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  • VARIANT FORMS: None

    NOUN: 1. A desire for something that cannot be named.

    ETYMOLOGY: wordwench

    Latin, Curo, to desire; Ignatus, the unknown.

    November 4, 2014

  • VARIANT FORMS: None

    NOUN: 1. To be subsumed by the Sun.

    ETYMOLOGY: wordwench

    Latin, Sumere, to be taken over; Sol, the Sun.

    May 6, 2013

  • I neglected to give you temples of gold. I offer mists of luminous ethers in their stead.

    August 18, 2010

  • I give you temples, and spires of gold.

    March 30, 2010

  • VARIANT FORMS: None

    NOUN: 1.To taste the rain,

    ETYMOLOGY: Latin, Gusto - to taste, Imbrium - the rain. wordwench

    March 30, 2010

  • Serbian, for the gold.

    May 4, 2009

  • Seconded. Perhaps a portmanteau of 'Dang It' and 'Dag Nabbit'?

    May 4, 2009

  • As in, what my Mother insists on serving up the week after Thanksgiving?

    May 4, 2009

  • Damn right, speaking as a maiden.

    March 13, 2009

  • And excuse me, but a sylph is also an air elemental. I imagine they are all hmphing about now.

    March 13, 2009

  • Ahh. Now all the world is a hazy green and I await a warmish breeze.

    March 13, 2009

  • What happens to we wenches the day after holiday when the pants don't fit right.

    March 4, 2009

  • "There's no mystical energy field that controls my pants."

    as if.

    March 4, 2009

  • Viverrine?

    Sounds like a sassy cocktail waitress fond of coral lipstick and beehives.

    March 4, 2009

  • Frankly, velvet would make a better verb.

    'Velvet your words, lad, lest I should rip them from your tongue.'

    But I digress, being piqued and at my peak.

    March 4, 2009

  • A serpent that swallows its own tail.

    March 4, 2009

  • Oooh. Like an alternate Ouroborus?

    March 4, 2009

  • *sniff* I missed you, too.

    :)

    March 4, 2009

  • Another want, love, am.

    Beautiful, beautiful word.

    March 4, 2009

  • Love. Want. Am.

    March 4, 2009

  • Psssst. Alternate spelling - curtseying.

    Not that I was. Counting, that is.

    ;)

    October 3, 2008

  • HA!

    (Hail Acronyms!)

    October 3, 2008

  • Well, now you've got me all piqued about the 'Um'.

    Siakra though, who knew I had one? I vow herewith to start taking much better care of it, as much is so.

    October 3, 2008

  • Great word - even if it sounds like something one might dig out of a body orifice.

    Pardons, but it seems you have a bit of guncle in your ear.

    October 3, 2008

  • Something as lovely as Cerulean Blue deserves a comment...and so, it gets one.

    October 2, 2008

  • That sounds decidedly sinister, and I want no part of it.

    October 2, 2008

  • VARIANT FORMS: None

    NOUN: 1. One who possesses many talents in the art of being bad.

    ETYMOLOGY: wordwench

    October 2, 2008

  • Gods, but you have the best lists!

    *drools*

    October 2, 2008

  • In that case, how about Tabitha Twitchett, which I am affronted just inspired.

    I know a plethora of those.

    October 2, 2008

  • Heh. I so forgot about 'Cockfosters'. 'Piccadilly' being only marginally better.

    October 2, 2008

  • Gods, what a delicious word!

    October 2, 2008

  • Yeeeps! It does appear that I have gaffed.

    Great catch, chained one, and most humbly amended. ;)

    October 2, 2008

  • A year too late. I'm still favoriting it.

    Hmm.

    October 1, 2008

  • Absolutely delightful! And an honor. Also favorited.

    Mmm. Favorited. Has anyone added that as a word, I wonder?

    October 1, 2008

  • Only if a leather ear test kit is included. Then I'll bite.

    October 1, 2008

  • Conversely, "Words that would be even more interesting with a 'P' in front of them'

    sounds like a really good list to me.

    Ptruly.

    ;)

    October 1, 2008

  • In your lists, pilfering your goods. ;)

    October 1, 2008

  • Naughty wordies.

    Come sit by me.

    October 1, 2008

  • It's additionally the site of an ancient and well known horse fair, and thus, 'Barnet' is also cockney rhyming slang for hair.

    even more uselessly beguiling trivia

    October 1, 2008

  • ...are the best.

    October 1, 2008

  • I'm in! But how to apply these? I assume there will be additional words included to detail that?

    mmm. infuse..

    October 1, 2008

  • I can only dream of having added so many wonderful words.

    *gazes sycophantically, but you don't notice*

    October 1, 2008

  • Bested before I even had the chance. But damn, what a way to be bested.

    *bows fetchingly*

    October 1, 2008

  • *swoons*

    Best lists ever. Even if I am all new and impressionable.

    October 1, 2008

  • I have died and entered lexiheaven.

    *wingflutter*

    October 1, 2008

  • Just when you think you've found a word NOBODY knew.

    Hmph

    And yes, I'm readyish for attack about now.

    ;)

    October 1, 2008

  • Whispering, or a whispering noise.

    October 1, 2008

  • To twitter or chirp, as a small bird or cicada.

    October 1, 2008

  • *squeal*

    October 1, 2008

  • Urth??

    I love that word. This one's nice, too.

    October 1, 2008

  • Fie thee O'kumquat-squat!, I say, Fie!

    October 1, 2008

  • From Carlyle, in 1837: "Confused tremor and fremescence; waxing into thunderpeals, of Fury stirred on by Fear."

    October 1, 2008

  • A good word about now..

    October 1, 2008

  • I am an Elizabeth, aka Lisbeth, and I love this list. ;)

    October 1, 2008

  • Cinerous, or something of the color of ashes.

    October 1, 2008

  • German for 'the day before yesterday'.

    October 1, 2008

  • "Homophobic phlegm-plop!"

    (I dunno, but I like!)

    October 1, 2008

  • I long for the day when I get to subjectively use this word in my memoirs.

    October 1, 2008

  • Chained_bear, I am humbled. I quiver with shame. You are so right, you fecund fecal-sack, you.

    October 1, 2008

  • Mine: "Mechanize" as "Mek-ig-nize". You would not believe how many corporate suits insist on pronouncing it as if it contained a 'G'.

    My mom says "Ext-ree" for Extra, but I think that's kinda cute.

    Pffffft.

    October 1, 2008

  • And for a fun game of insults: Mix two words from this list.

    "Crotch-phlegm!"

    October 1, 2008

  • Pustule. Best worst word /ever/.

    But where oh where is Carbuncle?

    October 1, 2008

  • VARIANT FORMS: None

    NOUN: 1. The act of killing time.

    ETYMOLOGY: wordwench

    September 30, 2008

  • VARIANT FORMS: None

    NOUN: 1. A Letter writ in blood, either yours or anothers.

    ETYMOLOGY: wordwench

    September 30, 2008

  • VARIANT FORMS: None

    NOUN: 1. A desire to be named.

    ETYMOLOGY: wordwench

    September 30, 2008

  • Daduchos (δᾳδοῦχος "torch-bearer", from δᾶις+ἔχω) is an epithet of Artemis, and notably of Ceres-Demeter seeking her lost daughter (Persephone) with a torch. It was the title of the second priest (ranking after the Hierophant) at the Eleusinian Mysteries, an office inherited in several families of Athens.

    September 30, 2008

  • A proposed punctuation mark that was suggested to be used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level.

    September 30, 2008

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  • "Lisbeth has added 11 lists containing 98 words, 1 comments, 1 tags, 22 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."

    September 5, 2010

  • Thank you - I'm quite fond of luminous ethers. (One of my great-grandmothers was a theosophist.)

    August 18, 2010

  • *accepts temples, and spires of gold*

    Yes. I think we shall be fast friends.

    March 30, 2010

  • Welcome back!

    March 4, 2009

  • You can unleash some P's over here.

    October 2, 2008

  • Thank you! I don't have so many lists, considered that I've been a full-time (so to speak...) Wordie for seven months. But I tend to enjoy other people's lists, and conversations. :-)

    Have fun! You will see there are many different ways of enjoying this website.

    October 1, 2008