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- Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:29 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Oblectament
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7966
Re: Oblectament
Oblectamentum is Latin. There is a game site called oblectament.com.
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: scot-free
- Replies: 15
- Views: 114700
Re: scot-free
I live in the Commonwealth of Taxachusetts, plenty of Scottish pay there fair share.
- Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:49 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: scot-free
- Replies: 15
- Views: 114700
Re: scot-free
I just always assumed cleaning. I'm a gardener, so weeding is a fact of life too. I used to take ti chi and marshal arts and practice kata stances while weeding. It was a good path to a zen state of mind. You can do a lot of thinking while you ripping this lil thing out of the ground. I used to invi...
- Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: ludic
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6482
Re: ludic
At work we call the jumping around from topic to topic, or from emergency to emergency "squirrel syndrome." This is when you have plans to get something done in a day and an all hands fire drill task happens. Also, when we are in meeting and the whole discussion gets sidetracked by non-ger...
- Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:31 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: churchkey
- Replies: 1
- Views: 20584
churchkey
n. A bottle open, especial to open bottle capped with "crown cork" caps. Websters doesn't have any reference to this name before the 1950's. Which seem strange since the bottle cap was invented in the 1890s. The wide spread use of this term in English is attributed the the jocularity facto...
- Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:20 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Umpteen
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11538
Re: Umpteen
I was thinking that Humpty Dumpy broke into umpteen pieces.
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:16 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: analemma/lemniscate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 24938
Re: analemma/lemniscate
It just occurred to me that the Analemma and the symbol for infinity (∞) are very similar. Could they be related?
Plus, the Ankh could almost be a stylized Analemma?
Just some random thoughts.
Plus, the Ankh could almost be a stylized Analemma?
Just some random thoughts.
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 7:16 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Wench
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7063
Re: Wench
Well, I spell checked it on the web and the Urban Dictionary said it was right. And you are correct it more officially be "broad." Still broad used in a negative way.
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 7:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: scot-free
- Replies: 15
- Views: 114700
Re: scot-free
Death, taxes, and cleaning are all facts of this life.
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 7:09 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Skosh
- Replies: 2
- Views: 23205
Re: Skosh
So the scotch bottle only has a slosh left. Bottoms up!
Thanks I always thought the last swallow in the spirit bottle must have a name, thus "slosh". With all the tipsy imagination out there some one must have named that ullage.
Thanks I always thought the last swallow in the spirit bottle must have a name, thus "slosh". With all the tipsy imagination out there some one must have named that ullage.
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 6:58 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: agistator
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6843
agistator
Agistator, the person who is in charge of the Royal wood who manages and collects the taxes for the forrest. They are in charge of the pines used for the masts used on Royal ships, collect the pannage fees, manage the access of livestock and game on the land.
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 6:55 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: pannage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3996
pannage
Pig feed in the woods such as nuts, acorn, etc. also, the tax or fee paid to to use the woodland to feed the pigs. This fee is often paid to the Agistator, the person who is in charge of the Royal wood who manages and collects the taxes for the forrest.
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Wench
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7063
Re: Wench
We discussed this word, and had a lot of fun with it several years ago. Lots of banter with wench, wench, wrench, et al. I use the word to great effect with women my own age or younger. Usually in a complementary way to sus out how they felt about it, it had quite a strong connotation when I grew up...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Enthymeme
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5057
Re: Enthymeme
"I maintain the all things in American politics is above board and plain spoken! Triumph has been having quite a time with his comments about his phalis and the menstrational habits of the press. I will look for the hidden unspoken allegorical meaning of his message." The previous message ...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: scot-free
- Replies: 15
- Views: 114700
Re: scot-free
Yes, some days one is just itching to be offended. In day gone by our scathing letter to the editor might sit in the hall to be mailed, so we could reconsider. Today I can email/post my panties being in a bunch to the entire nation in seconds with illustrations. Love and hate makes fools of us all, ...