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that

13:32 / 03.02.03

catachresis means (according to Dictionary.com. I so love Dictionary.com) -
1)The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean “flagrant.”
2)The use of a strained figure of speech, such as a mixed metaphor.

Saveloy

16:01 / 03.02.03

I luuuurve lumox and galoot; the sounds of ungraceful things in motion, lumox being a good solid ca-LUMP thump, and galoot being a sort of cheerful, hee-haw run over the hills.

Saveloy

16:03 / 03.02.03

Oh, and BONCE! Possible my favourite word of all time. Thanks to Bengali in Platforms for reminding me that the short ones are the best.

rakehell

20:19 / 03.02.03

spume, as in sea foam.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:42 / 03.02.03

Lummox has two m's, Saveloy, yer gert lummox.

I like:

Smalt (blue stained glass, coloured with cobalt).
Glaze.
Ochre.
Grey, but only when it's spelled g-r-e-y. I don't like gray.
Eadmede (humility).
Elengenesse (despair).
Alum.
Sulphate.
Fornicate.

The Photographer in Blowup

20:57 / 03.02.03

Schlenter - imitation of a diamond

Lamina - in english, it's a thin layer; picked my interest because it's also similar (lâmina) to the portuguese word for 'blade'

Nychthemer - really one of my favourite words - the period of one night and day.

And because this thread isn't restricted to english words:

Saudade - that feeling a person has when a friend or lover is absent for a long time or dead. Try finding a word that corresponds to this feeling.

Mourne Kransky

21:35 / 03.02.03

Some good ecclesiastical words:
eleemosynary
prosyletise
shibboleth
and there was a scene in a Lindsay Anderson film with Diana Rigg and George C Scott, called IIRC The Hospital, where this mentally unsound chap ran about shouting "I am the Angel of the Bottomless Pit: The Paraclete of Kaborka". Paraclete is fabulous. No idea where Kaborka (sp?) is, despite several attempts to find out.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:01 / 03.02.03

Lugubrious and Lubricious.

Saint Keggers

02:14 / 04.02.03

Todays favorite word is: Sasquatch.

the Fool

02:35 / 04.02.03

My favourite word of the day (indeed of the month and possibly year so far) is 'Vadge'

Vadge, as in vagina. Pronouced like Madge with a V and spoken in the worst most ocker oustraaaalian accent you manage.

Oohhh! Luv a bit of vadge!!!!

A great way to offend people. Its done wonders for me...

gravitybitch

02:36 / 04.02.03

Risotto - it's rich and sibilant, rhythmic and luxurious... as wonderful to eat as it is to speak. And, yes, I've already had dinner and it's still a wonderful word.

The Apple-Picker

03:57 / 04.02.03

One of my favorite words of all time is concupiscent. My first experience with this word was when I read "The Emperor of Ice Cream" at my first college. My poetry professor told our entire class that Wallace Stevens must have made that word up. I didn't have a dictionary on me at the time, so I didn't object.

She also talked about how one poem we read made her feel like she was woooooooo getting sucked up into a space ship.

ephemerat

19:07 / 05.02.03

Mmmm... yer a glibly voluble bunch of raconteurs, yez are.

Rothkoid: Lugubrious I love - and it's also synonymous with another of my personal special loves: lachrymose.

Plus I'd never come across lubricious before, add in concupiscent and salacious to a word stew with the above and it all begins to sound like Prof. Henry Higgins striding back and forth on a very heavy (but let's face it, very Victorian) coke comedown...

ephemerat

19:21 / 05.02.03

'I'm feeling lubricious and salacious
Concupiscent and rapacious
And so the question so vexatious,
Is...
Why can't a woman, be more like a man?

Well, I'd pay to see it anyway... (walks off muttering to himself)

Fist Fun

20:14 / 05.02.03

Escarpin which came up in translation and is, I believe, a type of footwear.

Jackie Susann

01:36 / 06.02.03

My word of the moment is fortify. I have been using it pretty constantly to rationalise what I'm doing - whatever it is, I'm fortifying myself for what comes next; also to make things more exciting, because breakfast (for example) isn't just breakfast, it's the day's essential fortification. Likewise lunch, dinner, coffee, beer, conversation, whatever. And I've used it a few times to make reluctant friends come to the pub: "Come on, we need to fortify ourselves," etc.

Also, catachresis is a literary device, no matter what dictionary.com says.

the Fool

03:00 / 06.02.03

Feltching. Its such a pretty word. Everyone should try and fit it into a conversation as soon as possible.

I think it could be worked wonderfully into hetro pick up line. The girls will love it!!!

grant

13:11 / 06.02.03

Xoc:Some good ecclesiastical words:
eleemosynary
prosyletise
shibboleth
... you great gallumphing ziggurat, you've swapped the 'y' and 'e' in 'proselytise.'

Back to your eremetical cell, you gibbering (new word for me as of yesterday) yayloo!

(The writer next to me, a delightful lady from Texas by way of Mississippi, is a font of such colloquial poetry. It's almost worth getting her mad just to see what she'll call you.)

Yay-loo. Accent on the 'yay.'

Say it. C'mon.

Say it again.

Feel filled with righteous indignation yet?

Say it one more time.

That's right.

that

08:52 / 09.02.03

Coeval:

adj.
Originating or existing during the same period; lasting through the same era.

n.
One of the same era or period; a contemporary.
(from dictionary.com)

It's my favourite word of the day because I'd never ever seen it used before I read the back of my new copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Cavatina

09:30 / 09.02.03

I came across this today and hadn't seen it before:

abishag the child of a woman and married man not her husband (from Hebrew = the mother's error).

It got me wondering. 'Shag' in the sense of 'sexual intercourse' is old British slang, I think. Does anyone know its origin?

Mourne Kransky

10:50 / 09.02.03

At http://www.etymonline.com/s5etym.htm,
you get:
shag –1592, from O.E. sceacga "hair," cognate with O.N. skegg "beard," from P.Gmc. *skagjan. Of tobacco, from 1789.
Meaning "copulate with" is 1788, perhaps related to shake.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition 2000) gives:
Shag – shagged, shag•ging, shags
Chiefly British Vulgar Slang
TRANSITIVE VERB: To engage in sexual intercourse with.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To engage in sexual intercourse.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from obsolete shag, to shake, wiggle.

Doesn't connect with abishag but maybe I just haven't looked hard enough.

aus

17:27 / 09.02.03

Everyone who's anyone is saying poop. It's ubiquitous - we've spread poop everywhere.

I'm surprised The Apple-Picker didn't mention it. Ask her.

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

08:46 / 10.02.03

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Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

08:46 / 10.02.03

My favourite word today is Marvish. It is a Turkish word for someone with blue eyes. It really is a very sweet word and difficult to say without smiling.

lolita nation

14:24 / 10.02.03

HORTATORY always gets me. The only Latin construction I had no trouble remembering, back in the day, was the hortatory subjunctive. It almost makes me laugh to type it.

Aethelwine Jedi

14:45 / 10.02.03

Gripple
Eusporangiate - sounds v. squishy
Beastly
Palooka
Shunt
Grub
And, last but not least, mooch. I tend to use that far too often when writing.

Fine words, all.

Can we have names as well? If that’s so, then I also like Scrabster, which sounds like a variety of midget that shuffles around grapping peoples’ crotches. I’m tempted to start a thread just about awesome place names (excluding the one’s mentioned in The Meaning of Liff.)

Brigade du jour

22:00 / 10.02.03

Sure we can have names, but not Slartibartfast. Because I got there first. Well, apart from Douglas Adams.

Sanctimonious. Because it great as an insult, and it applies to me sometimes.

Brigade du jour

21:22 / 11.02.03

UTMOST. Just sounds so damn posh. Should be sipping a sherry while I say it, really.

dusty

06:29 / 12.02.03

Aglet. It's name for the little plastic thing that keeps shoelaces from fraying.

Brigade du jour

20:45 / 12.02.03

PROLIX - sounds dirty but sadly isn't.

Smoothly

11:00 / 13.02.03

Lollygag
Persephone used it in a Head Shop thread and I'd never heard it before. Means to dawdle or waste time aimlessly. But maybe everyone knows that already.
Nevertheless, that should be my ficsuit name.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:13 / 13.02.03

Pentasyllabic. And by god, it does have five syllables.

Brigade du jour

20:20 / 13.02.03

AQUARIUS - the nicest sounding Zodiac sign.

creation

11:02 / 16.02.03

Otiose

Lazy,Indolent

Puzimandias

12:15 / 16.02.03

Chili. Because it isn't.

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