Happy Birthday, Noah Webster! --October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843-- Read the Widipedia entry for this iconic American lexicographer, spelling reformer, writer, publisher here.
Today (10/3/13) is Natl Poetry Day in the UK. What are your favorite poems? Among mine, William Butler Yeats' The Wild Swans at Coole, and A.E. Housman's Loveliest of trees, the cherry now</i>".
The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is one of London's livery companies, around since 1272. You can follow them on Twitter @Cordwainers. Cordovan, the fine leather from Córdoba in Andalusia, cordwain from cordovan. Fine leathery livery.
What the Obama administration is portraying as a "shutdown" of the federal government -- complete with signs posted at the entrances to government buildings, parks and monuments -- is turning out to be more of a "slimdown," - FOX News
An offal dish from the cuisine of northern Portugal described as "a steaming black mash that involves the heart, lungs, liver and throat lining of a pig stewed in the animal's blood".
"An even more disturbing spectre called the shug monkey, which is described by witnesses as an unholy combination of mastiff and great ape is also seen on occasion..."
US Infantryman slang for the metal clip designed to hold two 30-round rifle/machine gun magazines together. The formal military name for this article was "Holder, Magazine T3-A1".
@lydunka - my feeling is that the well was nearly dry, so the water level in the well was very low. More rope required to reach the water, and more time and effort required to hoist the bucket.
Slim looked much like the other fellows come to watch the rodeo, dressed in newish jeans and shirt, polished boots, with a modestly-sized oval buckle on his belt and his Sunday hat atop his head. His wife, on the other hand, was all gussied up like a jibby-horse.
Prolonged debate over whether, or not, the neoterists were in truth "just verbarians" prevented participants at the neologists' society conference from truly enjoying their plenary supper. The evening ended with toasts and cheers to the New Word Order.
I'll perform, on the whistle, a selection of jigs, hornpipes, reels and slow airs tomorrow evening in a St. Paddy's variety show. Maids of Mitchelstown, Boys of the Town, Kerfunten, Cul Aodhe, and others.
The rumor was that misdaub and surcoat were seen together on Viscount Exmouth's boat on Lake Como, and then later in the season, taking the waters at Marienbad.
Unicode character ("modifier letter turned comma") representing the ʻokina or phonetic glottal stop used in writing Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages. Compare U+2018, the "single opening quotation mark".
Neither ONE nor TWO are airport codes, to my knowledge. However, ANE is the code for the Aéroport de Angers - Loire, in France; TRE is the Tiree Airport in Tiree, Scotland; FOR is Pinto Martins Intl Airport in Ceará, Brazil; and FIV stands for the Five Finger Coast Guard Heliport in Five Finger Alaska. There is no SIX, to my knowledge.
A family member long ago dubbed me the Word Bird, @VerbalElation. I am or have been, among other things, an antiques collector and a fossil plant systematicist. The latter of these discovers and catalogs relationships between extinct and living plant lineages. Finding words and drawing connections by means of organized or themed lists is but another exercise in collecting and organizing that offers me satisfaction. I delight in words. They humor me. I list words as a hobby, yes, and to keep them close to hand. But for broader reasons too.
The world in its variety is very finely and sometimes bewilderingly nuanced, whether one examines a just synchronic snapshot, a moment in time, or a diachronic interval that spans a particular history. Our words, the words of our language, record the manifold physical and cultural landscapes that we and our forbears have perceived. I collect words in order to learn and examine their subtleties. If I am startled because there are so many words for "snow" it is because I have not known snow it its delightful variety. If "snow" is the only word known to me for the frozen precipitation that falls from the sky in winter, then my perception of that particle of the world is restricted, and perhaps biased in its narrowness. A broad vocabulary broadens the horizon I see when I look beyond myself.
“Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.” --from the Examples.
The whole allusion and connection to coquina lies with the mussel's genus name Donax, which reminded me of the song's repetitive verse "Dona dona dona..." . I like the visuals, especially the live oak trees and the old coquina stone city gates of St. Augustine FL, both of which have been pictured on post cards and tourist souvenirs for well over a century.
adj. botany, A form of dehiscence whereby a seed capsule opens via pores or holes, allowing seeds to be dispersed like salt from a shaker. Species of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) are the most familiar plants exhibiting poricidal dehiscence. Compare septicidal, septifragal, and loculicidal.
"A character in The Tooth of Crime asks plaintfully, "Ain't there any farmers left, ranchers, cowboys, open space? Nobody just livin' their life?" --Johan Callens, Ed., 1998. Sam Shepherd: Between the Margin and the Center (1). American Theater Review, Vol. 8, Pt. 3, p.26.
Picea (see picea) is the genus name of the spruce tree. In the past, spruce resin/gum was processed into a sort of chewing gum. This gum had the pitchiness but not the blackness implied by the adjective piceous, as Robert Frost told us in this excerpt from his 1920 poem The Gum-Gatherer:
Don't let the definition put a sack (wineskin) over your head. strstr() is a string function in the standard C library and in PHP. An example of entry-definition mismatch.
Makers of junk food not only battle for market share, but they also compete for stomach share. What's in your paunch, and whom did you pay for the privilege of putting it there? Thanks to John McGrath @Wordie for tweeting the NYT article that gave me this phrase.
Humorous term and Twitter.com hashtag referring to Marco Rubio's awkward and mid-sentence groping for an out-of-frame bottle of Poland Springs water during the broadcast of his Republican response/rebuttal to Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address.
Rebel._ 1554. The Rebel was a poem, printed in Notes and Querries: A Medium of Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc., No. 33, Saturday, June 15, 1850, p. 34.
A certain alga growing on stones that, when wetted, yields a strong and pleasant odor of violets. Perfect for lining a grotto or outdoor shower, I should think.
Interesting, if not zblbl, because water-cooler is African ungulate herd-slang for the water-hole, where hackers (slang for crocodiles) lie in wait to ambush the users.
Primarily looking for the edible kind, and associated words, ruzuzu, but I'd be pleased if you'd add it anyway! It should probably go on my list of "greens", too.
James Cook named the Sandwich Islands after his benefactor, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook reported that the native name for the Islands we now know as Hawai'i was Owyhee. The so-named county in SW Idaho is derived from Cook's term, and recalls 3 Hawaiian trappers who were lost in that region.
Visuals are fairly representative of this part of Idaho.
“He is aflame, from the edge of his collar -- a patent clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, purchased at a famous travellers 'emporium in the Strand -- to the thin, silky rings of dark hair that are wearing from his high, pale temples.” --Richard Dehan, The Dop Doctor. London, Wm. Heinemann Ltd., 1910.
I think of two things when I see this word: (1), a Bavarian tourist shop full of cuckoo clocks, the ticks, tocks and cuckoos all competing with eachother; (2) the diner in Gainesville FL named "The Clock" that has dozens of clocks on the walls, none of them telling the correct time.
fbharjo, just a straightforward first-letters anagram. The terms themselves fall within a broad rubric that also encompasses the looked-for word/phrase.
A term coined by Seattle food expert Jon Rowley to describe the combination of subtle local variations in underwater environments that affect the flavor of Pacific oysters and other seafoods. Cf. terroir.
Don't know if wire lettuce's time has come, but in the season between the muddy winter thaw and the ripening of foxtail and June grasses (whose prickly awned fruits cling and burrow mercilessly into pantlegs, bootlaces, and stockings), I enjoy tramping the remote and desolate hills and dry treeless vales of Malheur County Oregon.
In my rock-climbing days we called obvious and protruding hand-sized rocks and knobs that even a non-climber could employ as a handhold chicken heads. We didn't have a comparable ice term for our ice-climbing of frozen waterfalls and curtains of ice on cliff faces.
-- A History of Agriculture and Prices in England from the Year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Arthur George Liddon Rogers, ed., 1887, p.749.
See jarp. Also termed egg-tapping, egg fight, egg knocking, shackling, dumping. All the King's horses and all the King's men... From the folk who gave us conkers.
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hernesheir commented on the list food-and-wine-pairing
Love it! Swiss Chardonay jumps to mind.
December 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word radiant orchid
Pantone's purply-pink color of the year for 2014, opposite on the colorwheel from 2013's emerald.
December 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Hermit
Island in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
December 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Grenadier
An island in the St. Lawrence River once known for its eel fishery.
December 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Elbow Cay
A six-mile long cay in the Abacos Islands, Bahamas. Nice visuals.
December 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Dowager Island
Located in the north coast region of British Columbia.
December 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Brother Island
An island in the Niagara River near the Horseshoe Falls.
December 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Bishop Rock
The smallest island in the world with a building on it (a lighthouse), according to the Guiness Book of World Records. It's a Rock.
December 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Grand Mentor
An island in the lagoon of the Aldabra Atoll.
December 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pillyshee
A pulley. Also pullishee, pullisee.
December 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pullisee
See pillyshee.
December 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word searse
A sieve; tamin, temse.
December 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word suicide caucus
Google fight, 10/18/2013 results:
suicide caucus 396,000 vs. surrender caucus 62,900.
October 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Noah Webster
Happy Birthday, Noah Webster! --October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843--
Read the Widipedia entry for this iconic American lexicographer, spelling reformer, writer, publisher here.
October 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word poetry
Today (10/3/13) is Natl Poetry Day in the UK. What are your favorite poems? Among mine, William Butler Yeats' The Wild Swans at Coole, and A.E. Housman's Loveliest of trees, the cherry now</i>".
October 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word unstuffed
"I tried using the leg skins unstuffed, but that looked rubbish too." - from the provided examples.
October 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cordwainer
The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is one of London's livery companies, around since 1272. You can follow them on Twitter @Cordwainers. Cordovan, the fine leather from Córdoba in Andalusia, cordwain from cordovan. Fine leathery livery.
October 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word autotomic
Thanks Ruzuzu for sharing this word that went straight to my list of adjectival arcana.
October 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word gobemouche
"There Was Once an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" - Cumulative verse employing a dose of situational irony, written by one Rose Bonne.
October 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word shutdown
Hey, slow down. Slim down. Then shut down.
What the Obama administration is portraying as a "shutdown" of the federal government -- complete with signs posted at the entrances to government buildings, parks and monuments -- is turning out to be more of a "slimdown," - FOX News
"It’s time for President Obama and Senator Reid to actually come to the negotiating table and put an end to their government slowdown." US Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann
October 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word plum tuckered out
plumb
September 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stint
It's a bird.
September 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Lincrusta
Wall treatments have come a long way since Lincrusta. And so have marketing departments.
September 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word papas de sarrabulho
An offal dish from the cuisine of northern Portugal described as "a steaming black mash that involves the heart, lungs, liver and throat lining of a pig stewed in the animal's blood".
September 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bread and butter policies
There is precious little jam these days.
September 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word shug monkey
See http://www.sott.net/article/180600-England-Return-of-the-Shug-Monkey.
"An even more disturbing spectre called the shug monkey, which is described by witnesses as an unholy combination of mastiff and great ape is also seen on occasion..."
September 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word downregulate
Quite the opposite of upregulate.
September 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word jezail
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. -- from Kipling's poem Arithmetic on the Frontier
September 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ribauldequin
Also rabauld, ribault, ribaudkin, infernal machine or organ gun.
September 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word jungle clip
US Infantryman slang for the metal clip designed to hold two 30-round rifle/machine gun magazines together. The formal military name for this article was "Holder, Magazine T3-A1".
September 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Parkerize
See examples at parkerize.
September 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cuneator
So who's minding the mint? Some ex-checker or something?
March 24, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word 500 Server Error
Lot's of this going around today.
March 23, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hugger-mugger
Same context: A once-famous fun-filled foot-long interspecies.
March 23, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word aulin
It's a bird.
March 23, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word dartcapitation
Funny, my nephews launched a fusillade of whistling Nerf darts at me today.
March 23, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*stpr - postprocedural
March 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word duffer
For ruzuzu's cattle list:
n. A cow that does not produce milk.
n. Australia, dated; A cattle thief; one who alters the brands of cattle.
March 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
Happy National Bubble Week! 3/20-3/26, 2013.
Who else can blow bubbles off the tip of their tongue?
March 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cainito
star-apple
March 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word thugs-in-uniform
Who knew? I wonder whether a mismatch between term and definition is at work here.
March 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word undern-song
Time to wake up, tra-la-la.
March 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kissar
Zing went the strings, reestee.
March 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pianata
A peñita might perhaps look like the smaller of those rocky milestones that crop out along some or another songline, bilby.
March 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word yarsagumbu
It's not a clam. See also the example sentence at Yarsagumbu. YouTube has some great examples worth perusing.
March 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word well
@lydunka - my feeling is that the well was nearly dry, so the water level in the well was very low. More rope required to reach the water, and more time and effort required to hoist the bucket.
March 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pianata
A piñata shaped like a street-piano.
March 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list things-that-freak-me-out
It's Herr Feuerman. May I borrow some lime-liniment?
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word seasoning-machine
Pass the fat-liquor, please.
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word jagger
“My mother called whiskey 'jagger' -- I don't know why.” --from the Examples.
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sadden
To become heavy, compact, or firm; harden, as land or roads after a thaw or rain. --CD&C
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word jibby-horse
Slim looked much like the other fellows come to watch the rodeo, dressed in newish jeans and shirt, polished boots, with a modestly-sized oval buckle on his belt and his Sunday hat atop his head. His wife, on the other hand, was all gussied up like a jibby-horse.
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word nitrojute
Kaboom!
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word lipperings
Stop your blubbering. It's just a little water, blood and (whale) oil.
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word spolia opima
Let's pick up the pieces. The best belong to me now.
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word neologist
Prolonged debate over whether, or not, the neoterists were in truth "just verbarians" prevented participants at the neologists' society conference from truly enjoying their plenary supper. The evening ended with toasts and cheers to the New Word Order.
March 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pennywhistle
I'll perform, on the whistle, a selection of jigs, hornpipes, reels and slow airs tomorrow evening in a St. Paddy's variety show. Maids of Mitchelstown, Boys of the Town, Kerfunten, Cul Aodhe, and others.
March 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word totally disagree
I totally disagree that gallbladder is a word worthy of trending. And, Hey You!, Eshman! Take off those jelly shoes.
March 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bugong
Yum. It tastes like it rhymes with dugong.
March 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list words-ending-in-c
Terrific!
March 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Ambulyx philemon
This binomial name of a moth species contains all the vowels once; and the wye.
March 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word puddling
A group of butterflies is called a rabble, and also a swarm, or lek.
March 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word puddling
A collective noun. A puddling of ducks.
March 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word misdaub
The rumor was that misdaub and surcoat were seen together on Viscount Exmouth's boat on Lake Como, and then later in the season, taking the waters at Marienbad.
March 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word boottopping
Because some words just look funnier than others.
March 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word fair-maids-of-february
Sometime citizens of the Hyphen Nation.
March 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word carlock
Well of course! Sturgeon bladder is the key to carlock.
March 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word veni creator
Apropos of 3/13/13. Habemus papam francescum.
March 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word double-quick
This adjectival term is also employed as a noun and as an adverb in the example sentences.
March 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list box-it-up
Perhaps, bilby, you are looking for jockey-box? See comments under glove box.
March 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word paper town
Nothing remains but worthless paper money blowing down dusty paper streets.
March 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word high-cockalorum
Its a game, and there's not much to it.
March 9, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word nieve de pasta
A style and flavor of iced cream in Michoacán Mexico. --from the Wordnik examples under Tarascan.
March 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word completly
"... the rut is still hot and he how many deer were harvested in Ohio anyone around delmarva completly snowed in?" --from the Wordnik examples.
The world will end neither with bangs nor whimpers, but with choking, entropic misspellings and garbled grammar and punctuation.
March 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word poitin
Come guess me this riddle: what beats pipes and fiddle?
What's hotter than mustard and wilder than cream?
What best wets your whistle? What's clearer than crystal?
What's sweeter than honey and stronger than steam?
What will make the dumb talk? What will make the lame walk?
The elixir of life and philospher's stone.
And what helped Mr. Brunel to dig the Thames Tunnel?
Wasn't it poteen from ould Inishowen?
So stick to the cratur' the best thing in nature
For drowning your sorrows and raising your joys.
Oh lord, it's no wonder, if lightning and thunder
Was made from the plunder of poteen me boys.
--Later verses of the Irish song The Humours of Whisky.
March 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word instagatrix
Check Google Books for the better spelling instigatrix. Marie Antoinette was called in writing an instigatrix at least as early as 1794.
March 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list the-way-we-dress
to kill
March 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word foward
Eye-rhymes with toward and coward.
Foward, ye wards of the Fo!
Drive the cowards to and fro
'Til their lower'd flag lies on the snow.
March 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list my-god--its-full-of-stars
instars
March 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pyr-steradian
Light reading, so to speak.
February 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word game-hawk
It's a falcon.
February 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word amphicribral
In plant anatomy, having the phloem surrounding the xylem in a concentric vascular bundle.
February 27, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Stockinger
An occupational surname. Cf. stockinger.
February 27, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word metamorphoscope
It's a toy.
February 27, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word He Long
Shorty, to his friends.
February 27, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*lfst - selfstanding
February 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word listrium
This word does not imply that the Romans invented Wordie/Wordnik.
February 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word waybung
It's a bird, by the waybung.
February 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word uppiesides
The Aberdeenshire loon - Now some birders will be looking to add this one to their life lists.
February 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list obscure-airport-codes
Hey great alexz, you found ONE! Nice ONE!
February 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word U+02BB
Unicode character ("modifier letter turned comma") representing the ʻokina or phonetic glottal stop used in writing Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages. Compare U+2018, the "single opening quotation mark".
February 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list obscure-airport-codes
Neither ONE nor TWO are airport codes, to my knowledge. However, ANE is the code for the Aéroport de Angers - Loire, in France; TRE is the Tiree Airport in Tiree, Scotland; FOR is Pinto Martins Intl Airport in Ceará, Brazil; and FIV stands for the Five Finger Coast Guard Heliport in Five Finger Alaska. There is no SIX, to my knowledge.
February 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list obscure-airport-codes
A family member long ago dubbed me the Word Bird, @VerbalElation. I am or have been, among other things, an antiques collector and a fossil plant systematicist. The latter of these discovers and catalogs relationships between extinct and living plant lineages. Finding words and drawing connections by means of organized or themed lists is but another exercise in collecting and organizing that offers me satisfaction. I delight in words. They humor me. I list words as a hobby, yes, and to keep them close to hand. But for broader reasons too.
The world in its variety is very finely and sometimes bewilderingly nuanced, whether one examines a just synchronic snapshot, a moment in time, or a diachronic interval that spans a particular history. Our words, the words of our language, record the manifold physical and cultural landscapes that we and our forbears have perceived. I collect words in order to learn and examine their subtleties. If I am startled because there are so many words for "snow" it is because I have not known snow it its delightful variety. If "snow" is the only word known to me for the frozen precipitation that falls from the sky in winter, then my perception of that particle of the world is restricted, and perhaps biased in its narrowness. A broad vocabulary broadens the horizon I see when I look beyond myself.
February 26, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word phthisiotherapeutist
This 20-letter mouthful contains various words within the string, including: this, is, his, other, her, era, rape, ape, and of course, therapeutist.
February 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word brute fact
Outside of partisan politics, brute facts are called opinions.
February 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word blondinette
Has blondinette ever been used for a shade of commercial hair-color?
February 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word turdulus
It's a bird, but the word might be put to creative use as a derogative term.
February 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word The Klezmatics
Theirs, one of the best performances I ever attended.
February 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word proprietarian
“Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.” --from the Examples.
February 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word coquina
The whole allusion and connection to coquina lies with the mussel's genus name Donax, which reminded me of the song's repetitive verse "Dona dona dona..." . I like the visuals, especially the live oak trees and the old coquina stone city gates of St. Augustine FL, both of which have been pictured on post cards and tourist souvenirs for well over a century.
February 25, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word fiddle-beetle
Please welcome the newest member of the Organism Orchesta.
February 24, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sea-poacher
Yep, it's a fish.
February 24, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word coquina
Dona dona dona Donax
Oyfn firl ligt dos kelbl
ligt gebundn mit a shtrik
hoikh in himl flit dos shvelbl
freyt zikh dreyt zikh hin un krik.
Lakht der vint in korn
lakht un lakht un lakhtt
lakht er op a tog a gantsn
mit a halber nakht.
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, da,
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, da.
Shreit dos kelbl zogt der poyer
ver zhe heyst dikh zein a kalb
volst gekent tzu zein a foygl
volst gekent tzu zein a shvalb.
Lakht der vint in korn ...
Blinde kelber tut men bindn
un men shlept zey un men shekht
ver s'hot fligl, flit aroyftzu
iz bei keynem nit keyn knekht.
February 24, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ket
Carrion or a candy-treat; You pick.
February 24, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word thundersnow
Anagram: drown the sun.
February 23, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word thundersnow
Do isobronts leave tracks in the snow?
February 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word totanine
It's really not worth sniping at.
February 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bandonion
Enough to make a bibacious man cry, with abandon.
February 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word poricidal
adj. botany, A form of dehiscence whereby a seed capsule opens via pores or holes, allowing seeds to be dispersed like salt from a shaker. Species of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) are the most familiar plants exhibiting poricidal dehiscence. Compare septicidal, septifragal, and loculicidal.
February 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word loculicidal
Compare septicidal and poricidal.
February 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word panyar
A word derived from Portuguese penhorar, from the days of the slave trade in coastal West Africa.
February 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kenopsia
Thanks to bilby for first listing and commenting upon the word that described a feeling I had not previously had a name for.
February 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pagophile
An ice-lover; an organism that lives and thrives in the ice environment.
pagophilic
February 22, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word plaintfully
"A character in The Tooth of Crime asks plaintfully, "Ain't there any farmers left, ranchers, cowboys, open space? Nobody just livin' their life?" --Johan Callens, Ed., 1998. Sam Shepherd: Between the Margin and the Center (1). American Theater Review, Vol. 8, Pt. 3, p.26.
February 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sympus
An octopus whose tentacles are conjoined teratologically might be called a sympus.
February 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word gamelion
Neither a game nor a lion. It's the name of the seventh month in the Attic year.
February 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Fungia
It's a coral, the mushroom coral.
February 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word peasecod-bellied
I'm an adjective you don't meet every day.
February 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word piceous
Picea (see picea) is the genus name of the spruce tree. In the past, spruce resin/gum was processed into a sort of chewing gum. This gum had the pitchiness but not the blackness implied by the adjective piceous, as Robert Frost told us in this excerpt from his 1920 poem The Gum-Gatherer:
What this man brought in a cotton sack
Was gum, the gum of the mountain spruce.
He showed me lumps of the scented stuff
Like uncut jewels, dull and rough.
It comes to market golden brown;
But turns to pink between the teeth.
The entire poem may be read at Bartleby.com.
February 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kenopsia
It's raining tonight and the sidewalks are empty,
The umbrellas are gone
And the streets are so lonely --
I lie here awake and the silence is thunder,
Even though you are gone
Your sadness remains.
A piece of a song I've been working on for some time.
February 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word chicken cannon
When pigs fly, aeronautics engineers will require a pig cannon.
February 21, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word martel-de-fer
Has a bec-de-corbin on one end.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word strstr
Don't let the definition put a sack (wineskin) over your head. strstr() is a string function in the standard C library and in PHP. An example of entry-definition mismatch.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word amarylloid
Of or like plants of the subfamily Amarylloidea.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word galanthophile
One who loves or collects species of the amarylloid genus Galanthus, the snowdrops.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stomach share
Makers of junk food not only battle for market share, but they also compete for stomach share. What's in your paunch, and whom did you pay for the privilege of putting it there? Thanks to John McGrath @Wordie for tweeting the NYT article that gave me this phrase.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word E559
Al2SiO5; aluminum silicate, a clay mineral and food additive that is better baked, not fired.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word iron filings
Wictionary calls iron filings a food additive. No wonder magnets stick to my abdomen sometimes.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word karaya gum
Eat what you can then use the leftovers to stick your upper plate to the roof of your mouth.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list russian-doll-words
chandlery
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*thsp withspeak
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word arni
Nice cow name, unless you have a lamb that needs an epithet.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word celtomania
Just the slightest hint of goropism, Paddy.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hempcrete
That's some heavy sh--, man.
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*mpcr hempcrete
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list sensations-and-sounds
boation
February 20, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cancrisocial
Social with crabs, but not a socialite with crabs.
February 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word masking
Cf. raking-piece.
February 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Slow Village
Took me 2 yrs., 59 days, 13 hrs., and 43 mins. to get a clock fixed there once.
February 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word pr'ythee
prithee; (I) pray thee.
February 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sororize
Don't sororize with the enemy.
February 19, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word feck+all
Compare bugger all.
February 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bufonoid
Contrast ranoid.
February 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list back-to-bach
What of BBach?
February 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hulk
A swinesty, hogsty; a swinecote, pig-cote.
February 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word aqualunge
Humorous term and Twitter.com hashtag referring to Marco Rubio's awkward and mid-sentence groping for an out-of-frame bottle of Poland Springs water during the broadcast of his Republican response/rebuttal to Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address.
February 18, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word fissililiguia
The five precisely spaced dots in this word's i's spell E-S-E in Morse code.
February 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word peddler
The discussion thread below brings the terms despecificate and adsignification to mind.
February 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cinder pig
I like the flavor of pit-roasted pork. I wouldn't recommend cinder pig though. Too metallic-tasting.
February 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word we
From the Same Context heading: any ill-satisfied plaguey uppish tea-drinker, and, praise those thermopower weapons.
February 17, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Snellen chart
Cover your right eye and read to me the third line of letters please.
February 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cavell
To cast cavells -- to cast lots. Northumberland dialect.
February 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word brosier
brozier
February 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word brozier
brosier
February 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word crystallophone
Compare glasschord.
February 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word glass harmonica
Compare glasschord.
February 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word glasschord
Percussive cousin of Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica. Cf. crystallophone.
February 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*ssch: glasschord, which see.
February 16, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word corpus fetishism
Then would you insist as well that anthropologists' field-recordings should be relegated to the dung-heap and debitage of disallowed/disavowed data?
February 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word juke-neckit
It's a golf club. With a neck like a duck.
February 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word fraught
Better a fraught than a draught, of moonshine, I always say.
fraught - two bucketsful. --from the definitions.
February 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word festino
A feast; entertainment.
February 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word close-sciences
It's a plant. The pieces of it's name have an interesting (to me) derivation.
February 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word slice
A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. --from the definitions.
February 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stranger
It's a particular fish, in bilby-land.
rock-whiting
February 15, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word gunny-bag
Known as a croaker sack in the deep south of the US; the burlap bag used by frog-giggers to contain and keep their middle-of-the-night catches damp.
February 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word chimney-pot hat
See pot-hat.
February 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
List of most expensive divorces.
February 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
List of Hawaii tornados.
February 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rubber-saw
Goes in the same toolbox as your oyster-hammer.
February 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hoddypeak
"They counte Peace to be cause of ydelnes, and that it maketh
men hodipekes and cowardes.
"--Bp. Christopherson, _Exh. ag.Rebel._ 1554. The Rebel was a poem, printed in Notes and Querries: A Medium of Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc., No. 33, Saturday, June 15, 1850, p. 34.
February 14, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rock-violet
A certain alga growing on stones that, when wetted, yields a strong and pleasant odor of violets. Perfect for lining a grotto or outdoor shower, I should think.
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word overperted
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word napha-water
I once purchased a bottle of orange-water perfume at a Cuban tienda in Tampa FL.
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ahuehuetl
The storied swamp-cypress of Mexico.
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word water-holing
Interesting, if not zblbl, because water-cooler is African ungulate herd-slang for the water-hole, where hackers (slang for crocodiles) lie in wait to ambush the users.
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word studdle
Compare staddle.
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Battle of the Olive Grove of Koundouros
Here, Wiki.
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word oli-net
An inverted umbrella device deployed beneath an olive tree that catches olives shaken from it during harvesting.
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word oliviera
An olive-harvesting tool.
February 13, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list olive
Primarily looking for the edible kind, and associated words, ruzuzu, but I'd be pleased if you'd add it anyway! It should probably go on my list of "greens", too.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cow-pilot
It's a fish.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word geebung
It's a tree.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word peterkin
Therefore, non habemus papam.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word anagogetical
anagogical
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bombardelle
Kaboom.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rudenture
Frayed bits of dental-floss lodged inextricably between the teeth.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cloven
sarceled. Pig butchery seems to dominate the visuals provided.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list mnemonic-devices
I like the term aide-mémoire.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list mondayish
My favorites so far are powfagged, cubdrawn, and forswonk.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ahole
And aholehole repeats four letters and makes it a whole fish.
February 12, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list herring
added buckling.
February 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word v-vat
Wh-what?
February 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cacik
“I really love the doner kabob at my local Turkish restaurant, and the cacik is awesome, pronounced "jawjeek" phonetically.” --from the examples.
I'll go with the cacik. Or tzatziki, if it's available.
February 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word glasphalt
Or glassphalt, for the more body-conscious.
February 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word maleberry
See peaberry.
February 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stagger-bush
See andromeda.
February 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word dargs
It's a fish.
February 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*ndsp sandspout.
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stank-hen
It's a bird.
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Russell's teapot
Why isn't the media reporting this threat to world security? Who is behind the conspiracy? Why has the White House been silent on this issue?
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Owyhee
James Cook named the Sandwich Islands after his benefactor, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook reported that the native name for the Islands we now know as Hawai'i was Owyhee. The so-named county in SW Idaho is derived from Cook's term, and recalls 3 Hawaiian trappers who were lost in that region.
Visuals are fairly representative of this part of Idaho.
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word akule
It's a fish.
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word uhuula
It's a fish.
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kolea
Charming definition, to which should be appended "while sipping mojitos from a cruise ship deckchair".
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word chew the scenery
*loved*
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sea-panther
It's a fish.
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word botoque
pelele
February 10, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word thundersnow
Thundersnow thunders now in New England's 2/8/2012 blizzard.
February 9, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word khamaseen
One for those who list the winds of the world.
February 9, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word kast
Compare German Kiste.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ex store
A place at which to shop for others' former spouses.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word springhouse
My father sometimes uses this term for outhouse.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word vintry
A pantry, but for vin.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*rkwr arkwright
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word humidostat
Cf. humidor.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word clerical guillotine
“He is aflame, from the edge of his collar -- a patent clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, purchased at a famous travellers 'emporium in the Strand -- to the thin, silky rings of dark hair that are wearing from his high, pale temples.” --Richard Dehan, The Dop Doctor. London, Wm. Heinemann Ltd., 1910.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word lactite
Cf. galalith and ivoroid.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Fleur du Maquis
Just lovely, qroqqa!
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word peachery
Get thee to a peachery, ma chérie.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ailantery
A grovecrop of Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven) trees.
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Great job ruzuzu. Who goes next?
February 8, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
How about rotten pears?
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word mydaleine
Don't name your daughter mydaleine.
There is a herring connection, ruzuzu!
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word foliation
Sounds like a fancy air filter, ruzuzu.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bandicoot
Is bandie a nickname for bandicoot, bilby?
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word imp of the perverse
T.S. Eliot was imp of the purr-verse in his work Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word coff
The offal of pilchards.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word almond
One of the tonsils. --from the definitions.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word transient lunar phenomenon
Very moony.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word minkery
Get thee to a minkery, minx.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word dyssynchronous
I think of two things when I see this word: (1), a Bavarian tourist shop full of cuckoo clocks, the ticks, tocks and cuckoos all competing with eachother; (2) the diner in Gainesville FL named "The Clock" that has dozens of clocks on the walls, none of them telling the correct time.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word tinclad
A boat.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hemistater
Cf. stater.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stater
One for the coin listers.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list glove-making
Just added tanekaha as an obliquely-related term.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list thank-you--hernesheir
You're welcome, friend. Thank you in return.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Aranyaka
Something for a nemophilist to get lost in.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list romanticism
Nice list! Many of these terms would apply to the poets and their works as well.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cacohony
Methinks this word is missing a "p".
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word creep-mouse
I'm an adjective you don't meet every day.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list sugar
Just added sugar-teat.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word floirac
A red wine from Bordeaux.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word falerno
A white wine grown near Napoli.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word épineuil
A local French red wine, from the village of that name.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word corton
A type of red wine.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word asprino
An Italian wine that incorporates aspirin so you won't get headache.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word antignana
Another varietal wine, for the oenology listers.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word BANANA
A shout-out to, well, you know who you are. Each of you.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word dar-lch'og
See citation at prayer flag.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word verdea
A variety of Italian wine grape; one for Wordnik's oenology listers.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Whilst I slept ruzuzu guessed the answer: causa mortis. Congrats ruzuzu. Thanks for playing and trying and trying fbharjo.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Not there yet...
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word smasher
A small gooseberry pie. --from the definitions.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word replete
Etymology and word roots at the bottom of the page....
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word adag
It's a fish. haddock
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bandie
It's a fish, too.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ailsa-cock
It's called a puffin, too.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
fbharjo, just a straightforward first-letters anagram. The terms themselves fall within a broad rubric that also encompasses the looked-for word/phrase.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Not quite, @ry! Thanks for your indulgence!
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word lung butter
A morbid species of phlegm.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word baby-killer
This derogatory term has been re-purposed several times.
February 7, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word machan
Nice, bilby. Thanks!
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
This list is a little word game. Welcome.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word grief tourist
I wish I were on a plane to the Solomon Islands today to observe life after the 90cm tsunami that resulted from the 8.0 earthquake.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word nahuatlato
This would look nice on my tombstone, right after fiddler.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word machan
A tree-stand from which to ambush a tiger. Unless Tiger got there first and is waiting in the tree.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word asphaleia
A deus ex machina hydraulica, for one?
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word driver reviver
Could I get a neck massage too?
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list on-rye
Bologna stone, pudding-stone, pudding-granite, rock-cress, liver of sulfur
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word nanotaggant
See definitions at microtaggant, taggant.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*rchd archdapifer
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word carolin
One for the coin and currency listers.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rapakivi
See the better definition at rapakiwi.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cratch cradle
scratch cradle, cat's cradle.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word merroir
A term coined by Seattle food expert Jon Rowley to describe the combination of subtle local variations in underwater environments that affect the flavor of Pacific oysters and other seafoods. Cf. terroir.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hushion
Worn inside a Hessian, perhaps?
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Hangtown fry
Placerville CA was called Hangtown in those days, as were others, I suppose.
I remember seeing a scarecrow-like effigy in miner's clothing hanging from an old downtown building in the 1980's.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ball-seater
(Mind where you place the hyphen.)
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ansation
The art of making handles.
February 6, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word versiera
A nice illustration and nicer animation of the Witch of Agnesi are given at its Wikipedia citation, which see.
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list fun-with-apocopes
The maths term semicontinuum and its definition seems appropriate here, in a tangential way.
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word dermorhynchous
"It's no skin off my nose."
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word baby boomlet
A bumped-up birthrate.
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rum shrub
"Bartender! Another rum shrub for my landscaper friend!"
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word borhame
It's a fish.
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word osier-holt
Contrast willow-garden.
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word king under the car park
See Richard III.
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Richard III
The king under the car park. BBC World News, 2/5/2013.
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ℟
It's also a palindrome, says Wordnik.
February 5, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word jew-balance
It's a fish.
February 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hammer-oyster
This bivalve may be successfully opened with an oyster-hammer.
February 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word oyster-hammer
For performing more intricate work than may be accomplished by an oyster-sledgehammer.
February 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word padlette
Cf. paillette, papilette.
February 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word skookum
Skookumchuck Creek is a tributary of the Salmon River in Idaho.
February 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*nthr unthrive
February 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list verrines-of-random-palavery
Full enough, and a pain to page down to to add a word....
February 4, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word misopogonistically
Like a beard-hater. Really.
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word galeophobia
Fear of catsharks? Cf. selachophobia.
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word broth of a man
Cf. broth of a boy.
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word potential
Po-Te-N-Ti-Al (polonium, tellurium, nitrogen, thallium, aluminium).
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word masqueradish
Just thought you'd like to know, it's neither radish nor radicchio.
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word malheur wire lettuce
Don't know if wire lettuce's time has come, but in the season between the muddy winter thaw and the ripening of foxtail and June grasses (whose prickly awned fruits cling and burrow mercilessly into pantlegs, bootlaces, and stockings), I enjoy tramping the remote and desolate hills and dry treeless vales of Malheur County Oregon.
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word zanzibug
The bles'séd Wiktionary definition of zanzibug employ's the pos's'es's'ive *mosquito's* us'ed, deplorably, a's a plural.
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word schism
Sc-H-I-Sm (scandium, hydrogen, iodine, samarium).
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word suggestio falsi
I never looked at this phrase, and don't recall making this comment.
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word latah
Great Jumping Frenchmen with their miryachit affections!
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the user JuniperOK
It's all free. And fun. And useful!
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*tchg matchgate
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list cribbage
Just added game-hole.
February 3, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word poi
Po - I (polonium, iodine). And to some, that's what poi tastes like.
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Fonk
F -O - N - K (fluorine, oxygen, nitrogen, potassium).
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bistered
Better bistered than blistered.
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word knowbot
Rhymes with robot.
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list fantastic-places
Cockaigne, for an example from the Middle Ages.
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word government stroke
Definitions include a URL and an ISBN. And references to Australia, bilby.
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list model-organisms
Added C. elegans to the list.
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*ndsb moschellandsbergite
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bech-de-mer
bêche-de-mer
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list formerly-used-in-medicine
Just added bitumen and coal tar. Oh, and radium too.
February 2, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word treacle
I'm imagining the softly glowing pearly sausages mentioned in the quotation below.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word surette
It's a moderate tree.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word omphalelcosis
Pus in your pupik. Or an onion. U pick.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Bambi bucket
Nice visuals.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bepepper
Well I'll bejiggered.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word gizzard-fallen
I always wondered about those pigeon-fanciers.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bech-de-mer
Vanuatu pidgin, for one.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hurtard
An old term for ram, a male sheep.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hoggerel
Rhymes with doggerel.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word rose-noble
One for the coin listers. Compare rose-rial.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word stick (of eels)
Eels were sold by the stick in old England. 25 eels to the stick.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word chicken heads
In my rock-climbing days we called obvious and protruding hand-sized rocks and knobs that even a non-climber could employ as a handhold chicken heads. We didn't have a comparable ice term for our ice-climbing of frozen waterfalls and curtains of ice on cliff faces.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*ftst toftstead
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word jercion
A two-year old ewe. Compare hoggaster, hoggerel, hog.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bois durci
Not to be confused with the various trees and woods called bloodwood.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Lollardy
lollardism
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word grudgins
grudgings
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bullimung
A mixture of oats, peas, and vetches.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bigg
From Old Norse bygg; Middle English big, bigge: barley.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list rearmyourselftexas
Armless is harmless, Texas.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word crab
I think of verjuice and crabstick.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word septennate
A species of itch that some people cannot resist scratching.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list seeds-from-an-abdelavi
Words, figuratively seeds of ideas. The abdelavi is a type of melon from Arabia and North Africa.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Mashriq
mashriq
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word adargue
One for the bladed weapons listers.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word marabotin
Another for the coin listers.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word senegal gum
Another for the gums and resins listers.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word Yamani
yamani
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word commassee
Another one for the coin listers.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word larin
One for the coin and currency listers.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word falus
One for the coin listers.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word retama raetam
Duly noted: the species epithet, raetam is an anagram of the generic name, Retama.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word lerp
Rhymes with Derp.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word sarcocol
One for the gums and resins listers.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word dungiyah
One for those who list all things nautical.
January 31, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word corona obsidionalis
See examples for grass crown.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word grudgings
--Arthur George Liddon Rogers, ed. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Clarendon Press, 1887, p.313.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word ullier
Shetland Islands: The water which flows from a dunghill.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*nthr wanthrift
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list rearmyourselftexas
Armless is harmless, Texas.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word handywarp
One for the fabric listers.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word nibbit
Scots. Two slices of oat bread, buttered and laid face-to-face.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list archaic-placenames
Hispalis - (Seville)
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word mum
-- A History of Agriculture and Prices in England from the Year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Arthur George Liddon Rogers, ed., 1887, p.749.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list archaic-placenames
Ruthenia, Rus?
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word egg-jarping
See jarp. Also termed egg-tapping, egg fight, egg knocking, shackling, dumping. All the King's horses and all the King's men... From the folk who gave us conkers.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word caliver
One for the weapons listers.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word demicastor
Another one for the hat-listers.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word riding-hat
One for the hat-listers.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word spur-royal
One for the coin and currency listers.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word shroud
involucrum cadaverale
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word liminal
Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for the phrase Supreme Court of the United States. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906, p.317.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word tomtate
It's a fish.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cottonwick
It's a fish.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word grunt
New England: A dessert made by stewing fruit topped with pieces of biscuit dough, which steam as the fruit cooks.
January 30, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word huzz
Hum + buzz.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word orping
Mutters and murmurs.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hubbubboo
I like my toads fire-bellied and spade-footed. A knot of toads is a little overwhelming, however.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word crepitation
In entomology, the act of ejecting a pungent fluid from the anus, with a slight noise.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hubbubboo
I like how the oddly palindromic string *bbubb just sits there like a blunt toad in this word..
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word leather-lunged
Better leather-lunged than leather-lipped? You pick.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cank
Talk, cackle.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word squawk
The American night-heron; quawk.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word catermaul
caterwaul
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word night-stool
This lidded movable names that which it is intended to safely contain.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word squelch
A homographic homophonic autoantonym that means to silence, or to make a (squishy) sound.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list the-other-side-of-silence
My favorites so far are elfmill, tin cry and croyn.
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list this-list-is-redacted
Thanks for tagging, ruzuzu!
January 29, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word poplar leaf
One of the common names of the copperhead snake. chunkhead
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cantil
Common name of a pit viper of Mexico and Central America known also as the Mexican moccasin. Genus Agkistrodon.
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word huille
Trinidadian common name for the anaconda.
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word boitatá
A Brazilian name for the mythical giant anaconda.
From Old Tupi mbói.
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word centipede-eater
Snakes of the genus Aparallactus are called centipede-eaters.
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cropsick
I'm an adjective you don't meet every day.
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word hot-livered
hot-headed
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word cake-urchin
A marine fuflun. Hands a few to ruzuzu with a long-handled dipnet.
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list possesive-phrases
Janet's method occurs in a list of similar medical eponyms.
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list four-consecutive-consonant-strings
*pspl sheepsplit
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the list possesive-phrases
God's bodkin
January 28, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word anticlinoria
Plural of anticlinorium; anticlines.
January 27, 2013
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