Comments by blafferty

  • Good add, scarequotes.

    May 7, 2020

  • Whoever originally madeupicalled this word probably still laughs about it to this day.

    April 3, 2020

  • See spoon

    May 12, 2018

  • See badger-poking, for the use of

    May 12, 2018

  • See badger

    May 12, 2018

  • Update: has been looked up 469 times.

    May 12, 2018

  • Today I thought of plinths and missed you all.

    May 12, 2018

  • I'm afraid you'll have to add proteur, in that case.

    January 1, 2014

  • I've been neglecting wordnik terribly, to my detriment. Anyone know of a shortcut to find the comment field for users on the mobile version?

    January 1, 2014

  • My goodness, the spam is getting knee-deep around here.

    December 31, 2013

  • Thanks! Yay!

    December 12, 2013

  • Once upon a time in the long, long ago, someone posted a list of common Wolof phrases and their literal translation in English. Now I can't find it - that'll teach me not to favorite things. Anyone know where it might be?

    December 12, 2013

  • I think marky just called me bilby. Shall I be flattered or offended?

    March 7, 2013

  • It's nice to come back after so many months and find that cat and jelly shoes are still trending.

    March 7, 2013

  • I am surprised at the pictures here. I'm fairly sure only one of those features dung (the noun) in its most common usage.

    March 7, 2013

  • "Dix lit a cigarette and also surveyed the room. Nice people, healthy and wealthy. Normal as you and me. Normal as Sylvia when she didn't have the megrims."

    From In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes

    March 7, 2013

  • Oh gosh, it's back! I haven't been on in months! Eek.

    March 7, 2013

  • These pants are juuuuust right.

    June 4, 2012

  • First tweet right now:

    “I will intercourse you so well that the PIP of your first ray will subluxate due to the hyperflexion of the Hallux!”

    May 18, 2012

  • Also check this out.

    April 29, 2012

  • See WallyWeet

    April 29, 2012

  • You guys just made me say "second drug test" like 16 times.

    April 10, 2012

  • SPAM

    April 10, 2012

  • "The plains were rippled with sastrugi, great breaking waves, flash-frozen."

    --The Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding

    April 3, 2012

  • Plinth sighting!

    It looked like a bathysphere: a ball of riveted metal, two meters in diameter, with a single porthole on one side. It stood on a low plinth, braced by struts. Cables were plugged into it all over its surface. -- The Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding

    March 31, 2012

  • Mayonnaise? MAYONNAISE?? Gaaaaah.

    hork

    March 23, 2012

  • What we usually do when there's a word missing is do a wordnik search for it, then put our definition in the comments (discuss) section. This makes it a searchable word.

    March 22, 2012

  • SPAM

    March 20, 2012

  • diaphanous? diaphane?

    March 20, 2012

  • It's my fault for requesting such tasty umbrage. Poor punderscore has been hiding under a porch somewhere and hasn't had any for so long.

    Oo, I've been craving fufluns! Thanks!

    March 20, 2012

  • I would love some, thanks for asking. Toasted, please, with just a little cheese and garlic.

    You know you're in the right place when umbrage is offered, rather than having to be taken.

    March 14, 2012

  • Thanks! You too, and nice to be back, although right now I'm mostly doing pop-ins.

    March 14, 2012

  • Anyone who uses the word sinister is bigoted toward lefties, I think.

    March 13, 2012

  • Perhaps you should focus your ire on the unritzy states - they seem to be popular today. Or take a chance on the random word generator, which again seems to be functioning well as my personal Tarot card.

    March 13, 2012

  • Ah, good! Wordnik is a wonderful place, or was once and shall be once we all get used to the changes, I hope. I took some time off to let things settle here, but I knew I'd be back.

    I'd looked at The Last Werewolf before (my other addiction is Goodreads) but hadn't really been interested. Your quotes have changed my mind.

    March 13, 2012

  • Your quotes from this book made me interested in checking it out, but I wonder if you mean The Last Werewolf, as that is the only title I can find with a similar name by that author.

    March 12, 2012

  • Your target should depend entirely on your timezone, I believe.

    March 12, 2012

  • Seems like encirch should be a word.

    March 12, 2012

  • I found you, and your lists, dontcry. But I didn't realize profiles were gone except for our wordie tracks - that was a shocking development.

    March 12, 2012

  • dontcry is correct. All porch-related activities. Long-standing rule.

    March 12, 2012

  • I only see 2 pronunciations here now. :(

    Oooh and they don't seem to work.

    March 12, 2012

  • SPAM

    January 23, 2012

  • Yep, me too. I've also heard "pocket dialing" in more polite company.

    November 2, 2011

  • Where did all the pronunciations on you're something of a hotdog, aren't you go?

    November 2, 2011

  • Is anyone else having trouble hearing pronunciations? Chelster pronounced my request line word, but I can't hear it! A little gray bar runs along the top for a second, which makes me think it's playing, but no audio.

    November 2, 2011

  • At least only one of the visuals is of Edward. Whew. But where is The Count?

    November 2, 2011

  • ... or like canned applause?

    October 29, 2011

  • Love me some concatenate.

    October 26, 2011

  • I nominate uselessness to do sound effects.

    October 26, 2011

  • Eek, damn, sorry. My bad.

    October 25, 2011

  • Umbrage! Here in Alaska we call that "crab fishing."

    October 25, 2011

  • *added to The Not Necessarily Complete Adventures of Bilby the Wordnik*

    October 25, 2011

  • In my ESL group of Hmong kindergarteners, we were going around the table and practicing finishing the sentence "I like to eat ____." (What do you like to eat, Pajoua? I like to eat pizza!) and one of them said squirrels. No, he was quite serious. He added, "Yum."

    October 25, 2011

  • How appropriate that the first example listed is a gushing note to the author of Twilight.

    October 25, 2011

  • Altricial, meaning "requiring nourishment", refers to a pattern of growth and development in organisms which are incapable of moving around on their own soon after hatching or being born. The word is derived from the Latin root alere meaning "to nurse, to rear, or to nourish", and refers to the need for young to be fed and taken care of for a long duration.

    (Wikipedia)

    October 24, 2011

  • Has anyone mentioned how sad it is that the word pages no longer show the first lister?

    October 12, 2011

  • Oh! I thought you were describing this word, not defining it.

    October 12, 2011

  • “The yarb will take the chill out of ye better than the pizen of the Dutchman.” - ----- Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks

    (from the examples)

    October 12, 2011

  • How did the woman (Magda?) so quickly become associated enough with this "word" that she is considered a visual for it?

    October 12, 2011

  • I most certainly did not have a teatowel for lunch, thank god. A suffusion of yellow would have been nice, however. Wouldn't have made me very replete though.

    October 8, 2011

  • Aww, no visuals.

    October 8, 2011

  • Heh heh

    October 8, 2011

  • What was the question? That answer seems surprisingly meta (or the discussion there does). Sounds like a nice prediction for any question, though - unless your question was "What is the one thing I will never have, though I desire it?"

    October 7, 2011

  • Hmm, good point.

    October 6, 2011

  • If those were intellectualists, they were mighty tasty and the FDA may want to investigate. And no, I would rather not patrilocate for Christmas, even temporarily. I suppose what my husband was doing could have been steelyard. He said he was going to the store for cough drops, but you never know.

    Bilby, I see from your song that Wordnik was merely being merry, albeit slightly eccentric. Thanks for the insight.

    October 6, 2011

  • Also, the random word generator is no longer capable of accurately predicting my future or answering my questions. I asked what I would have for lunch tomorrow, and it responded "glacière" and I asked what I wanted for Christmas and it gave me "meretriciously." I then asked what my husband is doing right now, which prompted "responsiveness" -- which is an outright lie.

    October 5, 2011

  • Indeed, my Intelligence often leads me to excess.

    October 5, 2011

  • Sh, mention of whelks frightens off Mollusque!

    October 4, 2011

  • *snicker*

    October 4, 2011

  • NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Lost for word is brooooooooooken!

    *sob*

    October 4, 2011

  • Strange ... is this a list? It seems kind of list-y.

    October 4, 2011

  • Hm, this might be temporary, but I've found a bug: it used to be, when on a word page that you had traveled to from the community page, hitting the back button took you directly to where you were on the community page. That way you didn't have to scroll back down to find your place. Now, at least temporarily (*crosses fingers*), it hops up to the top of the word page and then back down to the comments, sending you on a merry little lap to end up where you were before you clicked back.

    September 28, 2011

  • The ayes have it. Motion carried.

    September 28, 2011

  • I vote bilby writes a children's book, a la Dr. Seuss. Who's with me?

    September 27, 2011

  • wtf?

    September 24, 2011

  • bilby, dear, this phrase nearly has my name in it. Should I take umbrage?

    burblafizzin' magma of slurrytext

    milosrdenstvi, tell us, tell us! What book?

    September 24, 2011

  • Nice link, 'zuzu!

    Also: the pics on this make you wonder, and the tweets make you wish you didn't.

    September 11, 2011

  • Wow. I left for a couple weeks in hopes that things would be resolved, but the pages now load slower even than they did right after The Change. :(

    September 11, 2011

  • Wait, don't you already have all of those jobs?

    August 9, 2011

  • goat

    August 8, 2011

  • I'll give you a hint, bilby: one of the goats is in the fridge.

    August 8, 2011

  • You'll also need a knife and cutting board. Can I have a piece?

    August 8, 2011

  • *pouts*

    No visuals?

    August 7, 2011

  • cheese

    August 7, 2011

  • Sorry, ruzuzu, were you eating that? It's in the fridge if you want it.

    August 7, 2011

  • Not to be confused with smegma.

    August 7, 2011

  • Excellent visuals! Thanks, fbharjo!

    August 6, 2011

  • That reminds me, I left my cheese in the car. I'll be right back.

    August 4, 2011

  • Texas, I think.

    August 3, 2011

  • Suddenly I am unable to comment on people's profiles (except this one?) so:

    tonlon0017 is a runaway spammer! Out of control.

    July 30, 2011

  • Please add to the original sins list!

    July 30, 2011

  • Spam spam spammy spam

    July 28, 2011

  • It seems strange that you didn't add your beautiful words in the usual fashion, instead of putting them in the description of your list.

    July 28, 2011

  • The number of years depends on the state, as do the rights appertaining to common law status. But on the whole, it's true that common law couples might not be granted the legal rights of spouses in most states. Civil unions, however, grant all legal rights of a married couple without the involvement of any god.

    July 28, 2011

  • Mostly just reindeer. They take their upbrage shaken, not stirred.

    July 28, 2011

  • If you make a list of the words as you tag them, but just adding the words themselves without numbers, they will stay in the order you put them in. Then if you look at the tag for any individual word you would see your number.

    July 28, 2011

  • Spam alert

    July 28, 2011

  • None of these visuals are actually victuals.

    July 27, 2011

  • Whoops. My p is nowhere near my m - how did that happen?

    Here in the frozen north we take upbrage because the umbrage freezes at too low a temperature.

    July 27, 2011

  • Did you mean shire mega-megahit?

    July 27, 2011

  • *takes upbrage at no one stopping by to visit on their way to the pole*

    *gets out shotgun*

    July 27, 2011

  • Did anyone ever end up making a dog-whistles list?

    July 27, 2011

  • Wow, very interesting visuals here! Good catch, ruzuzu!

    July 27, 2011

  • It's cute though, dharma! Maybe you were tagging in your sleep. Have you been dreaming of rainbows?

    July 27, 2011

  • Yes, I like that!

    July 27, 2011

  • Oh, I see. Thank you. I don't think I had seen this user do that before.

    July 27, 2011

  • Each sound has a number representing it so that strings of numbers can represent the sounds of words. I agree, though - tags would be much more manageable. You can't possibly list every word.

    *hears echo* You can't possibly list every word.

    Also, I see a technical difficulty: is it really possible to represent every sound with a two digit number?

    July 27, 2011

  • Thanks, dharma!

    July 27, 2011

  • Great idea!

    July 27, 2011

  • Spam spam spammy spam

    July 26, 2011

  • I must admit I am enjoying some of the new features on the word pages (especially now that the font difficulty has apparently been fixed).

    July 26, 2011

  • Fascinating conversation here.

    I am adding this word to my bilby adventures list because of the lack of explanation, in hopes that he will return to the scene of the crime.

    July 26, 2011

  • The buttons at the top of the word pages are flaky. I'm sure everybody has noticed this, unless it's a browser issue. I click on "discuss" and it takes me down to comments, but then jumps back up and I have to click it again. Might be because the page has not completely loaded...?

    July 26, 2011

  • I've certainly enjoyed your Wordnik additions! Thanks!

    July 26, 2011

  • It seems to me you have either been hacked or are speaking in tongues. Anyone else see the last 2 comments? Clicking on the Comments section of people's profiles doesn't work right now, so I don't know if there are more.

    July 26, 2011

  • My goodness, those are lovely.

    July 26, 2011

  • Unfortunately, I mentioned this meaning to a friend recently, having temporarily forgotten that his son's name is Fox.

    July 26, 2011

  • Did you mean fooled chocolate baby bilby?

    July 25, 2011

  • Ancient spam that somehow remains! Fossilized spam?

    July 25, 2011

  • Hm, a google search of "bilby +site:wordnik.com" yields some very interesting footprints.

    July 25, 2011

  • Gasp! There's not already one?

    *runs off to check feasibility*

    July 25, 2011

  • Wow, I was totally considering making a list like this. It's true, every potential wordie list is an existing wordie list.

    July 25, 2011

  • Does anyone have a list of bilby adventures?

    July 25, 2011

  • Wow, rolig, it's true. Wordtrix makes me picture a woman in vinyl with a whip and a dictionary.

    July 24, 2011

  • Ah, the poor thing. But look how many lists it's on!

    July 24, 2011

  • Nice visuals! Good catch, fbharjo!

    July 24, 2011

  • It is strange, I agree!

    July 24, 2011

  • fbharjo, your additions don't seem to yield any results in Visuals. Any reason?

    July 23, 2011

  • Disappointment! No visuals?

    July 23, 2011

  • Kind of strange that no visuals come up for this, since a google image search comes up with plenty, all from that cartoon.

    July 23, 2011

  • Is it just me, or is the lowercase t thing gone? Was the font changed and I didn't notice? Still using same platform and same browser, but not noticing it now. Nicer!

    July 23, 2011

  • The examples for this are interesting. Might I suggest this for a two-word poem, in spite of the hyphen?

    July 23, 2011

  • I'm not sure what you're doing here, but it's certainly interesting.

    July 23, 2011

  • Pointing the brie has been looked up 1,633 times.

    July 23, 2011

  • Wow.

    July 23, 2011

  • Who, me?

    July 23, 2011

  • I wish my jelly shoes were as camphorous as Yesica's.

    July 23, 2011

  • I'm surprised to see that the same words are "trending" since the redesign. I guess once a classic, always a classic, eh?

    July 22, 2011

  • SPAM

    July 22, 2011

  • Whew! My Olive is not green.

    *spreads some on a warm pita*

    Yum! I never knew umbrage could be so tasty.

    July 22, 2011

  • I am concerned: since the makeover, divining my future via the random word feature does not seem to be working anymore.

    Strange visuals here, BTW.

    July 20, 2011

  • "The conical bearing of gamhey has been looked up 158 times."

    July 20, 2011

  • I would adore some umbrage tapenade, thanks!

    July 20, 2011

  • Also, here's a list, although I don't know if it's complete. Certainly the format it's in is not very useful.

    July 20, 2011

  • This list might be more useful if you list each word separately. Useful in that you would be able to add or delete words individually, rather than delete and rework the entire A or B list.

    July 20, 2011

  • Hmm, this is a common street name up here in Alaska, and there's an elementary school with that name, too. I never knew what it meant.

    July 20, 2011

  • Oo, oo! Is there an unpredictable vowel list?

    July 20, 2011

  • I'm a bit surprised enough isn't on here.

    July 20, 2011

  • *favorited*

    July 20, 2011

  • That's a great story! What interesting parents you must have had!

    July 20, 2011

  • I object. My daughter's name is Olive.

    July 19, 2011

  • Visuals are funny on this.

    July 18, 2011

  • There's always the classic "I'm not as think as you drunk I am."

    July 18, 2011

  • I'm curious about jughandle left and even-toed ungulate since I don't hear them bandied about much ... or at all. Anybody?

    July 18, 2011

  • I heartily agree!

    Wasn't aware of the Xopaipa origin, thanks.

    July 5, 2011

  • Not sure where this rumor came from, but I hear it all the time. Spanish for pillow is almohada. I bet the word for sopaipilla came from sopa, soup. I always like to eat my green chile stew or posole with a sopaipilla.

    July 4, 2011

  • In the section where each word page shows the lists the word is in, do the lists appear in any order? In other words, we used to be able to click on the "recently listed" words and see who recently listed them - is the first list the most recent one?

    July 4, 2011

  • Optical diffraction of monochromatic light, commonly blue, caused by exsolution lamellae in some labradorite samples; appears to come from within the sample. CF: labrador moonstone (Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms)

    July 4, 2011

  • A mineral zone that contracts, expands, and again contracts downwards. (Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms)

    July 4, 2011

  • Well done, all of you.

    July 3, 2011

  • Heading to Europe next week!

    *traveltraveltraveltravel*

    Amsterdam/Brussels/Paris/Zurich - recommendations for a fellow wordienik, anyone?

    July 3, 2011

  • You seem to have mentioned New Mexico several times recently. Do you live there?

    July 3, 2011

  • It's back! Someone must have had an attack of conscience and returned it.

    If you ever go to New Mexico, let me give you some recommendations! I used to live there but now only visit.

    July 3, 2011

  • Hmm. Going to need a little club soda, there.

    Umbrage stains like crazy.

    July 3, 2011

  • Me too, milosrdenstvi. Very close to a compulsion to hurl myself off, though obviously so far I've managed not to! And I'm not even slightly suicidal.

    July 3, 2011

  • Goodness, sionnach's comment is in a larger font. What does this mean? Is it because the cloud he is sitting on is larger? Is he raising his voice but not yelling? Or is his voice bloated from scarfing the umbrage (with parsnips)?

    July 1, 2011

  • That's true.

    July 1, 2011

  • *holds breath*

    Well? Was it there?

    Yes, I had a lovely time, thanks!

    July 1, 2011

  • Visuals for this = awesome. But no grape riffles.

    June 30, 2011

  • I was on vacay. Not much wifi in northern New Mexico.

    Also:

    Waaaaaaah! I can't find my Pebbles! Someone find my wotd!

    June 30, 2011

  • The "Same Context" section for this word makes me feel like writing an impromptu poem.

    Edit: Sorry, perhaps I meant that the Same Context section for this word seems like an impromptu poem.

    June 30, 2011

  • 3. I'm getting the impression from jean dimmock (and others) that we're only seeing a certain number of the comments for any given word. Will there be a way to see all of them/go to a page of just comments for a word, like we used to?

    June 30, 2011

  • I am so confused.

    June 30, 2011

  • *love*

    Gene Wolfe is so creative with his words.

    Oh, and ...

    *favorited*

    June 30, 2011

  • Wouldn't it be fun if a picture came up for this?

    June 30, 2011

  • 1. How do we search for all words/phrases/lists that contain a word now? Just with wildcards?

    2. Why do half the examples start with "wordnik.com" even if they're referring to a yahoo article?

    June 30, 2011

  • I had a friend who was always all hopped up on organic produce.

    June 30, 2011

  • Awesome link, marky!

    June 29, 2011

  • Hm, I'll have to test this.

    June 28, 2011

  • Whoops. Sorry. Plinth-love, not plith-love.

    June 28, 2011

  • I thought the old interface was lovely and simple, and I'm sad. And the t tail thing annoys me. I like the possibilities of some of the new functions, but it's going to take a while for that to outweigh the unfamiliarity.

    June 28, 2011

  • Thanks, Pro!

    On the word pages, the lowercase t comes up with a thick little tail that kind of jumps out at you in the new font.

    June 28, 2011

  • Ack, I've been gone for two weeks and come back to find all the word pages looking completely different! Is there a place that people are talking about the new layout? The font is weird; lowercase t is very distracting. Anyone agree?

    June 27, 2011

  • I love them both. They are froody.

    June 17, 2011

  • I'll second that snort. Is this from a Vogon love poem?

    June 17, 2011

  • spam

    June 17, 2011

  • ODB is Old Dirty Bastard, right?

    June 17, 2011

  • I myself have been called a cat-snuggling honky.

    June 16, 2011

  • Hm, does all day sucker need brackets?

    Dirtier and dirtier.

    June 15, 2011

  • Epidermis + optometry?

    Beauty is only skin deep, except for your epidoptometrist.

    June 15, 2011

  • Depends entirely on the dish (referring to the chile color)! Getting ready for a trip back to NM at the end of this week - New Mexican food, how I have missed thee.

    June 15, 2011

  • I'm going to troll through here for additions to my ever-increasing plans for the weekend list. Fitting words will be stolen away under cover of the deep dark night. Er ... the vague light of the midnight sun, I guess.

    June 14, 2011

  • That is very sweet of yarb. I might warn people in general not to adopt any cowboys, or let your words grow up to be cowboys, however.

    June 14, 2011

  • Not to be confused with cowboy up.

    June 14, 2011

  • list

    June 13, 2011

  • But aren't tomatoes and pumpkins technically fruits?

    June 13, 2011

  • Silly hair, though. And what's all this pretending to be tiny trees?

    June 13, 2011

  • How about kale?

    June 13, 2011

  • Thanks, Wordplayer. Doesn't protect it from spam, though, apparently.

    June 12, 2011

  • I think asparagus is very dignified.

    June 12, 2011

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