I've added the plural of "index" just to mark some form of the word's presence on Wordie. There apparently can be no wordie-page for "index" ... since that term always brings one back to the main page. But, for me, the index is one of the coolest parts of a book.
I've got no particular bias against indices, but contemporary indexers seem to prefer "indexes."
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. Whitman, Preface 1855
A great poem is for ages and ages in common, and for all degrees and complexions, and all departments and sects, and for a woman as much as a man, and a man as much as a woman. A great poem is no finish to a man or woman, but rather a beginning. Whitman, Preface 1855
Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceiv’d only in those communities where the models of natural forms are public every day. Whitman, Preface 1855
It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. Whitman, Preface 1855
Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumber’d Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another—and that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. Whitman, Preface 1855
The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes... Song of Myself
Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or soothe, I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has, and be as regardless of observation. Walt Whitman, Preface 1855
I believe in those winged purposes ... Song of Myself
t is just a single letter of the alphabet, but the hyphenated prefix e- loomed so large in American discourse in 1998 that members and friends of the American Dialect Society at their annual meeting voted it Word (or perhaps Lexical Entity) of the Year, as well as Most Useful and Most Likely to Succeed.
as in soccer mom, the newly significant type of voter courted by both candidates during the presidential campaign. That phrase spun off other designations such as minivan mom and waitress mom.
hiya ... my tenth graders have trouble pronouncing them, too ... the other day one created a sentence something like "When he cut me off in traffic I responded with a string of harsh euphemisms." ... nice oxymoron ... but i've got my work cut out for me ... they also came to believe (thanks to our unclear textbook) that "effete" meant "tired" ... so we ended up with sentences like ... "After running thirty laps and dropping for twenty, we were certainly an effete team."
"Letting on don't cost nothing; letting on ain't no trouble; and if it's any object, I don't mind letting on we was at it a hundred and fifty year. HF 35
Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden... HF 29
I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up to it. HF 27
... and then they put their arms around each other's necks, and hung their chins over each other's shoulders; and then for three minutes, or maybe four, I never see two men leak the way they done. HF 25
entropy ... o yes, this is a most obvious & necessary one ... it just didn't show up on any of the random pages i was hitting ... my process for listing will be characterized by randomness ... Schwarzgerät ... i'm not sure what to do with certain characteristic proper names ... & yes nymphet is totally Nabokov, but i don't & probably won't have a Nabokov list ... so ...
They became exhausted in imitation of them; and they yaw-yawed in their speech like them; and they served out, with an enervated air, the little mouldy rations of political economy, on which they regaled their disciples. Hard Times, Book the Second, Chapter II
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brtom commented on the word hypnogogic
...and lingering hypnogogic for sleep
no more cling-clanging bells
to awaken
suzanne, suzannagig jig
December 20, 2006
brtom commented on the word lucent
... the Sun's lucent Orbe ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 20, 2006
brtom commented on the word trumpery
...Embryo's and Idiots, Eremits and Friers
White, Black and Grey, with all thir trumperie.
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 20, 2006
brtom commented on the word beditation
be
beditation
begin
befriend
behest
bedazzle
befrenzy
beget
suzanne, suzannagig jig
December 20, 2006
brtom commented on the word beditations
be
beditation
begin
befriend
behest
bedazzle
befrenzy
beget
suzanne, suzannagig jig
December 20, 2006
brtom commented on the word equanimity
To embrace a truth at the price of one's vanity repays the cost in the coin of equanimity.
Nick Piombino, Fait Accompli
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word ensorcelled
in the depths of my spirit
I feel capable of doing just that
of kissing into wakefulness
a man, in parts ensorcelled ...
suzanne, suzannajig gig
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word jejune
... Petulance (and its child by Desuetude, Disgust) up against the moronic Starry-Eyed, jejune Rabble-Rouse spitting at the feet of Big Dictum ...
John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti
This is a good example of the amazingly worded wilderness through which Mr. Latta cuts his path ... I think of the jungles of Henri Rousseau ...
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word barmy
... that miscible rendering (undistill’d) of sheer barmy Discovery up against hare-brain’d Gossip ...
John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word marinated
To be experienced these feelings must settle a bit and then be ...marinated, like an assemblage of tasty spices, meats and potatoes.
Nick Piombino, Fait Accompli
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word weeds
And they who to be sure of Paradise
Dying put on the weeds of Dominic,
Or in Franciscan think to pass disguis'd ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word yeanling
Dislodging from a Region scarce of prey
To gorge the flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word copious
Hail Son of God, Saviour of Men, thy Name
Shall be the copious matter of my Song ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word similitude
Begotten Son, Divine Similitude
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word quiver
Then Crown'd again thir gold'n Harps they took,
Harps ever tun'd, that glittering by thir side
Like Quivers hung ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word compass
But all ye Gods,
Adore him, who to compass all this dies,
Adore the Son, and honour him as mee.
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 19, 2006
brtom commented on the word dominions
... under thee as Head Supream
Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I reduce ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word thrones
... under thee as Head Supream
Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I reduce ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word fruition
... and equally enjoying
God-like fruition, quitted all to save
A World from utter loss ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word redeem
So Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate,
Giving to death, and dying to redeeme,
So dearly to redeem what Hellish hate
So easily destroy'd, and still destroyes ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word filial
His words here ended, but his meek aspect
Silent yet spake, and breath'd immortal love
To mortal men, above which only shon
Filial obedience ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word maugre
I through the ample Air in Triumph high
Shall lead Hell Captive maugre Hell, and show
The powers of darkness bound.
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word atonement
Attonement for himself or offering meet,
Indebted and undon, hath none to bring ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word forfeiture
... on mans behalf
Patron or Intercessor none appeerd,
Much less that durst upon his own head draw
The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set.
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word fealty
Man disobeying,
Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns
Against the high Supremacie of Heav'n ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word ambrosial
Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd
All Heav'n ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word enthrall
... for so
I formd them free, and free they must remain,
Till they enthrall themselves ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word ingrate
... whose fault?
Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee
All he could have ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word imbosom'd
On the bare outside of this World, that seem'd
Firm land imbosom'd without Firmament ...
Milton, Paradise Lost, III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word beatitude
... and from his sight receiv'd
Beatitude past utterance ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word darkling
... as the wakeful Bird
Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid
Tunes her nocturnal Note.
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word sojourn
Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing,
Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd
In that obscure sojourn ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word waft
That Satan with less toil, and now with ease
Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light ...
Milton, Paradise Lost II
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word fraught
Thither full fraught with mischievous revenge,
Accurst, and in a cursed hour he hies.
Milton, Paradise Lost II
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word indexes
ah yes, easter eggs ... and the word lists brings up a list of all the lists ...
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word indexes
I've added the plural of "index" just to mark some form of the word's presence on Wordie. There apparently can be no wordie-page for "index" ... since that term always brings one back to the main page. But, for me, the index is one of the coolest parts of a book.
I've got no particular bias against indices, but contemporary indexers seem to prefer "indexes."
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word zealous
Zelo zelatus sum pro Domino Deo exercituum
Vulgate, 1 Kings 19:14
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word eminence
Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd 5
To that bad eminence ...
Milton, Paradise Lost, II
December 18, 2006
brtom commented on the word cope
So numberless were those bad Angels seen
Hovering on wing under the Cope of Hell ...
Milton, Paradise Lost, I
December 17, 2006
brtom commented on the word mind
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Milton, Paradise Lost, I
December 17, 2006
brtom commented on the word leviathan
... or that Sea-beast
Leviathan, which God of all his works
Created hugest that swim th' Ocean stream ...
Milton, Paradise Lost I
December 17, 2006
brtom commented on the word glutenous
Next this marble venom'd seat
Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat
I touch with chaste palms moist and cold,
Now the spell hath lost his hold ...
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word vermeil
What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that
Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the Morn?
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word budge
O foolishnes of men! that find their ears
To those budge doctors of the Stoick Furr,
And fetch their precepts from the Cynick Tub,
Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence.
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word nepenthe
Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone,
In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena
Is of such power to stir up joy as this ...
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word julep
And first behold this cordial Julep here
That flames, and dances in his crystal bounds
With spirits of balm, and fragrant Syrops mixt.
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word margent
Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that livst unseen
Within thy airy shell
By slow Meander's margent green ...
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word rife
This is the place, as well as I may guess,
Whence eev'n now the tumult of loud Mirth
Was rife, and perfet in my list'ning ear...
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word glozing
I under fair pretence of friendly ends,
And well plac't words of glozing courtesie
Baited with reasons not unplausible
Wind me into the easie-hearted man,
And hugg him into snares.
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word finny
The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny drove
Now to the Moon in wavering Morrice move ...
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006
brtom commented on the word whelming
Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide
Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world
Milton, Lycidas
December 15, 2006
brtom commented on the word boots
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care
To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade ...
Milton, Lycidas
December 15, 2006
brtom commented on the word blasted
O Fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted Milton, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
December 15, 2006
brtom commented on the word froth-becurlèd
And sought to hide his froth-becurlèd head Milton, PARAPHRASE ON PSALM CXIV.
December 15, 2006
brtom commented on the list de-verb-this-word
transition?
December 13, 2006
brtom commented on the word jehovah
If nature will not tell the tale
Jehovah told to her
Can human nature not survive
Without a listener?
Emily Dickinson, from J. 1748
December 12, 2006
brtom commented on the word bliss
The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost, become him well—pride is for him ...
Whitman, "In Sing the Body Electric"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word limpid
Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous
Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word nimbus
This is the female form;
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot ...
Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word discorrupt
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word engirth
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them ... Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word unpent
The unpent enthusiasm—-the wild cheers of the crowd for their favorites Whitman, "Drum-Taps"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word aromas
About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas; Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word peruse
Consider, you who peruse me, whether I may not in unknown ways be looking upon you ... Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word float
Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solution! Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the list words-of-the-years
strikes me how ... mostly ... these are real ugly words
December 10, 2006
brtom commented on the word methusalem-numskull
I lay you'll be the Methusalem-numskull of creation before ever I ask you--or the likes of you. HF 33
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word billowy
Cushion me soft ... rock me in a billowy drowse ... Whitman, Song of Myself
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word chant
I chant a new chant of dilation or pride ... Whitman, Song of Myself
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word higgle
The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back -- the purchaser higgles about the odd cent. Whitman, Song of Myself
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word affectionate
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word nation
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word brawny
The English language befriends the grand American expression—it is brawny enough, and limber and full enough. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word poem
A great poem is for ages and ages in common, and for all degrees and complexions, and all departments and sects, and for a woman as much as a man, and a man as much as a woman. A great poem is no finish to a man or woman, but rather a beginning. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word glut
The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, puts off nothing ... Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word chatter
... the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty ... Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word jetted
Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceiv’d only in those communities where the models of natural forms are public every day. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word outre
Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allow’d ... Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word ridiculous
Of the human form especially, it is so great it must never be made ridiculous. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word hiatus
He sees health for himself in being one of the mass—he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word divine
It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word nakedness
The innocence and nakedness are resumed—they are neither modest nor immodest. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word kosmos
They shall be Kosmos, without monopoly or secrecy, glad to pass anything to any one—hungry for equals night and day. Whitman, Preface 1855
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son ... Song of Myself
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word supremes
Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumber’d Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another—and that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. Whitman, Preface 1855
The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes... Song of Myself
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word purposes
Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or soothe, I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has, and be as regardless of observation. Walt Whitman, Preface 1855
I believe in those winged purposes ... Song of Myself
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word simplicity
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word consistence
The greatest poet forms the consistence of what is to be, from what has been and is. Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word plumb
The fruition of beauty is no chance of miss or hit—it is as inevitable as life—it is exact and plumb as gravitation.
Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word jar
Nothing can jar him—suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word baulks
What baulks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word persiflage
The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by steady faith. Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word broadcast
Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word podcast
http://www.oup.com/us/brochure/NOAD_podcast/?view=usa
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word truthiness
and Merriam-Webster Word of the Year 2006
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word red state
red state, blue state, purple state
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word y2k.
Word of the Year 1999 was Y2K.
Word of the 1990s Decade was web.
Word of the Twentieth Century was jazz.
Word of the Past Millennium was she.
http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/1999_words_of_the_year_word_of_the_1990s_word_of_the_20th_century_word_of_t/
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word e-
t is just a single letter of the alphabet, but the hyphenated prefix e- loomed so large in American discourse in 1998 that members and friends of the American Dialect Society at their annual meeting voted it Word (or perhaps Lexical Entity) of the Year, as well as Most Useful and Most Likely to Succeed.
http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/1998_words_of_the_year/
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word mom
as in soccer mom, the newly significant type of voter courted by both candidates during the presidential campaign. That phrase spun off other designations such as minivan mom and waitress mom.
http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/1996_words_of_the_ye/
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word nonnamous
... and I see we hadn't no time to lose. So Tom said, now for the nonnamous letters. HF 39
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word out-superintend
He could out-superintend any boy I ever see. He knowed how to do everything. HF 38
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word wool-gethering
your wool-gethering memory HF 37
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the word sluicing
...and then she went to sluicing out coffee with one hand and cracking the handiest child's head with her thimble with the other... HF 37
December 9, 2006
brtom commented on the list sophomoric
hiya ... my tenth graders have trouble pronouncing them, too ... the other day one created a sentence something like "When he cut me off in traffic I responded with a string of harsh euphemisms." ... nice oxymoron ... but i've got my work cut out for me ... they also came to believe (thanks to our unclear textbook) that "effete" meant "tired" ... so we ended up with sentences like ... "After running thirty laps and dropping for twenty, we were certainly an effete team."
December 8, 2006
brtom commented on the word letting on
"Letting on don't cost nothing; letting on ain't no trouble; and if it's any object, I don't mind letting on we was at it a hundred and fifty year. HF 35
December 8, 2006
brtom commented on the word clew
S'pose he don't do nothing with it? ain't it there in his bed, for a clew, after he's gone? and don't you reckon they'll want clews? HF 35
December 8, 2006
brtom commented on the word putrified
"I was most putrified with astonishment when you give me that smack." HF 33
December 8, 2006
brtom commented on the list banned
These are words I would prefer not to find in my students' formal papers or speeches.
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word shut
I'd seen all I wanted to of them, and wanted to get entirely shut of them. HF 31
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word sand
She was the best girl I ever see, and had the most sand. HF 29
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word bilin'
"The whole bilin' of 'm 's frauds! Le's duck 'em! le's drown 'em!"
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word cravats
... for if the excited fools hadn't let go all holts and made that rush to get a look we'd a slept in our cravats to-night ... HF 30
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word livers
... and it most scared the livers and lights out of me. HF 29
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word blister
Well, I never see anything like that old blister for clean out-and-out cheek. HF 29
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word squshed
Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden... HF 29
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word nuts
It was nuts for the crowd, though maybe not for the king's friends HF 29
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word googling
... like a jug that's googling out buttermilk ... HF 29
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word muggins
Why, you talk like a muggins. HF 28
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word girafft
I never see such a girafft as the king was for wanting to swallow everything. HF 27
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word style
I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up to it. HF 27
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word bounden
so it's my bounden duty ... HF 28
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word pison
Well, the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long and tiresome HF 27
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word smouch
Then the king 'll get it again, and it 'll be a long day before he gives anybody another chance to smouch it from him. HF 27
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word dasn't
I dasn't do it. HF 26
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word hive
I'll hive that money for them or bust. HF 26
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word bile
They can't bile that amount of water away off there at the sea. HF 26
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word valley
The king said the cubby would do for his valley -- meaning me. HF 26
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word cubby
The king said the cubby would do for his valley -- meaning me. HF 26
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word orgies
"...and so it's fitten that his funeral orgies sh'd be public." HF 25
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word diseased
... and help set up with the ashes of the diseased ... HF 25
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word slush
...all that kind of rot and slush ... HF 25
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word leak
... and then they put their arms around each other's necks, and hung their chins over each other's shoulders; and then for three minutes, or maybe four, I never see two men leak the way they done. HF 25
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word dissentering
... a dissentering minister ... HF 24
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word thickest
,,, but these are the ones that Peter was thickest with ... HF 24
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word duds
The king's duds was all black ... HF 24
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word gaudy
I reckoned the poor king was in for a gaudy time of it with the audience ... HF23
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word dickens
"... and then shin for the raft like the dickens was after you!" HF 23
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word sold
"We are sold -- mighty badly sold. But we don't want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon ... HF 23
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word custom
... it can have all of my custom every time. HF 22
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word hump
...and then how the horses did lean over and hump themselves! HF 22
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word bully
It was a real bully circus. HF 22
December 7, 2006
brtom commented on the word blame
You must be a blame' fool. HF 16
December 5, 2006
brtom commented on the word tuck
... but when he says this it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me. HF 16
December 5, 2006
brtom commented on the word hawking
But other times they just lazy around, or go hawking--just hawking and sp-- Sh!--d'you hear a noise? HF 14
December 5, 2006
brtom commented on the word prime
The seegars was prime. HF 14
December 5, 2006
brtom commented on the list sophomoric
i. e. grade 10
December 4, 2006
brtom commented on the word gwyne
that is, "going"
December 4, 2006
brtom commented on the word bymeby
that is, "by and by"
December 4, 2006
brtom commented on the word haggled
I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw ...
December 4, 2006
brtom commented on the word brotherhood
i use it only in context of the male branch (my experience) of the carmelite order ... no slight intended to the sisters
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word gianture
J. 641, Franklin 707
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word optizan
J. 329, Franklin 608
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word bluppen
Watch while I bluppen the stale gray dawn.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word ondivorant
No one should approach our dear ondivorant Nicholas for the next few hours.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word linqwap
It's linqwap ... there between the second and third molars.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the user brtom
no no... yr good ... & i'm an english teacher ... and i write obscure pomes at http://brtom.typepad.com/one/
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the user brtom
a writer? ... must be ... if ... but you pose a ... my head is ... imploding ... a savage parlor ... sorry
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word vuposin
The vuposin kept me indoors all week.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word expagulator
David has been the most notorious expagulator of our time.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the list whitmanian
good ones ... thanks!
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word sniboluous
A sniboluous gale blew in from the gutter.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word prompillent
Erich's prompillent maneuvers kept him in the lobby.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word alligavate
We shall not alligavate; we shall not presume.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word erx
Not even the domestic polecat notices the erx anymore.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word glitensor
The glitensor slipped in my fingers and startled the President.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word condurvent
Propelled by his condurvent manner, we spun off to The Container Store.
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word nymphet
from The Crying of Lot 49 ... clearly a nod to Nabokov
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the list pynchonesque
entropy ... o yes, this is a most obvious & necessary one ... it just didn't show up on any of the random pages i was hitting ... my process for listing will be characterized by randomness ... Schwarzgerät ... i'm not sure what to do with certain characteristic proper names ... & yes nymphet is totally Nabokov, but i don't & probably won't have a Nabokov list ... so ...
thanks for dropping by, guys ...
December 3, 2006
brtom commented on the word yaw-yawed
They became exhausted in imitation of them; and they yaw-yawed in their speech like them; and they served out, with an enervated air, the little mouldy rations of political economy, on which they regaled their disciples. Hard Times, Book the Second, Chapter II
December 3, 2006