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28 Jun 00 - 04:14 PM (#248691) Subject: Best Words From: Kim C Okay, we've talked about our least favorite words and expressions. What about your most favorites? I like: conundrum, absolutely, fiddlesticks, sam hill, lands sakes, sonofabiskit, bogart (is that really a word? I know Mister and I use it all the time but we don't smoke joints anymore), abscond, fixin to, y'all, reckon, yonder, cold drink (as in, Who wants a cold drink? as opposed to Who wants a Coke/soda/pop/etc?), hotchacha, dangit, vex, subterfuge, stout (as in beer!), howdy/hidy..... I'm sure there are more. I kinda like wazzup, just to vex people. Anyone else? |
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28 Jun 00 - 04:17 PM (#248693) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: SINSULL "That's neither here nor there", a completely meaningless phrase that invariably produces a knowing nod. Love it. |
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28 Jun 00 - 04:28 PM (#248699) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Morticia I like old-fashioned words like frock, vexed,nightgown etc. |
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28 Jun 00 - 05:04 PM (#248713) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: kendall cellar door, eventide and, the best of all, love |
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28 Jun 00 - 05:06 PM (#248715) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo You got it, kendall. Even better "I love you." --Mbo |
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28 Jun 00 - 05:28 PM (#248728) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Homeless When deciding upon one's "best words," should one be judging by meaning, or phonetics? Personally, I like the sounds of "onomatopoeia," "mudhopper," and "good gravy." |
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28 Jun 00 - 05:43 PM (#248733) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak I've always has a thing about theodolite.... don't know why. And Spoon. The best one though, for getting me all tingly, is sausage....., pronounced soss oj. Weird, ain't I?! LTS |
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28 Jun 00 - 05:51 PM (#248739) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny Aloha |
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28 Jun 00 - 05:59 PM (#248750) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Now that is a strange one, it means hello, but it can also be goodbye, am I coming or going?? LTS, who also loves the word bubble - sounds just like it does.... |
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28 Jun 00 - 06:17 PM (#248764) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mooh Joy, love and peace... Peace, Mooh. |
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28 Jun 00 - 06:24 PM (#248773) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Newport Pagnell and Bootle always get me going too..... LTS |
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28 Jun 00 - 07:31 PM (#248805) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Aloha means friendship |
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28 Jun 00 - 08:49 PM (#248844) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: bbelle I love the phrase "shocked and chagrined" ... also the words ... vex, ebulliant, obstreperous, loquacious, bodacious, dashing (as in a man), fetching (as it describes how a woman looks), farfuckingout (that's a word, isn't it?), darlin' (as it flows off the tongue of a southern gentleman) ... moonchild |
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28 Jun 00 - 09:57 PM (#248877) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: wysiwyg fart and kerplunk |
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28 Jun 00 - 09:59 PM (#248878) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Amergin What about fuckered up? |
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28 Jun 00 - 10:00 PM (#248879) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Amos Philanthropy, crystal and rainwater. |
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28 Jun 00 - 10:17 PM (#248889) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: flattop Too many great words. In Fellini's movie Eight and a Half, a reporter asks a long, rambling, convoluted question which the main characters answers with, "Perhaps." That scene opened my mind to the endless possibilities of the word 'perhaps' which I overuse. I like thinking about the relationship between words like scintilla and scintillating, from the latin for spark and sparkling but I seldom get to use them. It might go to her head if I told her. |
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29 Jun 00 - 12:01 AM (#248943) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Callie From the Singing Detective: "elbow" And from myself: socks, fox, lunch, schism, fast (as in "hey, those glasses you have on sure are fast!" as said to a colleague by a local shopkeeper) Callie |
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29 Jun 00 - 12:39 AM (#248958) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Sorcha I love all of the above words. Are all Mudcatters "word freaks"? Can we make up new ones, here too?
My sister made one up at age 10, when asked where did she get that word, and she said, Out of my own "SENSATORY", love it.
And we made up several new ones in HearMe tonite: Disfretteled==not happy with the frets on your fretted instrumentet. |
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29 Jun 00 - 04:33 AM (#249029) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Gervase I'm a great fan of gruntled - the rather chuffed opposite of disgruntled. |
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29 Jun 00 - 07:50 AM (#249065) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Scabby Douglas Here are some of my favourite Glasgow words/expressions: gallus - devil-may-care/insolent/cheeky/swaggering skoosh - any fizzy drink - pop - soda ginger - any fizzy drink - pop - soda (as above) skelp - a glancing blow/slap skelf - a splinter - especially in one's finger Cheers... |
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29 Jun 00 - 08:54 AM (#249094) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo I like Valkyrie, chaconne, chug, rumpus, lumber, rumble, book (as in to move fast), ah-ite (Southern pronuncation of 'allright'), rule, rock, yo, uh-huh, Code-H, Big Chief Woolybosher, brigade, fireball, batrachian, lentiginous, ebullience, and smock. --Mbo |
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29 Jun 00 - 09:58 AM (#249133) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Hollowfox Fleam, snood, and squinch. (Ask Sandy Paton about the Dictionary Game sometime) |
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29 Jun 00 - 10:20 AM (#249142) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Kim C This is splendid! Y'all are too funny. Liz, my husband says "soss oj" all the time! I think he does is just to vex me, knowing that soss-oj is one of my favorite foods. I remembered a couple more of my favorites: jaunty, and vittles. |
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29 Jun 00 - 10:44 AM (#249159) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: kendall herripollated. (pissed off to the point of madness) |
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29 Jun 00 - 12:38 PM (#249243) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Peter T. blithe. yours, Peter T. |
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29 Jun 00 - 01:14 PM (#249265) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Clinton Hammond2 Defenestration... the act of killing someone by throwing them out a hight window... that's a great word! {~` |
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29 Jun 00 - 01:19 PM (#249272) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Ringer Just for their sound:"polyp" and "malkin" (the meaning of the first is less pleasant) |
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29 Jun 00 - 01:26 PM (#249276) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Mrr Ah, dictionary games. We had one once it a cognition seminar where you take a word that has a lot of different meanings, go to the dictionary and read one key word from each definition until a player gets the word. Thus: Lawyers, alcoholic, ballet, exclude, rigid, solid, obstacle, stripe... get it yet? The word is BAR. Try it! |
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29 Jun 00 - 04:12 PM (#249398) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Kim C Could I be "disbridgeled" if I'm having trouble with the bridge on my fiddle?!? Is there a verb form of "defenestration?" Like "to defenestrate"? |
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29 Jun 00 - 04:16 PM (#249400) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU Yes there is, Kim. You got it right "defenestrate". Not to be rude or anything, but defenestrattion is really not so specific as Clinton put it. Throwing anything out a window is defenestration, not merely humans for the sake of murder. I have a cousin who wanted to defenestrate all his teachers at school...because my and told them they would "fix his boots!" --Mbo |
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29 Jun 00 - 05:09 PM (#249434) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Midchuck I'm a confirmed yankee, but partial to the southern prounouciation (especially when angry or excited) of the most common taboo word meaning excrement - turning it into two personal pronouns. Peter. |
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29 Jun 00 - 05:13 PM (#249438) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Linda Kelly whimsical , chime, breeze, willow are lovely words and some place names too - Rime Intrisica , Wharam Percy , Wetwang and Stoke Poges... |
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29 Jun 00 - 05:18 PM (#249445) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo Wetwang? Also known as Nindalf? Someone's a Tolkien fan! --Mbo |
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29 Jun 00 - 05:19 PM (#249447) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: lamarca Folly, Dissipation and Sloth |
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29 Jun 00 - 05:20 PM (#249449) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: phil h underwhelmed |
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29 Jun 00 - 05:25 PM (#249452) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Big Mick Craic |
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29 Jun 00 - 05:45 PM (#249459) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Wesley S "Dang nab it" and "God dog it" |
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29 Jun 00 - 07:08 PM (#249489) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny I'm pretty sure Kerensky was defenestrated. |
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30 Jun 00 - 12:27 AM (#249611) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bill D when my son was a baby, I used to pretend to teach him to talk by looking him in the eye and demanding.... "Ok, now say 'prestidigitation' for daddy"... |
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30 Jun 00 - 12:32 AM (#249615) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: bbelle Midchuck ... you must be referring to the word "She-it" ... moonchild |
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30 Jun 00 - 12:33 AM (#249616) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo I know about that, Bill! They tried saying those big words to me when I was a baby too, but I always said them back! --Mbo |
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30 Jun 00 - 02:21 AM (#249652) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Ah, I tried so hard to get Phoebe to say theodolite..... I have managed to teach her the first verse of Omar Khyam's rubbermat...... (isn't that on the wrong word thread? - have heard it referred to as Victor Khyam's - he liked it so much he bought the poem....) And I've been to Ryme Intrinsica too... Ever been to Kingsbury Episcopi? Or Toller Porcorum?? What about Whitchurch Canonicorum? LTS
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30 Jun 00 - 02:54 AM (#249659) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Sandy Paton My favorite version of "The Four Marys" or "Mary Hamilton" begins with "Yestreen there were four Marys..." Now that's a lovely word (meaning "yester-evening"). Playing the Dictionary Game, also called "Fictionary," has contributed words like "zarf" and "finjan" (sometimes spelled findjan) to our vocabulary. Remember "cloop," Kathy? A friend in Vermont threatened to name his brand-new daughter "gasoline drum" because he thought it had a beautiful, sonorous ring to it. He was torn between that and "cellar door." I'm partial to words like "solivagant," having been one for most of the early part of my life. The variation of the Dictionary Game described above sounds like great fun. We'll have to give it a go! Sandy |
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30 Jun 00 - 03:13 AM (#249662) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny houligan, Godfrey Daniel, rhythm ... floor-mat (for format), Tennessee ... MBO - thanks for the info on Bob's your Uncle! Johnny in Oklahoma City |
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30 Jun 00 - 09:53 AM (#249719) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Kim C Mbo, is fixing one's boots at all akin to cleaning one's clock?! Hooligan is another of my favorites, as someone mentioned above. KFC |
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30 Jun 00 - 10:05 AM (#249734) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo It sure is, Kim! Sortoff...it's a disciplinary thing, as in "those drill instructors at boot camp will fix YOUR boots!" Also know to Hank Jr. fans as an "Attitude Adjustment"! --Mbo |
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30 Jun 00 - 10:06 AM (#249735) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: alison steughey (pronounced st-yucky) - Irish(or whatever) meal made up whatever you can find all bunged in together..... I like skelf (splinter)too.. but no one knows what I'm talking about sheugh (pronounced- sh-yuck)- meaning a ditch "he's as lazy as sheugh water" slainte alison |
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30 Jun 00 - 10:22 AM (#249750) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Lepus Rex I like... Turgid. Croak/croaker. Duumvir/duumvirate. Hedgehog. |
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30 Jun 00 - 10:29 AM (#249756) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: A Wandering Minstrel Lonnen, Stob, plodge, spelk(like a skelf but longer and more jagged), Cowped his creels (tripped over his own feet), Schlemeil, Unpicked (as in when you take a banjo players picks away):-) and those three little words.... "have another pint?"
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30 Jun 00 - 10:40 AM (#249768) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bert Ah place names... Stanstead Mountfitchet, Chipping Ongar, Stapleford Tawny, Stanford Le Hope, Corringham, Fobbing, Woodham Ferrers, Toot Hill, Little End. And that's just in Essex, you can go on forever. Here |
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30 Jun 00 - 11:06 AM (#249788) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,John Hill I asked someone the way whilst I was at Cleethorpes Folk Festival and they directed me down a "snicket" which seems to be a short cut ... wonderful word. |
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30 Jun 00 - 11:11 AM (#249792) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,John Hill Not that it really matters but I was in Whitby for the Moor and Coast at the time not Cleethorpes.. it must be a local word |
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30 Jun 00 - 11:16 AM (#249796) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST Snicket is indeed northern (yorkshire) wordiness - it means those little gaps in between buildings - nowhere near wide enough to even be a lane, and maybe only just qualifying as a path! One of my favourite words is parapet, just for the sound, and discombobulate. Priddy! jayohjo XX |
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30 Jun 00 - 11:24 AM (#249805) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo Ha ha Bert! Reminds me of the town Chipping Cleghorn in "By The Pricking Of My Thumbs," my favorite Agatha Christie book. Have you ever heard the Monty Python radio bit about the strange names of towns you find in the English countryside, when traveling on a train? It's hilarious! --Mbo |
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30 Jun 00 - 11:36 AM (#249819) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Skipjack K8 Slubberdegullion (Sloven) Snorkel Punnet Antidisestablishmentarianism Zeal Monachorum (pronounced by true Devonians as Zeal Me Knacker Um) Skipjack ...... Skipjack |
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30 Jun 00 - 12:27 PM (#249857) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: The Walrus at work Great selections. If you are allowing "discombobulate" can I add "oojar" (or to give it it's full version "oojar-cum-pivvy", one of those whatsits...thingamebobs..you know..er..where you can't remember the name of something. Another favourite is "sennight" an archaich alternative to "week" (presumably the same vintage as fortnight). Walrus |
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30 Jun 00 - 12:37 PM (#249865) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Free Reed Blackwater Northey Osea Pyefleet Nass Bench Head Othona Nice words, eh Skipjack? FreeReed |
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30 Jun 00 - 03:38 PM (#249938) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Sandy Paton Thanks for "sennight." There's one I can use, although not as often as I find use for omphaloscopist (navel-gazing singer-songwriter - akin to omphaloskepsis). |
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30 Jun 00 - 04:10 PM (#249950) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bert Othona! FreeReed? Did you have to go scuba diving to find that one? |
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30 Jun 00 - 04:12 PM (#249952) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Skipjack K8 Identify yourself, Free Reed |
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30 Jun 00 - 04:17 PM (#249957) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Skipjack K8 You're either brother or lover. |
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01 Jul 00 - 02:34 PM (#250132) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: mactheturk Phrases too like..."harder than woodpecker lips" or "steeper than a cow's face"... etc....
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01 Jul 00 - 03:01 PM (#250144) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bill D shamelessly cut & pasted..but funny! The Washington Post's 'Style Invitational' asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners: Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of obtaining sex. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. Burglesque: A poorly planned break-in. (See: Watergate) Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like a serious bummer. Glibido: All talk and no action. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid & an asshole. |
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01 Jul 00 - 03:45 PM (#250169) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Skipjack K8 The bontiest chompers in the clundy = Good food |
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01 Jul 00 - 04:16 PM (#250186) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Linda Kelly 'Me oldun's avin a canary!' =i believe my mother may be a little upset! |
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01 Jul 00 - 07:09 PM (#250279) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Free Reed Mullachabu. Now there's a good word. FreeReed |
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01 Jul 00 - 09:15 PM (#250343) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: MarkS Flusterpated - For when you are out of sorts but don't know why. |
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02 Jul 00 - 03:24 AM (#250496) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Callie Then there's all the Meaning of Liff words" name places which are used to describe phenomena which don't have a name. Such as "Epping" used to describe the pointless gesture you make trying to catch the waiter's attention. My friends and I do the same for Australian places and concepts which are as yet nameless. Such as: Dapto - one of those multiple powerboards of which some in-points are unusable because one of the plugs is oversized. Fairfield - the attractive LAST piece on the plate, left there in politeness. Bexley - the undesirable last piece on the plate, left there because no one wants it. Sefton - to eat the Fairfield. Leppington - the sip of drink had by a singer directly after finishing a song, in that awkward moment when people are clapping and you don't know what to do with your hands. Sometimes a Leppington can take the form of fiddling with the tuning keys of the guitar. Callie |
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03 Jul 00 - 02:10 PM (#251181) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Ah, Wainscotting = that word that sounds like a village in Dorset.... according to Monty Python that is... And I came across defenestration yesterday in a book. Funny how these things happen. I was reading the book in Sheffield..... I do believe there's another thread about that! LTS |
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03 Jul 00 - 05:29 PM (#251263) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bill D My wife's mother used to have a boarder, very nice fellow, except for an 'interesting' habit...when there was shared food in the refrigerator (i.e.,ice cream), he would never want to eat the last serving, so he would take half of it...which led to some VERY small portions. It has become a joke in our family in refering to a bit of stuff almost too small to matter, but still put back in the ('fridge'), that there is only a "Weiseger" left, after his last name. Has kind of a ring to it..I can imagine 100 years from now scholars arguing over the origin and spelling.."Weissiger"..."Wiesiger".."wissiger"..etc.. "There any of that chawklet pie left, Maw?" "Wal, Juniors been at it...only about a Weiseger left" |
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04 Jul 00 - 02:28 PM (#251754) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: mactheturk b'twix 'n b'tween... fortnight....
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04 Jul 00 - 02:32 PM (#251755) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: bbelle fond affection dearth plethora equality |
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04 Jul 00 - 03:04 PM (#251769) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: p.j. I like words that make people do silly things with their mouths. Try these out loud and try to look dignified... Wasps Vests Desks
And while we're at it, am I the only one who has trouble casually saying the phrase DIGITAL TRADITION? One other thing... I've been on a quest for the last couple of years to find 2 words in the English language. First: The ONE-syllable word with the MOST number of letters. (So far I've collected a few with nine letters, can anyone give me a legitimate offering with ten?) Next: The word with the most SYLLABLES and FEWEST number of letters. (Currently I have a couple of three-syllable words made of only 4 letters.) Anybody wanna play? :o) PJ |
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05 Jul 00 - 06:30 AM (#252077) Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Scabby Douglas Scotland has it share of Liff-type placenames. two of my faves are: Throsk, and Menstrie.. I always thought that Throsk sounded like a disease that sheep might get... and Menstrie could be a phase of the moon, perhaps? Cheers |