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- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Fidget
- Replies: 1
- Views: 685
Re: Fidget
Maybe the frequency of use depends on where you're located. For at least several years, "fidget toys" have been nearly ubiquitous in the U.S. For examples, see https://www.verywellfamily.com/best-fidget-toys-6744333 (not meant as an advertisement). This does mention ADHD as being relevant ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Etagere
- Replies: 4
- Views: 750
Re: Etagere
"Stage" would be a good word to explicate. It can be a verb with at least two senses (stage a play, stage packages for delivery), and as a noun, it can also mean a stage in the progression of a disease. Maybe more.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bardolatry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7416
Re: Bardolatry
One might extend the applicability of the term to "worship" of Brigitte Bardot. The summer after my freshman year in college, I was cashier for a small art theater, where the current flick was "And God Created Woman". But I wasn't old enough to be allowed in to watch it. (Instead...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: concord
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5071
Re: concord
This has been around for an awfully long time without graduating. Isn't it about time?
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Verge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 589
Re: Verge
What about "converge"? Two (or more) verges (edges) coming together?
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bulge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6713
Re: Bulge
Wondering whether "bulgur", the delicious Middle Eastern wheat foodstuff, is related. Probably not.
(Pilaf, made with half rice, half bulgur, and a smattering of crumbled vermicelli, is even more delicious than any one of those ingredients alone. Especially when cooked over a campfire.)
(Pilaf, made with half rice, half bulgur, and a smattering of crumbled vermicelli, is even more delicious than any one of those ingredients alone. Especially when cooked over a campfire.)
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Symptom
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5417
Re: Symptom
I've always thought it quite appropriate that the Greek "potamos" was so nicely replicated in the name of the Patowmack River that runs past Washington, DC. I've even considered whether hippopotami (plural thanks to Flanders & Swann) would find that river a pleasant place to inhabit; p...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Beck
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3368
Re: Beck
2-cent stamp? Why, Slava, I just found a stack of (unused!) penny postcards! Remember those?
When you go out on a limb with a saw in your hand, be careful which side you turn to before you start cutting.
When you go out on a limb with a saw in your hand, be careful which side you turn to before you start cutting.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Obfuscate
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1220
Re: Obfuscate
Ever since I first heard it, I've appreciated the slogan "Eschew obfuscation" of the sorely missed WCRB Saturday Night, when that Boston classical music radio station was still commercial. Other things learned about there were the charming songs of Flanders & Swann and the British come...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Estimable
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4273
Re: Estimable
Oh, I use that word quite frequently, but I've always thought it would be spelled "squush". (I've never looked it up.) And in the cleanup project that currently occupies much of my time, I'm finding entirely too many things that are squushy from neglect.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Gargantuan
- Replies: 3
- Views: 884
Re: Gargantuan
Gargantua reminds me of Pantagruel, a fondly remembered restaurant that formerly existed on the St. Lawrence shore of the Gaspé Peninsula. The owner, a native of France, was delighted to hear from my husband a continental, rather than Québécois, accent. The food and service were both excellent, and ...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Eccentric
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3871
Re: Eccentric
Well, David, my "splurges" have consisted mostly of books (some really gorgeous productions from private presses), travel (to the annual meeting of the user group I'm involved in, to an undeveloped island on the Georgia coast, and "educational" jaunts to places or on subjects I w...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Eccentric
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3871
Re: Eccentric
Ah, I've always wanted to have just enough money to be considered eccentric rather than crazy.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Omnibus
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3171
Re: Omnibus
Oh no! Flanders and Swann have a different idea, as realized in theirThe whole word is used as a noun only in reference to a collection of previously published works
song "A Transport of Delight". Listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7wnUIRpqGg
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Inosculate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10689
Re: Inosculate
My immediate reaction to this was that the "in-" meant "not", as in infrequent or inconvenient, but those are adjectives and inosculate is a verb. Are there any exceptions to this dichotomy?