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- Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:06 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Comity
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6336
Re: Comity
Oh, Dr G, this word brought tears to my eyes. There is so little comity in our sad world!
- Sun Jan 19, 2020 9:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Toodle-oo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5797
Re: Toodle-oo
Not forgetting, please, that literary classic, Snoopy's "Toodle -oo, Caribou: a tale of the frozen north".
- Sun Jan 19, 2020 9:13 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Vituperate
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7211
Re: Vituperate
"The incensed priests . . . continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin." I guessing that this followed the phase of the argument where they all hurled incense at each other?
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:53 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Midriff
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4044
Re: Midriff
Often mispronounced 'midrift' which, when paired with 'bare' seems apt enough - a 'rift' in the middle of one's clothing.
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:48 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Drove
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7321
Re: Drove
Drover isn't quite the only child of drove. Here in Australia, where the grazing of mobs of cattle or flocks of sheep in the 'long paddock' ie, the road, was a reasonably common practice in the past, people used to 'go a'droving', as in the Banjo Patterson poem, Clancy of the Overflow: `Clancy's gon...
- Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Schadenfreude
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4343
Re: Schadenfreude
Don't forget the wonderful 'firgun' - taking pleasure in another's success; exact opposite of schadenfreude, and so much better to cultivate.
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 7:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cassation
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4207
Cassation
Hello, Dr G, I was at a concert the other night where, among other musical offerings, I heard played "Leopold Mozart - Cassation in G for Orchestra and Toys" - very enjoyable, of course, but it left me wondering about 'cassation', which I've only ever come across in a legal sense before, a...
- Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Fell
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9187
Re: Fell
Or, as is often said here in Australia, 'one foul swoop'. Which, during magpie breeding season, would be better expressed as 'one fowl swoop', given the propensity of these otherwise benign and amusing birds to attack unfortunate passersby. Prime subjects for the 'fowl swoop' are joggers and cyclists.
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: mudita
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6889
Re: mudita
Hello, Agorites, don't forget about the Hebrew word, "firgun": "to have a generous, unselfish spirit and a joy in the accomplishment of someone else". Now, if that isn't the opposite of schadenfreude, I don't know what is. Wishing everyone joy and firgun for the upcoming festive ...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 6:22 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Agonistic
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4580
Re: Agonistic
Lovely word, agonistic, not used nearly often enough. Were commentators and pontificators equipped with better vocabularies, it could have had a thorough airing during the past week of political turmoil here in Australia, but I digress. And let me digress a little further to Piazza Navona in Rome, f...
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:35 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Diadromous
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4010
Diadromous
Hello, fellow frequenters of the αγορά. I came across a wonderfully obscure word the other day - obscure to me, that is (perhaps not to a coastal piscator): diadromous, meaning able to live in either salt or fresh water (the article where I met the word was about bull sharks). I can think of very fe...
- Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:31 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cognate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5786
Re: Cognate
Here's another use for cognate: in the ratified little world of parliamentary activity that occupies my working week, cognate usually refers to related bills that may be debated together although are, procedurally, dealt with separately.
- Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:06 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Caesura
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7950
Re: Caesura
See my post, Perry.
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Caesura
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7950
Re: Caesura
So, little Julius's mother, having incurred a caesura in her person, opined: what better reminder of the woes attendant on the birth of this infant than to append the word to his name.
- Sun Jul 09, 2017 8:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Tarnation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14025
Re: Tarnation
Thanks for the verb 'to aunt', Dr G. I've been doing it since I was six years old and now do a bit of great-aunting as well.