Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 08 Sep 04 - 05:54 AM (((((((((((((LIZ))))))))))))) Hug is a great word and not used enough. Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 08 Sep 04 - 04:39 AM I am disinclined to acquiesce..... The best word is not always the longest (unless you are playing Scrabble and you've got a triple word score).... My best word at the moment is 'hug'. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 08 Sep 04 - 01:34 AM Personally, I've always liked "stalzheimered", which is what happens when you try to drive away from the traffic lights, having forgotten that you put the parking brake on. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,SueB Date: 08 Sep 04 - 12:08 AM It means he doesn't want to go into space with SIX bicycles. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,GROK Date: 07 Sep 04 - 07:23 PM Either, either. Has two spellings. Hey, that thing BillD said: Does that mean he doesn't want to go into space with a bicycle? |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Sep 04 - 07:19 PM isn't it floccinaucinihilipilificationally? |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,GROK Date: 07 Sep 04 - 07:13 PM Well said all ye above. I particularly appreciate that it was done floccinoccinihilipilificationally. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Sep 04 - 06:54 PM O.K you show off. Do you insinuate that we should tolerate such diabolic insolence, from a microscopic piece of animosity such as you? Your presumptions are precisely incorrect. O.K so I didn't mean it really but it sounds O.K Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill D Date: 07 Sep 04 - 06:33 PM well, after all, I AM an antihypersyllabicsesquipedalian |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Sep 04 - 06:26 PM Well said BillD...for the lay-man..Don't talk crap! Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Sep 04 - 06:14 PM Waugh!!! Or... "Talk straight or don't talk at all." - Yurko Slobodovich |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill D Date: 07 Sep 04 - 06:10 PM it is good to know words, but here is a famous warning..(one of multitudenous variations) " In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications demonstrate a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibleness, no coalescent conglomerations of precious garrulity, jejune bafflement and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous verbal declarations have lucidity, intelligibility and veracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous propensity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, obnoxious jocosity and pestiferous profanity, observable or apparent." |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Sep 04 - 05:19 PM I am opposed to the insipid and the fatuous, offended by the lascivious and the salacious, surprised and delighted by the serendipitous, impressed by the perspicacious, troubled by the concupiscient, maleficent, and conundrumatical, empowered by the meritricious, and utterly apalled by the aesthetic bereftitude of the parallelogramaticallismically unsound (as seen in some modern architecture these days)! |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Kim C Date: 07 Sep 04 - 04:03 PM Fantods. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Sep 04 - 03:56 PM There are still some "Troglodytes" living in the UK near Matlock in Derbyshire. The caves they live in have been lived in from time "immemorial" but have all mod cons these days. Isn't immemorial(Hope I've spelt it right)a good word..sort of earthy. Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,SueB Date: 07 Sep 04 - 12:37 PM No fair - you have to give definitions, or we'll be forced to make them up. (Squorrox - what you'd use to bleach a squirrel.) My word of the day - hispidulous, which means sparsely covered with fine bristles, like a pig, or like someone's hairy ass. Troglodyte from above means cavedweller. And Splott Man, sometimes I like to amble, and sometimes I like to promenade. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: muppett Date: 07 Sep 04 - 11:39 AM QUINQUENNIUM |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 07 Sep 04 - 10:47 AM zaftig (ZAF-tik, -tig) adjective Full-figured, pleasingly plump, buxom. [From Yiddish zaftik (juicy), from Middle High German (saftec), from saft (juice), from Old High German saf (sap).] Sounds like something for use in The Temple of The Golden Globes... |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,GROK Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:43 AM How would people get there until you decide on the word? |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Splott Man Date: 07 Sep 04 - 05:05 AM Xenophobia? We don't like that word round our way. I like galumph, traipse, schlep, mosey... gosh, the variety of ways of getting about, you could do a workshop! |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: fat B****rd Date: 07 Sep 04 - 03:30 AM Squorrox |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST Date: 06 Sep 04 - 11:28 PM polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/newsletterjan99.htm or google Dare newsletter Good article there on faunch. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Amos Date: 06 Sep 04 - 11:20 PM "Faunch" is a handy term in science fiction fandom, meaning roughly 'to yearn for in a none-too-healthy way'. Posted by Alison Scott at June 8, 2003 10:07 AM |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill D Date: 06 Sep 04 - 06:06 PM the word I looked for was 'faunching', and though there are a lot of hits, it is really hard to sort out the basic meaning...It is one of the most 'unpleasant' words I know...it simply sounds like it refers to baser impulses and mindsets. I am still sorting thru the things it might mean. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 06 Sep 04 - 08:47 AM The Word of the Day is Money! |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 06 Sep 04 - 02:48 AM Bill D used the word "Googling"...a fine word. The word I think might have had the largest impact in the last decade is "Internet" or perhaps "Web"....maybe even "Surfing"...All good words. Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,GROK Date: 05 Sep 04 - 10:58 PM But, Bill, did you find the word you WERE looking for? (I shall add puckersnatch to my vocab. I doubt I will introduce it to my students. I think you know why.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill D Date: 05 Sep 04 - 10:31 PM Googling for a word I hadn't heard in 40 years, I found this: Befuddling To the editor: I just couldn't resist using the knowledge I gained from your Nov. 8 paper. James J. Kilpatrick's Writer's Art column has been a constant favorite of mine. This edition of his column, which dealt with interesting words now out of fashion, should have been published before the elections just to add fodder for the election writers. Shall we try one on Bill Clinton? While Mr. Clinton is faunching about the puckersnatch he has created, he must surely be paddybassing around his own private pokelogan. The rest of us are just waiting for him to scallyhoot out of office. My spell check system almost had a seizure writing this. LINDA K. WOOD Las Vegas |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,GROK Date: 05 Sep 04 - 10:24 PM Calamistrate |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill Hahn//\\ Date: 05 Sep 04 - 08:29 PM Dollop. So soothing when one thinks of a dollop of sour cream on a bowl of Bluberries---with a bit of sugar, perhaps. Damn---the season for Blueberries ends too soon in this area. One last dollop on the berries before autumn. Bill Hahn |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,SueB Date: 05 Sep 04 - 07:30 PM Ooooh, minicephalic, I like that one. And speaking of Bush, how about troglodyte? |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Sep 04 - 06:26 PM Dollop. Such a comforting word. And such a useful insult. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Sep 04 - 04:21 AM OOh... Ululation - just read 'War of the Worlds' for the first time this century - it's still scary! This word features in WOFTW and I've always liked it. My word of the moment is moritarium. Sounds much more miserable than it is. It should be a small room where Romans went to be moribund (a bit like the vomitarium where they went to be sick). LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,GROK Date: 04 Sep 04 - 09:03 PM FACETIOUSLY A word in which the vowels of English appear in alphabetical order. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill Hahn//\\ Date: 04 Sep 04 - 08:11 PM Might it be---antidisestablisharantarianism? If not---what about xenophobia? Bill Hahn |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Amos Date: 04 Sep 04 - 08:08 PM I have always been fond of intrepid, ululation, minicephalic, adroit, agility and one other, which I forget... A |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill Hahn//\\ Date: 04 Sep 04 - 07:52 PM You gotta love the 5 dollar words Bill Hahn |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Amos Date: 04 Sep 04 - 07:42 PM It's hard to bloviate using no more than two phonemes conjoined at a time. A |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill Hahn//\\ Date: 04 Sep 04 - 07:21 PM Bloviation at the expense of erudition is something, I suppose, we might be able to lay at the door of the current administration---though I do believe that the definition of the word eludes our leader and he surely obfuscates without bloviating. Bill Hahn |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Ebbie Date: 04 Sep 04 - 03:37 PM Tired of the bombardment by facts, relevant and irrelevant, that pile into an incomprensible heap? I decided that's not 'umpteen' but 'numbteen' facts. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: mack/misophist Date: 04 Sep 04 - 02:39 PM Wonderful word but a better quotation. Mencken was an ass, but a very smart ass. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: leeneia Date: 04 Sep 04 - 11:28 AM Sounds like the letters that people write to Miss Manners, trying and failing to imitate her style. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Sep 04 - 01:22 AM LOL! Then William McGonagall was one of the most spectacular bloviators in history. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: s6k Date: 03 Sep 04 - 01:58 PM crumb |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,MMario Date: 03 Sep 04 - 01:45 PM gesundhiet! |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Bill D Date: 03 Sep 04 - 01:37 PM my favorite phrase..(made my own button of it) is "Eschew Obfuscation" can't remember where I first heard it... |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Don Firth Date: 03 Sep 04 - 01:25 PM But . . . but . . . but . . . that's what I do!!! Don Firth |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Georgiansilver Date: 03 Sep 04 - 01:20 PM Read an article in a musical magazine a while ago..regarding words the readers felt should be used for musical situations..ie not real words....but one took my eye which was:- "Capoknackered" and means either broken capo or the situation one is in having left ones capo at home. Best wishes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: GUEST,SueB Date: 03 Sep 04 - 01:01 PM I only typed "Word of the Day" into the search box, to see if there was an old thread that could be revived - didn't think of searching bloviate here, sorry. Got any other cool pet words to share? |
Subject: RE: BS: Word of the Day From: Nerd Date: 03 Sep 04 - 12:55 PM Yeah, "bloviate" is a pet word of both mine and Amos's. If you search on it in Lyrics and Knowledge you'll find us using it, mostly to suggest our verbal opponents are blustering! |