What's Your Word for the Day? Showing 1,801-1,850 of 3,049

[Savvy]

NE, hopefully you're not fungible! :-)

fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective:
1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.
2. Interchangeable.

noun:
1. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Usually used in the plural

[David]

Mycophilia -- a love of mushrooms and other fungi.

[Ken, Moderator]

No, I am not fungible because they broke the mycophilia mold.

Pass the penicillin.

[Carol]

Its just a panacea.

[Ken, Moderator]

pok-a-tok -- a Mayan game with religion significance. Play it in 2012 to celebrate the End of the Pok-a-Tok World As We Know It.

[Carol]

soccer

[Ken, Moderator]

Carol, What's your word of the day? SOCCER? You'll upset much of the world, where it's called FOOTBALL.

ambipedrous -- able to use either foot while scoring goals in... um... football.

[Carol]

Football smootball.

[Carol]

Main Entry: Ra·be·lai·sian
Pronunciation: \ˌra-bə-ˈlā-zhən, -zē-ən\
Function: adjective
Date: 1817

1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of Rabelais or his works
2 : marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature,

How's that word?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Only England calls it football.....it is soccer in NZ, Australia and US (the only countries that count!)

[Ken, Moderator]

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8... (just counting, as req'd by NZ, Australia, and the US).

Rabelaisian is a nice literary word for naughty stuff, which leads us to:

NETHER (as in regions, as in Rabelais's favorite lands... Down Under, mates!)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Rabelasian Antipodes.....hmmmm!!

[David]

makes my nasty bits all tingly--oh, TMI, TMI.

[Ken, Moderator]

Well, even the World needs a Nether Region (gives a whole new meaning to aboriginal bush men).

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

TMI?

[Ken, Moderator]

Too much information

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Aaaah......

[Ken, Moderator]

In our increasingly open society, I find myself uttering those three letters more and more.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

We don't abbreviate so much downunder (teehee) so I couldn't know the words....

[Ken, Moderator]

DEARTH -- a scarcity (neighboring New York City).

[Savvy]

PAUCITY--a city near DEARTH...

[Ken, Moderator]

Pearl Buck wrote about THE GOOD DEARTH, didn't she? And remember, "DEARTH" does not mean a total lack of something, it means a shortage. Mickey Rooney knew as much, and he lived in Electri City.

[David]

It was "the goo dearth," about a ketchup shortage in Shanghai.

[Carol]

Turbaconucken- a chicken stuffed inside of a duck then into a turkey and wrapped with bacon. I have had chicken stuffed in a roasted lamb. That was different.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Turducken here....chicken stuffed in a duck, stuffed in a turkey....sounds better than the alternative....chucky!!

[Ken, Moderator]

The Words of the Day according to the Gospel of Bryan Garner:

"A gourmet knows well and appreciates the finer points of food and drink. A gourmand, on the other hand, is commonly understood to be a glutton for food and drink. An epicure is essentially the same as a gourmet, though perhaps with a touch of overrefinement. Epicureanism is a philosophy concerned with personal happiness and freedom from pain" [Editor's note: Where do I sign up?].

For dinner conversation on Thanksgiving, is all.

[David]

Yes, but have you ever been outed as a liar?

[Ken, Moderator]

It's become a word of the moment thanks to Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Outliers.

[Savvy]

Are Outliers generally gourmands, gourmets, or epicures?

[Savvy]

Do they chase 'Wild' Turkeys?

[Ken, Moderator]

They will be next week (but, as Barbara Kingsolver assures us, turkeys are the stupidest birds known to God -- stupid enough to look up into driving rain and drown).

[Carol]

It makes them easier to catch. Keeps them off guard.

[David]

Domestic turkeys, stupid. Wild turkeys, not so much. They are proliferating again.

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[Ken, Moderator]

Ben Franklin's choice for our national bird, they are ALL OVER THE PLACE in recent years. Not an unusual sighting, that is.

[Carol]

Aw , don't get me started about Mr. Franklin.

[Carol]

hydrocrystalophone-a glass harmonica ,using a series of crystal bowls to emit sound, one of Mr. Franklin's inventions

[Ken, Moderator]

Almanack -- the Word for Ben's Day (or possibly Poor Richard's Day).

[Savvy]

MEEP ????
Anyone know what it's supposed to mean?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/a...

[Carol]

1. An exclamation akin to 'ouch' or 'uh oh..'
2. Filling in the blanks where other (rude) words would go.
3. A greeting! I personally say meep instead of Hello...
4. A random expression of happiness used to fill gaps in conversation.

[Ken, Moderator]

It means Wiley Coyote is in your rearview mirror and gaining fast....

[Carol]

&*%$#**&@#% roadrunner or meeping roadrunner

[Savvy]

Newengland wrote: "It means Wiley Coyote is in your rearview mirror and gaining fast...."

That's pretty darn funny!!! meep-meep!!!...meep-meep!!!....I used to love watching the antics of those two!

So what's the rational behind banning it at a school...just gonna make tose lil' darlins' more apt to blurt it out IMO.

[Ken, Moderator]

That was why he had to take such extreme measures. The lil darlins were ALREADY blurting it out -- left and right, road and runner.

[Savvy]

In honor of our 'talking turkey'
Anyone planning on this for feast day???

TURDUCKEN

In the United Kingdom, a turducken is a type of ballotine called a "multi-bird roast."

An alternative is using a Goose instead of a Turkey, resulting in a Gooducken.

The largest recorded nested bird roast is 17 birds, attributed to a royal feast in France in the early 19th century (originally called a Rôti Sans Pareil, or "Roast without equal") - a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an Ortolan Bunting and a Garden Warbler. The final bird is small enough that it can be stuffed with a single olive; it also suggests that, unlike modern multi-bird roasts, there was no stuffing or other packing placed in between the birds. This dish could not be legally recreated in the modern era as many of the listed birds are now protected species.

[Carol]

Gooducken. German for good bye yellow brick road.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

See post 2107!

[Savvy]

CICISBEO

In Italy, since the seventeenth century, the name given to a professed gallant and attendant of a married woman; one who dangles about women. Lady T. You know I admit you as a lover no farther than fashion sanctions. Joseph S. True—a mere Platonic cicisbeo—what every wife is entitled to.

I want one! :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicisbeo

[Carol]

omoplates is a new word for me. Why not just say shoulder blades.

[Savvy]

SYNECDOCHE

noun: A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).

[Carol]

Anna wrote: "metonym - a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card""

I like that word.