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  • Oh, great. Now I feel like yarb scum. Much love to you, juliefa. If you need any help with this list, Prolagus is a native speaker of Italian. And, yes, WELCOME!!!

    June 9, 2011

  • Italian only has 19 words? Prolagus must be using a lot of fuflun filler*

    *nice tongue twister!

    June 8, 2011

  • denasal (as with a headcold)

    June 8, 2011

  • stutter (reiterated articulation)

    June 8, 2011

  • slurred/sliding articulation

    June 8, 2011

  • whistled

    June 8, 2011

  • a combined alveolar and sublaminal click or "cluck-click".

    June 8, 2011

  • Sublaminal lower alveolar click (sucking tongue)

    June 8, 2011

  • Bidental percussive (gnashing teeth)

    June 8, 2011

  • bilabial percussive (smacking lips)

    June 8, 2011

  • Voiced central-plus-lateral alveolar fricative, ɮ͡z (a lisp)

    June 8, 2011

  • Voiceless central-plus-lateral alveolar fricative, ɬ͡s (a lisp)

    June 8, 2011

  • Velopharyngeal fricative (snoring sound; often occurs with a cleft palate)

    June 8, 2011

  • See pampersands.

    June 6, 2011

  • It's short-cut symbols and words that I dislike. If it's part of title or business (Noodles & Co.) that's fine, but I dislike seeing it inserted in a sentence just for convenience sake.

    A pampersand is a moist ampersand.

    June 6, 2011

  • crutches, kidneys, knitting needles, tusks... More here.

    June 6, 2011

  • Thanks!

    June 4, 2011

  • See spear phishing.

    June 4, 2011

  • "...the most common targets are government agencies and senior managers and executives; the spear phishing of such big game is commonly referred to as “whaling.”

    The New York Times,

    June 4, 2011

  • A kind of powder used for the hair in the eighteenth century.

    June 4, 2011

  • In heraldry, the heart of the shield, otherwise called the center or fesse-point.

    June 4, 2011

  • (Australia) A movement of people from cities to the countryside.

    June 4, 2011

  • short for memory resistors.

    June 4, 2011

  • Yes, I dislike ampersands & I avoid using them at every opportunity.

    June 2, 2011

  • It's hard to visualize these tools without photos.

    June 2, 2011

  • 1. A person who is motor-minded (which see).

    I understand the motor-minded part. What does "which see" mean? (see definition)

    June 2, 2011

  • A lumberman's cant-hook having a strong spike at the end.

    A stout lever from 5 to 7 feet long, fitted at the larger end with a metal socket and pike, and a curved steel hook which works on a bolt: used in handling logs, especially in driving. A peavey differs from a cant-hook in having a pike instead of a toe-ring and lip at the end.

    June 2, 2011

  • Testing! Testing! I would to be a part of this test, too.

    June 1, 2011

  • brillipant list.

    May 30, 2011

  • @sionnach. How did you find out about Vlad?

    May 27, 2011

  • hork is conspicuously missing from this list.

    May 27, 2011

  • z-z-z-z (delete; no one cares)

    More here.

    May 27, 2011

  • Thanks, rolig!

    May 27, 2011

  • What is the origin for puer? Meaning?

    May 26, 2011

  • Found via random search.

    Children should not swear!

    May 26, 2011

  • bilby: dried jackfruit here!

    (I've never tasted it fresh or canned, just dried.)

    May 24, 2011

  • The (metaphysical?) definition for this word is over my head.

    May 24, 2011

  • A nuchshlepper is someone who tags along behind you—a toady, a hanger-on.

    — The Wall Street Journal, “Sharing the Chutzpah” link.

    May 24, 2011

  • Hawkeye: I've never seen you wear those.

    BJ: Oh, I never do. If you wear 'em, they get dirty.

    If I keep washing 'em, they stay clean forever.

    They're actually just to remind me of better times.

    Database of Movie Dialogs.

    May 23, 2011

  • Like roadkill, only wordier.

    May 19, 2011

  • I hope you weren't waiting behind a bush with thorns.

    May 17, 2011

  • No, but I can ego and super-ego this wordnik.

    May 17, 2011

  • I like that the -t (of whilst, amongst, and amidst) is referred to as a parasitic t.

    May 16, 2011

  • Where's an Australian when we need one? They always seem to be around when we don't need them!

    May 14, 2011

  • I agree with you, c_b. I find many of these conditions interesting, too. I'm intrigued by all things medical.

    May 14, 2011

  • Meconium is normally stored in the infant's intestines until after birth, but sometimes (often in response to fetal distress) it is expelled into the amniotic fluid prior to birth, or during labor. If the baby then inhales the contaminated fluid, respiratory problems may occur.

    See Meconium Aspiration Syndrome".

    When a woman's water breaks, it should be fairly clear. If it's greenish or dark... that's an indication that meconium is present (meconium staining). This requires a doctor's attention.

    May 14, 2011

  • Good one, Pro.

    May 14, 2011

  • SPAM

    May 14, 2011

  • That makes perfect sense. Thanks.

    May 14, 2011

  • Gone with the Windpants.

    May 14, 2011

  • It sounds pretentious to me. I don't like amongst or amidst, either.

    May 14, 2011

  • (Australia, colloquial) The act of bringing down from within; undermining.

    White ants? I don't understand this colloquialism at all.

    May 13, 2011

  • a type of bagpipe played in Algeria.

    May 10, 2011

  • a bagpipe of Tamil Nadu primarily used for drone accompaniment

    May 10, 2011

  • a bagpipe of Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh in northern India. The term is also used for the Highland pipes which have displaced the traditional bagpipe over time, such as the masak-been

    May 10, 2011

  • a Telugu bagpipe of Adhra Pradesh

    May 10, 2011

  • How about a bouk instead?

    May 10, 2011

  • This sounds like another good nickname for John. Good thing I have a list for it!

    May 6, 2011

  • I found a few additional words for your Monovocalic list. It's becoming harder to find new words!

    May 5, 2011

  • @yarb. You're right! Last time several people thought you were the stripper, and this time sionnach was convinced that you were afraid of bodysnatchers (mortsafe). In the future, if a word looks like it's for yarb -- IT'S ME!!!!!

    May 5, 2011

  • So true, yarb! I'll have to add mortsafe to my Tools of the Trade.

    May 5, 2011

  • List of sportspeople who died during their careers

    link

    May 5, 2011

  • A long pole weapon, usually with an axe blade, a long spike (which could be relatively short for stabbing, or made long and edged like a sword blade), and a backspike. Used widely and to great effect against cavalry by the Swiss before they shifted to the pike.

    May 5, 2011

  • (heraldry). Variation of the pourpoint in the second part of the fourteenth century, with padded chest, buttons in front. It was supported with long, close fitting sleeves.

    May 5, 2011

  • Leather hardened by boiling it several times either in water, or in oil, or in wax.

    May 5, 2011

  • A very large dagger with a wide triangular blade. Extremely popular in 15-16th-century Italy.

    May 5, 2011

  • A pole weapon with a large chopping head, and often with a hook and backspike. Characteristically used by English infantry.

    May 5, 2011

  • Plate defense for the knee.

    via Glossary of Heraldic Terms.

    May 5, 2011

  • A coat-like garment, cut in front, with long, loose sleeves, which had two-three stripes around their armhole, made of different colored cloth.

    May 5, 2011

  • A long cloak, derived from the thirteenth-century garnache. It was often furred and had two characteristically "tongues" of a different colored cloth at the neck.

    May 5, 2011

  • Large crossbow bolt (14th century).

    May 5, 2011

  • (heraldry) greaves/jambard: Plate pieces to protect the lower leg, usually in front, then later in back as well.

    via Glossary of Heraldic Terms.

    May 5, 2011

  • The definition mentions a crescent, which is only a half moon, right?

    May 5, 2011

  • Our little shiny Latvian moon.

    May 4, 2011

  • I matched Erin with calepinerienne (and I was the FIRST to do so!) because the word looks classy and feminine, which I imagine Erin to be. Her dress-a-day project was something I considered.

    I chose lunette for ruzuzu because it also appears feminine, but mostly I picked it because it was one of the first words gangerh listed ... and I knew ruzuzu was overeager to enter!

    My other two correct guesses were just random good luck.

    As for my own word, mortsafe: Wordies who were privy to some of the details of my childhood, might have guessed my need to feel safe. It also makes sense if one knows (from my blog) that I currently have a Russian bodyguard named Vlad.

    May 4, 2011

  • GIRL POWER!!!

    May 4, 2011

  • What's funny about Graham? It's lovely!

    May 4, 2011

  • Haha!!!

    May 4, 2011

  • frogkiller!

    May 4, 2011

  • Love it!

    May 3, 2011

  • Missing white woman syndrome (MWWS) or missing pretty girl syndrome is a vernacular term for the disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, newspaper and magazine reporting of a misfortune, most often a missing person case, involving a young, attractive, white, middle-class (or above) woman or girl.

    link. See also link.

    May 3, 2011

  • dukkha

    May 3, 2011

  • A state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world.

    May 3, 2011

  • hikikomori: a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive people who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement because of various personal and social factors in their lives.

    May 3, 2011

  • This is camelry, this is floodens, this is the solphereens in action, this is their mobbily, this is panickburns.

    — Finnegans Wake

    May 3, 2011

  • In Hopi, the word koyaanisqatsi means "crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living.

    May 3, 2011

  • aaa: swakara, campagna, haphtara, parasha, rakshasa

    aaaa: atalaya

    eee: bergere, pensee, jerreed, mestee

    eeee: peebeen

    iii: wistiti

    ooo: pocoson, rotolo

    May 2, 2011

  • The mayor of a small southern Illinois city threatened by two swollen rivers ordered all residents to leave by midnight Saturday because a "sand boil," an area where river water was seeping up through the ground behind the levee, had become dangerously large.

    link

    May 1, 2011

  • I confimed all of the names I listed via whitepages.com. Drinkwater and Stonecipher were the last names of people I once knew.

    April 29, 2011

  • Yep. Look it up at whitepages.com

    April 29, 2011

  • A tropical hardwood of the ree Dalbergia retusa from Central America.

    April 29, 2011

  • aaaa: caragana, sasarara, takamaka

    eeee: teleseme, yestereve

    oooo: colobolo, hooroo

    uuu: urubus

    April 29, 2011

  • Ah, the Incredible Mr. Limpet!

    link

    April 29, 2011

  • If this is a serious request (and not just for fun), perhaps you should ask chelster.

    April 29, 2011

  • Perhaps a lapidarist or a lapidist (an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them) is too specific.

    April 29, 2011

  • I know a psychopharmacist (a PharmD with certification in psychoactive drugs) whose name is Dr. Stoner.

    April 29, 2011

  • Exellent!

    April 28, 2011

  • There's a Wordnik jail now, so just be careful.

    Go to jail. Go directly to jail..

    April 28, 2011

  • Who's holding up the works? C'mon, stragglers.

    April 28, 2011

  • Watch this, bilby. The Tooti(e) character is Kim Fields.

    link.

    April 28, 2011

  • See Tooti.

    April 28, 2011

  • Oops. It's actually spelled Tootie. Make sure this is noted on the birth certificate, c_b.

    April 28, 2011

  • You're darn tootin' it is!

    April 28, 2011

  • SPAMMER

    April 28, 2011

  • pavonian

    April 27, 2011

  • I want a front row seat for that dirty, rotten cheater's perp walk!

    April 27, 2011

  • Well, frindley is friendly, P_U.

    April 27, 2011

  • Inflammation of the sweat glands.

    April 26, 2011

  • oroboros included himself but skipped me!!! All manner of umbrage is taken.

    April 26, 2011

  • Max Cannon, the linguist and cartoonist who creates "Read Meat", once told me that if he were ever trapped in an elevator with someone, he'd want that someone to be Will Shortz.

    April 26, 2011

  • Too much excitement is toxic. Everyone knows that! Sheesh.

    April 26, 2011

  • It actually means more than this.

    April 25, 2011

  • If ruzuzu turns out to be lunette, I guessed first -- even before she listed it herself!

    As for bilby, I think he's just pouting because several people think that he's a slopseller. Pro is always the hardest for me to figure out.

    April 24, 2011

  • bilby-slopseller

    blafferty-systematic

    chained_bear-hidelugged

    dontcry-emordnilap

    erinmckean-calepinerienne

    fbharjo-boggy

    frindley-queasy

    gangerh-sinistral

    hernesheir-chrestomathic

    mollusque-ascian

    oroboros-balsamaceous

    PossibleUnderscore-playful

    Prolagus-od

    pterodactyl-distingue

    reesetee-wodge

    ruzuzu-lunette

    seanahan-prodigal

    sionnach-panda

    Wordnicolina-mortsafe

    Wordplayer-present

    yarb-greenhorn

    April 24, 2011

  • The magic of random word search.

    April 24, 2011

  • When I post my guesses for "Identify the Wordienik!!", all the words I assign to other people will be crossed off as guesses for my word!! I'm wondering if anyone is planning to pair their word (a sacrifice!) with another player's name in order to be tricky. Oh hecko. I'm just going to do what I did last time... put all the words in a hat.

    April 23, 2011

  • (This cap) features a black crown with the Y print, a neon pink underbill with a glow in the dark sandwich brim.

    via link.

    April 21, 2011

  • Thank you. Punctuation meltdown averted.

    April 21, 2011

  • Since this is for tomorrow's FA, I'll have Vlad send you an email (at the address he has in his contacts, okay?)

    April 21, 2011

  • Beautiful! Thanks. (Are you, by chance, an editor? I'm currently in the middle of a punctuation crisis!)

    April 21, 2011

  • ruzuzu: Kindly translate "I can't sleep" into Latvian.

    April 21, 2011

  • I was torn: wordienikstack or wordnikstack. Fortunately, I didn't go with wordnikcluster.

    April 21, 2011

  • The choice probably has something to do with whether you're on the bottom.

    April 21, 2011

  • My latest barbarism. See gasometer.

    April 21, 2011

  • A stack or conical pile of Wordniks in the open air.

    April 21, 2011

  • plural: castrati

    April 20, 2011

  • Great list!

    April 20, 2011

  • Yes! I see you figured it out.

    April 20, 2011

  • pappajoseph: it can be a bit confusing at first, but kindly leave your definition within the word itself instead of in the comments section below your list.

    Click here for maroon.

    Someone else can probably offer a clearer explanation, but I tried!

    April 20, 2011

  • I wasn't allowed to include the question (?) mark.

    This box appears when one wishes to delete a comment.

    April 20, 2011

  • April 20, 2011

  • at the end of the day.

    April 20, 2011

  • That thing looks like the water tank in Petticoat Junction.

    link

    April 20, 2011

  • I'm guessing duckobill is a monstrosity, too.

    April 20, 2011

  • nautical sausages!

    April 20, 2011

  • Reading this page makes me doubt whether English is my first language.

    Gasometer? Trannie? Footy?

    April 20, 2011

  • How sad. Four years have passed and oroboros is still waiting for an answer...

    April 18, 2011

  • wordnek, wrodnik, wornik...

    April 18, 2011

  • Taking advantage of the fact that millions of online users mistype addresses of websites they intend to visit, typosquatters register common misspelled versions of popular sites and make money by displaying ads.

    April 18, 2011

  • The gleam exhibited at night by a school of herrings.

    April 18, 2011

  • Love it!

    April 18, 2011

  • A salmon (Salmo mykiss, syn. Salmo purpuratus) marked with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; -- called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and redthroat trout.

    April 18, 2011

  • (falconry, transitive) To remove the hood from (a falcon).

    April 18, 2011

  • Haha!!

    April 18, 2011

  • Most of the examples of this word are just misspellings/typos of nothing.

    April 17, 2011

  • France urges EU to freeze spending - but ringfence agriculture

    link

    April 16, 2011

  • geography bee

    April 16, 2011

  • People executed by flaying

    link.

    April 14, 2011

  • List of U.S. Cities with Diacritics

    link.

    April 13, 2011

  • "Most twenty-somethings, however, are "treaders", who simply replicate the lessons of their poorer, less stable, non-voting and hands-off parents, but to worse effect." Young Americans Left Out in the Rain, The Economist, January 6, 2011.

    April 12, 2011

  • (Chinese: 爵; pinyin: jué) is a bronze tripod goblet or beaker used to serve or warm wine.

    April 9, 2011

  • Is the guy on the label even wearing a bluey?

    April 7, 2011

  • Between epileptic seizures

    April 7, 2011

  • "A long paragraph is like a day of making love: lollygag, twine, tease, tense, breathe, push, pull, withhold, surrender, starshine, release."--Unknown

    April 6, 2011

  • Does it matter if friends you haven't seen in awhile horrify you with new faces that look pained when they smile if their hearts are still huge and filled with love? Is it important that my former gynecologist's sideline is in "designer vaginas" when she is such a kick-ass expert on women's homones? (The "designer vagina" and constant Botox promos rubbed me the wrong way so I found someone new, but maybe it's my loss.) ~

    April 5, 2011

  • A species of tinamou, found in Peru.

    April 5, 2011

  • An ancient Chinese reed, shaped like a flute but shorter, having three to seven holes, and played with one hand.

    April 2, 2011

  • Haha. Excellent!

    March 22, 2011

  • I suffer from prolagusmania. It's a good feeling.

    March 22, 2011

  • Is this an alternate spelling?

    March 17, 2011

  • I've seen plenty.

    March 17, 2011

  • Snails collect their metabolic wastes in the coelom - which has been reduced to a sac surrounding the heart.

    March 16, 2011

  • Gotcha. It's clear to me now. Thanks.

    March 16, 2011

  • In what way does this word sound edible? (See mollusque's list Not Edible.)

    March 15, 2011

  • Excellent!

    March 15, 2011

  • See here.

    March 15, 2011

  • Isn't grapefruit a non-count noun? (Not a swipe at you, Pro. I'm asking for myself.)

    March 13, 2011

  • (Hawaiian) good-tasting, delicious.

    March 8, 2011

  • Heehee!!!

    March 8, 2011

  • Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

    I need to study up on heraldry.

    March 7, 2011

  • Talk about nerve!

    March 7, 2011

  • I just saw bilby raining down, too.

    March 7, 2011

  • There's probably a word for them, but I coined my own: rainbars.

    March 5, 2011

  • Wow. One of the rainbars had "dontcry" written on it.

    March 5, 2011

  • warty

    March 4, 2011

  • (crossword puzzles) An unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).

    I still don't understand. What is an "unchecked square"? I need a picture.

    March 4, 2011

  • boomshakalaka bucket of teh alsome.

    March 4, 2011

  • There are two pronunciations included for this word, including the one this story considered incorrect. link.

    March 3, 2011

  • Mausoleums as housing... reminded me of people who live in flood tunnels.

    link.

    March 3, 2011

  • A manure prepared from night-soil dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum.

    March 3, 2011

  • a missing person

    March 3, 2011

  • A source of amusement?!

    What year was this published, Pro?

    March 2, 2011

  • Why does a milking stool only have 3 legs? Because the cow has...

    March 2, 2011

  • Poor Prolagus.

    link.

    March 1, 2011

  • I like this word!

    March 1, 2011

  • Ha!

    February 26, 2011

  • I wish I knew how to knit, so I could justify having a knitmeter!

    link.

    February 25, 2011

  • List of paraphilias, list of unusual deaths

    February 25, 2011

  • hepatotoxic

    February 21, 2011

  • Are we Commies now? Why does Wordnik hate freedom?

    February 20, 2011

  • Hmm. I always thought it had something to do with Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson.

    link.

    February 19, 2011

  • I don't give a foutra anymore.

    February 19, 2011

  • Yes, they do exist.

    link.

    February 16, 2011

  • Ass Unit-ism is an anagram for sustainism. There are others: Tsunami Sis, Mist is Anus....

    February 2, 2011

  • Are these names of cities only?

    January 20, 2011

  • Peculiar is a city in Cass County, Missouri, United States. The town motto is, appropriately enough, "Where the 'odds' are with you."

    November 29, 2010

  • Born in Oklahoma: raised in Missouri

    November 26, 2010

  • 1. See 4th Mother.

    Okay, I looked up "4th Mother". Nothing.

    November 26, 2010

  • An honorable marital art.

    November 16, 2010

  • What comes after a bilby?

    A trilby.

    October 31, 2010

  • A genus of fetid badgers, of the family Mustelidæ and subfamily Melinæ.; including the stinking badger of Java, or Javanese skunk, M. javanensis or M. meliceps.

    Fetid badgers? Stinking badgers?

    October 28, 2010

  • Shut the hell up.

    October 28, 2010

  • Yep.

    October 27, 2010

  • I laughed at the package of dried ramen.

    October 27, 2010

  • KEEP FEAR ALIVE!

    KEEP FEAR ALIVE!

    October 27, 2010

  • Unlike holiday lights, hoses can cause damage when left out all year: They can lead to freezing of the sillcock (outdoor faucet) or its water supply pipe.

    October 27, 2010

  • How to dispense healthy snacks from a vending machine: design a fruit elevator.

    The big push for vending machines to sell healthier snacks has overlooked something: It isn't easy for a machine to deliver an unbruised banana.

    --The Great Banana Challenge.

    October 24, 2010

  • The truffle fly is informed by the sense of smell of the points favourable to its maternal plans; it has the talents of the truffle-dog, and ...

    (I thought pigs were the trufflers of choice)

    October 21, 2010

  • I'm a frosted lemon coward

    October 19, 2010

  • achy breaky heart

    October 19, 2010

  • A fabric made from the bark of the paper-mulberry tree.

    October 18, 2010

  • Why in the anti-heaven is bilby getting credit for MY list??? (Is it because I abandoned this list, and he breastfed it back to health?)

    October 18, 2010

  • wrodnik

    October 16, 2010

  • I've been enjoying the narration of this German poem:

    Lied Vom Kindsein.

    October 16, 2010

  • I thikn this is teh alsome.

    October 15, 2010

  • The doctrines or principles of the Know-nothings.

    October 9, 2010

  • Inadequate housekeeping or tending to a lighthouse?

    October 9, 2010

  • Hmm. I didn't know that black walnut trees grow in Italy.

    "While its primary native region is the midwest and east central United States, the black walnut was introduced into Europe in 1629."

    October 9, 2010

  • Usually the main blurb is given to the most famous of the authors providing comments, and the remainder of the authors are consigned to the subblurbs.

    October 8, 2010

  • Is this white magic?

    October 8, 2010

  • I've been to Latvia!

    October 8, 2010

  • Hahaha!

    October 7, 2010

  • The "Wordie Loves Me" page on Facebook is dying of neglect and loneliness.

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12682475295

    October 7, 2010

  • This word set off a hork attack for me: dogtoberfest

    October 6, 2010

  • cantaloupe. Read bilby's funny 'rock melon' story here.

    October 5, 2010

  • sarra: I hope my comment about yarb and bilby (I was kidding!) doesn't discourage you from adding to this list. Go ahead and be punny. I welcome your contributions.

    October 1, 2010

  • the last roundup

    October 1, 2010

  • T: Send aviation-related blog fun to Vlad.~T.

    October 1, 2010

  • Pogsurf's pronunciation is interesting. It's as though he's channeling Kirk Douglas.

    And, kewpid, your pronunciation is perfectly fine. Don't mess with perfectly fine.

    September 30, 2010

  • This is MY list? I don't even remember creating it... I probably (and wisely) abandoned it after bilby and yarb listjacked it.

    Not To-Do List: Don't abandon your lists.

    September 30, 2010

  • Fool's gold.

    September 30, 2010

  • This term has not yet been assimilated into English. If it were English, this would be an acceptable way to say it. The pronunciation recorded below by Prolagus is indigenous. --(chelster, see pronunciations)

    Would you like some indigenous nudity with your casu marTzu, Pro?

    September 30, 2010

  • September 30, 2010

  • See casu marzu

    September 30, 2010

  • P.S. I miss skipvia (aka magnificent bastard). Good thing he's still around on Facebook. And Frindley, too. Where have all the Frindleys gone... long time passing... where have all the Frindleys gone... long time ago?

    September 30, 2010

  • Did you eat your casu marzu on carasau, asativum? I would love to visit Sardinia.

    September 30, 2010

  • An eater of amphiths

    September 29, 2010

  • Add an extra "o" if you'd like to add oomph to your ooof, Proo.

    September 29, 2010

  • ostrich orthodontics

    September 29, 2010

  • Wow. Who knew?

    September 24, 2010

  • 1. Kindly cite one or more sources to back up your claim that there is no rabies in Australia.

    2. Leave my mutated lovebits out of this. L'amore è cieco!

    3. Why do you hate ☮?

    September 24, 2010

  • fog + smoke??

    September 24, 2010

  • Not to be confused with the dungspork.

    September 24, 2010

  • I say, sh☮☮t first... determine bilby rabidity later.

    September 24, 2010

  • I'd like to donate something, perhaps eight Monopoly® dollars, to the Bilby Awareness Organization (BAO).

    September 23, 2010

  • link

    September 23, 2010

  • Thanks!

    September 19, 2010

  • See apheresis.

    September 18, 2010

  • I still want to know if it's possible to use it as an adverb.

    September 18, 2010

  • The only way to learn anything around here is to ask questions. Is it possible to say, "I gave blood apheresisly/apheresically??" (sp?)

    September 18, 2010

  • Is blood donation uncommon in Italy? Being CMV negative, I get frequent calls pleading with me to make apheresis donations. (I donate a lot of blood because CMV-negative donor blood is needed at children's hospital and hospices.)

    September 18, 2010

  • See here.

    September 17, 2010

  • I like Pro's pronunciation best! It is an Italian word, no?!

    *smirking at the thought of Pro going home and saying (broo-SKET-uh) in front of family and friends*

    September 17, 2010

  • My bread post was for you, Pro.♥

    September 17, 2010

  • also known as carta di musica. See how it's made here.

    September 17, 2010

  • Oops. Thanks, mollusque. How ironic of me to goof up Phyllis myself! Sheesh.

    September 16, 2010

  • A picture or photograph made up of shadows or outlines.

    How about a skipviagram?!!

    September 15, 2010

  • (This isn't a case of a newspaper typo; perhaps her parents weren't familiar with the traditional spelling "Phyliss"):

    Jackson County prosecutors alleged that Fhyliss F. Jackson rammed her SUV into another vehicle in the parking lot of a convenience store at Independence Avenue and Olive Street and then struck a gas pump, causing it to explode.

    --The Kansas City Star, Sept. 14, 2010.

    September 15, 2010

  • Madeupical or not, I like the sound of this word.

    September 15, 2010

  • I also own a couple of your books. Kindly start an open list where we can add pronunciation requests.

    September 15, 2010

  • Thanks, T. I used it. Much appreciated.

    September 15, 2010

  • The fear of being watched by a duck.

    What, then, is the word for the fear of being watched by a duck wearing a dog's mask? See photo.

    September 14, 2010

  • Haha. Thanks, Jonathan. That wolf ticket *would* look swell next to my egg license. You have a great memory! list.

    September 14, 2010

  • The word in Persian for "snow" does not sound like "barf" (to throw up.)

    Listen to pronunciation.

    September 6, 2010

  • Thanks for the article link, bilb. I love stuff like this.

    September 6, 2010

  • *whimpering*

    September 3, 2010

  • bilby, dear. Would you kindly record a pronunciation for this?

    September 3, 2010

  • Thanks, David! You're funny.

    September 3, 2010

  • Since I can't edit my comment (for whatever reason!), just know that I was thinking about llamas when I wrote the word llist. llama llist

    September 3, 2010

  • Is there a Wordnik llist that contains fun wingdings like the crown above?

    September 3, 2010

  • Are you mad at me, Pro?

    September 2, 2010

  • I'd like to see this rare Chinese character: link.

    September 2, 2010

  • bilby forges futhorks

    August 31, 2010

  • Why does bilby hate children AND freedom?

    August 31, 2010

  • john: please zap this Prolagus person. S/he looks like a spammer.

    August 30, 2010

  • digit-sum embarrassment

    August 30, 2010

  • I'm not sure, but I think ruzuzu has the largest digit sum with the fewest letters. (bilby, on the other hand, is a digit-sum embarrassment.)

    August 30, 2010

  • I'm not sure if it's possible, Telofy, but I think I love you even more than I did before! ♥

    August 30, 2010

  • Did bilby break Wordnik AGAIN?!

    August 30, 2010

  • Why the cap T, telofy? Are you pulling rank on us?

    August 30, 2010

  • If the interrobang could go back in time: here.

    August 23, 2010

  • Not by the hair of my chinny-chin chin-fly.

    August 18, 2010

  • That's the part I liked, too!

    August 7, 2010

  • How to hold a sackbut here. See also sagbut.

    August 7, 2010

  • dog eats man's big toe, saves his life

    here

    August 5, 2010

  • The funniest (and most unexpected) use of the word cilantro I've seen so far.

    cilantro.

    August 5, 2010

  • A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.

    August 5, 2010

  • My first thought: This is a madeupical word. I was wrong.

    August 5, 2010

  • ruzuzu is a Wordnik gem! She posts a lot because she has a lot to offer. We love her.

    August 3, 2010

  • Bob is my uncle: Robert L. Adams.

    August 3, 2010

  • Your Wiki link helped! Thanks, ruzi.

    August 2, 2010

  • I must be a moron. I don't understand this list.

    August 2, 2010

  • T: I'm confused about these watches. Kindly explain.~T.

    August 2, 2010

  • ☂ ☂ ☂ ☂☂ ☂ ☂ ☂☂ ☂ ☂ ☂

    August 2, 2010

  • A large foot.

    July 30, 2010

  • An apparatus for ascertaining the amount of butter-fat in milk.

    July 30, 2010

  • - inability to urinate.

    - lacking a tail, especially applied to frog.

    July 27, 2010

  • Fed on offal or scraps from the kitchen (according to Nares, fed, or fattened, in the rump; fat-bottomed).

    July 27, 2010

  • July 27, 2010

  • To scold heartily.

    July 27, 2010

  • Great Wordnik name!

    July 27, 2010

  • The study of Oreo cookies. See also orography

    July 26, 2010

  • When I hear braincase, I picture a bookcase stocked with jars of pickled brains.

    July 26, 2010

  • Look at that billyo of bilbyo dungo!

    July 24, 2010

  • What?! This isn't a toilet?

    July 23, 2010

  • Fascinating, hernesheir. Thank you!

    July 23, 2010

  • Do you know what produces this color of rock? link.

    July 23, 2010

  • Persian: "May your hands not hurt". A common expression of gratitude when someone provides you with something (food, transportation, etc.)

    July 22, 2010

  • Persian: "May you not be tired". Said to someone who has returned home (from working) or who has completed a task.

    July 22, 2010

  • I can't get the word "brainpan" out of my head. Seriously. It's like a bad song stuck there.

    July 21, 2010

  • July 21, 2010

  • telofydynamic!

    July 21, 2010

  • Still brilliant! I'm officially stealing this.

    July 21, 2010

  • Is there a word for eating urban-legend spiders?

    link.

    July 21, 2010

  • Haha!

    July 19, 2010

  • T: My turtle-balls are working just fine; they just don't like you!~T.

    July 19, 2010

  • John Hall, who entered the College in 1646, recommended "shittlecock" as fit for students -- "it requires a nimble arme with quick and waking eye."

    —St. Johns College, Cambridge

    July 19, 2010

  • "Phelophepa" means good, clean health - and the train clinic is a sponsored service covering four provinces over a period of 36 weeks.

    —ANC Daily News Briefing

    July 19, 2010

  • I found this passage in the Examples.

    July 18, 2010

  • I like this. I've seen variations of this idea applied to song titles too.

    July 18, 2010

  • Yarb and the strange dog saluted one another, and then the active, thin-legged, slender-tongued Azor relinquished his licking of Yarb’s blunt jowl, licked... --Dead Souls

    July 18, 2010

  • A demon who was said to collect all the fragments of words which the priests had skipped over or mutilated in the performance of the service, and to carry them to hell.

    July 15, 2010

  • Found recently at the end of a spam email:

    ’╭⌒╮⌒╮.’,”’,,’,.”,,’,”,.

    ╱◥██◣”o’,”’,,’,.”.”,,’,.

    |田|田田│ ”,,’,.’,”’,,’,.”

    ╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬

    July 12, 2010

  • mystery revealed here.

    July 10, 2010

  • red-bellied woodpecker

    July 10, 2010

  • There are no examples for this word. Anybody?

    July 10, 2010

  • July 9, 2010

  • Haha! Ruzuzu added this to Mandles, Candles for Men. Brilliant move, ru!

    July 9, 2010

  • New word for me.

    July 7, 2010

  • A word that rhymes with raccoon.

    July 5, 2010

  • A long cylindrical box balanced and juggled with by the feet of an acrobat.

    July 5, 2010

  • This helps to explain the medication Gabapentin.

    July 5, 2010

  • "jo" means muddy or goatfish. Byron Bender helped me with some Marshallese words several years ago. Dialect unknown, sorry. See here.

    July 4, 2010

  • cannon-like?

    June 30, 2010

  • Shoot! Every photo I've found so far is made of cookies.

    June 29, 2010

  • The fruit of the gingerbread-tree, Parinarium macrophyllum.

    (Wow. I need to find a photo of this tree!)

    June 29, 2010

  • Thanks, Tom.

    June 29, 2010

  • Do paleobotanists study coprolite? See here. Is there anything of interest for you to share about coprolite?

    June 28, 2010

  • "Social networking technology has contributed to the spread of a new group activity: crop mobbing. In a modern-day equivalent of barn-raising, groups of young farmers and city-dwelling locavores descend on farms to offer their labor without expectation of compensation other than a hearty meal. They focus their efforts on family-owned organic farms. Not everyone is enthusiastic about the phenomenon:

    Some dismiss crop mobs as urbanites playing at farming, a hands-on variation of the popular “Farmville” Facebook game. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, history professor at Iowa State University, likened crop mobs to “agricultural tourism.” “You go in, spend a nice weekend, get your fingers a little dirty. It’s nice but not a significant contribution to agriculture,” she said.

    Supporters would vehemently disagree, noting that the experience offers networking for small farmers and an interesting experience for the “agricurious.” The phenomenon began two years ago in North Carolina, and has now spread to other states."

    link.

    June 25, 2010

  • ?

    June 20, 2010

  • Former NBA Star Manute Bol Dies.

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Former NBA star and Kansas City-area resident Manute Bol died Saturday after battling acute kidney failure and a serious skin condition (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome). Link.

    June 20, 2010

  • In that year Snoop Dogg also pleaded no contest to gun and drugs charges in the United States and was barred from entering Australia after failing a character test...

    via here.

    What's an Australian character test?! Must one know the entire alphabet? What?!!

    June 18, 2010

  • manboobs = moobs

    June 17, 2010

  • Mile-long trail of manatee poop forces beach closure

    Link here.

    June 17, 2010

  • (noun) A notable genus of grasshoppers, of the family Acridiidæ, containing such species as S. maculipennis. This is a common grasshopper in most parts of the United States, and resembles the hateful grasshopper or Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) so closely that it has often been mistaken for the latter.

    The hateful grasshopper?!

    June 16, 2010

  • (noun) A false spelling of windowlet.

    What's the difference between a false spelling and a misspelling?

    June 16, 2010

  • Excellent! Hilarious list.

    June 15, 2010

  • I miss rolig.

    June 15, 2010

  • Nice glossary of pewter terms here.

    June 15, 2010

  • Wordnikdom?

    June 15, 2010

  • I wonder if it's too late for me to take up cowleeching. I think I'd make a fine cowleecher.

    June 13, 2010

  • bilby: pronounce, please.

    June 11, 2010

  • gureh

    June 11, 2010

  • See also drumbrella

    June 11, 2010

  • A fan recently sent me two coprolites. One is a cabochon and the other is in its unpolished state. I like the unpolished one better. Perhaps someday I'll even have some regurgitalite. One can at least hope!

    June 11, 2010

  • I'm in love with this list. I know nothing about mineralogy, but it's fun to find a mineral that's not already listed -- as well as one that meets hernesheir's requirements. I looked up "enargite" before adding it!

    June 11, 2010

  • aka rain drum.

    June 11, 2010

  • Camera Obscura? Do I have a post with that title?

    June 10, 2010

  • I added scyelite. I visited the sites you mentioned (IMA, etc), but I was never able to figure out if scyelite is an approved mineral.

    June 8, 2010

  • I was wondering the same thing, possibleunderscore. How is this done?

    By the way, my definition came from the Wordnik definitions page.

    June 8, 2010

  • (The habit of biting off the ends of the hairs of the beard or mustache.)

    Why just the beard or moustache? What about the hair on one's head?

    June 8, 2010

  • June 8, 2010

  • A variety of hornblende picrite, characterized by the presence of a considerable amount of a peculiar micaceous mineral: it occurs in Achavarasdale Moor, near Loch Scye, in Caithness, on the border of Sutherland, Scotland.

    June 7, 2010

  • What is a specter candle?

    June 7, 2010

  • Why isn't this word "gilting"?

    (noun The art or process of applying gilt to a surface.)

    June 7, 2010

  • HH: Teehee! Good one.

    June 7, 2010

  • Tell it to the judge, bilby.

    June 7, 2010

  • falafel + waffle

    recipe

    June 5, 2010

  • Pro, are you saying that the Italian "translate to" translation is painfully incorrect?

    June 4, 2010

  • McDonald's recalls millions of Shrek glasses

    A potentially toxic chemical is found in the paint on the drinkware promoting a new movie.

    --Yahoo headline

    (It sounds like toxic chemicals are promoting a new movie.)

    June 4, 2010

  • My eyes see "electricblue", but my mind says... this sentence has reesetee's name written all over it.

    June 4, 2010

  • link

    June 4, 2010

  • June 4, 2010

  • I want to use the version that sounds better to you. I uploaded the first version, but amended it. The syndicate's server didn't pick it up initially, but it will eventually. I think I'll post both versions on my blog. Thank you for very much, telofy.

    June 3, 2010

  • I reworded my gag because I thought it would be easier to translate!

    "Now you see me, now you don't" is the version familiar to me.

    June 3, 2010

  • It would be my readership as a whole, so I opted for formality.

    June 3, 2010

  • Stay out of my business, lovebutt!

    June 3, 2010

  • Jetzt sehen Sie mich, jetzt sehen Sie mich nicht.

    (Now you see me, now you don't see me.)

    I don't trust my German (in my comic strip) unless I get it double-checked!

    June 3, 2010

  • Thanks, Pro. I'm determined to put this info to good use!

    June 3, 2010

  • Calling telofy! Are you around? I need to double-check a short sentence in German.

    June 3, 2010

  • ?

    June 3, 2010

  • Love it!

    June 3, 2010

  • Apparently, whichbe knew!

    June 3, 2010

  • Who knew??

    The art of making and decorating lamps; the work of a lampist.

    June 3, 2010

  • Ormer, the very lovely

    but lonely

    aboriginal abalone

    who was full of baloney.

    May 30, 2010

  • Ormer, the very lonely abalone.

    May 30, 2010

  • Hmm. I mistakenly thought this word had something to do with Macadamia nuts. (Random word search.)

    May 30, 2010

  • Antimonial intoxication or poisoning.

    May 30, 2010

  • rub-a-dub-dubicide

    -----------------

    Rub-a-dub-dub,

    Three men in a tub

    May 29, 2010

  • I have no doubt that bilbybutt's crud-doodles were lovely in a cruddy way.

    May 28, 2010

  • Greek highway closed because of a "carpet of frogs" link

    May 27, 2010

  • TT: I know you're a fan. Have you heard this interview?

    May 27, 2010

  • For you reesetee: formic acid

    May 26, 2010

  • I can see myself misusing this feature (on a regular basis) for inappropriate purposes.

    May 25, 2010

  • I just now noticed the "translate to" feature. Does this translation make a lick of sense, Pro??

    keep your butt out of the pot --- in Italian: tenere la testa fuori dalla pentola

    May 25, 2010

  • "Gould said he sees potting soil fires a handful of times each year in Independence. A fire department in Colorado started a campaign called, "Keep your butt out of the pot!"

    Full article here.

    May 25, 2010

  • One huge one. Albino.

    May 22, 2010

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