Dozenal sounds like a sleep-aid drug name, no?
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- Wed May 22, 2024 6:05 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dozen
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6369
Re: For good
I found a discussion of this on a site called wordorigins.org, where someone quotes the OED.
There's also etymonline's blurb on good as a noun.
Hope this is what you were looking for.
There's also etymonline's blurb on good as a noun.
Hope this is what you were looking for.
- Tue May 21, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Refractory
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2481
Re: Refractory
High-falutin' definition of food fight: becoming refractory with refections in the refectory.
So high-falutin', refections isn't in my spellchecker. Hmph!
So high-falutin', refections isn't in my spellchecker. Hmph!
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:20 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: War
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6123
Re: War
Well, there goes one card game!War is not a word to play with...
- Tue May 21, 2024 5:58 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Relish
- Replies: 1
- Views: 43
Re: Relish
Disrelish! I like it. I imagine the noun can be negated, too: If I were starving and all there was to eat was relish, I could force myself to eat it, but it would be with disrelish.
Fun crossword puzzle clue: give up a condiment = relinquish relish.
Fun crossword puzzle clue: give up a condiment = relinquish relish.
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: BAnQ
- Replies: 5
- Views: 112
- Mon May 20, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: BAnQ
- Replies: 5
- Views: 112
Re: BAnQ
Do the French capitalize nouns but not adjectives, perhaps?
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- Mon May 20, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cajolery
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3043
Re: Cajolery
Franco-Spanish circus talk: Allez, allez, into the cage, ole!"
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Infantry
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8579
Re: Infantry
New definition: infantry - the cannon fodder of war that does not have the right to speak.
Lighter note: do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?
Lighter note: do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?
- Sun May 19, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Defame
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6351
Re: Defame
If the undesired news is true, would that be derogation/derogatory? Or perhaps denigrate/denigration? Those aren't of necessity lies.
Another Good Word for defamation is calumny.
Another Good Word for defamation is calumny.
- Sun May 19, 2024 7:45 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Promulgate
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6490
Re: Promulgate
To make this word mean what it does, I guess they had to milk it for all it's worth!
- Sun May 19, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Parlance
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7990
Re: Parlance
I wonder if parlance is in a parlous position these days. I don't have any research to back it up, but it does seem to be quite rare. I can't recall even seeing it in a crossword puzzle.
- Sat May 18, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Reflex
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2901
Re: Reflex
Just to put in my two cents here, but in Meaning 2, the involuntary response is not necessarily 'unlearned'. Think of the beaten dog that cowers at a raised voice. It took some teaching to get there.
- Sat May 18, 2024 6:35 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ineffable
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2526
Re: Ineffable
Our gratitude may not be ineffable, but in general, especially with a qualifier, it could be: "the extent of our gratitude is ineffable". Interesting that the ineffability can be for both good and bad things. The ineffable name of God, and the ineffable name of "He Who Shall Not Be Na...
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:08 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Tattoo
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10733
Re: TATTOO
This is an old, old post, so I can't say I don't know I'm wrong, but I do find myself going for folk etymology on the inky definition of this word. I keep thinking of it as being from the repetitive pounding of the needle, beating a tattoo on the skin, to put a tattoo under the skin. Stab, stab, pok...