connen - From Middle English can (first and third person singular of cunnen, connen "to be able, know how") from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan ("to know how"), from Proto-Germanic *kunnanan, from Proto-Indo-European, *ǵn̥néh₃-. Compare Dutch kunnen, German können, Danish kunne. More at canny, cunning. (Wiktionary)
1.The human face; casten ~ upon, look at (sb.); the face or presence (of God); (b) the face (of a flower, star); surface.
2.The face as expressing emotion, attitude, or character; facial expression, mien; glad of ~, with glade ~, etc.; (b) maken chere, make a (certain) face, assume or display a (certain) mien or expression; maken cheres, make faces, grimace.
3.A gesture or act indicative of an attitude or intention; (b) outward appearance or show; display (of emotion); insincere show of affection; feined ~; frend of ~, insincere friend.
4.The way in which one behaves; manner, bearing, behavior, or an instance of it; bele ~, ~ of court, polite or courtly manner.
5.Frame of mind, state of feeling, spirit; mood, humor; casten ~ upon, set one's heart upon (sth.); chaungen ~, change (one's) mood or mind, esp. for the better; menden ~; of on ~, of one mind; god ~, good spirit, cheerfulness, gladness; (b) good cheer or humor; gladness, happiness, joy; taken ~ on honde, take heart, become cheerful; (c) what chere? how do you feel?, how are you?; (d) maken chere, to be in a (certain) mood; maken god ~, be of good cheer; maken (rial) ~, make merry, feast; etc.
6. Kindness, friendliness, sympathy, hospitality (as shown a visitor or friend); glad ~, god ~; haven ~, enjoy someone's hospitality; haven ~ unto, be kind to (sb.); haven in ~, cherish (sb.); (b) short, ungodli ~, unkind reception or treatment (of a visitor).
7. maken (sb.) chere, to treat (sb.) kindly or hospitably; welcome, entertain; also, to humor, amuse, or flatter (sb.); of a dog: to fawn; maken swich ~, treat in such a way (that); (b) maken fair, glad, god, gret ~, to receive or treat (sb.) kindly, affectionately, or hospitably.
I like the Spanish name for the high desert plains in Southwest New Mexico - San Agustin (St Augustine) where the Very Large Array is located. I see san(d) plus a+gust+in. It is inspired name in more than one language!
The Parliament of Bees is a series of dialogues on the subject of "the doings, the births, the wars, the wooings" of bees. The bees hold a parliament under Prorex, the Master Bee, and various complaints are preferred against the humble-bee, the wasp, the drone and other offenders. ~ Wikipedia
fore play, inplay, aft play... what did you say?...(outsay (play) .. out play?...be-have!....a brisk risk?.... a chance dance??.... a stance dance?----apply fly...Does it play in Peoria?
Let her fly! - a postal response - (inviting a wet washcloth in your direction) ...as part of the initiation into the 'order of the fly'... gold in them thar flies...oh lordie, lordy
Heraclitan water? Πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei) "everything flows"
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
(New Latin belemnītēs, from Greek belemnon, dart; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)) from etymolgy above - also see etymologies for parable, hyperbole, quell, and abulia for further references to gwelə-
From Middle English ethe ("not difficult, easy"), from Old English ēaþe, īeþe ("easy, smooth, not difficult"), from Proto-Germanic *auþijaz (“easy, pleasing”), from *auþiz (“deserted, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *aut- (“empty, lonely”). Cognate with Scots eith ("easy"), Old Saxon ōþi ("deserted, empty"), Old High German ōdi ("empty, abandoned, easy, effortless"), Middle High German öde (German öde, "blank, vacant, easy"), Old Norse auðr ("deserted, empty"), Icelandic auð ("easy"), Gothic ̸̴̰̹̿̓ (auþeis, "desolate, deserted"). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian vetëm ("alone") from vet ("his/her/their own, self"). More at easy. (Wiktionary)
"Writings on rhythmics. Part of book 2 of an Elementa Rhythmica survives. It argues that rhythm is a temporal structure imposed on, not inherent in, what is ‘rhythmized’ (to rhythmizomenon); and it defines rhythmic forms, by reference to a ‘primary duration’ (prōtos chronos), in terms of the ratio between arsis (anō chronos, up-beat) and thesis (katō chronos, down-beat). " - article by Andrew Barker
Bill Veeck inspired me to imagine this word. He was the exploder of modern baseball with his exploding scoreboard in the 1950s for the Chicago Right Soxs. He wrote a classic "Veeck as in Wreck"! Great Fun and Imagination!
“Soul” (nefesh, verses 2, 3, 5, 6) - in Psalm 42-: This term, often not translated (lest one read into the text the much later bifurcation of life into the negative body and positive soul, a duality alien to the Bible), meaning approximately “life force,” is central to this psalm, and requires literal translation. Through this usage the poet establishes the early dialogic nature of the opening, a tearing internal conversation (“an inner debate within the poet’s psyche” – M. Cohen). He battles with himself (the essence of the recurrent refrain), and is thus able to convey his lack of control of his own reactions. In turn, his soul desires, is overwhelmed by what should be positive recollections, and is distraught. Primarily, it yearns in pain. In a beautiful pun, the soul (the Hebrew word also can mean “neck/throat”) is the locus of longing for God/water. - Scheheter Institute of Jewish Studies **http://psalms.schechter.edu/2010/12/psalm-42-3-why-so-downcast-my-soul-text.html
It appears to be a tinted list - orange, silver, olive, almond, iron - even without purple no matter how you paint it. There's some penguin - black & whilte - to it.
Nice to have you back papageno - We missed you when you were papagone!
A powder (especially, the gum of the juniper-tree reduced to a finely pulverized state, or finely powdered pipe-clay darkened by charcoal) inclosed in a bag of some open stuff, and passed over holes pricked in a design to transfer the lines to a paper underneath. This kind of pounce is used by embroiderers to transfer their patterns to their stuffs; also by fresco-painters, and sometimes by engravers.
Old English horn "horn of an animal," also "wind instrument" (originally made from animal horns), from Proto-Germanic *hurnaz (cf. German Horn, Dutch horen, Gothic haurn), from PIE *ker- "horn; head, uppermost part of the body," with derivatives refering to horned animals, horn-shaped objects and projecting parts (cf. Greek karnon "horn," Latin cornu "horn," Sanskrit srngam "horn," Persian sar "head," Avestan sarah- "head," Greek koryphe "head," Latin cervus "deer," Welsh carw "deer"). Reference to car horns is first recorded 1901. Figurative senses of Latin cornu included "salient point, chief argument; wing, flank; power, courage, strength." Jazz slang sense of "trumpet" is by 1921. Meaning "telephone" is by 1945. - Online Etymology
guest and host (and also hostile, hospice, hospital and hospitable ) are from the same Indo-European root, ghos-ti- , a stranger or 'someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality.'
Can it get much stranger? Give the outside a ghost (ghost is derived from the IE root gheis- - spirit, breathe) of a chance!
- Gerard Manley Hopkins The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe
Weg zur Himmelsburg.
"There is only one remedy for that: a chlorophyll conferring the faculty of feeding on light......There is only one fault: incapacity to feed upon light, for where the capacity to do this has been lost all faults are possible." -- Simone Weil Gravity and Grace
The 'toise' was introduced by Charlemagne in 790; it originally represented the distance between the fingertips of a man with outstretched arms, and is thus the same as the British 'fathom'.”
Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" (1935) refers to a kind of popular dance of West Indian origin, from French colloquial béguin "an infatuation, boyfriend, girlfriend," earlier "child's bonnet," and before that "nun's headdress" (14c.), from Middle Dutch beggaert, ultimately the same word. - Online Etymology Dict.
and an order of women religious
late 15c., from French béguine (13c.), Medieval Latin beguina, a member of a women's spiritual order said to have been founded c.1180 in Liege in the Low Countries. They are said to take their name from the surname of Lambert le Bègue "Lambert the Stammerer," a Liege priest who was instrumental in their founding, and it's likely the word was pejorative at first.
The order generally preserved its reputation, though it quickly drew imposters who did not; nonetheless it eventually was condemned as heretical. A male order, called Beghards founded communities by the 1220s in imitation of them, but they soon degenerated (cf. Old French beguin "(male) Beguin," also "hypocrite") and wandered begging in the guise of religion; they likely were the source of the words beg and beggar, though there is disagreement over whether Beghard produced Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant" or was produced by it. OnLine Etymology Dict.
An older grouchy word is crab, which comes not from the crustacean but the sour crab apple, which in turn may come from Swedish dialect word skrabba, “fruit of the wild apple-tree,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Crab came to refer to a sour person in the 1570s.--- Wordie: Errata 29 Jan 2013
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fbharjo commented on the word deja rue
traveled down this road before
May 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word deja loo
SOS
May 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word deja too
re#-hash
rehashedhash
May 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word deja moo
If you listen too much it becomes deja goo
May 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word deja goo
too much deja moo
May 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word Urumqi
sounds like a candidate for swishy-burbles Intriguing-places .
May 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word Chilili
also see chilili
May 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word Poquaque
Pueblo north of Santa Fe - rhymes with Milwaukee
May 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list a-selfie-list
Chalfie - a North Dakota town near Fargo
April 30, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list words-i-made-up--1
You may also like hyblends.
April 18, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word inusitate uintaites
It paints an unusual piece. .....(of a Utah mountain range?)
April 18, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word flexuous - useful ox
it has a boustrophedonic feel to it!
April 18, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word jangeling
Middle English - arguing, squabbling
April 18, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word dithyramb - rabid myth
also 'bard thymi'
April 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word saezuri
twittering or chirping of birds - Japanese
April 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word kigo
season word
April 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word prosenchyma ponymarches
prosenchyma
April 15, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word binotic bitcoin
Unsound stereo exchange?
April 15, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word contemplation manciple tonto
not sweet and sour enough? too many humps?
April 14, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list bobs-burgers
they must be future episodes? (further burgers??)
April 14, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word meditation minted iota
also intime toad: omit detain: mat edition: Titian dome: anime ditto
April 13, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list bobs-burgers
lot'a laughs
silly sallies
boundary breaks
fillharmonic
wicked waltz
change chaconne
rechaosion
April 13, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word contemplation manciple tonto
... and maniple cotton: locoman pitten: catnip moonlet: moltant paction
April 13, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word contemplation manciple tonto
also monactine plot: complaint note: place monotint: tan completion: telamon pontic
April 13, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word veronica
Does Veronica literally mean 'true icon'?
April 10, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word bristleconepine cenobitepilsner
an old monk's beer?
April 8, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list hiding-places
Ambuscade? Ankh-core (anchor)?
April 8, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word undershout thunderous
also shroudtune thunderous: rushedunto thunderous
April 8, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word maraschino harmonicas
makes cherry sounds
April 4, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word ojota
flip-flops - from Quechua ushuta
April 4, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list the-best-tweets-of-yugoyouth
C O Jones (cojones) - rocky mountain oysters
KC out west!
April 4, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word medolour
fitting <b>mixture</b> of colors for <i>Julian of Norwich</i>
April 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word prymer
pry more with a primer?
April 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word kirtel
Middle English - peasant garb
April 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word Blorenge
There is something about a mountain and a molehill herein contained! It is naranjo!
April 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word louen
Middle English - brilliant, blazing, ardent
April 2, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word flauming
Middle English - flaming
April 2, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word slade
In Julian's time, a moat.
April 2, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list the-several-stages-of-wordie-addiction
glamorous grammar hammerous (humorous)...and more
April 2, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list the-several-stages-of-wordie-addiction
okragracious! anaceous!
April 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list the-janus-file
.....or transdiction? (subduction)?
March 28, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word muculent
What a rucus!
March 27, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list air-raid-precautions-1939-1945
air rid repellent spray - a dry rye not
March 27, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word s'not snot
Is it not?
March 27, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list call-me-russell---russell-peters
The angel did wrestle with Jakob. Well?
March 27, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word skive
con-skive? (or conskyvial)
March 26, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list call-me-russell---russell-peters
Russell in arabic is 'messenger'!
March 26, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word postcards
Where are the precards?
March 26, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word fourragière
How square is that?
March 26, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word galen..tree
barking up the right and left true tree
March 26, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word blum–shub–smale machine
Small and ....irrational rational numbers primed!
March 26, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word artisanal
t-artisanal??
March 26, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word autophage
phagephase?
March 26, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word beetroot
...and the beet goes on....
...root it on (and down)?...
March 22, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list words-to-know--11
*ǵn̥néh₃-.
March 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word cann
connen - From Middle English can (first and third person singular of cunnen, connen "to be able, know how") from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan ("to know how"), from Proto-Germanic *kunnanan, from Proto-Indo-European, *ǵn̥néh₃-. Compare Dutch kunnen, German können, Danish kunne. More at canny, cunning. (Wiktionary)
March 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word dorre
Middle English - humming insect
March 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word dor
dorre
March 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word Hatch it
Chop. Chop
March 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list droning
Tock
March 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list droning
Tow bask go
March 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list run-dry-run-dry-run-dry
right wing nut has the wrong ring to a dragee.?!
March 13, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word chere
Middle English:
chere (n.(1)) Also cher, chiere, chir(e, cheir.
OF chiere, chere (from L cara, ultim. Gr. kára macron head).
1.The human face; casten ~ upon, look at (sb.); the face or presence (of God); (b) the face (of a flower, star); surface.
2.The face as expressing emotion, attitude, or character; facial expression, mien; glad of ~, with glade ~, etc.; (b) maken chere, make a (certain) face, assume or display a (certain) mien or expression; maken cheres, make faces, grimace.
3.A gesture or act indicative of an attitude or intention; (b) outward appearance or show; display (of emotion); insincere show of affection; feined ~; frend of ~, insincere friend.
4.The way in which one behaves; manner, bearing, behavior, or an instance of it; bele ~, ~ of court, polite or courtly manner.
5.Frame of mind, state of feeling, spirit; mood, humor; casten ~ upon, set one's heart upon (sth.); chaungen ~, change (one's) mood or mind, esp. for the better; menden ~; of on ~, of one mind; god ~, good spirit, cheerfulness, gladness; (b) good cheer or humor; gladness, happiness, joy; taken ~ on honde, take heart, become cheerful; (c) what chere? how do you feel?, how are you?; (d) maken chere, to be in a (certain) mood; maken god ~, be of good cheer; maken (rial) ~, make merry, feast; etc.
6. Kindness, friendliness, sympathy, hospitality (as shown a visitor or friend); glad ~, god ~; haven ~, enjoy someone's hospitality; haven ~ unto, be kind to (sb.); haven in ~, cherish (sb.); (b) short, ungodli ~, unkind reception or treatment (of a visitor).
7. maken (sb.) chere, to treat (sb.) kindly or hospitably; welcome, entertain; also, to humor, amuse, or flatter (sb.); of a dog: to fawn; maken swich ~, treat in such a way (that); (b) maken fair, glad, god, gret ~, to receive or treat (sb.) kindly, affectionately, or hospitably.
U of Mich Middle English Dict
March 9, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word happe
hap
March 5, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word bowke
Middle English - chest
March 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word becloseth
Encloses
March 2, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word meane
In the sense of a go-between. The middle note of a triad.
March 2, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word homely
In the sense of its 14th century usage - at ease, comfortable
March 2, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word hergian
Old English - to harry or despoil
March 1, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word plumkin
....and I love your hair!
February 25, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word liberal
It is in Kansas, isn't it? SW Kansas!
February 25, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word altcoin
koined-coin
February 22, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word repo duck shin heal
very heeling?
February 22, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word parenthesesfarian
between the ( )!
How are you doing?
February 22, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word verboss
who's boss?
February 22, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word tabmow
now batting....ready to mow 'em down!
February 21, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word iceality
How n...ice!!! Get real?(appeal)?
February 21, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word parade rest
View ous
February 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word parade rest
Pare com fan
February 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word parade rest
more-oxy-eon and on......for eons
February 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list •-prime-numbers-in-songs
slime numbers slink in turtletortisely!
February 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word █████
white on!!!
February 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word Optimystic
A prophetic seer?
February 15, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word noonsoon
noontune...noonlater...noonfore
February 14, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word secheresse du coeur
the heart of the mattering (no matter how maddening!)
February 14, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word brane
in the samebranevein?
February 13, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word skinny pig
Or Sgt Peppered (LoneHart) Rag-thyme Band?- (let's not split hairs! (rarebit rabbit hares)?
February 13, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word buttered cat array
better than (butter) margarinal rat astray
February 13, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word genuflect article
genuinely?
February 10, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word vowel bigot
Is it related to a r rolling tricklet? What a rill!
February 10, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word exhomologein
Greek: acknowledgement, thanksgiving, amazement, joy, praise
February 8, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word Fanta Caramel
I care mela more!?
February 8, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word Fanta Caramel
How does one inject anything into this?
February 8, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word dhu'l-hijja
literally, the one of the pilgrimage
February 8, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word 7457
gdeg (7457) is off the grid = 7(18)94. Where do we go from here (85(18)5). we mus t use at least base 18.
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word 7457
7457 equals an equalangular spiral rotating upon tangential apex!
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word 7457
23 skidoo = 7+4+5+7.....Is it #butterflywing #turboturbulence?
Is it lower higher-glyphics?
Probably belongs in the Nile File!
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word 7457
How do you outspire! Is that out of character? Free Tibet!....Free Wordie! viva la chance!
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word home backup
= home front?
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word home stool
as easy as home rule
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word home sit
as opposed to a home stand
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list homegroan-puns
I do not know where this will l.e.d.?
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word groan(w)ing panes
a new window?
February 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word epiphany
N-Sight (site)? Nidpoint?
January 24, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word numbery
Mumberry=Mull+Berry? Berry mull? Mull set?
January 24, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list bucky-fullers-projectiles
Some balls should just be thrown away and some bucked (tucked) away (at dome?)! Oh ge-o-desic?
January 23, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list bucky-fullers-projectiles
There is plenty of room for more BuckyBalls
January 23, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word apagoge
the yb of alpha omega!
January 21, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word apagoge
Yippie-ky-ya-ky-ouwe!
January 21, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list thats-so-raven
Be Rave on and on and on
January 20, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list what-flies-like-a-what-what
Everyone (who has contributed to this list), take a bow! - a long bow!....and take another shot!
January 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word pais
Greek meaning servant or child
January 19, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word glory flies like thwarted potential
... and all kinecticing points?
January 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word crow flies like an arrow
...as a crow flies...
January 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word crow flies like an arrow
straight between two points
January 17, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word speech banana
apple over?..... there should be other fruit comparisons... a potential list?
January 14, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word adobeabode
a brick trick
January 10, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word dehyphenated
figuratively?
January 10, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word dehyphenated
has no dash?
January 10, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word mooncusser
just becussed!? (justice rains?) or does that fog the tissue?
January 8, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word parapraxis
orthopraxis
January 6, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word orthopraxis
'right-living/practice'
January 6, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word fugacious
takes both/and gives flight?!
January 6, 2014
fbharjo commented on the user dropofocean
'Everything that converges must rise' - to borrow a line from Teilhard de Chardin
January 6, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word playly play
playfully play
January 6, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word punicial
Of a bright red or purple color.
January 4, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word aristarchus
a bright crater on the moon
January 4, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word nimblewit
an alert, bright, and clever person
January 4, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word bemoonglade
be+moonglade
January 4, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word beled
be-LED
January 4, 2014
fbharjo commented on the list qreen-tailed
Hear here! Hear there? Hear where?
excetera....excetera..nucetera?
eye leave it to your image-nation (station)?
but thats an other tail?
January 3, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word amafess
be-lief
December 31, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word martyrion
'bearing witness'
December 31, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word amafession
as opposed to profession
December 31, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tussah
from Sanskrit - tasaram - shuttle
December 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word skywriting
smoke words get into your eyes by a another means?!
December 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word A. Pauling
a small thing
December 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list great-barriers-to-humanity
Time will will c?
December 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Azpeitai
near the 'Izarraitz' basqueing rays?
December 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word plumsome
well plumgood well
December 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word skydation
the complement of founddation (lostdation?)!
December 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Azpeitai
'down the rock' in Basque
December 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Scrabblioliciously
An ablious delicious scrapple!
December 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word scrabbliolicious
A deli of delights of thrown to gather items!
December 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word scrabbliolicious
a score beyond description!
December 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cócono
another word for turkey
December 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Percolate
A peregrine?
December 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word caffeinstein
Do they call 'a personalized decaf mug' a decaffiendstein?
December 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word caffeinstein
Do they drink deinystein?
December 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word beeswing-sting
beyond the bee's knees
December 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list human-geography
Finger Lakes, New York
December 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
whet+her
November 29, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
so+other
November 29, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
hypo+then+use
November 29, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word lewed
Lewed in Julian's time had connotations of 'unlearned' and 'ignorant'
November 28, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wic
Middle English - town village
November 28, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word brode
Used to describe the water filled areas as the result of the removal of vast quantities of peat near Norwich
November 28, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word knesse-t
It could also be a paradoxical 'crest-pit'? go (ph) igure! why not go for baroque?
November 28, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sidth
not widthly used
November 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word knesse-t
rhymes with finesse it!
November 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tessellatesse
morezaic? (or tessellesse-t in a quasipalindromical way)
November 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
pa+look+a
November 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
humbug, bugloss
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
bugaboo
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
rugby
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
rayon
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
crayon
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
waylay
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
assay
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
ha+bit+at
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
hob+bit
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
or+bit
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
bit+ching
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
bit+art+rate
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
fit+test
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
lit+any
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user oroboros
I go with the flow - even if it is a river in Italy?!
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
a+bout? a pre+po+sit+ion?
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word about
trying to pick a fight? a+bout?
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
amiss -is something amiss?
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
miss-ion
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
miss-ile
November 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
cons-tell-ate
November 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
pole+mist =polemist
November 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
totemist=tote+mist
November 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
mist+rust
November 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
rebel+lion
November 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
medal+lion
November 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
inalienably = in a lien ably (or able)
November 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user oroboros
I II will keep suggesting until I get the who+le she+bang! Great list idea!
November 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
she+bang
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
band+ore
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
band+anna
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
pal+ace
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
versa+tile
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
pan+try
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
tar+dive
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
gyp+sum
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
char+ade
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
or+chard
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
memo+rise
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
chin+chill+a
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
hot+ten+tot
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
cowage
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
pig+eon
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
di+sent+angle
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
tablet
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
ratt+let+rap
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
hamlet, bracelet, bul+let+in, coup+let
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
putrid
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
shin+leaf
November 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
boat+swain
November 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
bag+dad, show+man+ship
November 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
ran+sack, sack+but, cox+sack+ie+virus
November 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
for+tune-teller, par+took
November 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
am+bush, limb+urger (further afield on a tree?)
November 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
in+tent, port+ray, sup+port, hid+den
November 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-within-words
I like the Spanish name for the high desert plains in Southwest New Mexico - San Agustin (St Augustine) where the Very Large Array is located. I see san(d) plus a+gust+in. It is inspired name in more than one language!
November 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word edg
yes, shav and splitt hairs
November 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word edg
cut too close
November 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tighty whities
mighty writeys since 1324
November 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word twisty tower
rap-a-round spin-dell
November 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word croon
a croon too soon
November 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word compos
it was mentis to be? NOT
November 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list archers
M Archers (in step)
November 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word iwesse
iwis
November 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word essencesse
in esse
November 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word civilesse
with finesse
November 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list bees--1
soon-to-bee beens
November 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list constants
Ruzuzu, Thanks for being a moving 'konstant'-ance on wordie-wordnik!
November 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word eleemosynary
give heart!
too almish?
November 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cachination
Catch as catch can (may)?
It should be a verb! caching(ing)! (or atmost(atleast) a gerund?)
November 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word mendicants
Whose blemish is it?
November 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user mykulbee
Does it have to be(e)?
You pick?!
Pluck well! (good luck!)
As the world spurns...How do you turn?
Here indeed (and word) is a place of en-joy-meant!
November 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user mykulbee
How do you cull (kul?) ?
producing propolis!
November 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list a-gin-list
gineration a-gin-da?
November 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word swich fin
'such end'
November 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word apparail
raiment
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oomXWvOADQ"> 1960 version </a>
November 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word The Parliament of Bees
The Parliament of Bees is a series of dialogues on the subject of "the doings, the births, the wars, the wooings" of bees. The bees hold a parliament under Prorex, the Master Bee, and various complaints are preferred against the humble-bee, the wasp, the drone and other offenders. ~ Wikipedia
October 31, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-janus-file
Jonah's wale
October 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-janus-file
It's not baroque. .........yet.......spuderific? Virtue-l'eyes?
October 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word muntin
What stile!
October 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list hiding-places
hideaway?
October 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word descanso
Walter's rite??
October 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word play
fore play, inplay, aft play... what did you say?...(outsay (play) .. out play?...be-have!....a brisk risk?.... a chance dance??.... a stance dance?----apply fly...Does it play in Peoria?
October 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list lord-of-the-flies
the GIANT (Manhattan is an island?)
October 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word letter fly
Let her fly! - a postal response - (inviting a wet washcloth in your direction) ...as part of the initiation into the 'order of the fly'... gold in them thar flies...oh lordie, lordy
October 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word NoCal
Where in the world is Camden San Diego? (with apologies to Carmen)
October 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word NoCal
WCal is coastal.
It adds a new meaning to shore up!
October 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word NoCal
NorBeach is NoCal. see NoLIta
October 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word NoCal
ECal is centered in Sil-icon-Cal. (Sil-iKon-Cal?)
October 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ducoings
There are both ducomings and ducoings - both are vag(ue)rants!
September 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word falooda
My father called it 'fish eyes'!
September 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word NoLIta
SoLita therefore is...............South Little Italy, NYC???????
So goes it with NoCal SoCal?
No paws, No pause! play thru!
September 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hypomoné
perseverance, patience, endurance
September 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word horseless carriage
Cow less couch?
September 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list see-the-wood-for-the-trees
Is it would wood be?
Is it true truth?
Abranch back at the ranch!
treeson....treedruid ?
September 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list see-the-wood-for-the-trees
Tangle wood?
September 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user gillianelyse
......formed astride a penguin's knees......named Gwendolyn
September 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word kilonova
How about a stile-ish nova?
August 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user testette
In test state?
August 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list geographical-entities-named-after-forks
meanwhile back at the branch ranch..................................
August 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list geographical-entities-named-after-forks
Tree forks!
August 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word banana peel off
banana peel out
July 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bone china
ashes to ashes.............
July 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word boneshaker
better than a bone-quaker?!
July 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word penitentiary
re-morse code?!
July 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word closeup close, close up close, close ups close
off course, of course
July 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word checkout check, check out check, check outs check
check checks out?
July 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word throughput through, through put through, through puts through
Is through through?
July 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word instill in, in still in, in stills in
in is still in
July 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Betti number
You Betti your infinity (Groucho Marx?)
July 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word apeirophobia
it goes on until the 'fin'.
July 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word in-fit-all
fit-in-all (fit-in-any)
July 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word outhere
ou-there both/and out-here
July 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word outfinity
as opposed to infinity
July 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word grillfriends
dogs at the barbecue grill
July 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Lincoln logs in
see Lincoln log on
July 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Lincoln log on
What Lincoln did!
Lincoln Logs
Lincoln got it Wright from the source and flew with it!!!!
July 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user john
What a delightful 'when (wind) chime in'! Just imagine all the 'trump card tricks' he holds in his hand!
July 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word g-ollo-g
bingo!
July 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word suizen
shakuhachi
July 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fener
means 'streetlight' or 'lighting lantern' Also known as Phanar(i) or Fanar.
July 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Gregory of Nazianzen
Gregory of Nazianzus
July 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list zen-words
also see zen--1
July 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word g-ollo-g
with two unconformities
July 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list disorder--psychological
There is ...........(another list........the-several-stages-of-wordie-addiction.). Creme de spooky-milk!
The milkman cometh? -*crazy-brave*_!!!
July 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word identity does not exist
I never metaphorest that didn't exist!
July 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wormhole
vermicultide? with its ebborlasting wanedering?
July 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list time-travel
Novikov_self-consistency_principle and wormholes?
July 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word identity does not exist
What be-fore-ist does it exist in (idensity), if you insist?
July 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word inkhornizer
Is it an inkling or a link-in?
Of course, (even if off-course), Lincoln is the 16th President of the United States
Who had a deep well of inktuition of how to communicate.
The 19th and 21st centuries are much closer than we thought!
Is it horn-in or pipe-in? -......... inkhornizer or inkpiperizer, or inkjetizer???
well inkwell
July 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word stiġel
see etymology of stile.
July 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word spelling
What a spiel!.......with stile?
July 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word inymph
early stage of apple fly? (imosquito here)
June 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fit fiddle fit
where the fiddling fits!
June 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word raprich
c'est vrai.
June 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word galorely
an exhibit with more than enough (gallery)!
June 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word raprich
the results of a good conversation (rapport)!
June 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word re-replaced
Be(e) placed?
June 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word lemoniskate
lemniscate
June 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word thwitan
OE whittle
June 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list frequentative--le
Or speckle from speck
Or dapple......
Or strikle
June 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list frequentative--le
How about yaffle?
Also known as whetile
What a sharp set of names for a woodpecker (a whittle?)
June 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list on-and-off
alexz and danama, neither one of you are off-corsica--of-course, so please add
June 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word pyrogen
Heraclitan water? Πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei) "everything flows"
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
June 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word crosswordese
crosswordeaseplease
June 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word off-white
Is there an on-white?
May 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word udd
Sharp point of a knife -Swedish
May 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word busk
Boscar - to beat about the bushes ( Old Spanish)
May 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word taque
Old north French - 'nail, pin'
May 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cutting-tool
Always incisive!
May 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hebetude
Also see i-do-itude
May 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hebetude
It begs 'shebecomestude' ! What does that elicit?
May 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hebetude
Is there a relationship with etude and student?
April 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-to-describe-the-taste-of-food
'like chicken' makes me think of rattle-steak (rattlesnake's taste description).
April 29, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word alum
Adds a whole new meaning to alum-are-us. These
are fields to be explored.
April 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ultraviolet
Adds a entire new meaning to rose-colored cataracts. It is plum crazy as plumbago. Way-to-glow!
April 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word natalitious
ruzuzu
May we wish you a delicious, natalitious day today.
Happy Birthday to zuzu!
April 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word pəshar
Aramaic for 'interpretation'
April 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word nowtown
a one now town - in the style of 'a one cow town' ??
April 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-i-only-see-in-books-about-medieval-and-early-modern-history
The author (of this list) is a meracious auctour.
April 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word braid theory
not knot theory
April 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word gwelə-
see etymologies for belemnite, parable, hyperbole, quell, and abulia for further references to gwelə-
April 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word belemnite
Once thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
(New Latin belemnītēs, from Greek belemnon, dart; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)) from etymolgy above - also see etymologies for parable, hyperbole, quell, and abulia for further references to gwelə-
April 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user ruzuzu
I haven't heard her perform. I did have a chance to listen to her read some of her poems. She did them more than justice!
April 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user ruzuzu
I knew she plays the sax. Have you read 'Crazy Brave' yet?
I wonder how many people realize the etymological significance of the title.
Playing the sax is 'crazy brave' of course.
The sax is the ultimate soul instrument with its long neck and throaty sound (see nephesh)
My niece Ramona has taught me that well!
She has 'crazy brave' in her blood, too.
April 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word zen fin zen
fin zen
April 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word purl
the sound of purl-ple (see Century Dictionary definitions): A neat Heraclitean term:
Early purl grey perhaps with bergamot! (Earl Grey Tea)
April 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word news choice, purled and curled fact
Heraclitean flown-in delight!
April 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word complete, neat-pleat
It's a wrap!
April 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word perfect, pure-fact
just the fax (facts): nothing superfluous: black & white - no color
April 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word continues right where it left off
timeless friendship
April 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word right of passage, left of passage
rite of passage, ......?...unstaged (stage left)
April 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word right(rite)salem
Everyone is right (rite), but (few(er)are) no one (no-one) is core rect (correct).
What's left over (in)?
April 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bitcoin
It is headed (& entail (out) spinning) toward analogical (rune-in) ruin?!
Digit points but is not 'is'!
Rue(l) out is in!
a paradox- a pair of (d)ox(i)s! (plowing boustraphedrically)?
April 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bone oil
I guess this word finally reached a b-one-oiling point!
April 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word siquis
if any
April 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word jumelle
begin to weave
April 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word dræht
draw or drag
April 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-duke-of-albuquerque
What do the words in this list have to do with the title of this list?
Is it a draughty checkerboard of words like Alquerque?
White ((albus) and black) on!
April 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Noblesse oblige
'What you receive as a gift, give as a gift!'
April 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word eftest
From Middle English ethe ("not difficult, easy"), from Old English ēaþe, īeþe ("easy, smooth, not difficult"), from Proto-Germanic *auþijaz (“easy, pleasing”), from *auþiz (“deserted, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *aut- (“empty, lonely”). Cognate with Scots eith ("easy"), Old Saxon ōþi ("deserted, empty"), Old High German ōdi ("empty, abandoned, easy, effortless"), Middle High German öde (German öde, "blank, vacant, easy"), Old Norse auðr ("deserted, empty"), Icelandic auð ("easy"), Gothic ̸̴̰̹̿̓ (auþeis, "desolate, deserted"). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian vetëm ("alone") from vet ("his/her/their own, self"). More at easy. (Wiktionary)
April 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ēaþe
smooth, easy
April 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Civitas Solis
City of the Sun
April 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Bensalem
In Bacon's 'New Atlantis' somewhere west of Peru.
April 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word nowel
now (know) well
April 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word witlock
wit play like sword-play see comments on wedlock
April 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wordieluxe
The deluxe e-diction.
a luxated word?
April 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Aristoxenus
author of early book on rhythm ' Elementa rhythmica'
"Writings on rhythmics. Part of book 2 of an Elementa Rhythmica survives. It argues that rhythm is a temporal structure imposed on, not inherent in, what is ‘rhythmized’ (to rhythmizomenon); and it defines rhythmic forms, by reference to a ‘primary duration’ (prōtos chronos), in terms of the ratio between arsis (anō chronos, up-beat) and thesis (katō chronos, down-beat). " - article by Andrew Barker
April 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word speckled rose granite bled at sunset
brindle kindled
April 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-for-ice
OR How about a tinseled timbitpick(stick)?
An alliteration prize?
April 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word livver
I guess that won't happen in this 'liffe'?
It's a v vreck v vaiting to happen!
April 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word oen
Irish 'one'
April 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word souna
Also soune conciliatory ending, forgiveness, 'make peace'
March 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ullus
Latin for 'any'
March 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ynce
Old English inch
March 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word livver
How liver should be spelled with its usual pronunciation.
March 29, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tech-vvreck
Bill Veeck inspired me to imagine this word. He was the exploder of modern baseball with his exploding scoreboard in the 1950s for the Chicago Right Soxs. He wrote a classic "Veeck as in Wreck"! Great Fun and Imagination!
March 29, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tech-vvreck
former close calls tech-vvrecks lead way to tech-wrecks - a different level of caring reck!
less is more and more is less!
and more is less (moreorless)
March 29, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bedraggled
B S & T (drag(gled) is the operative word.)
March 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word phone bug
wire tapping
March 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
It must be long liner! How do you acronym it ? Alphabetsoupit?
Letterofchange? SomebetMM?
(Marching Madness!)
March 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list inedible-bugs
jitterbug?
Though fritterbugs are delicious!
hoodlebug, phone bug, VW bug
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Gump-tion
As in Forrest Gumption
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word browning
What's the rePort?
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word witwanton
What does wit need?
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word venew
a renewed venue?
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sconcely
a halo hollow
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word eutrapely
pun fun in the sun
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list color-my-world
ma(gic)-genta
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list life--9
lotic vivacious! flow!
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list yummy-words--1
nom-in-flavor(favor)!
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list lovely-little-oddities
sarah-in-dip-in-thee!
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list on-the-breeze
whim-sea-call
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user findthesea
Is it merely?
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list sing-a-happy-song
in-jublent joy
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list and-i-will-tell-the-night
do they tell?
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word witing
obsolete knowledge?
March 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word merely mere
mere
March 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wistly wist
wistly wist
March 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word only on
only only
March 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word completely complete
completly
March 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word benetnasch
big dipper cardinal star or 搖光 (the Star of Twinkling Brilliance) in Chinese
March 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cassoulet
soul food?
from etymology above:
French, stove dish, diminutive of cassolo, earthenware vessel, from casso, from Old Provençal cassa; see casserole.
March 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word nephesh
“Soul” (nefesh, verses 2, 3, 5, 6) - in Psalm 42-: This term, often not translated (lest one read into the text the much later bifurcation of life into the negative body and positive soul, a duality alien to the Bible), meaning approximately “life force,” is central to this psalm, and requires literal translation. Through this usage the poet establishes the early dialogic nature of the opening, a tearing internal conversation (“an inner debate within the poet’s psyche” – M. Cohen). He battles with himself (the essence of the recurrent refrain), and is thus able to convey his lack of control of his own reactions. In turn, his soul desires, is overwhelmed by what should be positive recollections, and is distraught. Primarily, it yearns in pain. In a beautiful pun, the soul (the Hebrew word also can mean “neck/throat”) is the locus of longing for God/water. - Scheheter Institute of Jewish Studies **http://psalms.schechter.edu/2010/12/psalm-42-3-why-so-downcast-my-soul-text.html
March 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word nom-de-stitch
nymstitch
March 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list english-words-derived-from-hindi
Then is it soar-bet?
Derivation is a braided, streaming riverlet(te)! ((or not let)set!)
March 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word the night is still young
and the day is day old?............. and the day is still day old?(and perhaps older)
March 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list english-words-derived-from-hindi
khaki, sorbet, shawl, chutney.......are others
March 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fashions
fashion action
March 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word poka-yoke
I think it is Japanese for 'avoid mistakes' or 'mistake proofing' (literally or figuratively).
March 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word yarsagumbu
So mu(n)ch a stew about a quintals of clams?
I thought it is about yartsa gunbu or yatsa gunbu - a medicinal,Tibetan ghost moth fungus
March 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list rhymeless
It appears to be a tinted list - orange, silver, olive, almond, iron - even without purple no matter how you paint it. There's some penguin - black & whilte - to it.
Nice to have you back papageno - We missed you when you were papagone!
March 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word starry sturgeon
star caviar?
sevruga
March 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word murgeon
a murmur gone (geon) - anagramic?
March 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Lugeon
water gone
a missteerious holmonym anagram?
March 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word plungeon
.....for pigeons? look up cataract
also cormorant & curmudgeon
March 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list lost-for-word
pareidolia perhaps OR
:(: apophenia may be it ;):
March 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word saippuakivikauppias
a very slippery slope
March 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word rasceta
arm's short length riste
March 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cervisial
cervesant - clear beer clere
March 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word locuplete
see (sea) adobe abode
a quadisical (and harmon-not-ical musical) palindrome
March 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word locuplete
residential
March 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word excelsior
also see excelsior--1
March 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word real number
Real is reign's road!
Where's the parasol(ve)?
March 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word real number
just imagine getting real!
Sounds like a Beatles song?
March 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word surd
3-14-13 pisurd - silence please- (it should be 3.1415...) totally real number as in 'pi''ve got your number'?
In Berkeley's forest, no one herd this rite!
What a daunting spell-(rite) has been cast!
March 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wobbegong
carpet sharks
At least there is an alarm (gong-rite)?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word morectolobus
also known as wobbegongs
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word rabbless
rabbless
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word appless
manzero (manzano) in Spanish?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word appless
or a blank slate (in mining terms??)
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word memore
There is always more to a memo
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Fomore
sea-demonful?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sextupless
5
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word toppless
an unknockedover?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word appless
a bite fruity?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word simpless
more complicated
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word clamore
noise above a mild din!
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Tadmore
just a tad more?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cremore
more scum (cremor)!
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word armore
defenceless?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word glamore
always glamor more or less?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word rumore
a rumor is never finished?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word surd
ad+surd?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sope box
Scope? So be box-it?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word On the Sabbath day, communicate only by means of fridge poetry
Follow the links (Linx (lynx)) for a fuller meaning.
What a scramble!
Kimo sabe?
March 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word whereret
Where"ret (?), v. t. From Whir.
1. To hurry; to trouble; to tease. Obs. Bickerstaff.
2. To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box. (the ear); as, to wherret a child. Obs.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word pouncet-box
pounce
A powder (especially, the gum of the juniper-tree reduced to a finely pulverized state, or finely powdered pipe-clay darkened by charcoal) inclosed in a bag of some open stuff, and passed over holes pricked in a design to transfer the lines to a paper underneath. This kind of pounce is used by embroiderers to transfer their patterns to their stuffs; also by fresco-painters, and sometimes by engravers.
Century Dictionary
to keep inline?
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Terrapene ornata
ornate box turtle
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word seak box
seak
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word amole hole
Nahuatl ahmōlli soap
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sope box
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An archaic or obsolete form of soap: retained in modern copies of the authorized version of the Bible.
An obsolete or dialectal form of sup.
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word detersive box
as opposed to the derisive box
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word smegmatic box
smegmatic
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word On the Sabbath day, communicate only by means of fridge poetry
I am afraid I would mix scrapple and scrabble, and could never achieve a rhyming resolution.
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list box-it-up
ballot box....big-box store....box in....box lunch...box score...box office...box seat....call box....idiot box....toy box....voice box....strongbox...penalty box...press box...out of the box....black box..batter's box...boom box...cereal box...dialog box....
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word dailygone
dailyam iam
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word clerestory
muddied-with-fail!
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word itemries
item-aviaries? nidos?
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word monstrance
ourstrance
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word oranssi
A chromastart to 'orange' in Finnish
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word pomaceous
applelacious - a mountain chain near the banana belt (Poconos)?
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word widorwidout
w(id)o(r)w(id-out)!!!
March 13, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list words-that-end-in-id
tid, buprestid, skid, aphid, solpugid, abraid, florid, afraid, inlaid, hybrid, quadrifid, mislaid, sleid, intrepid, mucid, algid, staid, barmaid, mermaid, cuspid, herbid, did, liliopsid,... scincid,,,,,pyramid ...sipunculid.......sassanid ...paraboloid....lipid....pierid.....maioid..poeciliid
March 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word enneamer
I am enamored!
March 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word should of
wood halved (would have) - an unnecessary bifurcation?
legendary sites (sights) are legend!
March 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word horn
Old English horn "horn of an animal," also "wind instrument" (originally made from animal horns), from Proto-Germanic *hurnaz (cf. German Horn, Dutch horen, Gothic haurn), from PIE *ker- "horn; head, uppermost part of the body," with derivatives refering to horned animals, horn-shaped objects and projecting parts (cf. Greek karnon "horn," Latin cornu "horn," Sanskrit srngam "horn," Persian sar "head," Avestan sarah- "head," Greek koryphe "head," Latin cervus "deer," Welsh carw "deer"). Reference to car horns is first recorded 1901. Figurative senses of Latin cornu included "salient point, chief argument; wing, flank; power, courage, strength." Jazz slang sense of "trumpet" is by 1921. Meaning "telephone" is by 1945. - Online Etymology
March 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list in-the-detail
it is in the horns! - (not in the tail)
March 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Utopia
This is 'nowhere', literally!
March 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word the sound of a dictionary falling down
Is it a frictionary or non-frictionary dictionary?
March 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word catmatic
in contrast to 'dogmatic'
apophatic v. cataphatic
March 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Virgo Cluster
star field
our field of view
March 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Field of the Nebulae
Virgo Cluster
March 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word spirit matters
matter's spirit
March 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word malkuta
As opposed to the noun 'malkuth'!
Aramaic verb for reign
March 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word field of contentment
neorxnawong
March 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word neorxnawong
"field of contentment" Old English term for paradise
March 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word protest pro
test pro test
March 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Yousef Karsh
Search for Greatness
March 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Gunsbach
Sounds like a Baroque Western. Actually the community where Albert Schweitzer learned to play the organ
March 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word trending words
The obvious question is : (the one ton marsupial in the room) b...y and b....y il(l)b(e) and/or la(u)ff(gh)er???T
March 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word snowquest
knowquest, nnwquest
March 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fluball
flew-the-coup(e)?!
March 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Prolagus
Did I just flu-b-all? fluball?
March 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Prolagus
How about dubble bubble wrap-all! It is like Bazooka ((double-trouble-(leave-little-rubble)) bubble-un-gun-))bubblegum!!!!!!!
*How many powers is i-that?*
*(not a hat trickyet? trink(Ithink)yet?)*
March 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word uniformly
in uniform
March 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word areopagus
early high court?
March 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word spleen
spleendor is not crass
March 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ghos-ti-
see host, guest, and hostile
March 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word host
guest and host (and also hostile, hospice, hospital and hospitable ) are from the same Indo-European root, ghos-ti- , a stranger or 'someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality.'
Can it get much stranger? Give the outside a ghost (ghost is derived from the IE root gheis- - spirit, breathe) of a chance!
March 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sinc filter
brick-wall filter
March 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word untrickle
take the trick out (or leave it in?) or trick-it-out!
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sound chew
sound bite
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word accreate
accrete
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word beurre blanc
burr blank
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word funnel
fun(findsomenot)nel
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sulfar
Poly(p-phenylene sulfide)
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Eugène Ysaÿe
Bach transformation
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fantasia
fantasia - rite of spring
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Pluto
Or is it a pla(y)net? ...depending upon whose court system Pluto is in?
March 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word super burrito
How about la bajada burrito - an essential burrito with talus outflows?
March 2, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Christ lag in Todesbanden
Stokowski's version
February 28, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Pare-of-Normal Activity
whittling away
February 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word auralacular
superlative of the head's inner organ
February 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Lucy Hickenlooper
Olga Samaroff
February 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Sigh Go
Psycho
February 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word auracular
superlative of the head's inner organ
February 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Blaws
blahs (Jaws) eat way at you
February 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word The Silence of the Spams
Worst of the wurst and wurst of the worst!
Beyond Boring Boredom
Rehashed Trash
No glorror here?
.........are apt subtitles!
It is about mute-ants, isn't it?
February 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word one
I don't believe there is a 'ONE' or a 'TWO' for that matter!
Prove me wrong!
February 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word scordatura
Bach's fifth cello suite uses this device.
February 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word frembde
unauthorized maiden 'making music" with Bach in the organ loft in Neuekirche (perhaps the 'strange' maiden was Maria Barbara Bach).
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word slopseller
a slop shop keeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word palister
park keeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word licensed victualler
publican
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bluffer
innkeeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fugler
birdkeeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word vowler
birdkeeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fewterer
feuterer
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sperviter
sparrowkeeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word gatward
goat keeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ganneker
a tavern keeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hush shop keeper
brewer and seller of beer without a license.
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word beatkeeper
a drummer?
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word easy keeper
easily kept livestock
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bagniokeeper
bathhouse keeper
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word crow-keeper
to be or not to be a poor scarecrow?
February 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word thundersnow
snow-a-peal appeals?
keraunoscopia without bounds!
tonitruous melting
redampened echos
clap somemore (summer) (w)in-a-tour! Winterthur
tour winters
Where (ware) is Dela?
February 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word snowmenclature
snowmare - Italian for snowmenclature??
snowminal - a dusting of snow??
February 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word snowmenclature
snowmadic is a snowstorm in a wilderness!
February 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word before it was cool
same meaning as 'before it was hot'?
tepidness intepidness out-of tepid
February 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hipsturbia
Is this Disturbia or Peturbia?
*Or perhaps hipstopia?*
February 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word HiHoAg
Breaking Well Spring - The Loan Word Rearranger & ontotonto
February 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word invenzioni
Bach's gift from Vivaldi.
February 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list back-to-bach
Maria BBach is everywhere - here and there.
"Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe
Weg zur Himmelsburg.
"There is only one remedy for that: a chlorophyll conferring the faculty of feeding on light......There is only one fault: incapacity to feed upon light, for where the capacity to do this has been lost all faults are possible." -- Simone Weil Gravity and Grace
February 19, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word abysmal
a gaufres et gouffres layout.
February 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word favrite
favrile
February 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word favrile
Favrile is a favrite for reflection.
fabrile is a managed, loomed fabric.
February 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Lautenwerck
a lute-harpsichord invented by J. S. Bach (on which to play his inventions?)
February 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word irregardless
ig-norirregardless
regardsome
Look-at-all!
Seenone
beforward
February 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-measure-of-man
toise?!
fathom?!
February 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fathom
just beyond reach?
compare to toise!
The 'toise' was introduced by Charlemagne in 790; it originally represented the distance between the fingertips of a man with outstretched arms, and is thus the same as the British 'fathom'.”
February 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word toise
toise of peru
Can you fathom that?
February 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word glede
a bird and an ember.....a pre-phoenix???
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word egg
egg on ( from Old Norse eggja "to goad on, incite," from egg "edge")
as opposed to an egg easy over....and not over the edge
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word busk
feast of first fruits among Creek Indians.
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word budge
besides meaning to stir,move also means lambskin dressed outward and this lead usage to an adjective budge that means pompous, pendantic and stiff
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ancient
very old OR a flag bearer
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fusil
a flintlock musket or capable OR capable of flowing OR a shape that resembles a spindle
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word toom
also to pour
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word teem
prolific or fit or empty
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ruck
a crease or fold - Old Norse hrukka-; or a heap or pile - Middle English ruke- among other things-- heaps and creases
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word yearn
vex, grieve, be eager, earn (all of these and more)
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tang
a point or sting OR a seaweed OR a fish
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bark
an Old English 'dog yelp', Norse 'tree rind' OR a French 'boat'
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word sallow
an English 'willow' or a Dutch 'brownish yelllow'
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word boom
Middle English 'noise' or Dutch 'tree'
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wrinkle
a crease or a pithy piece of information
decrease and increase?
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word barm
bosom or yeast!
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word kennel
a dog's place, a gutter or a headdress!
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Taper Toners?
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Near Spotter?
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Earn Spotter?
February 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Start opener?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Apron tester?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Nearest port?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Rotten Spear?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Pattern Rose?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--neat-porters
Pane Retorts?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Aroma Tics Us?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Sacra Suit Om?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
A Sorta Music?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
A Mastic Sour?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Casuist Roam?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Samurai Cots
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Curia As Most?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Taco Air Sums?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Oasis Arm Cut?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
A Roast Music?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
A Mosaic Rust?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Aromatics Us?
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list wordnik-puzzle--ictus-aromas
Wife, into the garden, and set me a plot,
with strawberry roots, of best be got:
Such growing abroad, among the thorns in the wood,
well chosen and pricked, prove excellent good
Tusser 'September' 1557
but Thoreau's last manuscript notes they were found as early as June the 3rd.
The Latin name for strawberries fraga fits into 'mortification' to 3 letters. to 2dimensionals
It is the root of fragrance.
Do i understand the puzzle?
Or am i mortified? pray perhaps glorified?
Tusser's epitaph:
"Tusser, they tell me, when thou wert alive,
Thou, teaching thrift, thyselfe couldst never thrive.
So, like the whetstone, many men are wont
To sharpen others, when themselves are blunt."
February 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word croustade aux pommes caramelisees
breaks the mold?
February 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Zdravljica
a crusty sandwich - not much else
February 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word scotch woodcock
A savory dish consisting of scrambled eggs on toast with anchovies or anchovy paste.
February 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word schwärmerei
enthusiastic produce
February 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word beguine
both a dance
Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" (1935) refers to a kind of popular dance of West Indian origin, from French colloquial béguin "an infatuation, boyfriend, girlfriend," earlier "child's bonnet," and before that "nun's headdress" (14c.), from Middle Dutch beggaert, ultimately the same word. - Online Etymology Dict.
and an order of women religious
late 15c., from French béguine (13c.), Medieval Latin beguina, a member of a women's spiritual order said to have been founded c.1180 in Liege in the Low Countries. They are said to take their name from the surname of Lambert le Bègue "Lambert the Stammerer," a Liege priest who was instrumental in their founding, and it's likely the word was pejorative at first.
The order generally preserved its reputation, though it quickly drew imposters who did not; nonetheless it eventually was condemned as heretical. A male order, called Beghards founded communities by the 1220s in imitation of them, but they soon degenerated (cf. Old French beguin "(male) Beguin," also "hypocrite") and wandered begging in the guise of religion; they likely were the source of the words beg and beggar, though there is disagreement over whether Beghard produced Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant" or was produced by it. OnLine Etymology Dict.
February 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list on-rye
Oh, to be a wry Pacific article currently on rye .
February 6, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list fun-with-apocopes
deter - a detoured eternity?
eter - a semiperpetual eternity?
February 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list phrases--lateral-thinking
out-of-sight insight
February 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word carousal
carrousel
a merry-go-round and a round of merry (festival)
February 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word a turning
RE: verse
February 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bow
IE root bheug- v I E root bhāghu-
February 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
List of U.S. state name etymologies
& List of country-name etymologies
February 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word harlock
Does it cut the Shakespearean mustard?
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wormseed mustard
anthelmintic
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Panch phoron
one of 5 spices
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Salvadora Persica
See mustard Century Dictionary definition
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word malheur wire lettuce
Has its time come?
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word arabidopsis
arabidopsis (read examples above) is iroquoisy?
It fits well on two recent lists of Ruzuzu
mustard & model-organisms
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the user bilby
Trilby's match
What a thrill it must be!
Is it a crowning achievement?
How can you match it?
You are off on the right foot!
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cinnamon toothpicks
with creamed cheese!
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word nerf
surf the nerf!
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word whiffle balls
just a whiff? (some)
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word beehive hairdo
not well behaved?
February 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Euphausiacea
Whale song:' I got my fill of antartic krill'
* a la Fats Domino*
February 2, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Noctiluca scintillans
'sea sparkle' to friends
February 2, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Schizosaccharomyces pombe
not the least (studied) yeast!
February 2, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word crab
An older grouchy word is crab, which comes not from the crustacean but the sour crab apple, which in turn may come from Swedish dialect word skrabba, “fruit of the wild apple-tree,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Crab came to refer to a sour person in the 1570s.--- Wordie: Errata 29 Jan 2013
January 31, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list archaic-placenames
How I long for..........llanfairpwllgwyngyll
January 31, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list x-s-y-where-x-is-not-somebody-s-name
arm's coat
January 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list x-s-y-where-x-is-not-somebody-s-name
fire's ball
January 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list x-s-y-where-x-is-not-somebody-s-name
spade's ace
January 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word chief wolfpaw's
my step-grandfather's favored allegory!!! squaw nun!
*raconteur that he was, is and will be*
January 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list x-s-y-where-x-is-not-somebody-s-name
chief wolfpaw's reach (*and teach*)??
January 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list x-s-y-where-x-is-not-somebody-s-name
this is the cat's meow
January 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word deseret
and/or sweet-was-per-will-p-be?
January 30, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word schistosomiasis
she(a)er, snailpace, oysdestainian, waverly canon rule?
January 30, 2013
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