Definitions
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- adj. A nonsense word.
Etymologies
Examples
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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.
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Edward Lear wrote "The Owl and The Pussycat" in 1867, and it was he who coined the word 'runcible' ...
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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...
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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.
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Two wild-card humans, a vengeance-driven soldier and a runcible technician, must now combine their talents in an attempt to stop a seemingly invincible Prador warship from incinerating yet another Polity world.
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The crablike Prador are bloodthirsty aliens bent on crushing the Polity and stealing its runcible technology ... and they possess a frightening superiority in space warfare.
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I'd never tried to eat a herring with a spoon, but I saw nothing resembling a fork, and dimly recalled that runcible spoons would not be in general use for quite a few years yet.
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The somewhat runcible serving fork is based on an antique one I acquired while looking for a table.
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In Prador Moon, Moria Salem is a runcible technician who becomes embroiled in the humans 'fight against the Prador when a supposedly routine augmentation meant to provide simple net access proves to give her abilities far beyond the norm.
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
saloniste commented on the word runcible
From "The Owl and the Pussycat" can not find it anywhere.
June 9, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word runcible
See runcible spoon (someone has to say that).
November 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word runcible
Thank you, sionnach. I mean, really.
July 22, 2008
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
*tearing hair*
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
What?? Nonsense! Nothing on Wordie is madeupical!
September 27, 2007
colleen commented on the word runcible
This word is, in fact, madeupical.
September 27, 2007