bilby has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 217 lists, listed 24607 words, written 28527 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 fuzzy sock vacation
Skippy the slappy seal flipped the sloppy hippy's floppy, fluffy slipper zip with its slippery flipper.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word Pork Barilaro
Currently being investigated by a parliamentary inquiry. It relates to Barilaro creating a new post of Trade Commissioner in New York, with $500,000 a year salary, then the appointee being replaced by Barilaro days after he left parliament. A public outcry forced him to withdraw from the role.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word General Booty
In 2022, a quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners, USA.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word Argel Fucks
A former Brazilian professional footballer. In 2020 he changed the spelling of his surname to Fuchs.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word Jizz Hornkamp
In 2022, a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Willem II.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word spark-arrester
Defund the police.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word you don't have to take off your pants to fart
Translation of a Danish saying that means overkill.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the list who-farted-75HJ2Pth_NrRur5yC-Ob6
Great contributions :-) I'm tempted to have a look at some other languages to see if there's some good onomatopoeia there.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the list things-avian
singing-muscle
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word subshrub
Beelzebub scrubs a hushed subshrub thrush in a slushy rub-a-dub-dub rubber tub.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word kayak
Seeing as this is a palindrome, a kayak should be able to travel backwards as easily as it travels forwards.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word daunyng
Wow, my first thought was that this was a Vietnamese word.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word animal fries
Never heard of this.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word protestival
*barfs*
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word fodientia
I tried solo but I had 'irreconcilable artistic differences' with myself.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word superb parrot
For example, could/should I have been the superb bilby and not the greater bilby? Easy mistake to make.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word superb parrot
Does superb actually mean anything in the scientific sense or was the person doing the naming just hella impressed?
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
broud
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word smoothbore
Tucker Carlson :-/
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the list just-cause-i-like-em-s
likam :-/
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word stenhuggarite
Aww, I randomed a hug!
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word ennuyée
Lol bilby wtf dawg dats NUIA idek.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word ennuyée
Because it's Friday I'm going to provide a helpful abbreviation for your texting conversations: NUIE.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word love tree
Well, hang me in your love tree baby.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word partrich
Found in a partri?
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word clancy
"In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
Gone a-droving 'down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know."
- A.B. Patterson, Clancy of the Overflow
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word pygarg
Ah, the infamous Deuteronomy menu.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
miswive
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word dirigible
This got me thinking about hot air balloons. A mode of 'transport' with no brakes, no steering, where you're standing in a flammable basket with a roaring gas flame. I'm surprised it ever got off the ground.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word fodientia
My new indie pop band is Only The Aardvarks, thank you.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word Smarta
Big opportunity missed here.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
Are the socks grippy and fuzzy, or do we get to make some kind of fashion choice? Nurse Ratchet please advise.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word crib death
Generally known these days as SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word herring-hog
Neither herring nor hog, 0 for 2.
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word check-spring
Do we not have a spring list?
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the list gesundheit
fnese
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word cowan
So are there batty conspiracies about cowans as well?
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word asshelmet
Trying to define and explain insults is hard work :-/
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word wampum
Also seawan.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word dust-point
*points*
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word gru-gru
You say gru-gru, I say gri-gri.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word hound dog
Compare horn dog.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word accountant
Plot twist: I worked at the Pancake Parlour for a while, probably my first proper job. I was a dishwasher.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word accountant
I knew a girl who used to say she worked at the Pancake Parlour, which was a well-known Melbourne (Australia) pancake restaurant. It was her code for massage parlour, which was the term used at the time for illegal brothels. I sensed at the time - it was about 1987 - from the way she said it that others also used the Pancake Parlour label, or indeed pizza parlour.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word steller
Good joke.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the list lock-me-up
I do not remember making this list. Perhaps it occurred that time I was abducted by aliens.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the list specific-excrement
See also acoprosis for specific non-excrement :-/
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word anatifa
I would also like to see a thoracic cirriped punching Richard Spencer in the head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCg8FmPlC8
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word living space
Surely a calque of lebensraum.
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word astralin
Sanction it!
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word obmutescent
No comment.
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word scherif
I schot the scherif.
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word cow tipping
*rolls hippogriff*
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word writh's
Yeah nah.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list not-gonna-fly-Nnyhv4qDQD5cWLDxfRymr
Behold, one of my worst list ideas ever. I think the technical term is sottisier.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word homage-jury
The kind of definition you can read a few times and still not really understand.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word lol
The suffix for beta-blockers is -lol, often -olol although sometimes -alol is also used.
Examples: atenolol, metoprolol, propranolol, primidolol, etc.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word boudoir
Not fair that only ladies get a pouting room.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word rotalidea
i'm sorry, I haven't had time to put my perforate foraminifers in order.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word cow tipping
In any case, if you were going to do this why resort to cows when you could tip a hippogriff?
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word devastitation
Ooh, this is so ugly.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
PEBKAC?
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word Hwfa Gwyn
Chief Financial Officer for Hybrid Air Vehicles. Pronounced Hoofer.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word cow tipping
Are there enough fictional pastimes for a list? Thinking back to John Clarke's farnarkling.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word square rig
Do not place in round well.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word steller
This is where someone helpfully suggests the bilby should be named after me. Go on.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word steller
If I were going to choose an animal to be named after me, I suspect it would not be a sea cow.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list el-diablo-de-profundo
printer's devil
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word stallage
'Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw' is not obsolete, it's on Fox News every night :-/
July 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word huckery
huckery duckery schlock
bilby tried on a smock
the smock was so cute
on a marsupial hirsute
huckery duckery schlock
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word monocœlia
What what what.
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the user wordnikette
Wow, good bloodlines!
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word HIMARS
As of July 2022, USA-donated HIMARS are being used by Ukraine in the war against Russia.
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word HIMARS
Acronym for a specific kind of moveable weapons system developed in the 1990s, usually truck-mounted, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word arty
Military slang for artillery.
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
Very interesting. Reminds me a bit of underworld slang.
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word Averno
Honestly I feel that this has good metaphor potential.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word secretin
"Of its chemical nature nothing is known"...sshhh!
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word imbecilitate
Social media says hello.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word bruang
Mis-spelling of native name beruang in Indonesian and Malay.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word drisheen
Yuck.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word ataxite
IRS employee?
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word fogging
Frankly amazing btw that over the years we have not acquired a crusty old puffernut to make railway lists.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word roncador
Yeah I'd make rude noises too if I were a fish and you took me out of water.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word kamuning
Scientific name was changed in 1820 to Murraya paniculata. A.k.a. orange jasmine, kemuning in Indonesian and Malay.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word fogging
Don't know. Looks as if it's still a thing though as you can buy the detonators: https://therailwayshop.co.uk/products/railway-detonator-fog-signal-box-of-10
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word resiling
For a moment there I thought I'd randomed some riesling :-/
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word proscolex
Show us your horny processes.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word takedaite
Take dat!
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word fogging
Some handy instructions: https://www.victorianrailways.net/signaling/fog_signalling.pdf
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the list fowl-words
pophole?
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word bugs
I recently listed quiescent encysted protozoan which does not sporulate but get a 404 error trying to bring up that page.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word hexadecapolar bear
Don't just settle for a bipolar bear.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word shoot and scoot
Military term: fire, then move before the enemy can pinpoint where the firing originated.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word candlewaster
Sounds like it would have been a pretty feeble insult even back in the day.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word shorthead
Century Dictionary is named thus as it hasn't been updated in that period of time?
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word bin juice
The mysterious liquid at the bottom of a bin or dumpster.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word lawyers, guns and money
Perfect addition to my Food Pellet Flavours list.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the list why-did-the---cross-the
Why did the applesauce cross the cris?
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word genus cerastium
As we say in Australia, may a wanton wombat of delight snuffle through your underbrush.
July 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word why did the bilby cross the road
Well, I saw a rather interesting shadow on the other side of the road that I thought might have been a hat that had been lost by a snowman. And then there was a butterfly with hommous on its nose!
July 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word beaglepuss
I did not know these had a name.
July 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word genus cerastium
Mouse? Chick?
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word carminative
Cool word!
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word bee-feeder
Not sure why the queen trusts these to guard the palace.
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word tin-worm
CDC definition-writer phoning it in again.
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word long-legged tattler
See stone-snipe.
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word fop
See also musk-cod.
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the list seals-8MLRJ_pGUWZovaajZa9W9
Suggestions, hmmm. Have you tried balancing a ball on your nose?
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word viceman
The viceman cometh.
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word copyhold
Read that CDC definition for an instant headache.
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word muck-hack
Like a cocktail fork, only bigger?
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word noss
From the Norse word for nose according to one of the examples.
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word bitthead
Remarkably, the comic strip rip-off Beavers and Bitthead was never successful.
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the list seals-8MLRJ_pGUWZovaajZa9W9
It is not an open list. It has been sealed, ma'am!
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word liquid fruitcake
A bilbyism for mulled wine.
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word snooze
Whose Kalmazoo Zoo kangaroos snooze in used blue-chartreuse-rouge cruise shoes?
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the list orange-poetry
*affixes gold star on alexz's work*
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word blesser
South African slang: a priest or pastor.
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word atlatl
Would be a good name for an aerospace port.
July 23, 2022
bilby commented on the list i-don-t-like-cricket-i-love-it
Bazzball?
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word bedlamer
TMI :-(
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the list last-names-that-are-professions
I always wonder about the surname Rowbottom.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word cross-eyed hook
Here be pirates lurking.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word aleconner
Bet they did more than 'look' at the goodness, hey.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word whistling-arrow
The kettle's boiling or you're about to get an arrow through the head would have made for interesting tea making in those times.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word arsepane
Organic chemistry!
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word tripel
Hit random word on a Friday and found beer. The rest is history.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word hypnosporange
At last, a rhyme for gorringe.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word giaour
When you're at the Boxing Day sales to buy a vowel.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word hardy-hole
Minnie the Moocher was a blacksmith?
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word fewmet of Christ
The food pellet equivalent of a Catholic wafer.
July 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word colter
So much for 'swords into ploughshares', they're pretty much the same thing.
July 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word blemmatrope
I am sure ruzuzu collects these.
July 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word reraped
:-(
July 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word web-frame
Funny how shipbuilding has a term that contains two internet terms, good reminder of how malleable language is.
July 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word philanthropath
Wingnut SPAM
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
This turning into a weird jean dimmock page. Who's going to turn up next? Vasily Petrovich Goloborodko?
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word foe
Compare fey.
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
Uffa, drive-by verbing with culted. It's turning nasty.
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
I'm tempted to add portraymentism to the list of possible long-COVID symptoms reflecting cognitive disturbance.
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word dak-boat
*bing* You've got dak!
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word non-Cavendish banana
Preposterous.
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word riesling with a hint of kerosene
Strange but true: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2020/10/tasmanian-riesling/
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
Also, vendingmachine please tell us your 2,190,612th and 2,190,614th favourite words so we can get some idea of where portrayment sits. Thank you.
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word absolute kettle
See portrayment.
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
No-one has ever called me an absolute kettle. What am I doing wrong?
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word loving-cup
See parting-cup.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word parting-cup
Sorry but why does a loving-cup need more than two handles? Someone draw me a diagram? I mean, someone draw my friend a diagram?
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word irenarchy
A which see!
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
Wtf is going on here?
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word ghost-show
I aint afraid of no ghost-show.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word spotted hyena
Before painting buses, Boris Johnson got hyexit done :-/
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word Ken Behrens
Australian slang, residents of the Australian capital city of Canberra. The term originated from an on-screen autotranscribe of Canberrans during a much-watched media conference at peak COVID-19 mania.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word croweater
I still hear this occasionally, though with decreasing frequency I would guess, ditto banana bender, sandgroper and apple-islander. Meanwhile gum-sucker and cornstalk have passed into oblivion.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word apple-islander
Australian slang, a person from the island state of Tasmania.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word cornstalk
Compare gum-sucker.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word spotted hyena
To me they have a funny body shape, like the person creating the prototype was drunk and careless by the time they got to the back end of the animal.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word kanga
Australian Sikhs are on a winner.
July 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word advoutry
More fun than whataboutery :-/
July 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word advouter
There's also advoutress.
July 13, 2022
bilby commented on the list a-testicle-by-any-other-name
hart's-truffles maybe.
July 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word umbrage lamb
See comments on Whoa Black Betty: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/whoa-black-betty-HQ0x0b_1xVTMD9AXNjsC8
July 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word caw sampan
See caw citation on champan, and sampan.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word ampelmann
Images should help you out here. Cult hero of former East Germany after reunification.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word beaut brekky
Australian slang: a good breakfast.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the list whoa-black-betty-HQ0x0b_1xVTMD9AXNjsC8
Just add in your in own whoas.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word itzibu
Tough rhyme :-/
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word bu
Also itzibu.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the list words-for-poem-inspiration-T_lmf897zQVL4wMdokMrj
How about we leave a word or words for you and work with them? Deal?
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the list words-for-poem-inspiration-T_lmf897zQVL4wMdokMrj
Writer's block?
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word bowl-and-beans
Or lunch :-)
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word bowl-and-beans
Some kind of Native American game?
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word phone sex
Leon was actually very funny. Also a trained circus performer who could breathe fire, ride a unicycle, etc.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word phone sex
When I was living in college, there was one fixed line phone (for incoming calls only) on every second floor. Yeah it was that long ago. Anyhap, usually the people whose rooms were near the phone had the job of answering it, then running around to try to find the person who was being called.
I remember this conversation happening:
Leon: Phone for you Maryanne.
Maryanne: Is it a guy or a girl?
Leon: Telephones are asexual.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word Shawnee cake
Shawnee meet Johnny, Johnny Shawnee.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word prefossette
Quite easy to identify really, just stick your head into the jaw of the rhinoceros.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word ramcat
See etymology on tomcat.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word rubbidge
Isn't it about time we took umbrage
At neglect of our linguistic heritage?
But if your penchant for norms
Eschews archaic forms
You might be agin preserving this rubbidge.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the list professional-wrestling-slang-5V5seeZRNJ54pzXowKeaW
I almost feel like chair should be here because the baddie team at some stage will brain a good guy or an innocent with a chair. But it's not slang. I came, I saw, I tried.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the list onewheel-canada-Y_g-Mvzxg86Te-Ba-RdV3
SPAM
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word solid
A senator I was interviewing recently said 'do a solid' and at the moment I had my head in the press conference; I didn't realise until afterwards that I have no idea what this means. He's not that young, though younger than me. And a keen surfer, so probably jargoned-up to the eyeballs.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word pentapterous
Ah, fruit flies explained.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
The deed is done.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word mitten
From etymonline.com regarding the phrase get the mitten.
"From 1755 as 'lace or knitted silk glove for women covering the forearm, the wrist, and part of the hand,' worn fashionably by women in the early 19c. and revived towards the end of it. Hence get the mitten (1825), of men, 'be refused or dismissed as a lover' (colloquial), from the notion of receiving the mitten instead of the hand."
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word crump
Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison, Donald Trump:
A bozo, a flim-flam, a grump.
After years of their guff
We'd all had enough
And they were dispatched with a satisfying crump!
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word enturbulate
Hubbardisms remind me of Zamboni Palin: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/zamboni-palin
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list it-s-wet-and-it-s-land-wetlands
coal-swamp
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word elphrish
A Scots form of eldritch.
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
I fear that our overlord McKean is secretly manipulating the sacred Skinner box Flavour Delivery AlgorithmTM.
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
Hmmm, this only works if you click on it in the Recently Listed Words on the Community page.
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
Did you know that if you click on "natural flavoring" you actually get a random word? A flavour surprise in every press!
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word flayings
Yes because one flaying is never enough.
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word overdribble
You don't want to watch me eating watermelon :-/
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word inexplicable
In my dictionary I'd leave the definition blank.
July 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word toom
See also toomly.
July 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word scroll-chuck
Woof!
July 7, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
Best place to try your luck is over on Skinner box.
July 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word hominy
Many manly anemones nominally know enemy mini-anemones nom-nom their homely anemone hammy hominy.
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word rockahominy
See hominy.
July 6, 2022
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