What's Your Word for the Day? Showing 1,651-1,700 of 3,049

[Ruth]

In this case we're just supposed to find one word, and take it from there. I found "turpentine." It's not going well.

[Savvy]

ooohhhh...looks like a task instead of a joy!
How do you find your word?

[Ruth]

Grab a book, let it fall open, close your eyes and point.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

OK!

least

[[deleted user]]

OK too!
Occasionally?

[Ken, Moderator]

I got "just."

Only ee cummings has already covered that! (He and the creepy wee balloon man.)

[Robyn]

Oh awesome, mine is 'inspired' - really!

AND my word for the day is
floccinaucinihilipilification

Estimation that something is valueless.

Proper pronunciation based on Latin roots: flockə-nowsə-nəkələ-pələ-fək-ation.


I love the 'fek' in the middle of it, as in 'what the fek will I write in my stream of consciousness which would more correctly be entitled...


Robyn's Feking Floccinaucinihilipilification

[[deleted user]]

Great feckin irish word Robyn! we use it in every feckin sentence..feckin great thread title..

[Robyn]

Ah - 'feckin' - of course! I am such a feckin domnoddy, I shouldo' known that...


[origin uncertain:] /DOM noddy/
fool, ninny, nincompoop, simpleton (also, noddypoll, noddy)

""You idiot! You cabbageheaded domnoddy! If you've
hurt my horse, I'll have your skin!""
- Gerald Morris, The Squire's Tales (1999)

"But it can be a miserable, lonely existence for a
subordinate who yearns to be productive and get
things done, but is caught in a strangle hold by
an unqualified and incapable domnoddy. Incompetent
managers rely heavily on rules, policies, and
procedures."
- Jim Weaver, How Did You Manage That? (2002)

(Just getting Noddy back in...)

[Robyn]

My new word is
macroverbumsciolist







:)

[Ken, Moderator]

Better than a microverbumsciolist!

[Ruth]

I dunno. I wish my bum were a little more micro.

[Savvy]

Ruth wrote: "I dunno. I wish my bum were a little more micro."

tooooo funny Ruth!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

So akin to what you called me.....a morosoph!!!! I love what you have done with your stream already Rob! (And I'm not scared of you nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!!!

[Robyn]

I was interested to read that sophomore has the same derivation:

lit. "arguer," altered from sophumer (1653, from sophume, archaic variant form of sophism), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Gk.sophos "wise" + moros "foolish, dull."

Sophomoric "characteristic of a sophomore" (regarded as self-assured and opinionated but crude and immature) is attested from 1837.

I love the new word "microverbumsciolist" -- that would be a person who is ignorant of small words LOL [probably not allowed chatspeak in here, but I have always been rebellious:]

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

We tolerate it in small doses! :-)

[Ken, Moderator]

If there can be macro- and micro- economics (God knows what they even mean), then why not the same for those pesky verbumsciolists? (Sounds like someone in the symphony -- "Oh yes, I play First Verbumsciolist in the New York Philharmonic.")

[Robyn]

Well 'diet' is a small word that I'd like to be ignorant of...

[Ken, Moderator]

No one should ever diet. You just change what you buy at market and bring home, then eat when you're hungry. Treat yourself to a treat now and again. And drink lots of tap water. The doctor is out (as is his salient advice).

WOD: SALIENT (adj.) -- standing out conspicuously; prominent; striking

Literally, then, a fountain or a mountain could be salient as well. But I always use it figuratively, cause I'm a figurative kind of guy by nature

[Robyn]

Wow, I never thought of it like that before - I could think of other inappropriate ways to use it too...

[[deleted user]]

Ah..bad girril Rob! LOL.

[Ken, Moderator]

In that case, the salient points of a date would be... um... rated PG-Rabelais.

[[deleted user]]

mnm..nope..doesn't stand up.oh!.em.. I mean out.. pour moi.

[Savvy]

Newengland wrote: "No one should ever diet. You just change what you buy at market and bring home, then eat when you're hungry. Treat yourself to a treat now and again. And drink lots of tap water. The doctor is ..."

YuP, Dr. Suz here agrees...having just polished off a (one) scrambled egg with fresh sweet onions, sweet red peppers, zucchini, vine ripened tomatoes, new potatoes, and newly picked basil leaves! Yum!!!

Back to steel cut oats with the fruits and nuts after my "Labor Day' pains pass... :-)

Not only 'salient'...but gentlemanly swasivious advice!

[David]

pass the Oreos

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

....and tack another kilometre to the morning walk!

[David]

What? And shorten my nap?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Heehee!

[Ken, Moderator]

Long time no Oreo for this guy... though my preference was for Fudge Towns. (Elves and such)

[David]

Fasting words:

xerophagy A fasting discipline involving eating dry foods only

alousia Refraining from washing as an ascetic practics. Apparently cleanliness was not always next to godliness.

anorea Refraining from eating Oreo cookies. [I just made that one up:].

[[deleted user]]

Anorea! thats hilarious.

[Ken, Moderator]

Wonder if she's any relation to Ann Aerobic.

[[deleted user]]

Ouch! that Wit sure slices..ALTHOUGH somebody said
'If Humor be the safety of our race, THEN, it is largely due to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain' (Taft)

[Savvy]

Joanie wrote: "Ouch! that Wit sure slices..ALTHOUGH somebody said
'If Humor be the safety of our race, THEN, it is largely due to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain' (Taft)"

Yup Joanie...the Irish have infiltrated America...I've got a bit o' Irish and a lil' Scot in me DNA too!

Now, if some clever person could coin a word for a person who 'claims' to possess such a superior G.I. tract that he never passes gas...I'd be given' ya a GOLD star! (yeah...I've got one be claimin' so...)

[Ken, Moderator]

Few people fail gas. Valedictorians, every one.

[Tyler]

Today's WFTD: Ithyphallic

It can mean "obscene," among other things, but in the context I encountered it (Joan Rockwell, Fact in Fiction) the word means "having to do with the erect penis."

That definition mostly applies to aesthetics, such as "ithyphallic Greek vase art." But what I admire is the endless versatility the definitions allow.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I cannot be trusted to comment intelligently......

[David]

An ithyphallus doesn't care about intelligence, and tends to cancel out whatever intelligence the brain attached to it once possessed.

For a mushroom known as Ithyphallus impudicus, see this site:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgur...

Warning: not safe for school or work

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hahahahaha!!!! So I have heard!!

Have I ever said that I adore mushrooms?

[David]

How about umbrellas?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Well, they're not as tasty when sauteed in butter.....

[Carol]

If it is a cold rain,butter won't drip. So always use a buttered umbrella in cold weather. That is my perscription

[Ken, Moderator]

UNGUENT (n) -- a soothing or healing salve; ointment.

e.g. "Pass the unguent, honey, I'm on a tear..."

[Carol]

I used a balm at the balmy seaside.

[[deleted user]]

I used an anti-inflammatory but I wasn't near the sea!

[Carol]

I am near the ocean,so plenty of lotion.

[[deleted user]]

Not near the sea Sooo don't matter to me!

[Savvy]

When you live on a lake you can always spot the drake!

[Carol]

When did we start rhym'in to pass the time'in. I don't think I spelled that right.

[[deleted user]]

Quite close to a brook.. and no way am I finishing this one.. cos NE will surely sling my sorry assonance out...