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Comments by bilby

  • A bit like a catamaran. A yacht on each side and a sman in the middle.

    March 18, 2024

  • But isn't a yacht a kind of ship? Might as well say yachtsmanyacht.

    March 18, 2024

  • Apart from anything else it reminds of yucky stuff like upskirt.

    March 18, 2024

  • I'm glad this has not escaped from the whiffy confines of geekdom.

    March 18, 2024

  • Yes, pitylessly is the way to drink wine.

    March 18, 2024

  • See danger zebra.

    March 17, 2024

  • What's a zebra then? Picket fence pony? Pedestrian crossing of the savannah?

    March 17, 2024

  • You've just been hiding because England can't win the Ashes to Ashes, eh.

    March 16, 2024

  • Presumably an audio show about these would be an azipodcast.

    March 15, 2024

  • I feel like I'm punching down a bit here given this is quite a modest little two syllable word but I just don't like the way it sounds.

    March 14, 2024

  • Same root as shelter.

    March 14, 2024

  • I could really forthrist a fresh orange juice right about now.

    March 14, 2024

  • I have never heard it in Australia. Mind you, I haven't been to this kind of show in about the last 5 years.

    March 14, 2024

  • Also seggar.

    March 13, 2024

  • A preppie but snippy hippie papprazzi chappie snapped happy clappers happily clapping claptrap.

    March 13, 2024

  • Spelling should be reseg-ment-ati-on.

    March 12, 2024

  • Raise you bellow.

    March 12, 2024

  • "The word surloin or sirloin is often said to be derived from the fact that the loin was knighted as Sir Loin by Charles II, or (according to early 19c. English dictionary writer Charles Richardson) by James I. Chronology makes short work of this statement; the word being in use long before James I was born. It is one of those unscrupulous inventions with which English 'etymology' abounds, and which many people admire because they are 'so clever.' The number of those who literally prefer a story about a word to a more prosaic account of it, is only too large." - Walter W. Skeat, 'An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language', 1882

    March 11, 2024

  • Who knew?

    March 10, 2024

  • See pomette bleue.

    March 10, 2024

  • Saskia asked sassily to watch sad sasquatch quassation of cumquat crossisants.

    March 9, 2024

  • See also quassation.

    March 9, 2024

  • I was not aware our officers were bright red. Must be the sun.

    March 9, 2024

  • Did it make all the Pantone colours too?

    March 8, 2024

  • A pleasant Pisan peasant was fined for forfeiting phased-in pheasant fees for his feisty pea-pheasant.

    March 6, 2024

  • "For many people, adopting a plant-based diet aligns with their personal values and beliefs. Choosing plant-based foods can be seen as a way to practice kindness and compassion towards animals, the environment, and other humans. It can also be a way to challenge the status quo and promote positive change in society."

    - https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/02/plant-based-diet-can-improve-your-health-and-lifestyle/

    March 6, 2024

  • "Additionally, these oils are effective in addressing dry skin issues. They act as potent moisturisers, eliminating flaky and dry skin, commonly known as 'beardruff', thereby promoting healthy skin. The moisturising properties of beard oils are not limited to the beard alone but also extend to the skin beneath."

    - https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/03/what-do-beard-oils-do/

    March 6, 2024

  • Welcome, hope you get a lot out of the site.

    March 6, 2024

  • See gurgeons.

    March 4, 2024

  • If I had one of these I'd call it Winfey.

    March 4, 2024

  • Kooky Canuck ex-con Kane Cooke carelessly conked his conchus with a rococo coco-corn condiment container containing cocoa-coated cockroaches in coachmen's coats..

    March 4, 2024

  • Ideal for your Lily or Entrails? list.

    March 3, 2024

  • Straight from the Zamboni-Palin lunch menu.

    March 2, 2024

  • Also hunting beagles, duh.

    March 2, 2024

  • Clearly marriage is out of fashion among rockets.

    March 1, 2024

  • Close but no fuflun.

    March 1, 2024

  • Enter upon is either archaic or legalese, I hadn't come across it before.

    March 1, 2024

  • I don't understand 'enter upon an inheritance'?

    February 29, 2024

  • "For the last 78 years, the Sydney to Hobart yacht race has been run on Boxing Day December 26.

    This year the cannon will sound at 1pm, signalling the start of the race once again. The Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race commences on 26 December and ends on December 31, 2023

    This year 113 entrants will race the 628 nautical mile course. The oldest vessel in this years race was built in 1932.

    All radio sked frequencies and times remain the same as previous years and are listed below."

    https://www.tecsunradios.com.au/store/sydney-to-hobart-yacht-race-2024-frequencies/

    February 29, 2024

  • Go on, rhyme this.

    February 29, 2024

  • A bonny banstickle banged a banned stick on a band's sticky bandstand.

    February 28, 2024

  • Do you like your lemurs pan-fried or wood oven?

    February 28, 2024

  • Plausibly there is an eellike raccoonnookkeeper somewhere.

    February 28, 2024

  • That got me thinking about Airbus, but the -bus seems to be related to conventional understandings of the word bus as a large transport vehicle.

    "The name 'Airbus' was taken from a non-proprietary term used by the airline industry in the 1960s to refer to a commercial aircraft of a certain size and range, as it was linguistically-acceptable to the French." - Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Airbus

    February 28, 2024

  • Li'l Oklahoma cameo here.

    February 28, 2024

  • Hmmm, so the etymology of bus- reduces to something like avi- as in aviation.

    February 27, 2024

  • Train smash word.

    February 26, 2024

  • In Tasmania, a resident of the north-west coast area.

    February 26, 2024

  • The best words are with asunder in the definition. The end.

    February 26, 2024

  • Sparkie Mark Parker marked aftermarket hard car parts with a pock-marked parka pocket marker at a starkly dark carpark car parts market.

    February 26, 2024

  • "Media are invited to the Murray Street Pier (outside of Franklin Wharf Restaurant) to capture images of the Tasmanian Tigers celebrating their WNCL title win.

    There will be an opportunity to interview members of the Tigers squad, and capture footage of the WNCL winning players in their Mad Monday costumes."

    - email to media outlets from Cricket Tasmania, 26 February 2024

    February 26, 2024

  • In Australia there's a tradition, recent I feel, for sporting teams to go out and party as a group on the Monday following their last game of the season. They often (fancy) dress up for a pub crawl, etc. And these kind of shenanigans are referred to as mad Monday.

    February 26, 2024

  • According to Urban Dictionary, a term for a vagina or anus used to smuggle contraband into prison, such as drugs or weapons.

    February 26, 2024

  • See also clecker.

    February 25, 2024

  • Wow, didn't expect clicking Random word would lead me to find Donald Trump here.

    February 25, 2024

  • Etymonline notes that the root is:

    kelə-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "warm." It forms all or part of: caldera; calid; Calor; caloric; calorie; calorimeter; cauldron; caudle; chafe; chauffeur; chowder; coddle; lee; lukewarm; nonchalant; scald (v.) "afflict painfully with hot liquid or steam."

    It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit carad- "harvest," literally "hot time;" Latin calor "heat," calidus "warm," calere "be hot;" Lithuanian šilti "become warm," šilus "August;" Old Norse hlær, Old English hleow "warm."

    February 25, 2024

  • Sawdons of Swing was never goingn to be a hit.

    February 25, 2024

  • Of course writers can't afford transport :-/

    February 25, 2024

  • A bit rude. What if it's upwardly mobile?

    February 23, 2024

  • A tax or duty of so much per fuflun formerly imposed in Wordielandia upon all imported fufluns.

    February 22, 2024

  • Well isn't she just a pundle of joy?

    February 21, 2024

  • How many enemy mange-mites might a mightily mangy manger manager manage?

    February 21, 2024

  • Who's counting?

    February 20, 2024

  • fathead minnow

    February 20, 2024

  • This dude and jumbo shrimp would make good companions.

    February 20, 2024

  • Train-smash word.

    February 20, 2024

  • IMO cognate with Italian orgolio and Spanish orgullo.

    February 19, 2024

  • What else can you do with a Therese?

    February 19, 2024

  • Is this where a wild goose chase starts, or where it ends? Discuss.

    February 19, 2024

  • Uff, sounds nasty.

    February 19, 2024

  • Where's Capitano Corelli when you need him?

    February 19, 2024

  • Whoa, there's also banjolin.

    February 19, 2024

  • I wouldn't say it's particularly unusual. Consider grease, chair, photograph, etc. I've certainly heard shampoo as a verb.

    February 19, 2024

  • "We’ll be taking several important safety steps ahead of making Sora available in OpenAI’s products. We are working with red teamers — domain experts in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias — who will be adversarially testing the model." - OpenAI, https://openai.com/sora

    February 17, 2024

  • Like pool liners, these help to keep all the water in the world's oceans and prevent leaks.

    February 16, 2024

  • See paho.

    February 16, 2024

  • Comes from dacclouds, duh.

    February 16, 2024

  • *puts dog torture tools away*

    February 15, 2024

  • "The Hobart City Council Planning Committee has approved a development application for a new building (food service use) for 15 Marieville Esplanade, Sandy Bay.

    The application is for a shipping container to be repurposed as a tuck shop."

    - https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/02/hobart-council-approves-boaties-tuck-shop/

    February 14, 2024

  • Also trichor.

    February 14, 2024

  • List of folk remedies?

    February 14, 2024

  • I tried not to snigger and failed.

    February 14, 2024

  • So why not call it stink-dead?

    February 14, 2024

  • TCD - 'A vertical horse-powered drum used as a hoist in a mine.'

    February 14, 2024

  • Do we not have any side lists?

    February 14, 2024

  • Not as cool as Ray or even tali to be honest.

    February 14, 2024

  • As a child I used to get this mixed up with typhoon.

    February 13, 2024

  • Despite my many flaws I have never hesized a parent.

    February 13, 2024

  • See comment on mucker.

    February 13, 2024

  • And if he had a child would he not be a fathermucker?

    February 13, 2024

  • Nuclear, coal or gas?

    February 13, 2024

  • There appears to be a USA political meaning that is not very obvious to me.

    February 13, 2024

  • Organic compound or minor Game of Thrones character?

    February 13, 2024

  • How?

    February 13, 2024

  • Wasn't there a tv series about Gilingan's Island?

    February 13, 2024

  • Come on bilby, it's givvy-givvier-givviest.

    February 11, 2024

  • Who else wants one while I'm feeling more givvy than a mouthy TV celeb with a bucket of car keys?

    February 11, 2024

  • Or fuflunise it. Yeah.

    February 11, 2024

  • You may choose to weaponise it or not.

    February 11, 2024

  • I hereby award tankhughes a Wordnik blue checkmark.

    February 11, 2024

  • One time they got into my garden they chewed metre-high jerusalem artichoke plants back to just a stubble. Well I hope they farted all night.

    February 9, 2024

  • As I described to a friend the other day, a giant, flat-footed, ravenous pseudo-rabbit.

    February 9, 2024

  • I'm fairly amazed that I only came across this quite useful word for the first time today.

    February 9, 2024

  • If you have to decapitate something amphisien are you allowed two goes?

    February 8, 2024

  • Well of course I have a list for this.

    February 8, 2024

  • No comment!

    February 8, 2024

  • Do you push or pull your hoe?

    February 8, 2024

  • You might not be able to get blood from a stone but would you settle for a dotterel chick?

    February 7, 2024

  • Set phasers to __________________

    February 7, 2024

  • Cricket jargon: slang for top-spinner, a delivery bowled by a wrist spinner with lots of overspin.

    February 7, 2024

  • Awww!

    February 7, 2024

  • Elections for our Legislative Council seats are sexennial.

    February 7, 2024

  • You'd think at least one might be an Auberon or something.

    February 7, 2024

  • Tacky.

    February 7, 2024

  • Supposedly Australian but I have never heard it.

    February 7, 2024

  • "Excuse-flation where general inflation provides camouflage for businesses to raise prices without justification is also more prevalent in the current environment. As inflation starts to fall excessive inflationary expectations and future cost increases can be built into prices."

    - Allan Fels, 'Inquiry into price gouging and unfair pricing practices', 6 February 2024. https://www.actu.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/InquiryIntoPriceGouging_Report_web9-1.pdf

    February 7, 2024

  • i.e. fennel

    February 6, 2024

  • Wait, so babaganoosh is a slipper-ful of agan?

    February 6, 2024

  • Best bushel epha.

    February 6, 2024

  • Precursor to copium?

    February 5, 2024

  • Is there potential for a water-y list of things that are not really water?

    February 5, 2024

  • What kind of nutlets do you prefer?

    February 5, 2024

  • And here was me thinking toothpastes of the world were going to get together to lobby for better wages.

    February 5, 2024

  • Maybe don't gift one to Macbeth, just saying.

    February 5, 2024

  • 'Trust in god but tether your airship' - proverb

    February 5, 2024

  • Aaand it has no synonyms :-(

    February 5, 2024

  • I'll never forget whatshisface, such great times we had.

    February 5, 2024

  • Overheard joke:

    What's the difference between a hippo and a Zippo?

    One's quite heavy, the other's a little lighter.

    February 3, 2024

  • Anyone trying to find giant, stocky spiders can stand down as far as I'm concerned.

    February 3, 2024

  • A crane (bird).

    February 1, 2024

  • Also zebucan.

    February 1, 2024

  • Zyghourknee Wiefyr is great in this.

    February 1, 2024

  • Ha, classy way to ascertain that your coat of arms does not feature a putrid boil leaking pus.

    January 31, 2024

  • phuc ơphph

    January 31, 2024

  • Interesting that the three TCD definitions are all quite different, yet all reek of violence.

    January 31, 2024

  • I'm kindly leaving space for y'all to make the grey hare jokes.

    January 31, 2024

  • Etymology links back to grey ...

    January 31, 2024

  • See tremetol.

    January 31, 2024

  • madge

    January 31, 2024

  • I see a which see!

    January 30, 2024

  • So I still have to trim my own moustache?

    January 30, 2024

  • After surprisingly acquiring a taste for porcelain biscuit, recreated dinosaurs wreak havoc on a remote island of ceramics factories.

    January 30, 2024

  • Macaulay Culkin?

    January 30, 2024

  • Who knew?

    January 30, 2024

  • Diminutive of fiasco.

    January 30, 2024

  • Like the buttons on a vendingmachine.

    January 30, 2024

  • Compare dross.

    January 30, 2024

  • "Bitter barberry berbine is better than billbeetle-bitten bulbo-tubers," babbled bilby biliously.

    January 29, 2024

  • Most of that definition is a foreign language :-/

    January 28, 2024

  • *bats ears*

    January 28, 2024

  • Quite a large category when you think about it.

    January 28, 2024

  • An actor, comedian, writer, producer, etc.

    January 28, 2024

  • Well pardon me, I was looking for improper spiny rats thank you very much.

    January 27, 2024

  • This etymology is some ride.

    January 27, 2024

  • I see a which see!

    January 24, 2024

  • I usually elevate my feet with a pouffe.

    January 24, 2024

  • One suspects that ruzuzu is a stallinger of fufluns.

    January 23, 2024

  • Tagging currently disabled :-/

    January 23, 2024

  • Things that go pop!

    January 23, 2024

  • Also puddling-rolls.

    January 23, 2024

  • Also spelling chequer :-/

    January 22, 2024

  • Reverses the effects of expandin?

    January 22, 2024

  • Needs a Rolling Stones song :-/

    January 22, 2024

  • Compare Malay pondok, hut.

    January 21, 2024

  • I think this relates to worker ants, etc. that are usually sterile.

    January 21, 2024

  • Show me your little-explored subregions baby.

    January 21, 2024

  • Not to be confused with a mustard hog.

    January 21, 2024

  • See also wanty.

    January 21, 2024

  • Also kit-key.

    January 21, 2024

  • _____ what it used to be :-/

    January 21, 2024

  • Main item in their diet is flying sheep.

    January 21, 2024

  • Fox-bat, shark, etc.

    January 21, 2024

  • I could dislive a pizza right about now.

    January 17, 2024

  • So a train wreck is following by a wrecking-train, not caused by it?

    January 17, 2024

  • Joins East Timor ('east east') as being a country whose name is a cardinal direction.

    January 17, 2024

  • Meanwhile overdeliver has no definition on this site.

    January 17, 2024

  • See turkishness.

    January 17, 2024

  • Although frankly heathen delight has a good ring to it for an innocuous sweet treat.

    January 17, 2024

  • Hey TCD you could/should have stopped at hence.

    January 17, 2024

  • So a dogfish is not a dog but it might be a fruit bat. I hope that's clear enough for you newbies.

    January 17, 2024

  • I know it's only a root but sheesh.

    January 17, 2024

  • But like fapkin, I often wonder what it's for.

    January 17, 2024

  • 'Also attested in Old French desbacler ("to clear a harbour by getting ships unloaded to make room for incoming ships with lading")' is fascinating.

    January 17, 2024

  • testacella

    January 16, 2024

  • Discovered on a windy evening, fo shure.

    January 16, 2024

  • When one redo isn't enough.

    January 16, 2024

  • Spicy and ripe. You're making me hungry and I'm all out of silica gel.

    January 16, 2024

  • Also all-be.

    January 15, 2024

  • Also known as mashua. And my Colombian mother-in-law calls it nabu.

    January 12, 2024

  • What type of galaxy are you?

    January 12, 2024

  • Where you withdraw Bitcoin?

    January 12, 2024

  • Want suma dis?

    January 12, 2024

  • That's perversely beautiful.

    January 12, 2024

  • Theme park?

    January 12, 2024

  • Silly shilly-shallying Sally shrilly sang softly a shelly Seychelles sea-shanty.

    January 10, 2024

  • Triple downer.

    January 10, 2024

  • Sooo, apparently not an airshow in Nebraska.

    January 10, 2024

  • I feel like any dictionary entries that use a 'slang' label should identify where and possibly even when.

    January 10, 2024

  • See also rundle.

    January 10, 2024

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  • I hope there are some exciting new flavours. How about roasted vendingmachine with caramel?

    November 22, 2023

  • Me too. Do you have room for some fufluns?

    November 21, 2023

  • Glad you're back!

    November 21, 2023

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hey why so many comments, you leather-tipped sandrabbit?

    August 12, 2021

  • *pokes bilby*

    Hey, you're still around!

    July 27, 2020

  • *pokes bilby*

    July 5, 2020

  • 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

  • Where's vendingmachine, haven't seen him for ages? Too occupied with his paleo sushi petting zoo?

    April 3, 2019

  • Reading comments such as those at eckle-feckle I grieve that I missed some merry times at Wordnik.

    November 3, 2018

  • Been burrowing. As one does.

    September 29, 2018

  • Mmm. Tasty lichens.

    September 28, 2018

  • Ahoy, bilby! Long time no read. Have you been off foraging for tasty lichens?

    September 28, 2018

  • Bilby o bilby,

    Didst thou die on latinx hill?

    November 3, 2016

  • Happens certain phases of Uranus.

    August 31, 2016

  • Hey bilby how long have you been a howling frumpmudgeon?

    August 31, 2016

  • *dusts badge*

    November 5, 2015

  • Hey are you some kind of self-appointed contribution cop, rat features?

    November 5, 2015

  • Wait--I thought it was turtles all the way down. Mind? Blown.

    November 3, 2015

  • how about a five-toad?

    November 3, 2015

  • Shut up you extruded rabbit.

    November 2, 2015

  • Are you talking to yourself again?

    November 2, 2015

  • 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

  • Nope, that's about it really.

    August 28, 2015

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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

  • Did you like the new berry additions?

    April 27, 2015

  • 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

  • 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

  • It's not just you, madmouth. Shall we all meet up over on community?

    December 24, 2014

  • Where did "Community" go? Is it just my computer?

    December 24, 2014

  • Have I ever told you how much I like your bagpipes list?

    December 15, 2014

  • Are you in Bogota? I was just there! Ships passing in the cliché.

    November 8, 2014

  • and I you with a waistband of tittering finches. Don't disillusion me!

    November 6, 2014

  • Happy belated selfie day, old bean.

    November 6, 2014

  • ...for of Afghan chutney is her soul compact

    April 2, 2014

  • Is there a way to search by tag?

    March 27, 2014

  • Now you've done it

    March 27, 2014

  • oh, he do

    March 14, 2014

  • a) that's exactly right

    b) I think of you as the only near-whitey invited ^-^

    March 12, 2014

  • 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

  • Meow.

    February 20, 2014

  • 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

  • Thanks for jomo. It's perfect.

    December 16, 2013

  • Bonsoir, bilby! Un salut de Paris à toi et à tous les marsupiaux, même les moins jolies.

    Renard

    September 22, 2013