Take Me To Your Whosit

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

janitor?

December 19, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

or shepherd? depending on who's asking.

December 19, 2007

sionnach commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

skipper? monarch? liege lord? evil overlord?

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Thanks sionnach. We can always count on you to make timely and useful suggestions for any list!

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

führer?

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

sorry you got that one just with an ue

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

If I was going to spend double bullet holes on der Fuehrer I'd put them in him, not above :-(

December 20, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

great comment, bilby. i'm writing about the holocaust this week so that's exactly what's in my head too.

wait... Hey! Get out of my head!!

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

:=(

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Take me to your Guru.

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

A guru's a clever person, not necessarily the head dude. I'm not convinced yet.

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

swami then?

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

A Swami, being celibate, channels sexual energy to reach God and Enlightenment. How is that for a dollar?

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Puppet Master, must be a leader in every sense!

December 20, 2007

mollydot commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Yarn shop.

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

cheerleader then!

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Patron

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

I don't understand the sense of yarn shop.

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Sheikh

December 20, 2007

jennarenn commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

"Who is your teacher?" strikes fear in the hearts of kids everywhere. :)

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Emperor

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll go principal for teacher as headmaster is just another derivation of master and that could go on forever.

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

I think Guru is a kind of leader type although the word literally means teacher. Cos I looked up Lama, which have the same meaning. And I think a Lama can be considered a spiritual leader (as well as a teacher) to quite a few people.

From Wiki: Lama (Tibetan: བླ་མ་; Wylie: bla-ma) is a title for a Tibetan religious teacher. The name is similar to the Sanskrit term 'guru' (see Tibetan Buddhism and Bön). The title can be used as an honorific title conferred on a monk, nun or (in the Nyingma, Kagyu and Sakya schools) advanced tantric practitioner to designate a level of spiritual attainment and authority to teach, or may be part of a title such as Dalai Lama or Panchen Lama applied to a lineage of reincarnate lamas (Tulkus).

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Take me to your Pharaoh bilby.

December 20, 2007

mollydot commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Re yarn shop: It's not exactly a who, and I missed the list description about leaders, so it doesn't work at all for your list. But it's somewhere I'd like to be taken to :-)

Here's a better one: Taoiseach, an Irish word. Current meaning is prime minister, literal meaning is leader.

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

spin doctor, godfather, Master Mason the Third Degree.

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

drum major

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Wow, neat word mollydot! Is it Gaelic? I could check around here (Scotland) and see if they have the same thing. I hope you find the yarn shop soon!

Spin-doctors might think they lead public opinion but I'm agin'it. Godfather is closer in the Hollywood sense but the traditional meaning is not one of absolute authority. Even the Italian equivalent padrone might instill fear in Sicily but it's just run-of-the-mill owner elsewhere.

December 20, 2007

uselessness commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Take me to your kahuna.

December 20, 2007

sionnach commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Taoiseach is an Irish word, originally meaning "leader" or "chieftain". Now mainly used to refer to Ireland's prime minister; useful in alliterative phrases such as the "teflon taoiseach".

The second-in-command, or deputy prime minister, is referred to as the tánaiste. In history the tánaiste was the heir of the chief (taoiseach).

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Thanks sionnach, it sounds grand. I think we need more Irish words here.

December 20, 2007

sionnach commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

CEO or chief executive officer. pendragon. sachem. khan. fugleman. hetman. ataman. heresiarch. mandriarch. patriarch. emir. jarl. jemidar. agha. caliph. shah. imam. tzaddik. sirdar. malik. grand mufti. foreman. pontiff. chief rabbi. subadar. chancellor.

December 20, 2007

michaelchang commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

LOL Kahuna, I don't know why but this is a new favorite word of mine. Maybe i'm getting tired. But on wikipedia i found out there's forty different types of kahuna listed in the book, 'Tales from the Night Rainbow'. Night Rainbow. I'm adding that right away, I have never seen a Night Rainbow, have you?

December 20, 2007

mollydot commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Two more Irish ones for you: rí and banríon - king and queen

December 20, 2007

mollydot commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

And Ard Rí is High King - the king of all Ireland. The others were kings of provinces. Or smaller areas, perhaps? My history is not so good.

December 20, 2007

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Thanks mollydot.

April 5, 2008

madmouth commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

maharani?

big cheese?

rebbe?

王?

also, I think aga and agha are spelling variants of each other.

this is a stellar public list. we can all contribute and admire at the same time.

May 1, 2009

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

What's the last one, mm? Is it Korean?

May 5, 2009

madmouth commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Chinese character, meaning "king", so by default also part of Korean and Japanese.

May 6, 2009

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Lovely, a warm thanks for your suggestions.

May 7, 2009

madmouth commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

khagan (see here...and here)

May 15, 2009

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

A good 'un.

May 15, 2009

madmouth commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

I've culled some from Wiki's list of royal titles (my 2nd link): Khatun (a female Khan), Aryamehr ("light of the Aryans"), Princeps (the official title of a Roman emperor), Bretwalda (an obscure Anglo-Saxon leadership title), and Basileus (a title for a Byzantine emperor).

May 15, 2009

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

My, how industrious :-)

May 15, 2009

rolig commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

I might suggest a few from the Slavic side of things:

- vozhd (or Cyrillically, вождь), which is what adoring fans called Stalin; like Führer, it means "leader", but unlike the German word, it really is reserved for the Great Leader.

- vojvoda or vojevoda or voyevoda (or more Englishy, voivode), the Slavic "duke" (lit., "war-leader" or "warlord") and the origin of the toponym Vojvodina.

– vladika, the title of the Prince-Bishop of the Principality of Montenegro.

– you have tsar, but what about the tsarina (I'm assuming you are eschewing the unchewable cz- spellings).

And a couple obvious ones from across the Adriatic that seem to have escaped: il Duce (last seen in Salò) and the doge, in the company of Mrs. Doge, a.k.a. the dogaress or in Venetian, dogaressa, both fleeing incognito in a gondola.

May 15, 2009

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Thanks rol' & mad'.

May 15, 2009

madmouth commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Alaafin; Apostolic Majesty; Chanyu; Orangun; Sapa Inca

July 8, 2009

Piknik commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Impressive list!

January 21, 2013

hernesheir commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

lictor, a Roman fascist of sorts.

consul

January 21, 2013

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Spasibo, Vozhd!

January 21, 2013

hernesheir commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

kadilesker, fool-killer.

January 24, 2013

bilby commented on the list take-me-to-your-whosit

Terima kasih, Tuan Tinggi!

January 24, 2013