What's Your Word for the Day? Showing 1,551-1,600 of 3,049

[[deleted user]]

GO GIRL!!!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Well if I were you I'd just post a picture of a famous person you look EXACTLY like. It's my strategy (heh heh)...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Oooooh like this...........

[David]

A mirliton is a xuxú, pronounced shushú.

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[David]

By similar analogy, an ocarina is called a "sweet potato."

[Ken, Moderator]

Debs -- OK, I give up. Who is she?

David -- Shushu? In Polish it means to take a leak. Babcia says, "Go shushu before we get in the car."

[Ruth]

Shelley Winters.

[Ken, Moderator]

Oh, a YOUNG Shelley. Yep. I see the similarity there and may even have mentioned it in the past (just to show you how Swiss my cheese mind is).

tumulus --(noun) an artificial hillock or mound (as over a grave); esp: an ancient grave.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I am glad this is not the word association thread.......

[Savvy]

CUMULUS

Cumulus clouds are a type of cloud with noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges. Cumulus means "heap" or "pile" in Latin. They are often described as "puffy" or "cotton-like" in appearance. Cumulus clouds may appear alone, in lines, or in clusters. Cumulus clouds are often precursors of other types of clouds, such as cumulonimbus, when influenced by weather factors such as instability, moisture, and temperature gradient. Cumulonimbus clouds may be associated with phenomena such as landspouts, waterspouts and tornadoes.

[Ken, Moderator]

Maelstrom -- (NOUN) a powerful and often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius.

... also used in the title of an Edgar Allan Poe short story, methinks.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I call them hovercraft!!

[David]

Kid, get down and give me 50. Then sweep my chimney.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hahahaha!!
David.....wanna be a parent help on Year 6 camp this year? Pleeeeeaaaase???!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Right. Let's recruit our fellow L&Gers as classroom volunteers. Boot Camp for Word Mavens, we'll call it. First morning: Black Hawk Dawn.

[David]

Line em up and let's run some laps.

[Ken, Moderator]

aerobic and anaerobic -- healthy words for the day. (And as David could tell you, as is true with dogs, well-behaved children are tired children)

[Ken, Moderator]

macerate (verb)

I make my own ice cream here at the lake and I got this from the directions. You macerate the strawberries for two hours when making strawberry ice cream. In layman's terms, you cut them in a bowl and add lemon juice and a 1/2 cup of sugar. Then it creates juices or macerates.

to cause to become soft or separated into constituent elements by or as if by steeping in fluid.

[Ruth]

Which leads us to osmosis, which is what causes the maceration--diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

My mother macerates strawberries in liqueur.......mmmmm.

[Savvy]

SWASIVIOUS....agreeably persuasive

[Ken, Moderator]

Don't you just hate it when science invades the kitchen?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Susanne!! What a wonderful word!! It ranks right up there with jouias.......joiussa.......you know....THAT ONE!

[Ruth]

Newengland wrote: "Don't you just hate it when science invades the kitchen?"

Actually, no. I love it. With two scientists as parents, I knew osmosis long before I ever macerated a strawberry.

[Savvy]

Yeah Debbie!...jouissance and swasivious feel playful and a little sexy on the palate don't ya' think?

I just lurve, the feel of them rolling around in my mouth!

We can surely have a jolly good time with them!

[[deleted user]]

Suz!
Bad Girl, Debs is a decadent influence, great isn't it!!
Oh soooo swasivious, I want to use that word everyday!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

But.........I'm a good girl I am!

[[deleted user]]

Swasivious gals are never good Debs..

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Well, judging by the current state of my lovelife, I am not nearly swasivious enough!!

[[deleted user]]

No Debs, your men are not nearly swasivious enough!!

[Ken, Moderator]

My dictionary doesn't even recognize the State of Swasivious (and if it did, it would come right before the unfortunate "swastika").

Still, I wish all of you gals lots of swazz in the future. Eat lots of oysters... raw so that they play about the back of your mouth just like the words jouissance and swasivious.

[[deleted user]]

Some words NE, ye just don't need a dictionary for..

[Ken, Moderator]

Funny, that's what Lewis used to say...

[David]

I went to Boston and didn't get scrod in 3 days. Perhaps if i showered . . .

[Savvy]

Oh Joanie and Debbie...you two crack me up!!!

NE, ye need an ancient book...it's one of those on the endangered list!

We gals are jus tryin ta give it a lil' 'mouth to mouth' 'ats all!

Swasiviously yours,
Suz

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

David....you need to shower to catch fish?
NE....oysters make me heave....and not in a good way!

Joanie and Susanne....if we were 10 my mother would not let me play with you! You are naughty influences!!

[[deleted user]]

YAY! thats the best compliment I've had all week Debs!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

;-)

[Ken, Moderator]

They say the girls' locker room puts the boys' to shame... and I believe it.

[[deleted user]]

OOPS! wrath of NE circling!!!!
Hie thee lickety split...

[Ken, Moderator]

Wrath? I'm rather enjoying it. Carry on...

salaciously lascivious

[[deleted user]]

Ah...corrupted at last, salacious never lascivious.
Why aren't you writing copiously after my lecture today???

[Ken, Moderator]

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[[deleted user]]

em..brevity is absolutely fine but didn't your last post just????

[Tyler]

Today's WFTD: Nugatory

It means insignificant or ineffective.

[David]

Not a candymaking term, alas.

[Tyler]

The nuggets are but mere sweet trifles.

[Ken, Moderator]

Refers, perhaps, to kids who give noogies (if that's how you spell it)?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Noogies???

[David]

Sometimes called an Irish haircut by Hibernophobic would-be wags.