despite my long-standing love of offal and related liquids, I do imagine sometimes we run a shop somewhere called "Bars of Euphony" (that is a sophisticated allusion to "13 ways of looking at a blackbird"), serving vegan seed-and-nut confections alongside piano pop
as I recall, Mr. Wilde also denied the allegations against him... also, any aesthetic tweaking is fine by me, ry. I have come to accept, through lengthy long-sufferingness, that not everyone is addicted to hyphens
My father, an incurable Slavic article-dropper, says "chewing fat" instead of "chewing the fat" (though most of his ragchew moments also feature a square of pancetta in his mouth)
OED suggests this is a variant on the spelling of "wraths", "wrath" being the name of this fish as derived from Cornish. A beautiful exclamation when a single wrath will not do, also compoundable, e.g. wrasse and ires! Of course it is a different meaning, but beautifully suggestive nonetheless
a suffix onto "dogođaji" (events) that creates the meaning "blah blah eventcakes" or "big fat useless events". Perhaps one could term it a dismissive suffix, akin to that evident in Hindi in "filmi-shilmi" and "beauty-shooty" (e.g. "who cares about your beauty-shooty salon?")
Wiki: "Phallus impudicus, commonly known as the stinkhorn, is a widespread fungus recognizable for its foul odor and its phallic shape when mature, the latter feature giving rise to several names in 17th-century England. "
yes, I'm ignoring the intended grammar of the phrase, but the rusty steppe is a dreamy sort of image - a plain traversable only by mares of the oil-hoof clan...
matacaballo - killhorse, rather (as per list title ^^)
sionnach, you're probably right, but I don't delete words from free-for-all lists because it makes me sad. call it a besetting sin.
chokestuff is one for Hoptoads, being something like "stuff that chokes", yes? foreign schmoreign; I think mollusque is more permeable than that
as for Dotheboys Hall, I think it should go in a big glorious Fictional Proper Nouns That Mean Stuff list (provisional name only), along with Prunesquallor and Sourdust and Stilton Cheesewright and Lord Monomark and John Beaver and all the other glorious markers of the English imagination
does Spanish have a word for that structure? some language must; I warrant this is a compounding strategy that occurs elsewhere also - too intuitive not to.
also - reasonably fun bilingual game! perhaps even really fun if one were fluent enough in both. gonna give 'er a crack: buscavida = seeklife; cuentagota = dropcount. in this way garden-variety compound nouns in Spanish could be refurbished into punchy new English ones?
"A few questions on assent before the divine sooner had they entered. Herself as well as be a winsome woman interference seemed of the he kept."
AND
"Suggests may be divided on waste produced in adapted to swift running builds. The site of the great dikes of dense Louisburg destroyed in Shark dissection."
This search phrase apparently produces Engrish gold
synonymous with "peach on a fellow". Looking for a list of narking synonyms (Gossiphoning is related but not quite it) and want to see if there is one there before I fire it up!
"My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat." -Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited, Waugh
Chubbz has been ousted from all his territory by a cat half his size (the indomitable spitfire Liz from Korea), but is too old/fat/dignified to condescend to do anything about it. So, there is peace and love--of a sort--in the feline universe of my parents' place.
I know; it was a wretched thing to happen. Before it veered into the laughter of the damned, though, friends were critiquing the hierarchy of pity re: animal slaughter (e.g. who's crying for the factory cows?)
I wonder whether what seems to be a fundamental human lack of pity for the death of tiny things means there is a fundamental pity for large, smart things--or if the whole thing is so much PR
the cat of an oddball (I assume) Japanese office lady with lots of leisure time in which to arrange elaborate things for Maru to do (play the tambourine with his tail; pass obstacle courses; leap into things that are impossibly high; stare uncannily at the camera)
"The first ingredient you add to the soup must be some dried ocre (a West India vegetable), the quantity according to your judgment." (The Lady's Own Cookery Book)
One prof in particular is a veritable wellspring of Frackademic language. It helps that many of his own articles are on our syllabus so we can get black-on-white access to avant-garde coinage -_-
lit. "with the throat into the strawberries", meaning "running throat-first into the strawberry field", i.e. helter-skelter, heedlessly, letting your stomach lead you
shorthand to mean "lack of skill" e.g. "Tumhara ladies department shorthand" (you're no good with the ladies) as heard in Dhoom 2
as for Konglish, one-piece as in "one-piece swimsuit" seems to have a risque connotation; one of my students brought it up as an example of clothing items and everyone tittered 0.0
funny--once in translation these Indonesian snippets look like Trinnie English patois c. 1958 i.e. the time Naipaul wrote The Suffrage of Elvira. The phenomenon (how current now I'm not sure) is due to Hindi et al., I believe, using adjective reduplication instead of "very" (indeed I have heard Punjabi speakers transfer the pattern into English).
From the novel:
"Is this election sweetness that sweeten you up, Baksh. But see how this sweetness going to turn sour sour. See?"
"1935 in DORLAND Med. Dict. 1970 R. REINBOTH in Benson & Phillips Hormones & Environment 515 In an ambosexual animal both male and female characteristics are associated normally in a single individualemeither simultaneously or in a temporal succession. 1978 Japanese Jrnl. Ichthyol. XXV. 101 Histological examination of gonads indicated that all individuals..are ambosexual as juveniles. "
yam mash, as described in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; one of the dudes contemptuously envisions the neighboring village as a place where the men pound the women's foo foo. Imagine!
If we could get some Cantonese speakers in here the 'choy' part could be expanded considerably, as it is a garden-variety (ho ho ho) suffix for vegetables, many of 'em cruciferous
apparently genicle is an obsolete term for "a joint in the stalk of a plant". It doesn't quite sound awful, though, so I don't know how great a candidate it is for the list.
Maybe not blowhole but blowcash works for the nonce! These nouns sound really punchy to me (hence the list), whereas the verb-creating compounds are too far integrated into the regular stream, IMHO. I'm picking my brain for a verb made from a compound like this that can match lickspittle--that'll motivate a new list.
re: a pivotal vehicle in the murder case, from the mouth of the clueless owner thereof: "I thought someone had just buzzed off in it for a lark" (from a Marple episode; Body in the Library)
"'An absolute sitter came unstitched in the second race at Haydock Park,' said young Bingo, with some bitterness, 'and I dropped my entire month's allowance.'" (The Inimitable Jeeves)
"Hasn't got the nerve. Thinks you so much above him, don't you know. Looks on you as a sort of goddess. Worships the ground you tread on, but can't whack up the ginger to tell you so." (The Inimitable Jeeves)
Due to more varied immigration patterns in my neck of the woods, yearbook lists are getting more awesome every year. Honourable mention goes to Dragon Wei immediately followed by Zen Wilson (they only work in tandem, IMO)
the dehyphenated suggestion Wordnik gave parsed on first view as Shite Me, Game Gahit!--I like that one better (it is a brutal Tagalog game show in my...world of sexy fantasy?)
can't believe I forgot 'dilwala' (dil-wallah), lit. "heart-dude", meaning "loverman" or "he who is devoted to matters of the heart", immortalized in the 11-year-run but still shite mega-megahit Dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge ("The 'dil-wallahs' will get the brides")
I thought hikikomori went way deeper than 'recluse', also that it specifically pertained to the young (whereas we associate reclusivity with older individuals?)
She was a redoubtable fighter, and strange cats were vanquished in one round. The fearless little spitfire would even attack dogs and rout them utterly.
so, there we were, my co-host and I, ready to interview AM for dinky community radio.
she has a remarkable psychosomatic capacity in relation to liquor; placebo effect all over the place.
in short, what's his face--the lead singer--held her hair back during the *ahem* ejective process the whole night while I listened to the rest of the band complain about how boring it was to go on tour (read: no groupies), but really they're very happy to have done so well for themselves, being a tiny little Strine band and all.
I hold it an eternal example of the success of the unconventional in achieving one's goals (my friend having been, needless to say, quite soppy about the fellow).
pronounced by Jennifer Paterson as 'yog-hort', two separate words, practically. to wit, "none of this nonsense about yoghurt instead of cream. yoghurt is not instead of cream"
flapping isn't connected to length. for example, Canadian English distinguishes 'riding' and 'writing' by length, the latter having a short /ai/, but they both have a flap where their 't' or 'd' ought to be. now, Hindi, besides flapping Ts and Ds, also does the N! it's a positive addiction.
moreover, I've found that the phonology of borrowings exhibits a strange combination of awareness and lack of awareness. In the form "chilLAY", the majority of speakers (or announcers, rather) seem to be more strongly aware of length than vowel quality. while /i/ is the vowel in the original country name, it is a short /i/, nigh impossible in Standard English--to this end, they have employed /I/, which satisfies the length component at the expense of the vowel. now, the question is, why should YOUR linguistic system feel the vowel quality is more important than length?
if the stress is on the 2nd syllable and it rhymes with 'delay', then it sounds like a good compromise between naturalness and authenticity. to me, there's nothing as American as the /ei/ used to approximate the pure /e/.
coined (perhaps?) by Cher Horowitz as a euphemism for menstruation, giving a faint scent of literariness to what is, after all, meant as a...*ahem* remake of Jane Austen's Emma
"It was very consoling, he thought, the way in which an act of kindness, in the fullness of time, returns to bless the benefactor. One gives a jolly-up to a girl in a ship. She goes her way, he goes his. He forgets; he has so many benefactions of the kind to his credit. But she remembers and then one day, when it is least expected, Fate drops into his lap the ripe fruit of his reward, this luscious creature waiting for him, all unaware, in the Malt House, Grantley Green."
"Basil had attended Sonia's levees (and there were three or four levees daily for, whenever she was at home, she was in bed) off and on for nearly ten yerars, since the days of her first, dazzling loveliness, when, almost alone among the chaste and daring brides of London, she had admitted mixed company to her bathroom."
"'My dear,' Ambrose had said, 'you can positively hear her imagination creaking, as she does them, like a pair of old, old corsets, my dear, on a harridan.'"
-Ambrose on the painteress Poppet, from Put Out More Flags
I'll do my best--this is hairy without LING terminology.
in an imaginary language with 5 consonants, say, you could have two different types of 't' and 3 different types of 'p', or, on the other end of the spectrum, each of the 5 in totally different places (e.g. one is bilabial, one is dental, one is velar, one is uvular and the last a totally different manner of articulation--non-pulmonic, such as a click). while the first situation describes a consonant class which is the most natural for our mouths to create, it's actually harder on the brain to contrast them with one another; a set with consonants which are very different from each other is easier. does that make sense? distinguishing 'pa' from 'ba' (which is, by the way, really hard for a lot of language groups) is more difficult than distinguishing, say, 'ta' from '!a'
there are different axes of ease and difficulty in the human linguistic process. something which is intuitive and simple on one level creates problems on another level, and vice versa.
I've seen certain Japanese-speaking students make their Ds like Ð; even more mysterious (in that asking why lent litle clarification). Very confusing to me personally, if not other teachers, in that Ð is a different phoneme in Bosnian
the human mouth is also naturally inclined toward contrastivity, though--it's necessary to reach outside the 'unmarked' places of articulation to make as many clear distinctions between sounds as possible, if that makes sense.
"Well", while correct, is so unnatural--in North American speech, at least--that I feel awkward teaching my students to say it in reply to "How are you?", going so far as to try to avoid the question altogether.
The incident of Canadian pair figure skaters Sale & Pelletier being "robbed" of Olympic gold by them wily Ruskis. After a LOT of palaver and too-close-for-comfort investigation into the judges' decisions, they released a second gold medal for pair skating that year. The old judging system was dumped and a new one instated after Skategate.
1) I thought it was chocha? Cho-cho is a hard-done-by literary heroine, innit?
2) This is a problem of the English language itself. There are no garden-variety words to describe genitalia--the elevator stops at the clinical, vulgar and ludicrous only.
I've been trying to dig for the name of the thing ever since, to no avail :{
you make light now, but a glimpse of the mustachioed WASP protagonist bulging out of his slacks is enough to turn one into a passionate advocate of sporing
the etymology, to boot (if wikipedia can be trusted) has nothing to with Hindi--deriving "from the Shoshone word 'tcaxxwal' or Cahuilla 'caxwal', transcribed by Spaniards as 'chacahuala'"
if pronunciation of "speak" is what we're going by, this applies to loads of language groups, though actually, not Spanish speakers, given 's' isn't acceptable word-initially in Spanish.
though I suppose one can't expect a high standard of linguistics in the field of racial prejudice.
According to my grammaticality judgement, both "The series were on for years before being cancelled" and "The series was on for years before being cancelled" check out fine
I'd really like to be hardcore enough to eat a bug, but the only way it's gonna happen is if they start cutting bread flour with ground crickets on the sly
PS: PU, I'm ganking that one for "Just because..."
in one of L.M. Montgomery's Anne volumes, the titular heroine fights a local battle, coaxing a fatcat out of painting an ad for some tonic or other onto the fence along the main road. so, the first wave of large-scale advertising is successfully beaten back. reading this scene from the 21st century is heartbreaking; little did she know just how ugly it would get :(
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madmouth commented on the word Umm Nyolokh
Serge will bring them
doesn't too much chia give you...a sleek and healthy coat?
March 21, 2014
madmouth commented on the word Umm Nyolokh
despite my long-standing love of offal and related liquids, I do imagine sometimes we run a shop somewhere called "Bars of Euphony" (that is a sophisticated allusion to "13 ways of looking at a blackbird"), serving vegan seed-and-nut confections alongside piano pop
March 20, 2014
madmouth commented on the word TEDster
hah! is this apropos of the TEDificiation of the city these days?
March 20, 2014
madmouth commented on the list phraseologue---x-the-y
as I recall, Mr. Wilde also denied the allegations against him...
also, any aesthetic tweaking is fine by me, ry. I have come to accept, through lengthy long-sufferingness, that not everyone is addicted to hyphens
March 20, 2014
madmouth commented on the word 4-wind solo
well, when you're looking for it I get performance anxiety
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the list words-to-know--11
All hail the great puntiff!
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the list words-to-know--11
Some decisive victory will have been won if this one stays empty!!
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the word 4-wind solo
when I play mahjong against myself, myself, myself and I
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the word dulce et gabbana est
*sporfle*
but seriously - where is the fake latin list?!
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the list retro-encabulator-tech-specs
mathematics...of wonton...burrito meals
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the word luncheon
what Little Edie Bouvier calls the cats out to
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the user deinonychus
you had to wait a while, but traumatic insemination lives to live again
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the list eye-dialect
this Venn diagram STRONGLY overlaps with Popeye speak
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the user ruzuzu
I vote we name the inherent sound of fun ruzuzurrus
March 19, 2014
madmouth commented on the user bilby
oh, he do
March 14, 2014
madmouth commented on the list gut--1
Heavy foregut on each Gorgut;
B'lieve in cream instead of yoghurt;
Riffs and screaming thrice a day;
At 46 still drinking in Longeuil
March 12, 2014
madmouth commented on the user bilby
a) that's exactly right
b) I think of you as the only near-whitey invited ^-^
March 12, 2014
madmouth commented on the list gut--1
gut- != -gut
YARBLY
March 12, 2014
madmouth commented on the word camofleur
I submit personal starvateur - a must in achieving that Hollywood waste-line
March 12, 2014
madmouth commented on the word hell-bent for leather
sweet tooth fairy denoting a kink?
LIST IDEA!
March 12, 2014
madmouth commented on the list ute
drive-in sex box is the logical extension of the coffee drive-thrus staffed by the bikini-clad...or does it already exist?!
March 11, 2014
madmouth commented on the list quaintnesses
puppy water - beauty's help
distilled from Tripsy's darling whelp!
March 11, 2014
madmouth commented on the list its-like-1997-all-over-again
I am awed by this list's brevity, wryness, and the fine glint of Waughsian foreign-correspondent lunacy in its eye
March 7, 2014
madmouth commented on the list filled-bread-in-north-west-england
cf. South African sarmie:
"Fokken larney
Nutella on my sarmie"
March 6, 2014
madmouth commented on the list a-dram-too-many
the thing is less tasty than the concept, I warrant - unlike corn dogs
March 6, 2014
madmouth commented on the list languages-of-the-world
I want an Ethnologue-combing app, too! Or did you - gasp - comb it yourself?!
March 6, 2014
madmouth commented on the word mummyberry
I didn't know that heretofore I had lived to witness "This reminds me of that zombie ant fungus"
What sentence can top it now?!
March 6, 2014
madmouth commented on the list killjoy-et-al
I am reading your slides and snaffling up compounds for the list, yaar
you're an admirable stafflist
March 6, 2014
madmouth commented on the word liberal
oh, you!
March 1, 2014
madmouth commented on the list a-dram-too-many
lushed up to the nuts is a very tasty concept
March 1, 2014
madmouth commented on the list old-school-internet
I strongly suspect we are of a generation!!
February 24, 2014
madmouth commented on the word boomslang
the -slang is cognate to 'schlong', which if isn't a key to fun madeupical compounds I don't know what is
February 24, 2014
madmouth commented on the list labiodental-fricative
I am taking the opportunity to add words that have lots of fricatives in them - if this is not what it's meant for, do complain!!
February 24, 2014
madmouth commented on the list old-school-internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
February 24, 2014
madmouth commented on the word Fanta Caramel
shrink gun, kuntilanak, gryphoemia
February 10, 2014
madmouth commented on the word vowel bigot
the mouthfeel is meant to outweigh the cringefactor, b/c "consonant esteemer" doesn't scan so tasty.
Consonant Steamer? The good ship Slavograph
February 10, 2014
madmouth commented on the word Fanta Caramel
it's a mushin injection; absent of will or willfulness
spotted dick, cat bus, shrink gun,...
February 8, 2014
madmouth commented on the word Fanta Caramel
it's the Chris Morris of sweet tooth fairies
incubus, spotted dick, cat bus, ...
February 7, 2014
madmouth commented on the word mother's friend's son
This is - IMHO - the much more pungent Korean idiom for "golden boy". Omma-chingu-adeul
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the list door-jam
Gustave Doore?
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the list frequentative
I hadn't meaningfully interpreted CCle yet - thank you!!
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the word the man who was totally Babylon Zoo, The Chungwit, the biff-boff and the puff pastry hangman
it's a legitimate Tardis Scrabble word, though
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the list benedict-cumberbatch
I just bust a lung over Convict Wristwatch
And bilbyfilth..ersnatch
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the user Allen09
on the 09th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
http://aphs.worldnomads.com/jubaloo/8358/HPIM2777.jpg
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the word Husky Demon
also a love letter to an ex-neighbor husky named Demon, who moved away when his dude did :(
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the list nomenclature-of-the-pole
Because being good at nudity also pertains to Arctic temperatures and your bum-steak would freeze first!
#dontmesswithimogen
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the word Fanta Caramel
complete this sequence:
soft drink, incubus, ...
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the list nomenclature-of-the-pole
not to be confused with the language of the Arctic expeditions
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the word Fanta Caramel
to be pronounced with a thick Brazilian Portuguese inflection
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the word bear garlic
Plz to invent Bilby's Ramson n' Damson Chutney
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the word predatory pyrotechnics
https://media.azpm.org/master/img/spot/nova_broadclub_450_252.jpg
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the word the Kongs don't even need equipment!
http://vgmdaily.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/dkc2_tn.png
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the list divers-irritations--1
BWAHAHAHAHA
February 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
Extreme temperatures in Vatican City!!!
February 3, 2014
madmouth commented on the user patrickjki
I never SAW such SPAM in my LIFE
January 30, 2014
madmouth commented on the word svastika
in SBC, this refers (misogynistically?) to one's sister-in-law
January 27, 2014
madmouth commented on the word FaceTime
ECAFFACETIME is how I mathed y'all concepts
January 27, 2014
madmouth commented on the list doctor-who--1
Humans are quite my favourite species, said the 4th Doctor
January 27, 2014
madmouth commented on the list british-columbian-terms
skypigs, Burquitlam, Queen E park
I heard before there is some regionalistic term for the pill bug, but I forgot it
January 27, 2014
madmouth commented on the word FaceTime
I've witnessed the verbing of this!
January 27, 2014
madmouth commented on the word psychocosmogram
Tbe category mandalas and such belong to, according to the editor of my book of Mughal paintings. Useful though unwieldy!
January 27, 2014
madmouth commented on the word buckness
a.k.a. Krump dance (see troupe Buckness Personified)
January 23, 2014
madmouth commented on the user RevBrently
psst - you can create a word list named after a book you're reading and disburden thereby the comments section of repetitive citations
January 22, 2014
madmouth commented on the word how time flies like nostalgia
hahahahahaha
January 20, 2014
madmouth commented on the list what-flies-like-a-what-what
I concur - well-informed copypasta especially
January 20, 2014
madmouth commented on the word pterodactyl flies like millions of years ago
Loved!
January 18, 2014
madmouth commented on the list what-flies-like-a-what-what
well, shucks and welcome to your hoo-ha
January 18, 2014
madmouth commented on the list what-flies-like-a-what-what
<3Ɛ>
January 17, 2014
madmouth commented on the list gk-chesterton-collection
The perfect crime - a Christmas crime!!
January 16, 2014
madmouth commented on the word soever
"In what torn ship so ever I embark,
That ship shall be my emblem of Thy ark;
What sea soever swallow me, that flood
Shall be to me an emblem of Thy blood"
-Donne's trip to Germany
January 13, 2014
madmouth commented on the word Torontarded
I love the Mercer, but this is a weak offering from His Mouthness
January 9, 2014
madmouth commented on the user willitobin
Brave Knights of Spam
January 9, 2014
madmouth commented on the word orthopraxis
a.k.a. zen's $5 cousin
January 8, 2014
madmouth commented on the word predictive policing
geo-profiling??
January 8, 2014
madmouth commented on the user dropofocean
yep. Apparently a good chunk of English words take antepenultimate stress but we can't tell because they don't have enough syllables
January 6, 2014
madmouth commented on the word coprolalial
Does it alternate with coprolalic or poss. coprolaliacal?
January 6, 2014
madmouth commented on the word ragchew
My father, an incurable Slavic article-dropper, says "chewing fat" instead of "chewing the fat" (though most of his ragchew moments also feature a square of pancetta in his mouth)
January 6, 2014
madmouth commented on the word git surfing
it's the next Dwile Flonking
will the 2060s be as groovy as their predecessor?
December 29, 2013
madmouth commented on the list top-500-shower-curtains
I can't believe I've lived without "dim-lit shot of dangling balls" so far
December 27, 2013
madmouth commented on the list stretches
tendonitis?
December 27, 2013
madmouth commented on the word CVCCC
fifths!
December 27, 2013
madmouth commented on the list who-hid-the-keys
they consider themselves people enough for a hundred people's considerations. cat ego is almost a unit of measurement
December 27, 2013
madmouth commented on the word crumbling saltine feelings
hurt feelings when clumsy cultural appropriation is pointed out - coined by a guerilla commenter
December 26, 2013
madmouth commented on the word hour of effortless plenty
the breastfeeding age, from "Esme", Joanna's gift to her friend's newborn.
December 26, 2013
madmouth commented on the word poundshop
nothing the swinish multitude loves better than cooking up a tasty language meal!
Nok Nok
Who's there?
Dudes, mostly
December 26, 2013
madmouth commented on the word shelfie
I envision a hard-hitting documentary of shelves shelfie-ing in public and how that is EXACTLY WHAT WE LOOK LIKE DOING IT
December 26, 2013
madmouth commented on the word I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright
I first heard this line pat to the moment, having that evening seen a film full of baby goats
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the list pregnancy
see Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"!
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the list charming-words-sung-by-joanna-newsom
I have homaged your idea with Newsom Strings, because her phrasing gets me even more than her vocab
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the word she doles out hurt like a puking bird
ie. mother Nature
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the word wrox
to decay; rot - or cause the same.
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the word gyling-fat
'gyle' being an obs. form for "brew"
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the word poundshop
in the filthy America, this could easily be synonymous to Cupid's house of commerce ^^
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the word jargaunt
schmancy old form of "jargon"
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the word mordication
Apparently the obsolete meaning of this is akin to 'rash'
Much more sophisticated, that. "I can't go anywhere til I get some medication for my mordication"
December 23, 2013
madmouth commented on the list absolute-piffle
Here's a party game in the spirit of Absolute Piffe (Piffle Absolut?):
http://i42.tinypic.com/15pmuxe.jpg
Each row contains one fake and one real Japanese band, directionality being no hint. Guess!!
December 18, 2013
madmouth commented on the word IBU
a unit of measurement both madeupical and unfrivolous - world first; you got it from hernesheir
December 18, 2013
madmouth commented on the word plumsome
likelihood of being a Cute Word increases 30% with the addition of "plum" to anything (cf. plumptious)
December 18, 2013
madmouth commented on the user qms
the meter is funky - a bit to the left of the limerick
I like it!
December 18, 2013
madmouth commented on the word boll-weevil
Says Nina Simone, of a gentleman she disenjoys: "You're funkier than a mosquito's tweeter
You've got a mouth like a herd of boll-weevils"
December 14, 2013
madmouth commented on the list magic-ingredients
LOVED - on the strength of retchwort alone!
December 12, 2013
madmouth commented on the list the-many-names-of-chub-chub
Yo, it's an open list now. The people's love will not be stopped!!
December 12, 2013
madmouth commented on the word brode
It has that goopy autological mouthfeel
November 29, 2013
madmouth commented on the list names-from-dinosaur-comics
luuuurve
November 28, 2013
madmouth commented on the word fracksy man enjoys environmental catastrophe
...expects Nobel Prize for viscous deviltry
November 28, 2013
madmouth commented on the word a 13-tog duvet of celebrities and cartoon characters and elevator music
13-tog celebrity duvet fling could be a new Sailor Moon attack - like dwile flonking, but more relevant
Let Elizabeth May cast the first duvet
November 26, 2013
madmouth commented on the list fancy-man-enjoys-tea
^.^
November 26, 2013
madmouth commented on the list fancy-man-enjoys-tea
Calling all Wordniks!
November 26, 2013
madmouth commented on the list actual-japanese-shop-brand-names
sadly, the google offers me no clothing samples from Violence Jack Off
October 5, 2013
madmouth commented on the list gorey--1
Collapsed Pudding, Mortshire
October 5, 2013
madmouth commented on the list insulting-thee-so-foreignly
fakat, a Yugo dialectal form of fakt (meaning "fact") sounds when articulated exACTly like f*ck it
October 5, 2013
madmouth commented on the list flatus
Acronym awaaaard
October 5, 2013
madmouth commented on the list arise-hippikins-and-hippettes
getting salty
October 5, 2013
madmouth commented on the list towns-in-essex
Well, the Queen is watching - Huggles only!
October 5, 2013
madmouth commented on the user oroboros
Thank you kindly for Futility Closet!
April 16, 2013
madmouth commented on the list insulting-animals
Capt. Haddock's dream brother lexicon
April 16, 2013
madmouth commented on the word wrasse
OED suggests this is a variant on the spelling of "wraths", "wrath" being the name of this fish as derived from Cornish. A beautiful exclamation when a single wrath will not do, also compoundable, e.g. wrasse and ires! Of course it is a different meaning, but beautifully suggestive nonetheless
April 16, 2013
madmouth commented on the list english-words-derived-from-hindi
so good for mouthfeel!
of interest is the obverse: http://briansteel.wordpress.com/tag/english-loanwords-in-hindi/
March 22, 2013
madmouth commented on the word dogodavštine
a suffix onto "dogođaji" (events) that creates the meaning "blah blah eventcakes" or "big fat useless events". Perhaps one could term it a dismissive suffix, akin to that evident in Hindi in "filmi-shilmi" and "beauty-shooty" (e.g. "who cares about your beauty-shooty salon?")
March 22, 2013
madmouth commented on the word krvna loza
lit. blood-vine, meaning "family line" or "lineage"
March 22, 2013
madmouth commented on the word yarsagumbu
is a-a-u-u Antipodean for hubba-hubba?
March 19, 2013
madmouth commented on the word yarsagumbu
great stats both as regards mouthfeel and meaning
March 19, 2013
madmouth commented on the word the sound of a dictionary falling down
Apropos of Dylan Thomas' "Now"
March 10, 2013
madmouth commented on the word thirtytwomo
This one wins the word game by basically inventing criteria for lexical coolness - there is nobody in thirtytwomo's freaky league
November 29, 2012
madmouth commented on the word fattrels
fattrels and cant! fattrels and cant!
November 29, 2012
madmouth commented on the list quaintnesses
bosoms awry!
November 29, 2012
madmouth commented on the user seraphim7210
We need a word for the beauty of a user with 1 list with 3000+ items (of good quality!!) on it!
November 29, 2012
madmouth commented on the list zoomorphic-weapons
most excellent
November 24, 2012
madmouth commented on the word hoddy
Archaic term for 'cheerful', lending in compound to hoddypoll a.k.a. cuckold or fool (with noddypoll and doddypoll having roughly the same meaning)
November 18, 2012
madmouth commented on the list quaintnesses
have done, with its buddy unbosom, which serves also perhaps as a very funky noun.
November 13, 2012
madmouth commented on the word rayah
it trickled into Bosnian (sp. 'raja') to mean rabble (folk) and/or buddies. I don't know what you'd call tax-exempt buddies, though
August 25, 2012
madmouth commented on the word venomous porridge
c/o Dylan Thomas, from the longer but more sublime "venomous porridge unknown to toxicologists"
August 25, 2012
madmouth commented on the user madmouth
I back now. In time for blackberry season - will likely be wording about trifle before long
What's new in the marsupial world?
July 7, 2012
madmouth commented on the word English riding coat
archaic euphemism for Dr. Condom's marvelous invention
July 6, 2012
madmouth commented on the user lamxung
o what can ail thee, spam-at-arms,
alone and palely festering?
July 6, 2012
madmouth commented on the word veronicle
variant of vernicle with more kicks to the humerus
March 13, 2012
madmouth commented on the list white-winter-hymnal
great title!
December 29, 2011
madmouth commented on the word catechumen
if mispronounced, fun to say. catachoomin! cata-cumin!
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word The church even asked von Hagens to plastinate the heelbone of Hildegard of Bingen.
insufferable gynocrats, the lot of 'em
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Johnson noise
hehehehehe
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word keeps your sand worm company
as a preteen I fantasized about having a sandworm for a pet, those big scary ones from Beetlejuice...and a big giant roomful of sand for it. yeah.
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word tail-napkin
good work, foxy - combining gooses and cabooses
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word sod off shotgun
once again fbjarjo rides in on his Magnificent Incomprehensibilitator...mortals beware ^-^
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Londons under siege
I am smelling the composition on voles in Waugh's Scoop all over this, yarb old boy
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word thews
my, how thy thews shew in the snew
...but the shrews in your trews disagrews?
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word dwine
has occasioned dwive, poss. d'wive, a hypothetical abbreviation of a more gender-specific synonym for 'divorce' :D
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word If Ruzuzu is infinitely powerful, can she also be infinitely good
the mark of Can?
November 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Londons under siege
that one is getting odder as one ages is a comforting thought ^^
ruzuzu, there needs to be a title for your special kind of assistance round these parts - Wee Wordie Wirgil?
November 10, 2011
madmouth commented on the word suckers born every two minutes
that's 1 sucker per second!
November 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word halter
Apparently Yeoman of the halter is the hangman's assistant.
November 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word yeoman of the mouth
"an Officer belonging to his Majesties pantry" (OED)
November 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word airbrush, banana squash, enameled canning kettle
...was so aligned on the left as to make me think there was a cool new list with such entries as "airbrush, banana" and "squash, enameled"
November 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word we possess very few authentic details about a people whose written annals were burnt by the ignorant "conquistadores"
"daddy, why aren't you in bed yet?"
"I can't sleep...someone on the internet is wrong"
-Eddie Campbell
November 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word in the best of clothes to sit shivah
all sculptures I have seen seem to indicate that Shiva sits you, not the other way around ^^
November 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word wadmeal
with wadmeal gloves, yes? or would that be 'yaaaairs' a la White
November 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word wadmeal
NICE ONE
how does one, now that the profile comment function is as dead as the list comment function, get hold of a bilby? it is the sad of all
November 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word shrab
cf. sharaab
November 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word an enomoty of Spartans
where is that list of madeupical collective nouns?
November 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word dright
Not to be confused with Mright
November 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word herpes grinch
def.: one who wishes herpes upon another. as coined by a dear friend
October 11, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Godspeed and may life give you sausages
or GSYBE! cover band composed entirely of butchers?
October 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word banaba
distant faunal cousin of the bonobo
October 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word apple fruit crinkle
fun to say, at any rate ^^
I wouldn't wish anthracnose on anyone really
October 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word fessways
in no way like arsiversie? this makes me sad
October 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word apple fruit crinkle
eerily eligible for the list of cutest words ever made o.0
October 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word pea stunt
what that princess pulled, eh?
October 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word list of mustard diseases
is there a list for Weird Wiki Pages?
October 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word mustard orchid
the literal translation for 'kai lan'
October 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word sausage party
and hereby is born the to-be-well-known salutation of departure:
"Godspeed and may life give you sausages"
October 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word succorrhea
no! How. Can. You. Be. Real??
September 6, 2011
madmouth commented on the word rusty steppe moss
she forgot ayrak - the best/worst part!
September 6, 2011
madmouth commented on the word electrified cat's tail moss
exciting alternative naming strategies - cast the I Ching
Preponderance of the Great Moss (it's weak at the top, you see)
September 6, 2011
madmouth commented on the word cow pie
there is something really...all-encompassing about "cow pie", isn't there? o.0
September 6, 2011
madmouth commented on the word woolly catterpillar
duly corrected.
and now -
I admit it - I've 'ad tea. Indian tea!
September 6, 2011
madmouth commented on the word devil's stinkpot
Wiki: "Phallus impudicus, commonly known as the stinkhorn, is a widespread fungus recognizable for its foul odor and its phallic shape when mature, the latter feature giving rise to several names in 17th-century England. "
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word devil's bedpost
4 of clubs in slang!
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word viper's bugloss
apparently bugloss derives from the Greek meaning "ox tongue", making this a double candidate for Love Across Kingdoms :D
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word brown-eyed sunshine
an unprepossessing specimen to say the least
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word cow pie
a lichen, diploschistes muscorum
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word bloody heart
a lichen not to be confused with bleeding-heart. Genus mycoblastus sanguinarius
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word woolly catterpillar
a moss type
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word rusty steppe moss
yes, I'm ignoring the intended grammar of the phrase, but the rusty steppe is a dreamy sort of image - a plain traversable only by mares of the oil-hoof clan...
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word electrified cat's tail moss
Oddly Specific o.0
September 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Prokudin-Gorskii Turkmen with camel
OMG Wordnik Currency Exchange needs to be listerated!!
August 23, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Prokudin-Gorskii Turkmen with camel
I bet they pay the pompadourists in...sand dollars?
you know, camels? sand? anyone?
*bitter shame*
August 19, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Prokudin-Gorskii Turkmen with camel
I have a terrible pun to unload but it's too bad for that, even
August 18, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Prokudin-Gorskii Turkmen with camel
yes and yes, also - squinty.
August 15, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Prokudin-Gorskii Turkmen with camel
this guy right here
August 15, 2011
madmouth commented on the word cobbler's awl
a.k.a. avocet
August 15, 2011
madmouth commented on the word mundungus
Beyoootiful! Always something new to love
July 29, 2011
madmouth commented on the list t9-you-crazy-diamond
it's starting to look a bit like Watership Down in here, come to think of it
July 29, 2011
madmouth commented on the list fanciful-self
ho ho! Wordniky vindication is mine!
July 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word rubymeated
Specifically, "the rubymeated hearts that hung within them".
Odd word, "meat". It arrests the ear so.
June 22, 2011
madmouth commented on the word just a bunch of carp-hucking monkeys
I'm a nut-shucking junkie, myself.
June 16, 2011
madmouth commented on the list killjoy-et-al
matacaballo - killhorse, rather (as per list title ^^)
sionnach, you're probably right, but I don't delete words from free-for-all lists because it makes me sad. call it a besetting sin.
chokestuff is one for Hoptoads, being something like "stuff that chokes", yes? foreign schmoreign; I think mollusque is more permeable than that
as for Dotheboys Hall, I think it should go in a big glorious Fictional Proper Nouns That Mean Stuff list (provisional name only), along with Prunesquallor and Sourdust and Stilton Cheesewright and Lord Monomark and John Beaver and all the other glorious markers of the English imagination
June 16, 2011
madmouth commented on the word honey badger
cf. honey buzzard
June 15, 2011
madmouth commented on the list hoptoads
go Anglo-Saxon, go!
June 15, 2011
madmouth commented on the list killjoy-et-al
does Spanish have a word for that structure? some language must; I warrant this is a compounding strategy that occurs elsewhere also - too intuitive not to.
also - reasonably fun bilingual game! perhaps even really fun if one were fluent enough in both. gonna give 'er a crack: buscavida = seeklife; cuentagota = dropcount. in this way garden-variety compound nouns in Spanish could be refurbished into punchy new English ones?
/yammer
June 15, 2011
madmouth commented on the user madmouth
HOT DOG. second to the OED, you're my favourite thing about the internet, bilby
June 15, 2011
madmouth commented on the word no money's too black to buy grog for lags
oh yes oh yes oh yes
Patrick White put me on a hot trail after Aussie authors
June 14, 2011
madmouth commented on the word does a dog have Buddha-nature or not
Why does everyone think zen cruelty is so hilarious
June 14, 2011
madmouth commented on the word an ape with angel glands
-Leonard Cohen
June 14, 2011
madmouth commented on the word does a dog have Buddha-nature or not
these are mighty double standards - last time a cat was involved in a zen koan, it got its head bitten off!!
June 14, 2011
madmouth commented on the word moo goo gai pan, I'm a vegetable fan!
can you aught but bob in a hashmagandy?
maybe splutter, also
June 14, 2011
madmouth commented on the word pronephric
and/or - a lesser-known specimen of the aspic phylum?
June 14, 2011
madmouth commented on the word a sexually transmitted disease with a mortality rate of 100 percent
yes, but it meant well
June 14, 2011
madmouth commented on the user yarb
oh, Yarb-thing - why in the world haven't we had a coffee yet??
June 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet
-Chuck Palahniuk
June 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word meat bag
-Bender Bending Rodriguez
June 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word virus with shoes
-Bill Hicks
June 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word We must restore the dignity of this vegetable!
Broccoli has "crown" in the title. Inherent dignity!
June 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word barometz
I wararnt tanuki balls can compensate for a lifetime of silence. Just listen to their whistly flapping - whooom .... whooom ....
June 11, 2011
madmouth commented on the word sippo
immortalized by one Piggy in "I can't hardly see with all them creeper-things"
June 11, 2011
madmouth commented on the word We must restore the dignity of this vegetable!
well, pick my woolly tufts if sionnach didn't just win the Internet
...again
June 11, 2011
madmouth commented on the word We must restore the dignity of this vegetable!
The lamb of Tartary should be up to sitting on both those chairs at once, n'est-ce pas?
June 10, 2011
madmouth commented on the word dirt nap
paging bilby!
June 10, 2011
madmouth commented on the list memories-of-hk
there tend to be piquant phrases floating around in a place one has never been, emerging strangely from strange contexts
June 10, 2011
madmouth commented on the list memories-of-hk
this is better than a surprise birthday party!!
June 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word full online keyboard
update! "Red mercury bejeweled for palm" in the search engine pulls up, among other things, "Red tube-wanking homies"
Full online keyboard is like the entrance to a broken spoke funhouse
June 8, 2011
madmouth commented on the word full online keyboard
"A few questions on assent before the divine sooner had they entered. Herself as well as be a winsome woman interference seemed of the he kept."
AND
"Suggests may be divided on waste produced in adapted to swift running builds. The site of the great dikes of dense Louisburg destroyed in Shark dissection."
This search phrase apparently produces Engrish gold
June 7, 2011
madmouth commented on the list scots-reduplicative-words
*psst* there's also an open one, sizeable indeed. I am stealing left and right from this list to feed its insatiable maws ^^
June 2, 2011
madmouth commented on the word bricked
a state of phone in the 21st century, apparently.
May 29, 2011
madmouth commented on the word anent
...
an host of overjoyed
noncoms(first knocking on the head
him)do through icy waters roll
that helplessness which others stroke
with brushes recently employed
anent this muddy toilet bowl,
while kindred intellects evoke
allegiance per blunt instruments
...
-e.e. cummings
May 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word nervous ticking
What do you stuff inside a high-anxiety pillow?
XD
April 30, 2011
madmouth commented on the list ic--becomes--icking
Having a bit of a piss as the list rules seem delightfully loose; delete as you will
April 30, 2011
madmouth commented on the word grass on your mate
synonymous with "peach on a fellow". Looking for a list of narking synonyms (Gossiphoning is related but not quite it) and want to see if there is one there before I fire it up!
April 28, 2011
madmouth commented on the word muckibus
Can't believe it's not listed!
April 23, 2011
madmouth commented on the list rabelais
The OED filed oodles of words when Urquhart translated Gargantua; that year was a bumper crop of vocab. See Rabelation also
April 23, 2011
madmouth commented on the list may-or-may-not-be-specific-but-it-s-definitely-not-excrement
constipulation. Thanks, Puritanism (Ward - Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America)
April 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the word fistmeal
OED: Obs. The breadth of the fist.
April 17, 2011
madmouth commented on the list go-fug-yourself
all you-all're something of a hot dog, aren't you?
April 12, 2011
madmouth commented on the list go-fug-yourself
it was burgeoning excitement (rudeness would have three exclamation points ^^)
or did mis-peg your wryrony?
April 11, 2011
madmouth commented on the list go-fug-yourself
Go Fug Yourself!! The name of the list!!
April 11, 2011
madmouth commented on the word water-pump
badump-chh
April 9, 2011
madmouth commented on the word lacmus
...am henceforth naming children Litmus and Lacmus, irregardless of sex
April 8, 2011
madmouth commented on the list beyond-fair-to-middling
aces! aces!
April 8, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Shat Al Arab
YES!
April 8, 2011
madmouth commented on the word debauchery of hedonists
CALLING the nonce collective words list! this needs to go on it
April 6, 2011
madmouth commented on the word chivvy
"My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat." -Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited, Waugh
April 6, 2011
madmouth commented on the word stinkibus
slang. Obs. Bad liquor, esp. adulterated spirits. (OED)
April 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word stimmer
akin to flimmer (says OED)
April 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word stimulatrix
akin to instigatrix (OED says)
April 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word slugplum
anything for birubii :}
April 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word plum fir
another name for yew
April 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word sloy
Obs. An opprobrious epithet for a woman.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxviii. 288 "How tedious were a Shroe, a Sloy, a Wanton, or a Foole."
(OED)
April 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word slugplum
"Obs. A sluggard." (OED)
April 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the word celtiform
shaped like a "celt, n.2
Etymology: (reputed) Latin celt-es (or ? celte, ? celtis) ‘stone-chisel, sculptor's chisel’.
An implement with chisel-shaped edge, of bronze or stone (but sometimes of iron), found among the remains of prehistoric man."
April 5, 2011
madmouth commented on the list stars-is-gods-lantern
A guy called Charles Morrow Wilson compiled them, the title being the list name :}
Highly recommend a tale called "Satyr in Arkansas".
April 1, 2011
madmouth commented on the word bean-cod
I'm gonna cheat and put it on LAK on name alone
March 8, 2011
madmouth commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
sexually...active...popes?
I LOVE YOU PROLAGUS
March 8, 2011
madmouth commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
me, too!
March 3, 2011
madmouth commented on the word honey buzzard
This one curls my toes with pleasure
March 1, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Nordic Union of Naturally Blond Pussy
So sayeth Berlusconi
February 22, 2011
madmouth commented on the word HOOBA PORKRIND!
c/o the Oatmeal
February 15, 2011
madmouth commented on the list the-many-names-of-chub-chub
hahaha--heshe, then
Chubbz has been ousted from all his territory by a cat half his size (the indomitable spitfire Liz from Korea), but is too old/fat/dignified to condescend to do anything about it. So, there is peace and love--of a sort--in the feline universe of my parents' place.
February 4, 2011
madmouth commented on the word the other other white meat
I know; it was a wretched thing to happen. Before it veered into the laughter of the damned, though, friends were critiquing the hierarchy of pity re: animal slaughter (e.g. who's crying for the factory cows?)
I wonder whether what seems to be a fundamental human lack of pity for the death of tiny things means there is a fundamental pity for large, smart things--or if the whole thing is so much PR
February 2, 2011
madmouth commented on the word the other other white meat
Cropped up in a laughter of the damned conversation about those sled dogs they killed :/
February 2, 2011
madmouth commented on the word mandrin
or...
January 26, 2011
madmouth commented on the user ruzuzu
way to tickle the suists :}
January 25, 2011
madmouth commented on the word giviak
an illuminating cartoon message appears on the image search
January 25, 2011
madmouth commented on the word mozzarella swastikas
that's one freaky song
January 25, 2011
madmouth commented on the list my-dick-in-your
trousseau! xDDD
January 25, 2011
madmouth commented on the list formerly-used-in-medicine
I added some synonyms for "apothecary" that OED's historical thesaurus gave me. Punchy, n'est-ce pas?
January 24, 2011
madmouth commented on the word all amort
not to be confused with all aboard
January 19, 2011
madmouth commented on the word They like, do not dig gays—with the volume up!
re: Xhosa society
January 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Convert thy post-apocalyptic keg wagon to run on zombie guts!
I'm getting the scientists working on the zombie guts technology as we speak
January 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word Tifinagh
fun to say!
January 13, 2011
madmouth commented on the word jejunocolostomy
snicker-snack!
December 30, 2010
madmouth commented on the word plomb
indeed, "plomba" is the SBC word for filling now
December 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word bewhore
byhore is an obsolete variant, apparently
December 27, 2010
madmouth commented on the word brownswine
OED: Obs. rare. A porpoise.
December 27, 2010
madmouth commented on the list occupational-surnames
what's a brownsmith? 0.0
December 27, 2010
madmouth commented on the list quaint-locations
one may as well favourite England ^^
December 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word kurakkan-grinder
if I had my deserts it'd be kurakkan-gurainda
December 21, 2010
madmouth commented on the list the-ginger-man
IRELAND - THE LAND OF CRUT
December 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word cheeses of Nazareth
YES
December 10, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Hitler finds out
a tasty variety
December 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Maru
the cat of an oddball (I assume) Japanese office lady with lots of leisure time in which to arrange elaborate things for Maru to do (play the tambourine with his tail; pass obstacle courses; leap into things that are impossibly high; stare uncannily at the camera)
December 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word lady garden
cf. lady jungle (which has, as one might expect, been exploited for the fact it rhymes with "fungal" :S)
December 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word one frisky ray of sunlight away from
You fill in the blanks
December 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Porntip Rojanasunan
Director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science in Bangkok, presiding over David Carradine's death. WHOA
November 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the list fictional-music-genres
oh, the memories
fail wail and manthem account for so much of music *ahem I'm getting old* these days
November 9, 2010
madmouth commented on the word ocre
"The first ingredient you add to the soup must be some dried ocre (a West India vegetable), the quantity according to your judgment." (The Lady's Own Cookery Book)
Seems to be a variant of okra
November 9, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Shoeverine
this really reminds me of an old Amitabh film
November 8, 2010
madmouth commented on the list swine
this is eerily and impressively extensive
November 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the list pork-family-project
and I like to think he is merely voicing the inherent and somewhat obscured bigotry in the franchise, not creating any
November 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the list the-worts
then I will call this a purist's appendix :}
November 6, 2010
madmouth commented on the word spiel how you feel
arose from a bumble in putting "he spelt how he felt" (re: old Shakey) into the present tense
November 5, 2010
madmouth commented on the list frackademia
One prof in particular is a veritable wellspring of Frackademic language. It helps that many of his own articles are on our syllabus so we can get black-on-white access to avant-garde coinage -_-
November 5, 2010
madmouth commented on the word o-face
brought disturbingly to life by Nathan Barley rapping 0.0
November 3, 2010
madmouth commented on the list words-that-start-with-r
me-ow
November 3, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Black Tai
a people!
There are also the White Tai :D
November 2, 2010
madmouth commented on the word grlom u jagode
lit. "with the throat into the strawberries", meaning "running throat-first into the strawberry field", i.e. helter-skelter, heedlessly, letting your stomach lead you
November 2, 2010
madmouth commented on the list frackademia
how so? it looks just as I typed it in the list from my browser, and clicking on it is no problem 0.0
October 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word glorious fairy tongues
referring to sage :}
October 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word rape trade
courtesy of Avaaz
And they say activists are sensationalistic!
October 21, 2010
madmouth commented on the word flawn
The word (and meaning) has given us flan, and indeed the schmancier of us pronounce this dessert as 'flawn'
October 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word lardy-dardy
bingo
October 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word advertainment
"The following is paid advertainment. Apinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone." (Rabbit and Mouse)
October 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word yowt
"To yell, yelp, howl, bellow." (OED)
October 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the list unglish
filmi samples (yours to take or leave as you see fit):
exactly and approximately
do the needful
shorthand to mean "lack of skill" e.g. "Tumhara ladies department shorthand" (you're no good with the ladies) as heard in Dhoom 2
as for Konglish, one-piece as in "one-piece swimsuit" seems to have a risque connotation; one of my students brought it up as an example of clothing items and everyone tittered 0.0
not that that's specifically useful for this list
October 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word same-same
funny--once in translation these Indonesian snippets look like Trinnie English patois c. 1958 i.e. the time Naipaul wrote The Suffrage of Elvira. The phenomenon (how current now I'm not sure) is due to Hindi et al., I believe, using adjective reduplication instead of "very" (indeed I have heard Punjabi speakers transfer the pattern into English).
From the novel:
"Is this election sweetness that sweeten you up, Baksh. But see how this sweetness going to turn sour sour. See?"
October 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word gnast
var. of gnash
Miss Jackson if you're gnasty?
October 15, 2010
madmouth commented on the word šišmiš
SBC. "bat" (the animal)
October 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the list plant-identity-crisis
that would go on Love Across Kingdoms which is an open list as well so please contribute!
October 6, 2010
madmouth commented on the word borborology
"Obs. rare. Filthy talk" (OED)
October 5, 2010
madmouth commented on the word the real McCoy
Thank you! I culled drappie from the article and it's making my world a better place
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word noddle
which is not to say they don't also doddle and maffle
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word fledgling sport
e.g. Floor Pong, which I invented, and got injured in the process of, myself :D
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word cramble
north. dial. "Boughs or branches of crooked and angular growth; used for rustic work or firewood." (OED)
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word ambosexual
"1935 in DORLAND Med. Dict. 1970 R. REINBOTH in Benson & Phillips Hormones & Environment 515 In an ambosexual animal both male and female characteristics are associated normally in a single individualemeither simultaneously or in a temporal succession. 1978 Japanese Jrnl. Ichthyol. XXV. 101 Histological examination of gonads indicated that all individuals..are ambosexual as juveniles. "
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word noddle
This may, though the "brain looks like a bunch of noodles stuck together" theory has a certain visual appeal", be the origin of use your noodle
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word offcome
obs. form of outcome
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the list carp
it is entirely unsurprising that there should be a Carp list and that ruzuzu should be behind it ^^
October 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word sweater cream
the byproduct of unprepared-for lactation?
October 3, 2010
madmouth commented on the word same-same
a Konglish collocation indicating a thing is the same as another.
October 3, 2010
madmouth commented on the word thot plickens
It seems to be in use as a garden-variety spoonerism (or whatever one calls that linguistic phenomenon)
October 3, 2010
madmouth commented on the word krap-krap-krap
'to scratch oneself vigorously' in Afrikaans (source)
October 1, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Nadia Wadia
'Nadia Wadia you have gone fardia
Whole of India has admiredia
Whole of world you put in whirlia
Beat their girls for you were girlia
I will buy you a brand new cardia
Let me be your bodyguardia...'
October 1, 2010
madmouth commented on the word banger-langer
Used by Lady Sovereign to mean 'smashing party'
October 1, 2010
madmouth commented on the word foo foo
yam mash, as described in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; one of the dudes contemptuously envisions the neighboring village as a place where the men pound the women's foo foo. Imagine!
October 1, 2010
madmouth commented on the word fed to the gills
late to the party, but it's a list now :D
September 30, 2010
madmouth commented on the word moistly
used to mean 'drunkenly' in The Returne from Pernassus (presumably auth. unknown):
"Swaggering full moistly on a tauernes bench"
September 30, 2010
madmouth commented on the word custard marrow
a.k.a. mirliton, chayote
September 29, 2010
madmouth commented on the word cotch
Seems to be an old-timey, regional British variant of "catch"
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word in a hoo
" 'Mr. Copeland's in such a hoo that he's forgotten all about choking me off.' "
-From Overture to Death, Ngaio Marsh
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word with a thump that shook the crockery
" 'The lady let him down, did she?'
'With a thump that shook the crockery.' "
-From Overture to Death, Ngaio Marsh
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word big lion shit
dassies to bells is the unlikeliest culinary evolution I've heard of yet 0.0
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word chaw
"All other griefs allow a part
To other griefs, and ask themselves but some;
They come to us, but us Love draws,
He swallows us, and never chaws"
-From Donne's "The Broken Heart"
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word pea bean
this is the silliest-sounding word I've ever heard in my life :D
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word eefe
"Eefe to do" is such a neat little mouthful
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the list end-in-kin
OED offers the very old and very obsolete meatkin :D
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word flat-ways
employing the -ways synonymous to -wise suffix
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word anoint
obs. variant enhuile; pretty cute
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word mathe
"Now Sc. regional (chiefly north-east., Orkney, and Shetland). A maggot, a grub. Also: an insect egg from which a maggot may hatch." -OED
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word dishonorate
A lot of obsolete entries in the OED sound like they were coined by drunk 21st century celebrities
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word galloping cock-rot
coined in a conversation about Shakespeare, I believe, before the glass of wine even came into the picture
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word bree
O up then started our goodman,
An angry man was he:
“Will ye kiss my wife before my een,
And scad me wi pudding-bree?”
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word chawn
var. of chine
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word rennet
a.k.a. cheese-running (now obs.)
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word caseweed
we ought to bring this cutie back, and its imaginary invert weedcase
September 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the list ancient-borders
I took Aman instead; Gondwanaland is the very stuff of the list title. Thanks, b
September 22, 2010
madmouth commented on the list frackademia
Oh they're coming alright -_-
September 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word tody
birder alert!
September 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word cuckoo flower
a.k.a. lady-smock
September 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the list ccle
Creepy stuff, bilby--the machine told me that you JUST added brittle so I can't do it 0.0
September 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word muscary
obs. term for umbel
September 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word fungal genomics
This phrase makes me feel like I'm in the future 0.0
September 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Vegetarian Haggis
Dunno how it hasn't shrunk to Vaggis yet xD
September 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word coold
*snort*
September 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the user madmouth
hot dog!
September 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word moist
'Freak him, freak her, whatever your choice
I didn't come to judge, I just came to get you moist'
-Missy Elliott
August 27, 2010
madmouth commented on the word 유채
!
It reminds me of this really drunk dude from the UK I met while in Korea. We were in a bar called Led Zeppelin, and the conversation went as follows:
mm: So, where'd you guys go before coming here?
ddfUK: D'yknow a place called Led Zeppelin?
mm: Uh...yeah. That's where we are.
ddfUK: Oh...not that one, then
Were you looking for Led Zeppelin?
August 27, 2010
madmouth commented on the word u-ie
In some parts of Alberta, Canada, you flip the shitty instead of banging a u-ie
August 27, 2010
madmouth commented on the list fanciful-self
*blush* only Wordies can really understand
August 27, 2010
madmouth commented on the list cruciferous-vegetables
If we could get some Cantonese speakers in here the 'choy' part could be expanded considerably, as it is a garden-variety (ho ho ho) suffix for vegetables, many of 'em cruciferous
August 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word fuff
And here I thought Hubert J. Farnsworth invented this one
August 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word tharf
"dude, I totally tharf to barf"
August 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the list it-has-a-name
copremesis, hoping no one ever experiences it firsthand 0.0
August 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word youster
"Fetid discharge from a wound; pus, sanies." OED
August 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word swaff
apparently 17th century English is really chavvy
August 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word diral
OED: "Of or pertaining to the Furies; dire."
August 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the word tapskin
Obsolete coinage for 'drumstick'
August 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the word baculiform
all baculiform appendages to exit the bum-fiddle at once
August 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the word slungshot
Why this isn't on Zamboni Palin is what I'd like to know
August 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Soo Soos
was I looking for sop soos? don't mind if I do!
August 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Rapa Nui
teehee!
August 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the list easy-to-phone
Call 1-800-FBHARJO for any and all palindromic services
August 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the list exit-strategy
variant on "bite the dust" found in Gray's "The Fatal Sisters: An Ode"--
Low the dauntless earl is laid
Gor'd with many a gaping wound
Fate demands a nobler head
Soon a king shall bite the ground
August 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the list rabelation
the first textual example of 'soup'!
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word stult
"A derisive name for a tailor." (OED)
0.0
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word smick-smack
obs. lip-smacking onomatopoeia. makes me want a Mix-Max
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word whitch
obs. variant of hutch, adding one more layer of good times to the which/witch common errors in usage list
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word swike
there's a swikeful also
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word headhood
obs. variant of headship, which could technically be realized as headhead *kerplotz*
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word ramsons
is there a list for sets of words whose letters are subtly switched around, e.g. ransoms ramsons?
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word queem
THERE'S ALSO queemly :D
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word moyce
obsolete variant of morse
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word retchup
best.typo.ever.
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word kopi luwak
*thumbs up*
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the list not-quite-as-awful-as-they-sound
apparently genicle is an obsolete term for "a joint in the stalk of a plant". It doesn't quite sound awful, though, so I don't know how great a candidate it is for the list.
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word vauntlay
Now archaic. "The releasing or setting on of a relay of hounds before the other pursuing hounds have passed; the relay of hounds so released" (OED)
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word trizzie
OED: "Austral. slang. Orig. uncertain: perh. f. TREY n. + -IE. A threepenny piece."
can we get a Strine for confirmation up in here?
August 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word forwent
This seems, though perfectly sensible a
derivation of an old one, a new word
August 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word sowre
var. of sour
August 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word powreth
var. of poureth
August 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word cornpone
"It was 'baker's bread' -- what the quality eat -- none of your low-down cornpone."
-Huckleberry Finn
August 18, 2010
madmouth commented on the list names-for-the-children-of-neo-nazi-parents
It ain't that far-fetched -_-
August 18, 2010
madmouth commented on the list killjoy-et-al
Thar she blows
August 18, 2010
madmouth commented on the list killjoy-et-al
Maybe not blowhole but blowcash works for the nonce! These nouns sound really punchy to me (hence the list), whereas the verb-creating compounds are too far integrated into the regular stream, IMHO. I'm picking my brain for a verb made from a compound like this that can match lickspittle--that'll motivate a new list.
August 15, 2010
madmouth commented on the list killjoy-et-al
What is the word for this type of compound? It's driving me nuts!
August 12, 2010
madmouth commented on the word irish lord
a type of fish, apparently 0.0
August 12, 2010
madmouth commented on the word scrat
We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all
-"Silas Marner"
August 12, 2010
madmouth commented on the word zambinosebleed
an occupational hazard for the ice-skating types
August 12, 2010
madmouth commented on the word turophile
I thought it may have an etymological link to tiramisu, but not so
August 8, 2010
madmouth commented on the word donutcry
an alternative to eating a whole chocolate cake when you've been chucked
August 8, 2010
madmouth commented on the word BYARB
Bring Your Aunt's Roumanian Boytoy -- a must at every do
August 8, 2010
madmouth commented on the list my-dick-in-your
why, thank you, SoG old boy
in passing, a wins it with 'plot hole'
August 8, 2010
madmouth commented on the word gumminia
There is something lurid about the phrase "a genus of fleshy sponges" 0.0
August 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word prink
Nigella: "I don't go in for prinking"
August 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word went absconding
oh, it made me cry alright, the more so for the hilarious headline (a Waughsian effect, of sorts)
August 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word silky cuscus
here it is
August 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word an absolute sitter
ah so; makes more sense this way
August 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word lack thereof
Not mine; my dick in your lack thereof was actually coined by a dear friend
August 6, 2010
madmouth commented on the list the-collected-poems-of-w-h-auden
Colleen, wordie of such eminence, where are you already?
August 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word went absconding
synonym for AWOL heard in this news piece
July 30, 2010
madmouth commented on the word galenious
I'm saving that beautiful piece of philological storytelling in my private files!
July 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the list favourite-etymologies
walnut might apply.
July 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word God's teeth!
With the Rockies themselves, I bet
July 21, 2010
madmouth commented on the list shades-of-humiliation
Thanks, ruzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzu! (ruzzers?)
July 21, 2010
madmouth commented on the word zib
"It seemed impossible to rouse the poor zib to a sense of his position" (The Inimitable Jeeves).
July 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word in the fungus
Wodehousian phrase denoting beardedness (e.g. "Few people have ever looked fouler than young Bingo in the fungus")
July 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word blue round the edges
A disaster; "From the moment he invited himself I felt that the thing was going to be blue round the edges, and it was." (The Inimitable Jeeves)
July 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word fed to the gills
Angry, as in "He'll be fed to the gills if he finds out you're the fellow who ragged him in the Park" (The Inimitable Jeeves).
July 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the list the-many-names-of-chub-chub
I like 'em both
July 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word heterological
okay, so does THIS describe something like pulchritudinous (or matinal crepuscule)?
July 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word squanch
it gives me the cringies
July 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word buzz off
re: a pivotal vehicle in the murder case, from the mouth of the clueless owner thereof: "I thought someone had just buzzed off in it for a lark" (from a Marple episode; Body in the Library)
July 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word topping
"Besides this, the weather continued topping to a degree" (The Inimitable Jeeves)
July 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word an absolute sitter
dud horse, if I'm reading it correctly.
"'An absolute sitter came unstitched in the second race at Haydock Park,' said young Bingo, with some bitterness, 'and I dropped my entire month's allowance.'" (The Inimitable Jeeves)
July 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word whack up the ginger
"Hasn't got the nerve. Thinks you so much above him, don't you know. Looks on you as a sort of goddess. Worships the ground you tread on, but can't whack up the ginger to tell you so." (The Inimitable Jeeves)
July 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word get off the dime
is it equivalent to haul ass?
July 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the list descriptives-from-the-fantasy-novel-little-big-by-john-crowley
This is the second time Crowley's come up in so many days. *determined to read*
July 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word crostatina
Is what I had for breakfast every day during that long-ago sojourn in Italy. They also come in chocolate.
July 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word auletrides
flute-girl sounds like a more cultivated alternative to 'lady-boy' (see skin flute)
July 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word whorenithology
Coined by a birding friend when I showed him bilby's The Porn Birds
July 13, 2010
madmouth commented on the list a-dram-too-many
George Eliot lends us splashed up to the chin
July 13, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Anselmus Hendrawan
There is an Alfonsus by the same surname as well :D (emoticon denoting extreme happiness in the saying rather than derision, lest confusion arise)
July 12, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Toscanny Pandu-Oesman
Due to more varied immigration patterns in my neck of the woods, yearbook lists are getting more awesome every year. Honourable mention goes to Dragon Wei immediately followed by Zen Wilson (they only work in tandem, IMO)
July 12, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Moon Park
Thank you, Facebook.
July 6, 2010
madmouth commented on the list futurama
They sling such magnificent phrases on the show; I was surprised it was the first of its kind (there is one called Bender Bending Rodriguez, though).
July 2, 2010
madmouth commented on the word how to hide the like button
it's listed and selected in "preferences", but it doesn't show up in the "open blockable items" list. just gonna employ my selective vision
June 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Myfanwy
it might just be Welsh, though
June 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word how to hide the like button
I followed ze instructions. It's still there T.T
June 11, 2010
madmouth commented on the word better banger campaign
In conjunction with BBC Food's celebration of British Sausage Week 0.0
June 10, 2010
madmouth commented on the word boocoo
"Course they making boocoos of money, say Shug."
-The Color Purple
May 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the list names-for-female-strippers-pursuing-their-graduate-degrees
Sphinx? Rosh Hosanna? Emperatriz? Izanami? Lysistrata?
May 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the list archaic-occupations
I wouldn't call them dreadful, just...not very fun to read (though authorities assure me there's a very good reason for that?)
May 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word scrivener
"...
But in our amours amorists discern
Such fluctuations that their scrivening
Is breathless to attend each quirky turn
..."
-Wallace Stevens, fr. Monocle de Mon Oncle
May 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word yesty
there's a 'tweet' and 'like' button on them now :{
May 24, 2010
madmouth commented on the word troilism
What is it?
May 15, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Shite Mega-Megahit
the dehyphenated suggestion Wordnik gave parsed on first view as Shite Me, Game Gahit!--I like that one better (it is a brutal Tagalog game show in my...world of sexy fantasy?)
May 8, 2010
madmouth commented on the word boxwallah
Naipaul defines them as "the business executives of foreign, mostly British, firms" (An Area of Darkness, p.61)
May 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the list wallah
can't believe I forgot 'dilwala' (dil-wallah), lit. "heart-dude", meaning "loverman" or "he who is devoted to matters of the heart", immortalized in the 11-year-run but still shite mega-megahit Dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge ("The 'dil-wallahs' will get the brides")
May 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word suggestions
The "edit comment" feature seems to cut off all but the 2-3 visible lines of text; I can't scroll down to the bottom of a long comment to fix it up :{
April 29, 2010
madmouth commented on the word he who smelt it dealt it
" ...
Dwight: Dude. Who whipped an egger?
Cubert: He who smelt it, dealt it.
Dwight: Yeah? Well, he who denied it, supplied it.
Cubert: Well, he who articulated it, particulated it.
Dwight: Well, he who refuted it, tooted it.
Cubert: Stalemate.
... "
-Futurama, Infosphere
April 29, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Amish nuttle
:D :D :D
April 29, 2010
madmouth commented on the word females ain't made for sufferin'
that's not what the Old Testament said :/
April 29, 2010
madmouth commented on the word trema
in SBC, it means "stage fright", presumably from the root meaning whence the Italian also comes.
you are probably having an, "oh, Wordnet!" moment there
April 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word cilantrophobe
with a bit of hard cilantrophobe grated over top?
April 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the list butter-beans-and-snaps
beautiful! I'm ganking tons of these for LAK if you don't mind
April 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word massausage
"I was a massausage in her masseur's grip"
-Professor Steve (see here)
April 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word cilantrophobe
*thumbs up*
I have made several curries which inspired the remark, "This is, like...all cilantro" (by no means in a displeased tone of voice, either).
April 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word coin slot cover
SEE HERE :0
April 25, 2010
madmouth commented on the list quaintnesses
thanks! it's almost reaching son-of-groucho levels of magnitude
April 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word faggot of herbs
the obvious potential for misunderstanding is what I love about this phrase
April 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word faigula
what is it?
April 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word contrastive stress
like, "I preSENT my PREsent to you"?
April 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word oo
Were you looking for op and Oö
nice!
April 12, 2010
madmouth commented on the word If you pass on the West you fail on the test
"...even if your chest is a boob Oktoberfest"
-Fug Girls as Kanye
April 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word hikikomori
I thought hikikomori went way deeper than 'recluse', also that it specifically pertained to the young (whereas we associate reclusivity with older individuals?)
March 29, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Saucy Sal
She was a redoubtable fighter, and strange cats were vanquished in one round. The fearless little spitfire would even attack dogs and rout them utterly.
-"Emily of New Moon", L.M. Montgomery
March 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word one crowded hour
Glenn Richards a.k.a. Colonel Helpchunder
March 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word fruit fly sperm
aand they couldn't resist a wink-wink title. I grimace-grinned
March 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word one crowded hour
he sounds like a barrel of laughs.
so, there we were, my co-host and I, ready to interview AM for dinky community radio.
she has a remarkable psychosomatic capacity in relation to liquor; placebo effect all over the place.
in short, what's his face--the lead singer--held her hair back during the *ahem* ejective process the whole night while I listened to the rest of the band complain about how boring it was to go on tour (read: no groupies), but really they're very happy to have done so well for themselves, being a tiny little Strine band and all.
I hold it an eternal example of the success of the unconventional in achieving one's goals (my friend having been, needless to say, quite soppy about the fellow).
glamorous, eh?
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word ɷ
exactly!
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word one crowded hour
0.0
:{
Pokus?!
brain overload; will tell later
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word zmeu
cf. zmay or zmaj
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Bathtub Shitter
this one's also sort of a fun concept...you got your toilet shitters, your balcony shitters, and your bathtub shitters--the sickest mofos of all.
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word one crowded hour
...would lead to my wreck and ruin
I have a fun story involving Aggie Match
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word short'nin' bread
It's Louie, man! You haven't heard that marvelous song?
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the list shoyu-weenie-here-to-see-you
Has the unique advantage of being 100% indistinguishable from, say, Imaginary Japanese Band Names
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word downy
wiki: "Often overlooked, downy spells its name with a lower-case "D". This helps to distinguish it from like-named bands, such as Downy Mildew."
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word The Elephant of Music
They're not kidding
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Uverworld
who keep right on trucking with the album titles. to wit, Proglution and Bugright
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word weapons of mammary distraction
What is the word for this class of hilarious mishearing, of which mathematics of wonton burrito meals is an additional example?
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word short'nin' bread
Lazybones sleepin' in the shade
How you gonna get yo' cornmeal made?
What cornmeal, man?I like nothin' but short'nin' bread!
March 19, 2010
madmouth commented on the word yoghurt
pronounced by Jennifer Paterson as 'yog-hort', two separate words, practically. to wit, "none of this nonsense about yoghurt instead of cream. yoghurt is not instead of cream"
March 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word walid jumblatt
he looks like a Jumblatt
March 13, 2010
madmouth commented on the word be careful! The razor is razor-sharp.
cf. the ship's in ship-shape shape
March 10, 2010
madmouth commented on the word faggot of herbs
the far more delightful English equivalent of bouquet garni
March 7, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Chile
flapping isn't connected to length. for example, Canadian English distinguishes 'riding' and 'writing' by length, the latter having a short /ai/, but they both have a flap where their 't' or 'd' ought to be. now, Hindi, besides flapping Ts and Ds, also does the N! it's a positive addiction.
/off-topic
March 6, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Chile
moreover, I've found that the phonology of borrowings exhibits a strange combination of awareness and lack of awareness. In the form "chilLAY", the majority of speakers (or announcers, rather) seem to be more strongly aware of length than vowel quality. while /i/ is the vowel in the original country name, it is a short /i/, nigh impossible in Standard English--to this end, they have employed /I/, which satisfies the length component at the expense of the vowel. now, the question is, why should YOUR linguistic system feel the vowel quality is more important than length?
March 6, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Chile
if the stress is on the 2nd syllable and it rhymes with 'delay', then it sounds like a good compromise between naturalness and authenticity. to me, there's nothing as American as the /ei/ used to approximate the pure /e/.
March 6, 2010
madmouth commented on the word duwajiggyjiggycumjiggyju
a...word, I guess you'd call it, coined by a largely white 90s R&B band in the height of jiggy fever, bless their evanescent hearts.
the full text is:
duwajiggyjiggycumjiggyju
I just wanna drink Cristal wit' you
moreover, this is not the only mention of 'jiggy' in that particular song.
March 6, 2010
madmouth commented on the word taravana
really cool people get taravana, not the bends
March 5, 2010
madmouth commented on the word owl
let's compromise with at awl
March 5, 2010
madmouth commented on the word holy mackerel
I like the way you think
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word crimson tide
coined (perhaps?) by Cher Horowitz as a euphemism for menstruation, giving a faint scent of literariness to what is, after all, meant as a...*ahem* remake of Jane Austen's Emma
anyway, the association to 'wave' is fairly clear
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word owl
I'm not crazy--they're crazy. I swear!
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word jean dimmock
prosody?
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word jean dimmock
Aubrey Beardsley
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word owl
the turning around kind?
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word deadpan
today itself I ran across this meaning of 'pan' in the Canterbury Tales!
"...'who shall yeve a lovere any lawe?'
Love is a gretter lawe, by my pan" (1164-65)
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word naked
ah, equine eroticism--where would classical poetry be without you?
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word owl
It has been my long-held opinion that owls need to make some other face AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. this sort of thing verges on the obscene.
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word Mozzarella
What an uncharitable view of eyeballs!
February 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word paw-paw
"The fruit on the island, thought Miss Marple, was rather disappointing. It seemed always to be paw-paw."
February 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the user feedback
or 16! It could be an exponential sequence (if I've got that right)
February 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word crinkum-crankum
a VERY fine find, if I do say so myself
January 18, 2010
madmouth commented on the list clothing-for-a-postracial-era
it's a sartorial sweet tooth fairy!
January 17, 2010
madmouth commented on the word repeats so
Fanny Cradock used this to mean "it's so fattening"
January 16, 2010
madmouth commented on the word vrhnje
SBC for 'cream', the root being vrh (meaning "top"), so--"the stuff on top".
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word jolly-up
"It was very consoling, he thought, the way in which an act of kindness, in the fullness of time, returns to bless the benefactor. One gives a jolly-up to a girl in a ship. She goes her way, he goes his. He forgets; he has so many benefactions of the kind to his credit. But she remembers and then one day, when it is least expected, Fate drops into his lap the ripe fruit of his reward, this luscious creature waiting for him, all unaware, in the Malt House, Grantley Green."
-from Put Out More Flags
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word levee
"Basil had attended Sonia's levees (and there were three or four levees daily for, whenever she was at home, she was in bed) off and on for nearly ten yerars, since the days of her first, dazzling loveliness, when, almost alone among the chaste and daring brides of London, she had admitted mixed company to her bathroom."
-from Put Out More Flags
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word old queen
"'My dear,' Ambrose had said, 'you can positively hear her imagination creaking, as she does them, like a pair of old, old corsets, my dear, on a harridan.'"
-Ambrose on the painteress Poppet, from Put Out More Flags
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word cicala
"In a sea-side house to the farther south,
Where the baked cicalas die of drouth,
And one sharp tree--'tis a cypress--stands,
By the many hundred years red-rusted,
Rough iron-spiked, ripe fruit-o'er-crusted,
My sentinel to guard the sands
To the water's edge. ..."
-from De Gustibus--
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word bespangle
"Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree."
-from Corinna's Going A-Maying
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word fredaine
"'Sailors' wives may grumble, but the spark stays alight and besides, it's very easy for them to indulge a fredaine if they want.'"
-from The Fatal Gift
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word fecalith
just once it's been listed? once?!
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word punchable nun
I warrant it relies on the meaning of "punch" which is rather "poke" than "hit"
January 14, 2010
madmouth commented on the word freak out squres
oops! it was supposed to be freak out squares. John, howdya delete a variant?
January 8, 2010
madmouth commented on the word yo-yo
I'd thought the top was
January 3, 2010
madmouth commented on the word ballet
'bally' is a British pronunciation of extreme quaintness
December 28, 2009
madmouth commented on the word unfavorite
Internet--couldn't we do any better than this?
December 28, 2009
madmouth commented on the word paper made from elephant dung
I'm gonna meditate on that and make some steps toward enlightenment. dude
December 25, 2009
madmouth commented on the word meatza
right here
December 24, 2009
madmouth commented on the word polka
In SBC the root for the country name is 'polj-', whereas 'half' is 'pol-'. So, this makes sense.
December 24, 2009
madmouth commented on the word lousy with rocks
what today we'd call blinged out
December 23, 2009
madmouth commented on the word give the time
"I was personally acquainted with two girls he gave the time to."
(Caulfield on Stradlater, Catcher in the Rye)
December 23, 2009
madmouth commented on the list wilfred-j--funks--ten-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language--1932--1933
I nominate Wilfred J. Funk for the most beautiful word in the English language
December 22, 2009
madmouth commented on the word TMI
lowercase 'tmi' is a valid word-initial syllable in SBC (e.g. tmina - gloom)
December 22, 2009
madmouth commented on the word 圖
it is now!
December 22, 2009
madmouth commented on the word 圖
your (cranky, full-lipped penguin) robot
December 21, 2009
madmouth commented on the word busuuti
not to be confused with bzooty, though of course they are known to go together rather well.
December 21, 2009
madmouth commented on the word classic patriarchal rape-incest
a quadruple-whammy from Phyllis Chesler's big facepalm of a dissertation, Women & Madness.
December 21, 2009
madmouth commented on the word ǃʼOǃKung
I'll do my best--this is hairy without LING terminology.
in an imaginary language with 5 consonants, say, you could have two different types of 't' and 3 different types of 'p', or, on the other end of the spectrum, each of the 5 in totally different places (e.g. one is bilabial, one is dental, one is velar, one is uvular and the last a totally different manner of articulation--non-pulmonic, such as a click). while the first situation describes a consonant class which is the most natural for our mouths to create, it's actually harder on the brain to contrast them with one another; a set with consonants which are very different from each other is easier. does that make sense? distinguishing 'pa' from 'ba' (which is, by the way, really hard for a lot of language groups) is more difficult than distinguishing, say, 'ta' from '!a'
there are different axes of ease and difficulty in the human linguistic process. something which is intuitive and simple on one level creates problems on another level, and vice versa.
December 21, 2009
madmouth commented on the word ð
I've seen certain Japanese-speaking students make their Ds like Ð; even more mysterious (in that asking why lent litle clarification). Very confusing to me personally, if not other teachers, in that Ð is a different phoneme in Bosnian
December 21, 2009
madmouth commented on the word ǃʼOǃKung
the human mouth is also naturally inclined toward contrastivity, though--it's necessary to reach outside the 'unmarked' places of articulation to make as many clear distinctions between sounds as possible, if that makes sense.
December 21, 2009
madmouth commented on the word ophyron
my ophyron is a little hollow. is that normal?
December 20, 2009
madmouth commented on the word freshly laundered cheese
One of the pitfalls to avoid when making paneer. Recipes stress the necessity of a purely washed cloth for straining purposes.
December 20, 2009
madmouth commented on the user ruzuzu
why, thank you! some of the more consonant soupy SBC words look horrific to the English eye and need to be heard to be salvaged.
so, are you another Euroslavian?
December 20, 2009
madmouth commented on the word veni vidi vici
or Wenty, Witty, Wiki?
December 20, 2009
madmouth commented on the word chump one's style
"When sucka MCs try to chump my style
I let them know I'm versatile"
December 20, 2009
madmouth commented on the word racist
JEsus
I mean, seriously--JEsus CHRIST
*reason fails, mind implodes, Satan's kingdom upon the earth &c.*
December 19, 2009
madmouth commented on the word bajingo
"I hope you don’t mind the off color lingo
But is that a pee spot atop your bajingo?"
-Pooh the Piglet, via Go Fug Yourself, addressing Pam Anderson
December 19, 2009
madmouth commented on the word c is for cookie
questionable transcription
December 18, 2009
madmouth commented on the word tansy
a word more beautiful than what it describes (as far as flowers go, anyway)
December 18, 2009
madmouth commented on the word passion purpura
looking up purpura separately, though, is distinctly unromantic
December 17, 2009
madmouth commented on the word maudlin
by far my favourite emotion, in fact it runs through Yugo veins--nay, gallops
December 17, 2009
madmouth commented on the word squamish
then you'd have access to some of this panty bicycle/queen-shitting? with photos?
December 17, 2009
madmouth commented on the word squamish
the eye flies to "panty bicycle; naked girls from squamish" in the sole text example. congratulations, Wordnik--you've justified yourself to me!!
December 17, 2009
madmouth commented on the word kayageum
how sweet you sound, and how attractive you make everyone who plays you.
there's no beating floor lyres for aesthetic impact.
December 15, 2009
madmouth commented on the word all over
ie. covered with, e.g. "I'm all over spots". very British
December 14, 2009
madmouth commented on the word good
"Well", while correct, is so unnatural--in North American speech, at least--that I feel awkward teaching my students to say it in reply to "How are you?", going so far as to try to avoid the question altogether.
December 14, 2009
madmouth commented on the word skategate
The incident of Canadian pair figure skaters Sale & Pelletier being "robbed" of Olympic gold by them wily Ruskis. After a LOT of palaver and too-close-for-comfort investigation into the judges' decisions, they released a second gold medal for pair skating that year. The old judging system was dumped and a new one instated after Skategate.
December 14, 2009
madmouth commented on the word serpigo
after 'serpent', connected by the Greek motorway to "herpes"?
December 13, 2009
madmouth commented on the word bisexual tiny person
Tila Tequila's job title
December 13, 2009
madmouth commented on the word cho-cho
1) I thought it was chocha? Cho-cho is a hard-done-by literary heroine, innit?
2) This is a problem of the English language itself. There are no garden-variety words to describe genitalia--the elevator stops at the clinical, vulgar and ludicrous only.
December 13, 2009
madmouth commented on the word Kon Crete
in all of character map, I couldn't find ONE thumbs-up squiggle.
December 13, 2009
madmouth commented on the word faskinating
Popeye was here
December 13, 2009
madmouth commented on the word just a teensy bit...y know
I've been trying to dig for the name of the thing ever since, to no avail :{
you make light now, but a glimpse of the mustachioed WASP protagonist bulging out of his slacks is enough to turn one into a passionate advocate of sporing
December 12, 2009
madmouth commented on the word chuckwalla
...and she is come to bring the jest full circle
*heads solemnly bowed*
December 12, 2009
madmouth commented on the word just a teensy bit...y know
best/worst euphemism for pregnancy ever, heard on a rotten 70s Canadian (!!) sex farce
December 10, 2009
madmouth commented on the word chuckwalla
who's to say that isn't exactly what they call, say, club bouncers on the subcontinent, though?
December 10, 2009
madmouth commented on the word chuckwalla
the etymology, to boot (if wikipedia can be trusted) has nothing to with Hindi--deriving "from the Shoshone word 'tcaxxwal' or Cahuilla 'caxwal', transcribed by Spaniards as 'chacahuala'"
December 10, 2009
madmouth commented on the word African glass
ie. diamonds
December 10, 2009
madmouth commented on the word to the gravy
"If you hadn't done what you did we'd be a thousand dollars to the gravy right now!"
-Castor Oyl
December 10, 2009
madmouth commented on the word oyster fruit
ie. pearls
December 10, 2009
madmouth commented on the word force-meat
excellent name for a Shakespeare clown
December 9, 2009
madmouth commented on the word albumina
the text example implies this is the plural of 'albumen'--can anyone corroborate?
December 9, 2009
madmouth commented on the word murder
It was in Auchtermuchty, wannit?
December 8, 2009
madmouth commented on the word paqtaqawa'q
god made it funky
December 8, 2009
madmouth commented on the word spaghetti
absolutely right. ramyun is where it's at
December 6, 2009
madmouth commented on the word erottery
erotica + pottery? Internet putrescence, I rather think. Happy Breastmas!
December 6, 2009
madmouth commented on the word give the eye
Grinches are in season right about now
December 5, 2009
madmouth commented on the word spic
if pronunciation of "speak" is what we're going by, this applies to loads of language groups, though actually, not Spanish speakers, given 's' isn't acceptable word-initially in Spanish.
though I suppose one can't expect a high standard of linguistics in the field of racial prejudice.
December 5, 2009
madmouth commented on the word caramel
I've heard "car mull" more often than "car a mull"
December 5, 2009
madmouth commented on the word subji
an interesting romanization of what I have heretofore seen as sabzi
December 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word give the eye
I'm sure they're very nummy, but then Marilyn is, too--try 'er out
December 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word wordnik
Speaking of which, what happened to the profile link that allows us to view a user's comments?
December 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word vegemite virgin
this conversation makes vegemite sound intriguing, exciting even
December 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word give the eye
you haven't seen Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?!
FOR SHAME
December 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word give the eye
"bye-bye, baby
remember you're my baby
when they give you the eye
though I know you care
won't you write and declare
that though on the loose
you are still on the square?"
December 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word va j-j visor
while T-T's tears are blinding, j-j bawls with its eyes wide open to the horror
December 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the word tobaccy
according to the other verses, it might be "huggee and kissee nice" :{
December 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the word INCIST
a local business school thought this would be a good acronym for its internship program o.0
December 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the word tobaccy
...Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky-wacky-woo
-Dixon & Warren, "Nagasaki"
December 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the word seegars
a fatcat always smokes a fat seegar
December 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the word spaghetti
The character of spaghetti is compromised by cutting, it seems to me. There are plenty of short pastas out there, after all--why not eat those?
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word stold
also stoled
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word smacked 'em permanent
"You sure smacked 'em permanent, Popeye!"
"I always smacks 'em pernament"
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word ain't gotta crust
'has no scruples'. this usage shows up in Grease: "You got your crust, I'm no object of lust--I'm just plain Sandra Dee"
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word stow the razberries
ie. shut your filthy clam
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word give the air
to turn down. also give the gate (to)
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word shipshape
"The ship's in shipshape shape"
-from Some Like it Hot
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word tell the army
meaning, "I don't give a rat's clacker" (which latter is still one of the most disgusting-hypnotic phrases I've seen)
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word in bad with the law
not to be confused with in bed with the law
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word by cracky!
surely the most thematic exclamation in Popeye comics
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the word onct
as in "onct I crack 'em, they stay cracked" (referring to a sock upon yer button)
December 2, 2009
madmouth commented on the list place-names-of-distinction
I passed by Chuckanut Dr. near the US-Canada border
December 1, 2009
madmouth commented on the word series
According to my grammaticality judgement, both "The series were on for years before being cancelled" and "The series was on for years before being cancelled" check out fine
December 1, 2009
madmouth commented on the word merkin
AAAND it's back from the 16th century, everyone!
November 28, 2009
madmouth commented on the word fuckle
cf. fuckler, a demon from the brain of Babycakes
November 28, 2009
madmouth commented on the word NIIGGA
I thought Assniiga was the 800-hour oral epic of the Lappish foothills
November 28, 2009
madmouth commented on the word giant toasted ants
nutty and bacon-like? that's a bit of an overload
I'd really like to be hardcore enough to eat a bug, but the only way it's gonna happen is if they start cutting bread flour with ground crickets on the sly
PS: PU, I'm ganking that one for "Just because..."
November 28, 2009
madmouth commented on the word morular
in one of L.M. Montgomery's Anne volumes, the titular heroine fights a local battle, coaxing a fatcat out of painting an ad for some tonic or other onto the fence along the main road. so, the first wave of large-scale advertising is successfully beaten back. reading this scene from the 21st century is heartbreaking; little did she know just how ugly it would get :(
November 28, 2009
madmouth commented on the word morular
sometimes I can't help but conclude that the advertising universe is run and staffed by more advanced amoebozoa
November 28, 2009
madmouth commented on the word frankingcense
at first glance I thought it was frinking cheese. d'oh
November 27, 2009
madmouth commented on the word cuttlefish
unctious ochre
November 27, 2009
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