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- Fri Jun 17, 2016 8:08 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Firkin & Kilderkin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6172
Re: Firkin & Kilderkin
It might be part of plattdeutsch, which was a trading language in the German culture used by the farmers, fisherman, and tradesman to do business. Measures were not necessarily standard so a little (-kin) might be a designation of size tacked onto the end of a goods name. This is all conjecture on m...
- Sat May 28, 2016 11:29 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Explicit
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7900
Re: Explicit
So things travel in groups of three, so where is the set of muddle instructions? Fooplicit.
- Sat May 28, 2016 11:17 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: keen
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7681
Re: keen
Peachy...
- Sat May 28, 2016 11:02 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Aegis
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12695
Re: Aegis
Goat skin when properly cured is dense, although it is still surprisingly supple. Being a hide it also breaths some, it was often used in shields. A modern day use is in leathers worn by motorcycle riders, besides the helmet to save your nut, prevents road rash and lasts during the terrifying skid w...
- Sat May 28, 2016 11:00 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Aegis
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12695
Re: Aegis
<iphone mistake, please ignore>
- Sat May 28, 2016 10:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Aegis
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12695
RE: Aegis
<iphone mistake, ignore please>
- Fri May 27, 2016 12:12 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: scot-free
- Replies: 15
- Views: 114728
Re: scot-free
I'll let you go scot-free then, since as I progress thru the end of middle age I see the trend in myself.
- Fri May 27, 2016 12:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Outro
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4330
Outro
This word is from the 1970s, and means the end of a section or music, a song, or a TV show. It is the opposite of Intro . I have run across this work in some technical writings that are authored by 20 somethings. I suppose it to be in slang usage. The interesting thing on alphaDictionary I found tha...
- Fri May 27, 2016 11:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: agistator
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6844
Re: agistator
Now that is funny... the BLM has it's roots in this position. I wonder what influence one has had on the other?
- Tue May 10, 2016 5:23 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Hypercondriac
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7004
Hypercondriac
Hypercondriac is a condition that affects the mind where a person thinks they are unwell, but they are really heathy. Also, fearing all the time they might bet sick.
Found this in an old Gothic story, it seems to be rare.
Found this in an old Gothic story, it seems to be rare.
- Tue May 03, 2016 8:30 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: paralogize or paralogise
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4228
paralogize or paralogise
v. To rationalize falsely; to use faulty logic to come to an untrue conclusion. Paralogize is the American-English version, in contrast to paralogise that is the British-English spelling. IMHO, at first I thought this only meant a mistake, but then I realized between all the political whaha and faul...
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 5:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Firkin & Kilderkin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6172
Firkin & Kilderkin
Firkin is a small cask for liquids, or a measure for a small tank of fish. Children is a a) a quarter barrel, & b) metaphorically a large amount. These are apparently lexical orphans. Middle dutch, that relate to German and English. Relate to family of other -kins, like jerkin, Wilkins, napkin, ...
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 5:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: scot-free
- Replies: 15
- Views: 114728
Re: scot-free
Puerto Rico doesn't charge income tax on retirement income. New Hampshire is sans income tax too. I was in Texas as a guest of the USAF at Lackland AFB, and found San Antonio charming. Also, been to Houston and Dallas, in the summer the Devil can have them. I have friends in Austin, TX and sounds li...
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 5:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Oblectament
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7966
Re: Oblectament
Oh, sorry. I only mentioned the site because it is the only reason I recognized the word.
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 3:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Goety
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4390
Goety
Invocation of evil spirits. It antonym is theurgy. It traces to Greek goeteia, then up to Latin goetia, to French goétie. It relates to an old Serbian gudeti "to fiddle" and govoriti "to speak", and appear in Sanskrit as jogU "singing praise". SRC: YourDictionary.com I'...