bilby has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 220 lists, listed 25240 words, written 29477 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 58 words.
Comments for bilby
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My stats say I have looked up 0 words and I suspect that's an undercount. Sayin'.
March 26, 2024
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I hope there are some exciting new flavours. How about roasted vendingmachine with caramel?
November 22, 2023
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Me too. Do you have room for some fufluns?
November 21, 2023
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Glad you're back!
November 21, 2023
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Yes I think it was something to do with my laptop and a new login system at Wordnik having a wee pith-feud.
November 20, 2023
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I have eaten all the cookies and now don't feel like hommous, but it's the thought that counts. Thank you Erin. I am now perilously close to commenting freely again.
November 20, 2023
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Hi Bilby! I'm so sorry you're trapped in the nether world. Can you try clearing your cookies? It will make room for more hommous.
November 20, 2023
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I have logged in 3 times in the last 5 minutes, yet whenever I click a word I find myself logged out again.
Thusly I am trapped in a nether world between bilby and unbilby. Send hommous.
November 20, 2023
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Hey why so many comments, you leather-tipped sandrabbit?
August 12, 2021
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*pokes bilby*
Hey, you're still around!
July 27, 2020
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*pokes bilby*
July 5, 2020
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Merci beaucoup, bilby, for the fresh-baked welcome fuflun from ruzuzu. I'm in love with wordniks' lists, and have been using them over the last year or so to cook up found poetry. Delicious.
April 26, 2020
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Where's vendingmachine, haven't seen him for ages? Too occupied with his paleo sushi petting zoo?
April 3, 2019
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Reading comments such as those at eckle-feckle I grieve that I missed some merry times at Wordnik.
November 3, 2018
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Been burrowing. As one does.
September 29, 2018
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Mmm. Tasty lichens.
September 28, 2018
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Ahoy, bilby! Long time no read. Have you been off foraging for tasty lichens?
September 28, 2018
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Bilby o bilby,
Didst thou die on latinx hill?
November 3, 2016
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Happens certain phases of Uranus.
August 31, 2016
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Hey bilby how long have you been a howling frumpmudgeon?
August 31, 2016
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*dusts badge*
November 5, 2015
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Hey are you some kind of self-appointed contribution cop, rat features?
November 5, 2015
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Wait--I thought it was turtles all the way down. Mind? Blown.
November 3, 2015
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how about a five-toad?
November 3, 2015
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Shut up you extruded rabbit.
November 2, 2015
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Are you talking to yourself again?
November 2, 2015
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I get an error trying to post either a new word or a comment here:
https://www.wordnik.com/lists/politicians-nicknames
November 2, 2015
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Nope, that's about it really.
August 28, 2015
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Do you have anything decent to say ear-whippet or are you just trying to flood these Polski doltskis off the front page?
August 28, 2015
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Hi Bilby - Just spotted a question you posed in a comment back in 2009 (!) on my aviation list ("Let's go strap on the ole air'chine and bore holes in the sky!") to wit: "what is a 'rooster tail'?" If it still matters see image here...or, since I've added it to the list: rooster tail.
June 15, 2015
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"bilby commented on the user bilby
I went to leave a comment on your page, and I arrived at a 404 and a steampunk rhino. Both of which are about right in your case."
Are you talking to yourself?
April 27, 2015
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I went to leave a comment on your page, and I arrived at a 404 and a steampunk rhino. Both of which are about right in your case.
April 27, 2015
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Did you like the new berry additions?
April 27, 2015
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Bilby is, as usual, a lode of useful information. I once went skiing in Chamonix, where les Guides des Alpes are universally admired, but I failed to understand the sense of their characteristic cries.
They're famed for feats of derring-do
But guides of the Alps are scholars too.
It's knowledge they seek
When they call from a peak
And plaintively ask, "Beaudelaire, he who?"January 11, 2015
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Bonsoir Monsieur Bilby,
Where are you, actuellement?
I am back in Paris, being forced to write about such big fat frauds as Charles "Mr Spleen" Baudelaire.
But in two more weeks I shall be free, free as a bird!
Now I need to go favourite the word "wentletrap".
Adieu !
January 10, 2015
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Where did "Community" go? Is it just my computer?
December 24, 2014
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Have I ever told you how much I like your bagpipes list?
December 15, 2014
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Are you in Bogota? I was just there! Ships passing in the cliché.
November 8, 2014
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and I you with a waistband of tittering finches. Don't disillusion me!
November 6, 2014
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Happy belated selfie day, old bean.
November 6, 2014
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...for of Afghan chutney is her soul compact
April 2, 2014
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Is there a way to search by tag?
March 27, 2014
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March 27, 2014
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oh, he do
March 14, 2014
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didn't you have a list called "Drinky-time, or the most happy of hours" or some such? Maybe it was someone else...
March 12, 2014
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Meow.
February 20, 2014
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Bilby, I wish you a happy new year. I am grateful for the comments you have given me. I have been slow to respond mostly because I could not figure out how to do it. I have been looking for an ongoing thread I could reply to but I have failed to find it, so now I have visited your dashboard. This seems rather roundabout, like exiting the house and ringing the doorbell again before replying, but it is all I can manage for the moment.
January 1, 2014
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Thanks for jomo. It's perfect.
December 16, 2013
%20on%20my%20aviation%20list%20(%22Let's%20go%20strap%20on%20the%20ole%20air'chine%20and%20bore%20holes%20in%20the%20sky!%22)%26nbsp%3Bto%20wit%3A%20%22what%20is%20a%20'rooster%20tail'%3F%22%20If%20it%20still%20matters%20see%20image%26nbsp%3B%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supermotors.net%2Fgetfile%2F773053%2Ffullsize%2Ff1402.jpg%22%20rel%3D%22nofollow%22%3Ehere%3C%2Fa%3E...or%2C%20since%20I've%20added%20it%20to%20the%20list%3A%20%5Brooster%20tail%5D..&subject=I%20think%20oroboros%20is%20a%20spammer%21)
Comments by bilby
bilby commented on the word Hany
Confession: I missed out on my parents naming me 'Luscious'.
March 13, 2025
bilby commented on the word semicastrate
Or one ovary, presumably.
March 9, 2025
bilby commented on the word hammer-dressing
Obviously, bouncing between these two terms is cross-dressing.
March 8, 2025
bilby commented on the word hammer-dressing
see pick-dressing.
March 8, 2025
bilby commented on the word earth
Compare yed.
March 8, 2025
bilby commented on the word stiff
Compare stevedore.
March 8, 2025
bilby commented on the word nuque
Nuqular alert!
March 8, 2025
bilby commented on the word bijugous
As compared to bigjugous.
i.e. a person who likes to order beer by the pitcher.
March 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word fog bank
Is a blast from a foghorn a withdrawal or a deposit?
March 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word peat-coke
For peat's sake!
March 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word drag-spring
Ideal for your Railcar Component or LGBTIQ+ Festival? list.
March 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word waltz
Compare welter.
March 5, 2025
bilby commented on the user royalcookingoil
Go fry yourself.
March 5, 2025
bilby commented on the list gesundheit
Mogadishu
March 4, 2025
bilby commented on the word vegetable down
In a frankly disappointing sequel to Black Hawk Down, Eric Bana attempts to rescue an eggplant that has fallen from a street vendor's barrow in Mogadishu.
March 4, 2025
bilby commented on the word sulky-barrow
Cheer up old carriage, it'll be alright in the end.
March 3, 2025
bilby commented on the word babewyn
Modern standard Italian is babbuino.
March 3, 2025
bilby commented on the word maximo
Possibly coined by the commentators. The home of the ECL is Cartama Oval in Spain and they like to drop a few Spanish words into the commentary.
March 3, 2025
bilby commented on the word maximo
In European Cricket League jargon, a 'maximum' i.e. a ball hit over the boundary on the full for six runs.
March 3, 2025
bilby commented on the list things-we-supect-are-collected-by-ruzuzu-SYb-wiljc4sQNMz89j1-P
ruzuzu likes hyphenated items.
March 3, 2025
bilby commented on the word Kara Kum
So, not a porn actress's pseudonym.
March 3, 2025
bilby commented on the user tehila
The _nym seeking _nym days are long gone.
March 1, 2025
bilby commented on the user tehila
No comment on the marriage proposal except to say that that's not really what this site does.
March 1, 2025
bilby commented on the user tehila
Presumably this user does have a working profile or they wouldn't be able to post?
March 1, 2025
bilby commented on the user tehila
BUG - if a user like this one puts an underscore at the end of their handle then the autolink to their profile doesn't work. ie. clicking yaacov_ gets a 404.
March 1, 2025
bilby commented on the word Tizi-n-Tichka Pass
Not chicken-n-chips.
March 1, 2025
bilby commented on the word Tizi-n-Tichka Pass
The highest mountain pass in Africa, in Morocco.
March 1, 2025
bilby commented on the user tehila
Sundown is the same as sunset.
February 28, 2025
bilby commented on the word trap-crop
If you prune it from above it's a top-cropped trap-crop.
February 27, 2025
bilby commented on the word gorn
Reminds me of Gore v Bush.
February 27, 2025
bilby commented on the list 5-letter-with-q-yZM6AiOvapLVvPDiqcEyp
quota
February 26, 2025
bilby commented on the word pervert
If someone is convicted of perverting the course of justice, they are a justice pervert are they not?
February 26, 2025
bilby commented on the word backslash
I feel that we could adopt backslash as code for 'escape sequence initiated'.
eg.
+ You enjoying this party? Wanna hang around a bit longer?
- Backslash.
February 26, 2025
bilby commented on the user nammos
All sailors desire fufluns.
February 26, 2025
bilby commented on the word amphisome
The definition above makes me feel like I don't speak English.
February 26, 2025
bilby commented on the word you'ns
Is this still in use?
February 25, 2025
bilby commented on the word ovism
Which came first, ovism or animalculism?
February 25, 2025
bilby commented on the word maltin
There was lots of maltin in the malt in the malt tin.
February 25, 2025
bilby commented on the word superautomatic
Yeah, not quite Wiktionary. Your definition fits automatic coffee machines.
These days superautomatic refers to machines that can froth milk, etc. and thus make mixed drinks like latte, cappuccino and so on with one button press.
February 24, 2025
bilby commented on the word insufflator
My fuflun insufflator's muffler was awfully full of fine, furry fluff.
February 24, 2025
bilby commented on the user tehila
Game over. Tehila sundown.
February 24, 2025
bilby commented on the word fling-stink
A 16C and 17C slang term for whore.
February 24, 2025
bilby commented on the word pignut
In The Tempest (act ii, sc. 2, 171), Caliban, the deformed son of a witch, implores Stephano, the drunken butler;
I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow.
And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts,
Show thee a jay’s nest, and instruct thee how
To snare the nimble marmoset. I’ll bring thee
To clustering filberts, and sometimes I’ll get thee
Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
February 24, 2025
bilby commented on the word yernut
Also pignut.
February 24, 2025
bilby commented on the list specific-excrement
dog yogurt
February 24, 2025
bilby commented on the word refudiate
Just an eggcorn tbh.
February 20, 2025
bilby commented on the word mbira
I have one of these and did not know what it was called. So, happy to have randomly landed on this page :-)
February 18, 2025
bilby commented on the word posocahuoui
I think I like it.
February 18, 2025
bilby commented on the word Tikkawoppa Plateau
A locale - indeed, a regional reserve - in Tasmania, Australia.
February 18, 2025
bilby commented on the word gingerbread man
https://www.flickr.com/photos/105277968@N08/52310812322
February 11, 2025
bilby commented on the word Duckworth Lewis Stern
Cricket jargon: a (complicated) mathematical formula for adjusting scores in games affected by weather interruptions that shorten the playing time. https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/how-the-duckworth-lewis-stern-method-works-1102000
February 11, 2025
bilby commented on the word clear the front leg
Cricket jargon: when a batter opens up his/her stance by moving the front leg toward the edge of the pitch. It's usually done to provide a clearer path for a hard bat swing.
February 10, 2025
bilby commented on the list gained-in-translation
Where do you get eggs containing baroquefinesse?
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word Hottentot's tea
https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/helichrysum/key/Helichrysum/Media/Html/Helichrysum_nudifolium_var._nudifolium.htm
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word Hottentot's tea
Helichrysum nudifolium var. nudifolium.
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word wortwale
Middle English Compendium says that other meanings are (a) The root of a herb; (b) the root or base of a rooster’s spur.
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word tigerwood
Lol visuals.
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word flocculate
Unforunate FiFi foolishly flocculated her fine friend's fifty-five fluffy fufluns.
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word pokeberry
Also skokeberry.
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word polyderivative
Child of a polyamorous couple/group?
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word swab-stick
TCD definition writer phoning it in.
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word trinketer with Satan
See example on trinketer.
February 7, 2025
bilby commented on the word listrophorid
don't be thinking of parasites as horrid
don't be rude to ole Joe Listrophorid
these critters so tiny
are harmless, and … blimey
there's probably a mill' on your forehead
February 5, 2025
bilby commented on the word funicular action
Gimme summa dat!
February 5, 2025
bilby commented on the word sealeech
See skate-sucker.
February 4, 2025
bilby commented on the word rainbow
Where do bad rainbows end up?
February 4, 2025
bilby commented on the word fagot
See also fangot.
February 4, 2025
bilby commented on the word miskal
I see a which see.
February 3, 2025
bilby commented on the word echinoneus
Can anyone explain what irregular means in this context?
February 2, 2025
bilby commented on the word batmobile
I did not now this had been verbed.
February 2, 2025
bilby commented on the word aura
From the same root: soar.
February 2, 2025
bilby commented on the word obnoxygen
Tired of breathing that horrible stuff that keeps you alive? Look no further.
January 30, 2025
bilby commented on the word blerrie
Sounds like a drunkification of bloody/very.
January 24, 2025
bilby commented on the user godrejtiara
Upscale residential complex next to a hospital. Well. If you squint you can watch people dying as you sup your morning chai and home-delivered croissants on the balcony.
January 24, 2025
bilby commented on the word debasement
Where I keep dejunk.
January 23, 2025
bilby commented on the word cursores
Honestly I think the wolf spiders and running birds should slug it out for sole rights to the title.
January 23, 2025
bilby commented on the word misbede
Thou hast misbeded me!
January 23, 2025
bilby commented on the word nonraven
Useful classification tool for big parties.
January 23, 2025
bilby commented on the word agonia
See agoniadin.
January 23, 2025
bilby commented on the word water spot
'Mineral deposits', suuuurrreee
January 23, 2025
bilby commented on the word mereswine
You old sea pig you.
January 22, 2025
bilby commented on the word scuppie
Lol at the Indian variation.
January 21, 2025
bilby commented on the word swither
qms in fine form here.
January 20, 2025
bilby commented on the word cutlin
I think it's a plurale tantum, see cutlins.
January 20, 2025
bilby commented on the word VHS
And now it feels too late :-/
January 20, 2025
bilby commented on the word VHS
OMG I never knew what this acronym meant.
January 20, 2025
bilby commented on the word food cache
I have a feeling vanderpink does this.
January 13, 2025
bilby commented on the word aquativeness
Hmmm. You can put 'propensity for hommous' on my grave.
January 11, 2025
bilby commented on the word Mehr
One could be excused for finding this month a bit meh.
January 10, 2025
bilby commented on the word crust-hunter
Well I have to confess here.
A while ago I bought a tub of (Arab) sesame halwa. Unbeknown to me there was tiny crack in it and the interaction with the air had created a quite chewy crust on it ... which I liked far more than the halva the way it normally is.
So now I have another tub sitting a home with the lib off awaiting its crusty maturity, but every time I pop into the Persian grocery I have a look through the halva tubs to see if there might be another secretly-broken treasure.
*appropriates crust-hunter badge*
December 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word contraduction
FFS modern linguistics has had a fascination for near indistinguishable pairs of words that denote seemingly critical distinctions and divisions and it should have stopped before it started infecting everything else.
December 30, 2024
bilby commented on the list american-dialect-society-word-of-the-decade-2010-2019-nominees-zQMLwFA02WYDH4pTrrJpj
*yawn*
December 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word Teresa Bilowus
Today I received a media release from TB, who is Marketing Manager for Woolmers Estate in Tasmania.
Perhaps her parents were pilots?
December 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word counterpunching
Show me where the counter hurt you.
December 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Would love to hear this in the wild.
December 6, 2024
bilby commented on the user bibliofuture
Join me and bibblepast in this year's production of 'A Christmas Carol'.
December 6, 2024
bilby commented on the user bibliofuture
Am I looking at a version of myself from another dimension?
December 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word frith
Indeed, from the same root as fir.
December 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word flask
Compare fiasco.
December 3, 2024
bilby commented on the list dunny-xFqbAwr3PnzrBERWYhOkN
dunny brush
December 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word tide
TCD writer having a moment there.
December 2, 2024
bilby commented on the list specific-excrement
One could possibly make a case for stercory as Papal excrement given the use of the term seems pretty much limited to this: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/19552/were-the-medieval-popes-examined-on-a-toilet-lid-like-chair-to-establish-their-m
November 29, 2024
bilby commented on the user geeta
Easy, it's Cockney rhyming slang for the letter F.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet
November 29, 2024
bilby commented on the word R-coloured vowel
A.k.a. known as rhotic vowel. Very 'merican!
November 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word raw-dog
Words are not popularized in Australia, they are popularised :-/
November 26, 2024
bilby commented on the word crash truck
If that sounds fortunate it's a brash luck crash truck truck crash cash stash smash.
November 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word crash truck
If the collision broke open a safe containing money it would be a crash truck truck crash cash stash smash.
November 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word crash truck
If one of these was in a collision it would be a crash truck truck crush.
November 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word raw-dog
Great at picnics, and chasing the ball yourself will mean loads more exercise. Put some collie in the cooler! https://www.elwooddogmeat.com
November 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word raw-dog
Darn, I was thinking of shih tzu sashimi.
November 25, 2024
bilby commented on the user antgames
SPAM
November 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word play on the tightrope
Football (soccer) jargon: to play after having received a caution (yellow card), because another similar offence and a second yellow will equal a sending off (red card).
November 25, 2024
bilby commented on the list dark-PqC3tWJmNrt_ThomX8q2Z
darkle
November 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word Swiss Army
Often used in an adjectival sense of objects that serve multiple purposes, or purportedly 'do almost everything' necessary in a certain context.
November 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word besteal
*bilby bestole up behind vendingmachine, waiting for the moment to pounce*
November 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word jarlic
moaths.
November 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word jarlic
Store it next to the jar of minced oaths.
November 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word jarlic
I kind of like this. Similar to hanitiser, it's the kind of portmanteaucorn I can imagine someone blurting out accidentally or perhaps a young child inventing.
November 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word hamlet
In the sense of village, has a common origin with home.
November 8, 2024
bilby commented on the list gate-jseEgkVpsuohiRxBJGSMB
Watergate surely.
October 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word langar
The examples suggest the term (also) applies to the kitchen that makes the food.
October 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word gool
Got me thinking ... do we have a list of breaches?
October 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word notdog
Wash it down with a nojito at your faux fiesta.
October 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word limber pine
How flexible are these limbs? Are we talking yoga positions or what?
October 16, 2024
bilby commented on the list b-your-mission--find-thetraps-b
bull trap is used in stock market commentary.
October 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word wuthering
Well, it appears there is a gesture for wuthering. See demonstration by the acknowledged expert here: https://youtu.be/cDSa9q5Mjo8?feature=shared&t=45
October 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word volupty
Rhymes with ...
October 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word say-do gap
The 'gap' or difference between what people say they are committed to and what action they actually take.
October 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word coming, going, gone
My sister-in-law's uncle passed away recently. He was a funeral director. The family business had started off as a taxi enterprise, but due to the lack of services at the time in the area - immediately post WW2 - they often found themselves driving patients to hospital and transporting bodies from where they had died to cemeteries. Before it eventually morphed into a funeral parlour and associated services business, the enterprise had come to be known locally as Coming, Going, Gone.
October 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word Tasman Sea
Where my ashes will be scattered, if you ever need to find me.
October 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word Gegagedigedagedago
Thank you for the explanation.
October 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word Gegagedigedagedago
Touch grass?
October 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word trend
Compare trender.
October 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word HENRY
'Fifteen years ago if you’d told April Little that she’d make $300,000 a year, she would have pictured a life free of financial stress.
“The white picket fence—I have the whole visual in my head,” says Little, 38 years old, a human-resources executive turned career coach in Rochester, N.Y. “I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but when I got to that proverbial mountaintop I realized there’s a lot of expenses. And I still don’t own a home.”
So go the plush-but-not-too-plush lives of the Americans who qualify as HENRY—high earner, not rich yet.'
- Callum Borcher, 'Meet the HENRYS: The Six-Figure Earners Who Don’t Feel Rich', Wall Street Journal, 5 October 2024.
October 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word stake-hook
How high are the stakes?
September 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word sitzprobe
My understanding is that it's a rehearsal - of an opera or musical - where the actors/dancers do a run through with the the band/orchestra for the first time. Usually without full sets, staging, costumes, etc.
September 26, 2024
bilby commented on the word intractability
There's a tracta bogged in the middle of this word.
September 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word digital nomad
"A digital nomad visa or in some cases a temporary residency permit allows a visitor a right to stay in a country and work remotely via a computer/laptop to a foreign-based employer or business. These visas typically have a duration of 12 months and can be extended for one or more years depending on the country issuing the visa."
- definition from Nomadgirl
September 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word Vegemitini
Wot?
September 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word Tasmanian wolf
The passing of poor Benjamin is in fact the basis of Threatened Species Day, 7 September.
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word Tasmanian wolf
Ok WeirdNet the last known specimen died on 7 September 1936 so this species unfortunately not 'rare' but extinct.
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the list wolf-NcVBfv1BNeOOlBbzG2RzZ
in bocca al lupo
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word trespass
I've seen recent YouTube videos where police in the USA use this to mean "issue a complaint/notice of trespass against a person".
So something like the cops turn up at a hotel where a drunk guest is making a scene and they say: "You'll have to leave, you've been trespassed by the management."
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the list fox-nyibzPojIWMym5_sOn1NV
Linfox?
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word octopyranose
The -ose -ose Wiktionary definition reminds me of the Two Ronnies 'Four Candles' sketch: https://youtu.be/Ozpek_FrOPs?feature=shared
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word kisspeptin
Pucker up!
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word redbed
Oh, you geologists out rhyming wittily when everyone thinks you're just stone boffins!
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the list 12-new-three-letter-words-for-scrabble-897Ppt5waUItBz1QBUc0e
Ack!
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word syrup
Etymologically, has the same root as shrub and sherbet.
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word sherbet
Etymologically, has the same root as shrub and syrup.
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word trepanning
I see a which see!
September 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word machair
Next to matable?
September 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word catarrh
Want to hear a pirate say this word.
September 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word Sumba
'Passed to the Dutch' ... uh, the Dutch East Indies was militarily occupied.
September 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word double-sided leaf plucking
Plucked if I know :-/
September 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word gone baby
An Australian Aboriginal English term for a stillborn child. Also star baby.
"Stillbirth is when a bubba is born sleeping. Some mobs call them star baby or gone baby. This website has information that can help keep you and your bubba safe and strong." - safebubba.com.au
September 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word star baby
An Australian Aboriginal English term for a stillborn child. Also gone baby.
"Stillbirth is when a bubba is born sleeping. Some mobs call them star baby or gone baby. This website has information that can help keep you and your bubba safe and strong." - www.safebubba.com.au
September 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word liceaceæ
cea having a day out here.
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word liveness
WeirdNet being WeirdNet.
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word chizzel
Fo shizzel.
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word fascist
Definitions, photos, etc. are auto-retrieved from available databases.
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word double-sided leaf plucking
Wine producer Dr Andrew Pirie has participated in the research process at his Apogee vineyard near Lebrina in northern Tasmania with a good improvement in botrytis control in Chardonnay grapes for the 2024 vintage.
“It is an occasional problem in this variety but in the 2024 ripening period the disciplined research approach from Kathy Evan’s team at TIA gave significantly positive results,” Dr Pirie said.
“We learnt very clear cut that double-sided leaf plucking in the bunch zone gave us a significant decrease in our infection,” he said.
- https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/09/managing-botrytis-in-wine-grapes/
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy
German shepherd's pie. Trump inspired!
September 13, 2024
bilby commented on the word washlet
Wouldn't be the first time a trade name has escaped its natural confinement and leapt over the brand fence to general use. You can Google that whoops internet search that if you want.
September 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word dorveille
Indeed.
September 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word tuckshop
Still in current use in Australia.
Example: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/09/move-to-save-school-canteens-tuckshop/
September 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word fancy
With regard to this definition - adjective: Of superior grade; fine - fancy apples in Tasmania was a term used to mean export quality, particularly on apple crate labels.
September 11, 2024
bilby commented on the word circle of life
This is the name of a doughnut shop near me. Applause.
September 11, 2024
bilby commented on the word evulgate
Sounds dirty but isn't?
September 11, 2024
bilby commented on the word Nothing Farm
A named coined by my mother for my sister's country property. Despite having bought an excavator, tractor and other expensive toys, sister and husband don't actually produce anything.
September 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word no-hanging fruit
"Banning kids from social media - it’s no-hanging fruit - not even on people’s Top 20 list of issues to address.
That Too Hard Basket is overflowing."
- Twitter, https://x.com/gomichild/status/1833277800771686808
September 9, 2024
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
indue (or indew)
September 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word guardrail
In the past few weeks, you might’ve come across images of Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris embracing, or SpongeBob in Nazi garb.
They’ve been created by artificial-intelligence image generation tools from Google and xAI and are raising all sorts of questions about what these tools should and shouldn’t be allowed to make, as I reported with my colleague Miles Kruppa.
Among the companies that make these tools, there is no consensus on guardrails. AI image generators run by Google and OpenAI don’t let users create visuals of specific, recognizable people. Elon Musk's xAI’s does."
-'Fake Image Flood', Meghan Bobrowsky, Wall Street Journal, 8/9/2024
September 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word vagooter
Well that's what I'd do, you giant money-pinching larder of fossilised snacks.
September 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word vagooter
I think the solution is to agree whilst calling me something insulting.
September 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word vagooter
#wordswedontneed
September 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word racket
Imagine an ESL/EFL learner coming up to you and aksing: "What does racket mean?"
September 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word racket
One of those words with a surprisingly large number of meanings.
September 6, 2024
bilby commented on the list pill-4BWhji1vYwo_U_JLy2Vwk
pillbox hat
September 5, 2024
bilby commented on the list pill-4BWhji1vYwo_U_JLy2Vwk
poison pill
September 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word medireview
Like Cupertino effect.
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word medireview
Is there a general term for computerspeak that was born of programming issues?
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word U-tube
Looks like pointy-headed boffins missed the boat here.
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word Fannie Flagg
A writer. Co-screenwriting credit for 'Fried Green Tomatoes'.
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word Vanhattan
Vanhattan, a portmanteau of vanguard, banana, hazardous, rattan and antibodies.
Used to refer to the human body's natural defences against fruit carelessly left in papasan chairs.
September 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word irksum
Who is doing this amending?
August 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word black mauls
See TCD definition on physalospora.
August 28, 2024
bilby commented on the user latonio
Same, mostly.
August 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word radiolarite
My new favourite indie radio station.
August 24, 2024
bilby commented on the word nanonana
A very, very small banana, staple of the nanofruit industry.
August 24, 2024
bilby commented on the word sycamore
Buried in the etymology, moron = mulberry.
August 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word Mr Sparky
A taser. As heard on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14QxMC8B_U
August 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word fore-scuttle
Presumably this definition (among others) of scuttle is on the money:
noun Nautical, a small hatchway or opening in the deck, with a lid for covering it; also, a like hole in the side of a ship, or through the coverings of her hatchways; by extension, a hole in general.
August 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word fore-scuttle
"The forecastle was small, with no means of ventilation or admission of the light of day, excepting by the fore-scuttle."
At least from this example we can determine that forecastle and fore-scuttle are not the same thing.
August 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word bunyavirus
The name derives from Bunyamwera, a town in Uganda where the original type species Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus was first discovered.
August 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word soft-land
Not a theme park :-/
August 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word Cruel Sea
Came here looking for Tex Perkins :-/
August 19, 2024
bilby commented on the list mangrve-kjUzBBbbp1cTPsbUfNrjH
vengram I think :-/
August 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word iced vovo
A pink coconut and raspberry biscuit made by Arnotts.
August 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word avocadart
avo, a portmanteau of abracadabra and iced vovo. Used when a genie grants you a wish of unlimited packaged biscuits.
August 16, 2024
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