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Favourite word of the day

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12:28 / 16.02.03

Reading this thread and listening to Gardeners' Question Time supplies these lovely words:

blight
canker
clump
gooseberry
mulch
squirrel
and
testosterone (as in Brigadier Hardy's awash with it)

But then I'm in such a good mood, everything is happy today!

18:53 / 16.02.03

Bolshevik.

It's just fun to say, has a nice sound to it. It's also very effective when hurled as an insult, e.g. "You seeping Bolshevik swine!"

Brigade du jour

20:45 / 16.02.03

It's an Irish word so I don't know how to spell it (my grandfather must be spinning in his grave) but - SHLAUNTER, as in 'cheers!' when one clinks drinks. More for the meaning than the sound.

Btw, if anyone can furnish me with the correct spelling I'd be eternally grateful, especially if I find myself in a Dublin pub full of deaf people. I don't know sign language you see.

Tryphena Absent

20:54 / 16.02.03

My favourite word of forever is reiterate. I use it all the time, it's so useful and it sounds kind of posh, I like to stick in to essay's.

pointless and uncalled for

14:30 / 17.02.03

resection currently tops todays list although if phrases were allowed the it would be "relocated saliva glands".

17:25 / 28.10.03

sybarite- a pleasure seeker, one devoted to luxury.

dude, your sybaritic ways are taking us to the cleaners!

19:17 / 28.10.03

Shat.

Past participle of - I think you can guess.

19:28 / 28.10.03

Melifluous: If pronounced slowly, it almost sound erotic.

Oneirophant: I don't care it this one is real or not, it just sounds good and will be used in a story when the time is right.

Rutabega: The most wonderfully-named of all the vegetables.

Linxy Kakenhoff

00:12 / 29.10.03

Eloquent.....eloooooquent...Eeeeeeloquent...I like that word.

01:12 / 29.10.03

I saw this thread, and immediately thought that the word of the day should be "polenta." There's something about the way it feels shaping your mouth as it comes out....

And then I browsed the thread, and saw that my previous word was risotto. I seem to have a fixation (oral, no less!) with food words that are of the soft warm carb-heavy comfort-food variety.

I don't think I want anybody to analyze this any further...

01:13 / 29.10.03

I used to like Schadenfreude, but lately it's all been at my expense.

18:16 / 30.10.03

The Felicia Hardy Testosterone Brigade: It's slainte, I believe, with an accent over the 'e' IIRC.... Iechyd Da in Welsh, if yo ever find yourself here (pronounced alomost like yeckid da)

My word of the day for today, thanks to a letter in Private Eye and their response which made me wet myself laughing, is Portakabin.

For thos who don't know, Portakabin - like Puffa or Crombie coats, Outward Bound Courses, and even Google - is a trademark, and their lawyer send a sniffy letter to Private Eye moaning that Portakabin had been used wrongly. They headlined that letter 'What a tragic way to make a living' and every other letter that issue 'Portakabin.'

Might just be cos I've had trademark issues in the past, or possibly just because I'm deeply sad, but it had me rolling round laughing...

19:20 / 30.10.03

Watched The Cambridge Spies the other night and learned the word reticule when Queen Mary gave one to Antony Blunt, little purse with a drawstring.

Wonder what it has to do with reticulated as in python or giraffe.

Just went and checked that very thing out and the connection is a Latin word for "net" (reticulum)

20:07 / 30.10.03

My favourite word to say is indicative because I just like the tickiness of it. Indicativeindicativeindicative.

But my favourite all time word of all time is slubberdegullion which means a mean and dirty wretch, or a slovenly and disgusting fellow. I like it because it just sounds so right for what it means, and also because I won a competition entitled 'tell us something we don't know' by sending the meaning of it in.

20:20 / 30.10.03

Ort: Fragments of food left over from a meal

As in cheese ort sandwich, what one has with a glass of beer the day after a cheese & wine party.

20:32 / 30.10.03

slubberdegullion's great. What is it about the intial sl- thing with the Enbglish language. All these words with unfavourable connotations begin with sl-

sleaze, slob, slobber, slug, sly, sloth, slattern, slough, slut, slitter, slump, sloshed, slouch, slime, slither, slops, slurry, slap, slapper, slink, slag, slum, sludge, slaver & slaister (Scottish, admittedly), slam, slack, slander, slang, slipshod, sluice, slovenly, sluggish, slur, and then some.

Are there any "good" words beginning with sl- ? sleep and slake are all I can think of at the moment.

20:55 / 30.10.03

sleuth, sleek and slim

My word today is 'Jinkies!'

20:56 / 30.10.03

slather

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

09:04 / 31.10.03

First you have to lick your lips, until they are positively coated with saliva.

Then, with little expression : weapon

Aaaahhhhhh.

Also, diegetic, cos I wqas so pleased to discover its meaning.

09:45 / 31.10.03

I've been waiting ages to post on my weblog about "words on the fringe". Words that now and then pop up in conversations to describe dodgy situations or scenarios, or underused words (usually bigger, too) that sound sort of "made-up", even though popular use has them crystalized somewhere in our brains. Children and older people will use them more often, and they're sort of funny and look strange when put down on paper. Unfortunately I only know a few in my own language, but for your linguistic amusement I'll put them here:

"Aboletar" - To lodge oneself someplace- comfortably and without intentions to be removed.

"Abilolado" - Funny in the head.

"Coisar" - This is the most marvellous invention. It is a "non-official" verb that can be used to describe anything. "Coisar" comes from the substantive "coisa", which means "thing". So, translated, it would become "to thing something". As in: "Mark thinged the papers behind the xerox machine and now it's all fucked up!". I'm still amazed that such a construction exists. "Coisar" rocks with fists of steel...

17:13 / 31.10.03

This morning I used eschatological to describe the humor in this animated story.
It is, you know. About the end of the world. It also has swear words in it, so the pun works, too.
Technically, eschatology also deals with the afterlife -- the end of your life, see.

Oh, and the link is hysterical. Spread the meme.

02:41 / 01.11.03

dipstick, because it's fun to say
I like to use it as an insult.

05:01 / 02.11.03

When I am tutoring, I love it when someone needs help solving logarithms because I get to say, "exponentiate". Mmmmmm... EX po NEN chi ATE... it's a word I taste when I say it.

13:01 / 03.11.03

scibility

an obsolete word meaning 'the power of knowing.' From a Latin word meaning 'able to know.'

I love that it's obsolete, and that 'scibilous' is a compliment.

Tryphena Absent

13:07 / 03.11.03

Bored because I am.

11:17 / 04.11.03

Boswelox. Because it is.

11:42 / 04.11.03

Popinjay

Corkindrill

Basilisk and Cockatrice

And, completely unrelated,

Stultiloquy

which I am sure I have mentioned elsewhere.

09:13 / 13.11.03

Erethism
-painful, unhealthy overexcitement, especially of the mental powers or passions.

Now of course replaced by W00T!

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