabit and protect orchards and fruit groves.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word queeple
Scots: the cry made by a duckling.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word rackapelterly
Boisterously.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word tashbag
A lazy idler, says @HaggardHawks.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word golden dishwasher
A nickname for the yellow wagtail, supposedly because of its habit of bobbing up and down beside waterways.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word b
Short for bilby in civilised countries.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word pileata
See pileate.
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word esbat
Hey is there a good frolic going on?!
May 11, 2018
bilby commented on the word hamstring
HW Fowler says:
"string is not the verb string; we do not string the ham, but do something to the tendon called the hamstring; the verb, that is, is made not from the two words ham & string, but from the noun hamstring. It must therefore make hamstringed."
May 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word hysteria
Tut-tut CDC definition.
May 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word chuffling tigers
I get nervous when the tigers are chuffling.
May 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word cribose
I'll define it!
cribose - misspelling of cribrose.
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the list 🔥
Words containing these kinds of symbols will not display properly on Wordnik in its current form.
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word whoreson
Mr Welles, so nice to see you!
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word taffy pull
See candy-pull.
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word bastard culverin
noun, Military.
1.
a 16th-century cannon, smaller than a culverin, firing a shot of between 5 and 8 pounds (11 and 17.6 kg).
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word bänkling
German: 'one born on a bench', ie. a bastard.
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word fils de bast
French: 'pack saddle son', ie. a bastard.
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word candypull
See candy-pull.
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word candy-pull
Sounds like a ye olde time get-together where people made candy:
'Candy pulls or candy stews were popular in the 19th century. One definition, from A Dictionary of Slang...1897: "Candy-pull (American), a candypull is a party of both sexes at which molasses or sugar is boiled and pulled by two persons (whose hands are buttered) to give it proper consistency, and then mixed and pulled again, till it becomes true candy." As described puckishly in Puck, "The necessary materials and plant are a goodsized warm kitchen, a number of active young women, aged from fifteen upward, several dudes and non-dudes—none over twenty-five — a large supply of white aprons, a larger supply of table-napkins, a well-heated cooking-range, two or three copper stew-pans." Puck. NYC: March 6, 1884 '
- http://www.angelfire.com/md3/openhearthcooking/aaCandypull2.html
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the list femmesque
taupie
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word tittup
*applause*
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word mangú
Goo, goo, glorious goo!
There's nothing quite like it madmouth's purview!
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word musume
Japanese?
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word Ghost of Christmas Future
Wiktionary guy doing raindy-day etymologies.
May 9, 2018
bilby commented on the word yea-forsooth
My brother lives near a town called Yea so he says that a fair bit. If only I can get him to say forsooth.
May 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word brach
'of the hound kind'
May 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word colpoda
Mmm, infusions of hay.
May 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word mangú
A Dominican plantain mash.
May 8, 2018
bilby commented on the word catamite
Top stuff.
May 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word catamite
List idea: cat but no cat, thanks.
May 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word gangewifre
An Old English word for spider, 'a weaver as he goes'.
May 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word vertu
Vertu, Brute!
May 7, 2018
bilby commented on the word hammer-cloth
See hammercloth.
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word hammercloth
Also hammer-cloth.
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word spout
Etymology online:
spout (n.)
late 14c., from spout (v.). Cognate with Middle Dutch spoit, North Frisian spütj. It was the slang term for the lift in a pawnbroker's shop, the device which took up articles for storage, hence figurative phrase up the spout "lost, hopeless, gone beyond recall" (1812).
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word dog-eared
I like the reference to 'certain dogs' in the etymology above.
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the user 26April
Welcome to Wordnik :-)
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word comics poetry
The first week of May is national comics poetry week.
http://www.gocomics.com/frogapplause/2018/05/01
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word Haralambous
Appears to be definition of Norway maple.
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word arnica
Common names: Leopard's bane, mountain snuff, sneezewort, mountain tobacco, wolfsbane.
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word saddy
A bad mood.
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word zaddy
obviously moi is the baddie
'cause "no-one's favorite word" is maddy
so with p's and q's minded
I beseech the unblinded
to larf and not crack a saddy
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word rock-water
Work-to-rule going on over at CDC definitions division.
May 5, 2018
bilby commented on the word zaddy
I have 25 thousand, you'll be busy.
May 4, 2018
bilby commented on the word zaddy
How do I make this go away.
May 4, 2018
bilby commented on the list cattle
A bit yucky, but, ehrm, pith.
May 4, 2018
bilby commented on the word Senegambia
Reminds me of this list: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/on-the-border-of-imagination-and-reality
May 4, 2018
bilby commented on the word borschtschool
An institution where students learn to make beetroot and vegetable soup. In their spare time they decipher long consonant strings.
May 3, 2018
bilby commented on the user Jomavir
SPAM
May 3, 2018
bilby commented on the list washington--my-home
Have you moved Des Moines?
May 2, 2018
bilby commented on the word caritive
Perhaps have a look at fraught for some perspective on this kind of usage.
May 2, 2018
bilby commented on the list the-porn-birds
Thank you deinonychus.
May 2, 2018
bilby commented on the word jean dimmock
calque?
May 2, 2018
bilby commented on the user jennarenn
What I said 5 years ago *sigh*
May 2, 2018
bilby commented on the list places-in-oregon
Nice!
April 27, 2018
bilby commented on the list flightless-birds
kakapo
April 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word shrillhillpillllama
A traditional Peruvian term for a high-pitched pack animal used for transport to mountain pharmacies.
April 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word smorgaphobia
Smorgasbugaboo.
April 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word pursuers
I usually find that one person pursuing me is sufficient.
April 26, 2018
bilby commented on the word coroutine
Looks very Fwench but it is geek.
April 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word nandu
I had no idea there were South American 'ostriches'.
April 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word tufthunter
I'd quit the waiting and walk 500 miles. And 500 more. Worked for The Proclaimers.
April 25, 2018