What's Your Word for the Day? Showing 1,951-2,000 of 3,049

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

....and I thought it rhymed with dough.....live and learn indeed!

[Ken, Moderator]

Me, too, and I like it better that way because it's more like onomatopoeia for the sound of wind through the pine trees or surf. Can we overrule?

[Savvy]

Take it up with the heavies!

I agree though I was thinking if it sounded like dough, one could have fun making non-sensical stuff up like SO,THE SOUGH SOOTHES ME WHILE I SEW!

[Ruth]

Susanne wrote: "Take it up with the heavies!

I agree though I was thinking if it sounded like dough, one could have fun making non-sensical stuff up like SO,THE SOUGH SOOTHES ME WHILE I SEW!"

Sough what!

[Carol]

Sough sue me

[Carol]

Sough sue me

[Carol]

Sough sue me!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

In triplicate Kitty? Are you a Govt employee?!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Oxymoron: "government worker."

[Carol]

Off with their headsssssss. Nah just a lowly hairstyler.

[Ken, Moderator]

sartorial

[David]

A hero to his valet (condition contrary to cliché).

[Ruth]

Sough City Sue, Sough City Sue,
Your hair is red and your eyes are blue...

[Carol]

Close blue eyes gray hair

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

LOWLY hairstyler?!!! You are a goddess! Anyone who can control another persons hair is a miracle-worker!

[Carol]

Ah Thanks remember I am the one that said off with their heads . I suppose it should have been off with the hair.

[Ken, Moderator]

Didn't even know you were a "hairstyler"! Not much you can do with mine. I use "Just for Men #56 -- Battleship Gray."

[David]

Gormless--stupid and ineffectual. Up there with "feckless" and "blancmange."



Blancmange

[Carol]

Is that so you won't be seen at sea?

[Ken, Moderator]

It's so people will assume I'm gormless. Dumb like a fox.

[David]

Oneirically: of or pertaining to dreams, from Green ονειρος, "dream." "She was oneirically transformed into a grade-schooler."

A friend says we need to use more adverbs. My modest contribution.

[Savvy]

I oneirically traveled a gormless omnisentient path last night! ....
(nice dream though!) :-)

[Savvy]

Things animal-ine

Today’s list of the day is made of those adjectives meaning “of or like a certain kind of animal” and ending in -ine
You know canine and bovine, but what about crotaline (like a rattlesnake), arietine (like a ram), and rangiferine (like a reindeer)?

[Carol]

Does that include Monkey Shines?

[Summer]

scupper
–verb (used with object) British.
1. Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
2. Informal. to prevent from happening or succeeding; ruin; wreck.

Word Origin & History
"opening in a ship's side at deck level," 1485, perhaps from O.Fr. escopir "to spit out," or related to Du. schop "shovel," or from M.E. scope "scoop" (see scoop).

[Ken, Moderator]

Let's scupper the whole thing. Somehow I'd prefer one syllable here -- maybe to be done with it even sooner? "Let's scup the whoe thing," then.

[Savvy]

AMBILEVOUS

Unable to use either hand with facility: the opposite of ambidextrous. [Rare.:] Some are as Galen hath expressed; that is, ambilevous, or left-handed on both sides; such as with agility and vigour have not the use of either.

(talk about all thumbs!)

[Carol]

I am blessed or cursed with being ambidextrous. Does that mean both sides of my brain work against each other?

[Ruth]

Milk bottle tops? Milk bottle tops?

They still have milk bottles where you are????

[Carol]

Ruth those plastic thingys on a gallon of milk, which you no longer buy in that size.hehehe

[David]

My goat's udders don't have tops. What's with you people?

[Carol]

Are you sure those are udders? Poor little big thing. I hope that is not barb wire. Ouch!!!!!!

[Savvy]

I don't think those are udders :-0 ...that poor critter looks to be in a very tight spot!

[Savvy]

Captious
Today’s word of the day is captious, which is used to describe a nitpicker or a person apt to notice and make much of unimportant faults or defects, who is disposed to find fault or raise objections, who is prone to cavil, or who is difficult to please.

[Carol]

My word is cavil, that is a new one for me.



Main Entry: cav·il
Pronunciation: \ˈka-vəl\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): cav·iled or cav·illed; cav·il·ing or cav·il·ling \ˈka-və-liŋ, ˈkav-liŋ\
Etymology: Latin cavillari to jest, cavil, from cavilla raillery; akin to Latin calvi to deceive — more at calumny


intransitive verb : to raise trivial and frivolous objectiontransitive verb : to raise trivial objections to

— cavil noun

— cav·il·er or cav·il·ler \ˈka-və-lər, ˈkav-lər\ noun

[Ken, Moderator]

The captious person caviled at will. Sounds like Mom.

[Carol]

Sounds like a mom thing, of which I am guilty.

[Carol]

I gave up and shut their doors.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

abaquatulate
Definition:

U.S. abscond: to leave, especially in a hurry or under suspicious circumstances ( archaic or humorous )


[Mid-19th century. < Latin ab "away" + squat1 + -ulate (as in congratulate):]

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_186...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I did that too....only mine was worse cos mum gave me the money to buy the bread on the way home from mass and it was a hollowed out shell by the time I got home...(my brother helped!!)We both absquatulated!

[Ken, Moderator]

Similar to "abdicate." The -ab must be a Greek or Latin root for "heading out the door."

[Ruth]

Newengland wrote: "Similar to "abdicate." The -ab must be a Greek or Latin root for "heading out the door.""

Oh yeah? So abalone means heading out the door by yourself?

[Carol]

Abstract: going out the door with no rhyme or reason.

[David]

Credo quia absurdum est.

--Tertullian

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

My Latin is rusty....it is silly to believe?!!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

ab, abs, a


"apart, away from"


e.g. abnormal, abduct, abductor (muscle), abscission

[Carol]

Credo quia absurdum est

translation

"I believe because it is absurd"

[David]

Illegitimi non carborundum

(Translation: Don't let the bastards wear you down.)

[Ruth]

psychoceramic = crackpot

[David]

Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare;
Hoc tantum posso dicere, non amo te.

Free English translation:

I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.