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qms commented on the word callllama
Uber in the Andes.
April 27, 2018
bilby commented on the list places-in-oregon
Nice!
April 27, 2018
bilby commented on the list flightless-birds
kakapo
April 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word shrillhillpillllama
A traditional Peruvian term for a high-pitched pack animal used for transport to mountain pharmacies.
April 27, 2018
bilby commented on the word smorgaphobia
Smorgasbugaboo.
April 27, 2018
qms commented on the word dresssuit
See dress suit.
April 27, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word tallllama
n. A llama that is tall.
April 27, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word smallllama
n. A llama that is small.
April 27, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word dresssuit
a suit worn for full dress — compare evening dress.
April 27, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word rebelution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebelution_(disambiguation)
April 27, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word smorgaphobia
noun. Fear of buffets. From Frasier Season 4 Episode 15.
April 27, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word dress-code
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/26/17284930/high-school-dress-codes-lizzy-martinez-bracott
Martinez’s is not the first unjust dress code enforcement to go viral. In 2016, Helena, Montana, high school student Kaitlyn Juvik was chastised by administrators for going braless, and she too organized protests (in that case, 300 of her female classmates came to school braless). And last October, Annie Concannon of Cincinnati, Ohio, was “dress-coded” for wearing a crop top. Concannon had paired the shirt with high-waisted jeans and wasn’t exposing her midriff.
April 26, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word bracott
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/26/17284930/high-school-dress-codes-lizzy-martinez-bracott
Martinez then tweeted about the incident: “I decided not to wear a bra today and got pulled out of class because one of my teachers claimed it was ‘a distraction to boys in my class,’” she wrote. After her tweet went viral, Martinez called for a national “bracott.” On April 16, female students across the country clipped their bras to their backpacks instead of wearing them, and male students wore Band-Aids in an “X” shape on their shirts.
April 26, 2018
qms commented on the word wanigan
The lumberjack loved his new mannequin
And, oh, what a noisy shenanigan!
The ecstatic cries
And heartbreaking sighs
That shivered the walls of his wanigan!
April 26, 2018
bilby commented on the word pursuers
I usually find that one person pursuing me is sufficient.
April 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word hanami
Cherry Blossom viewing
- from Japan
April 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word tufthunter
(chorus)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear tufthunter?
You better run, you better take cover
April 26, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word kek
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/08/what-kek-explaining-alt-right-deity-behind-their-meme-magic
Kek, in the alt-right’s telling, is the “deity” of the semi-ironic “religion” the white nationalist movement has created for itself online – partly for amusement, as a way to troll liberals and self-righteous conservatives both, and to make a kind of political point. He is a god of chaos and darkness, with the head of a frog, the source of their memetic “magic,” to whom the alt-right and Donald Trump owe their success, according to their own explanations.
April 25, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word femoid
https://globalnews.ca/news/4166830/toronto-van-attack-what-is-incel/
Other popular terms used by incels include “normies” or normal people; and “femoid,” a term that blends female with humanoid and implies they don’t view women as entirely human, but rather androids who only want to have sex with Chads.
April 25, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word Stacy
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/25/17277496/incel-toronto-attack-alek-minassian
But many incels have a much more sinister, and specific, worldview — one that the Southern Poverty Law Center sees as part of a dangerous trend toward male radicalization online. These incels post obsessively about so-called “Chads,” meaning sexually successful and attractive men, and “Stacys,” attractive, promiscuous women who sleep with the Chads. Both are positioned as unattainable: The Chad is the masculine ideal, one incel men cannot emulate for reasons of poor genetics, while the Stacy is whom every incel man wants to sleep with but cannot because they aren’t a Chad.
April 25, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word Chad
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/25/17277496/incel-toronto-attack-alek-minassian
But many incels have a much more sinister, and specific, worldview — one that the Southern Poverty Law Center sees as part of a dangerous trend toward male radicalization online. These incels post obsessively about so-called “Chads,” meaning sexually successful and attractive men, and “Stacys,” attractive, promiscuous women who sleep with the Chads. Both are positioned as unattainable: The Chad is the masculine ideal, one incel men cannot emulate for reasons of poor genetics, while the Stacy is whom every incel man wants to sleep with but cannot because they aren’t a Chad.
April 25, 2018
echevlen commented on the word dysmanuate
“Dysmanuate” is a verb. It means to hand an object to someone who is in no position to take hold of it. Example: “As I was working on the watch repair, Laurel tried to dysmanuate me with a crying baby.”
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word flatology
The study of flatulence,according to Science Friday's tweet. Apr 25 2018
April 25, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word barista
Can also be used as a verb, which means "to work as a barista".
April 25, 2018
qms commented on the word tufthunter
Google and I got that allusion and enjoyed a very amusing Youtube video.
April 25, 2018
qms commented on the word tufthunter
Their scorn could hardly be blunter
But insults or slights don’t affront her,
A compliant tool
Too ready to snool,
And formerly known as tufthunter.
April 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word coroutine
Looks very Fwench but it is geek.
April 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word nandu
I had no idea there were South American 'ostriches'.
April 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word tufthunter
I'd quit the waiting and walk 500 miles. And 500 more. Worked for The Proclaimers.
April 25, 2018
qms commented on the word tufthunter
This is a problem in that groupie does not rhyme with toady. Can we suppose an especially abject roadie?
The measure of my knowledge of the culture of rock is probably a negative value. I am going to have to do some original thinking, unless of course the persuasive power of my application of roadie in this limerick has such influence that the common understanding of the word is changed. How long should I wait?
April 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word tufthunter
I think you're confusing roadie with groupie.
April 25, 2018
bilby commented on the word spirit animal
Note that no cultures are known to have spirit vending machines. Just saying ;-)
April 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word spirit animal
The ancient concept of animal guides, particularly prominent in some indigenous, especially Native American, religions and cultures, was adopted in Pagan and Wiccan spirituality in the 1990s. In these contexts, spirit animals are meant literally, referring to spiritual guides or totems that take the form of animals.
April 25, 2018
qms commented on the word tufthunter
Their scorn could hardly be blunter
But insults or slights don’t affront her.
In rock she’s a “roadie,”
More generally - “toady,”
And formerly known as tufthunter.
Michael Quinion has an excellent discussion of this word at
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-tuf2.htm
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word monotwist
Goto monotwist.
A Rubik's cube transformation that twists 2 corner pieces.
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word come-down
"They were foot ballers from all over the state, had their come downs in Adelaide"
- Spotted in an Objectivity video, so I assume it's real Australianese for 'come down for a visit'.
watch?v=FtEQuM7JmdI
On Twitter, it seems to refer to withdrawal symptoms from caffeine or some substance.
April 25, 2018
scarequotes commented on the word manosphere
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/suspect-in-deadly-toronto-van-rampage-to-face-court-hearing-as-motive-for-attack-remains-unclear/2018/04/24/ef9aa956-474e-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html
Rodger, who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after the 2014 attack, left behind an extensive digital history, including a YouTube video in which he vowed a “day of retribution” against the women who had sexually rejected him. Rodger’s online history indicated he may have identified himself as an “incel,” or an involuntary celibate, and of the anti-feminist “manosphere.”
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word Hulse
Missed opportunity to call it a "hulsar".
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word Thyme Lord
Think of Alton Brown and you'll know what a Thyme Lord is.
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word revisionist history
Basically, it's what Adam Conover does.
April 24, 2018
MaryW commented on the word bibliometrics
Po-Shen Lee, Jevin D. West & Bill Howe, Viziometrics: Analyzing Visual Information in the Scientific Literature, IEEE Transactions in Big Data, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 1, 2018)April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word devilatry
Worship of devils; worship of the Devil.
April 24, 2018
MaryW commented on the word scientometrics
Po-Shen Lee, Jevin D. West & Bill Howe, Viziometrics: Analyzing Visual Information in the Scientific Literature, IEEE Transactions in Big Data, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 1, 2018)April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word spirit animal
...
April 24, 2018
MaryW commented on the word viziometrics
Po-Shen Lee, Jevin D. West & Bill Howe, Viziometrics: Analyzing Visual Information in the Scientific Literature, IEEE Transactions in Big Data, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 1, 2018)April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word timepleaser
Antonym: freethinker
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word Satanolatry
The worship of Satan.
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word Belialatry
Worship of Belial.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word Human Interference Task Force
See also atomic priesthood.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word kthnxby
Was nice knowing you.
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word atomic priesthood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word electron capture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_capture
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word millisecond pulsar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millisecond_pulsar
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word ARPANET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word kthnxby
Okay, thank you. Goodbye.
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word aiight
https://tinyurl.com/pc5szge
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word ringularity
https://tinyurl.com/yckfw7a3
April 24, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word fish-ball
It's something that sounds infinitely more appetizing than a foot-ball.
April 24, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word tzitzit
No pronunciation available.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word fish-ball
If fish-ball = fish-cake, then clearly ball = cake.
So what is a cake ball?
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word scoggan
Also scoggin.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word out-curve
CDC's resident hyphenator has been putting in the overtime.
April 24, 2018
bilby commented on the word youthening
"Only 9 percent of white Christians are young millennials, compared with 21 percent of Asian Christians and 16 percent of Latino Christians. Some 17 percent of white Christians are from the so-called silent generation. No other group comes close. In other words, white Christians are aging. Christians of color are youthening."
- Stephen Carter, Bloomberg, 24 April 2018, https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-ugly-coded-critique-of-chick-fil-as-christianity/ar-AAwg9Dg?ocid=spartanntp
April 24, 2018
qms commented on the word bibliopolist
The pages of books can offer this:
A personal mental Acropolis,
A temple and shrine
That’s uniquely mine
Whose priest is the old bibliopolist.
April 24, 2018
ismailvtl commented on the user ismailvtl
dictionary
April 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word atlantification
The warming of the arctic ocean and the influx of Atlantic species. Probably should be Capitalized
April 24, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word frik
frick.
April 23, 2018
Logophile77 commented on the word ntz
Same as oontz but pronounced quickly without the "oo".
April 23, 2018
bilby commented on the word Stanicky
Bollocks. The capital of Paraguay is Asunción and using online maps I can't find any city in the world called Stanicky.
April 23, 2018
turgutbekil commented on the list turgut-first-list
testing
April 23, 2018
turgutbekil commented on the list turgut-first-list
test
April 23, 2018
MaryW commented on the word cliometrics
Robert D. Hershey Jr., Douglass C. North, Maverick Economist and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 95, N.Y. Times (Nov. 24, 2015)April 23, 2018
bilby commented on the user Gammerstang
Calm down a bit. If you post too many comments in a row it floods them off the Community page before anyone actually gets a chance to see them.
April 23, 2018
qms commented on the word vowess
They prayed, “May the Good Lord endow us
With a novice of kitchen skill prowess.”
He answered their plea
With well-fed Marie,
The convent’s most welcome new vowess.
April 23, 2018
CMunk commented on the word they'm
I've just come across this word. From what little research I have done, it looks like a contraction of "they am" used in the Bristol dialect. (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:T9p1H-4MuxsJ:www.thedialectdictionary.com/view/letter/Bristol/7703/+&cd=1&hl=da&ct=clnk&gl=uk)
April 23, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word magnetotail
An odd-looking word.
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word lamb's-wool
(noun) - (1) A favorite liquor among the common people, composed of ale and roasted apples. The pulp of the roasted apple was worked up with the ale till the mixture formed a smooth beverage. Fanciful etymologies for this popular word have been thought of, but it was probably named from its smoothness, resembling the wool of lambs. --Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859 (2) The pulpe of the roasted apples, in number foure or five, according to the greatnesse of the apples, mixed in a quart of faire water, laboured together untill it come to be as apples and ale, which we call lambes-wooll. --Thomas Johnson's Gerard's Herball, 1633 (3) A corruption of la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word gipsying-party
(noun) - A party who meet to frolic in the open air. --John Ogilvie's Comprehensive English Dictionary, 1865
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word fletcherize
(verb) - To chew thoroughly. --Mitford Mathews' Dictionary of Americanisms, 1956
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word basket-fortune
(noun) - A small fortune, said of a girl's marriage-portion. --William Cope's Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases, 1883
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word manners-bit
(noun) - (1) A portion of a dish left by the guests, that the host may not feel himself reproached for insufficient preparation. --Joseph Hunter's Hallamshire Glossary, 1829 (2) A morsel left in a dish to avoid the imputation of greediness. --T. Ellwood Zell's Popular Encyclopedia, 1871
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word bauk
(noun) - (1) A ridge of land left unploughed. --Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 (2) As used in Scotland, a strip two or three feet in breadth. --John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word dismurderized
(adjective) - Divested of the character of murder; pronounced to be not murder. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word lottery-barber
(noun) - Where a man, for being shaved and paying three-pence, may stand a chance of getting ten pound. --The London Annual Register, 1777
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word aeroflation
(noun) - Passing through the air in balloons. --Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, 1806
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word bone-orchard
(noun) - A slang name for a cemetery. --Ramon Adams' Western Words: A Dictionary of the Range, Cow Camps, and Trail, 1946
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word neezled
(adjective) - A little drunk or intoxicated. --Walter Skeat's North of England Words, 1873
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word Jerusalem-pony
(noun) - A donkey or ass, evidently allusive to our Savior's entrance into Jerusalem on an ass. --G.F. Northall's Warwickshire Word-Book, 1896
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word forakers
(noun) - The "closet of decency," or "house of office." Very likely from "four acres," the original "necessary" having been, in all likelihood, a field behind the school. --John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word pollincter
(noun) - One who prepares materials for embalming the dead; from Latin pollinctus, French polingère, to wash and prepare a corpse for a funeral. --William Whitney's Century Dictionary, 1889
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word false generations
(pl. noun) - Bastard offspring. Cymbeline. --C.H. Herford's Notes on the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word cliquant
(adjective) - Glittering with gold. The word was properly used of thin sheets of gold, and hence already suggests the golden sheen made more definite by the words: "Today the French, all cliquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, shone down the English." Henry VIII. --C.H. Herford's Glossary of the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word three outs
(pl. noun) - When three persons go into a public-house, call for liquor generally considered sufficient for two, and have a glass which will divide it into three equal portions, they are said to "drink three outs." --James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word womblety-cropt
(noun) - The indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch. --James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word friar's chicken
(noun) - Chicken broth with eggs dropped in it, or eggs beaten and mixed in it. --William Whitney's Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word monographer
(noun) - A writer of a monograph, a paper or treatise written on one particular subject. --Daniel Lyons' The American Dictionary of the English Language, 1897
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word pulletier
(noun) - The keeper of the sacred chickens observed for purposes of augury; adopted from Old French pouletier, poultry-keeper. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1909
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word Yorkshire compliment
(noun) - A gift of something useless to the giver. Sometimes called a "North-country compliment." --John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word neck and crop
(adverb) - The medieval English croppe and the Anglo-Saxon cropp both meant the top of a plant; the Old French croup meant the top of a hill. Thus, crop has come to mean the top of anything, including the ears of corn at the top of the stalk and the head of a man. The Norwegian nakk meant a knoll, or top of a hill. Thus neck and crop is simply a strengthening of the idea. To fall neck and crop is to crash completely. --Edwin Radford's Encyclopaedia of Phrases and Origins, 1945
April 23, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word awarpen
(adjective) - Thrown or cast. --Richard Verstegan's A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, 1605
April 23, 2018