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- adjective A
nonsense word.
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Its most notable historical feature is the coinage of the term runcible spoon.
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Its most notable historical feature is the coinage of the term runcible spoon.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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Its most notable historical feature is the coinage of the term runcible spoon.
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Its most notable historical feature is the coinage of the term runcible spoon.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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Its most notable historical feature is the coinage of the term runcible spoon.
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As a prequel, it possibly works better if you're already familiar with the Polity universe and its concepts, although I didn't find it too hard to get on board I had to look up what a 'runcible' was, though.
The Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher Adam Whitehead 2009
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Edward Lear wrote "The Owl and The Pussycat" in 1867, and it was he who coined the word 'runcible' ...
unknown title 2009
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Edward Lear wrote "The Owl and The Pussycat" in 1867, and it was he who coined the word 'runcible' ...
unknown title 2009
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...when you look at that 'runcible' foto, you'd have to know i wouldn't come within a mile of the place...even if "el snobbo" was payin' for the hairy muffins...
BSNYC Ride Report: Slippery When Hairy BikeSnobNYC 2009
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The runcible and local AI become crucial to the conflict, especially when not all the humans in the area get along.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Prador Moon - Neal Asher Blue Tyson 2008
colleen commented on the word runcible
This word is, in fact, madeupical.
September 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word runcible
What?? Nonsense! Nothing on Wordie is madeupical!
September 27, 2007
colleen commented on the word runcible
TRUE. It is an old-timey madeupical word!
You're going to have to accept that you've been living a lie.
September 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word runcible
*tearing hair*
September 27, 2007
sionnach commented on the word runcible
My kitchen is full of runcible spoons. For the quinces, don't you know. So, don't be telling me they don't exist. Or I will have to come after you with my vorpal blade.
July 16, 2008
reesetee commented on the word runcible
Thank you, sionnach. I mean, really.
July 22, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word runcible
See runcible spoon (someone has to say that).
November 22, 2008
saloniste commented on the word runcible
From "The Owl and the Pussycat" can not find it anywhere.
June 9, 2009
quothly commented on the word runcible
Before there was Doctor Seuss, there was Edward Lear... and the world wouldn't be the same if they hadn't blessed it with their nonsense.
March 8, 2012