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- Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:56 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Fatuous
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8241
Re: Fatuous
"No, you don't get fatuous by overeating or stuffing yourself with carbs" Carbs ARE NOT fats!!! Carbohydrates and fatty acids, two different classes of chemicals... I think more about the actual fats--- so no unctuous! Mark oily Bailey (I found out that eating foods high in complex carbs ...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:24 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: exeunt
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4537
exeunt
Main Entry: ex·e·unt Pronunciation: \ˈek-sē-(ˌ)ənt, -ˌu̇nt\ Etymology: Latin, they go out, from exire to go out — more at exit Date: 15th century —used as a stage direction to specify that all or certain named characters leave the stage This is one of my favorite wwf words. That and adz. M. Exeunt-s...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 2:05 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: tangible
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6561
Re: tango/tengo
The Spanish tener (to have), from Latin tenere (to hold), comes from PIE ten- (to stretch or draw). So the two sets of words seem to be unrelated. One has to do with the idea of touching, tapping or striking, and the other has to do with holding, grasping or pulling. These both are in keeping with ...
- Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:55 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Banished Words from LSSU
- Replies: 17
- Views: 37720
Re: Banished Words from LSSU - 1976
The wife holds the nails?
Yeah or you could use. Needle-nosed pliers. It was a silly joke.
- Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:51 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: analemma/lemniscate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 27178
Re: analemma/lemniscate
What is the etymology of the similar letter groups? The "em", and the meaning? This is not somethong I'm at all familiar with but am interested in seeing whete this thread goes.
M.?? Bailey
M.?? Bailey
- Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:45 pm
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: mangled expressions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 24337
Re: mangled expressions
I'm assuming the person who said it meant futile. It was a combo i believe of fruitless and futile.Frutal? Or did you mean futile?
M. Jes-guessing Bailey
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 11:03 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Crayfish, crawfish, and crawdads
- Replies: 41
- Views: 133583
Re: Crayfish, crawfish, and crawdads
I forget what crawdads (crayfish more properly)are called in Australia, OH wait, yabbies, now if that doesn't that get those Pavlovian juices flowing I don't know what does.
M. Not-sur-la-table Bailey
M. Not-sur-la-table Bailey
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:50 pm
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: mangled expressions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 24337
mangled expressions
Sick up and fed. Fruitless= frutal. Intensive purposes.
Any more?
M. Idiom-idiot Bailey
Any more?
M. Idiom-idiot Bailey
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:55 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Uptalk
- Replies: 4
- Views: 27474
Re: Uptalk
Uptalking has pretty much run it's course hasn't it? I'm apparently so unconscious I hadn't noticed the Indian Imperative tone.
M. Like-the-Indian-accent Bailey
M. Like-the-Indian-accent Bailey
cray cray
Just curious, does anyone else think this is stupid. This puts me in mind of when I was a teenager and my mother, thinking she was hip, told me IN FRONT OF MY FRIENDS , to enjoy playing our recs. (for anyone who wasn't a teen in the 1960's we listened to records on a record player). M. Can-you-say-s...
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:33 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: gruntled and whelmed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19667
Re: gruntled and whelmed
Perry I fear wet humor is what my father favored what we called bathroom humor. Anything genital, anal, or elimination-based was automatically funny. He got a lot of mileage out of his mother's friend Gladys.
This leaves me somewhat gruntled and mayed (whatever that means)
This leaves me somewhat gruntled and mayed (whatever that means)
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:21 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: More varied postings needed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 34491
Re: More varied postings needed
Oh yeah anything with a "z" in it has gotta be goodZest or zesty might in itself become a goodword.
M. ZEDS R US Bailey
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 5:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Codswallop
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5317
Re: Codswallop
Dr. Goodword I do love windbaggery, I've never heard it before but is so perfectly apt for my situation, I shall use it, with your permission, even this very day.
M. Related-to-a-bloviator Bailey
M. Related-to-a-bloviator Bailey
- Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:30 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: chiton
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4774
Re: chiton
Actually the chiton covering insects was the reason i wanted to post this word.Something tickles my memory from a zoology courrse I once took, that maybe chiton can also apply to the material of the shell itself???
M. There's-something-cool-about-bugs Bailey
- Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:26 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: gruntled and whelmed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19667
Re: gruntled and whelmed
I have frequently said I am underwhelmed at all sorts of things. I attribute its use to my reputedly dry sense of humor.
You and me both, Perry. Dry as dust. Most folks don't get it all.