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
Can one 'meekly stop'? Apricots are precociously bold! Freeze, rot or not! Is not that soitenly (amen is certainly an adverb!) clear?! Give me a break ((not) brake)! Let's Non-dualistically split??? Iroquoisyly???
Burl did reside (survIVES) in Galisteo on the turquoise trail ( It is just off the non sequitur route) for part of the year when he wasn't on the Puget Sound. Burl hurled a lot of pizzazzish jazz.
Same as the personal name seal, but characters are read in an anti-clockwise direction, rather than from the top-down, right-to-left. Sometimes used in writing (e.g. to sign a preface of a book)!?
Used in ancient times on letters as a protective charm on letters to ward off wild beasts and demons of the recipient. Now used mainly as a well-wishing convention on letters to people who travel abroad.
Wordie(nik) users travel broadly! Do we need a special charm?
Or do we just let things h(u)ang-d(u)angle????
What's an (the) angle? ((indefinite article vs. out-of-definite article??))
A mark used in place of a signature. Often small, sometimes with images, the design can be varied in style, often a stylization of a single Chinese character.
It is from the marble definition. I read it as a fragmented 'e' that read as a 'c'.
It fits the definition, perhaps? * I noticed you picked up a number of marble types from Century's definition. It is as educational as a good New Yorker article.*
OR......A trip to the darkside similar to 'Bad day at Blackrock' that proceeded it. It was derived from a book "'Bad time at Honda', believe it or not?! * Perhaps we need a new category of iroquoisy called Chevy Apache or perhaps' fruit batty day at blackrock' (in a dark cave)?
*....and one day Hyundai????????.....(someday)...*
Does oneday want in or out??? (or Chrysler for more?) What does it afFord?
Look at the etymological history of threshold. Some conjecture that the threshold was the element of the doorway to pile the thresh against to keep out the cold! Going through liminal space often involves tripping over a stumbling stone? Unknown particles are infinitely knowable? Isn't that (swell) schwelle!
Cold fusion is getting hot again - reaching the light of day i dare say - I too am glad that bilby presorts out this confusion before we have to deal with it!?
It is a misprision as in this Century definition: n. More loosely, any grave offense or misdemeanor having no recognized fixed name, as maladministration in an office of public trust: also termed positive misprision, as distinguished from negative misprision, or mere neglect or concealment.
Your emprise into the Century dictionary is much appreciated, Ruzuzu.
Both megachiropteran and iroquoisy are whales in worddom?
Megachiropteran is like a chopped palindrome ( there is a uncertain compote-ness to it) whereas iroquoisy has quasi-causal flow (as in Erie Canal) to it.
And besides, fruit batty is eerie whereas iroquoisy is Erie!
blende (a zinc ore)- from the German to deceive, to blind because it resembles galena.
Another zinc ore is smithsonite - (ZnCO3) (named after the mineralogist who first recognized it and whose bequest started the Smithsonian Institute) with one of the first mines where it was mined being the Kelly mine near Magdalena, NM.
It took James Smithson to recognize it was not just calamine, but something different.
There probably is a 2der 2der 2der somewhere (a Tudor style house with a 2 door garage (thanks 2 zuzu! (on Rue Main?)) and with a resident who toots his (her) horn (literally or figuratively?).........
* Colonial taverns kept their spirits (rum, brandy, whiskey, gin, applejack) in casks, and as the liquid in the casks lowered, the spirits would tend to lose both flavor and potency, so the tavern keeper would have an additional cask into which the tailings from the low casks could be combined and sold at a reduced price, the patrons requesting the "cock tailings" or the tailings from the stop cock of the cask. This was H.L. Mencken’s belief.
* Cocktails were originally a morning beverage, and the cocktail was the name given as metaphor for the rooster (cocktail) heralding morning light of day. This was first posited in 2004 by Ted Haigh in "Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails", and can be distinguished from the theory "take two snips of the hair of the dog that bit you", which refers to consuming a small bit of alcohol the morning after a "binge drinking night" to curb the effects of the symptoms of the hangover, which symptoms are actually the result of a mini-withdrawal/down-regulation effect.
* Some say that it was customary to put a feather, presumably from a cock’s tail, in the drink to serve both as decoration and to signal to teetotalers that the drink contained alcohol.
What is the bitters truth?
* Another etymology is that the term is derived from coquetier, a French egg-cup which was used to serve the beverage in New Orleans in the early 19th century.
first attested 1806; H.L. Mencken lists seven versions of its origin, perhaps the most persuasive is Fr. coquetier "egg-cup." In New Orleans, c.1795, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, an apothecary (and inventor of Peychaud bitters) held Masonic social gatherings at his pharmacy, where he mixed brandy toddies with his own bitters and served them in an egg-cup. The drink took the name of the cup, in Eng. cocktay. Cocktail party first attested 1928.
* The beverage was named for a mixed breed horse, known as a "cock-tail" as the beverage, like the horse, was neither strictly spirit nor wine - it was a mixed breed.
* The word could also be a distortion of Latin aqua decocta, meaning "distilled water".
It is hard to duck the appeel (and this is whats going on in the antic).?!
The honorarium degree - to-a-degree* is worth a word-in-nickle & is non goal-plated too?
*Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A step, as of a stair; a stair, or set of steps.
n. A step or single movement toward an end; one of a series of advances; a stage of progress; a phase of development, transformation, or progressive modification.
n. Specifically In grammar, one of the three stages, namely, positive, comparative, and superlative, in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb. See comparison, 5.
n. The point of advancement reached; relative position attained; grade; rank; station; order; quality.
n. In universities and colleges, an academical rank conferred by a diploma, originally giving the right to teach. The earliest degree was that of master, which in the university of Bologna, and others modeled on that (as were the faculties of law in all the old universities), was called the degree of doctor. Afterward the lower degree of determinant (later called bachelor) was introduced, and the intermediate degree of licentiate; but these were not regular degrees, except in the faculty of arts. The degree of bachelor was conferred by the “nation” of the faculty of arts; the others were given by the chancellor, by authority of the pope. Thus, the medieval degrees were: the degree of determinant, or bachelor of arts, without a diploma;
n. In geneal., a certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood: as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. See first extract, and forbidden degrees, below.
n. In algebra, the rank of an equation, as determined by the highest power under which an unknown quantity appears in it. Thus, if the exponent of the highest power of the unknown quantity be 3 or 4, the equation is of the third or fourth degree.
n. One of a number of subdivisions of something extended in space or time. Specifically— One of a number of equal subdivisions on the scale of a meteorological or other instrument, as a thermometer.
n. In arithmetic, three figures taken together in numeration: thus, the number 270,360 consists of two degrees (more commonly called periods).
n. In music: One of the lines or spaces of the staff, upon which notes are placed. Notes on the same degree, when affected by accidentals, may denote different tones, as D, D♮, and D♭; and, similarly, notes on different degrees, as D♭ and C♮, may denote identical tones, at least upon instruments of fixed intonation.
n. The difference or step between a line and the adjacent space on the staff (or vice versa). Occasionally, through the use of accidentals, this difference is only apparent (see above).
n. Intensive quantity; the proportion in which any quality is possessed; measure; extent; grade.
n. In criminal law: One of certain distinctions in the culpability of the different participants in a crime. The actual perpetrator is said to be a principal in the first degree, and one who is present aiding and abetting, a principal in the second degree.
n. One of the phases of the same kind of crime, differing in gravity and in punishment.
To advance by a step or steps.
To place in a position or rank.
n. In physical chemistry, the number of conditions of a thermodynamic system which can be changed independently of each other, without destroying the system by suppressing one of its phases. For example, a system composed of water existing in the two phases, liquid and solid, and depending for equilibrium on the two conditions, temperature and pressure, has one degree of freedom and only one: any desired temperature may be given to it within certain limits, but the pressure is thereby fixed; and any pressure may be established within certain limits, but the temperature is determined in so doing.
in other words - a wordie addiction edition! to the wordie-n(ik)th degree!
An antenna array consisting of two antennas oriented at right angles to each other. It produces a single narrow pencil beam.-- Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, J. Hopkins, University of Chicago Press (1976)
Look listfull and/or listless?! Come what may! You will find a/the way! It is k(ie)key! ....moc-klair..... ....mock-lair.... moc-a-sin....sole sol soul sol?.......
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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
fbharjo commented on the word drive home a point
...and walk it to the door?
January 29, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word climax
to be rung out?-*etymologically speaking*
*has a certain ring to it!*
January 28, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word pen pinpoint
closed pinpoint?
January 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Jiu Qu Hong Mei
Maybe the new wave cinema is named after the tea served at the teatime movie?
January 27, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Qianliang
dark tea
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Ziyang Cuifeng
Ziyang
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Gong Mei
a white tea
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Ningzhou Gongfu
black tea
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Tan Yang Gongfu
Tan Yang Gongfu
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Jiu Qu Hong Mei
' nine winding red plum' black tea
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word souchong
I'll have a fourth or a fifth!
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word point omega point
Teilhard de Chardin
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word infinity
...omega cone's skin...
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tempest in teapot
a steeps favor flavor?
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word theiform
inn-formed?
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ptisan
ptisan blarney!!! With ptisacchaccino?!
kismet?
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tisane
tea-stain?
disdain?
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tsiology
teas(e)-ology?
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word blister blight
mister blister blight bligh
January 26, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Huo Qing
'fire green' tea
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Yun Wu
'cloud & mist' Chinese tea
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Chun Mee
"precious eyebrows' Chinese tea
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Xin Yang Mao Jian
'tippy green' Chinese tea
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Cui Jian
'Jade Sword' Chinese tea
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Que She
'Tongue of the Golden Altar Sparrow' Chinese tea
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word funmatsucha
Japanese 'powdered tea' Also called 'tokeru ocha' - "tea that melts"
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word guricha
'curly green tea'
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Tamaryokucha
Japanese 'coiled tea'
January 25, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word squirrel
There is a listing in swishcheese-and-leapfogs, perhaps.... that tailed to squirrels of all types AND squirrels--squirrels--squirrels by Ruzuzu
January 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list cotton--2
I am looking for both/and. I view it as river-lets (braided streamlets) with crossing courses and forces. Please list both!
I am looking examples of Lewis Thomas's 'shadow-tails' squirrelly words, (in other words?)
(see shadowtailed-riverhorse)
January 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word led
Follow(led) me!
January 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word stair((stare)(justice-in-case))way to heaven
Where (wear) are we led LED Zeppelin?
*worn how worn!*
January 24, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cameraflage
light in the dark (or dark in a light place?)
*What delight!*
January 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word wordniknack
truth in (and) fact we never lack......but to get back on track.......and corral a loose caboose
January 23, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word hosanna
wt' compared to w'th see oasis
January 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-problem-of-good
If it were easy, why isn't everyone good?
Simone Weil said: "There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light." and reflect delight my comment
January 22, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word oasis
wt' in Western Semitic means 'save, help, or deliver' though. I wonder if w'th and wt' have a common root. They appear to have a common meaning!
January 21, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Borromean
also see borromean rings, a reference from a Sionnach comment in 2008 and gimmals
January 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-rolling-stones
Algodones - Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for "mas more"- they gather mas or no mas! Do you cotton to that?
January 20, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list nanoscale
also see nanomore
January 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list non-scrabble-words
Would you (f)look at that!
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list vein-words
HA! *if a vein was vain*
Is it my fault that I am an epigenesis? It takes a lode off my mine! Don't run roughshoad over me. I can't stope, so stop your costeaning! Don't undercut me. I am not a millrun! (run-of-the-mill)
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word doorbraak
What a breakthrough!
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word door apprise
door prize with reservations??
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tandoori
a different sort of browning??
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word doorga
a hindu liminal space?
how dix arming?
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word afrontdoor
What an insult!
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word doorsaucer
as opposed to the doorplate
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word the-o-door
the definitive door
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word a-next-door
annexed door?
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word tandoorsy
a tangential oven! go bake!
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word stormdoor
battened hatches?
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word aside door
involving stages?
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word evolving door
What's (are) missing?
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word screen-a-door
Italian version!!!
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word closeddoor
It is open or SHUT!!!! just incase!!
January 17, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word emboss
and which part of the moo is it? the 'jefe' or the 'chef'"(ee)"? knobhillish? just incase sheathesomely
January 16, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word thin dime
both literally and figuratively, useful in a pinch?
January 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list reach-or-touch--verb
ta(j)gine
January 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word faux paw
the wrong foot forward in a pinch?
January 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Oddjob's tophat
or is it to a 't'?
January 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Oddjob's tophat
Can you topthat?
January 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Oddjob's tophat
(or bowler (over) of a different sort)
January 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word thin dime
as a screwdriver for small screws
January 15, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word you've buttered your bread, now sleep in it
Perhaps you are looking for well-mixed-metaphors of mollusque!
January 14, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word 3Dloo
à tout à l'heure
January 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word 3dloo
toodeloo
January 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-janus-file
only compass roses
January 12, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Hurwitz's theorem
Hurwitz
January 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word write right rite right
right write rite right
January 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word cucurbitaceous
"simply gourdous!"? as Billy Crystal might say.
January 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-janus-file
half a cherub.
January 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word endogamy
dog(a)matic?
ottomatic?
January 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list oats
HaHa That's a rye-it!
January 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word split infinitive
Clearly, the important thing is to stop answering!
January 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word deplane
Can one be debeveraged? Is the answer plane?
January 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word split infinitive
Can one 'meekly stop'? Apricots are precociously bold! Freeze, rot or not! Is not that soitenly (amen is certainly an adverb!) clear?! Give me a break ((not) brake)! Let's Non-dualistically split??? Iroquoisyly???
Silly, is-it-not?
January 10, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-janus-file
Oh, like cold, antepesto (antipasto) pizza?
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list the-janus-file
Is it time to face the two-faced? (in front of their back(s)?)
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word polyrhythms
Burl did reside (survIVES) in Galisteo on the turquoise trail ( It is just off the non sequitur route) for part of the year when he wasn't on the Puget Sound. Burl hurled a lot of pizzazzish jazz.
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word an horrisonously sweet note
What the 'H'!
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word polyrhythms
po-lyrhythms (CVCyCCyCCCC)
gollyrhythms
jollyrhythms
for no reason or rhyme. I don't know Y.
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word annuance
a necessary annoyance: *pearl oyance?*
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word mizzlesome
mizzleful?
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ballegory
Let's do the cosmic dance!
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bedim
We ought to bebrite & right (see bedim)
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Qennouindagnas
Qvenvendani - 6th Century British name from Irish Qennouindagnas
January 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Huiwen Yin
inscr(ibe)utable?!!!
January 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Huiwen Yin
Same as the personal name seal, but characters are read in an anti-clockwise direction, rather than from the top-down, right-to-left. Sometimes used in writing (e.g. to sign a preface of a book)!?
January 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Huangshen Yuezhang
Used in ancient times on letters as a protective charm on letters to ward off wild beasts and demons of the recipient. Now used mainly as a well-wishing convention on letters to people who travel abroad.
Wordie(nik) users travel broadly! Do we need a special charm?
Or do we just let things h(u)ang-d(u)angle????
What's an (the) angle? ((indefinite article vs. out-of-definite article??))
January 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word nom d'wordie
with a silent double u!
January 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Biehao Yin
States aliases of the user, including artistic names, painting names and pen names.
Such as nom d'wordie!
January 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Shoucang Yin
Used on books or paintings that are kept by the user. This includes appreciation seals used on paintings and books that the owner admires
January 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Huaya Yin
A mark used in place of a signature. Often small, sometimes with images, the design can be varied in style, often a stylization of a single Chinese character.
January 8, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list trees
piñon
January 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Ciju Yin
Poetry Seal 問松消息 Inscribed with a poem or proverb, used on paintings and suchlike. May be large or small, depending on length of inscription.
January 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Gagō-in
Japanese: Gagō-in (雅号印?) are used by graphic artists to both decorate and sign their work.
January 7, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Study Latin
rem
acu
tetigisti
January 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Study Latin
Obscurum per obscurius
January 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Study Latin
Si omnia ficta
January 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word see read see
Sea red sea
January 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Study Latin
Salva res est, saltat senex
January 5, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Study Latin
felix sex
*a roman board game*
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fircmarbles
It is from the marble definition. I read it as a fragmented 'e' that read as a 'c'.
It fits the definition, perhaps? * I noticed you picked up a number of marble types from Century's definition. It is as educational as a good New Yorker article.*
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word mandorlato
marble with almond shaped patches of color
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word fircmarbles
marbles with shell fragments
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Study Latin
felix culpa.
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word Bupalus
Βούπαλος
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word mib
a marble used in games, especially one used as a target
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word marver
as in marve(luste)r??
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word ganosis
n. reducing shine of marble
January 4, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list boots--1
cracowes!
January 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word gamashes
How splatter dashing!
January 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list boots--1
gamashes
January 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list boots--1
Melpomene - the muse of tragedy to boot!
January 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list boots--1
Valenki? wear out & out; How felting!
January 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list boots--1
goretex winkle-pickers?
January 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list boots--1
How many bogomips does it have?? Are they ochreated?
January 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the list antique-names-female
I had a great aunt Edna. Not a common name today
January 3, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word connatural
connatural knowledge
January 1, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word semeia
inductive signs
December 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tekmeria
deductive signs
December 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sucseder
following (near) order
December 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fiscal cliff hanger
New Year's Eave?
December 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word adscititiously
With inscribed t's crossing with chiseled dots of i's
December 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word expoundence
expoundense?
December 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word zenesence
zensense zen-in-zenze
December 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word baroquefinesse
baroque-finesse
December 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Kosmothanatosphobia
Who is Pythia and who is Python in this eschatodrama?
December 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word saltworks
as opposed to the peppermill
December 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Dodge
Wordnik conversations seldom dodge an issue. What a ball!
December 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Dodge
OR......A trip to the darkside similar to 'Bad day at Blackrock' that proceeded it. It was derived from a book "'Bad time at Honda', believe it or not?! * Perhaps we need a new category of iroquoisy called Chevy Apache or perhaps' fruit batty day at blackrock' (in a dark cave)?
*....and one day Hyundai????????.....(someday)...*
Does oneday want in or out??? (or Chrysler for more?) What does it afFord?
a link-on?
December 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word su'its
First thing in the morning, very early in the morning (Hopi)
December 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word su'awvingya
Grind to just the right fineness (Hopi)
December 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word su'awsa
A good little size (Hopi)
December 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word su'aqw
Into the right place or direction. (Hopi)
December 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gimbal lock
one less degree of freedom
December 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Caerus
I'm in lock (luck)! Καιρός
December 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word lock-weir
I'll be dammed!
December 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word keyless
flew the clue-less!
December 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list thresholds
*terə- To cross over, pass through, overcome. Root. I. Zero-grade form *tṛ(ə)-.
II. Variant form *traə- > *trā-.
III. Possible extended form *tru-. See derivatives.
to crossover (but not to overcross) into the next level of mystery)
thresh is derived from the indo-european root terə-
other words from the same root are: trunk, through, thorough, thrill, nostril, avatar, seraglio, caravansary, lamasery, truculent, trench, and truncate.
Which branch of the limen do you wish to follow (lead)?
dance on.............
December 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word napron
either nor(ange)?
December 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word silver nightrate
silver nitrate
December 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fixer
hypo
December 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word silver nightrate
silver lightrate
December 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fraise
It is only a fraga-mint!
December 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word randomness
Is it Arthur Koestler's ghost?
Are you related to Gilbert Ryle, ry?
Hope that doesn't rile you.
Hold on holons!
Ask ri to ask ry to ask why?!?! iroquoisy???? (see comments for further explanation)
spinon and on and on................Welcome to wordnik, word-ry! Have fun!
December 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Arizona Dranes cameos
cameos of notes for singing in the shower
December 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word swells
see visuals at swell
December 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list thresholds
Look at the etymological history of threshold. Some conjecture that the threshold was the element of the doorway to pile the thresh against to keep out the cold! Going through liminal space often involves tripping over a stumbling stone? Unknown particles are infinitely knowable? Isn't that (swell) schwelle!
December 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list weaponized-animals
And then there are weaponized plants....infant tree????
December 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word quinoa
see chenopod!
December 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word carapulque
quinoa gruel (qruel?)
December 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word quinoa
It beets me but it is related to beets. Spinach is also.
December 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list thresholds
It is hard to hold thresh without a stumbling stone!
December 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word atmospheric river
Hence, there are atmospheric arroyos and rain shadows without clouds, also.
December 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word antiscii
Everyone knows skiing without shadows is difficult in the Italian Alps!
December 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word antiscii
casters of shadows in different directions because of our different relative positions to the sun
November 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word antiscii
We are a bunch of Antiscians (see Century definition above)
November 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fuede
Hopefully it will fade (fuede) away!
The only fadeaways I like are jumpshots!
Please keep it away from my earshot and eyeshot!
What was the upshot of this discussion?
November 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word mullet
to mull about!? (a fish wish lish?) ** fishing a-bout** *raison-for-being??**
November 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sic et non
oecumenicity
November 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list dyes-and-pigments
was it a wink link?
November 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word dicastery
Where the die is cast? Iacta alea est
November 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word piw
Hopi 'also, too'
November 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word elsehere
Else-here
November 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word enang
Hopi 'also, besides'
November 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Allan variance
flicker whiteness rightness
November 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word more further
furthermore
November 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sides be
besides
November 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word septifarious
week (weak) old left overs? still a sevenfold great, prawnished word!
November 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word filmsy
So thinly separated from flimsy.
November 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word twit
a weak place to cotton to(o) (near( and dear)) ! It is thinfull! (Oh so fine a find!)
November 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list boring-horror-movies
Where is the wonderground when you need them!
What a grind!
Certainly better can be augered!
November 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list onk-tastic
How does one shrink (shronk?) from this list?
November 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word shonk
Cold fusion is getting hot again - reaching the light of day i dare say - I too am glad that bilby presorts out this confusion before we have to deal with it!?
November 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sockdologer
also see Zander's and chained_bear's comments on sockdolager
November 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word abuwtiyuw
Is it an inherent trait of dogs to go to a boot chew?
* the 8th appears to be a very chewsy day* *iroquoisy??*
November 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word quid
What a cuddity (cwiduity)!
Can one be too chewsy?
November 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hawaiian snow
Snowwall Obama!
November 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word psephology
pebble people power
November 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hay fever
and south-southwest of oiwa. forsiouxth!
November 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word carmarthen
one of the three major dialects of southern welsh
October 31, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word glamorgan
One of three major dialects of Welsh of the South
October 31, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hawaiian snow
when hell freezes under
October 31, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word rangale
deer group
October 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list murders-of-crows
a rangale of deer
October 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list murders-of-crows
a gaze of raccoons
October 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list murders-of-crows
a harrase of horses
October 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word oteagh-minick
heart-berry
October 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word estaffettes
Henry D. Thoreau reported that the czar sent for strawberries by 'estaffettes' or special couriers.
October 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word attingefluence
A redundancy ........a redandancecye. ....St. Cecilia (Nov. 22)
October 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list five-consecutive-consonant-strings
Is it a lightdream? (Or lightsdream-on) - a hexaconsonant!...a midwinternight's dream perhaps, by chance(providentially)!
Shakespeare is always getting an extra shake?
October 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word weigh-influence
wayinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list kinfluence
You are very welcome! I guess you succumbed to the write-influence? (or do I dare say give-influence)? *I was just following a lead-influence?*
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word shoo-influence
a 'psych-out' ploy
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word lived-influence
a well used means of persuasion?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sitinfluence
sit-influence - an effective protest?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word raisinfluence
It is a sunny affair - rays-in-fluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list kinfluence
see a binfluencefull on kinfluence
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word benjaminfluence
see comment on kinfluence
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word liechtensteinfluence
see comment kinfluence
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
If dwarfish, is it a rumpelstiltskinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
If it is landlocked, is it an liechtensteinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
Is that enough of a finfluence? (rin tin tin)
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
If it is logical, is it wittgensteinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
For the flighty, is it featherbrainfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
For the poorly dressed, is it ragamuffinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
For the tough, is it thickskinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
If we take it for granite, it is a pettywhinfluence!
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To a boar, is it a marcassinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To a bowler, is it a candlepinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To a grate, is it a sarrasinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To a turtle, is it terrapinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To the left-handed, is it benjaminfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To the upstaged, is it curtainfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To the embarassed, is it chagrinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To a grape, is it raisinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To a hostess, is it napkinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To a balloon, is it hatpinfluence? It just happened!?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To a ghost, is it globinfluence?....not a ghost of a chance????
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To an Irishman, is it Dublinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To make a spot, is it stainfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
To Batman, is it Robinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
If it is a start, is it beginfluence , or is that begging the subject?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
Is a good joke grinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kinfluence
It must be related to cousinfluence?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Pretty fly for a wi-fi
Why fly for wi-fi?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word offboard
Where does sideboard fit in (outfit)?
October 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word reprehend
It is a misprision as in this Century definition: n. More loosely, any grave offense or misdemeanor having no recognized fixed name, as maladministration in an office of public trust: also termed positive misprision, as distinguished from negative misprision, or mere neglect or concealment.
Your emprise into the Century dictionary is much appreciated, Ruzuzu.
It shouldn't be forgotten. I guess I never know what it will beget, and that is often a surprise!
*NB I am playing with different derivations of the Indo-European root ghend- ! It seized me.*
October 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word peanoliner
peano curve
October 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word iroquoisy
“Moby single words: cinematographer = megachiropteran”
Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
Both megachiropteran and iroquoisy are whales in worddom?
Megachiropteran is like a chopped palindrome ( there is a uncertain compote-ness to it) whereas iroquoisy has quasi-causal flow (as in Erie Canal) to it.
And besides, fruit batty is eerie whereas iroquoisy is Erie!
October 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kaolin
It is a community in Pennsylvania, isn't it?
October 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word dustsceawung
There is a word in Old English which
belongs wholly to that civilisation—
“dustsceawung,” meaning contemplation
of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-
Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that
consciousness which considered
transience and loss to be part of the human
estate; it was a world in which life was
uncertain and the principal deity was fate
or destiny or “wyrd.”
Peter Ackroyd -- Albion
October 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word toglideth
Everything “toglideth,” glides away
like the waters; nothing endures; I depart
while friends are left weeping by the
shore’s edge; the music of harps and the
sound of horses must fade; I am alone, but
I must endure, this is my “wyrd.”
Peter Ackroyd - Albion
October 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word egalitarian
this-consonant; more-(v)o(r)'wellian perhaps? moi aussi! mossy?
October 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Dam troll
Quelle ramage!
October 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word disallusion
Then there are thatallusions... projections, rejections and affections that are exhibited in most other fiction.
October 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gauche
it is hard to get it right!
Did it run into the left bank?
October 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Dam troll
Tam droll
October 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list words-descriptive-of-the-colour-of-the-sea
And what colo(u)r is your blue tooth(e)? *truthfully (toothfully) - true blue?*
October 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list coll---killer-bug-or-bug-killer
nothing new under the sun run dry run (dry run dry)
October 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word jelly shoes
Does that clothes the subject?
October 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word mesembrianthemum
mesembryanthemum
September 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user qpes
well qpes well
September 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list gleaned-words
yet to be scrubbed and rubbed - nonrubbiccub(b)ed words
September 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word dichotomy
Every dichotomy is inherently false...that is part of the parti(cipa)tion
September 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word chromæsthesia
red (well-read) herring?
September 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word colored herring
chromæsthesia
September 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list herring
and then there's dread herring..... a clue too smelly to follow!.... that my two scents (shiny pennies-coppertop) worth?
September 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word blende
blende (a zinc ore)- from the German to deceive, to blind because it resembles galena.
Another zinc ore is smithsonite - (ZnCO3) (named after the mineralogist who first recognized it and whose bequest started the Smithsonian Institute) with one of the first mines where it was mined being the Kelly mine near Magdalena, NM.
It took James Smithson to recognize it was not just calamine, but something different.
Quite a different type of blend!
(or unblende?)
September 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Blende, Colorado
suburb of Pueblo east of city on US50.
September 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Rana Niejta
also known as blende
September 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word purple blende
kermesite
September 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bismuth blende
also known as eulytite
September 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ogham
ogmios og-mo- PIE furrow, track
September 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word flapling
Even as flaplings, I bet the beat created 'quite a flap'!!!
September 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list ends-with-que
Pojoaque & Tesuque - pueblos in New Mexico
September 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word 2der
There probably is a 2der 2der 2der somewhere (a Tudor style house with a 2 door garage (thanks 2 zuzu! (on Rue Main?)) and with a resident who toots his (her) horn (literally or figuratively?).........
September 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Taifun
typhoon - German
September 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word skammstöfun
abbreviation Icelandic
September 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word 88der
very black & white
September 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word 1der
won (one) der
September 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word 2der
tooter, tutor, or Tudor
September 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pot-liquor
as opposed to pot licker!
September 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tamworth
worth their salt?
September 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kromesky
a croquette consisting of a piece of bacon wrapped round minced meat or fish
September 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word queck
queck:
(v. i.) A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.
Webster's 1913 dictionary
September 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word winnow-corb
athereloigon
ptuon or shovel
mizreh
capisterium
winnowing fan
It has a peel (scottish term for shovel)
HEAVY Odyssey lite (light)
September 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word winnowing oar
athereloigos - Greek ἀθηρηλοιγός
September 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word athereloigos
winnowing oar (winnowing fan)
September 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ἀθηρηλοιγός
athereloigos
September 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word feathers
CB, the cartoon is a bate - perhaps?
To beat: in the phrase to bate the wings, to flutter, fly.
In falconry, to beat the wings impatiently; flutter as preparing for flight, particularly at the sight of prey; flutter away.
To flutter; be eager or restless.
To flutter or fly down. Century Dictionary
a falconsaur? Bear-baiting was banned in 1835.
September 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user colleen
Colleen, we miss your kind spirit here. Please pipe up when moved.
September 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word egg-cup
* Colonial taverns kept their spirits (rum, brandy, whiskey, gin, applejack) in casks, and as the liquid in the casks lowered, the spirits would tend to lose both flavor and potency, so the tavern keeper would have an additional cask into which the tailings from the low casks could be combined and sold at a reduced price, the patrons requesting the "cock tailings" or the tailings from the stop cock of the cask. This was H.L. Mencken’s belief.
* Cocktails were originally a morning beverage, and the cocktail was the name given as metaphor for the rooster (cocktail) heralding morning light of day. This was first posited in 2004 by Ted Haigh in "Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails", and can be distinguished from the theory "take two snips of the hair of the dog that bit you", which refers to consuming a small bit of alcohol the morning after a "binge drinking night" to curb the effects of the symptoms of the hangover, which symptoms are actually the result of a mini-withdrawal/down-regulation effect.
* Some say that it was customary to put a feather, presumably from a cock’s tail, in the drink to serve both as decoration and to signal to teetotalers that the drink contained alcohol.
What is the bitters truth?
* Another etymology is that the term is derived from coquetier, a French egg-cup which was used to serve the beverage in New Orleans in the early 19th century.
first attested 1806; H.L. Mencken lists seven versions of its origin, perhaps the most persuasive is Fr. coquetier "egg-cup." In New Orleans, c.1795, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, an apothecary (and inventor of Peychaud bitters) held Masonic social gatherings at his pharmacy, where he mixed brandy toddies with his own bitters and served them in an egg-cup. The drink took the name of the cup, in Eng. cocktay. Cocktail party first attested 1928.
* The beverage was named for a mixed breed horse, known as a "cock-tail" as the beverage, like the horse, was neither strictly spirit nor wine - it was a mixed breed.
* The word could also be a distortion of Latin aqua decocta, meaning "distilled water".
September 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word eggcup
egg-cup
September 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list ruzuzus-taxonomy
Its gravity is curveity?
September 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list the-collected-poems-of-w-h-auden
This list is a 1der for me!
It is a 2der for me, also!
this list holds a 10der place in my heart.
September 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word meander
How did Thales cross the meander? The first pre-Socratic 'why did the chicken cross the road? ' philosophic question.
Look at what it has wrought (geworht)!
September 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list ruzuzus-taxonomy
basic double helicaling? (DNA) or perichoresis? ( in the sense it meant originally - dancing around)
September 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word slender snipe eel
It is hard to duck the appeel (and this is whats going on in the antic).?!
The honorarium degree - to-a-degree* is worth a word-in-nickle & is non goal-plated too?
*Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A step, as of a stair; a stair, or set of steps.
n. A step or single movement toward an end; one of a series of advances; a stage of progress; a phase of development, transformation, or progressive modification.
n. Specifically In grammar, one of the three stages, namely, positive, comparative, and superlative, in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb. See comparison, 5.
n. The point of advancement reached; relative position attained; grade; rank; station; order; quality.
n. In universities and colleges, an academical rank conferred by a diploma, originally giving the right to teach. The earliest degree was that of master, which in the university of Bologna, and others modeled on that (as were the faculties of law in all the old universities), was called the degree of doctor. Afterward the lower degree of determinant (later called bachelor) was introduced, and the intermediate degree of licentiate; but these were not regular degrees, except in the faculty of arts. The degree of bachelor was conferred by the “nation” of the faculty of arts; the others were given by the chancellor, by authority of the pope. Thus, the medieval degrees were: the degree of determinant, or bachelor of arts, without a diploma;
n. In geneal., a certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood: as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. See first extract, and forbidden degrees, below.
n. In algebra, the rank of an equation, as determined by the highest power under which an unknown quantity appears in it. Thus, if the exponent of the highest power of the unknown quantity be 3 or 4, the equation is of the third or fourth degree.
n. One of a number of subdivisions of something extended in space or time. Specifically— One of a number of equal subdivisions on the scale of a meteorological or other instrument, as a thermometer.
n. In arithmetic, three figures taken together in numeration: thus, the number 270,360 consists of two degrees (more commonly called periods).
n. In music: One of the lines or spaces of the staff, upon which notes are placed. Notes on the same degree, when affected by accidentals, may denote different tones, as D, D♮, and D♭; and, similarly, notes on different degrees, as D♭ and C♮, may denote identical tones, at least upon instruments of fixed intonation.
n. The difference or step between a line and the adjacent space on the staff (or vice versa). Occasionally, through the use of accidentals, this difference is only apparent (see above).
n. The difference, interval, or step between any tone of the scale and the tone next above or below it, as from do to re, from mi to fa. The interval may be a whole step or tone, a half step or semitone, or (in the minor scale) a step and a half, or augmented tone. See step, tone, interval, staff, scale. To distinguish between degrees of the staff and degrees of the scale, the terms staff-degree and scale-degree are sometimes used.
n. Intensive quantity; the proportion in which any quality is possessed; measure; extent; grade.
n. In criminal law: One of certain distinctions in the culpability of the different participants in a crime. The actual perpetrator is said to be a principal in the first degree, and one who is present aiding and abetting, a principal in the second degree.
n. One of the phases of the same kind of crime, differing in gravity and in punishment.
To advance by a step or steps.
To place in a position or rank.
n. In physical chemistry, the number of conditions of a thermodynamic system which can be changed independently of each other, without destroying the system by suppressing one of its phases. For example, a system composed of water existing in the two phases, liquid and solid, and depending for equilibrium on the two conditions, temperature and pressure, has one degree of freedom and only one: any desired temperature may be given to it within certain limits, but the pressure is thereby fixed; and any pressure may be established within certain limits, but the temperature is determined in so doing.
in other words - a wordie addiction edition! to the wordie-n(ik)th degree!
September 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ceraunograph
off the scale!
September 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ceraunoscopy
the wonders of thunder - How (in)enlightening!
September 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word brontomancy
thunder-iterations???
September 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word alectryomancy
a cock and bull story?
September 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cantrip
as opposed to may-trip?(in any month)
September 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word magiical
magi-ical
September 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list not-quite-the-real-thang
O'choir we sing of thee aot (as opposed to) acquire (sing)?
September 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word quire
give it choir
September 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list abc
cremnophobia , thamnophile, overstuff & understudy have four consecutive letters
September 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list abc
deft: defy: Respighi: larghissimo: toughie: Kortrijk: almner: rhamnose: hymnody: belemnoid: cremnophobia: thamnophile: limnology: anopsy: monoplane: inoperable; rhinoplasty: xenopus: unopen: cornerstone: cloudburst: airstream: hairstyle: headfirst: erst: overstay: superstore
September 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Babe Ruth
born in Baltimore
September 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Robert Morris
raised in Oxford Maryland
September 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Charles Carroll of Carrollton
longest surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence died in 1832
September 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Mattapany Road
original main street ( road) in St Mary's (the oldest town in Maryland)
September 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word eignarfall
'genitive case' in German
September 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word einfallsreichtum
'ingenuity' in German
September 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word einfall
idea German
September 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list skyscraper
Burnhamish
September 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list skyscraper
Roppongish?
September 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list skyscraper
Pirellish?
September 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list skyscraper
Chryslerish?
September 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user coproduct
It bodes well!
September 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word funking
fun-king
September 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word infundibulum
Sirens of Titans is a classic! What-a =ho∑l
September 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fungin
fun-gin
What is your favorite wine (vin) ? gin!!!!!! a la Julia Childs
September 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word millésime
vintage
August 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Mills Cross
An antenna array consisting of two antennas oriented at right angles to each other. It produces a single narrow pencil beam.-- Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, J. Hopkins, University of Chicago Press (1976)
August 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Mills' constant
2, 11, 1361 if Riemann hypothesis is true 1.3063778838630806904686144926026....
August 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word mills about
mill about
August 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tsivaato
Hopi - billy goat
August 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tragelaph
τράγος
August 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word compiling pie
compile
August 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tragedy
from Greek tragōidiā : tragos, goat + aoidē, ōidē, song.
August 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bergamot
also a course goat hair tapestry originally made in Bergamo
August 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Aegyptus
'laid back' goat?
August 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word mazame
also known as a mountain goat
August 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word aegospotami
goat river?
August 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word zeuzerian
goat moth is an example.
August 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word noon-flower
goat's-beard
August 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list goats
and kalazyich is not even trying to get your goat....no kidding!
August 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word quodlibet
A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point.( GNU Websters) ..... anything pleasing - literally, perhaps?
August 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word vermicelli
little worms....that's nice
August 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word äidinkieli
Mother tongue or native language (Finnish)
August 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word neat
A commendatory word, used somewhat vaguely. - Century Dictionary
August 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word mollyhawk
hog-molly
August 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fishglass
aquarium
August 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word learneddom
aristocracy
August 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word learneddom
punditocracy?
August 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fishglass
culacino?
August 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user mocklair
Look listfull and/or listless?! Come what may! You will find a/the way! It is k(ie)key! ....moc-klair..... ....mock-lair.... moc-a-sin....sole sol soul sol?.......
August 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word awesomesauce
awefilledsauce?
August 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word koshare
see right visual for illustration (left visual enunciates)
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kivaova
visible portion of a kiva
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word knukwivi
lamb & hominy stew-a-do
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word koshare
Pueblo Indian Clown (ishness)
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ngakuyi
bones of wild animals (bear, mountain lion, wolf)- ground and mixed with water
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pahos
prayer-feathers
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pito
a whistle and/or wail
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word puesivi
caves (in...out)
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tesguino
corn beer: predecessor to bourbon?
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word jinrikisha
Jin risks a spin in the fin!
August 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word free-range
free-range chicken - great oxymoron (moroxy) if you think about it!
range-limited or limited range may be more a propos
reminds one of the short range-medium range- long range missiles of the 60s
August 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pull out
....all the stops
August 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ^aker
as opposed to caregiver?? (raised to a new power?)
August 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ,nche
with one too many m
August 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ,ndo
commando
August 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word -ingly
dash ingly
August 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word crib
the fodder of us all?
August 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word - virgin
virgule virgin (virtual virgin?)
August 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word . piece
period piece (not at peace?) (knotty piece?)
August 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word - off
dash off
August 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Kaibun
Japanese palindrome ... reads the same top down or bottom up.
Japanese people describe the word as being the same when read from the top (ue kara yomu) as when read from the bottom (shita kara yomu).
example: Shi-na-mo-n pa-n mo re-mo-n pa-n mo na-shi (シナモンパンもレモンパンも無し) - There is neither cinnamon bread nor lemon bread.
Another Ta-ke-ya-bu ya-ke-ta (竹薮焼けた) - A bamboo grove has been burned.
source wikipedia
August 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word euphobia
Not to mention europhobia - that is not good news!
August 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Copenhagen
see Century Dict. 2nd definition
August 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word esoteric
inner circle
August 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kanso
simplicity
August 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fukinsei
irregularity, asymmetry
August 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word geidō
geido
August 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word yūgen
yugen
August 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Jo-ha-kyū
beginning-break-rapid
August 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word miyabi
elegance
August 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word shizen
natural
August 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ensō
enso
August 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word proteen
conadult?
August 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hyperbowl
no leeway to say
August 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word exquizit
inteststate
August 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word groyne
that wood be!?
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cloudey
clearie is marbleous(ful?)! - no cloud about it!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sound sleeply
ride awake?
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word apostrophe's
How prepostrofuss!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word treeish
Quelle ramage!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word suspenders of disbelief
... and belt of belief
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word taranchuthula
spy cider dance cha-cha
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word b1n
2 b or not 2 b
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sighlens
noise focuser!?
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word scannedalous
unscene seen!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word first come first swerved
holds no sway abay!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gravey train
muddy waters!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word airplain
(con)planeful of meaning!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word exclaymation
more clay more!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word spycy
I-spy I-see icy no toast here! (Appl(e)ish)
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word lucy in the sky with dire minds
dye mounds? (rainbow spires) - iris fires
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word nuremburger
What a ham! (burger) - not somewhat a hot dog???
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sweet toast fairy
well-breed (bread)!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word yes we have no piranhas
we have no peers appeerantly!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gnawseous
chewsome!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word walled off a story a
near waldo
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word blue none
(read ale) read all! HA
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word stewpendust
a virtual goulash! need galoshes to wade through
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word for see sons
by vivaldi?
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list en-hu-homographs
What great HU-EN(hueing)! (a whole new coloring!)
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word scultimidonus
no affronts?
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word plum near to perfect
no pruning necessary!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word no apricot before its time
apricity (Oh the ranch life is for me!)
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list prolaguss-bucket-list
On Prolagus's well don't bucket (cowboy) list stay in the lightening fields near quemado Good luck and dare come back! ya'all!
August 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word wynema
When she was born, her mother named her Wynema, a Cherokee name my mother says means “Beautiful Woman". Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
August 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Port-A-Punch
*looks for a radical ( on the far fuzzy fringe)- hanging-(in swing)to-pregnant - chad *
*like the edsel (no whine before (during) its time) perhaps...maybe*
August 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word granita
not to be taken for granite (granted)
July 31, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word berbere
makes a sassy (saucy) selassie?
July 31, 2012
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