Steroids

yarb commented on the list steroids

I keep adding words here and then deleting them because they're not nouns or they're occupations with the -er suffix. Frustrating!

May 21, 2008

pterodactyl commented on the list steroids

*laughs* Yes, the rules do make it difficult, but I had to stipulate them, or else the list would be hundreds and hundreds of words long. :-)

May 21, 2008

yarb commented on the list steroids

The nouns-only rule is draconian though, if only because it prohibits the superlative roister. Perhaps you could amend the rule to stipulate "nouns only, with the exception of roister"?

May 21, 2008

pterodactyl commented on the list steroids

How about a new list, instead? Something like "Verbs that end in 'ster'"?

If you'll get it started, yarb, I'll help populate it!

May 22, 2008

mollusque commented on the list steroids

What's wrong with a list hundreds of words long? And how is it that rooster is roosting here?

May 22, 2008

yarb commented on the list steroids

Good point Mollusque. Where there's a rooster, there ought to be a jester too.

I'm not keen on the verbster list, but I will custom-build a list around roister.

May 22, 2008

pterodactyl commented on the list steroids

Hmm. You make good points, mollusque and yarb, but I'm not sure that the "er" in rooster is actually a suffix. Is a rooster "one that roosts"?

I'll have to check the etymology.

May 22, 2008

pterodactyl commented on the list steroids

I checked the etymology, and you're absolutely right. Rooster does indeed come from "roost" and "er".

Off the list it goes!

May 22, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list steroids

I'm pretty fond of verbster, I have to say, yarb. I think a verbster list would get me all het up.

May 22, 2008

yarb commented on the list steroids

You best be getting a-roistering then, ms bear.

May 22, 2008

ruzuzu commented on the list steroids

And this one!

May 19, 2011