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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 orchid child
An orchid child is a term used to describe a child who will do poorly or exceptionally well, depending on that child’s environment. The term, like an orchid (flower), requires special care, but under ideal circumstances, grows to become a thing of phenomenal beauty. The term originated in Swedish as orkidebarn.
September 23, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word elbows
noun /i architecture: A raised ornament frequently having the form of a finial. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.
September 23, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word elbows-out
Thank you, tankhughes. And here I thought that perhaps it had something to do with poor table manners.
September 23, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word elbows-out
"According to a 2004 article by the Baltimore Sun, "some of his fellow students opposed his selection describing him as 'an elbows-out competitor.'"
I'm still not sure what elbows-out means.
September 22, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word thuttocks
" The "thuttocks" are that nebulous, problematic area where upper thigh meets butt cheek."
September 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word underboob
From the web: "Lacking the sexual charisma of its sister area, the underboob, the thuttocks should never under any circumstances be exposed to daylight."
September 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word prokke
There isn't much info about this word. Origin? Use in a sentence...
September 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word lamellar face
Sounds a bit like an insult. Lamellar face!
September 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word priestcraft
In 2019, Rowe was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for publicly speaking out against the church, teaching false doctrine, and practicing priestcraft for content in her podcasts and website.
September 18, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word gender-affirming care
On the morning of Aug. 30, a 13-year-old transgender boy was pulled out of class by his school's administrators, his mother says. While his classmates continued their studies, he sat in a conference room at a Texas middle school where a Department of Family and Protective Services investigator began asking personal questions, court records state.
The reason: The state agency was probing his family following a February directive from Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to investigate the use of gender-affirming care in minors as child abuse, according to court documents.
The nearly hour-long interview touched on a range of personal topics - from the teen's medical history to his gender dysphoria diagnosis to his suicide attempt years back, court records state. The interrogation left the boy - identified under the pseudonym Steve Koe - shaking and distressed, according to a signed declaration from his mother, named as Carol Koe.
The document, obtained by The Washington Post, is part of a cache of supplemental evidence filed late Wednesday as part of an ongoing lawsuit by LGBTQ advocates seeking to block investigations into families providing gender-affirming care to their transgender children.
September 14, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the list here-horsey
https://circlerranch.com/equine-terminology/
https://equinehelper.com/common-horse-terminology/
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-containing-horse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_equestrian_terms
September 14, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word intertextuality
... Her PhD thesis was on intertextuality in Diana Wynne Jones, and she continues to read and write about children’s and young adult fantasy.
September 12, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word visioneering
She served on the Chamber of Commerce's Visioneering Racial, Diversity, Opportunities, and Harmony Board.
Sounds like a tall order. Plus, the name for this board doesn't roll off one's tongue well.
August 20, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word palaver
The pronunciations below are different. Which pronunciation do you use?
August 18, 2022
vendingmachine commented on the word intimacy coordinator
"...in an interview with The Times of London published last week, spoke about the job of intimacy coordinators, which have popped up on sets in the past few years to help actors navigate and feel safe while filming vulnerable scenes."
August 11, 2022
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
vendingmachine commented on the word dimples
"The reason golf balls have dimples is for control and for longer distance due to interaction with the air."
October 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word shitkicker
noun US, slang, vulgar A workboot.
October 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word hemitery
noun Congenital malformation which is not sufficient in degree to amount to monstrosity.
October 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word derder
A derder is an impromptu kazoo-like musical instrument fashioned by placing one's mouth on the end of a toilet paper tube and tunefully going "der-der-der" into it . This cheap and innocent toy has delighted children of all ethnicities and socioeconomic strata since the invention of the toilet paper roll in 1877.
--https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/07/AR2011010704496.html?wprss=rss_print/washpostmagazine
October 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cross-purpose
See also cross purpose.
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word eking
See also eiking.
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word softie
Bee softy?
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word Spice
Spice - often dubbed ‘fake’ or ‘synthetic’ cannabis - is made from dried plant material, chopped up herbs and man-made chemicals.
Some of the ingredients in Spice are similar to those in marijuana, but the substance is often much more potent.
It was invented in the US by an organic chemist who was looking for a new way of developing anti-inflammatory medication.
One of the substances included the synthetic cannabinoid ‘JWH-018’.
The substance was declared unfit for human consumption in 2006, but it began being sold on the internet two years later, advertised as a plant fertiliser.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/what-is-spice--12871477
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word dogging parties
I think I know what this means, but then... maybe I don't want to know.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/men-from-manchester-holding-dogging-21863620
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word Mancunian
...Joshua speaks with a Mancunian accent, but he is also known to put on a Scottish accent when talking.
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word drink driver
Hm. I had no idea that the British equivalent of a drunk driver is a drink driver.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-officers-catch-drink-driver-21868134
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word defendresses
English can be a silly language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenders_and_Defendresses_of_Ukraine_Day
October 14, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word lace-runner
A person who runs with the needle the design imprinted upon machine-made net. This operation is called lace-running.
I don't think it's safe to run with a lace-running needle. We aren't encouraged to run with scissors, why lace-running needles?
October 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word john
Thanks, Erin. You're terrific.
October 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word nillionaire
I seen it more specifically as a person who acts like they have a lot of money, but really they are broke.
October 10, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word tailings slurry
"Continental Mine ores are crushed in two stages. The crushed ores are then sent to the mill, where they are ground down to the fineness of talcum powder. Flotation and lime are used in processing. Sulfides are collected. 1% of the mined material goes to the concentrator. 99% of mined material becomes tailings. The tailings powder is wet (33% solid and the rest is water) and piped uphill to a pond. The tailings pond water has a pH of 10. Water from the pond is recycled to make tailings slurry. 27 million gallons a day enters the pond. An earthen dam around the pond is designed to withstand a powerful earthquake."
October 8, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pitted ground
That's convenient for ground consumers. Pitted olives can be hand-pitted or machine-pitted. I suppose the ground is the same way.
October 8, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word angryphone
A Canadian Karen?
October 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word john
It's been years (I'm assuming) since any of us have heard how John is doing. Before wordnik, we were wordie. I was frogapplause back then. As much as I love, love Erin, it all started with John.
I was trying to compile the user names of all the old gang, but I was afraid of slighting someone by forgetting a name or two. Is there a list of all the wordie people somewhere?
October 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word sugar-camp
If you're going camping, do it right and go sugar-camping, dagnabbit!
October 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word codonosigidæ
My eyes were covered, but my coin slot (gasp!) was left wide open.
October 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word crapaud
So, this is the origin of crap?
When I am really, REALLY steamed... I am known to say, "crap and a half"
October 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word avocado-beige
This is the only way to describe the color I saw a Jeep truck today. Maybe I should try looking it up to see what color it REALLY is.
October 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word PHOTOTELLER
Many word enthusiasts on this site have coined words, too, but we don't overdocument our timelines, keep promoting ourselves or (worst of all) keep shouting about it. It's time to move onto the next word. It's a clever creation, but the world is waiting for something new now. How about PHOTOMOVER?
October 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word Bourbon and Heartland viruses
Lone star ticks don't just induce alpha-gal syndrome; they transmit several deadly diseases, including the little known Bourbon and Heartland viruses.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word alpha-gal syndrome
Primates lack alpha-gal naturally.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word logomachy
Fortunately, disputes about words don't turn into a war of words of wordnik.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word letifical
This word does not make me glad.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word alpha-gal syndrome
Alpha-gal syndrome is a recently identified type of food allergy to red meat and other products made from mammals. In the United States, the condition most often begins when a Lone Star tick bites someone. The bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into the person's body. In some people, this triggers an immune system reaction that later produces mild to severe allergic reactions to red meat, such as beef, pork or lamb, or other mammal products.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pork-cat syndrome
Pork–cat syndrome is an allergy to pork, usually after adolescence, that is caused by exposure to cats. Although first described in 1994, it was first documented in the U.S. by Scott Commins and Thomas Platts-Mills during their research on alpha-gal allergy.
It is called "pork–cat syndrome" because "almost all people with the condition are cat owners, and many have multiple cats. Some develop an allergic response to cat serum albumin (protein made by a cat’s liver) that cross-reacts with albumin in pork when someone consumes it, and can lead to severe or even fatal allergic reactions when pork is consumed."
I knew someone who suffered from alpha-gal syndrome. It is a tick-borne disease.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word viscid mushroom
If it's so important, what's it's name? Viscid?
September 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word mirific
Is this an old word or a new creation?
September 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word balustrade
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126110866@N08/51043879083
September 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word seraskier
This word has NOTHING to do with a skier or skiing.
September 20, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pass-penny
A coin placed on the tongue of the dead.
pass swine-penny. A coin placed on the tongue of a dead pig.
September 20, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word swine-penny
Money rooted up by swine? And here I thought it was money that first traveled through the digestive tract of hogs...
I've heard of a piece of pie, but never a piece of money...
September 20, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word uninoctisomnocyclist
A person who sleeprides a unicycle at night.
September 18, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word witches' stones
Witches' stones are flat stones jutting from chimneys in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey.
According to folklore in the Channel Islands, these small ledges were used by witches to rest on as they fly to their sabbats. Householders would provide these platforms to appease witches and avoid their ill favor.
September 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gestation
Bilbies have a gestation of about 12–14 days, one of the shortest among mammals.
Little-known fact: The gestational period would take a little over a week, except for the ears. The bilby's ears slow down gestation considerably.
September 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wordnik blog
I just found out that wordnik has a blog. Am I the only one who didn't know? I feel like an idiot.
https://blog.wordnik.com
September 8, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wedding-song
epithalamiura
September 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word vasque
I just called it a fountain bowl or a birdbath bowl. I just emptied mine today. It was full of wet and gunky, decaying leaves.
September 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word water-colour controversy of 1887
Ho hum. The "big" controversy only had to do with the action of light on water colors. Not even a single mention of portcrayons!
September 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word water-colour controversy of 1887
I don't know what the controversy is all about yet. I have to read the introduction mentioned here first:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14779993744
September 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word lewy-body dementia
My mother died of complications from this horrible disease on Thursday, August 19, 2021.
August 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word moldy-rat
Is there a rat called the moldy-mole?
August 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pyow
The putty-nosed monkey, even with his pyow-pyow-pyow, has nothing on the little-known putty-eared bilby.
August 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word fogdog
Odd etymology.
July 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word light pollution
There are several reasons why firefly populations are declining, including climate change and the harvesting of luciferase from them, light pollution and habitat destruction. When firefly habitats are destroyed for roads or other construction, they don't migrate to a new spot, they simply disappear.
July 12, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word atheroma
What is bread-sauce?
July 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word carnography
Gratuitous carnography
July 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pair of virginals
Hm. Perhaps not. It is legless but not rectangular.
July 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pair of virginals
I wonder if the image below https://www.flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14784960555 is a pair of virginals. How could one instrument be a pair... unless the player is the other half of said virginals.
July 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word careworn
"This remarkable, one-of-a-kind actress has, since the early 1990s, intrigued film and TV audiences with her glowing, yet careworn eccentricity and old world-styled glamour. Very much in demand these days as a character player, Patricia Clarkson nevertheless continues to avoid the temptation of money-making mainstream filming while reaping kudos and acting awards in out-of-the-way projects." --bio of Patricia Clarkson for IMDb
July 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word LGBTQQIIAAPSS+
LGBT+ is an "inclusive" way to represent all the different identities in the longer acronym but here's a breakdown of what each of the letters in LGBTQQIAAP mean.
L - lesbian: a woman who is attracted to other women
G - gay: a man who is attracted to other men or broadly people who identify as homosexual
B - bisexual: a person who is attracted to both men and women
T - transgender: a person whose gender identity is different from the sex the doctor put down on their birth certificate
Q - queer: originally used as a hate term, some people want to reclaim the word, while others find it offensive. It can be a political statement, suggest that someone doesn't want to identify with "binaries" (e.g. male v female, homosexual v straight) or that they don't want to label themselves only by their sexual activity
Q - questioning: a person who is still exploring their sexuality or gender identity
I - intersex: a person whose body is not definitively male or female. This may be because they have chromosomes which are not XX or XY or because their genitals or reproductive organs are not considered "standard"
A - allies: a person who identifies as straight but supports people in the LGBTQQIAAP community
A - asexual: a person who is not attracted in a sexual way to people of any gender
P - pansexual: a person whose sexual attraction is not based on gender and may themselves be fluid when it comes to gender or sexual identity
July 3, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word bareback sex
"The queer having bareback sex in the back room of a club might not identify with the term “queer” or think of their actions as political, but in rejecting what society says they should be doing, they are queer."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
July 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word queernormativity
"It’s paradoxical because these queer leftists are usually white, and they pepper their events and issues with a kind of “diversity by numbers” approach. I call this approach “queernormativity.” Like heteronormativity, they identify a “right” way to be queer and argue that everyone else is doing queerness incorrectly."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
July 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word LGBTQQIIAAPSS+
"First, there is “queer” as an umbrella term. Rather than use the alphabet soup of LGBTQQIIAAPSS+, “queer” encompasses any non-cisgender, non-heterosexual identity, relationship, behavior, or desire. I use “queer” this way because I think it includes a wide variety of ways people are non-cisgender and/or non-heterosexual."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
July 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word heteronormative
"For me, queerness encompasses my sexual identity as someone uncomfortable with binary presentation. It also encompasses my rebuke of cisgender and heteronormative privilege and the intersection of these privileges with white privilege. LGBT+ labels tend to presume a binary origination, and their usage coincides with a social movement that seeks assimilation and erases the existence of non-binary identities. Using “queer” as a catch-all umbrella term, whether intentionally or not, silences that important fringe voice."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
July 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list hashtags-for-pain-community-lfLYoG_IlywQ
#ScamOfTheCentury (for the propaganda aspect for litigation purposes.)
June 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word I think I broke Wordnik
I now realize that I can't create a hashtag list because the symbol # makes Wordnik sad and confused. The words don't alphabetize well, and they link to irrelevant, random words like "somehow", "forest fire", and "the earth is flat."
June 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word upwreath
A new word for me.
June 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word airstair
The Airstairway to Heaven... by Led Zeppelin
June 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word flavocastaneous
Flavocastaneous Locks and The Three Bears...
June 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pelican flowers
The large blooms produce a scent that smells strongly reminiscent of rotting meat. Its powerful scent attracts huge numbers of flies and it is exactly these flies that become covered in the pollen of the Pelican Flower and transmit it to others.
June 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word human hamster ball
Just say NO to human-hamster meatballs.
June 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word don and doff
"Having to don and doff new PPE with every patient, and do it quickly enough to keep up with the chaos of a pandemic ER, “made every shift, and every hour, a lot more stressful than even it had been before,” Myles Greenberg, his best friend and a former ER doctor, says."
June 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word andnew
I love it when typos become words. Not really.
June 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pelican flowers
I don't care what a pelican flower looks like. It sounds nice.
June 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word git
Let's not forget the traditional cowboy ballad "Git Along, Little Dogies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_Along,_Little_Dogies
June 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word bristol milk
bristol milk
See the nouns.
See which nouns?
May 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user johnmullen
Why is it hard to believe that your name is John Mullen? Why are you apologizing for being 84? When is two of Payment time? If you cannot do a monthly donate, try a newly other donate time. I will to be trying to safe live a good life in my work.
May 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word fake shemp
A fake Shemp is someone who appears in a film as a replacement for another actor or person. Their appearance is disguised using methods such as heavy make-up (or a computer-generated equivalent), filming from the back, dubbing in audio and splicing in past footage from the original actor's previous work, using a sound-alike voice actor, or using partial shots of the actor. Coined by film director Sam Raimi, the term is named after Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use of these techniques to finish the films to which he was already committed. Once somewhat commonplace throughout the 20th century, the use of fake Shemps to emulate living people is now forbidden under Screen Actors Guild contracts, largely because of a lawsuit filed by Crispin Glover — following his replacement in Back to the Future Part II — that determined that the method violates the original actor's personality rights. The method continues to be used in cases, such as Shemp's, where the original actor is deceased and permission from the deceased actor's estate is granted.
A fake Shemp is distinguished from a stunt double. Stunt doubles usually only substitute for an actor in select scenes where the original actor is either unable to perform the stunt or is unwilling to take the risk of being injured in the stunt. The same techniques are often used for both.
May 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cardening
How does one garden in a car? Should I picture a junked and hollowed out car being used to grow veggies and such?
May 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word aspaldiko
There is a list or lists on wordnik that include words with untranslatable definitions.
May 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user matterjam
Glad to hear that you finally came around and joined the fun. Welcome to wordnik. We all love words, too!
I doubt that you're as old as you claim. You've never too old when it comes to being a logophile or, in the case of most users here, a logomaniac.
May 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word white fragility
"Robin DiAngelo describes white fragility to be a defensive response by a white person when their whiteness is highlighted or mentioned, or their racial worldview is challenged, whether this response is conscious or otherwise. She gives examples including a white man accusing someone of "playing the race card" or a white woman crying to avoid conflict.
DiAngelo proposes that white people are used to viewing themselves as "raceless" or the "default" race, and as such are insulated from feelings of racial discomfort. She describes racism as systematic rather than overt and conscious, arguing that racial segregation has shaped the United States. She points to research that has shown that children as young as four years old show a strong and consistent pro-white bias and an especially strong prejudice against black males."
_____________________________________________
(Forget DiAngelo's book. Read this instead: )
The Dehumanizing Condescension of White FragilityThe popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/
May 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word high symptom burden
Darn. To be blamed for EVERYTHING... and on my birthday (May 5)!
May 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word high symptom burden
Is your listing problem something I've done wrong, bilby?
May 3, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word what the
What made you want to share your story here (on Wordnik)? Approximately, what year did this take place?
May 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word high symptom burden
"It is most efficient and relevant to conduct these studies in populations with a high symptom burden."
"Fifty percent or more of patients in Cluster II experienced a high symptom burden."
"A high symptom burden is associated with a high use of healthcare, admissions to nursing homes, and reduced quality of life."
"A study focusing on community pharmacies in Missouri found that patients with COPD receiving respiratory medication from the pharmacies had high symptom burden and low medication adherence."
April 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word unicispinous
Bearing undivided or simple spines, as the surface of certain brachiopod shells: contrasted with dujlicispinate.
unicispinate
April 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word onboarded
"Ever since Starbucks onboarded Oatly's milk as its latest dairy alternative, the company has had a hard time keeping up with skyrocketing demand." --Twitter
April 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word snackwiches
snackwichcraft. That's almost a sweet tooth fairy, is it not?
April 18, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word snackwiches
I don't see myself EVER using this word. It's too cutesy for my taste (no pun intended; I hate puns.)
April 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list sharks-sharks-and-more-sharks-ILZf4M-6DSX
It keeps doing it... I give up. Is anyone else having a problem creating new lists or with disappearing words added to a list?
April 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list sharks-sharks-and-more-sharks-ILZf4M-6DSX
I've created this list at least eight times and it keeps self-erasing. Maybe it's because it's a list about sharks. My list keeps eating itself. I had perhaps 50+ words, now I see 7. And what's with ILZf4M-6DSX?
April 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word monkey wrench
What? No bilby-related hand tools?
April 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word petty-rice
Poor quinoa. Being called petty-rice is PrETTY insulting.
April 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word han't
hain't. This is a word that I've heard at least one person use habitually.
This person also used the non-count noun HAIR as in, "I hain't washed my hairs today."
March 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list do-not-say-these-words-in-my-presence
At the end of the day / just kidding (after saying something rude or inappropriate) / let's give a shout-out to ---.
March 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list verses
neckverse, oversecretion, overseed, oversell, oversensitive, oversentimental, overserious, overservice, subverse, verset
February 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word queeve
twist in a road
February 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word figpecker
This sounds like an mild insult.
February 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word doven
doven
lazy (unwilling to work)
stale (of beverages)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doven
February 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word dovening
"Several members always end up moaning and thudding their foreheads on the table in the 'dovening for democracy' portion of the evening."
"I noticed that I wasn't the only woman dovening (praying) on the bus."
The quotes (above) suggest that dovening is praying, whereas the definition refers to it as a slumber. Maybe it is praying while sleeping?
February 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user gjw
If you love words, you belong here and we welcome you.
January 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user articlepost
Correction: A very interesting scam site.
January 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word heath
"Not all human intervention has been as successful, however. For example, the degradation of brown earths under heath in western France is not a natural feature but the product of human clearance and grazing practices."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word massifs
" The quality of the soils depends heavily upon the origin of their waste sheets; sand spreads derived from the granites of the Hercynian massifs, for example, provide only poor soils."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word limon
"These may provide a particularly favorable soil material; most notable is the windblown limon that mantles the Paleogene and Neogene limestone plateaus of the central Paris Basin and the chalk beds to the northwest, the basis of the finest arable soils of France."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word waste sheets
"Over large areas of France, soils have developed not directly from the disintegrated bedrock but from the waste sheets created by periglacial action."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word podzol
"Some climate-related variation can be detected within the French brown earth group; in the high-rainfall and somewhat cool conditions of northwestern France, carbonates and other minerals tend to be leached downward, producing a degraded brown earth soil of higher acidity and lesser fertility; locally this may approach the nature of the north European podzol."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word brown earths
On a broad, general scale, virtually the whole of France can be classified in the zone of brown forest soils, or brown earths. These soils, which develop under deciduous forest cover in temperate climatic conditions, are of excellent agricultural value.
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word crapflooding
A method of trolling, crapflooding is flooding a weblog's comment form with text consisting of repeated words and phrases.
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gumsucker
Do denizens of Tasmania have a moniker?
December 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word flagging
flagstones (collectively)
December 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word gumsucker
Antiquated term for a person native to the state of Victoria, Australia.
In the same way, South Australians are croweaters, West Australians are sandgropers and Queenslanders are banana benders.
What's with all the weird monikers?
December 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word cemeterian
A word coined by someone I know who said there was a void for a word that labeled all the cemetery-related duties he had: grave digger, marketing and sales, administrative work, etc. I like the mouthfeel of his creation. Coining a word carries with it a certain degree of responsibility that I respect and admire. I've only coined one word with any lasting power (shoecabbage), so I enjoy the process and end result.
December 11, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word froth flotation
Industrially, pine oil is used as a frother in mineral extraction from ores. For example, in copper extraction, pine oil is used to condition copper sulfide ores for froth flotation. Therefore, it is important in the industry for the froth flotation process. It has largely been replaced by synthetic alcohols and polyglycol ethers.
December 5, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word deorphanize
The limited functional expression of olfactory receptors in heterologous systems, however, has greatly hampered attempts to deorphanize them (analyze the response profiles of single olfactory receptors).
December 4, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word dramedy
I detest blended words such as this.
December 1, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word peeshoo
Canada Lynx, commonly termed the "peeshoo" by French colonists.
November 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word puet duet
See puet.
November 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word puet
noun (Zoöl.) The pewit.
puet duet
November 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word chucky-chucky
See wax-cluster.
November 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word glad eye
This term doesn't sound particularly seductive.
November 17, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word upstander
Several strategies could improve the interview experiences of Black applicants. First, academic leaders must accept that inequitable treatment of Black applicants exists and will take time to correct. Second, everyone involved in the interview process from host institutions should be educated about microaggressions, stereotype threat, and other challenges and biases that disadvantage Black applicants. We recommend bystander and upstander training to prepare people to act when they witness discrimination, bias, or racism. Third, we favor careful and fair recruitment of diverse interviewers to create a welcoming environment. We also suggest incorporating work related to diversity and inclusion when describing the mission and values of the program or institution. On a wider scale, we recommend the creation of institutional databases — or, ideally, a national database — where applicants can report experiences of racism or bias while interviewing, which would be aggregated to protect their identity. Improving the experiences of Black applicants will be a first step toward increasing the diversity of programs and subsequently addressing the unmet needs of the diverse patient populations they serve.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word homophily
Finally, it is widely recognized that people tend to associate with and gravitate toward others who have backgrounds and interests that are similar to their own. This phenomenon, called homophily, drives much of Black applicants’ discomfort and isolation. The concept of homophily was popularized by Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton in 1954. Although the tendency to socialize with people like oneself creates opportunities for positive, lasting relationships, homophily can lead to applicants being excluded on the basis of differences.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word tokenism
Tokenism entails making cursory strides toward diversity and inclusion. The recruitment of Black candidates merely to achieve a metric undermines the applicant’s academic value and dismisses the difficulty associated with navigating medicine as a member of an underrepresented minority group. Awareness of tokenism and of the ways in which it can lead to depression, burnout, attrition, and a minority tax — extra responsibility placed on underrepresented minorities with a goal of achieving diversity — is warranted as early as interview day. A clear demonstration of efforts to recruit, retain, support, and promote Black applicants better illustrates dedication to diversity in medicine.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word imposter syndrome
Another challenge facing Black interviewees is imposter syndrome. In 1978, Pauline Clance described imposter syndrome as an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent, capable or creative despite evidence of high achievement.” Studies have revealed feelings of imposter syndrome in up to 82% of students, with minorities and women reporting such feelings at higher rates than White men. Imposter syndrome can cause qualified Black applicants to feel unqualified and isolated.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word stereotype threat
Stereotype threat was defined by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995 as “being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one’s group.” In landmark research, Steele and Aronson demonstrated that Black participants performed worse than White participants during a test when they believed that they were at risk for fulfilling stereotypes about Black people’s intellectual abilities. When that stereotype threat was removed, Black participants performed similarly to their White counterparts. Stereotype threat has been found to be present in medicine. In a 2020 study of medical students, 82% of Black respondents had high scores on a measure of vulnerability to stereotype threat, as compared with 4% of White respondents.2 When Black applicants see photographs of only non-Black graduates on the walls, they may perceive the threat of a negative stereotype, such as “Black people are not smart,” and perform worse than expected.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word microaggression
Although there are many concerns that broadly affect Black people in medicine, such as institutional racism and inequality of educational opportunities, the experiences of Black interviewees in particular remain underaddressed. Being interviewed while Black involves a collision of microaggressions and feelings and experiences related to stereotype threat, tokenism, imposter syndrome, and homophily (see table). Many of these experiences are rooted in unconscious bias, whereas some can be born from overt racism. In turn, Black interviewees collect impressions that make them doubt that they will be welcomed and valued in medicine.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2023999?query=race_and_medicine
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word hedge-parson
See buckle-beggar.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word buckle-beggar
See also hedge-parson.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word First Dog
Both capitalized, just like First Lady is.
November 13, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word peanut butt
A comment that could ONLY come from the brilliant and creative mind of you, bilby.
October 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word wooden spooner
Really? Has anyone ever heard of a wooden spooner?
October 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word attainted
"Shortly afterwards, Anne was asked for her consent to an annulment, to which she agreed. Cromwell, the moving force behind the marriage, was attainted for treason. The marriage was annulled on 9 July 1540, on the grounds of non-consummation and her pre-contract to Francis of Lorraine. Henry VIII's physician stated that after the wedding night, Henry said he was not impotent because he experienced "duas pollutiones nocturnas in somno" (two nocturnal pollutions while in sleep; i.e., two wet dreams)."
--Anne of Cleves, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Cleves
October 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word backweasel
To go back on one's words or actions in a cowardly or weaselly fashion.
October 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the user kalyan01
Promote a Dodgy Site Day!
September 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word psychometric profiling
"Psychometric profiling is the process by which your actions are used to infer your personality. The technique was developed by academics and used by marketers and advertisers to assess the psychological characteristics of an individual or a group. These profiles give advertisers and political strategists insights into users' beliefs, behaviours and motivations. By appealing to these underlying traits on an individual or group level, psychometrically-informed advertisements have the potential to be more persuasive and are thus used to influence decisions like what to buy or how to vote."
September 22, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word racehorse theory
"The racehorse theory is the belief that some humans have a better genetic endowment than others, and by breeding two superior people you end up with superior offspring. The belief in eugenics, the pseudoscience of trimming out “inferior” bloodlines to increase the quality of the gene pool, is part of a long, racist history in America, from forced sterilizations to research funded by the Carnegie Institution, among other wealthy foundations. Earlier this month, charges surfaced that a doctor at an ICE facility was performing unwanted and likely unnecessary hysterectomies on detained immigrant women, which would prevent them from having more children."
September 22, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word dog whistle
"It's called a “dog whistle,” a word or phrase in a speech that is unobjectionable on the surface but conveys a coded message to partisans, by analogy to high-pitched sounds that are audible to dogs but not to people. Richard Nixon leaned on it heavily during his 1968 presidential campaign, referencing “law and order” and a “war on drugs,” further codifying racial appeals from Barry Goldwater for “states’ rights” and “freedom of association.” Ronald Reagan took it to another level in 1976, demonizing a “welfare queen” who fraudulently collected $150,000 in government benefits, a barely concealed appeal to the race and class resentments of white voters toward Blacks.
By that standard, President Trump’s riff about the “good genes” found among the people of Minnesota — an 80 percent white state — wasn’t a dog whistle. It was a train whistle, folding in Trump’s long-held belief that some people, himself especially, are simply born with superior traits to others."
--Trump to nearly all-white crowd: 'You have good genes', Yahoo! News, https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/09/21/trump-to-nearly-all-white-crowd-you-have-good-genes/24626071/
September 22, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the user jgkahn
Do you have an example to share?
September 22, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word jabot
Erin,
What is the correct pronunciation for jabot? I've heard at least four different pronunciations. Which one should I believe? Maybe they are ALL correct. Maybe they are ALL wrong.
Have you ever seen Ruth Bader Ginsburg's jabot collection? Fascinating!
BTW, for those who don't subscribe to Erin's "Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things"... you're really missing out. I look forward to each installment!
September 21, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the list common-word-placenames-A0dfLDyK97Yf
Republic, Missouri; Battlefield, Missouri; Bellflower, Missouri; Bland, Missouri; Clever, Missouri; Crane, Missouri; Fisk, Missouri; Foley, Missouri; Eminence, Missouri; Miller, Missouri; Miner, Missouri; Reeds, Missouri; Stover, Missouri.
September 13, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fatty series
Fatty series? Seems rather harsh.
September 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word tree-iron
In a vehicle: A reinforcing piece of wrought-iron used to connect a swingletree to a doubletree or a doubletree to the tongue.
September 7, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word nat-worship
unrelated to gnat worship.
August 31, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Janey Mack
Gosh!
August 31, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word brick house
Wikipedia claims that the term was coined in 1977 for the song "Brick House" by Shirley Hanna-King, who took it from the older expression built like a brick shit house.
August 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word nom-de-guerre
"My nym is a nom-de-guerre not a pseudonym like some of the anonymous cowards around here." See nymshifter.
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word thingwhat
She was a lump of a thingwhat the sailors call a butter-box.
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word lithomania
A passion for building what?
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word disembosoming
Again, no surprise.
‘disembosoming’ is no one's favorite word yet, has no comments yet, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word gipser
pilgrim pouch
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word jackpot justice
Patients do not come to us (our medical malpractice law firm) because they want to bring a frivolous claim or “jackpot justice.” They come to us because they are in the most dire circumstances.
August 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word exuvia
Cool. Now I know what to call a cicada's exoskeleton. Cicada exuvia! (I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly.)
August 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word thallophori
‘thallophori’ is no one's favorite word yet, has no comments yet, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
So sad. That's why:
I favorited thallophori and left this comment. Sorry, I can't do anything about thallophori's Scrabble validity.
August 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word incontinent
Hm. I guess it's perfectly possible to be unchaste and also lack voluntary control over one's excretory functions.
August 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word albarello
A ceramic pharmacy or drug jar, generally majolica ware. They are usually tall rather than wide, and often of a waisted shape.
August 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word giant panda
Don't let that stop you, dear ru. Pun away! I see Twitter poster are busy in this regard, too.
*my fursona is a giant panda (said by an icon of an animal with fur)
August 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word information laundering
“Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry”, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming “primarily a marketing machine” and co-opting “every institution that might stand in its way”. Medical journals were conspicuously absent from her list of co-opted institutions, but she and Horton are not the only editors who have become increasingly queasy about the power and influence of the industry.
August 7, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Thighland
Thailand:
https://twitter.com/LanguageLog/status/1291587631478792194
August 7, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Zezuru
Mugabe's parents belonged to the Zezuru clan, one of the smallest branches of the Shona tribe.
August 5, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word chieftaincy
Through his father, Mugabe claimed membership of the chieftaincy family that has provided the hereditary rulers of Zvimba for generations.
August 5, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word parvenu
noun An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
A man, huh. Really? How old is this definition?
August 5, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word wherret
A box on the ear? What kind of box.. a cereal box, a cake mix?
August 4, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fress
Thanks for this clarification, bilby. "Humans essen and animals fressen." Easy and worth remembering!
August 4, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fress
To gobble up food; to gorge oneself. "To eat quickly or noisily, like an animal".
August 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fumette
The stench or high flavor (?) of game meat. Hm.
August 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word ignifluous
My favorite word for today.
August 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word API
It also awarded $354 million to Phlow Corp. in May to start producing active pharmaceutical ingredients, or API, among other chemical ingredients, used in certain essential medications. A spokesperson for Phlow said the company can’t disclose the list of drugs, but it includes treatments for pain and blood pressure that can be used by hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The total contract is worth up to $812 million. Phlow cites a shift toward producing API in China and India as the rationale behind its business model.
July 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word hobble skirt
Ironically (or not), with the rising militancy of suffragists, skirts began to narrow until they became the barreled, banded style known as the hobble skirt or "the speed-limit skirt."
July 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word isotonitazene
Discovered in 1957 by a Swiss pharmaceutical firm, isotonitazene is an analogue of its banned parent compound, etonitazene, which was discovered in 1956 and is itself 60 times more potent than morphine.
“Isotonitazene is the most persistent and prevalent new opioid in the U.S.,” said Logan, adding that he is now seeing 40 to 50 isotonitazene-related deaths per month in the U.S. compared to about six per month last summer (2019).
Isotonitazene is legal to export from China and is not specifically banned in the U.S., Europe or China. America’s Analog Act would cover it as a derivative of a banned substance, but no case has come to court yet. It could take years before it is scheduled in the U.S. and internationally.
Chemists in Shanghai and other major manufacturing centers are still out-inventing lawmakers the world over, quickly synthesizing new, legal variants of recently banned drugs. Isotonitazene and several variants of it are now being sold online, legally by Chinese suppliers offering bulk deals.
July 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word psychonaut
"Previously, isotonitazene was a niche drug used by internet drug geeks, or psychonauts, Logan said. But he now, as happened with fentanyl, there are bags of heroin on sale on the streets in the U.S. with mixtures containing isotonitazene, with users having no idea what they are buying."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxebjb/40-americans-are-dying-every-month-from-taking-this-new-legal-opioid
July 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word spinal chord
I believe that this is a common MISSPELLING for spinal cord but no way is it a legitimate, alternative spelling.
July 23, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word stilt-petrel
What's wrong with long-legged petrel? Stilts are artificial legs, are they not?
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word zeme
Now I know what a zeme meme is, I guess.
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word symbolophobia
A fear of symbols is concise and seems to make sense, but the definition provided adds different layers of meaning that appear made-up.
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word vowelist
There are other examples of vowelless sentences in Czech and Slovak, such as prd krt skrz drn, zprv zhlt hrst zrn, meaning "a mole farted through grass, having swallowed a handful of grains"
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word vowelist
So, every -ist is an addict? How exactly does an addiction to vowels manifest itself? Do vowelists insist on buying game-show vowels even when a vowel is not needed to identify a word or phrase? Do vowelists suffer mercilessly when encountering languages such as Czech?
Strč prst skrz krk
--a Czech and Slovak tongue-twister meaning "stick a finger through the throat".
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word gonotyl
A sucker surrounding the genital opening...
Not sure why this particular detail describes this worm, unless it helps to distinguish one trematode worm from another.
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word tropologize
To make a trope of.
July 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word mummachog
mummichog
July 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word caraccas
There were galleys and caravels, barques and feluccas, pinnaces and caraccas.
July 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the list a-group-of-bilbies-is-called
What? Not an earful of bilbies? (BTW, my spell-check keeps trying to change bilbies to bibles.)
July 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word pathocracy
A pathocracy is a social movement, society, nation, or empire wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people.
June 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word political ponerology
Political ponerology (originating from the Greek word for evil, poneros) is a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes which ultimately on a larger scale results in a pathocracy.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55641292@N03/5482658316
June 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word ponerological
See ponerology.
June 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word cross-cutting relationships
Cross-cutting relationships is a principle of geology that states that the geologic feature which cuts another is the younger of the two features. It is a relative dating technique in geology. It was first developed by Danish geological pioneer Nicholas Steno in Dissertationis prodromus (1669) and later formulated by James Hutton in Theory of the Earth (1795) and embellished upon by Charles Lyell in Principles of Geology (1830).
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word principle of faunal succession
The principle of faunal succession, also known as the law of faunal succession, is based on the observation that sedimentary rock strata contain fossilized flora and fauna, and that these fossils succeed each other vertically in a specific, reliable order that can be identified over wide horizontal distances. A fossilized Neanderthal bone will never be found in the same stratum as a fossilized Megalosaurus, for example, because neanderthals and megalosaurs lived during different geological periods, separated by many millions of years. This allows for strata to be identified and dated by the fossils found within.
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word principle of lateral continuity
The principle of lateral continuity states that layers of sediment initially extend laterally in all directions; in other words, they are laterally continuous. As a result, rocks that are otherwise similar, but are now separated by a valley or other erosional feature, can be assumed to be originally continuous.
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word principle of original horizontality
The Principle of Original Horizontality states that layers of sediment are originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity.1 It is a relative dating technique. The principle is important to the analysis of folded and tilted strata. It was first proposed by the Danish geological pioneer Nicholas Steno (1638–1686).
June 29, 2020
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