| Author | Message | ||
     John Holl Citizen Username: Jgh Post Number: 106 Registered: 6-2002  |
eristic: adj. characterized by disputatious often subtle and specious reasoning Could be a useful word on some of the Education and Soapbox threads.  | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 1428 Registered: 5-2001 |
Nap  | ||
| crazyguggenheim Citizen Username: Crazyguggenheim Post Number: 224 Registered: 2-2002  |
Call me crazy, but after "pajamas" I think my favorite word is.....yabbadabbadoooo! | ||
| Hank Zona Citizen Username: Hankzona Post Number: 468 Registered: 3-2002 |
sagacious | ||
| Andrew Zorn Citizen Username: Andrewzorn Post Number: 113 Registered: 1-2002 |
Transpontine | ||
| parkbench87 Citizen Username: Parkbench87 Post Number: 186 Registered: 7-2001 |
Bodacious | ||
| Hank Zona Citizen Username: Hankzona Post Number: 469 Registered: 3-2002 |
flaneur | ||
| amandacat Citizen Username: Amandacat Post Number: 69 Registered: 8-2001  |
"moist" is one of my least favorite words! "wipe" is pretty bad too, and when they're used together -- "moist wipe" -- I am completely icked out. moist wipe, anyone? | ||
| Hank Zona Citizen Username: Hankzona Post Number: 470 Registered: 3-2002 |
I may need to retract "flaneur" and replace it with "icked" | ||
| bak Citizen Username: Bak Post Number: 286 Registered: 5-2001 |
diphthong A complex speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel and gradually changes to another vowel within the same syllable, as (oi) in boil or (i) in fine. | ||
| amandacat Citizen Username: Amandacat Post Number: 70 Registered: 8-2001 |
Thanks, Hank! Come to think of it, I nominate "Hank" as one of my all time favorite words, if we're including proper nouns. | ||
| deborahg Citizen Username: Deborahg Post Number: 451 Registered: 5-2001  |
"Schnauzer." I've always loved that one. | ||
| patty Citizen Username: Patty Post Number: 285 Registered: 5-2001 |
Liverpudlian | ||
| Chris Dickson Citizen Username: Ironman Post Number: 391 Registered: 8-2001  |
Musicme: Did I ever tell you about the time I met Mr. T in O'Reilly's. If I'm lying I'm dying. In fact, me and my buddy Mark Mahony had our picture taken with him. I think he was in town for a fundraiser. He's smaller in person ... I pity the fool ... | ||
| barleyrooty Citizen Username: Barleyrooty Post Number: 488 Registered: 5-2001  |
Not quite on topic, but: The Washington Post publishes a yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. The following were some recent winning entries: 1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon. 2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained. 3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent 6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie. 7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavoured mouthwash. 9. Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller. 10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline. 11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you 13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions. 14. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts. 15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there. 16. Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist. The Post also invited 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 of those winners: 1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 3. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid (e.g.: "I'm a doctor...") 4. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. 5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 7. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness. 8. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (this one got extra credit) 9. 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. 10. Glibido: All talk and no action. 11. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 12. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. | ||
| ejt Citizen Username: Ejt Post Number: 363 Registered: 5-2001 |
doppelganger | ||
| kmk Citizen Username: Kmk Post Number: 162 Registered: 5-2001 |
Henidemisemiquaver | ||
| kmk Citizen Username: Kmk Post Number: 163 Registered: 5-2001 |
Oops.....hemidemisemiquaver. I was always told it is a half of a half of a half note. | ||
| ken Citizen Username: Ken Post Number: 96 Registered: 5-2001  |
busker | ||
| NancyJanow Citizen Username: Librarylady Post Number: 694 Registered: 5-2001 |
NCJ aka LL |
