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  • Indeed, from the same root as fir.

    December 4, 2024

  • Compare fiasco.

    December 3, 2024

  • dunny brush

    December 2, 2024

  • TCD writer having a moment there.

    December 2, 2024

  • One could possibly make a case for stercory as Papal excrement given the use of the term seems pretty much limited to this: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/19552/were-the-medieval-popes-examined-on-a-toilet-lid-like-chair-to-establish-their-m

    November 29, 2024

  • Easy, it's Cockney rhyming slang for the letter F.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet

    November 29, 2024

  • A.k.a. known as rhotic vowel. Very 'merican!

    November 28, 2024

  • Words are not popularized in Australia, they are popularised :-/

    November 26, 2024

  • If that sounds fortunate it's a brash luck crash truck truck crash cash stash smash.

    November 25, 2024

  • If the collision broke open a safe containing money it would be a crash truck truck crash cash stash smash.

    November 25, 2024

  • If one of these was in a collision it would be a crash truck truck crush.

    November 25, 2024

  • Great at picnics, and chasing the ball yourself will mean loads more exercise. Put some collie in the cooler! https://www.elwooddogmeat.com

    November 25, 2024

  • Darn, I was thinking of shih tzu sashimi.

    November 25, 2024

  • SPAM

    November 25, 2024

  • Football (soccer) jargon: to play after having received a caution (yellow card), because another similar offence and a second yellow will equal a sending off (red card).

    November 25, 2024

  • darkle

    November 22, 2024

  • Often used in an adjectival sense of objects that serve multiple purposes, or purportedly 'do almost everything' necessary in a certain context.

    November 20, 2024

  • *bilby bestole up behind vendingmachine, waiting for the moment to pounce*

    November 20, 2024

  • moaths.

    November 20, 2024

  • Store it next to the jar of minced oaths.

    November 19, 2024

  • I kind of like this. Similar to hanitiser, it's the kind of portmanteaucorn I can imagine someone blurting out accidentally or perhaps a young child inventing.

    November 19, 2024

  • In the sense of village, has a common origin with home.

    November 8, 2024

  • Watergate surely.

    October 17, 2024

  • The examples suggest the term (also) applies to the kitchen that makes the food.

    October 16, 2024

  • Got me thinking ... do we have a list of breaches?

    October 16, 2024

  • Wash it down with a nojito at your faux fiesta.

    October 16, 2024

  • How flexible are these limbs? Are we talking yoga positions or what?

    October 16, 2024

  • bull trap is used in stock market commentary.

    October 15, 2024

  • Well, it appears there is a gesture for wuthering. See demonstration by the acknowledged expert here: https://youtu.be/cDSa9q5Mjo8?feature=shared&t=45

    October 15, 2024

  • Rhymes with ...

    October 10, 2024

  • The 'gap' or difference between what people say they are committed to and what action they actually take.

    October 10, 2024

  • My sister-in-law's uncle passed away recently. He was a funeral director. The family business had started off as a taxi enterprise, but due to the lack of services at the time in the area - immediately post WW2 - they often found themselves driving patients to hospital and transporting bodies from where they had died to cemeteries. Before it eventually morphed into a funeral parlour and associated services business, the enterprise had come to be known locally as Coming, Going, Gone.

    October 9, 2024

  • Where my ashes will be scattered, if you ever need to find me.

    October 9, 2024

  • Thank you for the explanation.

    October 9, 2024

  • Touch grass?

    October 8, 2024

  • Compare trender.

    October 6, 2024

  • 'Fifteen years ago if you’d told April Little that she’d make $300,000 a year, she would have pictured a life free of financial stress.

    “The white picket fence—I have the whole visual in my head,” says Little, 38 years old, a human-resources executive turned career coach in Rochester, N.Y. “I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but when I got to that proverbial mountaintop I realized there’s a lot of expenses. And I still don’t own a home.”

    So go the plush-but-not-too-plush lives of the Americans who qualify as HENRY—high earner, not rich yet.'

    - Callum Borcher, 'Meet the HENRYS: The Six-Figure Earners Who Don’t Feel Rich', Wall Street Journal, 5 October 2024.

    October 6, 2024

  • How high are the stakes?

    September 30, 2024

  • My understanding is that it's a rehearsal - of an opera or musical - where the actors/dancers do a run through with the the band/orchestra for the first time. Usually without full sets, staging, costumes, etc.

    September 26, 2024

  • There's a tracta bogged in the middle of this word.

    September 25, 2024

  • "A digital nomad visa or in some cases a temporary residency permit allows a visitor a right to stay in a country and work remotely via a computer/laptop to a foreign-based employer or business. These visas typically have a duration of 12 months and can be extended for one or more years depending on the country issuing the visa."

    - definition from Nomadgirl

    September 25, 2024

  • Wot?

    September 25, 2024

  • The passing of poor Benjamin is in fact the basis of Threatened Species Day, 7 September.

    September 23, 2024

  • Ok WeirdNet the last known specimen died on 7 September 1936 so this species unfortunately not 'rare' but extinct.

    September 23, 2024

  • in bocca al lupo

    September 23, 2024

  • I've seen recent YouTube videos where police in the USA use this to mean "issue a complaint/notice of trespass against a person".

    So something like the cops turn up at a hotel where a drunk guest is making a scene and they say: "You'll have to leave, you've been trespassed by the management."

    September 23, 2024

  • Linfox?

    September 23, 2024

  • The -ose -ose Wiktionary definition reminds me of the Two Ronnies 'Four Candles' sketch: https://youtu.be/Ozpek_FrOPs?feature=shared

    September 23, 2024

  • Pucker up!

    September 20, 2024

  • Oh, you geologists out rhyming wittily when everyone thinks you're just stone boffins!

    September 20, 2024

  • Ack!

    September 20, 2024

  • Etymologically, has the same root as shrub and sherbet.

    September 20, 2024

  • Etymologically, has the same root as shrub and syrup.

    September 20, 2024

  • I see a which see!

    September 19, 2024

  • Next to matable?

    September 19, 2024

  • Want to hear a pirate say this word.

    September 19, 2024

  • 'Passed to the Dutch' ... uh, the Dutch East Indies was militarily occupied.

    September 18, 2024

  • Plucked if I know :-/

    September 18, 2024

  • An Australian Aboriginal English term for a stillborn child. Also star baby.

    "Stillbirth is when a bubba is born sleeping. Some mobs call them star baby or gone baby. This website has information that can help keep you and your bubba safe and strong." - safebubba.com.au

    September 17, 2024

  • An Australian Aboriginal English term for a stillborn child. Also gone baby.

    "Stillbirth is when a bubba is born sleeping. Some mobs call them star baby or gone baby. This website has information that can help keep you and your bubba safe and strong." - www.safebubba.com.au

    September 17, 2024

  • cea having a day out here.

    September 16, 2024

  • WeirdNet being WeirdNet.

    September 16, 2024

  • Fo shizzel.

    September 16, 2024

  • Definitions, photos, etc. are auto-retrieved from available databases.

    September 16, 2024

  • Wine producer Dr Andrew Pirie has participated in the research process at his Apogee vineyard near Lebrina in northern Tasmania with a good improvement in botrytis control in Chardonnay grapes for the 2024 vintage.

    “It is an occasional problem in this variety but in the 2024 ripening period the disciplined research approach from Kathy Evan’s team at TIA gave significantly positive results,” Dr Pirie said.

    “We learnt very clear cut that double-sided leaf plucking in the bunch zone gave us a significant decrease in our infection,” he said.

    - https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/09/managing-botrytis-in-wine-grapes/

    September 16, 2024

  • German shepherd's pie. Trump inspired!

    September 13, 2024

  • Wouldn't be the first time a trade name has escaped its natural confinement and leapt over the brand fence to general use. You can Google that whoops internet search that if you want.

    September 12, 2024

  • Indeed.

    September 12, 2024

  • Still in current use in Australia.

    Example: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/09/move-to-save-school-canteens-tuckshop/

    September 12, 2024

  • With regard to this definition - adjective: Of superior grade; fine - fancy apples in Tasmania was a term used to mean export quality, particularly on apple crate labels. 

    September 11, 2024

  • This is the name of a doughnut shop near me. Applause.

    September 11, 2024

  • Sounds dirty but isn't?

    September 11, 2024

  • A named coined by my mother for my sister's country property. Despite having bought an excavator, tractor and other expensive toys, sister and husband don't actually produce anything.

    September 9, 2024

  • "Banning kids from social media - it’s no-hanging fruit - not even on people’s Top 20 list of issues to address.

    That Too Hard Basket is overflowing."

    - Twitter, https://x.com/gomichild/status/1833277800771686808

    September 9, 2024

  • indue (or indew)

    September 9, 2024

  • In the past few weeks, you might’ve come across images of Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris embracing, or SpongeBob in Nazi garb.

    They’ve been created by artificial-intelligence image generation tools from Google and xAI and are raising all sorts of questions about what these tools should and shouldn’t be allowed to make, as I reported with my colleague Miles Kruppa.

    Among the companies that make these tools, there is no consensus on guardrails. AI image generators run by Google and OpenAI don’t let users create visuals of specific, recognizable people. Elon Musk's xAI’s does."

    -'Fake Image Flood', Meghan Bobrowsky, Wall Street Journal, 8/9/2024

    September 9, 2024

  • Well that's what I'd do, you giant money-pinching larder of fossilised snacks.

    September 8, 2024

  • I think the solution is to agree whilst calling me something insulting.

    September 8, 2024

  • #wordswedontneed

    September 6, 2024

  • Imagine an ESL/EFL learner coming up to you and aksing: "What does racket mean?"

    September 6, 2024

  • One of those words with a surprisingly large number of meanings.

    September 6, 2024

  • pillbox hat

    September 5, 2024

  • poison pill

    September 5, 2024

  • Like Cupertino effect.

    September 2, 2024

  • Is there a general term for computerspeak that was born of programming issues?

    September 2, 2024

  • Looks like pointy-headed boffins missed the boat here.

    September 2, 2024

  • A writer. Co-screenwriting credit for 'Fried Green Tomatoes'.

    September 2, 2024

  • Vanhattan, a portmanteau of vanguard, banana, hazardous, rattan and antibodies.

    Used to refer to the human body's natural defences against fruit carelessly left in papasan chairs.

    September 1, 2024

  • Who is doing this amending?

    August 28, 2024

  • See TCD definition on physalospora.

    August 28, 2024

  • Same, mostly.

    August 27, 2024

  • My new favourite indie radio station.

    August 24, 2024

  • A very, very small banana, staple of the nanofruit industry.

    August 24, 2024

  • Buried in the etymology, moron = mulberry.

    August 22, 2024

  • A taser. As heard on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14QxMC8B_U

    August 22, 2024

  • Presumably this definition (among others) of scuttle is on the money:

    noun Nautical, a small hatchway or opening in the deck, with a lid for covering it; also, a like hole in the side of a ship, or through the coverings of her hatchways; by extension, a hole in general.

    August 22, 2024

  • "The forecastle was small, with no means of ventilation or admission of the light of day, excepting by the fore-scuttle."

    At least from this example we can determine that forecastle and fore-scuttle are not the same thing.

    August 22, 2024

  • The name derives from Bunyamwera, a town in Uganda where the original type species Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus was first discovered.

    August 21, 2024

  • Not a theme park :-/

    August 21, 2024

  • Came here looking for Tex Perkins :-/

    August 19, 2024

  • vengram I think :-/

    August 18, 2024

  • A pink coconut and raspberry biscuit made by Arnotts.

    August 16, 2024

  • avo, a portmanteau of abracadabra and iced vovo. Used when a genie grants you a wish of unlimited packaged biscuits.

    August 16, 2024

  • ratfuckers? Hello Kevin.

    August 16, 2024

  • as flash as a rat with a gold tooth

    August 16, 2024

  • Avocarto.

    August 16, 2024

  • And Trinidad?

    August 14, 2024

  • Use of molest in TCD definition is delightful.

    August 14, 2024

  • Half-arsed formation from the French egalite.

    August 13, 2024

  • No no no it is not a verb.

    August 13, 2024

  • "Finally, we’re aiming to crack down on customer service ‘doom loops,’ frustrating cycles that customers experience when seeking assistance.

    Consumers should be able to talk to real people instead of being sent through a maze of menu options and automated recordings.

    That’s why the CFPB is working to help consumers talk to a real person by pressing a single button. And the FCC is looking into doing the same."

    - USA President Joe Biden, 13 August 2024, Twitter: https://x.com/POTUS/status/1823037215833784512

    August 13, 2024

  • Compare smirch.

    August 8, 2024

  • C'mon, c'cmon, do the Ginglymodi with me.

    You've got to swing your hips now ...

    August 8, 2024

  • Words That Sound Like Dance Crazes.

    August 8, 2024

  • WordNet definition writer phoning it in.

    August 6, 2024

  • Clearly fell into disuse due to inferior palindrometry.

    August 6, 2024

  • Seems like an acronym for quick service restaurant in modern use.

    August 6, 2024

  • My new indie pop station.

    August 6, 2024

  • Yes well AI art is getting added to a list.

    August 6, 2024

  • Yeh I'd be careful with that one :-/

    August 6, 2024

  • The most famous of which is of course Rudolph.

    August 1, 2024

  • Someone who makes badges?

    August 1, 2024

  • Yes quite but what is the standard size of a pig?

    July 31, 2024

  • That's why climate action isn't taking off! Not enough appropriate cocktails.

    July 31, 2024

  • A somewhat orange-flavoured or -coloured word cocktail of tosh and humbug.

    July 31, 2024

  • As distinct from a blahgarita, a vaguely orange-flavoured or -coloured word cocktail of tosh and humbug.

    July 31, 2024

  • Ew, that's terrible. From stonewall maybe? But as I have felt while watching the 'street BMX' at the Olympics recently, sports commentary can often seem like a foreign language for irregular observers.

    July 31, 2024

  • I've never seen an animal with a gate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    July 25, 2024

  • My very amateur take is that most languages don't cope well with infixing (leaving profanity aside).

    July 14, 2024

  • I repope your unpope and raise you a bishop.

    July 11, 2024

  • Or are they Benson burners?

    June 25, 2024

  • People who smoke Benson & Hedges?

    June 25, 2024

  • Ideal for your Sounds Like Dopehead Slang But Isn't list.

    June 25, 2024

  • Generally not applicable to transferable vote systems a.k.a. 'ranked choice'.

    June 25, 2024

  • My, my, what have we here?

    June 24, 2024

  • horn stalykball ... a kind of Polish cave game where you score points by using a deer horn to hit a ball between stalactites.

    June 23, 2024

  • Clearly absent of enough work

    I perchance may indulge a small quirk

    By grabbing your knee

    Bringing closer to me

    And twanging it with playful yerk

    June 20, 2024

  • C'mon, c'mon, do the locomotion with me!

    June 19, 2024

  • Lol spandex sighting!

    June 19, 2024

  • Might try to revive this.

    June 18, 2024

  • Is good!

    June 18, 2024

  • "There may even be active deception around this topic. A graph was recently put out by the ONS Office for National Statistics in the UK. The text on the graph states that the majority of Long COVID cases were contracted from cases people had more than two years ago, and at first glance, the graph seems to support the assertion. But if you look at the graph a little more closely, you realize they’ve monkeyed with the X-axis and the size of the bins groups of data within a specified range for each one of the bars in the chart. If you actually fix the X-axis, it’s clear that Long COVID has been skyrocketing in the last year. It appears that the ONS may have purposely manipulated the chart to hide the fact that Long COVID is exploding right now, because building such a jimmied custom chart takes MUCH more work than simply plotting the data."

    - https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/from-long-covid-odds-to-lost-iq-points-ongoing-threats-you-dont-know-about

    June 17, 2024

  • Recently I've seen usage of this to describe clothing style. Protesters hope to make it difficult for them to be identified by 'authorities' by all wearing plain black clothing which they refer to as black bloc.

    June 17, 2024

  • Apparently someone out there is counting the points on siliceous spicules.

    June 16, 2024

  • The kind of logic espoused by someone with their head up their arse?

    June 16, 2024

  • Try 'Bridge on the Drina' as a cure for insomnia.

    June 16, 2024

  • hip and shoulder

    June 15, 2024

  • FFS leave chooks out of this.

    June 14, 2024

  • New bit of management-speak for staff cuts. See here: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/06/on-mental-health-staffing-vacancy-control/

    June 13, 2024

  • Also marmalade-box.

    June 13, 2024

  • So how did they get the pyramids out of the deep fryer?

    June 13, 2024

  • I'm a bit over -shaped formations. An egghead I follow on Twitter often talks about poll-shaped objects, meaning (opinion) polls he doesn't think have much integrity.

    June 12, 2024

  • Gah!

    June 11, 2024

  • My minor Minoan miner's mum moaned mainly about more mean mynahs mimicking Minoan mimes' memes.

    June 10, 2024

  • Untrammelled vegan.

    June 10, 2024

  • Girl's name for the type who likes to wear lace frocks while reading dark science fiction in the conservatory.

    June 6, 2024

  • Pretty word.

    June 6, 2024

  • So, a crow walks into a bar. And the bartender says ...

    June 5, 2024

  • I'm not very convinced by this etymology.

    June 5, 2024

  • C'mon, potatoes aren't that expensive.

    June 4, 2024

  • Briefly I wondered why vendingmachine was roasting stones.

    June 4, 2024

  • That's all you need.

    June 4, 2024

  • Dooms interesting, hey what.

    June 4, 2024

  • I was not aware of this usage as an intensifier. Promising.

    June 4, 2024

  • Well, close friends of Jim have known this for a long time.

    May 29, 2024

  • Modern alternative to derogatory midget and somewhat loaded dwarf.

    May 29, 2024

  • Bananas in Pyjamas

    May 29, 2024

  • "What is it, Bush Week?" is an Australian expression used when something is poorly organised or underwhelming.

    May 29, 2024

  • Bush Week

    May 29, 2024

  • Who 're you gonna call?

    May 28, 2024

  • So, not the face you make when you got a bargain.

    May 28, 2024

  • Both alternatives have two sets of double letters.

    The double-letter tree :-)

    May 28, 2024

  • Not prostitution :-/

    May 28, 2024

  • See dangles.

    May 28, 2024

  • Pawel - a pale, Polish beanpole - used a preppy pal's pulley to pull an ash lash-pole across a creased cross-pole coarsely.

    May 27, 2024

  • Hmmm. I think we need to explore the potential here for moist avoidance.

    May 27, 2024

  • whichbe's definition reminds me of at least two US presidential candidates :-/

    May 27, 2024

  • For a musical interlude see dangle-money.

    May 27, 2024

  • So Iriomote is a remote island?

    May 27, 2024

  • Not a dance craze.

    May 27, 2024

  • A term used by end-greyhound-racing advocates: the practice of counting as 'adopted' dogs that languish in kennels for months or years in order to make adoption figures look good.

    May 25, 2024

  • Surely when the Coyote brothers - Wil E. and Chil I. - team up they will finally catch that pesky road runner.

    May 24, 2024

  • Here was me hoping for a piquant baddie in a new Warner Brothers cartoon.

    May 23, 2024

  • I confess I did not have Erin marked as a rugby fan!

    May 23, 2024

  • When a starling lands in a cup of T.

    May 22, 2024

  • Almost as good as colour TV.

    May 22, 2024

  • I just randomed an ethnic slur, how's your day going?

    May 22, 2024

  • One of those it-has-a-name? words.

    May 22, 2024

  • An incorrect usage, good gawd!

    Using unthawed when shoulda used thawed

    If you don't get it right

    Then alexz just might

    Send you to meet your sweet Lord

    May 22, 2024

  • A bit like an ornge, but smaller.

    May 20, 2024

  • TCD definition writer clearly not impressed.

    May 20, 2024

  • A euphemism for cutting employment by not replacing departing staff.

    "The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has sounded the alarm over the university management’s reckless cost-saving measures. In a move that reeks of short-sightedness, the University management’s proposed 'strategic vacancy management' threatens to plunge the institution into a crisis of morale, burnout, and diminished educational quality." - https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/05/nteu-concerned-over-utas-jobs/

    May 20, 2024

  • I wonder how you achieve that. Is it like three Xmas gatherings in a row without any punches or plates thrown?

    May 15, 2024

  • Superfamily. No pressure then.

    May 15, 2024

  • "Athrotaxis selaginoides is a species of Athrotaxis, endemic to Tasmania in Australia, where it grows at 400–1,120 m elevation. In its habitat in the mountains, snow in winter is very usual. It is often called King Billy pine or King William pine (believed to be in reference to William Lanne, an Aboriginal Tasmanian man),3 although it is not a true pine." - Wikipedia

    May 15, 2024

  • There is quite a bit of background to this: https://tasmaniantimes.com/tag/william-crowther.

    TLDR: Crowther, a Premier of the state of Tasmania, was a grave robber of Aboriginal remains including those of William Lanney, known as King Billy. WL was effectively the last remaining Aboriginal leader who had grown up in pre-colonial Tasmania. Crowther cut his head off and preserved it in rum, then sent it back to England for a museum collection. He also removed and used WL's scrotum as a tobacco pouch.

    May 15, 2024

  • "Some absolute legend has taken down the Crowther statue with an Ankle Grinder (new name all tradies must use from now on.)

    No it wasn’t me, I had plans to but the heart attack put that on the back foot."

    May 15, 2024

  • Hmmm. The Javanese structure referred to is typically called a joglo and looks like this: https://blue.kumparan.com/image/upload/fl_progressive,fl_lossy,c_fill,q_auto:best,w_640/v1634025439/01811812e9daa2e2d6db12ed45414b0e.jpg

    May 4, 2024

  • Biff, Betty and Bill buffed a big bellyful of beefy baked biffins.

    May 4, 2024

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  • My stats say I have looked up 0 words and I suspect that's an undercount. Sayin'.

    March 26, 2024

  • I hope there are some exciting new flavours. How about roasted vendingmachine with caramel?

    November 22, 2023

  • Me too. Do you have room for some fufluns?

    November 21, 2023

  • Glad you're back!

    November 21, 2023

  • Yes I think it was something to do with my laptop and a new login system at Wordnik having a wee pith-feud.

    November 20, 2023

  • I have eaten all the cookies and now don't feel like hommous, but it's the thought that counts. Thank you Erin. I am now perilously close to commenting freely again.

    November 20, 2023

  • Hi Bilby! I'm so sorry you're trapped in the nether world. Can you try clearing your cookies? It will make room for more hommous.

    November 20, 2023

  • I have logged in 3 times in the last 5 minutes, yet whenever I click a word I find myself logged out again.

    Thusly I am trapped in a nether world between bilby and unbilby. Send hommous.

    November 20, 2023

  • Hey why so many comments, you leather-tipped sandrabbit?

    August 12, 2021

  • *pokes bilby*

    Hey, you're still around!

    July 27, 2020

  • *pokes bilby*

    July 5, 2020

  • Merci beaucoup, bilby, for the fresh-baked welcome fuflun from ruzuzu. I'm in love with wordniks' lists, and have been using them over the last year or so to cook up found poetry. Delicious.

    April 26, 2020

  • Where's vendingmachine, haven't seen him for ages? Too occupied with his paleo sushi petting zoo?

    April 3, 2019

  • Reading comments such as those at eckle-feckle I grieve that I missed some merry times at Wordnik.

    November 3, 2018

  • Been burrowing. As one does.

    September 29, 2018

  • Mmm. Tasty lichens.

    September 28, 2018

  • Ahoy, bilby! Long time no read. Have you been off foraging for tasty lichens?

    September 28, 2018

  • Bilby o bilby,

    Didst thou die on latinx hill?

    November 3, 2016

  • Happens certain phases of Uranus.

    August 31, 2016

  • Hey bilby how long have you been a howling frumpmudgeon?

    August 31, 2016

  • *dusts badge*

    November 5, 2015

  • Hey are you some kind of self-appointed contribution cop, rat features?

    November 5, 2015

  • Wait--I thought it was turtles all the way down. Mind? Blown.

    November 3, 2015

  • how about a five-toad?

    November 3, 2015

  • Shut up you extruded rabbit.

    November 2, 2015

  • Are you talking to yourself again?

    November 2, 2015

  • I get an error trying to post either a new word or a comment here:

    https://www.wordnik.com/lists/politicians-nicknames

    November 2, 2015

  • Nope, that's about it really.

    August 28, 2015

  • Do you have anything decent to say ear-whippet or are you just trying to flood these Polski doltskis off the front page?

    August 28, 2015

  • Hi Bilby - Just spotted a question you posed in a comment back in 2009 (!) on my aviation list ("Let's go strap on the ole air'chine and bore holes in the sky!") to wit: "what is a 'rooster tail'?" If it still matters see image here...or, since I've added it to the list: rooster tail.

    June 15, 2015

  • "bilby commented on the user bilby

    I went to leave a comment on your page, and I arrived at a 404 and a steampunk rhino. Both of which are about right in your case."

    Are you talking to yourself?

    April 27, 2015

  • I went to leave a comment on your page, and I arrived at a 404 and a steampunk rhino. Both of which are about right in your case.

    April 27, 2015

  • Did you like the new berry additions?

    April 27, 2015

  • Bilby is, as usual, a lode of useful information. I once went skiing in Chamonix, where les Guides des Alpes are universally admired, but I failed to understand the sense of their characteristic cries.

    They're famed for feats of derring-do
    But guides of the Alps are scholars too.
    It's knowledge they seek
    When they call from a peak
    And plaintively ask, "Beaudelaire, he who?"

    January 11, 2015

  • Bonsoir Monsieur Bilby,

    Where are you, actuellement?

    I am back in Paris, being forced to write about such big fat frauds as Charles "Mr Spleen" Baudelaire.

    But in two more weeks I shall be free, free as a bird!

    Now I need to go favourite the word "wentletrap".

    Adieu !

    January 10, 2015

  • It's not just you, madmouth. Shall we all meet up over on community?

    December 24, 2014

  • Where did "Community" go? Is it just my computer?

    December 24, 2014

  • Have I ever told you how much I like your bagpipes list?

    December 15, 2014

  • Are you in Bogota? I was just there! Ships passing in the cliché.

    November 8, 2014

  • and I you with a waistband of tittering finches. Don't disillusion me!

    November 6, 2014

  • Happy belated selfie day, old bean.

    November 6, 2014

  • ...for of Afghan chutney is her soul compact

    April 2, 2014

  • Is there a way to search by tag?

    March 27, 2014

  • Now you've done it

    March 27, 2014

  • oh, he do

    March 14, 2014

  • a) that's exactly right

    b) I think of you as the only near-whitey invited ^-^

    March 12, 2014

  • didn't you have a list called "Drinky-time, or the most happy of hours" or some such? Maybe it was someone else...

    March 12, 2014

  • Meow.

    February 20, 2014

  • Bilby, I wish you a happy new year. I am grateful for the comments you have given me. I have been slow to respond mostly because I could not figure out how to do it. I have been looking for an ongoing thread I could reply to but I have failed to find it, so now I have visited your dashboard. This seems rather roundabout, like exiting the house and ringing the doorbell again before replying, but it is all I can manage for the moment.

    January 1, 2014

  • Thanks for jomo. It's perfect.

    December 16, 2013