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Favorite word of the day 2

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1RickHarsch
apr 22, 2011, 2:26 pm

laphroig

2Porius
apr 22, 2011, 3:04 pm

Maenad

3RickHarsch
apr 22, 2011, 3:36 pm

ademan

4Sandydog1
apr 23, 2011, 1:18 pm

parakeet!

5Sandydog1
apr 23, 2011, 10:41 pm

tatterdemalion
cartasons
piscicultural
crocutus
cunny-fructify
tremulous
cercopitheci...

Finally! I finally, after over a year on and off, have finished with Rabelais!

6Porius
apr 23, 2011, 11:04 pm

Finished or finished with or both. Tatterdemalion is a great word. Piscicultural, well I don't know, sounds on the, nah, it's just fine.

7Sandydog1
apr 24, 2011, 8:22 am

Yes both I guess, Por. What a long strange trip it's been. It's a great book to be savored, like Clif Fadimon suggests, a dozen or so pages at a time.

8Porius
apr 24, 2011, 1:17 pm

Many books can be enjoyed that way.

9RickHarsch
apr 26, 2011, 11:18 am

rheum

10RickHarsch
apr 26, 2011, 11:19 am

battleaxe

11RickHarsch
apr 26, 2011, 11:21 am

amboge, flexuosity

12RickHarsch
apr 26, 2011, 11:21 am

amboge, flexuosity

13RickHarsch
apr 26, 2011, 11:25 am

desultories, in the equine sense

14RickHarsch
apr 27, 2011, 12:18 pm

pandemonium

15anna_in_pdx
apr 27, 2011, 1:13 pm

Nefandous. Chris just learned this word yesterday while reading the third book of the Cthulu series.

16RickHarsch
apr 27, 2011, 4:25 pm

fandango

17slickdpdx
apr 29, 2011, 12:07 pm

desquamations

18RickHarsch
apr 29, 2011, 12:10 pm

squamous

19Mr.Durick
apr 29, 2011, 4:06 pm

How do you pronounce that?

Robert

20RickHarsch
apr 29, 2011, 4:08 pm

You simply step on a jellyfish.

21ChocolateMuse
mei 3, 2011, 1:40 am

I regularly carry a jellyfish for that purpose.

22RickHarsch
mei 3, 2011, 2:00 am

Yes, I've heard of you people who are by birth unable to pass a day without spouting 'squamous'. I guess one gets used to anything.

23RickHarsch
mei 3, 2011, 4:57 pm

Heigh-ho?

24RickHarsch
mei 31, 2011, 2:41 pm

glamph

25RickHarsch
mei 31, 2011, 2:41 pm

oederite

26Sandydog1
jun 5, 2011, 11:22 am

mansuetude

(Did I post on an obsolete thread - 'sposed to use this one, I guess)

27MeditationesMartini
jun 5, 2011, 11:33 am

manservantuetude

28slickdpdx
jun 20, 2011, 11:58 am

papillaceous

29ChocolateMuse
jun 20, 2011, 10:51 pm

flabbergasted.

Hey we haven't seen much of Rick lately. Are you out there Rick?

32anna_in_pdx
jun 21, 2011, 11:30 am

29 I was just thinking the same thing. Was he going on a trip somewhere?

33copyedit52
jun 21, 2011, 12:04 pm

A couple of weeks ago Rick said he would be going to India around now.

34RickHarsch
Bewerkt: mei 29, 2012, 5:41 am

intubulated

I am IN HERE, thanks for asking. I am going to India on the 29th, expecting martinimartini about the 25th.

I would like to suggest that on this page we supply definitions, though I refuse to be the first.

Otherwise, I am busy selling books. We haven't gotten to the English language countries yet, Ireland and England being targets, but I am awful close to covering publisher costs after which I get 50% minus 15 to my editor. The publisher will pay my agent. I will let you know when I get it on Amazon UK if I manage (in august).

reviews have been great so far, my favorite a woman in Belgium who missed her train stop because she was caught up in the book. Someone else shouted 'it's great' to my wife as she drove by her.

My reading has been haphazard til this past weekend when I picked up Slavoj Žižik's Defense of Lost Causes. Powys is shelved til the return from India.

Meanwhile I fell a long ways down some stairs in Maribor at a friend's apartment, which left me with two remarkable bruises on my ass and a pain in the back that causes an unseemly limp. I also fell into a pond there and rode a Lipizzaner with an enormous cock that I touched briefly, shocking my friend's father, my reason being that it is not something many can say they have done. Tonight I was teaching my son how to whittle and gave him an excellent lesson in what not to do, slicing my thumb so bad it was still bleeding three hours later when I took the bandage off. The second lesson is to leave the bandage on.

35Porius
Bewerkt: jun 21, 2011, 4:45 pm

Rick old boy you've got to be more careful. Or you will whittle yourself away to next to nothing. I' still pondering the pond story.
http://www.lipizzaner.com/images/intropic_1.jpg
How did you manage to come in such close proximity with the horses member. A members' only moment, doubtless. Who needs Powys, already.

36slickdpdx
jun 21, 2011, 4:42 pm

You'd think the Lippenzaner touch would have changed your luck. Seems like the kind of thing that would, if anything could.

37copyedit52
jun 21, 2011, 4:52 pm

He's a wildman, this Rick Harsch. No doubt about it.

38geneg
jun 21, 2011, 5:12 pm

Sounds to me, Peter, like Rick could teach you some tricks about leading the life authorial. Start with a big bottle of slivovitz and work from there.

39copyedit52
jun 21, 2011, 5:31 pm

I like my thumb, gene. It's what I use to grip my pen.

40RickHarsch
jun 21, 2011, 5:41 pm

On the way to a book event in Ljubljana I was given by neighbors of a woman we picked up in mountains near Lj a large shot of Slivo, about 2 deciliters, which is to say at least two shots. dictated by politesse I quaffed it...had a good night.

Re lipdick: it was just a-hangin there within a stoop and a reach...

41Sandydog1
jun 23, 2011, 10:50 pm

flabellum

42RickHarsch
jun 26, 2011, 1:41 pm

flagellum---the one where you have to use a vice to hold the two parts together for 10 hours.

43RickHarsch
jun 26, 2011, 1:42 pm

'I like my thumb, gene. It's what I use to grip my pen.' one of my favorite June posts.

44slickdpdx
jul 11, 2011, 7:26 pm

borborygm

45Sandydog1
jul 11, 2011, 7:44 pm

traduce

46Sandydog1
jul 11, 2011, 7:48 pm

seiche

47copyedit52
jul 11, 2011, 7:50 pm

I second seiche

48RickHarsch
jul 12, 2011, 7:05 am

tounce

49Sandydog1
jul 12, 2011, 8:03 pm

anabasis

50RickHarsch
jul 15, 2011, 11:13 pm

katabasis

51Sandydog1
jul 16, 2011, 10:43 pm

Ah, Rick, 'such the "downer"...

52absurdeist
jul 16, 2011, 11:22 pm

Valium

53RickHarsch
jul 17, 2011, 12:47 am

Quaalude

54absurdeist
jul 17, 2011, 1:26 am

Pieroin

55tomcatMurr
jul 17, 2011, 7:07 am

clitwart

56RickHarsch
jul 17, 2011, 7:44 am

bachmaniasma

57absurdeist
jul 17, 2011, 10:13 am

rectalthermometer

58RickHarsch
jul 17, 2011, 10:57 am

the-modulus-of-elasticity

59Porius
jul 17, 2011, 11:20 am

The ineluctable bo-diddley of the risible.

60Sandydog1
jul 17, 2011, 6:30 pm

glebe

61RickHarsch
jul 17, 2011, 11:19 pm

the grievous grebe of the glabrous glade

62RickHarsch
jul 17, 2011, 11:19 pm

...of the risible

63Sandydog1
jul 18, 2011, 9:45 pm

That's one pissed-off podiceps...

64anna_in_pdx
jul 19, 2011, 2:08 pm

chthonian

65slickdpdx
jul 19, 2011, 4:15 pm

subfusc

66RickHarsch
jul 19, 2011, 5:17 pm

subchthonian

67Sandydog1
jul 19, 2011, 7:33 pm

sempiternal

68RickHarsch
jul 21, 2011, 1:50 am

fancypants

69ChocolateMuse
jul 25, 2011, 8:34 pm

sprezzatura

70copyedit52
jul 26, 2011, 6:51 pm

Valium ... Quaalude ... and ... Pieroin?

71absurdeist
jul 26, 2011, 6:58 pm

yessirree!

And don't forget "rectalthermometer" -- as Archie & Edith once sang at the opening of All in the Family, "those werrrrrrrrrrreeeee the dayyyyyyyyys"

72copyedit52
jul 31, 2011, 5:14 pm

Sturm und Drang

73dmsteyn
aug 3, 2011, 5:11 am

Otiose

74absurdeist
Bewerkt: aug 3, 2011, 7:03 pm

collossal tits

testosterone

75Sandydog1
aug 3, 2011, 9:48 pm

abecedarian

76dmsteyn
aug 5, 2011, 10:26 am

cloaca (as in a sewer, not a, well, yeah)

77PeterKein
aug 5, 2011, 10:51 am

>34 RickHarsch:

The way most of my father's wisdom was passed onto me - via negativa... viz. dont do it that this way....

78Porius
aug 6, 2011, 6:39 pm

cnicin

79Tuirgin
Bewerkt: aug 6, 2011, 6:43 pm

cnicin

(ˈknaɪsɪn)

f. L. cnīc-us (see below) + -in.

A bitter principle obtained from the leaves of Cnicus benedictus, and other Composite plants.

1863–72 Watts Dict. Chem. I. 1029 Cnicin forms white transparent silky needles, having a pure bitter taste.

(OED)

80Porius
Bewerkt: aug 6, 2011, 6:53 pm

81Sandydog1
aug 6, 2011, 7:18 pm

inspissate

82Porius
aug 6, 2011, 7:44 pm

incrassate

83dmsteyn
Bewerkt: aug 7, 2011, 8:38 am

Dit bericht is door zijn auteur gewist.

84tomcatMurr
Bewerkt: aug 7, 2011, 10:18 am

AWESOME (I love this word. It really does express a feeling of positive awe, and has the added benefit of making me feel so young when I use it)

85Porius
aug 7, 2011, 11:25 am

capriole

86Sandydog1
aug 7, 2011, 12:32 pm

Oh, I know that one; that's what I love to get on my sammich at the Italian deli!

87PeterKein
Bewerkt: aug 8, 2011, 9:08 pm

paseo

&

heteroclite

88Porius
aug 9, 2011, 9:47 pm

lagotic

89RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 6:06 am

langur

90RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 6:06 am

languor

91RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 6:06 am

linger

92RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 6:07 am

ligula, liguloid, liguliform, especially ligula

93RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 6:08 am

lingereeeeeeee

94RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 6:09 am

languescent

95RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 6:09 am

lagopous

96RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 6:10 am

laggard

97RickHarsch
Bewerkt: aug 10, 2011, 6:11 am

lagoon--bad French for the thug

99dmsteyn
aug 10, 2011, 8:17 am

lingulate

100RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 9:44 am

I have two excellent brass lingams, one just bought in India. As opposed to my balls...

101RickHarsch
Bewerkt: aug 10, 2011, 8:35 pm

99> I prefer when she lingues me early.

102PeterKein
aug 10, 2011, 10:58 am

tonsure - it just feels good saying it

103Porius
aug 10, 2011, 11:04 am

lutulent

104anna_in_pdx
aug 10, 2011, 11:26 am

thaumaturge

105PeterKein
aug 10, 2011, 11:27 am

did I upset the universe? Is it 'L' day or something? lutulent is a wonderful word.. I will use it to denigrate a colleague's consciousness post-haste.

106Porius
aug 10, 2011, 11:42 am

cincture

107RickHarsch
aug 10, 2011, 8:35 pm

More to the point: tincture

108MeditationesMartini
aug 10, 2011, 8:37 pm

TORSION

109Porius
aug 11, 2011, 1:08 pm

terraqueous

110RickHarsch
aug 11, 2011, 4:26 pm

Name of one of my turtles, who had been run over or something, a giant, shell deformed: Terrapinstein.

111Sandydog1
aug 11, 2011, 7:30 pm

tergiversate

112Porius
aug 11, 2011, 7:45 pm

or tergiversation: abandoning cause or irreligion.

113RickHarsch
aug 12, 2011, 2:32 pm

there you go, complete with definitions, that's the way it should be

or, as Haiku

Complete the way it should
be without definitions
Did you not go there?

114Sandydog1
aug 12, 2011, 5:07 pm

anile

115RickHarsch
Bewerkt: aug 13, 2011, 4:30 am

anole--commonly mistakenly called a chameleon

116urania1
aug 13, 2011, 5:48 pm

perfricate

117RickHarsch
aug 13, 2011, 6:45 pm

imperfricate

118urania1
aug 13, 2011, 7:53 pm

fric'n fricative imperfric perfrication

119RickHarsch
aug 14, 2011, 5:36 pm

fork

120slickdpdx
aug 15, 2011, 12:14 pm

rotgut

121Macumbeira
aug 15, 2011, 12:45 pm

crotchrot

122isabelle612
aug 15, 2011, 1:34 pm


Absquatulate

123RickHarsch
aug 15, 2011, 7:12 pm

second absquatulate

124MeditationesMartini
aug 15, 2011, 7:19 pm

yunk

125slickdpdx
aug 15, 2011, 7:46 pm

Absquatulate is no refudiate.

126Sandydog1
aug 15, 2011, 10:01 pm

noumenon

127isabelle612
aug 16, 2011, 2:45 am

abderian

128isabelle612
aug 16, 2011, 2:45 am

pyknic

129slickdpdx
aug 16, 2011, 5:26 pm

tomfoolery

130isabelle612
aug 17, 2011, 2:01 am

Mallemaroking, basorexia, brontide.

Brontide is my favourite word. Ever.

131absurdeist
Bewerkt: aug 17, 2011, 2:52 am

Well, not quite my favourite word ever (pleasure to make your acquaintance, isabelle!), but in reading tonight, Isaac Babel's story, "In the Basement," came across the word

brio

"My schoolmates listened mouths agape to the fantastic tale I told with so much brio,..."

132RickHarsch
aug 17, 2011, 4:39 am

And just then, Feodor bit off the end of my brio--

133isabelle612
aug 17, 2011, 12:29 pm

Actually, I am known for having lots of brio! ha ha ... And I don't like it when someone bites off the end of my brioche... Nice to meet you too! Both of you.

134anna_in_pdx
aug 17, 2011, 12:38 pm

I love "brio" too. It is one of those words that comes from music, I think. We need to use those words more!

"He's a bit piano for my taste" - Admiral Croft from Persuasion

135slickdpdx
Bewerkt: aug 17, 2011, 2:01 pm

Not a grand piano?

syzygy

136RickHarsch
aug 17, 2011, 7:07 pm

farthing

(Slick--I dated his Syz. sister in high school)

137Sandydog1
aug 17, 2011, 7:46 pm

brannigan

138RickHarsch
aug 17, 2011, 7:51 pm

You mean the P.I. starring Stacey Keach?

139Sandydog1
aug 17, 2011, 8:01 pm

Did Brannigan ever put on a brannigan?

140RickHarsch
aug 17, 2011, 8:13 pm

He put dozens of them behind bars.

141RickHarsch
aug 18, 2011, 5:54 am

gigantomachy

142isabelle612
aug 18, 2011, 6:08 am

batrachophagous

143isabelle612
aug 18, 2011, 4:22 pm

Umbrage. Great word. Just stole it from Freeque Enrique.

144anna_in_pdx
aug 18, 2011, 5:17 pm

Hopefully he won't take any at you.

145isabelle612
aug 19, 2011, 3:15 am

I'm perturbed.

146RickHarsch
aug 19, 2011, 3:55 am

perturbation

147Sandydog1
aug 19, 2011, 6:36 am

desipient

148slickdpdx
aug 19, 2011, 10:45 am

I thought that'd be the antonym of incipient. Like "never happening" or something. I was wrong, apparently, unless with use it came to mean what it does. I can see how it might. No OED at hand.

149dmsteyn
aug 19, 2011, 2:54 pm

peccant

150Sandydog1
aug 20, 2011, 6:53 pm

obeah

As in "hey you, come obeah!"

151dmsteyn
aug 21, 2011, 1:40 pm

hereticate

152henkmet
aug 22, 2011, 10:49 am

>134 anna_in_pdx: when discussing a CD project our conductor asked what were the 'tutti costs' ...

153anna_in_pdx
aug 22, 2011, 11:26 am

152: I love it!

155RickHarsch
aug 24, 2011, 6:01 pm

frag

156DanMat
aug 24, 2011, 7:05 pm

fellmonger

157RickHarsch
aug 24, 2011, 7:28 pm

any monger will do here

158MeditationesMartini
aug 24, 2011, 7:35 pm

'climinalistic'

159RickHarsch
aug 24, 2011, 7:39 pm

clitoralistically

160PabloItalo
aug 24, 2011, 8:13 pm

decay

161tomcatMurr
aug 24, 2011, 8:24 pm

Welcome! (to pabloItalo, who seems to have recently joined both the salon and LT!!)

162RickHarsch
Bewerkt: aug 28, 2011, 3:04 pm

deracinate. (benvenuti, Pablo)

163DanMat
aug 25, 2011, 11:20 am

clerisy (merhba Pablo)

157: Even the whoremonger? Wait, don't answer that...on a sidenote, whoremongery is a nice word.

164Sandydog1
aug 25, 2011, 11:26 am

comminute

165dmsteyn
aug 25, 2011, 12:26 pm

nympholepsy

166RickHarsch
aug 28, 2011, 3:05 pm

ratfink

167urania1
aug 28, 2011, 5:30 pm

lachrymose

168slickdpdx
Bewerkt: aug 29, 2011, 10:37 am

impeccable

another that sounds like what it means

169pyrocow
sep 1, 2011, 7:00 pm

Dit bericht is door zijn auteur gewist.

170RickHarsch
sep 2, 2011, 1:38 pm

urgestrian

171MeditationesMartini
sep 2, 2011, 2:38 pm

whereas

172MeditationesMartini
sep 2, 2011, 2:40 pm

gibes

173MeditationesMartini
sep 2, 2011, 2:40 pm

japes

174MeditationesMartini
sep 2, 2011, 2:40 pm

gambols

175geneg
sep 2, 2011, 4:50 pm

gumballs

176theaelizabet
sep 2, 2011, 5:25 pm

swizzle sticks

177anna_in_pdx
sep 2, 2011, 5:44 pm

geoducks

178RickHarsch
sep 3, 2011, 4:32 am

whereass

179urania1
sep 3, 2011, 12:56 pm

interdisciplinary spanking

180urania1
sep 3, 2011, 12:56 pm

pubic health

181absurdeist
Bewerkt: sep 3, 2011, 3:46 pm

178> I love that one, Rick!

179> classic! And, um, how's your "pubic health" dear?

and since we're speaking of pubic health, how 'bout a mouthful of a word from Ulysses:

contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality

word above's no joke. ImNotDedalus (remember him, our first genius academic hereabouts?; besides Murr, of course) defines the word here.

also, Murr's explication of the same word.

182Sandydog1
sep 3, 2011, 4:41 pm

sciamachy

183RickHarsch
sep 3, 2011, 6:08 pm

word for the day: gefundite

appreciations to Ur for interdisciplinary spanking

and DanMesicknthrowp for the references, the two blues, brillaint tag team litwrestling, i think Murr especially has jimmy down

184Macumbeira
sep 4, 2011, 9:17 am

181 still impressive after all these years

who was this jjskye ? A first rebel ? an avatar ? : )

185urania1
sep 4, 2011, 11:21 am

Would someone please explain to me what penal code is?

Confused in Tennessee

186absurdeist
Bewerkt: sep 4, 2011, 11:34 am

184> Isn't it? So much material there just waiting to be discovered, re-explored. Ahhh, jj. I sincerely miss her (and her creative quilts). May The Quest's first casualty ever R.I.V.P.

U, if you have Kafka's The Penal Colony handy, it may help illumine your inquiry.

187urania1
sep 4, 2011, 1:39 pm

>186 absurdeist: Never ask a misanthropic Dick anything.

188RickHarsch
sep 4, 2011, 3:02 pm

Ur, a visit to any male locker room will answer 93% of your question.

189urania1
sep 4, 2011, 5:03 pm

Rick,

Be more specific.

190RickHarsch
sep 4, 2011, 5:30 pm

93.71899999%

191RickHarsch
sep 4, 2011, 5:31 pm

Exhibit A: Two stalls side by side: does one look?

192urania1
sep 4, 2011, 5:33 pm

Do stalls look? And if so where? Much confused.

193Sandydog1
sep 5, 2011, 12:27 pm

lapidation

I just found a choice use of this word in, A Tramp Abroad.

194RickHarsch
sep 5, 2011, 1:31 pm

Urp,

stalls look
royal one
or not

Jeanie Tayla

195dmsteyn
sep 5, 2011, 2:09 pm

auriferous (like this forum)

196anna_in_pdx
sep 5, 2011, 4:55 pm

Pelagic

197urania1
sep 5, 2011, 5:17 pm

196 is that like Peptobismal?

198RickHarsch
sep 5, 2011, 6:37 pm

patagia

199landskip
sep 5, 2011, 6:41 pm

cocasse

200Sandydog1
sep 5, 2011, 9:32 pm

alula

201RickHarsch
sep 6, 2011, 6:49 am

essacoque

202urania1
sep 6, 2011, 11:12 am

Rick what kind of chicken is an essa. Show pictures please.

203urania1
sep 6, 2011, 11:13 am

Or more to the point what is essa.

204geneg
sep 6, 2011, 11:57 am

When I lived in DC during the sixties, I and some friends would go to Baltimore to the strip clubs. They were very easy to find. Just head for the big Pepto-Bismol sign. It was visible from all over downtown and signified the armpit of Baltimore.

205RickHarsch
sep 6, 2011, 12:23 pm

As Chico Marx would say, 'essa good one, eh boss?'

206RickHarsch
sep 6, 2011, 12:23 pm

Gene, lqarl, but apropos of what?

207geneg
sep 6, 2011, 12:25 pm

Urania at #197 reminded me of that sign. At the time, it was the quintessential landmark of downtown Baltimore.

208Porius
sep 6, 2011, 12:32 pm

Baltimore always con-jurrs up images of Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, Frank Robinson, Mike Cuellar (spelling?), Johnny Unitas and Raymond Berry.

And the movie DINER.

ESSACOQUE, a Rick made-up werd, distaffruester? Essa can always signal Jesus the Christ. Or as old Melville would say: cockadoodledoo.

209urania1
sep 6, 2011, 12:47 pm

I am still not any closer to enlightenment than I was. Alas a lass.

210RickHarsch
sep 6, 2011, 1:07 pm

I remember the big sign in Detroit: ESSACOQUE, you could see it from the French neighborhood in Toronto...

Paul Blair! Cuellar is indeed Cuellar, that screwball. Mark Belanger: what a pleasing name, though it was tough for him to coax a ball into the gap when he batted.

And that, of course brings up those wild visitors of the whorehouses beneath that giant Exxon sign that gave fair Detroit light: Norm Cash (.361), Mickey Lolich, Denny McClain, and another gorgeous name: Al Kaline, and Bill Freehan...Dave Campbell!

211geneg
sep 6, 2011, 1:10 pm

My bat, when I played Little League was named for Ferris Fain. I hit six home runs with that sucker one year.

212urania1
sep 6, 2011, 1:21 pm

I get it. Like a Peptobismal bottle essacoque is a phallic symbol as in urania says to beloved "Essa cocoque! And what a coque it essa. Oh baby I come." . . . or something to that effect.

213slickdpdx
sep 6, 2011, 3:17 pm

211: Don't you mean that you "homered" six times?

214Porius
Bewerkt: sep 6, 2011, 3:30 pm

Al Kaline. A single to right field. Al would lope in and gather in the ball and prepare to make the routine throw to second. Meanwhile the guy who hit the single would take a big turn towards second, for no apparent reason, and Al of course bluffed his routine throw to second, snapped a laser to first as the runner tried desperately to double back. Result: out by five feet. They don't play that game within the game these days, do they?

215RickHarsch
sep 6, 2011, 5:16 pm

Vladimir Guerrero will have been the last. Also the last to simply decide to keep running no matter what. And of course, Clemente probably rarely got an out at first because of his reputation.

216dmsteyn
sep 8, 2011, 11:04 am

ghoti (yes, I know it's not a real word)

217urania1
sep 8, 2011, 4:30 pm

proleptic

218RickHarsch
sep 8, 2011, 4:41 pm

gonif

219RickHarsch
sep 8, 2011, 4:41 pm

antileptic

220RickHarsch
sep 8, 2011, 4:41 pm

dysleptic

221RickHarsch
sep 8, 2011, 4:41 pm

cryptoleptic

222RickHarsch
sep 8, 2011, 4:42 pm

prokleptic

223theaelizabet
sep 8, 2011, 4:50 pm

dyspeptic

224RickHarsch
sep 8, 2011, 6:37 pm

dysapoplectic

225Sandydog1
sep 10, 2011, 2:12 pm

apoplectic

226RickHarsch
sep 10, 2011, 2:43 pm

ineptic

227slickdpdx
sep 10, 2011, 5:24 pm

voluptuary

228baswood
sep 10, 2011, 5:35 pm

puppyism

229Porius
sep 10, 2011, 6:09 pm

hirrient

230guido47
Bewerkt: sep 10, 2011, 8:00 pm

too many posts to read, but a word I have loved for at least 50 years...

Velleity, perhaps a reflection on my personality?

Guido.

231Porius
sep 10, 2011, 8:05 pm

A rare word indeed guido47, i had a slight inclination to look it up but decided against it.

232slickdpdx
sep 10, 2011, 11:56 pm

LQARL, having looked it up...

233urania1
sep 11, 2011, 12:03 am

Also LQARL, having looked it up.

234RickHarsch
sep 11, 2011, 1:08 pm

moribund velleity is one of my favorite phrases

235Porius
sep 11, 2011, 1:47 pm

haecceity

236guido47
sep 11, 2011, 11:53 pm

#235,

What a beautiful word for a Haiku.

237slickdpdx
sep 11, 2011, 11:57 pm

Makes me think of the hee haw show. I am probably pronouncing it wrong.

238Porius
Bewerkt: sep 12, 2011, 12:39 am

hek-see-i-tee, not unrelated to quiddity, or the essence or nature of a thing. To go on, that which, maybe, answers the question (not so perfect for haiku, maybe), quid est=what is it?

A subtle distinction; cavil, quibble.

Something intangible.

Maybe g47, I try not to think about haiku too much. The more you analyze the worse it is for you.

239Macumbeira
sep 12, 2011, 1:28 am

that word is a haiku on itself

240Sandydog1
sep 17, 2011, 9:46 pm

matutinal

I've a busy day tomorrow, time to call it a day...

241anna_in_pdx
okt 26, 2011, 12:42 pm

concatenate

242citygirl
okt 26, 2011, 12:50 pm

cakesniffer

243slickdpdx
Bewerkt: okt 26, 2011, 2:06 pm

242: Another word for a dieter? Oh, now I see its something a bit more per-Snickety!

244Porius
okt 26, 2011, 2:24 pm

Peck-sniffer

245citygirl
okt 26, 2011, 3:06 pm

Funny, slick. It's true. When I did a fast a few months ago, I did a lot of food sniffing. Surprising how satisfying it was.

Por, I don't know what means. Do I want to know what that means?

246Porius
okt 26, 2011, 3:13 pm

Just being silly. Mr. Pecksniff from Dickens.

247citygirl
okt 26, 2011, 3:49 pm

Oh. Haven't read Chuzzlewit. Damn! Just when I was feeling well-read!

circumfusion

248Porius
Bewerkt: okt 26, 2011, 4:42 pm

249RickHarsch
nov 4, 2011, 9:33 am

harp

250Mr.Durick
nov 4, 2011, 6:23 pm

harpy

251slickdpdx
nov 4, 2011, 7:03 pm

I read a story in Brooklyn Noir last week that used 'harp' as a derogatory term for Irishmen.

252baswood
nov 4, 2011, 7:38 pm

Harp larger - an irish larger brewed at the Guinness brewery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp_Lager

253citygirl
nov 5, 2011, 7:09 am

pancakes

As in, I'm craving them and about to see if I can convince Husband to take me to IHOP right now. Wish me luck!

254RickHarsch
nov 5, 2011, 12:48 pm

husbands suck. take it from me, I've been one for...well, I don't know, but a while, at least a decade

255RickHarsch
nov 5, 2011, 12:48 pm

suck

256Mr.Durick
nov 5, 2011, 2:40 pm

IHOP

257RickHarsch
nov 5, 2011, 2:57 pm

POHI--Personal Orodontal Hygiene Instructor

IHOP--I Had an Orgasm, Paul

258slickdpdx
jan 19, 2012, 1:13 pm

Rumbustious!

259quicksiva
jan 19, 2012, 4:27 pm

aporia

260MeditationesMartini
jan 19, 2012, 11:56 pm

bishonen

261guido47
jan 20, 2012, 3:39 am

OK, I give up, Not in my OED.

262MeditationesMartini
jan 20, 2012, 4:10 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishōnen

(I posted the song over in urania's thread.)

263Sandydog1
mei 28, 2012, 10:17 am

thagomizer

264anna_in_pdx
mei 28, 2012, 3:01 pm

263: let's hear it for Gary Larsen. A true genius!

265RickHarsch
mei 28, 2012, 8:00 pm

geophagous

266Mr.Durick
mei 28, 2012, 8:17 pm

dammit, they're fish. I thought they'd be people who ate worlds.

Robert

267RickHarsch
Bewerkt: mei 29, 2012, 5:38 am

you mean the orbophages?

268Sandydog1
mei 29, 2012, 9:06 pm

264 (oh, Anna Dear),

I didn't even know that term's origins. Hilarious! I picked that one up while reading Spalding's Dinosaur Hunters. There was absolutely no reference to one of our most famous of naturalists, Mr. Larsen.

269Sandydog1
jul 7, 2012, 8:07 pm

Opprobious

Look out, I haven't been so full of it since I read Rabelais

'Currently reading Milton.

270RidgewayGirl
jul 18, 2012, 9:44 am

cullion

271Porius
jul 18, 2012, 11:58 am

A rascally fellow.

272anna_in_pdx
jul 18, 2012, 12:00 pm

Enantiomer which is a term in chemistry (which I did NOT ever take in school) meaning non superimposable mirror image (yes, I don't understand that either). Funnily enough, the word was used in a political article discussing similar-yet-different congressional campaigns. I am impressed by the policy wonk using such a high octane word.

273RickHarsch
jul 19, 2012, 1:43 pm

haughty

274baswood
jul 19, 2012, 5:27 pm

wellaway

275RickHarsch
jul 19, 2012, 5:53 pm

frump

276Sandydog1
jul 21, 2012, 5:40 pm

draff

277Porius
jul 21, 2012, 5:53 pm

Johnson 1755: sweepings, refuse, lees, dregs. eg, a draff of filthy errors - 1755; of filthy stories -1205.
Residue of husks after fernenration of grain. Feed for cattle.
draf - Old Norse
trebir - Old High German
drob - Russian

- a draff of wickershams.

278RickHarsch
aug 1, 2012, 5:02 pm

knout

280RickHarsch
aug 1, 2012, 6:17 pm

lqarl

281RickHarsch
sep 29, 2012, 6:53 pm

snout

282Sandydog1
okt 29, 2012, 6:17 pm

tempest

283tomcatMurr
okt 29, 2012, 10:20 pm

dejecta

284RickHarsch
okt 31, 2012, 6:15 am

mortambulo

285Sandydog1
nov 3, 2012, 5:13 pm

marathon

286RickHarsch
nov 6, 2012, 5:56 am

tripartisan

287anna_in_pdx
nov 6, 2012, 11:27 am

landslide

288RickHarsch
nov 6, 2012, 3:36 pm

avelaunch

289baswood
nov 15, 2012, 6:08 pm

lunch

290ChocolateMuse
nov 16, 2012, 1:27 am

^ especially in France.

291Mr.Durick
nov 16, 2012, 4:47 am

Especially at the Costco food court.

Robert

292ChocolateMuse
nov 16, 2012, 4:56 am

delurk

293Macumbeira
nov 16, 2012, 1:59 pm

especially at "La Perouse" in Paris

294Mr.Durick
nov 16, 2012, 4:09 pm

Especially the hot turkey and provolone sandwich at Costco.

Robert

295urania1
nov 16, 2012, 8:59 pm

puissant as in the most high, noble, and puissant urania.

296RickHarsch
nov 17, 2012, 12:51 pm

pissant

297Sandydog1
nov 17, 2012, 9:43 pm

pissoire

298baswood
nov 18, 2012, 5:16 pm

epistle

299Sandydog1
nov 18, 2012, 5:33 pm

pistil

300RickHarsch
nov 21, 2012, 5:06 am

pissilious

301RickHarsch
nov 21, 2012, 5:06 am

psst

302anna_in_pdx
nov 21, 2012, 12:12 pm

cesspool

303RickHarsch
nov 21, 2012, 4:20 pm

pottymouth

304Mr.Durick
nov 21, 2012, 5:48 pm

veeblefetzer

305baswood
nov 21, 2012, 6:17 pm

fossick

306Mr.Durick
nov 21, 2012, 7:14 pm

axolotl

307RickHarsch
nov 22, 2012, 5:50 pm

double axolotl

308Porius
nov 22, 2012, 7:33 pm

pfook

309baswood
nov 23, 2012, 4:47 am

akubra

310Mr.Durick
nov 23, 2012, 2:44 pm

I have to say it or I may never be rid of it:

kerf

313RickHarsch
nov 25, 2012, 7:23 am

hejnał (Polish. Trumpet. Ten seconds to each of the four directions, breaking off at the end as if the trumpeter was shot in the neck by an arrow, commemorating the 1242 (?) attack by the Tatars, who shot the warning trumpeter in the neck with an arrow. Pronounced Heynow.)

314Sandydog1
nov 25, 2012, 1:34 pm

exogeny

316RickHarsch
nov 25, 2012, 6:50 pm

excorporal

317RickHarsch
nov 28, 2012, 5:17 pm

scarm

318Mr.Durick
nov 28, 2012, 5:26 pm

Scandinavian

319baswood
nov 28, 2012, 5:45 pm

scaramouche

320I-_-I
nov 29, 2012, 5:44 pm

scarab

321I-_-I
nov 29, 2012, 5:44 pm

arable

322I-_-I
nov 29, 2012, 5:45 pm

blazes

323Mr.Durick
nov 29, 2012, 5:59 pm

oleaginous

324RickHarsch
nov 29, 2012, 6:30 pm

gin

325Porius
nov 29, 2012, 6:34 pm

lea-gin

327guido47
dec 3, 2012, 2:36 am

#310,

My Dear Sir,

Is your 'kerf' a 1) notch
2) slit
3) channel
4) other

Inquiring minds would like to know.

Your servant,

Guido.

328Mr.Durick
dec 3, 2012, 4:38 am

It is the build up alongside the cut in a sawed piece of wood.

Robert

329guido47
dec 3, 2012, 4:59 am

My Dear Mr.Durick,

May I call you 'Robert'?

Well, this is (I think) only the 4th time that I have had a chance to show off my "Complete OED". OK only on CD. And definitely "Show Off" :-)
..............................................................
kerf

(kɜːf)

Forms: α. 1 cyrf, 4 kyrf, 5 kirf, 6 kyrfe. β. 4–7 kerfe, (4–5 -ff(e), 4– kerf, (9 dial. curf, kurf). γ. See carf.

OE. cyrf, app.:—*kurƀi-, f. *kurƀ- (cf. ON. kurf-r chip, kyrfa to cut), ablaut-form of *kerƀ, stem of OE. ceorfan to carve. Hence ME. kirf, giving later kerf and karf; cf. kernel and carnel from ME. kirnel, OE. cyrnel. Cf. (with different stem vowel) Du. kerf, Ger. kerb, kerbe; also ON. kjarf, Icel. kerfi, bundle (of twigs, etc.), Sw. kärfve sheaf.

1.1 The act of cutting or carving; a cut, stroke; †power of cutting. Now rare.

c 1000 Ælfric Hom. II. 406 ‘Ælc treow ðe ne wyrcð godne wæstm bið forcorfen.‥’ Be ðisum cyrfe spræc se Hælend on oðre stowe. 13‥ Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 372 ‘Kepe þe cosyn’, quoth þe kyng, ‘þat þou on kyrf sette’. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 152 With sondri kerf and pourtreture Thei made of goddes the figure. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxvii. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 234 b/1 Þe kuttinge of vines schal be aslonte‥so þat in þe oþer side afore þe knotte þe kerfe schal passe. 1892 Vizetelly tr. Zola's Débâcle 289 Then, with a single kerf of the saw, he lopped them off.

†b.1.b Humorous term for a company of pantry-men. Obs.

1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij, A Kerff of Panteris; a Credens of Seweris; an vnbrewyng of Kerueris. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4) App., A Kerf of Panthers (among some Venatory writers), is taken for a company of Panthers.

2.2 The result of cutting; the incision, notch, slit, etc., made by cutting, esp. by a saw.

1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §136 Bycause it a saw is thyn, it wyll cut the narowe kyrfe. 1664 Evelyn Sylva (1776) 132 Cut your kerfe near to the ground, but have a care the Tree suffer not in the fall. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 156 The felling of such a tree must require much labour, since those of but one inch have eight or ten strokes, distinctly marked, and a very good kerf is allowed. 1812–16 J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I 99 The saw, when cutting, takes away the wood at the two sides of the kerf. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 121 A matter-of-fact place is a sawmill.‥ Its great problem is how to minimize the ‘kerf’, the kerf being the track of the saw.

†b.2.b fig. The furrow made by a ship's keel. rare.

c 1422 Hoccleve Learn to Die 203 As a ship þat is sayllynge‥Whos kerfe nat fownden is whan past is shee.

3.3 The place at which a tree or branch is or has been cut across; the cut end or surface either on a felled or pruned tree.

c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 190 Turne euery kirf aweyward from the grape; Lest droppyng do hit harm. 1664 Evelyn Sylva 85 A Tree‥thirteen foot diameter at the Kerf, or cutting place neer the Root. Ibid. 92 One foot of Timber neer the Root (which is the proper kerfe, or cutting place) is worth three farther off. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 161 The Oaks had none of them any roots, but plainly cut off at the kerf, as is used in felling Timber. 1868 Blackley Word Gossip (1869) 161 (E.D.D.) A woodman will say that a felled tree ‘measures so and so, not counting the kurf’.

4.4 A piece or quantity cut off; a cutting (of anything).

1678 Phillips (ed. 4) App. s.v., Among Woodmen Kerf signifieth a parcel of Loppings of wood. 1730 in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 352 Carrying away a Kerfe of half a foot of earth. 1890 Cent. Dict., Kerf, in a cloth-shearing machine, the wool taken off in one passage through the cutter.

5.5 Comb. as †kerf-shears.

1356 in Riley Mem. London (1868) 283 4 small anfeldes for goldsmiths, and 2 kerfsheres.

Hence ˈkerfed a., having kerfs or slits. ˈkerfing-machine, a machine for sawing kerfs in a board (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
.....................................................................

I do wonder what "pantry men" are/do?

Guido.

330anna_in_pdx
dec 3, 2012, 2:27 pm

If I remember correctly there is an entire essay about kerfs and sawing. I think it might be by Aldo Leopold. It is a great word, isn't it?

331Mr.Durick
dec 3, 2012, 3:56 pm

I cannot find in Google images what kerf means to me. When you cross cut a board on a table saw you can get a neat line of sawdust right alongside the cut (which itself apparently can be called a kerf); I have heard that line of sawdust called a kerf.

Robert

332RickHarsch
dec 6, 2012, 3:10 pm

pantry-men

The Kerf of the Pantry-Men

by the author of

Riders of the Purple Sage

333baswood
apr 22, 2013, 4:03 am

dingus

334jbbarret
apr 22, 2013, 4:19 am

trunnion

335jbbarret
Bewerkt: apr 22, 2013, 4:34 am

Dit bericht is door zijn auteur gewist.

336RickHarsch
apr 22, 2013, 4:51 am

mephitine

337Sandydog1
apr 26, 2013, 9:39 pm

grunion

338varielle
apr 27, 2013, 12:13 pm

Maharani

339MeditationesMartini
apr 27, 2013, 8:18 pm

Mantovani

340RickHarsch
apr 28, 2013, 5:42 am

mortadella

341jbbarret
apr 28, 2013, 3:02 pm

futtocks

342baswood
mei 7, 2013, 4:15 am

cornucopia

343Macumbeira
mei 7, 2013, 12:16 pm

Flabbergasted

344pcaidis
mei 7, 2013, 12:19 pm

url=http://www.jupi.ltLinksmi, juokingi/url
url=http://www.scriptai.ltscriptai.lt/url
url=http://www.durniuok.ltJUokingos/url

346MeditationesMartini
mei 7, 2013, 12:49 pm

it's not an easy choice, but I'll take "durniuok" over "scriptai."

347anna_in_pdx
mei 7, 2013, 2:43 pm

Wow, spam is getting so surreal.

348jbbarret
mei 7, 2013, 2:45 pm

>346 MeditationesMartini: What's wrong with us jupis?

349Macumbeira
mei 7, 2013, 3:45 pm

Why am I not surprised it is the Lithuanians again...?

350RickHarsch
mei 7, 2013, 4:40 pm

candelabra

351Macumbeira
mei 12, 2013, 2:33 pm

antidiluvian

352Mr.Durick
mei 12, 2013, 3:20 pm

cisdiluvian

353RickHarsch
mei 12, 2013, 4:40 pm

invalidiluvian

354Sandydog1
mei 12, 2013, 8:36 pm

idiopathicodiluvian?

355RickHarsch
mei 13, 2013, 3:04 am

I take that as an insult

356Sandydog1
mei 14, 2013, 10:11 pm

prelapsarian

357jbbarret
mei 21, 2013, 10:55 am

merrythought

358RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 2:51 am

frank

359RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 2:51 am

lank

360RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 2:52 am

wank

361RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 2:52 am

skank

362RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 2:52 am

flank

363RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 2:52 am

rank

364RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 2:52 am

stank

365RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 2:53 am

yank

366MeditationesMartini
mei 22, 2013, 3:41 am

some Izola wags decided to have some fun at the expense of the ...?

367MeditationesMartini
mei 22, 2013, 3:41 am

sherman tank

368jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 3:48 am

sank

369jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 4:16 am

spank

370jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 4:16 am

drank

371jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 4:18 am

hank

372jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 4:18 am

bank

373jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 4:19 am

thank

374RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 4:19 am

See, I just don't like some ank words.

Now, this one is good

hanky

375RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 4:20 am

Panky, with hanky

376RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 4:20 am

hijinks

377RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 4:20 am

jinx

378RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 4:20 am

stinks

379RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 4:20 am

The Maeterlincks

380RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 4:20 am

lynx

381jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 4:21 am

blank

382jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 4:21 am

crank

383jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 4:21 am

clank

384RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 4:21 am

prinx (to flitter between tables at a public dinner event to which you weren't invited--so and so prinxed passed our table...)

385jbbarret
mei 22, 2013, 5:32 am

psithurism

386Macumbeira
mei 22, 2013, 2:02 pm

The good thing about this String is that it pumps up our activity statistics

387MeditationesMartini
mei 22, 2013, 2:27 pm

ha

388RickHarsch
mei 22, 2013, 7:44 pm

gruel

389anna_in_pdx
mei 23, 2013, 2:22 pm

hygienist

390RickHarsch
mei 23, 2013, 3:01 pm

stygian

391RickHarsch
mei 23, 2013, 3:02 pm

giantism

392RickHarsch
mei 23, 2013, 3:02 pm

magnet

393janeajones
mei 23, 2013, 8:55 pm

let's go somewhere else -- postlapsarianism

394RickHarsch
mei 24, 2013, 9:47 am

plaguer

395varielle
mei 24, 2013, 11:03 am

plongeur

396RickHarsch
mei 24, 2013, 12:27 pm

Vagleur

397Sandydog1
mei 24, 2013, 10:41 pm

poutine

398RickHarsch
mei 24, 2013, 10:45 pm

entrepot

399varielle
mei 25, 2013, 8:21 pm

Escargot

400Mr.Durick
mei 28, 2013, 5:46 pm

Escargot is such a good word that I considered just putting it in again. But then, this morning, I discovered 'cronut.'

Robert

401RickHarsch
mei 28, 2013, 7:04 pm

Crogargot is next.

402Mr.Durick
Bewerkt: mei 28, 2013, 9:24 pm

A really buttery fresh croissant with plenty of very garlicky snail butter added and so loaded with escargot that the croissant can't hold it all -- that's a good word.

Robert

PS They haven't quite achieved it, but this might be something to eat while waiting for the real thing.



R

403RickHarsch
mei 29, 2013, 3:42 am

I can't get it off my screen.

404Sandydog1
mei 29, 2013, 9:42 pm

I don't know. I don't eat too much from the class gastropoda. But then again, I rarely eat anything that doesn't have a backbone...

405Mr.Durick
mei 30, 2013, 2:37 am

Now there's a good reason not to eat summer squash -- no backbone. On the other hand 'summer squash' is a mighty fine word, in a manner of speaking.

Robert

406RickHarsch
mei 31, 2013, 11:43 am

drygulcher

407baswood
jun 1, 2013, 1:54 pm

quiddities

408RickHarsch
jun 1, 2013, 3:05 pm

Squiddities

409baswood
jun 1, 2013, 6:43 pm

sapid

410RickHarsch
jun 1, 2013, 7:44 pm

talpine

411jbbarret
jun 2, 2013, 4:06 am

sabretache

412Macumbeira
Bewerkt: jun 2, 2013, 5:16 am

Detumescence

413RickHarsch
jun 2, 2013, 7:20 am

she's lying

414Macumbeira
jun 2, 2013, 2:03 pm

down ?

415baswood
jun 19, 2013, 5:37 am

asinine

416RickHarsch
jun 19, 2013, 9:15 am

flattened

417anna_in_pdx
jun 19, 2013, 12:25 pm

Yesterday I got teased by my team for saying "anodyne" in a meeting. I retracted it and went with "bland."

:(

418RickHarsch
jun 19, 2013, 12:53 pm

tepid minds at work?

419Macumbeira
jun 19, 2013, 2:02 pm

417 Oh come on Anna, so disappointing ! Never descend to their level ! If they don't understand you, it is not your fault they are philistines...Just give them the Kramskoi "look"

http://www.macumbeira.com/2010/11/grushenka.html

420RickHarsch
jun 19, 2013, 2:32 pm

That would do me in.

421Sandydog1
jun 25, 2013, 9:23 pm

Mac,

I could never have thought of a better retort and compliment to Anna. That painting was perfection.

422janeajones
jun 26, 2013, 3:12 pm

gorgeous painting

423baswood
aug 19, 2013, 4:43 pm

synderesis

424RickHarsch
aug 20, 2013, 7:05 am

hedge

425Sandydog1
aug 22, 2013, 9:26 pm

askutasquash

426RickHarsch
aug 24, 2013, 8:31 am

I'll bet you would at that.