blafferty has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 23 lists, listed 519 words, written 695 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 15 words.

Comments by blafferty

  • Oh dear lord, are those what I think they are, madmouth?

    June 11, 2011

  • Different time zones, I guess. I'm always disappointed when I get on after dinner and everyone's gone to bed.

    Very fierce sheep there, sionnach. Good thing I didn't dream of counting barometz last night!

    June 11, 2011

  • June 11, 2011

  • Oh, that's right. Rapacious Viking of a fruit. I apologize.

    June 10, 2011

  • I could get used to them if I trained myself to think "et" perhaps. Right now, "ampersand cetera" seems awkward.

    June 10, 2011

  • a. A tract of land containing mineral deposits or ore. b. Obsolete term for a clod of earth, an ore, or an earthy mineral. Arkell

    (Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms)

    June 10, 2011

  • *makes note to keep a word journal during next trip*

    June 10, 2011

  • You're right - abrupt/harsh or slow. That makes sense of a lot of the words listed. Not sure I can agree on cranberries, but maybe there's some etymology I'm missing out on. Care to enlighten us, 'zuzu?

    June 10, 2011

  • This is strange ... a lot of these don't seem to fit the phonestheme (at least in my opinion): crawl, cradle, cranberries?

    Er, wait - what is the semantic association for /kr/?

    June 10, 2011

  • Synonym for fun

    June 10, 2011

  • I wonder why grace is capitalized here.

    June 10, 2011

  • Always insist on a sheathed cuke? Reminds me of the safe sex informational activities they held at my dorm when I was a freshman. We actually used cucumbers.

    Strangely, when I typed "cuke" the autocorrect on my phone wanted to replace it with "vile"! Everybody has an opinion, I guess.

    June 10, 2011

  • Ah! Thank you! Clearly I clicked on the wrong plinth! (I assume.) It's terrible to get caught clicking on somebody else's plinth, don't you think?

    June 10, 2011

  • After reading all this plith-love, I can no longer take this word seriously.

    June 10, 2011

  • Why have you chosen this particular (misspelled?) word to opress with your spammish assault?

    June 10, 2011

  • Disturbing image, thy name is SPAM ball.

    June 9, 2011

  • Spam?

    June 9, 2011

  • A cruciform-twinned crystal of staurolite, used as a curio stone without fashioning for adornment. The term is also applied as a syn. of staurolite, and esp. to the variety occurring in the form of a twinned crystal. See also: staurolite b. Any of various odd or fantastically shaped calcareous or ferruginous concretions formed in alluvial clays. (Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms)

    June 9, 2011

  • A variety of asphalt. How's that for irony?

    June 9, 2011

  • A sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct (logical form) but semantically nonsensical. The term was originally used in his 1955 thesis Logical Structures of Linguistic Theory. The sentence has no understandable meaning, and therefore demonstrates the distinction between Syntax and Semantics. As an example of a category mistake, it was used to show inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of grammar, and the need for more structured models. (Wikipedia)

    June 8, 2011

  • Hmm, when I think "madding" I automatically think "crowd," which is kind of what I'm going for here, but that might be just because that quote is used so often. Let me check examples.

    Edit: looks like it's often used with the whole "far from the" intact, but not always. Added.

    June 8, 2011

  • There are so many comments in strange places stating "plinth" like it's a battle cry, spoon-style , I thought for sure there would be fun comments here.

    June 8, 2011

  • I was sure this was going to be an ancient aztec car. Or ... an Aztek

    June 8, 2011

  • I wonder how many wordnik tabs I can have open on my browser at once.

    June 8, 2011

  • Oh no! I have repeatedly broken the 9th and 10th wordie commandments!

    June 8, 2011

  • Oo, no! Thanks! It's true, every potential wordie list is an existing wordie list!

    June 8, 2011

  • I'm very curious why "fucking pro-mitts" was never bracketed. Or varying lengths of that sentence of Yarb's.

    June 8, 2011

  • Mr. Prime Number Tester says yes.

    June 8, 2011

  • *wishes cigarette breaks were called smokos here*

    June 8, 2011

  • Do wotds only appear on the people/wotds if they have subscribers? It would be nice to be able to see everyone's, even if no one was subscribing.

    June 7, 2011

  • North American trail marks are sometimes called "ducks" or "duckies", because they sometimes have a "beak" pointing in the direction of the route. The expression "two rocks do not make a duck" reminds hikers that just one rock resting upon another could be the result of accident or nature rather than intentional trail marking.

    (Wikipedia: Cairn)

    June 7, 2011

  • An epoch of transition as mountains of fracture.

    June 7, 2011

  • Thanks! I did look it up, but haven't come across it before. Maybe I'm reading the wrong kinds of books.

    June 6, 2011

  • I have difficulty not thinking "ampersand" instead of "and". The symbol doesn't seem to have anything to do with the word or the concept.

    June 6, 2011

  • Groaning board is unfamiliar to me, rolig - is it really very common in either speech or literature? And is it a collocation or a compound name for something (like tea chest)?

    June 6, 2011

  • Nice link, reesetee!

    June 6, 2011

  • Thanks, actung! I subscribed to the tweet a while ago but didn't keep track of it. Great list!

    June 6, 2011

  • Where did you find the list? Or did you add them as they went?

    June 5, 2011

  • Wow. Molly Bloom's soliloquy = longest example ever.

    June 5, 2011

  • Wow, thanks for all the contributions! The only one I'm not familiar with is neap tide.

    I'll check out your amber list for yoinking.

    June 5, 2011

  • That's weird, I could swear when I posted that there were none!

    Nice drumroll, by the way.

    June 4, 2011

  • Thanks,rolig!

    June 4, 2011

  • Spam

    June 4, 2011

  • *wishes it were effortless*

    June 4, 2011

  • I would go with a nice baling twine.

    June 4, 2011

  • For some reason, I can't believe this is a real word.

    June 4, 2011

  • spam

    June 4, 2011

  • list of numbers

    "This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness."

    June 4, 2011

  • I say comfort-able, and people make fun.

    June 4, 2011

  • Very strange. When you click on my name in the "blafferty's profile," it goes to the correct profile, Peter Altmann's.

    June 3, 2011

  • This word makes it difficult for me to take that line seriously.

    June 3, 2011

  • You will have better luck with your words if you don't capitalize; Wordnik is case-sensitive.

    June 3, 2011

  • Oh, funny! Didn't realize someone else had already posted that (I don't know how to post the pic instead of the link).

    June 3, 2011

  • caconym

    June 3, 2011

  • Also see original sins

    June 3, 2011

  • Seems like this one's definition is begging for a which see.

    June 3, 2011

  • Sure, referring to Zythia.

    June 3, 2011

  • What is the Scottish word for scissors when you're running with them?

    June 2, 2011

  • ...

    There are no tags.

    June 2, 2011

  • I think someone should start a list called "time travel induced divergences".

    June 2, 2011

  • I wondered if it might be! Thanks!

    June 2, 2011

  • Nice, ruzuzu!

    June 2, 2011

  • This word is almost constantly trending, too.

    And I can't help clicking on it because I wish it were real. Someone have a madeupical for it?

    June 1, 2011

  • I'm very curious how words get into the "trending" list at the bottom of the community page. Cat and jelly shoes have been there forever. Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy? We see that they're trending, so we click on them to see what all the fuss is about, and we make them more trendy?

    June 1, 2011

  • Still trending, after all this time. Cats are so hot right now. Apparently.

    June 1, 2011

  • *hork*

    June 1, 2011

  • bourbonmots! Your name is a sweet tooth fairy!

    May 30, 2011

  • A wordienik gold mine!

    May 30, 2011

  • These should go on dontcry's porch.

    May 30, 2011

  • Uh oh, this one seems PossibleUnderscore-related, too.

    May 30, 2011

  • Clearly something PossibleUnderscore would wear.

    May 30, 2011

  • This word is in such an interesting mix of positive and negative lists!

    May 30, 2011

  • Thanks, bilby; tea break stays!

    Sionnach, bilby: do you feel that tea chest is a collocation or a compound? Or can it be both?

    May 28, 2011

  • Are you sure those aren't virtual civet droppings?

    May 28, 2011

  • Thanks, bilby! I've never heard tea break, let alone often enough to consider it a collocation. Tea chest I think I've read.

    May 26, 2011

  • How about dongle?

    (favorited)

    May 26, 2011

  • Tea break ... maybe in England? Anyone?

    May 26, 2011

  • I had never heard this word before I heard it in a dream. In the dream, it was announced as the name of an ancient local deity at the site of an archeological excavation.

    May 26, 2011

  • goat

    May 25, 2011

  • corndog

    May 25, 2011

  • scuttle?

    May 25, 2011

  • Add snot-nosed if you like, sionnach! I just wasn't adding anything but base forms, so I added snot and called it good.

    May 25, 2011

  • Those are great lists, pterodactyl! You might be interested in my snose list.

    May 24, 2011

  • Hahahaha

    May 23, 2011

  • See whilst

    May 23, 2011

  • Hmm, my second list was my vaguest one.

    May 23, 2011

  • Whoops, thanks, Joel. Edited.

    May 22, 2011

  • Wow, pterodactyl, that's true! You can say "fan-fucking-tastic" but "marv-fucking-elous" sounds weird.

    May 22, 2011

  • uselessness's first list

    May 22, 2011

  • oroboros's first list

    May 22, 2011

  • Whichbe's first list

    May 22, 2011

  • Actung's first list

    May 22, 2011

  • Example given on the definitions tab:

    I am Superversive, disequilibrator of fewmets; hear me roar!

    — Quakers in Spain

    May 22, 2011

  • No problem, Wordplayer! I added everyone whose comment showed in the zeitgeist for the last 3 days (at the time). I'll continue as I see people who didn't come up before!

    May 22, 2011

  • I must admit some of mine have devolved into science projects.

    May 20, 2011

  • marky's first list

    May 20, 2011

  • 'zuzu, I love that you have the kind of dinner parties where people get out the OED!

    May 20, 2011

  • So what does it mean?

    May 20, 2011

  • What the heck is going on here?

    May 20, 2011

  • Very clever, mollusque. Thanks for listing yours, marky.

    May 20, 2011

  • Pouting while snorting pea coffee would probably result in something more serious than a fart.

    May 19, 2011

  • That's strange. If spam (which it certainly seems), why is it posted by erinmckean?

    May 19, 2011

  • Thanks, rolig! Interesting stuff. I can't think of any case where I would write or say "forwards" either.

    May 19, 2011

  • I have often wondered if there was a difference in usage.

    May 19, 2011

  • There you go, I added your actual first to the list and put an "alleged" in the commentlink here.

    May 19, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore's (secret) first list

    May 19, 2011

  • I guess the first word I listed was pejorative, and my first comment was there, too.

    May 18, 2011

  • Yes, that's what I was thinking. It makes some of the words seem very funny though.

    May 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu, that is very funny. Were you reporting your attendance?

    May 18, 2011

  • chained_bear's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore's alleged first list

    May 18, 2011

  • qroqqa's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • gangerh's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • frogapplause, marky, add yours and commentlink them if you please!

    May 18, 2011

  • mollusque's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • nearsounds' first list

    May 18, 2011

  • erinmckean's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • dontcry's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • Wordplayer's first list

    Strangely, the url says "British insults"

    May 18, 2011

  • Nice, whoops!

    May 18, 2011

  • reesetee's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • John's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • rolig's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • spam

    May 18, 2011

  • sionnach's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • pterodactyl's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • yarb's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • Favorited!

    May 18, 2011

  • hernesheir's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • Prolagus's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • my first list

    May 18, 2011

  • bilby's first list

    May 18, 2011

  • I'm game!

    Those of you with stealth accounts would be tricky ... except bilby, who has revealed his.

    May 18, 2011

  • "First lists" would be an interesting and telling list.

    May 18, 2011

  • Better than a dirt nap.

    May 18, 2011

  • The upside down fruit bat (I assume - fruit boot makes less sense, although fruit boat could work ... ) is broken. And am I the only one who can't see the characters in the middle?

    May 18, 2011

  • I can't decide! Every poem or no poem? To decide, perchance to forget? Whether 'tis nobler in mind to read them all, the poems and sonnets of outrageous authorship, or to make decisions against a sea of poems and by deciding, leave them.

    May 17, 2011

  • Yes, what a shame, with all the rampant cleverness going on around here.

    May 17, 2011

  • No, the title of the poem. Although the title of this page doesn't exactly encourage reading the poem in the first place.

    Anyway, I will definitely remember to decide not to read any poems next weekend, just to be safe.

    May 17, 2011

  • Clearly it is time for bed.

    May 17, 2011

  • *gasp* And here I thought this was all just pipe-dream-talk.

    May 17, 2011

  • Cited as the evidence that my daughter's toy is a scorpion, not a lobster, despite the orange color.

    May 17, 2011

  • I thought the title indicated that you couldn't.

    May 16, 2011

  • I think a snack-sized cabree might be called something else.

    How about a nice steenbok?

    May 16, 2011

  • Get out your rifle!

    May 16, 2011

  • The Random word oracle says I should have brown-bag for lunch! It works!

    May 16, 2011

  • *love*

    May 16, 2011

  • Oo, very zen-sounding, rolig. I like.

    May 16, 2011

  • Ah, I see we are working from multiple definitions of read! So this complicates the question: a poem can be read (def. 1) multiple times but still not read (def. 2)!

    May 16, 2011

  • Sorry, those were my flaming fufluns. I did not allow chained_bear to have any since they were whiskey-soaked - I didn't want to be responsible for whiskey-soaked chained_bear cubs. And *wince* I might be responsible for that wodge of pie, too ... dontcry, it appears I owe you a new porch.

    May 16, 2011

  • Hmm. That's hard to say. Can a poem be read more than once, or does it lose its flavor? How many readings does it take to get to the tootsie-roll center? And, having read the poem once, is it much too late to ever decide not to read the poem?

    May 16, 2011

  • You know, you can make yourself a t-shirt (or whatever) here.

    May 16, 2011

  • Perhaps that should go on a T...? (Suddenly self-conscious about my ellipsis spacing)

    May 16, 2011

  • Oh dear! Didn't mean to endanger you!

    May 16, 2011

  • This came up in the examples section today:

    Of course, "my carpet does not show cat hork" is not necessarily a strong advertizing point. (

    — mrissa: 'What makes a man turn neutral?'

    May 15, 2011

  • For some reason, I always picture someone laughing with their teeth showing when I think of this word. Is it the "horse laugh" thing?

    May 15, 2011

  • That's very thoughtful of you! I'm sure she has plans to croodle, too.

    May 15, 2011

  • I can't stand to put a comma or period outside quotes, but exclamation marks and question marks are another story. And I heard that frivolously misusing Australians is only common in Britain.

    May 15, 2011

  • Yep. By the time I remembered I had a resolution to make concerning it, I had already done it.

    May 15, 2011

  • Tool for reducing concretions into powder

    May 15, 2011

  • Operation by which bladder stones are dissolved

    May 15, 2011

  • Stone in the bronchial glands

    May 15, 2011

  • Gallstone

    May 15, 2011

  • Stone forming in the tear ducts

    May 15, 2011

  • Is this a superpower? (CD 1)

    May 15, 2011

  • Dead fetus impregnated with calcareous matter

    May 15, 2011

  • Concretion in the tear ducts

    May 15, 2011

  • Concretion in the scrotum

    May 15, 2011

  • Whoops, forgot to do this one. Maybe next weekend.

    May 15, 2011

  • Oh dear god!

    May 14, 2011

  • Clearly dontcry has abandoned prudence for not only imprudence, but impudence.

    *noms a small bouquet of peonies*

    May 14, 2011

  • A low-budget (but not necessarily bad) movie made after a blockbuster using a similar plot and often exploiting on its publicity campaign. (Urban Dictionary)

    May 14, 2011

  • Gosh, thanks! *unhinges jaw*

    Dontcry, what's prudent about pie, whether wodge or wedge?

    May 14, 2011

  • Stone in the lung

    May 13, 2011

  • Concretion or stone in the foreskin

    May 13, 2011

  • Concretion in the prostate gland

    May 13, 2011

  • Concretion forming in the uterus

    May 13, 2011

  • Yoinkage makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

    May 13, 2011

  • Can I get a wodge of pie instead of a wedge?

    May 13, 2011

  • Those occur inside the body, Wordplayer - see description of list. But don't worry, my next list, "My god, I'm full of stones!" will include them.

    May 13, 2011

  • Thanks, mollusque!

    May 13, 2011

  • Stone that falls from the sky; meteorite

    May 13, 2011

  • Fossilized human skeleton

    May 13, 2011

  • Body of magma formed in the asthenosphere of the earth

    May 13, 2011

  • Color impression of a drawing on stone

    May 13, 2011

  • Colored design on chemically prepared slab of marble or ivory

    May 13, 2011

  • Hard to believe there's a word for "I thought it was an artifact, but it's just a rock." I think my dad used to call those "leavarites."

    May 13, 2011

  • Study of stone artifacts

    May 13, 2011

  • Pertaining to the natural state of crystals or minerals

    May 13, 2011

  • Color printing using several lithographic plates

    May 13, 2011

  • Painting upon stone

    May 13, 2011

  • Printing in gold on stone

    May 13, 2011

  • Does anyone know if CD 1 is actually used, or is this just used for "stones" within the body?

    May 13, 2011

  • How about a Pikachu, Pro?

    May 12, 2011

  • Pangram: 48 letters

    May 12, 2011

  • Natural theology based on the study of stones

    May 12, 2011

  • Stone tool or weapon associated with early farming peoples

    May 12, 2011

  • See palaeotolith

    May 12, 2011

  • See prepalaeolith

    May 12, 2011

  • Lens-shaped intrusive mass of igneous rock between two strata

    May 12, 2011

  • Igneous rock that makes a ringing noise when struck

    May 12, 2011

  • Image produced by transferring photograph to a lithographic plate

    May 12, 2011

  • Stone tool supposedly of pre-paleolithic date

    May 12, 2011

  • Consisting of sandstone

    May 12, 2011

  • Fossilized sponge

    May 12, 2011

  • Rock structure consisting of alternating igneous and sedimentary layers

    May 12, 2011

  • Blameshifting? Weaselry? Haunt writing?

    May 12, 2011

  • Why is this always a "trending word"?

    May 12, 2011

  • Ha! Still eating whiskey-soaked fufluns en flambe here!

    May 12, 2011

  • You're the first person to look up this word on Wordnik! Box clever has been favorited 0 times, listed 0 times, commented on 0 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.

    May 11, 2011

  • Thanks for the box clever explanation! I've never heard it before.

    May 11, 2011

  • Most. Overused. Word. Ever.

    May 11, 2011

  • What's a box clever?

    May 11, 2011

  • Never knew there was a word for this!

    May 11, 2011

  • failed search

    May 11, 2011

  • 'fire' for after house, or 'warrant' for after arrest

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 32 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 36 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 31 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Whoops, not top any more. No gulls so far, but how about a jackdaw, 'zuzu?

    May 10, 2011

  • boat?

    May 10, 2011

  • The one at the top is almost about pants ...

    May 10, 2011

  • This word (along with its various forms) gives me the creeps. Reminds me of

    May 10, 2011

  • Hear hear!

    May 10, 2011

  • Oh dear, I'd better get to work!

    May 10, 2011

  • I love that there is a word for this.

    May 10, 2011

  • Sounds like a threat to me.

    May 10, 2011

  • We always called the ceramic tiles (with cork on the bottom, usually) trivets, too.

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 36 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • ... except Punderscore. Thanks, Punderscore!

    May 10, 2011

  • Sorry, my pangrams ate everything while you were sleeping.

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 31 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 33 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 32 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 30 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 49 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 50 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 48 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 46 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 29 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 29 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 28 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Perfect pangram

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 28 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • Pangram: 29 letters

    May 10, 2011

  • What are your opinions about using the phrase "classy classic" in reference to a wedding dress, for example? Too redundant? Or have the two connotations diverged enough that they are not?

    May 9, 2011

  • Whoops, nope! Sorry, tricked you!

    May 9, 2011

  • Not sure I would consider "tease teas" or "coffee toffee" collocations, fbharjo!

    May 9, 2011

  • Haven't tried it anywhere else, I'll give it a shot.

    Edit: I commented on another list and deleted it just fine.

    I wonder if the reason is that I originally tried to delete it from my iphone?

    May 9, 2011

  • I am suddenly unable to delete or edit comments I have made. I don't know if it's all of them - the problem I'm having is with a comment made on the words and phrases that I would love to have on a wordie t-shirt list.

    May 8, 2011

  • Oops, I commented instead of adding, and suddenly it won't delete. I'll delete the comment as soon as it lets me.

    May 8, 2011

  • I <3 mountweazels

    May 8, 2011

  • Braggart + douchebag. (Insult)

    May 8, 2011

  • Ha, I've heard that before!

    May 8, 2011

  • Well, it is on the list of recent pronunciations.

    May 7, 2011

  • I'll have a ruzuzutbeer barrel.

    May 7, 2011

  • Yay!

    May 7, 2011

  • Following drosselmeier's links on his Mountweazels list makes me think maybe nonce word would fit the bill ... ?

    May 7, 2011

  • Oh, I am so happy this list exists. Can you hug a list?

    *squeeze*

    May 7, 2011

  • I could never memorize this as a child because so many months (and numbers) could fit into those rhyme/syllable spaces ... you could say:

    Thirty days hath October, January, and December. All the rest have thirty-one.

    Or, for that matter, you could say:

    Seven days hath October, January, and December. All the rest have seventeen.

    May 6, 2011

  • Who decided all this, and why couldn't they have used a logical system?

    May 6, 2011

  • "Bobo's furniture: what could be said about it? It demanded and invited Lower Empire Posture ... the elegant flop: low small tables with small wagons full of blue glass grapes, low chairs, low everything."

    -- Carlos Fuentes, _Where the Air is Clear_

    May 6, 2011

  • I think this is a virus. I googled the word zalgo and the results indicated that clicking on zalgo (somewhere) crashed their browser.

    May 6, 2011

  • See also teff.

    May 6, 2011

  • An Ethiopian grain, used for making injera.

    May 6, 2011

  • *begins watching cartoons*

    Yay!

    May 6, 2011

  • How about when you see an old word and think of hernesheir?

    May 6, 2011

  • Hm, all I can find are "Slap Happy Pappy" and "Scrap Happy Daffy."

    For some reason I feel that I must watch this.

    May 6, 2011

  • Not the first time I've heard this. Strange ...

    May 6, 2011

  • Reality is a club that smacks even the one who is holding it. Which provides me with an entertaining mental image.

    May 6, 2011

  • Please see the preposition section at on for other usages.

    May 5, 2011

  • That's what I get for wordnicking before bed.

    May 5, 2011

  • Is this an inkblot test? If so, I see murder most foul.

    May 5, 2011

  • "Misfits like him are given a choice: either exile in one of the surrounding island countries, or to undertake the "dangergeld," a rite of passage rather like the traditional vision quest or wanderjahr, where a young person journeys for many years to find his purpose. Afterwards he may or may not be able to return to Recluce." -from a review of _The Magic of Recluse_ by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    May 5, 2011

  • Thanks. Anybody have any stain stick?

    May 5, 2011

  • *plop*

    And there it goes again.

    May 5, 2011

  • Um ...

    *dredges mind out of gutter*

    *rinses mind in sink*

    *pats mind down with towel*

    Yes, I see, thanks, reesetee!

    May 5, 2011

  • I get that impression.

    May 5, 2011

  • This word sounds like tossing and turning in bed.

    May 5, 2011

  • I have tagged a couple things dontcry's porch - didn't know this was here!

    May 5, 2011

  • Love the example given on the definitions page:

    "As in “The well of his fuckwaddery springs eternal.”"

    May 5, 2011

  • Since your examples were mere quotes of the phrase from text, no matter what the source, instead of quotes regarding the actual rules you were citing, I thought you were just interested in seeing the phrase in documented use. It's a common usage of the preposition, that's all I was trying to show. I feel I've been a pretty good sport, considering your rude comment about the language used in my country.

    Hm, I'm not finding the rules you cite. I can't search by page (I don't have the book) - are the rules phrased as a direct quote? If not, can you quote them? The rules as you write them seem overly simplified, like something I might teach a student initially, to give them a basic grasp of what the words mean. In reality, they are much more complicated. For instance, a common phrase is "on Saturday, I will go to the market." Saturday is certainly not a surface, do you see what I mean?

    Would you consider it rude of me to ask if you are a second language English speaker?

    Wordnik is a place for people who love words, phrases, and language in general. Often the discussions are playful, but all here are interested in learning and sharing knowledge.

    May 5, 2011

  • ... and I'm curious about your suggestion to use a plinth, ruzuzu ...

    May 5, 2011

  • Are the grape riffles in question the kind that you use as ammunition or icing for fufluns?

    May 5, 2011

  • I put bilby as protean because he sometimes seems like a person and sometimes like a marsupial.

    May 5, 2011

  • This is definitely not in my plans for the weekend.

    May 5, 2011

  • Oops, someone just walked by while I had this up on the screen. I wonder what they were thinking.

    May 5, 2011

  • I must say I really appreciate the fact that no one made any references to glory hole here.

    May 5, 2011

  • For a moment, I wondered whether these were in the May Day basket ruzuzu received.

    May 5, 2011

  • I am definitely going to do this this weekend.

    May 5, 2011

  • Very exciting! Thanks for the shopping list! You too, hernesheir!

    May 5, 2011

  • Oh, I didn't know you had a criteria for the examples. It would have saved time and space if you had said so. I cut off the page numbers, but I can edit them back in if you'd like.

    Please cite where your "cardinal rules" are from.

    May 5, 2011

  • Hmm ... if so, it's not a very lovely shade of green. Actually, it's only a couple shades darker than the walls in my living room.

    May 5, 2011

  • Do you know/have this amazing book?

    May 5, 2011

  • Related to cuirass?

    May 5, 2011

  • Perhaps you dropped it in the hydrangeas?

    May 5, 2011

  • Nice connection, fbharjo! Now I like this word even more, and I have a way to remember what it means.

    May 5, 2011

  • Thanks, mollusque! Me too!

    May 5, 2011

  • This word sounds like the feeling of holding a still-beating heart in your hand. Not that I would know.

    May 5, 2011

  • I matched Erin with calepinerienne because I did a desperate google search for the word and her name came up! Now, of course, the search results are flooded with other wordnik comments etc.

    May 5, 2011

  • When is word-happy hour?

    May 5, 2011

  • *starts using asterisks to narrate her life outside of wordie*

    May 5, 2011

  • This word reminds me of the sound of dragging a grater across a lemon. (The lemon is for you, reesetee)

    May 4, 2011

  • "What verbs do you have on tap today?"

    May 4, 2011

  • *counts own correct answers*

    *smiles happily*

    *eats fuflun*

    May 4, 2011

  • I wish I could find one to attend ... most of the bars here don't even have phone books.

    May 4, 2011

  • I see no instigation, nor cries of rape, although I've never heard of 2nd degree rape. But yes, I am glad to provide examples.

    "She models how to add the -ing chunk on the end of the word to make the word dreaming." -Linda J. Dorn, Cathy French, Tammy Jones, _Apprenticeship in literacy: transitions across reading and writing_

    "If a word begins with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u), then you just put AY on the end of the word, without taking the first letter away." -Ursula Dubosarsky, _The Word Snoop_

    " ... final vowel will frequently occur on the end of the word, depending on the overall word form" -Robert M. W. Dixon, Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd, _Word: a cross-linguistic typology_

    "... rhythmic balance in long words, the predominant Biblical stress on the end of the word was possible when ..." -Benjamin Harshav, _Language in time of revolution_

    "(In the case of simplex words stress is on the end of the word, on the penultimate vowel or on the antepenultimate vowel of the word)" -William Z. Shetter, Inge Van der Cruysse-Van Antwerpen, _Contemporary explorations in the culture of the Low Countries: Volume 9_

    "So called, because the force is on the end of the word" -Walter K. Fobes, _Elocution simplified: with an appendix on lisping, stammering_

    I like the fact that your examples are from books about English grammar, but I'm curious - are you drawing this opinion from some reference - i.e. have you seen a rule that indicates one over the other?

    May 4, 2011

  • Wow, I feel so welcome. *sniff*

    My name is blafferty, and I'm a wordict.

    I recently started calling my daughter fuflun instead of cupcake.

    May 4, 2011

  • Wow, I had no idea there was a place where I was normal. Whew.

    May 4, 2011

  • Funny, I was just thinking of starting a "dontcry's porch" list.

    May 4, 2011

  • *adds hydrangeas to map*

    Not that we need to find you, now that you're up ... in retrospect, maybe we should have had a map of the porch area a while ago.

    May 4, 2011

  • *pumps fist twice*

    May 4, 2011

  • I chose mine for exactly the reason mollusque surmised. Clever creature.

    May 4, 2011

  • *speechless*

    May 4, 2011

  • Oh my gosh, I got more than 3!

    *swoons, wishing for hydrangeas*

    May 4, 2011

  • I got more than 2 right!

    *dances jig*

    My expectations were clearly set at just the right level. This gives me so much satisfaction.

    May 4, 2011

  • Perhaps this list and this list should be cross-referenced.

    May 4, 2011

  • Crap, I don't think my luck extends to chances that are less than 70% probability.

    May 4, 2011

  • Yes, I discovered that when I clicked on my own link!

    *lagging a bit behind still*

    May 4, 2011

  • Aspiring to the title of Houghmagander.

    May 4, 2011

  • This is dangerously close to horndog.

    May 4, 2011

  • I believe it might be a dodecahedron. Or perhaps a mace. Maybe just a club.

    May 4, 2011

  • *bites nails*

    May 4, 2011

  • Obviously you feel bad, since you still remember. We all forgive you.

    My brother and I used to put grasshoppers in jars and make them fight. *wince*

    May 4, 2011

  • I'm with you there, Pro.

    Deyan, I could list as many examples the other way, but maybe we can just agree to disagree. I would prefer to say "let's agree that it can be either way," but clearly you are immovable.

    May 4, 2011

  • This is a really interesting page, because somehow I have attributed gender to everyone based on ... I don't know what. Listening to a pronunciation from someone I pegged wrong is really jarring (and fun).

    May 4, 2011

  • "Sionnach, I promise you, you will make a fool of yourself and find your master as soon as you are specific; apropos of which I pray thee be so."

    Does this sound like a threat to anyone else?

    May 4, 2011

  • Laughing so hard I can't see the screen ...

    Sad to say the Star Wars list is no longer where the link takes you, and I can't find it anywhere. But here's a truncated list

    May 4, 2011

  • The pleasure of one big wodge is hard to beat.

    May 4, 2011

  • Oh dear. Perhaps I should mention that it doesn't have to be something you personally have done. I mean, really, who pokes a badger with a spoon? I'm sure marky didn't really step on a frog. Right, marky?

    May 4, 2011

  • Thanks, Wordplayer!

    May 4, 2011

  • How are the hydrangeas situated in relation to the peonies? In case we need to find you, I am drawing a map.

    May 4, 2011

  • Meaning the lack of geographical knowledge? Am I reading that right?

    May 4, 2011

  • Perhaps Deyan was being facetious with that phrase, sionnach.

    May 4, 2011

  • thank you pro

    May 3, 2011

  • Um, wow. Nope. I'm sure a google search for the phrase "on the end of the word" will bring up plenty of examples, and surely some of them will be "undefiled beyond believe," hahaha. Perhaps if you go to on your questions about this somewhat tricky English preposition will be answered.

    May 3, 2011

  • That is a little unnerving.

    May 3, 2011

  • Wow. I know people who write poems like that. And brag about them. Gah.

    May 3, 2011

  • You never know when you might need that kind of information.

    May 3, 2011

  • I went through each word and noted who had listed it, listed it most, or commented on it most. Then the rest was guesswork.

    May 3, 2011

  • I tried to start at the Ws, sorry if I missed any.

    I used this list

    May 3, 2011

  • Me too!

    May 3, 2011

  • What tag are you going to use? English preposition?

    May 3, 2011

  • Gaaaaaaah!

    May 3, 2011

  • Well, I am aware that the redundant 's is technically incorrect - I was wondering if people see it as commonly accepted. I seem to hear it a lot and I assume that the reason is that in English we generally use the 's form for possessives instead of the prepositional phrase, so it sounds strange to people's ears - they are over-correcting, I guess.

    Generally if the preposition 'of' would refer to the content like in the example you use here, "... in an address of the President's competence," the ambiguity leads most (in my experience) to re-phrase it to make it clear: "... in an address regarding the President's competency." Do others agree?

    Prepositions in English are so fickle and high-maintenance. Their meanings seem so vague but their usage is so specific.

    As for "on the end," it is correct if I am referring to the word, as in "Obama had an 's on the end." If I were referring to the end of the sentence, the appropriate preposition would be at - "the sentence had an 's at the end."

    May 3, 2011

  • *favorited*

    So ... so ... wordie. Er, wordnik.

    May 3, 2011

  • It's also a good movie, frogapplause - seen it?

    May 3, 2011

  • Good point.

    I wonder what the ratio of (CD 1) bastards that are (CD 3) bastards is to those that are (CD 1) bastards but not (CD 3) bastards. Or vice versa.

    May 2, 2011

  • Does anyone know whether this form or weltschmertz is more common? Assuming they mean the same thing.

    May 2, 2011

  • My guts are prepared to receive puddings. Yum.

    May 2, 2011

  • Oh, I love you all, and your dogs' lugubrious faces.

    May 2, 2011

  • I would like a verb for "to begin to speak."

    May 2, 2011

  • I agree.

    I think I know why the iPh**e (which I think deserves brackets) version is messing up - looks like they are trying to get a mobile version up and running. My eyes thank you. Hopefully the comments will be viewable on a word, too - right now I can't find them.

    May 2, 2011

  • Do you mean the kind of person even a bastard (CD 3) would think is a (CD 3) bastard, or a (CD 1) bastard begotten by a (CD 1) bastard?

    May 2, 2011

  • This, I think, has been taken incorrectly from context. In the examples listed, the "address" is a speech. For instance, "in an address of President Obama" - the address/speech belongs to Obama. It's not an idiomatic phrase, just a use of "address" meaning "speech."

    Since the inversion of the possessive seems strange to our ears, many people add a redundant 's on the end - "in an address of President Obama's" - does anyone know if this is generally accepted?

    May 2, 2011

  • I would say the dodgy curry is the worst of these troubles.

    May 2, 2011

  • Actually, I was able to log in but when I tried to go to my profile page it said the page was not found.

    May 2, 2011

  • I had the same problem, Prolagus.

    May 2, 2011

  • Wow, this list has a festival-like atmosphere this morning.

    If fuflun were a verb, I think there would be either arm-flinging or unicycles involved. I say unicycle because I am picturing a bear fuflunning all around, just because, chained_.

    May 2, 2011

  • In this case, the best definition is CD 15:

    A building or buildings, especially a residence or group of residences, set off and enclosed by a barrier.

    May 2, 2011

  • Yes.

    May 2, 2011

  • see why do you hate freedom

    May 2, 2011

  • Ah! Thanks! I knew it looked familiar, but couldn't make it say anything, even after waterboarding.

    May 2, 2011

  • Okay, I give up. Who is devils mi snort/livid monsters?

    May 2, 2011

  • I happen to have a lofty ruby kaftan, eh.

    May 2, 2011

  • Related link

    May 2, 2011

  • So cute. I am having a good time picturing this landlady.

    May 2, 2011

  • I feel that you should have added your "thanks, blahahahaha" to this as well, as it was clever.

    May 2, 2011

  • <3 <3 <3

    May 2, 2011

  • I think it's interesting and kind of nostalgic that you can't click on the community link from this word.

    May 2, 2011

  • Whenever I see the phrase "Thank you ________" I hear it in a mocking, sing-song voice now.

    Thank you marky.

    May 2, 2011

  • Okay, you asked for it: PEEEAAA SOOOUUUP!

    May 2, 2011

  • At least there was no pea soup this time.

    May 2, 2011

  • I have no idea! All this thanking is making my head spin.

    May 1, 2011

  • Four Brothers was my favorite.

    May 1, 2011

  • see here

    May 1, 2011

  • see marky

    May 1, 2011

  • see funky bunch

    May 1, 2011

  • Ooh! Too late. Darn.

    May 1, 2011

  • That means I get to make a wish, right?

    May 1, 2011

  • Oh dear. He got to you, too.

    May 1, 2011

  • Pain in the ass

    May 1, 2011

  • Were you looking for you're something of a hotdog, be you?

    May 1, 2011

  • I don't think that can prevent marky in his thanking crusade. I'm pretty sure the reason for the thank you bilby was that he couldn't find bilby's profile to thank him there.

    Besides, then how would reesetee help me fix the wounded trees?

    May 1, 2011

  • *freezes*

    Don't move ... they can't see you if you don't move.

    May 1, 2011

  • Oh, then you can give PossibleUnderscore *your* autograph!

    May 1, 2011

  • Thy yak run amok

    May 1, 2011

  • If my family can be considered a microcosm of the world in general (which it shouldn't), the war was almost certainly over who was responsible for burning the pie crust.

    May 1, 2011

  • (In movie preview guy voice:)

    In a world overrun by thankless hordes, one man stood alone...

    May 1, 2011

  • This word sounds like tiny waves taking over a beach.

    April 30, 2011

  • Not to be confused with imp ass.

    April 30, 2011

  • Fear of being thought of as an under-appreciated meat product.

    April 30, 2011

  • See braunschweiger-athazagoraphobia

    April 30, 2011

  • This word is ill-suited.

    April 30, 2011

  • *whishwhishwhish*

    I think that was the trees saying thank you.

    April 30, 2011

  • Built by a honky

    April 30, 2011

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  • *passes out spoons for everyone*

    Do we all have plates? Who still needs fufluns?

    May 14, 2018

  • Trending: I poked a blafferty with a spoon.

    May 12, 2018

  • I've been neglecting wordnik terribly, to my detriment. Anyone know of a shortcut to find the comment field for users on the mobile version?

    January 1, 2014

  • Give me more blafferty then!

    December 31, 2013

  • Thanks! Yay!

    December 12, 2013

  • Hi blaff. It wuz me!

    The List Who Cried Wolof!

    December 12, 2013

  • Where've you been? No blaffing matter :-(

    B

    January 11, 2013

  • Blaff: Welcome back, from someone who also took time off. (I haven't exactly come blasting back yet....)

    March 14, 2012

  • You are so right! I love the use of of language in the last werewolf and i discovered wordnik at the same time as reading it, hence the double obsession!

    March 12, 2012

  • Just stopping by to check out the accuracy of Wordnik's Random word feature. You didn't have a pickle for dinner by any chance, did you?

    January 24, 2012

  • Thank you for your kind words.

    July 26, 2011

  • *jealous!*

    July 5, 2011

  • Coofor is in New Mexico. I leave it for you to research and find out where. A hint - Coronado stayed there. Also see comments under waldo about a mythical hotel between there (Coofor) and Santa Fe. Also see stay in the lightening fields near quemado and comments on

    bryn mawr.

    Though a native of Arizona, I grew up on a ranch on the rio abajo section of the Rio Grande. Sounds like you spend your time here on or near the rio arriba section.

    It sounds as if your travels may take you to another rift valley - the Rhine. Are you going to Trier?

    July 3, 2011

  • Heading to Europe next week!

    *traveltraveltraveltravel*

    Amsterdam/Brussels/Paris/Zurich - recommendations for a fellow wordienik, anyone?

    July 3, 2011

  • It's back! Someone must have had an attack of conscience and returned it.

    If you ever go to New Mexico, let me give you some recommendations! I used to live there but now only visit.

    July 3, 2011

  • Nooooo, sorry. *sigh* But glad you had a great time. New Mexico is on my dream list of vacation spots. :-)

    July 1, 2011

  • *holds breath*

    Well? Was it there?

    Yes, I had a lovely time, thanks!

    July 1, 2011

  • Hope you had a good time!

    *searches for b's wotd under desk*

    July 1, 2011

  • I was on vacay. Not much wifi in northern New Mexico.

    Also:

    Waaaaaaah! I can't find my Pebbles! Someone find my wotd!

    June 30, 2011

  • Welcome back, blaff! Was wondering where you were hiding. :-)

    Pro, I didn't see the "t" issue until I logged on using my desktop PC (I usually work on a Mac laptop). Don't know whether that makes any difference....

    June 28, 2011

  • Thanks, Pro!

    On the word pages, the lowercase t comes up with a thick little tail that kind of jumps out at you in the new font.

    June 28, 2011

  • Feedback page mostly; new interface occasionally.

    What's this "t"issue everybody's been talking about?

    June 28, 2011

  • Ack, I've been gone for two weeks and come back to find all the word pages looking completely different! Is there a place that people are talking about the new layout? The font is weird; lowercase t is very distracting. Anyone agree?

    June 27, 2011

  • Hmm ... if so, it's not a very lovely shade of green. Actually, it's only a couple shades darker than the walls in my living room.

    May 5, 2011

  • I dunno; that always looked like green paint to me.

    *spins head*

    May 2, 2011

  • Whenever I see the phrase "Thank you ________" I hear it in a mocking, sing-song voice now.

    Thank you marky.

    May 2, 2011

  • Thank you blafferty.

    May 2, 2011

  • Okay, you asked for it: PEEEAAA SOOOUUUP!

    May 2, 2011

  • *adds pea soup*

    May 2, 2011

  • At least there was no pea soup this time.

    May 2, 2011

  • Neat! Thanks for spinning your head!

    May 1, 2011

  • I have no idea! All this thanking is making my head spin.

    May 1, 2011

  • Thank you, blafferty.

    ...What am I thanking you for again?

    May 1, 2011

  • Ooh! Too late. Darn.

    May 1, 2011

  • That means I get to make a wish, right?

    May 1, 2011

  • 111 comments and 11 favorites.

    May 1, 2011

  • Oh dear. He got to you, too.

    May 1, 2011

  • And thank you, reesetee.

    May 1, 2011

  • Ah, yes. The wounded trees--how insightful. Thank you, blafferty.

    May 1, 2011

  • I don't think that can prevent marky in his thanking crusade. I'm pretty sure the reason for the thank you bilby was that he couldn't find bilby's profile to thank him there.

    Besides, then how would reesetee help me fix the wounded trees?

    May 1, 2011

  • Just make yourself invisible--all you have to do is add the magic incantation "This account either doesn't exist or isn't public" anywhere on your profile page. It worked for me--I've tricked absolutely everybody!

    May 1, 2011

  • *freezes*

    Don't move ... they can't see you if you don't move.

    May 1, 2011

  • ok, you've made me laugh twice really hard.. you're cool. you're new here though. one more, and you may get a thank you too? haha

    May 1, 2011

  • *whishwhishwhish*

    I think that was the trees saying thank you.

    April 30, 2011

  • *offers bandages to trees*

    April 30, 2011

  • Thanks, ruzuzu! Me too! I was missing out on all the fun. I agree on allochthonous. That was fbharjo's brilliant contribution to my rock-lover query.

    I think the trees could use the bandages more than me, reesetee, but I appreciate the offer.

    April 29, 2011

  • *offers bandages*

    April 29, 2011

  • You're fun. I'm glad you came back.

    P.S. allochthonous is a fabulous word!

    April 29, 2011

  • omnomnomnom *(crashing in background)*

    Sooo worth it ...

    April 29, 2011

  • Ah, well. Here's a fuflun.

    Hey, hold onto the....!!

    *sigh*

    April 29, 2011