Comments by madmouth

  • I can see it already

    Utter Dastardice: A Memoir

    June 21, 2024

  • it needs a 'y' somewhere

    June 21, 2024

  • yachtsmanyacht

    March 23, 2024

  • I thought there might be an Else somewhere but Google hath brought me up short

    November 25, 2023

  • cf. bleisure wear

    March 15, 2023

  • I'm not talking about Scots and I'm not not talking about Scots

    March 15, 2023

  • a.k.a. Osgyth, Sythe, Othith, and Ositha

    May 31, 2022

  • this term gives me so many feels

    April 28, 2021

  • also cf. ㅍ called "piup"; two candidates so far for glyphs whose naming gives one a kissy face

    March 8, 2021

  • a strikethrough that fell over :D

    March 8, 2021

  • patron saint of really deep thoughts

    March 8, 2021

  • patron saint of Christmas crimes

    March 8, 2021

  • patron saint of the male gaze

    March 7, 2021

  • patron saint of well-bred dipsomania

    March 7, 2021

  • patron saint of cultural appropriation that really means something to people

    March 7, 2021

  • patron saint of frivolous lists

    March 7, 2021

  • patron saint of psychedelic fearlessness

    March 7, 2021

  • patron saint of accusatory intuitions

    March 7, 2021

  • patron saint of vibes

    March 7, 2021

  • 'I met a traveller from an antique land,

    palladobismutharsenide in hand'

    February 26, 2021

  • I hereby proclaim the past tense of knit and knight to be the same! That is, knit, e.g. "Bilby knit me just before Vday"

    February 26, 2021

  • now that the slot is free, can I knight myself the knight of consonants?

    February 13, 2021

  • it's fun if you drive by and say "_____ was a dude" every time

    February 5, 2021

  • repping Canadian apathy

    January 9, 2021

  • embrangulated, even

    December 17, 2020

  • rhymes with Fendmuir

    December 15, 2020

  • the many names of Chub Chub...

    December 15, 2020

  • he is steel alive

    November 30, 2020

  • there's like, nothing mankind can't denial about it's our species superpower

    November 20, 2020

  • talking smack about accents c/o Breyten Breytenbach

    November 13, 2020

  • let's make creamy thimble the synonym

    November 13, 2020

  • How to excoriate a piece of fried chicken with ill-distributed seasoning, as seen on The Pengest Munch

    March 9, 2019

  • Oughn't there be a list with obsolete medical terms? Halp

    November 24, 2018

  • Good one and yeehaw live in the Platonic cousinhood near each other, prosewise

    November 23, 2018

  • Upload me into an ibex dearie

    November 23, 2018

  • ie. Summer til November practically

    September 3, 2018

  • TMI/FoH* warning!

    Three days of kimchi and whatever goes with that, and my insides are rearranged for optimal vigour. Drink schmink - to shit like a Korean is the real bonanza.

    *Faint of Heart

    September 3, 2018

  • I want "tarted up ethnopoetics" on my epitaph. *on record* writing pop songs in 7/8 time

    August 29, 2018

  • Brilliant!

    August 27, 2018

  • And suggests the cognate procuratrix

    August 13, 2018

  • Indeed, where else would one put despond

    August 13, 2018

  • Never will I nor wish to conceive of this not rhyming with profligate

    ruddy smifligate

    Smifligate McGee over there

    August 13, 2018

  • This really gives the dangers of hockey something to aspire to

    August 13, 2018

  • wee skig and skiglet really push the smallness envelope dunnit

    August 13, 2018

  • By Jove, it works! Remercies sans fin~

    August 13, 2018

  • Is anyone else getting an error message when trying to make a new list? This happened on two different devices for me

    August 8, 2018

  • cf. makkolli or 막걸리. It isn't dairy but the google image results are remarkably similar

    August 1, 2018

  • New Sailormoon attack!

    August 1, 2018

  • As for scrotal endowments, it was tucked that day

    July 19, 2018

  • True facts I have met a tanuki tho in Korean it's called nŏguri. It emerged golden and obviously supernatural from the brush at the mountain top only to have my sister yell, don't FEED IT it's DIRTY T-T

    July 19, 2018

  • See, *I* heard you'd slight a loaf at the slightest provocation

    July 19, 2018

  • I dig this change in meter. Makes one pause to Think

    June 9, 2018

  • As One Does

    June 9, 2018

  • ie. with fripperies

    June 3, 2018

  • I don't want context and I don't need context for this greatness

    June 3, 2018

  • Jawing.

    A tradesman.

    June 3, 2018

  • Bwahahahahaaa this one is my favorite

    May 31, 2018

  • Cf. kikiriki

    May 26, 2018

  • Smooth Newts of Oxbridge

    May 17, 2018

  • Wesley Straton is such a fictional-sounding name

    May 17, 2018

  • Like irony but when it irons itself

    May 16, 2018

  • Thus stirred my 90s heart

    May 15, 2018

  • Duly brack't

    May 15, 2018

  • Hahahahahahhaaaa I never noticed!!

    May 15, 2018

  • "Stack shrewdly one's sausage" has a Shakespearean declarativeness

    Stack your sausage to the stacking place

    May 15, 2018

  • Cue Gil Scott Heron's "Angel Dust"

    May 14, 2018

  • Viv Stanshall, proto-Wordie und playboy, was fond of this phrase and whereof it signifies both

    May 13, 2018

  • It's a neoliberal feminist ideology suggesting that women just need to be more ***proactive*** to get dem promotions @.@

    May 13, 2018

  • I'm adding this to Fictional Sex Toys try and stop me

    May 13, 2018

  • This one looks magnificently refriable

    May 9, 2018

  • I found him by destiny alone, glittering meaningfully from a thrift shop shelf with the special light I've come to recognize as Books Madmouth Is Meant To Read

    May 8, 2018

  • Burroughs' memoirs with a vengeance

    May 8, 2018

  • This is the entire contents of my future prenup

    May 3, 2018

  • How about passive-aggressively rhyming it with hawai'i?

    April 11, 2018

  • cf. diagnosis-related group pricing system, as seen in a book of discussion topics

    April 11, 2018

  • Capital! Capital!

    April 9, 2018

  • My life is always entertaining but it could reach religious proportions if Bertie narrated it. Speshly as one is so often above par

    April 2, 2018

  • I want all of my everythings converted to the Per Bertie Wooster version

    April 2, 2018

  • Remember when every 18th century poem had a hooker named Celia?

    March 17, 2018

  • *screencaps at once*

    March 17, 2018

  • This slashifies the lyrics of Little Red Corvette for me rather

    March 17, 2018

  • *sporfle*

    March 13, 2018

  • Omg there are two separate thorpe universes. Could the Vikings have even dreamed

    March 13, 2018

  • The latent thought arises - is that what pish is short for? Capital!

    March 13, 2018

  • Cf. Korean naming tradition, which is highly formalized (to the extent that almost everybody's given name is precisely 2 syllables), siblings often share a syllable, either the first or the second. E.g. sister 지현(Ji Hyun) and brother 지원(Ji Won), or two sisters named 민주(Min Ju) and 영주(Yŏng Ju).

    March 13, 2018

  • I went ahead and thorped it

    March 11, 2018

  • Also two of these, natch

    March 9, 2018

  • There are two of them!!

    March 9, 2018

  • cf. Scunthorpe

    Is a list of -thorpes due?? What are all the -thorpes?

    March 9, 2018

  • cf. horhaj

    March 9, 2018

  • It's well known bog-laden areas are more conducive to shamanic energy bring a stave with your bogshoes boys

    February 20, 2018

  • Wordie Olympics alert!

    February 11, 2018

  • CAN WE do an open list as well and get all the wordies' imagined self??

    February 11, 2018

  • and indeed, finding breakfast here is not easy

    February 11, 2018

  • cf. garderoba meaning 'one's clothing' in SBC

    February 11, 2018

  • Your list of lists is peauetrie

    February 2, 2018

  • You magnificent sod

    February 2, 2018

  • The name a trans person had prior to transition, not to be used post-

    February 2, 2018

  • cf. s2g

    January 29, 2018

  • So succinct! Like kiff

    January 27, 2018

  • cf. hateration and holleration

    January 27, 2018

  • "Woman who asks a man out", a marked category in 2018 y'all

    January 25, 2018

  • Lit. fart inducer (the person, not the substance)

    January 25, 2018

  • cf Tindering and Tinderization

    January 25, 2018

  • re: etymology, it's more like petrol and milk are both types of oil.....

    the one legged one is the cow

    January 25, 2018

  • There's something fundamentally English abt ccvccvcc I feel, cementing it into the syllable freakiness hall of fame

    December 30, 2017

  • Well done, Leunbach

    June 11, 2017

  • "when"??

    May 24, 2017

  • In the context of classroom pidgin, my wee students routinely used "versus" as a verb. Is the takeaway that the youf just love verbs more than other people?

    May 24, 2017

  • I prefer majestic shithole don't even argue

    November 8, 2016

  • Bilby o bilby,

    Didst thou die on latinx hill?

    November 3, 2016

  • Snatched,thank you!

    November 3, 2016

  • 한국분 이예요?

    September 28, 2016

  • I know haruspex is difficult to spell, but this seems like a licentiously intentional typo

    September 26, 2016

  • bwahahahahahaha

    September 26, 2016

  • cf. Binch, a delicious mass-produced Korean cookie

    September 20, 2016

  • verily, bland portmanteaux are the whimper to the 21st century's end

    September 20, 2016

  • warning: liable to appear at the end of even the grittiest thrillers.

    September 20, 2016

  • yeah m8 I'm having the rabbi's cat on a hot tin roof tonight best be there

    September 12, 2016

  • we should just say this instead of 'party'

    September 12, 2016

  • the universe...has a rash

    September 12, 2016

  • cf. skitters. whose wiktionary def is not, to my knowledge, the most >ahem< colloquial usage

    September 2, 2016

  • splendid!!!

    September 2, 2016

  • milady, why have you been thinking about synthetic ox gall lately?

    September 2, 2016

  • I don't know what it's meant to mean but if it means what it means to me then I feel about it the way Bill Burroughs felt about going to space eventually

    September 1, 2016

  • this is my Platonic ideal of nom de porn

    September 1, 2016

  • you have to go to the page of a word any word, then scroll down to the right-hand column "Add ____ to your lists"; at the bottom is the "new list" option.

    September 1, 2016

  • "meaningful, plausible, useful, novel, even aesthetic", just not to that guy on the internet, is still conceivably meaningful, plausible, useful, novel, even aesthetic, n'est-ce pas? Any further novelty umbrage is gonna turn into a fairy tale and its name is Tricycle Magnum Superhighway, the Salty Cracker.

    exeunt

    August 31, 2016

  • "daddy, it's well past midnight"

    "I can't sleep! someone on the internet is wrong!"

    August 30, 2016

  • yes, but hold the Branagh. he's clearly not been held enough as a child

    August 29, 2016

  • as for actx, I want it verbed so we can revive the shakespearean ask/axe debate

    August 29, 2016

  • vestigiality of these categories in English notwithstanding, 'latina' and 'latino' are specifically gendered borrowings. a list of gendered borrowings into English, indeed, would have quite a bit of fodder. its grammar import function is pretty good aye

    August 29, 2016

  • I don't especially see how suffix modification undoes euro-colonial legacy while the whole whopping "Latin" remains in there, but I may just be a pedantrix here.

    August 28, 2016

  • Like fun is English gender neutral! Are we forgetting the -trices?!

    August 28, 2016

  • I keep reading this as 'auzancuckoos'

    aus & couscous? bilby?

    August 26, 2016

  • can I instead be queen of harts? more artemisiacal

    August 26, 2016

  • this is one for the queen of hearts' lost sylloquary

    August 26, 2016

  • another name for woad, they say

    August 26, 2016

  • and that, my friend, is what we call - physics

    August 24, 2016

  • it may be an irresoluble regional frequency dispute; I've in my (granted, short) life never heard your sampled usage, for instance. note to self: bone up on sports jargon

    re: ScarJo - read here

    August 4, 2016

  • also - greenwashing (BP logo anyone??), pinkwashing (breast cancer support themed snacks)

    August 3, 2016

  • but there's precedent! e.g. 'whitewashed', as in a POC who's held to have excessively assimilated to whiteness (in my context people apply such terms to themselves), is a fairly established contemporary usage, older than the current debate about ScarJo doing martial arts etc

    August 3, 2016

  • THIS is the direct consequence of your punning

    August 1, 2016

  • -an unidentified Daniil Kharms translator with sssstyle

    July 25, 2016

  • I was unable to google image a scornful chicken emoji to express my feelings toward your joke, HELAS

    July 25, 2016

  • a.k.a. Squamp Thing

    July 22, 2016

  • what *cough* are the...evens?

    July 21, 2016

  • dewd. you blew my mind

    July 21, 2016

  • 2 years already! I'm gonna fly back in Oct but that's plenty of time for more amaze-y-ments

    July 21, 2016

  • it's a noun not a phrase, important! a trochee

    July 21, 2016

  • ...is apparently a better way to learn complicated shamanic rhythms on the janggu than 'but is that a 5 or a 7?' rolling constantly through one's head

    secretly its a juiced up 6 most of the time. I COUNTED

    July 21, 2016

  • This is my favorite word today. What's the word for the distinct sensation of having a favorite word that day? I want to put it in my minor Evelyn Waugh novel

    July 21, 2016

  • oddly specific!!

    July 21, 2016

  • I just Googled this and I think it's in poor taste on nature's part really. must be art students

    June 14, 2016

  • it's lemongrassy, with a gunpowder undertone. though shoes OUGHT to be spicy too

    June 3, 2016

  • sCUSE me that's just Quebecois

    June 3, 2016

  • sancho in Korean. The most faithful of spices

    June 1, 2016

  • instagram?

    May 24, 2016

  • bonus for ambiguity. does she operate? does she opera? are kinky boots involved either way?

    May 19, 2016

  • re: Lana Del Rey

    May 4, 2016

  • animal identity crisis alert

    May 2, 2016

  • reputed tiger wrestling

    May 2, 2016

  • fierce

    MERS

    May 2, 2016

  • YES

    April 28, 2016

  • oddlyspecific.com

    April 28, 2016

  • of course it was too subtle snarkasm on my part these are all uni students. the title is just quoting a Jezebel article on internet outrage

    April 25, 2016

  • the google image search reveals them to be delightfully similar to Korean 전병, a buckwheat variety

    April 21, 2016

  • The dephthpths,though

    The existential depththpthths

    April 20, 2016

  • it's hard to avoid young people on the internet eh

    April 20, 2016

  • I warrant it's 'rubbish'

    April 20, 2016

  • why so many unctuous syllables for one innocent plant eh?

    April 11, 2016

  • confectionery?

    April 8, 2016

  • this place is very real and it has at least one excellent Korean drinkery

    April 1, 2016

  • "he's not a natural man"

    -Nina

    March 31, 2016

  • !

    !

    !

    March 31, 2016

  • bourbonmots is gone somewhere before we could get married

    sorrows of the internet

    March 31, 2016

  • I didn't notice how Alex won this by several leagues

    I am literLOLing on company time y'all

    March 31, 2016

  • come now, you gots to admit - much have become stale over the years

    March 28, 2016

  • it hath a rapturous ungoogleability

    March 18, 2016

  • got milk? move the F over!

    March 16, 2016

  • This may...genuinely...outsin "straw-person argument" in Suffix Purgatory

    March 10, 2016

  • Totes

    March 10, 2016

  • Google-san lends no hand in the elucidation of this Superetc you speak of

    March 10, 2016

  • done

    March 8, 2016

  • thank you

    March 8, 2016

  • sez Rumi

    March 7, 2016

  • but he'd be stealing it from Zamboni Palin's mouth tho

    March 3, 2016

  • into the deepfriar with you!

    March 2, 2016

  • "arsehole/Tuesday/breakfast: typologies of ignorance" is my unethically researched inner thesis child

    March 2, 2016

  • I read doesn't know whether it's arseholes or Tuesday in Dance to the Music of Time. cf!

    March 2, 2016

  • a.k.a. fliff zone

    March 2, 2016

  • this is a classic quantity-over-quality situation

    February 26, 2016

  • well, the resting bitches are taking it back, mmkay
    having said that, why it's in research or media is rather boggling.

    ratherboggling - an obscure sport from the Isles?

    February 5, 2016

  • almost indistinguishable from Slavic bone structure

    February 5, 2016

  • Fun Metaphorical Applications Alert!

    January 29, 2016

  • also, is anyone beyond fascinated at the prose stylings of princess_fuckbarf, the only non-bot Twitterer using this word??

    January 28, 2016

  • don't eat with your umbos out!

    January 28, 2016

  • girl, oh my GOD I just noticed this

    Sailormoon is like a hello kitty feminist universe

    January 21, 2016

  • "from head to toe", "from -mptonshire to -nts"

    January 21, 2016

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