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Comments for vendingmachine
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Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss. Thinking of you and your family.
August 25, 2021
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Hi , I hope you get through this. Take care.
August 24, 2021
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Big hugs from me, too. So very sorry for your loss.
August 24, 2021
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So sorry to hear about your mother. *big hugs*
August 24, 2021
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Congrats, T., on FA success!! :)
October 1, 2020
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Oh! Are the vending machines running?
*waits two seconds, then shouts*
Then we'd better go catch them!!!
*wanders off to the Prince Albert page*
March 17, 2020
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Can you catch coronavirus from vending machines?
March 17, 2020
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Your list of lists is peauetrie
February 2, 2018
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So sorry -- had to delete last comment as it was breaking the community page after I deleted the spammy comment. :-(
March 19, 2015
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Consider your scopes affected. De nada. As long as I was at it I effected 'em too!
March 19, 2015
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Nice detective work on 'on fleek'.
March 7, 2015
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Hey, hey! Checking in. Good to see 'zu get what's coming to her! :) I only occasionally visit these days. I'll try to bring it more into my crosscheck. Toodles for now.
February 23, 2015
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*press*
Ooh! Another delicious food pellet!
You're the bestest vending machine ever, vendingmachine!
February 22, 2015
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LDC - Liberal Democrat Conservative
A blend of all 3 major political parties in Canada.February 21, 2015
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LDC - longform digital crepuscule
February 21, 2015
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Ooh! A delicious food pellet! And two cents!!!
February 12, 2015
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I wonder what would happen if I were to press the "Save" button below this comment box.
February 12, 2015
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Ooh! Look! Delicious food pellets. Looks like you're my new bff, vendingmachine.
February 11, 2015
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I'm sure ruzuzu will be along any minute looking for food pellets.
February 11, 2015
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Do you have anything for two cents?
February 11, 2015
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You know, you're still my favourite vending machine.
February 11, 2015
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What's in the vending machine? The usual bile, or can we now get canned vitriol for a dollar?
February 10, 2015
Comments by vendingmachine
vendingmachine commented on the word slavesploitation
Slavesploitation, a subgenre of blaxploitation in literature and film, flourished briefly in the late 1960s and 1970s. As its name suggests, the genre is characterized by sensationalistic depictions of slavery.
August 8, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word blaxploitation
An ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, then president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. He so named it because he claimed the genre was "proliferating offenses" to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypical characters often involved in criminal activity.
August 8, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word muliebrity
It's Charles Harrington Elster. He's wordnik's pronunciaton editor or orthoepist.
August 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word muliebrity
I forgot the name of the guy who does pronunciations here, but he says it so fast that I can barely understand it. This word is a puzzler. Help.
August 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word death doula
Someone who helps the terminally ill plan for their final days.
--Certified end-of-life doula
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list who-farted-75HJ2Pth_NrRur5yC-Ob6
leaving the backdoor open
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word fartner
friend + partner
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list ugliest-words-ever
I've heard many people include the word "moist."
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
Huh?
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word amyosthenia
A want of muscular strength...
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word rufescent screech owl
This is random word search gold.
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list things-we-supect-are-collected-by-ruzuzu-SYb-wiljc4sQNMz89j1-P
A random word search that landed on "mauve, lots of mauve" brought this list to my attention.
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list things-we-supect-are-collected-by-ruzuzu-SYb-wiljc4sQNMz89j1-P
Why was it unnecessary to guess who compiled this list? Bilby. What a no-brainer.
August 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list lock-me-up
I wish more wordnikkers would leave their lists open. I can't say all of my lists are open-- but the majority are. This is a community and it's nice to have input from others. Like ruzuzu.
August 2, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word ookpik
Still one of my favorite words...
July 31, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word stallage
Even stallage is taxed. I like how the word can mean a location AND straw-mixed dung.
July 31, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word freethinker
... a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.
Who knew?
July 23, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word portrayment
I believe portraymentfan1 is having a private conversation with himself. He is accusing himself of being a liar, a cheat, and a no good scoundrel. He is also his own biggest fan. He feels persecuted by so-called reports. And dislikes lowercase. He seems to have issues with Scrabble.
We all love words here, but portrayment is probably 2,190,613 on my list of favorite words.
By the way, there are easier ways to get the attention of other wordnik users than to go off the deep end.
July 15, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word involuntary relocation
Sugar-coating the evils of slavery with vague and meaningless words is a cowardly attempt to cleanse the repugnancy of slavery for young ears. Children need to hear what happened to generations of Black people-- including children their own age. The children of slavery weren't protected, yet we're afraid of telling the truth to children living today.
July 3, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list band-name-words-CQB-PgfI6
Do you mean in terms of reviews, marketing...?
July 1, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word growler
A growler is a small iceberg that only has less than 3.3 feet of ice showing above the water, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center.
June 29, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word quindecennial
Is this a new thing or have I been clueless all along? I accidentally clicked on the big bold quindecennial and a male voice pronounced quindecennial. I'm assuming it's correct.
June 23, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word truck system
A truck system includes one or both of the following practices under which truck wages are used to defraud and/or exploit workers.
1) The truck wages are demonstrably of a lesser market value than the amount of money that would normally be paid for the same work.
2) Truck systems limit employees' ability to choose how to spend their earnings. For example, credit or company scrip might be usable only for the purchase of goods at a monopolistic company-owned store, at which prices are set artificially high. As long as the company store is the only party able and willing to accept scrip for needed goods, there is no meaningful competition to lower prices. Hence, a truck system relies on a closed economic system in which employees are required to become subject to a retail monopoly in essential goods.
June 19, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word truck wages
Truck wages are wages paid not in conventional money but instead in the form of payment in kind (i.e. commodities, including goods and/or services); credit with retailers; or a money substitute, such as scrip, chits, vouchers or tokens. Truck wages are a characteristic of a truck system.
"Truck", in this context, is a relatively archaic English word meaning "exchange" or "barter".
June 19, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word gauss's formula
https://nrich.maths.org/2478
June 13, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word floritry
This would have been a good word for our wordie contest way back when.
June 13, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word floritry
A flowery ornament. Like a garland, perhaps?
June 13, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word beneme
I misread this as bememe.
obsolete + modern
be- meme
June 10, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word strewments
flowers "strewn" on top of a coffin.
June 10, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word assay plates
It's happened to me as well... and on the same day.
June 8, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word confused flour beetle
The problem is that the confused flour beetle is not confused at all. The confusion rests with non-flour beetles who get confused.
June 8, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word feather duster worm
I'll see your feather duster worm, bilby, and raise you my confused flour beetle...
June 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sealer
A person who hunts seals.
A vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.
A tool used to seal something.
A person who is employed to seal things.
A coating designed to prevent excessive absorption of finish coats into pourous surfaces; a coating designed to prevent bleeding.
Such diverse meanings!
June 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word tambour-stitcher
You, you... tambour-stitcher!
June 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word senesce
"Mycologists, scientists who study fungi, have long assumed that many of these organisms don’t age. The clear exception is yeast, a single-cell fungus that does senesce and that researchers use as a model to study aging. But most multicellular fungi, the assumption goes, don’t senesce."
June 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word isidia
"Lichens aren’t individuals but tiny ecosystems, composed of a main fungus, a group of algae and an assortment of smaller fungi and bacteria. To reproduce, they can either launch a single fungal spore that must then find new algae to join with, or they can send out fingerlike projections called isidia, which contain the whole lichen package and need only a nice rock to land on."
June 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word virgin honey
... as opposed to deflowered honey.
May 28, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word unguent
"This powerful emmenagogue was a kind of unguent composed of several drugs, such as saffron, myrrh, etc., compounded with virgin honey."
May 28, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word buptkis
"Opal thought that her diamond necklace was worth a lot of money, but it turned out to be a fake worth buptkis."
"Although she thought of herself as a strong math student, the naive student quickly realized she knew buptkis about geometry."
May 28, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word affright
"Young voices trembled in affright, people rushed about in haste, pellmell."
May 28, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word concretize
"Concretize the popular opinion in a couple charged terms -- "magic man," "kingmaker" -- then throw in a condescending generalization -- "of course" -- as you negate their energy with a dismissal."
May 28, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word transmissible cancers
"Canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT), also known as transmissible venereal tumour (TVT) or Sticker’s sarcoma, is a transmissible cancer that affects dogs. CTVT is spread by the transfer of living cancer cells between dogs, usually during mating. CTVT causes tumours which are usually associated with the external genitalia of both male and female dogs."
May 28, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word transmissible cancers
"Tasmanian devils are affected by two independent transmissible cancers known as devil facial tumour 1 (DFT1) and devil facial tumour 2 (DFT2). Both cancers are spread by biting and cause the appearance of tumours on the face or inside the mouth of affected Tasmanian devils. The tumours often become very large and usually cause death of affected animals. DFT1 has spread widely around Tasmania and has caused declines in the Tasmanian devil population; DFT2, on the other hand, appears to be confined to a peninsula in south-east Tasmania. As a result of the impact of DFT1, Tasmanian devils are now considered endangered."
May 28, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word love-bombing
"Some of Gifford’s former students say they saw a pattern of love-bombing before withholding. “She butters you up at the beginning and then later treats you badly,” observes Kristine Sabella, who spent more than six years at the conservatory, leaving in 2012. “You’re left trying to get that hit again.”
May 28, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word beetle-browed
I can't say that I've paid all that much attention to a beetle's brows.
May 23, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word floatages
Some words just have to be favorited! floatage.
May 5, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word fringilline
"The housesparrow, Passer domesticus, a fringilline bird of Europe, which has been imported and naturalized in America, Australia, and other countries."
May 5, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word memberment
How exactly do the 10,949 words in wordnik's reverse dictionary relate to memberment? This isn't the only word that warrants this question.
May 5, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word skydiving
Is rort a Tasmanian word?
May 3, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word potash
"The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine is disrupting global supplies of one of the world's most vital minerals — the potassium-rich mineral salt potash, considered essential to America's economy and national security."
— Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2022
May 2, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word drempt
"I'm awake now...god im so tired. I dreamed, drempt, had dreameded about speedrun and skydiving... hmm." --Twitter
May 2, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word skydiving
@yarb. How about pepperoni-flavored chips?
May 2, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word skydiving
“Skydiving is a very safe sport these days. Statistically, it’s more dangerous to get snacks out of a vending machine.”
--https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
May 2, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word tornid
(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Tornidae.
April 30, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word seismicity
"the geology of Mayotte is virtually the same as the geology of the Comoros, the rest of the island chain which is independent of France. The island resulted from the rifting of Madagascar away from Africa as well as "hotspot" mantle plume activity, and is also impacted by seismicity and deformation associated with the East African Rift. However, because Mayotte is a part of France its geology is significantly more researched than that of other islands in the chain."
April 30, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word dentalium
Wačháŋtognaka | Nurture, 2019 by Dyani White Hawk, Indigenous artist (Sičáŋǧu Lakota), from the 'Takes Care of Them' series “Inspired by Plains style women’s dentalium dresses, the set speaks to the ways in which Native women collectively care for our communities"
April 27, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word cocoyam
That's no way to spend my birthday, May 5.
April 26, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word macabo
How could a cocoyam be new? Perhaps ripe or sprouting, but not NEW!!
April 25, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word bangboard
I like this word. Actually, it's the definition that I like.
Settle down, bilby.
April 25, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word Erin
Erin is a color that is halfway between green and spring green on the color wheel. It is named after Erin, a poetic name for Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_(color)
I don't blame you for disliking this color, Erin. Where would you prefer to appear on the color wheel?
April 11, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word late-life mortality plateau
In the biodemography of human longevity indicate a late-life mortality deceleration law: that death rates level off at advanced ages to a late-life mortality plateau. This implies that there is no fixed upper limit to human longevity, or fixed maximum human lifespan. Researchers in Denmark have found a way to determine when a deceased person was born using radiocarbon dating done on the lens of the eye.
April 10, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word shiver me timber
This isn't a phrase I use, but I've always heard it as "shiver me timbers."
April 8, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word ATM Machine
Automated teller machine machine
April 6, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word VIN Number
Vehicle identification number number
April 6, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word PIN Number
Personal identification number number
April 6, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word LCD Display
Liquid crystal display display
April 6, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word HIV Virus
Human immunodeficiency virus virus
April 6, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word post-mortem gut analysis
"Taking the gut content of fish collected for scientific studies, and analysing what it consists of. One would think that this is a near perfect method, but there are problems here too. First of all, almost all collection is done in the dry season when the fish are easy to get - but this is also the season of less food available, so the gut content of the fish may well be more of "it's all they had" than "this is what I'd choose to eat" choices."
April 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list words-in-first-3-wordle-word-guess-list-fEttSrihG8
I like TRASH and OUIJA.
March 30, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word infant parking
"Female lorises practice infant parking, leaving their infants behind in trees or bushes. Before they do this, they bathe their young with allergenic saliva that is acquired by licking patches on the insides of their elbows, which produce a mild toxin that discourages most predators."
March 29, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word humbucking
For the rest of his career (Albert Collins) played a "maple cap"–necked natural ash body Fender 1966 Custom Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucking pickup retrofitted into the neck position, which became the basis for a Fender Custom Artist signature model in 1990.
March 29, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word 7458
I miss you too, yarb. I miss the spontaneity, the silliness, the nonsensicalness. I wonder where everyone ended up.
--frogapplause (then) / vendingmachine (now)
March 29, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word 7458
Missing mollusque and skipvia terribly.
March 26, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word 7457
If you click one of the older posts, everything pops up.
March 22, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word 7457
Remember this contest, guys?
https://www.wordnik.com/lists/identify-the-wordie-2
I can't even remember my word anymore
frogaplause/vendingmachine
March 17, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word 7457
I remember you well, rolig. So clever and kind.
I was frogapplause on Wordie. The reason I had to change my user name to vendingmachine was complicated at the time. I had some stalkers and they were relentless in tracking me down. Such is the life when it becomes semi-public. (I'm still a cartoonist on the largest comics website in the world.)
March 17, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word 7457
bilby was one of the major reasons why I joined wordie. He has an amazing sense of humor that drew me in instantly. yarb, reesetee, Prolagus, rolig, chained_bear, dontcry, gangerh, telofly, possibleunderscore, skipvia, frindley... there are others, I just can't remember their user names. Our beloved John was great fun, too. We were all reticent about the new owner of Wordie and, at first, hated the name Wordnik. Our concerns were unwarranted. Erin turned out to be a rock star and the name Wordnik is magnifico.
March 16, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word 7457
For those not around when wordnik was wordie, every day was like this. I miss and xoxo all of my brilliantly creative wordies. --frogapplause (then) / vendingmachine (now)
ruzuzu would have LOVED all the silly camaraderie back then.
March 16, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list scopes-tropes-and-graphs
As are you, ruzuzu.
March 15, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word whateverism
See also nothingarianism and whataboutism.
March 9, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word bleaching-keir
See draw-bowl.
March 9, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word verrucose
warty. Same as verrucous.
March 9, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sea-urchin
There are many others, such as:
Melon urchin (Echinus melo)
Red pencil urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus)
White sea urchin (Gracilechinus acutus)
Snuff Box (Cidaris cidaris)
Purple heart urchin (Spatangus purpureus)
Red snuffbox (Stylocidaris affinis)
Sea potato (Brissus unicolor)
Purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)
Gatherer urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)
Variegated sea urchin (Lytechinus variegatus)
Burrowing urchin (Echinometra mathaei)
Kina (Evechinus chloroticus)
Flower sand dollar (Encope emarginata)
Sea cake (Arachnoides placenta)
Red sea urchin (Asthenosoma marisrubri)
March 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sea-urchin
Six-hole urchin (Leodia sexiesperforata).
March 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sea-urchin
Five-hole sand dollar (Mellita quinquiesperforata).
March 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sea-urchin
Pacific sand dollar sea urchin (Dendraster excentricus). Also known as the western sand dollar sea urchin.
March 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sea-urchin
Black sea urchin (Diadema antillarum). Also known as the long-spined urchin.
March 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sea-urchin
Green sea urchin (Psammechinus miliaris). Also known as the shore sea urchin.
March 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sea-urchin
The large sea urchin (Echinus esculentus). Also knows as the European edible hedgehog.
March 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sea-urchin
Common sea urchin (aracentrotus lividus). Also known as the sea chestnut.
March 7, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word dusters
Western horsemen's dusters figured little in Western films until Sergio Leone re-introduced them in his movies The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). The latter played for many months in Paris and was in part credited with a revival of the duster in men's fashions in that city. Similarly, in the film genre of heroic bloodshed, primarily through Chow Yun Fat and John Woo, the hero is often seen wearing a duster. That is also true of the fictional anti-hero Omar Little, who wears dusters both as outerwear and as a silk sleepwear coverup in the HBO series, The Wire.
Dusters gained renewed popularity in the late 20th century and are now a standard item of Western wear. The Tenth Doctor played by David Tennant wore a cinnamon brown duster coat on Doctor Who. Van Pelt, the main enemy on Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle wore a dark brown duster coat. Harry Dresden from Jim Butcher's Dresden Files wears a duster, as well as other cowboy-like attire.
In modern times, leather dusters are worn by motorcyclists to prevent road rash.
March 5, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word go-ashore
Where is the list to report words that don't match their definition?
March 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word falerist
a phalerist / falerist is one who studies and collects badges, pins, medals and other military and civilian awards.
March 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word phalerist
a phalerist / falerist is one who studies and collects badges, pins, medals and other military and civilian awards.
March 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word faleristics
See phaleristics. I can't believe that this word and its alternative spelling aren't on any lists, have no comments... not even WOTD.
March 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word phaleristics
Phaleristics, from the Greek mythological hero Phalerus, via the Latin phalera ('heroics'), sometimes spelled faleristics, is an auxiliary science of history and numismatics which studies orders, fraternities, and award items, such as medals, ribbons, and other decorations, including military awards.
March 4, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list cities-named-for-animals-flowers-and-objects-fiW21tp9bQ
Which is the default... editable by anyone or just me?
I rarely choose just me because I enjoy sharing and want contributions from other members.
February 25, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word the eel's eyebrows
Still trying to find out which decade(s) this phrase was hip.
https://lamefrogapplause.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-eels-eyebrows.html
See also "the bilby's bunghole".
February 24, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word cluster-fly
A muscid fly, Pollenia rudis, which enters houses in the autumn and clusters, in a sluggish way, on windows and walls.
Calling this fly sluggish is just plain mean.
February 18, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word nebraksa
As painful as this misspelling is, more people can't spell Missouri (or pronounce it).
The most irritating pronunciations are Miz-er-ee (misery, as a joke) and the worst: (Miz-ur-uh). Natives can get away with saying Miz-ur-uh, but non-natives just sound ridiculous.
February 16, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word Nebraska products
These "exaggeration" postcards were photographed by multiple photographers. I wonder why vegetables and insects were portrayed this way. Perhaps it was to make bordering states (ie. Missouri) seem agriculturally inferior!
Nebraska is a beautiful state, btw. I resent the denizens of other states who continue to denigrate our part of the world, particularly when they have never traveled here. You couldn't pay me to live in New York.
February 15, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word revenge travel
"During the worst throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, very few people could travel. Meanwhile, both 2021 and 2022 were predicted to be the years of “revenge travel” where people would do a great deal more. Or at least plan more."
February 15, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word Nebraska products
Dang, ruzuzu. I had no idea my geographical neighbor grew things so big.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8623220@N02/51286151680
February 15, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word on the cob
Once you corny to me, you on the cob forever.--Twitter
February 15, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word The Slap Butts
Slap your own butt in Morse Code.
- .... . / ... .-.. .- .--. / -... ..- - - ...
(The Slap Butts)
February 15, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word stulty
I did not say this is a stulty word! Anyone claiming otherwise is a stulty liar.
February 14, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sausage catastrophe
Sausage chaos precedes a sausage catastrophe.
February 11, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list us-places-named-after-non-us-places-nJSQDngyIS
Thank you for pointing out my error. I rarely create lists for me ONLY. It's the collaborative aspect of Wordnik that makes it fun!
February 3, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list cities-named-for-animals-flowers-and-objects-fiW21tp9bQ
Also a work in progress. Grateful for any contributions.
February 2, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list us-places-named-after-non-us-places-nJSQDngyIS
Ruzuzu, kindly add any Nebraska (or other) place names. This is still a work in progress. Much thanks.
February 2, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list black-phrases-words
blackbuck, blackboard, blackball, blackamoor, blackcurrent, black heart, blackleg, blackthorn, blacktop, black-tailed deer, blackfin, blackgame, blackface, blackguard, blackhaw, blacklead, blackstrap molasses, blackstrap wine, blackstrap oil, blackwood, blackwash
January 31, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word barn name
A barn name, is a nickname. The registered name is the actual name, and the show name is a fancy name for your horse. Example: Talk to me Lisa is the show (actual) name while "Lisa" is the barn name.
January 31, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word hooky player
hooky player? Sounds silly.
January 29, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word tall poppy syndrome
In Japan, a similar common expression is "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down"
January 27, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word tall poppy syndrome
Going after successful people sells papers.
January 27, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word crab mentality
Crab mentality, also known as crab theory, crabs in a bucket (also barrel, basket, or pot) mentality, or the crab-bucket effect, is a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you, The metaphor is derived from a pattern of behavior noted in crabs when they are trapped in a bucket. While any one crab could easily escape, its efforts will be undermined by others, ensuring the group's collective demise. As such, the crab mentality shares some features in common with a similar phenomenon of human behavior called tall poppy syndrome.
January 27, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word script doctor
"An Entertainment Weekly article from May 1992 described her as "one of the most sought after doctors in town." When asked if she was still working as a script doctor in December 2008, she said: "I haven't done it for a few years. I did it for many years, and then younger people came to do it and I started to do new things. It was a long, very lucrative episode of my life. But it's complicated to do that. Now it's all changed, actually. Now in order to get a rewrite job, you have to submit your notes for your ideas on how to fix the script. So they can get all the notes from all the different writers, keep the notes and not hire you. That's free work and that's what I always call life-wasting events."--Carrie Fisher
January 24, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word script doctor
A script doctor is a writer or playwright hired by a film, television, or theatre production to rewrite an existing script or polish specific aspects of it, including structure, characterization, dialogue, pacing, themes, and other elements.
January 24, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word situationship
I didn't know it was possible to soil words on Wordnik. Am I the first to do so? I feel honored.
January 23, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word Velcro
@tankhughes. Love learning new terms.
January 22, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word allspice
Is allspice related to somespice and nospice?
January 21, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word howel
A coopers' tool for smoothing work, as the inside of a cask.
January 21, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word narghile
The narghile is a water-pipe upon the plan of the hookah, but more gracefully fashioned; the smoke is drawn by a very long flexible tube, that winds its snake-like way from the vase to the lips of the beatified smoker.
January 21, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word saltationism
Lamarckism, the inheritance of acquired characteristics) or inadequate (such as saltationism, change by sudden jumps)
January 21, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word soft inheritance
Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime. It is also called the inheritance of acquired characteristics or more recently soft inheritance.
January 21, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word columellaria
Lamarck's system of conchology
January 21, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word scrimpit
Scottish for stingy, ungenerous (unkind or unfair) or meager.
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word cybernetic serendipity
Cybernetic Serendipity was an exhibition of cybernetic art curated by Jasia Reichardt, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, from 2 August to 20 October 1968, and then toured across the United States. Two stops in the United States were the Corcoran Annex (Corcoran Gallery of Art), Washington, D.C., from 16 July to 31 August 1969, and the newly opened Exploratorium in San Francisco, from 1 November to 18 December 1969.--Wikipedia
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list full-of-bull-pE7z8c-MZ0ks
Sure, ruzuzu. Knock yourself out!
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word hiveward
: toward a hive
bees flying hiveward in a straight line
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word telehack
Telehack is a virtual museum that allows one to see what the Internet was like in the 1980s, when young hackers were browsing through different bulletin board systems and shell accounts.
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word phyllodiniation
The formation of twig-like parts instead of true leaves.
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word weason
I don't need no weasand, you wascally wabbit.
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word sinker-wheel
Why does this sound like a derogatory word? You, you... sinker-wheel!
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word NLP
natural language processing (NLP). NLP is a branch in the field of artificial intelligence that aims to make sense of everyday (thus natural) human languages. Numerous applications of NLP have been around for quite a while now, from text auto completion and chatbots to voice assistants and spot-on music recommendation.
January 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word resister
I initially read this word as re-sister? Like become a sister or a nun again.
January 18, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word nummulation
The peculiar arrangement exhibited by red blood-corpuscles when they unite to form columns like stacked-up coins.
(All the definitions make the comparison to stacked-up coins. Hmm.)
January 18, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word situationship
A nice, functional word.
January 14, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word hircine
I need to know. No, I must know!
What are the 179 characteristics of a goat?
"From The Century Dictionary.
Pertaining to or having the 179 characteristics of a goat; like a goat; goatish; especially, having a rank smell like that of a goat."
January 12, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word reified
In her own life and work, due to the demonisation of activists’ sectors which have weaponised intersectionality theory, Smiley has been constructed as yet another savage, subhuman, and disposable Indigenous woman. In the attempts to assassinate the character of an up-and-coming scholar who has dedicated her life to ending male violence, and whose sole wrongdoing was veering from the patriarchal and colonial scripts assigned to her, the misogynist trope of the aggressive woman of colour becomes reified by those who claim to promote anticolonial and antiracist politics. Who benefits from putting an outspoken Indigenous feminist “back in her place” and reinforcing colonial stereotypes? --Cherry Smiley
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word colonial male violence
Constructed as “squaws,” Indigenous women and girls are seen as savage, subhuman and disposable. They are depicted as women and girls who always want sex and are sexually available to men at all times. Despite their over-representation in street prostitution, Indigenous women occupy marginal positions in sexual exploitation discourse. This research posits the sexual exploitation of Indigenous women and girls as a site to understanding expressions of colonial male violence and their impacts on Indigenous women and girls.--Cherry Smiley
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word autogynephilia
Biological sex is not a social construct. Women’s sex-based oppression is real. Housing people with male genitalia in spaces with victims of male sexual violence can be harrowing to women inmates. Mental illnesses like autogynephilia and other dysphorias can cause dangerous, irrevocable damage. And gender theorists are erasing women, much like patriarchy does.--Vaishnavi Sundar
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word young quinoa-eating
Sir Keir Starmer, wrote this when she analysed why your party lost. “Red Wallers”, she said, “feel they have little in common with the young quinoa-eating graduate city-dwelling socially liberal remainers and Labour voters who they believe do not put Britain first and judge people like them harshly and unfairly for their views”. And I put it to you that those people believe that women are people who have vaginas not people who are described as ‘bodies with vaginas‘. And that the Labour Party needs to be clear about this. --Women's Place UK
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word misgendering
Gender Identity Activists believe you should declare your preferred pronouns, for instance, in your email signature or when you meet a colleague for the first time to avoid "misgendering people" and thus to show how kind, respectful, and inclusive you are. They argue that by taking (what appears to be) a simple and painless action, you can demonstrate that you are an ally to trans and non-binary people and normalise discussions related to gender identity. --J. Stein
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word womb rental
Womb rental is legal in Greece and as such ‘Greece is home to about 60 assisted reproduction centers, a considerable figure given it has a population of less than 11 million’.
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word assisted reproduction
It is clear from global trends that commercial surrogacy targets the poorest women to exploit. Since the economic depression of 2008 criminal gangs have turned to women as a resource in Greece. In September 2019 ‘news broke of the dismantling of an organised crime group involved in illegal adoptions, egg-selling and commercial surrogacy in Thessaloniki, Greece. An eight-month-long secret investigation by Greek law enforcement authorities, supported by Interpol, led to the arrest of 22 people suspected of engaging in a criminal network of assisted reproduction’.
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gestational carrier
As Lauren Hamstead has outlined the ‘language that has developed to describe surrogacy is highly prejudicial, it is deployed to hide some relationships within the transaction and emphasise others. ‘Surrogate mother’ would highlight the maternal relationship and so is often shortened to ‘surrogate’, alternatively ‘gestational carrier’, ‘carrier’ or ‘host’ are used. This has the effect of dehumanising the woman who is pregnant and casting her as an incubator’.
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word EMI
Learned a (shocking) piece of terminology this week 'EMI'. Even my dad's consultant had to ask someone what it stood for: 'Elderly Mentally Infirm'. So we're now on the hunt for a 'EMI bed'. Social care never fails to shock me. It's in another century (the last but one). --Neil Crowther, Twitter
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list flying-into-snow
بَرف (barf... Persian)
snowberry
snowball
snowbird
snowblower
snowboard
snow boots
snowbrush
snowbush
snowdrop
snowflick
snowmold
snowsuit
December 19, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word mass death event
Not long ago, my aviary was struck by a mass death event. I lost 50 birds in one day. I have 19 left. It was heartbreaking to have to bury them all at once. I buried them deep because I was afraid some raccoon or other scavenger would dig them up and have them spread all across the yard.--vendingmachine/frogapplause
December 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word thingamajig
Interesting, but when I typed thingamajig into one of those online language detectors/translators, it identified Javanese as the probable language of origin.
December 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word blastopore
Calling someone a blastopore lacks the punchy outrage as, say, asshole.
November 13, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word blastopore
All human beings start out as tiny anuses. In the first few weeks after fertilization, we're nothing more than a small group of cells called a blastula. This blastula bursts open from the inside out, making a little bitty opening.
This opening is called a blastopore, and it is the first of our proto-organs to begin forming.
A blastopore is essentially a miniscule anus.
November 13, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user mwanjasi.herrings
It prefers to be loved.
November 9, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user fly_v
Geese fly in a V formation. That's what's up, yo.
November 9, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word welly whanging
...Geoff whanged that welly into the next parish.
I like the sound of it, yarb. Then again, you've always had a way with words, even welly ones.
November 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word welly whanging
What's a Wellington boot and what's the point of throwing one?
November 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wood-sare
cuckoo-spit; herb froth
November 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word shippy
Anyone caught saying this word near water (and being serious), should be drowned. Dumb word.
November 1, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wide-awake hat
Huh? The hat is wide awake or the person wearing it is? Words can be so confusing.
October 31, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cow pat
The digested residue of a herbivore excreted as a flat piece of dung
That's a nice way to describe a pile of shit.
October 30, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word crybaby tree
It was a very tall tree, so tall that it took years before I hit the ground.
October 30, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list wordie-curio-cabinet
Leave it to reesetee to have such an amazing list. --frogapplause/vendingmachine
October 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word heredipety
legacy-hunting doesn't seem to provide enough. reesetee's post makes more sense: seeking inheritances by indue means... by clergy? Hm.
October 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word eudemonize
euDEMONize
To consider or esteem happy... (all i could see is the word demon inside.)
October 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list common-name-compounds-HQmcFkyCx_
Brasenia schreberi (a.k.a. snot bonnet or watershield), cattails, sawgrass, coneflower...
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list compound-words-that-rhyme-3S0pE_CQ3y
Thank you, ry.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word magnetoacoustics
noun The science that deals with the interaction or interconversion of magnetic and acoustic phenomena.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word nurry
A foster child.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wood pussy
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.
Synonyms: polecat, skunk
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word nekomimi
Cat girls...
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word crybaby tree
Yes, I did fall out of a crybaby tree. It really hurt, too. Good thing I landed on your big, soft ears. They helped to break my fall.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word painture
The art or act of painting.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word coulter
I knew a woman who had this word as her family name.
A blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow that makes vertical cuts in the soil in advance of the plowshare.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pedissequant
What did you just call me? A pedissequant? Well, you're a..a...{crickets).
October 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word mackerel-gaff
See gaff or gaffhook.
October 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gambeering-iron
See mackerel-gaff
October 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word criminal actor
DarkSide is a relative newcomer to the ransomware scene, what Ms. Neuberger called “a criminal actor” that hires out its services to the highest bidder, then shares “the proceeds with ransomware developers.” It is essentially a business model in which some of the ill-gotten gains are poured into research and development on more effective forms of ransomware.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word the ultimate blended threat
But this case was different: a criminal actor who, in trying to extort money from a company, ended up bringing down the system. One senior Biden administration official called it “the ultimate blended threat” because it was a criminal act, the kind the United States would normally respond to with arrests or indictments, that resulted in a major threat to the nation’s energy supply chain.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word malware
During the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security issued warnings about Russian malware in the American power grid, and the United States mounted a not-so-secret effort to put malware in the Russian grid as a warning.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cyber Pearl Harbor
To many officials who have struggled for years to protect the United States’ critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, the only surprise about the events of the past few days is that they took so long to happen. When Leon E. Panetta was defense secretary under President Barack Obama, Mr. Panetta warned of a “cyber Pearl Harbor” that could shut off power and fuel, a phrase often used in an effort to get Congress or corporations to spend more on cyberdefense.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cyberdiplomat
“There are governments that turn a blind eye or affirmatively encourage these groups, and Russia is one of those countries,” said Christopher Painter, the United States’ former top cyberdiplomat. “Putting pressure on safe havens for these criminals has to be a part of any solution.”
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cybercriminals
DarkSide is believed to have roots in Russia and the country provides a haven for cybercriminals.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cyberdefenses
Mr. Biden, who is expected to announce an executive order in the coming days to strengthen America’s cyberdefenses, said there was no evidence that the Russian government was behind the attack.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cyberinsurance
The explosion of ransomware cases has been fueled by the rise of cyberinsurance — which has made many companies and governments ripe targets for criminal gangs that believe their targets will pay — and of cryptocurrencies, which make extortion payments harder to trace.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cybersupport
“Right now, they’ve not asked for cybersupport from the federal government,” Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, told reporters at a briefing at the White House.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word privilege
We could also talk about gender privilege (men still get paid more than women for the same jobs, and that’s a fact).There’s cis-hetero privilege, educational privilege, ZIP code privilege, right-handed privilege and able-bodied privilege, age privilege, and hair privilege.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word colorism
Privilege, though, is not confined to money or pedigree. Although most people generally think of privilege as socio-economic, that’s just one of many categories. Of course, there is white privilege, but there’s also colorism. Colorism, favoring light-skinned people over darker skin tones, is real and present in both Black and white communities.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-woman-racism-privilege_n_613b9ea2e4b00ff836ec9480
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word lithology
See petrology and petrography.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word petrography
noun The art of writing or inscribing on stone.
noun The study of rocks; lithology; petrology.
noun The art of writing on stone.
noun The scientific description of rock which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word ketton-stone
Any day that I get to use diacritics is a good day.
In petrography, an oölitic limestone found at Ketton, England.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word ahuruhuru
I can't decide which is more fun to say... goatfish or ahuruhuru.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word acridology
The study of grasshopper species.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word stercorary
noun A sheltered place for storing dung.
October 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word NEC
Urban dictionary: Not Even Cute
October 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word tern
This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.
Is it okay to make up an etymology? Truthfully, many of Wiktionary's words look like they were made up by a sleepy bilby.
October 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word tern
noun Games A set of three, especially a combination of three numbers that wins a lottery.
Three birds (terns) is the secret to winning a lottery. Who knew?
October 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word herbous
Which sounds better... to smell herbulent, herbous or herbaceous?
October 21, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gabgab
On the island of Guam, the coral-tree, Erythrina Indica, the appearance of the bright scarlet blossoms of which announces the beginning of the rainy season. Its wood is soft and is used for making troughs.
This sounds poetic... the appearance of the bright scarlet blossoms .... announces the beginning of the rainy season.
October 18, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word jackdog
Do dogs even care if you contemptuously call them a jackdog?
October 18, 2021
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