What's Your Word for the Day? Showing 1,351-1,400 of 3,049

[Ruth]

A quote from my gr profile:

If you want to be my friend, send me a short note saying why. My list is getting too long and I'm trying to limit it to those with whom I have something in common. If I don't answer your request, don't take it personally. I'm sure you're very nice, but my life can only expand so far before I get the fantods.

[David]

It's pronounceable in English, but fairly rare. Compare "beanpods."

Ruth's example is excellent, as we would expect.

[Ken, Moderator]

You also might get fans named Todd. But we're all constantly bemused by "friend" requests from complete strangers without so much as a note stating why. At least I am.

There must be a word (for the day) for such truck...

[Ruth]

If I get a friend request without a note, then I know that person isn't interested enough to even go to my profile.

[Savvy]

then there is the facebook quandry...(from Urban Dictionary)

FACEBOOK ALZHEIMER'S

"When you get a friend's request from someone that you have no idea where you know them from. The worst part is you have mutual friends from work and school! You post messages on each other's wall and they never know you have no clue as to how you know them...a case of Facebook Alzheimer's."

[Ken, Moderator]

Am I the last one standing who is not a part of Facebook?

-- the Faceless One (it's better that way)

[Ruth]

Bookface here is better.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Sure is!

[Summer]

Newengland wrote: "Am I the last one standing who is not a part of Facebook?

-- the Faceless One (it's better that way)"

I'm not either. I considered it since I am done with school and looking for work, but I don't know how many nurse recruiters would look at a Facebook page and I don't see what use it would be otherwise.

[Summer]

Oh and a word:
intertrigo n. Dermatitis that occurs at moist, warm sites where skin surfaces rub together, such as the armpits, the inner surfaces of the thighs, and between the buttocks; caused by an overgrowth of normal flora.

[Ruth]

Makes me think of impetigo. And splotches of gentian violet.

[David]

I remember that stuff. Made ya purple. Mercurochrome made you orange, I think.

[Ken, Moderator]

Rosacea

(Yay, Summer -- for not being in facebook and for being named after a season that's almost here... uh, in the Boreal Hemisphere.)

[Savvy]

VERIGO

Virago is a term that refers to a strong, brave, or warlike woman (from Latin vir "a man", compare Tomboy). The term has also been used to refer to a noisy, bossy, and scolding woman. It is closely related to termagant, which is a quarrelsome, scolding woman and shrew, which is a nagging woman.

Would that be XENA...warrior princess?

I just heard the word "harridan" and it led to finding this....

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Verigo or virago??

[Savvy]

David wrote: "I remember that stuff. Made ya purple. Mercurochrome made you orange, I think."

Yeah...Good ole days...now we have so many choices for our little scrapes and dings!

[Ken, Moderator]

Virago with an "i" -- and I think Xena is "Amazonian," Greek for "women who like to buy books at discount."

[David]

Xena is welcome to visit my library any time.

[Summer]

Ruth wrote: "Makes me think of impetigo. And splotches of gentian violet."

Since I shared the word, I should also share that it made me think of Jo March (Roderigo) and that recommended treatment is cream containing zinc oxide (usually found in diaper cream).

Newengland wrote: (Yay, Summer -- for not being in facebook and for being named after a season that's almost here... uh, in the Boreal Hemisphere.)"

I had nothing to do with my naming, but thank you. I'll tell my mother. I'm not interesting enough for Facebook. I'll spare the collective internet browsers. Hemispheres are significant, though one of my favorite gardening books, Dig Gardening from the Ground Up, translates just fine from one hemi to the other.

A word: mélange

[David]

A farrago of viragos

[David]

The Amazons cut off one breast to make archery easier. Hence the saying, "In the land of the one-armed men, the Amazon is queen."

[David]

A mesclun of harridans. A potpourri of shrews.

Now the Sisterhood will be on my trail!

[Savvy]

Debbie wrote: "Verigo or virago??"

LOL...actually probably a case of VERTIGO or I need a manicure to cut my nails shorter! I'm prone to typos when they get this long!....though they are helpful at other tasks and good weapons of defense from wild animals, etc! :-)

VIRAGO was the intent!

[Savvy]

David wrote: "A mesclun of harridans. A potpourri of shrews.

Now the Sisterhood will be on my trail!"

Yeah...you forgot a "Clutch of Chimeras!"

[David]

A "verruga" is something else entirely, just to stir the pot some more.

[Ken, Moderator]

In today's Poem of the Day, a word I had heard of, should have known, yet had to look up: numinous.

It was used thus in the poem "Yard Sale" by Jane Kenyon:

"My brother takes pity on her
and they go walking together along the river
in places that seemed numinous
when we were five and held hands
with our young parents."

numinous (adj.) -- supernatural, mysterious; filled with a sense of the presence of divinity; holy; appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense: spiritual.

[Edie]

my favorite word at the moment is oneiric, meaning dreamy. it is a gorgeous word etymologically derived from the Greek word oneiros, meaning dream.

[Ken, Moderator]

Pronounced "own-Eric"?

[David]

anhedonia: the inability to experience pleasure.

[Ruth]

my mother's diagnosis years ago, as the dementia began to eat holes in her brain

[David]

Working title for "Annie Hall," too. Here's another word with the "a-" prefix: alousia--the ascetic practice of not bathing.

[Ruth]

Dear me, and here I thought it meant "without lice."

[Ken, Moderator]

No, that has a name: "A-lice."

[Summer]

Alacrity

[Ruth]

(Hee, NE. I should have known you could do me one better)

[David]

"Ηarmartiological"==pertaining to the study of sin. Αμαρτια--hamartia is Greek for "missing the mark" as in archery.

[Ken, Moderator]

Sounds much like hermetically, a word Johnny Carson taught all of us.

[Ruth]

I hate the word lumpectomy. What an awkward cobbling together of languages.

[David]

"Sociology" is mixed Latin-Greek. There are, no doubt, others.

[Savvy]

Newengland wrote: "Pronounced "own-Eric"?"

My husband, Eric, wouldn't be too fond of this word if it were pronounced that way....though hmmmmmmmmm?

But here's how it actually sounds......

http://dictionary.reference.com/brows...

[Ruth]

David wrote: ""Sociology" is mixed Latin-Greek. There are, no doubt, others."

I know, I know. But this mixed marriage is particularly infelicitous.

[O2]

Eureka - I've found it.

Now I've found it and its my word of the day I'll be using it a lot as I lose my mobile, wallet, pens, everything all day long.

[Ken, Moderator]

Happens to be California's state motto, too (which is why people go to Cali to "find themselves")...

[David]

That's why all the fruits and nuts come from here.

[Savvy]

Careful David...I'm a native export! :-)

[Ken, Moderator]

Well, I've been there... once. San Francisco (but no flowers in my hair).

[Robyn]

nescience - lack of awareness.

I have been looking for a kind way to say that someone has absolutely no idea what other people are talking about and pops in with contributions that are off the wall!

It's an appraisal, so I can't say 'she's as thick as a plank - or as dizzy as'...or any other rude simile.

Any suggestions? I am not even sure how to use nescience in a sentence so that it sounds natural, but it's the kindest synonym I can find...

'She frequently exhibits nescience of the converstational topic and her contributions lack ...' oh groan.

I've been trying to phrase this sentence for two days!

Help!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

In order to remedy her spectacular nescience, she needs to work towards gaining greater understanding of conversational trends before contributing her own ideas?

[Robyn]

It sounds kinda harsh, doesn't it...

*thinks glumly*
I'm not even sure she can help it - think she's thick as a plank LOL

~ actually she's a kind, caring teacher...she just can't follow a conversation :(

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Just leave it then....sometimes blissful ignorance is a happy state.....:-)