bilby has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 219 lists, listed 24959 words, written 28767 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 58 words.
Comments for bilby
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Hey why so many comments, you leather-tipped sandrabbit?
August 12, 2021
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*pokes bilby*
Hey, you're still around!
July 27, 2020
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*pokes bilby*
July 5, 2020
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Merci beaucoup, bilby, for the fresh-baked welcome fuflun from ruzuzu. I'm in love with wordniks' lists, and have been using them over the last year or so to cook up found poetry. Delicious.
April 26, 2020
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Where's vendingmachine, haven't seen him for ages? Too occupied with his paleo sushi petting zoo?
April 3, 2019
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Reading comments such as those at eckle-feckle I grieve that I missed some merry times at Wordnik.
November 3, 2018
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Been burrowing. As one does.
September 29, 2018
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Mmm. Tasty lichens.
September 28, 2018
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Ahoy, bilby! Long time no read. Have you been off foraging for tasty lichens?
September 28, 2018
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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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Comments by bilby
bilby commented on the word wordnik
Wordnik is the successor to Wordie, presumably a portmanteau of word and, uh, boulangerie.
August 26, 2023
bilby commented on the list things-that-were-hidden-by-the-snow
Found a dead alpinist yet?
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/missing-climber-body-37-years-switzerland-glacier/
August 23, 2023
bilby commented on the word cliff face
If coalface can be a compound then why not cliffface? The would be an effing good word.
August 2, 2023
bilby commented on the word tapeworm bikini line
See tapekini.
July 15, 2023
bilby commented on the word repose
The walkout music for the Angels' Roger Repoz - at least on the night I as a four-year-old attended a game at Anaheim stadium with the whole family - was 'Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darling'. He played professional baseball for 17 years in USA major and minor leagues, Japan and Puerto Rico. He was of Yugoslav parentage. Interestingly the Spanish verb reposare is cognate with the English repose so any Hispanic- or Italian-background players and fans would also have got the joke.
June 17, 2023
bilby commented on the word EPCOT
An Australian equivalent would be Multi-Function Polis, a futuristic city-within-a-city once proposed for Adelaide. No-one really grokked the concept and it became so controversial with all kinds of scaremongering that the project was eventually dropped.
October 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word buffet-stool
TCD is soooo dated.
October 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word woolly sunflower
Also known as Oregon sunshine.
October 13, 2022
bilby commented on the list jumbo-shrimp
bog rose?
October 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word hendecagram
Eleven chickens surely.
October 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word austringer
There was a political party here who had a goshawk on their logo and now they don't. So what do you call someone who lets their goshawk escape?
October 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word ch'ing dynasty
Not to be confused with the ka'ching dynasty, overthrown by cash registers.
October 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word bullantic
Calm down, bull ants.
October 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word knocknobbler
I would be good at this.
October 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word flight ceiling
Guaranteed there'll be a spider up there.
October 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word portance
So mien is on the other side from starboard?
October 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word oppressest
Thou who deppressest the food pellet lever, shall getteth one.
October 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word errorists
Terrorists who wage war against tea.
October 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word crinivorous
No.
October 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word dampne
Hot dampne!
October 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word texas grama
I aint payin' no syntaxes.
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word Teeny Brumby
In 2022, a mayoral candidate for Burnie City Council, Tasmania, Australia. See also brumby.
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word bowline lizard
Not of course to be confused with the bowling lizard who, despite having trouble with shoe sizes at the local alley, is quite a decent chap.
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word shoobie
Shoobie wap, shoobie shoobie wap
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the list portmonthteaus
Would feel a bit negative to end that one with -No.
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word bellybuttons
Ok fess up, who has more than one?
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word deer stalker
Did you dare a queer, weary, dear stork to stalk deer drearily?
October 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word franchiser
Any rhymes with -chiser?
October 2, 2022
bilby commented on the list in-whale-qJP4YQiSCk0qoIxi9m-S2
It's coming along well!
October 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word flasket
Wait. A flasket could be a basket, or could also be something in a basket. What kind of trickery is this?
October 2, 2022
bilby commented on the list in-whale-fishing-ZBADfYxFaFExVk1fHkNWn
Jonah is looking forward to the companion in-whale list.
September 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word bisognio
From Italian verb bisognare, to need, hence a bisognio is a needy person (in the classic sense).
September 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word gurry-ground
Yuck.
September 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word guttifer
OMG drop bears!
September 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word woo back
Chewbacca tried to woo back a rude linebacker who drove a blue-black Studebaker.
September 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word calamistrated
Good heavens we need to bring this back.
September 27, 2022
bilby commented on the list late-to-the-party-vwhMYaxKLWShX-CpcPD94
*marches in with a crate of home-made raspberry water kefir*
September 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word thuttocks
Look, a nice magpie over there!
September 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word verlan
Jakarta used to have something like this. Don't know about now, as I haven't been there since 1999.
For example bokap (father) was derived from standard Indonesia bapak.
September 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word incobegence
Where does the be come from? Hamlet clearing house was he?
September 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word pelleting
I knew it was a verb!
Hit that lever, guys!
September 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word blyatskrieg
First usage I saw was by military history author and researcher Chris Owen in the following tweet: "What are the reasons for Russia's Blyatskrieg – its rapid collapse east of Kharkiv – and why might Napoleon Bonaparte have known some of the answers? Here's a 🧵 exploring some possible deeper reasons for Ukraine's stunning successes in recent days."
September 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word blyatskrieg
Possibly coined today, to describe the dismal Russian war effort as they retreat from parts of Ukraine they had occupied.
From blyat, all-purpose Russian swear word roughly similar in usage to fuck in Engllish, + krieg (war).
September 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word mnemonicks
Mick Hicks' quickly picked Felix Dix to get a sick fix from slick Route 66 mnemonicks kicks.
September 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word put to bed with a shovel
"The spokesman said it would be appropriate for mourners to bring candles to the event, to symbolise the time the queen tried to use the state Poverty Fund to heat Buckingham Palace despite with her own personal fortune and estate worth an estimated £40,000,000,000, the property portfolio of which generates £300 million per year and which had a family thrown out during the covid eviction ban for a £32 unpaid bill.
'Who knows, maybe Elton will re-do Candle in the Wind again like he did in 1997 when that doll-faced strumpet was put to bed with a shovel?'”
- Modest 'Mourning Glory' for Betty, 10 September 2022, https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/09/modest-mourning-glory-for-betty/
September 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word Gentle Annie
I have never heard this usage in my lifetime.
September 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word corkscrew-plant
Ah, so this is what you use to open a bottle gourd.
September 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word scry
Seems to have escaped the lists of collective nouns.
September 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word halching
We should yoink this for use with computer cables, etc.
September 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word antimoney
Great. Surely the uncoins of this are minted from antimony.
September 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word candle-hour
Sorry, I don't think that's a mandle: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/mandles-candles-for-men
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list dungeons-and-dragons-5uZe8GVIUAU46ERM7YPqz
I love foreign language lists.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word mantle
Interesting how many meanings this has compared to dismantle.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word brattach
Scottish term for flag/banner.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word winter-mother
Insect love, anyone?
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word alkarsin
OMG Cadet's fuming liquid was a heaps better name.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word clitoria
Found it!
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list dungeons-and-dragons-5uZe8GVIUAU46ERM7YPqz
Wait, dungeon is not on the list.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word mapinastine
The trolls are everywhere.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word hippest
Hip, hipper, hippo, hippest, hooray!
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word sepium
Oh how do I love to go out and hurl some epithets at hedgerow plants.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word strangle-tare
As if broomrape wasn't a bad enough name.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word phthisicky
I see the pronunciation guy is not brave enough to poke his head above the water here.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word hurley
Earlier a surly, gnarly, sturdy, burly Charlie unfairly furtively filched a Gaelic girly's curly hurley.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word nostril
Originally nosethirl.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word safety zone
In road cycling, a notional distance before the end of the race where mechanical mishaps will not penalise a rider. It's usually 2 or 3 kilometres. For example, if a cyclist's chain breaks and he has to wait for a replacement, at the end of the stage he will be awarded the same finishing time as the group he was with when the mechanical occurred.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word fake puncture
Cycling. See here: https://www.sbs.com.au/sport/article/evenepoel-denies-faking-puncture-after-retaining-gc-lead-in-tomares/ybcy79fcx
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word lever-frame
A perfect spot for my Skinner box.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word bundobust
Examples also suggest another meaning like agreement, accord.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word DIRT
So the Tax Department collects DIRT? Well well.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word spiroylous acid
Wait. There's no definition at spiroylous, so has this word now been lost?
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word great tits
Oh my, the visuals!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word heterobicycle
Your shitposting sock-puppet name is your sexual orientation and your preferred transport
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word wrongeous
So there was a specific antonym for righteous.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word I would
I have never heard this usage.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word lilium auratum
Yeah, I bet they're not real gold.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word pentelican
A pelican that ate a few Scrabble letters.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word water joint
Ok so not a pub serving the good stuff.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Egghead anthropomorphism is better than bubble wrap!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Just can't stop!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Pop!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Pop!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Pop!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Pop goes the deduction of the laws that regulate the interactions of the anatomical, biological, and psychological elements of human physiology!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word percussioner
How does one get to be a nipple-fitter?
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word plantain-lily
Funkia and your mother and your grandmother.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word tamaraw
Also tamarau.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word sesquiduple
"If I've told you once, if I've told you twice, if I've told you sesquiduple times..."
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word liopelmidae
Now now.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word murye
Eate, drynk and be murye.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word misshelves
New character in the Mr Men series.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word gentleman jim
We used to sing a song - a sea shanty - when I was a kind of youth ambassador to Indonesia, inserting a local place name at the end. eg. From Melbourne to Lampung's a bloody long way.
Now this is the story of Gentleman Jim
Somebody threw a tomato at him
Now tomatoes don't hurt if they have the thin skin
But this here tomato was wrapped in a tin
Haul away!
Haul away!
From ____ to ____ is a bloody long way.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word obnosis
But of course.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word mullen
Also moleyne.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word Sioux
Limericks on sioux.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word valve
YouValve doesn't really do it for me.
September 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word devoice
An Irish device :-/
September 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word attributive noun
The fun thing in English is that you can stack 'em up to your heart's delight.
e.g. Watford Library photocopier paper supply cupboard.
September 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word lexicographer's paradox
See definitionless.
September 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word murderhobo
September 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word jaw-tackle
Belay your jaw-tackle, bilby!
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word picklist
One who pickles, duh.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word Mysore
A muddled Mysore miso-maker messily mixed mushrooms, mashed mangoes and mightily yummy marshmallows in his mum's multi-mixer.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word thebaine
Thebaine of my life is barking dogs :-/
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word cranock
Next time you need to measure lime in Wales you're all set. Never let it be said that Wordnik doesn't prepare you for life's challenges.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word hawkish
Harriet the hardy, hairy, hawkish harridan awkwardly handled a horribly-hot, kinky hickory half-halter.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word dodo
What would a dewey-eyed dodo do with two huge tubes of chewy tomato-avocado-potato stew?
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word definitionless
Why is there a definition here?
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word tonic section
Gin section can't be far away, surely.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list can-we-get-along
It seems that if you edit a list description or title on an old list, it rockets to the top of the New List column on the Community Page.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the list put-me-back-on-my-bike-UToeNCrf6-wRMQ-Aibl_k
Merci yarb!
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word bandgap
Ok, I was thinking more like when the bass player ODs on cocaine.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word pet-wood
Move over pet rocks!
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
modulet
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word Cocos Islands
Fun fact: I lived in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for over 2 years and was referred to as Pak Amy, ie. Mr Amy, in the local way of referring to married men and women after their first child (and then first grandchild).
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word Cocos Islands
The AHD definition above refers to the Australian territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The disambiguation is useful because the islands were initially settled in error; a British officer of the day was ordered to claim and settle the Cocos Islands for Britain, but his only map had these islands marked on it and not the Cocos Islands located in the Bay of Andaman that the British Government intended.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the list put-me-back-on-my-bike-UToeNCrf6-wRMQ-Aibl_k
The list name references the title of William Fotheringham's biography of pro cyclist Tom Simpson. The apocryphal story is well enough told on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tom_Simpson
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the list put-me-back-on-my-bike-UToeNCrf6-wRMQ-Aibl_k
Always a good time to get on your bike!
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word jaguar
See also jaguarondi.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word intropunitive
Stop it.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word HTF
USA-Australia cultural divide right there.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word pisang-ayer
Literally means 'water banana'.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word valerianella
Never pappous! We are NOT having any of that.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word family acrididae
They probably cold call people telling them they have a long-standing debt to Grasshoppers Inc that can be paid off with iTunes cards.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word family acrididae
Wait, there are insects out there impersonating locusts?
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word cushion-steam
Hey, I have a list for that!
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word cushion-steam
Sounds like a fart to me.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word nanoneedle
Dennis Norris nicked nine iron-knotted nanoneedles from an unnamed nanna's knitted knapsack.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word September 11
Need something to celebrate? It's National Bilby Day! https://www.savethebilbyfund.org.au/national-bilby-day/?mc_cid=682bb97487&mc_eid=0730901c31
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word chocolate bar
Wait what the heck Canada?
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word meadow-shoe
So, like a snowshoe for horses.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word goldmanite
Contains everything under the sun except gold :-/
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word supertable
Where Supertramp sit down to dinner.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word ulna
See also ulnage.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word soundtracking
Ack, verbing!
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word nematocerous
Not all pointy-ended critters are rhinoceros
They could well be insects nematocerous.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word PDW
Last stop before PDX.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word gab-motion
Celebrate Hyphen Day at TCD!
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word henchboy
Makes me think of 'Bugsy Malone'.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word nonactin
Doesn't sound like it would be very efficacious.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word woodwose daubed with Cheez Whiz
See needfire.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word needfire
After typing that, I hit Random word and landed on woodwose!
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word needfire
Imma say that 'phosphoric light of rotten wood' takes a magick phenomenon and then trashes it. Like chancing upon a forest fairy and then daubing it with Cheez Whiz.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word polypyrrole
Polypyrroles is a pesky plural of polypyrrole, a plain polymer with repeating pyrrole parts and not a perfunctory pyrrolocarbazole.
August 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word ramscoop
Yes, bring on sheep-powered space travel.
August 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word lamp-case
Goodness me, I have just right list for this word then.
August 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word yack
Yackety Yack is a quite strange but interesting, indeed funny, Australian avant garde movie from the 1970's.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word lamp-case
Are you collecting these ruzuzu?
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word betweenane
When the lab geeks are phoning it in.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word Tokelau
Brave move to name your country after a parasitic skin disease.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word zoner
I don't get it. I am probably Too Old.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word dunnish
Law and Order series?
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word tids
Wait what?
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word Praties
Tasmania is home to a baked potato fast food chain named Praties. See praty.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word lunule
Surely this should be a pasta shape.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word tapir
Also bush-cow.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the list ruzuzus-big-ass-list
bumastus?
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word onga-onga
8 feet high?! OUCH
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word Ш
Here, have a toast rack.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word acronym
initialism gives one the sick, so it does.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word big dance
In modern Australian slang, the big dance is the final of a sporting competition.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word woylie
Willy the wily woylie royally wheeled a white-walled red-wheeled wheelbarrow really well.
August 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word Kurds
Key enemies include Saddam Hussein and Little Miss Muffett.
August 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word redirect
How did I get here?
August 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word communiversity
"Residents across the coast of north-west Tasmania have additional opportunities to explore ideas and research topics of interest with the launch of a new educational platform, based in the Wynyard area.
The University of Wynyard, or UWYN, is a communiversity – a community based university that looks to link members of the community together for digital conversation, local events and project collaboration."
- Tasmanian Times, New ‘Communiversity’ Launches in North-west Tasmania, 23 August 2022. https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/08/new-communiversity-launches-in-north-west-tasmania/
August 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word hagbut
Also hackbuss.
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word jaggy
The examples suggest techs use it in relation to low-resolution images.
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word fonduer
Due you fondue?
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word sacced
And the quarterback is toast!
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word interferometer
I hope these things are tamper-proof :-/
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word SIM
This made me laugh:
"One is reminded of the so-called plot claimed to have been uncovered by the FSB last April by Ukrainian neo-Nazis to kill Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov in Moscow. As evidence they reported an improvised explosive device and a large variety of weapons, as well as Ukrainian passports and nationalist literature. Because there must never be any doubt about the sympathies of the would-be assassins, who clearly had no interest in covert operations, there was a picture of Hitler and red t-shirt with a swastika. Most bizarre of all was the presence of three copies of the SIMS video game, presumably because the officer staging this scene misunderstood his orders to supply three SIM cards, which might have some role in a car bomb. Lest there be any doubt about the authenticity of this plot another video showed an inscription in an unidentified book that had been found, signed in Russian with the words ‘signature illegible'."
- Lawrence Freedman, 'Constantly Operating Factors -
Stalin's Lessons for Putin', published 24 August 2022. Constantly Operating Factors - by Lawrence Freedman (substack.com)
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
adays
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word sRLV
srsly?
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word crumb grinder
Citation from Wiktionary:
1996 June 15, Colleen Condron, 'Oh No, Another peeve about children.....', in alt.peeves, Usenet1:
The crumb grinders were in the communal backyard playing when I left for work some 13 hours ago, and they are still there. Screaming. And yelling those inane things that only kids will yell. Over and over and over.
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word cocomplete
Coco is my favourite variety of mplete.
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the user oanhhoang
Are ever gonna let me down?
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word gap-bridge
Don't all bridges close gaps?
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the user dontcry
*waves*
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word waterbuck
But where does it stop?
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word Ish Kabibble
An American musician and comedian, 1908-1994.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word looksist
Don't like.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word seal cracker
An explosive device used by the aquaculture industry to scare seals away from fish pens in waterways.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word piskashish
A peeved, pesky piskashish placed crispy snack-pickle shishkebab picnic packs into its pressed subtle-purple pinstriped pantsuit.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word trashsport
Unless it refers to the synchronised dumpster diving team coached by vendingmachine?
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word trashsport
Term doesn't appear to have caught on.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word meeting-seed
Oh wow! This is definitely a food pellet flavour.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word debuff
To have one's buffalo stolen.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word cavalero
Do ask do tell.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word sircar
Also sarkar, sirkar.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word disbase
Who dis?
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word meawl
Bob Dylan singing meal.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word visioneering
So it's like envisioning after a frothy corporate wizard cast an expecto bullshittus spell?
August 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word foreguess
As forgive is to forget, so foregive is to foreguess. Guilty.
August 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word canadew
Why am I writing like a Geordie?
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word canadew
Kubla built heself a nice gaff at Xanadu
Proper belta palace, and gardens of canadew
But robbers on the loot
Stole all the best fruit;
What's a poor Mongol emperor gonna do?
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word canadew
Unless of course Xanadu claims the canadew.
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word rickets
A sick, hick cricket with rickets nicked a pixie's stick to play quick mixed cricket on a sticky wicket.
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
lighting-station
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word feutre
Can we shove a few French cutthroat loanwords into a <em>thundre dôme</em> and just sit back and watch?
August 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word foreguess
To foregive is better than to foreguess.
August 19, 2022
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