What's Your Word for the Day? Showing 1,451-1,500 of 3,049

[Ken, Moderator]

EPIGRAPH. I'm always confusing that with

epigrams, which are pithy witticisms.

Then there is EPILOGUE, "a concluding section that rounds out the design or a literary work."

[Ruth]

And don't forget EPITHET.

&*^@$*#@#@#**

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Epitaph?

[Savvy]

Better an Epidural!

[Ruth]

epidermis

[Ken, Moderator]

epicenter

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

tsunami

[Ken, Moderator]

(I went to school with her.)

[Ken, Moderator]

Here in Maine I leave my trusty Webster's open to the most recent page scanned. Because I have dial-up Internet which takes anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds between "clicks," I often peruse it for edification.

Found THIS interesting word this a.m., a male equivalent to the well-known word squaw.

sannup -- a married male American Indian.


That makes me a sannup, I guess. I like it because it sounds like "sun up" which is always a cheerful thing. Its root is from the Abnaki senanbe.

[Savvy]

"That makes me a sannup, I guess. I like it because it sounds like "sun up" which is always a cheerful thing. Its root is from the Abnaki senanbe."

Sooooo...you are always cheerful? I like that!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

When I'm not, I hide it under a bushel (though they're becoming increasingly difficult to find).

[David]

sumbitch

[Gail]

dadgum

[David]

sheeit fahr

[Gail]

Made me laugh out loud, David.

bahstid (Massachusetts for bastard)

[Ken, Moderator]

Masshole

(Massachusetts for "driver")

[Sarah]

Assoholic.
A person who can't stop being an *hole. Needs professional help overcoming ingrained behavior patterns...

[Ken, Moderator]

jejune (adj.) -- dull, insipid.

[Gail]

gauche (adj.)--lacking polish, awkward

e.t.a.: not referring to anyone here

[Lena]

Quasi- (adj.)-- resembling or to some degree.

[Lena]

I have read many history books and have always wondered what jurisdiction meant:
Jurisdiction (noun)-- The authority to conduct justice by hearing and deciding problems.

[Ken, Moderator]

Guilty until proven innocent = American jurisdiction.

(Welcome, Lena.)

[Savvy]

KEXY

kexy - adj - 1608 -1884
dry, brittle, withered

The rustling of the kexy leaves alerted the campers to the bear's presence.

{Past tense of SEXY? :-)

[Lena]

Thank you, Newengland.

[David]

"perfervid" super-enthusiastic

[David]

And by the way, why is it, when I click on "back to top," it doesn't go all the way to the top. If I want to click on "home," I still have to move the cursor further up?

Grrrrrr . . .

[Ken, Moderator]

That would be a question for the GR Feedback group (I'm a member but haven't been to one of their soirees for umpteen months).

[Sarah]

Kexy is a great word, Susanne!
Not tonight honey, I'm feeling kexy...

[Lena]

Erudition- Knowledge gained from study, etc.

[Ken, Moderator]

Erudite, to use its adjectival form. Oh, to be erudite and in the right!

[David]

Erudaft?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

David....you made me snort my coffee! Bad boy!

[David]

Girls like bad boys. 'Tis a fact.

[Ken, Moderator]

While reading the NPR e-mail called "The Weeknight Kitchen" (it's a recipe called Sicilian-Style Sweet and Sour Chicken Thighs with Mint), I came across this line: "One last lagniappe is that the dish is better on the second and third day, and the sauce is dynamite."

Lagniappe is one of those words that your in-need-of-bail-out-fund memory bank tells you you've seen before, but you never remember, so I looked it up again.

lagniappe (noun) -- a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly: something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure.

The word is used broadly in the sentence above. Literally, it might be the extra slice of cheese or bologna the deli worker hands a shopper's kid in the cart. (Yes, I was once that kid in a cart, which explains why I'm so full of bologna.)

[Ken, Moderator]

Explain.

[Ruth]

My new word? Punnet. Ran across it in reading a couple of weeks ago. It's a little basket or container, such as a punnet of strawberries.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Punnet is new??!!! Been using it (and eating strawbs) all my life.....well since I could talk anyway!

'Stuffed shirt', NE.....it means someone with no sense of humour who takes everything literally and is a bit pompous to boot! Not you, obviously, which is why Gabi put the question mark! (The bologna must have had an association in her mind).

[Ken, Moderator]

Punnet is not in my dictionary. Sounds like that square used in science to figure out genetic odds. I'm thinking the pea gardener scientist. What's his name? And the name of his square?

Deb -- Oh. "Full of balogna" means full of nonsense is all. Ring on deli...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Punnet the first.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnet

Punnett the second.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett_...

Different spelling as you can see.

[Ruth]

Mendel, NE.

I'd never heard of Punett 2, either.

[Lena]

Punnett Square is the square that is used to figure genetic odds.

[Ken, Moderator]

Ah, Mendel. Of course. I actually LIKED that part of science because it explained the eye colors in our family (recessive, dominant, obsessive, etc.).

Thanks, Debs and Lena! So close! My memory bank still has deposits!

[Tyler]

Word for the day: Uxorious

Pronounced (uhk-sohr'-ee-uhs). It means doting on, foolishly fond of, of affectionately submissive toward one's wife. I pulled it out of a punnet of good prose in Fifth Business. It beats the vulgar alternative.

[Ken, Moderator]

I'll never forget that word because it was used in Justin Kaplan's biography of Mark Twain, which I read forever and a day ago. Kaplan said Twain was uxorious when it came to Olivia (a.k.a. "Livy"), his beloved wife, who happened to be a Langdan and the daughter of one of Elmira, NY's, richest men.

He married wisely.

[David]

vulgarly, "p***y-whipped"

[Ken, Moderator]

We just say "whipped," being polite sorts.

[David]

And also, "Yes, dear. Of course, dear."

[Ken, Moderator]

Oh. And lots of that. Maybe "honey" instead of "dear," but whatever. Marriage is a minefield...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

....best left fallow!

[Ken, Moderator]

"For she's a jolly good fallow..."