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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person with an avid or ostentatious interest in the arts.
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- noun informal, humorous A person with a
rapacious , possiblyforced , interest in thearts .
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lea commented on the word culture vulture
She won't go to a funny film. She's a real culture vulture.
March 3, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word culture vulture
OMFG, I'm totally gonna employ that as a slur against Wordies who poo-poo my affinity for neologisms, folkspeak, netspeak and vocab derived from oral language and television sitcoms.
What's the antonym of "bookish"?
March 3, 2009
dontcry commented on the word culture vulture
Dullard
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
Hehe... R is for revolution. ;o] I like folk speak, net speak, weird sayings & places like Urban Dictionary. Break the glass and speak to me in case of emergency.
March 3, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word culture vulture
Dullard?! How dare you, you culture vulture! And I thought for sure -- judging from the "more about:" section of his profile -- that qroqqa would be the first to use that word to describe me.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
Maybe she meant that culture vulture = dullard? I thought so.
March 3, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word culture vulture
Oh, I thought she meant it was an antonym of bookish. And my intellectual inadequacy rears its ugly head once again.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." :o} We are different, which is good. It would be quite boring otherwise. And we all have that ugly head somewhere in the closet. Sometimes it wants to come out and play.
March 3, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word culture vulture
That's really sweet, Lea. Not at all creepy. :>P
*locks closet door*
March 3, 2009
dontcry commented on the word culture vulture
No, I meant the antonym of bookish is dullard. Sorry.
March 3, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word culture vulture
Either way, I still wind up feeling inadequate. Plus, I can't sleep now because the ugly head is trying to convince me to accompany it on a killing spree.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
Inadequate or "inadequote"? :o] Don't sleep then, go for a walk and roar like a lion!
March 3, 2009
bilby commented on the word culture vulture
Sometimes lion down leads to sleep.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
Yup. Sometimes it does. But not always. :o)
March 3, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word culture vulture
I'm allergic to lion down. I use the knock-off, made from buzzard feathers. It's actually quite haute couture. Brand name: Culture Vulture.
And so here we are.
March 4, 2009