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Old English horn "horn of an animal," also "wind instrument" (originally made from animal horns), from Proto-Germanic *hurnaz (cf.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?.......
n. An instrument for determining the plane of the horizon, or the plane perpendicular to the direction in which bodies fall under the action of gravity. The simplest instrument used for this purpose is the plumbline. This is now superseded for most purposes by the bubble- or spirit-level, which consists of a frame of some kind firmly holding a glass tube, closed at the ends, nearly filled with anhydrous ether, or a mixture of ether and alcohol, and having its inner surface on the upper part ground into the form of the outer part of an anchor-ring. Fine levels have besides a graduated scale either on the glass or on a metallic rule set against it, so as to mark the precise position of the bubble. Most fine levels are provided with a chamber so contrived that the length of the bubble can be altered. The spirit-level is usually reversed in use, and the mean of its two indications adopted. The spirit-level is an attachment of most geodetical instruments; and there is a special instrument called a level or leveling-instrument (which see). -- from Century Dictionary definition of level
n. The bubble or mass of bubbles rising to the top or resting on the surface of a liquid when shaken or decanted: as, the bead of wines or spirits. Century Dictionary
"Deutsch" has its origin in the Old High German word "diutisc" meaning "the language of the people" (as opposed to Latin). There are also uncertain alernatives origins of "German" as Celtic "The Noisy Men" or Old High German "The Greedy Men"! -http://www.westegg.com/etymology/
Interestingly, none of these terms come from the Latin word for orange, citrus aurentium; instead, they all come from the ancient Sanskrit naga ranga, which literally means "fatal indigestion for elephants." In certain traditions the orange, not the apple, is the fruit responsible for original sin. There was an ancient Malay fable--which made its way into the Sanskrit tongue around the Seventh or Eighth Centuries B.C.--that links the orange to the sin of gluttony and has an elephant as the culprit. Apparently, one day an elephant was passing through the forest, when he found a tree unknown to him in a clearing, bowed downward by its weight of beautiful, tempting oranges; as a result, the elephant ate so many that he burst. Many years later a man stumbled upon the scene and noticed the fossilized remains of the elephant with many orange trees growing from what had been its stomach. The man then exclaimed, "Amazing! What a naga ranga (fatal indigestion for elephants)!" ---http://www.westegg.com/etymology/
The paradox reminds me of Mandelbrot and measuring the coastline of England (grain of sand boundary by grain of sand boundary). The smaller the measure the longer the coastline (coastcurve would be a more correct term).
The Greeks also created the term meander - or meanderenthrall if you will- The deeper one gets into a paradox the more heapish it gets even if the heap is seemingly diminishing.
One has to watch out for unposted posticates! (The predicates are clausebacks!)
A devise for keeping beaming straight. (see Century dictionary definition above) - n. A wooden bar with a row of upright pegs, employed by domestic weavers in some places to keep the warp of a proper width, and to prevent it from becoming entangled when it is wound upon the beam.
(*A PRE-WATERGATE TALE* :perhaps prophetically) with rapid-gates=(ski) shalom- *peace*-gates..(not to mention Bill Gates...(nothing to Shake-a-spear(e) at).. such is politics..... always was; always is, and in all ways will be! N.B. Polarity doesn't win. Closeness to the (center) middle poles (polls) wins!!
In 1962, Dom Andrew Jenks took us up to Boston (and route 128) to view a water-gate (read analog- gate) vs. a (read conception of an electronic gate) digital-gate (then)-early,bulky transistor. One of his previous students was theorizing the possibilities of an analog gate (read both/and) as opposed to a digital gate (read either/or). He had a large structure with a movable gate showing colored water flowing through various positioned closings of the gate to simulate analog gating versus digital gating.
Do-tell intel won the phyrric temp-victory (not the (war) outcome) but with fuzzy-grey logic the analog will eventually win the day, month, year, eon..... it is the the difference between the conifer (read digital pursuit) vs angiosperm (read analog pursuit)...maybe my view is too short-sighted *and probably is, was, and will-be*.
Simplicity wins the short-run(come); simple complexity wins the long-*(eternal)*run(come).
And I'll resist adding Jean Baptiste Lully.... ( and Jean Piaget, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean Lafitte, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud and Jean Genet.) not to remark upon Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
n. A plover-like bird with four toes, a crest, and lustrous plumage, belonging to the genus Vanellus and family Charadriidæ. The best-known lapwing is V. cristatus, a common European bird, also called pe-wit, from its cry. The adult male has the upper parts iridescent with green, violet, and purplish tints, the under parts white, a large area on the breast and the top of the head and the long crest black, the tail-coverts chestnut or orange-brown, the tail black and white, the bill black, and the feet red. It is about as large as a pigeon. The eggs are esteemed a great luxury, and many are annually sent to the London markets from the marshy districts of England, under the name of plovers' eggs. There are other species. Also called flopuing.
GNU Webster's 1913
n. A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or Vanellus vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the “plover's eggs” of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.
n. Any plant of the genus Ruta, especially R. graveolens, the common or garden rue, a native of the Mediterranean region and western Asia, and elsewhere common in cultivation. It is a woody herb of bushy habit, 2 or 3 feet high, with decompound leaves, the leaflets of a bluish-green color, strongly dotted. The flowers are greenish-yellow and corymbed, and are produced all summer. The plant has a strong disagreeable odor, and the leaves are extremely acrid, even producing blisters. In antiquity and the middle ages rue was highly esteemed as a medicine, and was believed to ward off contagion. It has the properties of a stimulant and antispasmodic, but accompanied by excitant and irritant tendencies. It is not now officinal, but continues somewhat in popular use. In medieval folk-lore it was a common witches' drug. From its supposed virtues, or by association with the word rue, repentance, it was formerly called herb-of-grace.
"I have come to salvage Elphin's honor and his freedom. Taliesin am I, primary chief bard to Elphin.
"Primary chief poet Am I to Elphin. And my native country Is the place of the Summer Stars.
"John the Divine Called me Merlin, But all future kings Shall call me Taliesin.
"I was nine full months In the womb of Ceridwen. Before that I was Gwion, But now I am Taliesin."I was with my king In the heavens When Lucifer fell Into the deepest hell.
"I carried the banner Before Alexander. I know the names of the stars From the North to the South.
"I was in Caer Bedion Tetragrammaton. I accompanied Heon To the vale of Hebron.
"I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
"I was patriarch To Elijah and Enoch. I was there at the crucifixion Of the merciful Mabon.
"I was the foreman At the construction of Nimrod's Tower. I was three times In the prison of Arianrhod.
"I was in the ark With Noah and Alpha I witnessed the destruction Of Sodom and Gomorrah.
"I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy
"I was with the Lord In the manger of the ass. I upheld Moses Through the water of Jordan.
"I was at the Cross With Mary Magdalene. I received the muse From Ceridwen's cauldron.
"I was a harping bard To Deon of Lochlin. I have gone hungry For the Righteous One. "I was at the White Mount in the court of Cynfelyn. In stocks and in fetters For a year and a day.
"I was in the larder In the land of the Trinity. And no-one knows whether my body Is flesh or fish.
"I was instructor To the whole universe. I shall be until the judgement On the face of the Earth.
"I have sat in the perilous seat Above Caer Sidi. I shall continue to revolve Between the three elements.
"There is a marvel in the world Which I cannot reveal."
"Fair Elphin, cease your lament! Swearing profits no-one. It is not evil to hope.Nor does any man see what supports him, Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo, Nor does God break his promise. No catch in Gwyddno's weir Was ever as good as tonight's.
"Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks! Such sorrow does not become you, Although you consider yourself cheated. Excessive sorrow gains nothing, Nor will doubting God's miracles. Although I am small, I am skilful. From the sea and the mountain, From the river's depth God gives His gifts to the blessed.
"Elphin of the generous spirit, Cowardly is your purpose, You must not grieve so heavily. Better are good than evil omens. though I am weak and small, Spumed with Dylan's wave, I shall be better for you Than three hundred shares of salmon.
"Elphin of noble generosity, Do not sorrow at your catch. Though I am weak on the floor of my basket, There are wonders on my tongue.
"While I am watching over you, no great need will overcome you. be mindful of the name of the Trinity And none shall overcome you."
What's the catch? (see latch)? Did all of you catch up? Did all of you catch fire (with inspiration(like the kingfishers and did your dragonflies draw flame as in Hopkins' Inversnaid))? How was the plains trip?
Senator Lucias Bedfellow was the greedy and arguably evil senator for Bloom County's state. He frequently came under scrutiny from his constituents in the meadow; it somehow got to the point that Hodge-Podge would honk Bedfellow's nose every time that the man spoke (for talking "bull patties"). The local press also made a habit of going after the Senator (mostly in the form of aggressive innuendos by Milo Bloom, much of which questioned his involvement in the controversial disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa). Bedfellow was involved in a number of scandals (albeit mostly cooked up by the local press), the final being the illicit trade of illegal Bill the Cat tote bags in 1983. He was convicted and sent to prison, and was never referenced again in the strip. The last panel he appears in shows him behind bars, being approached by burly thugs angered over his support of capital punishment.
Senator Bedfellow eventually reappeared 22 years later as a recurring character in Opus, with no mention of his incarceration. The new Bedfellow, like the old, was often the target of newspaper articles, and is mentioned several times as having an ex-wife. He disappeared after the first few years.--Wikipedia's article on Bloom County
n. In the Pythagorean philos., that element of the universe which is represented by the even numbers: identified with the unlimited and imperfect. (from the Century Dictionary definition above)
or is it '' Spanish colonists adopted the Spanish word mapache (for raccoon) from the Nahuatl mapachitli of the Aztecs, meaning '(the) one who takes everything in its hands.'
In many languages, the raccoon is named for its characteristic dousing behavior in conjunction with that language's term for bear, for example Waschbär in German, orsetto lavatore in Italian, mosómedve in Hungarian and araiguma (アライグマ) in Japanese. In French and Portuguese (in Portugal), the washing behavior is combined with these languages' term for rat, yielding, respectively, raton laveur and ratão-lavadeiro. - Wikipedia
The debate continues its ablution?-.. with no evident solution...with loose ends (a-swashing)???
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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
fbharjo commented on the word rhatany
ratany
July 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word leastonishment
PLA least astonishment
July 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ablyss
cross between abyss & a bliss (change (add) -transform- one letter)
July 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word nearth asteroid
How close will it be?
July 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word witheart
withe + heart
July 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word dearth
dear+earth
July 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word consciring
'Conspiring' is breathing together.
Conspire: from Latin conspirare,'to breathe together’
Despite negative connotations it may be thought of otherwise. Breathing has an active sense of being and knowing on many orthopraxic levels.
July 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list sufficient
An ome mantra:
It is somewhat of an omega point
in a chronometer dome!
July 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word vnektckv
compassion per joy harjo
July 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pannier-man
How/Why/in (Hawaiin) is the other name!
No doubts about it!
July 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cast
No poaching or coaching?! (narrowcast and/or broadcast?)(or anyplace on the the intermediate spectrum)!
July 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list of-arabic-origin
How catty!
July 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pannier-man
Do you know the muffed-it (in) man the muffed-it (in) man, who lived on Drury (Durrie) Lane?
All together now...........
July 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list making-ends-meet
nogapteef----no relief-- Charlie Brown might say "GoodGrief"
How do you spell relief? R-O-L-E+I-F?
July 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word smilepostgrad
s-mile+post+grad
July 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word marriagency
What a fit!
July 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tingot
tin-ingot
July 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ingatheringathering
ingathering What loop-the-loop potential!
July 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fleap
leaping lizards? fleap
July 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word trusionce
one push?(or push once) trusion+once
July 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word computeraphim
a modern idol? computeraphim
July 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cetra
variation of a lyre
July 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word scoradutura
cross-tuning or deliberate mistuning
July 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word spirit level
n. An instrument for determining the plane of the horizon, or the plane perpendicular to the direction in which bodies fall under the action of gravity. The simplest instrument used for this purpose is the plumbline. This is now superseded for most purposes by the bubble- or spirit-level, which consists of a frame of some kind firmly holding a glass tube, closed at the ends, nearly filled with anhydrous ether, or a mixture of ether and alcohol, and having its inner surface on the upper part ground into the form of the outer part of an anchor-ring. Fine levels have besides a graduated scale either on the glass or on a metallic rule set against it, so as to mark the precise position of the bubble. Most fine levels are provided with a chamber so contrived that the length of the bubble can be altered. The spirit-level is usually reversed in use, and the mean of its two indications adopted. The spirit-level is an attachment of most geodetical instruments; and there is a special instrument called a level or leveling-instrument (which see). -- from Century Dictionary definition of level
July 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bead
n. The bubble or mass of bubbles rising to the top or resting on the surface of a liquid when shaken or decanted: as, the bead of wines or spirits. Century Dictionary
July 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cocktail sort
bidirectional bubble sort
July 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word South Sea Bubble
early bubble trouble
July 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user tdernbach
don't let a pause (paws) stop applause!
July 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word emirp
emirp prime (13,31: 37,73 .........)
July 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user dclose73
73 is an emirp (palindromic prime number with a partner '37') in base 10.
In binary, it is also palindromic - 1001001. (and octal 111)
In Morse Code it is also palindromic (--··· ···--).
*has a certain cadance (cadence), doesn't it?*
It is the name of a Messier object, M73, a magnitude 9.0 apparent open cluster in the constellation Aquarius.
73 is a star number (number of points in a star clusters (1..13..37...73...121......-like a chinese checkers pattern- ..............)
Which of these do you disclose?
I am probably far off far?
Welcome! 73's (best regards - in ham parlance)
Have funner here!
July 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word scaturient
*scats-a-long*
July 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bland stand
a fast food kiosk with tasteless food??
July 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tsundoku
Also can be translated as bibliophile - or someone who likes books so much that they will capture books - dead or alive.
July 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list meet-the-beetles
perhaps beetles are misnamed. They should be named beecolor.
July 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word nosthryl
'nostril'
July 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word flour beetle
talk about 'flour' 'glowwer' (rhymes with) power.
(Undersides(I hesitate to say 'besides' ), the visual looks as if it is already radiated.)
July 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list meet-the-beetles
coleopterrific
July 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list beetle-eyed
also: patent-leather beetle, false blister beetles, mimic beetle, plate-thigh beetles, lantern beetle, lesser stag beetle, longicorns, jewel beetle (Buprestidae), ironclad beetles, false clown beetles, engraver-beetle, field tiger beetle, and
July 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list beetle-eyed
false ground beetles, clown beetle, ladder-beetle, pleasing fungus beetles,whirligig beetle, tumbling flower beetle, travertine beetles, rough fungus beetle, Giant Fijian long-horned beetle (Xixuthrus terribilis), tansy beetle, starry sky beetle, and skiff beetles might be a few candidates for your list
July 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cnafa
Old English word for youth. 'Knave' is derived from it.
July 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word phormos
Greek word for 'basket' (used as a volume measure)
July 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fugol
bird
July 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word iecur ficatus
liver with figs - a epicurian delight in Pompeii in the 1st Century
July 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word diutisc
"Deutsch" has its origin in the Old High German word "diutisc" meaning "the language of the people" (as opposed to Latin). There are also uncertain alernatives origins of "German" as Celtic "The Noisy Men" or Old High German "The Greedy Men"! -http://www.westegg.com/etymology/
July 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word planktonophagous
You are what you eat?
July 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Plankalkül
early computer programming language
It is like plankton, an early form of life and occurred in an errant, wandering form.
July 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list the-measure-of-man
But Chopin is still a half pint and that helps heaps (in some quarters) i.e. sorites paradox and heaps of oranges -- fatal indigestion for elephants!
* Joseph Wood Krutch, author of The Measure of Man, where are you when we need you?*
July 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word orange
Orange (Eng.); Orange (Fr.); Naranja (Sp.); Arancia (It.)
Interestingly, none of these terms come from the Latin word for orange, citrus aurentium; instead, they all come from the ancient Sanskrit naga ranga, which literally means "fatal indigestion for elephants." In certain traditions the orange, not the apple, is the fruit responsible for original sin. There was an ancient Malay fable--which made its way into the Sanskrit tongue around the Seventh or Eighth Centuries B.C.--that links the orange to the sin of gluttony and has an elephant as the culprit. Apparently, one day an elephant was passing through the forest, when he found a tree unknown to him in a clearing, bowed downward by its weight of beautiful, tempting oranges; as a result, the elephant ate so many that he burst. Many years later a man stumbled upon the scene and noticed the fossilized remains of the elephant with many orange trees growing from what had been its stomach. The man then exclaimed, "Amazing! What a naga ranga (fatal indigestion for elephants)!" ---http://www.westegg.com/etymology/
July 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word utopia
here now and no where
July 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word neurononsense
can be read neuro-nonsense or neuron-on-sense or .............
July 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Delta fin
It was the Beta max of the 50s
July 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word clod
On Missouri eels revelation in frogapplause comment:
Hence Miss-Ouri?
Miss-Issippi must have 'Ms.ed the boat'?
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word conchoid of Nicomedes
conchoid
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word coastcurve
see sorites paradox
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sand
“Why is there sand in deserts? Because windblown sand collects in every low place, and deserts are low, like beaches,” Dillard writes.
She wants us to ponder such accretion.
Another heap of trouble! How heapful will that be!
Actually, it (preforms) rocks!
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cissoid
How cissoidish! as opposed to the conchoid of Nicomedes
As my father used to say when I asked him what he did during his workday:
"I went around in square circles."
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sand
It probably was wirtten by Charles Sanders Peirce though he perhaps was flinchish about the implcations.
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sorites paradox
Ruzuzu, Are you asking for a 'heap of trouble?'
The paradox reminds me of Mandelbrot and measuring the coastline of England (grain of sand boundary by grain of sand boundary). The smaller the measure the longer the coastline (coastcurve would be a more correct term).
The Greeks also created the term meander - or meanderenthrall if you will- The deeper one gets into a paradox the more heapish it gets even if the heap is seemingly diminishing.
One has to watch out for unposted posticates! (The predicates are clausebacks!)
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list derived-from-the-same-root
verticil
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word standonish
as opposed to standoffish
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word wannish
near vanish
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list bowl--1
escudilla
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sand
George Sand wrote many novels about intermingling! Here's Chopin you would know about it!
Otherwise refer to sand in Annie Dillard's 'For the Time Being' for any needed reference.
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list derived-from-the-same-root
doublet?...salsify?
July 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list furrows
coat selections: wraps parting: hairs-splitting: parting hairs: heirs apparent: hair-rowing
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word narrowish
as opposed to widish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Toryish
as opposed to Whiggish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word appearish
as opposed to vanish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list words-to-describe-bad-arguments
bled herring
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word straightonish
to the finish & (encoreish) uncoreish???
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word proish
as opposed to amateurish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word softish
as opposed to hardish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word straightonish
as opposed to punish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word braveish
as opposed to cowardish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word beginish
as opposed to finish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word barish
as opposed to publish
July 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Punk Rock
island in Arizona (Verde River)
July 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Arizonac
O`odham word meaning 'small spring' alĭ ṣonak
July 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Eager
suburb of Springerville
July 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Elves Chasm
near royal arch
July 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Lava Falls Rapids
lava falls
July 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Why
town in Pima County
July 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Nutrioso
town in Apache County
July 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Total Wreck
Ghost town in Pima County
July 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list winged-jewels
How about zun-zun?
July 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word trenchant
intrenchant
July 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word grewvy
groovy
July 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word selion
selionows
July 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word zastrugi
also see sastruga
July 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word furrowweed
a weed growing on plowed land. - Webster's 1828 Dictionary
July 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word jugal furrow
(in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds. - Random House Dictionary
July 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ambulacral furrows
Of Echinodermata (echinoderms); groove or furrow in the oral side of the arm holding the tube feet (Southward & Campbell, 2006).
July 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word selion
furrow divide?
July 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word dakota sandia
friendly watermelon
July 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Heȟáka Sápa
Black Elk
July 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Black Elk
Heȟáka Sápa
July 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word do-re-mi
fa(r)-so-e-do
July 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ojo caliente
hot I
June 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word do-re-mi
do-re-ti... do-re-to? (in the chips)????
June 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word do-re-mi
ti-do-re
June 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word do-re-mi
la-ti-do-re
June 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word do-re-mi
so-la-ti-do
June 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word do-re-mi
fa-so-la-ti
June 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word halter
halteres
June 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ecdysozoa
a 'take-off'
June 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sunblinds
Is it a noun and/or a verb (either/or -- both/and)?
June 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Lawyers forbidding me to access my own memories.
There are pro bono and con (male fide) bono aspects to everything it would appear?
ad coelum??
ad infinitum???
cui bono? ibid?
in limine?
an obvious terra nullius!
June 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word lettuce
It gets milkier and milkier as it flakes!
June 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word parsake
How rice!
June 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pajamageddon
a sleeper
June 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word acquiring taste
vs. acquired taste
June 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tartling
beginnings of taste?-startling!
June 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word dicasteries
cast-di-cast
June 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Bazeries
Étienne
June 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Song of Ice and Fire
ice and fire
June 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Pale Fire
Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
June 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word periti
'experts' - skilled theologians used as consultants
June 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word prewordnikian
B.W. in other acronyms?
June 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Münchhausen Trilemma
Is this where the term 'Get agrippa on yourself' comes from?
June 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pomme de terre
de Luxembourg
June 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word boultin
bolted built-in
June 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word spile
piles of spile
June 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word chapiter
the final chapiter
June 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gorgerin
gorge(ous)rin
June 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Rhorow
....your craft gently down (across) the stream
June 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pilaster
What is a alphalaster?
What is an omegalaster?
June 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word yapping clamheads
Geoducks, Redux? (from scene to shining see)
June 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word First Lady of Song
Ella Fitzgerald
June 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word raddle
A devise for keeping beaming straight. (see Century dictionary definition above) - n. A wooden bar with a row of upright pegs, employed by domestic weavers in some places to keep the warp of a proper width, and to prevent it from becoming entangled when it is wound upon the beam.
June 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gegenschein
a sunbeam's counter-shadow
June 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word surroyal
another kind (tine) of high beam?
June 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word starwisp
beam-powered propulsion
June 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word beamlet
be-am-let
June 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word seam
Seamingly
The line formed by joining two edges
a line of union
A line of separation
the fissure or gap formed by the imperfect union of two bodies laid or fastened together
The ridge in a casting
A bed or stratum
a raphe
A seam of glass, according to the old statute de ponderibus
Tallow; grease; lard
A purl
June 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word noses
What do you have a nose for?
June 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pillwort
a hard pill to swallow
June 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Matlalcueitl
jade skirt!?!
June 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word amber box
a fossilization?
June 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word mattress
A full size?? with excelsioressense??
June 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bran dough
“An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.” - Marlon Brando
June 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bran dough
....with flied, deviled eggs on fryday?? or are those raysins
...or is that a Marlon Brandough line?
June 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fâché
clair de lune
June 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cow magnet
mooving magnates
June 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word codaname
codaname - a whale of a tail (tale)!
June 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cow magnet
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care (coda)
June 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word barhopper
...with some grass
June 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cow magnet
hmmmm, perpetual motion using cow catchers & cow magnets ---as in kowtow OR kotow?
better than a migrating, magnetted, mono rail (bird)?
June 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
baggy pants
June 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word workin suit
to suit vs. workout suit
June 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word lamiaceous
hasn't lost its minty flavor
June 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word apiaceous
humble (of the earth) umbels
June 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word geraniaceous
geraniaceæ
June 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word geraniaceous
Century Dictionary had a leg up?
June 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word panthan
which path to follow?
June 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word inciampante
to trip over ones pants????
June 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hapantua
sour to the Finnish?
June 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Chapantongo
chaps too?
June 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pantanoso
These pants are bear-ly wet. (oso=bear in Spanish)
June 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word analog gate
a gate with infinite positions to allow different amounts of flow through it.
June 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word besearch
ontotonto
June 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Analog gate
What streams through!
June 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list gates
(*A PRE-WATERGATE TALE* :perhaps prophetically) with rapid-gates=(ski) shalom- *peace*-gates..(not to mention Bill Gates...(nothing to Shake-a-spear(e) at).. such is politics..... always was; always is, and in all ways will be! N.B. Polarity doesn't win. Closeness to the (center) middle poles (polls) wins!!
In 1962, Dom Andrew Jenks took us up to Boston (and route 128) to view a water-gate (read analog- gate) vs. a (read conception of an electronic gate) digital-gate (then)-early,bulky transistor. One of his previous students was theorizing the possibilities of an analog gate (read both/and) as opposed to a digital gate (read either/or). He had a large structure with a movable gate showing colored water flowing through various positioned closings of the gate to simulate analog gating versus digital gating.
Do-tell intel won the phyrric temp-victory (not the (war) outcome) but with fuzzy-grey logic the analog will eventually win the day, month, year, eon..... it is the the difference between the conifer (read digital pursuit) vs angiosperm (read analog pursuit)...maybe my view is too short-sighted *and probably is, was, and will-be*.
Simplicity wins the short-run(come); simple complexity wins the long-*(eternal)*run(come).
We are all fractions striving to become integers. one of Dom Jenk's quotes
one of Dom Jenk's students
“The mystery surrounding Dan gave rise to a thousand fantastic stories. I’m sure all of them were
true. He was a child prodigy, still a legend in the Harvard Math Department thirty years later. He
had invented a bawdy limerick for every geographic region on earth (“There once was a man from
Aberystwyth…”). In college, he fell sixty feet into a subway tunnel and landed on his head.
Somehow he climbed out and walked to the hospital on two broken legs.
This explained everything…”
Anonymous ‘68
from “Dom Andrew: A Paradoxical and Powerful Man”
June 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word codename
I would have never been so inspired. Now only the tune is needed for this tuned-in piece.
June 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word euneirophrenia
sweet dreams?
June 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list genes--1
perhaps it shows sageness
June 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list genes--1
without averageness
June 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list genes--1
Lamarck has to be "in the money." What do others say?
June 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list genes--1
And I'll resist adding Jean Baptiste Lully.... ( and Jean Piaget, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean Lafitte, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud and Jean Genet.) not to remark upon Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
June 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word codename
and "cattleman" as as "catt-leman?"
June 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list a-fork-or-split
What's the other druther?
May 31, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list a-fork-or-split
Are you on the horns of a dilemma?
May 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list a-fork-or-split
How about ramification?
May 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word statement
only to languish?
May 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word meteorwrong
Is it a meteor-rite-of-passage (landing)?
May 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word oxymoron
dripdry drip-dry?
bully?
May 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word L'engualish franca
Thanks Ruzuzu,
There is little to nothing new under the tongue!
Have you read Ostler's The Last Lingua Franca?
It is a marvelous voyage (audyage?) through recent millenia (or course through the logos of language).
May 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word rockphile
'type a' amateur geologist
May 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word boulderdash
bolderdash - complement to bolderdot!
May 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word L'engualish franca
frankly, until it languishes............
May 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word know-it-so-so
So?!
May 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word drachlira
another name for the current monetary crisis?
May 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word point of sale
point of sail?
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word barber's cat
a sickly looking person
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word nothing
not-hing(e) and/or no-thing and/or noth-ing?
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word point and shoot
see point and clique
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word clique and point
group transference
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word drachmageddon
I real-ly fear drachlira!!! What's the (pace-oh) peso??? What becomes of a (the) dole are?
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word point of disorder
point of this order?
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word beside the point
point out, point blanks?
May 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word beside the point
parallel point?
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word oh-be-joyful
intoxicating spirits
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word nigh unto
almost or nearly
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hair case
hat
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word slantindicular
oblique
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sawdusting
flattering
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sakes alive
good heavens
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word puddin' foot
a clutzy horse
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word loaded for bears
lightly intoxicated
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word high tail
vamoose
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hen skins
cowboy's bedroll
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word belly wash
dishwater coffee
May 24, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word keep company
to court
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word out of gas
beyond ether (ethyl?)
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gatorade
and blend mite(mighty)-gator-aide?! (mitigateraide)?
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user gulyasrobi
It is definitely wordnikteriously mysterious! (and full of awe-wonder!)?
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word startup
What a downer (down turn)?
May 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Napier
It is hard to get away 'clean handed'?!
May 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the user gulyasrobi
Great lists!
How did you list so many words (46907) so quickly ?... and where are these words since most of them are not on your lists?
May 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Porvoo
The finishing touch of Finnish!
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Yamoussoukro
the best coasting ivory? coasting
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Mmabatho
Hmmmm does it come out in the wash?
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Dinxperlo
a fine ice wine!!
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Bergamo
Are you game?(gamo)??
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Cusco
Cuzco
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Cusco
Capital of Inca?
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Pocatello
synonomous with Marx (poke -and tell-oh)
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Bilbo
Does it remind you of someone?
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Tupelo
How can you top that?
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word macrotis
and what do you bandy-about?
bil of bil-becomes?
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Accho
Bless you!
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Ogbomosho
known for its kola nuts!
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Khajuraho
the brothers are monumental
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Jericho
It is the lowest of the low - yet high brow.
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Capital of Idaho
Boise
May 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word flopuing
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A plover-like bird with four toes, a crest, and lustrous plumage, belonging to the genus Vanellus and family Charadriidæ. The best-known lapwing is V. cristatus, a common European bird, also called pe-wit, from its cry. The adult male has the upper parts iridescent with green, violet, and purplish tints, the under parts white, a large area on the breast and the top of the head and the long crest black, the tail-coverts chestnut or orange-brown, the tail black and white, the bill black, and the feet red. It is about as large as a pigeon. The eggs are esteemed a great luxury, and many are annually sent to the London markets from the marshy districts of England, under the name of plovers' eggs. There are other species. Also called flopuing.
GNU Webster's 1913
n. A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or Vanellus vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the “plover's eggs” of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word crease
To make a line or long thin
mark in,
as by folding,
doubling,
or indenting.
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word snowcap
a New Granada hummer in its animate form.
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cadilesker
kadilesker
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kumiss
I am not shaken or remiss (ruemiss)?!
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word wolfhound
originally wolfhounds now locolobos????
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Zouave
adds a whole new meaning to drilling (for what?)
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sherry
originally dry...... now sweet!
May 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word conductor
that's electric eclectic!
May 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Wright Whirlwind
put sprint in spirit
May 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word &c.
How easy?
May 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cant
recant - sungover?
May 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word rueturn
Is it a different type of roturue?
May 10, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hlutor
Clear, pure, bright, sincere
May 9, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word rueptant
reptant
May 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ruewe
rewe
May 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ruta
no matter which route! (see visuals)
May 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word rhūtē
Greek root of 'rue'
May 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ruta
from Century Dictionary's definition of rue:
n. Any plant of the genus Ruta, especially R. graveolens, the common or garden rue, a native of the Mediterranean region and western Asia, and elsewhere common in cultivation. It is a woody herb of bushy habit, 2 or 3 feet high, with decompound leaves, the leaflets of a bluish-green color, strongly dotted. The flowers are greenish-yellow and corymbed, and are produced all summer. The plant has a strong disagreeable odor, and the leaves are extremely acrid, even producing blisters. In antiquity and the middle ages rue was highly esteemed as a medicine, and was believed to ward off contagion. It has the properties of a stimulant and antispasmodic, but accompanied by excitant and irritant tendencies. It is not now officinal, but continues somewhat in popular use. In medieval folk-lore it was a common witches' drug. From its supposed virtues, or by association with the word rue, repentance, it was formerly called herb-of-grace.
May 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word rued-in
past ruined?
May 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word rueturn
You're not feeling fuetile then!
see the new list rueturn
May 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word rueturn
No ruegrets?!
No ruepentance?!
No ruemorse?!
May 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word beauty factory
What an ascent!
May 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sunken May
Maybe they don't cut the mustard!
May 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sunken May
Cinco de Mayo
May 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word blackbird
Bye-bye
May 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word slacks
slacks lack?
May 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word boughhty
from 1828 Webster's Dictionary: means bending
May 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word heighho
It's off to work we go........ heighho's etymology stretches back at least to 1553.
N.B. the spelling in 1810 in the example. heigh-ho
May 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ledge
It does perhaps requires a light hand and a radiant brow (Taliesin)?
A brow is a type of ledge? Right?
May 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list a-mother-of-a-list
mammothermography - a-smothered-mother-of-a-word
May 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word redux
finding a lost leader (what a line!)?
May 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cabinet
cabinet redux?
May 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ledge
How is this related to know-ledge?
May 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list the-new-yorkers-style-manual
Truth and facts we never (s)lack(s)?
May 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word frog-spit
spirogyra
May 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word spiff up
a favorite term of my mother
May 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word xylosma
no essence lost
May 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word in the mend
on the mend
May 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word whisk neat
good with or without key
May 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word heppen happenings
heppen
April 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word amice
It's a wrap!
April 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word wrap map
rap map
April 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word wrap map
unwrapped
April 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word aurifrigium
orphrey
April 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word orfrais praise
prays with orphrey praise
April 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word coat rack of attention
Is there a nook for these knacks (or are they just knick(le) knacks?)
neat-knacks
April 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word tegulate
tegulated are more!
April 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word serrulate
i came, i scene, i serrulate
April 29, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word etui
étui
April 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word capsella
the ultimate 'which see'?
April 26, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list ice-ice-baby--1
Ruzuzu caught my floe drift. Eustatic change could be caused by a change in ice level also.
April 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list ice-ice-baby--1
These may fit your list:
poudrin? eustatic ? verglas?
April 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list rainbows
What phantasmatography!!
April 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Eiffel's birth name wasn't Eiffel, but Bönickhausen
He adopted the name from the Eifel region where he was raised. Who are other folks who have renamed themselves?
April 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bungee jump
It is amazing bungee jumping has been around for over a 100 years. I thought it was a recent phenomenon
April 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word apple
Is it Mon zano manzano?
April 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Halicarnassus
near the old rhodes island
April 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Wendy Carlos
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
April 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word The Breakers
Vanderbilt's end-of-the line
April 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Q'uq'umatz
aka Qucumatz, Gukumatz, Gucumatz, Gugumatz, Kucumatz
q'uq'
(K'iche' word) for quetzal
April 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list lost-for-word
unbegotten
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Elphin
"I have come to salvage Elphin's honor and his freedom. Taliesin am I, primary chief bard to Elphin.
"Primary chief poet Am I to Elphin. And my native country Is the place of the Summer Stars.
"John the Divine Called me Merlin, But all future kings Shall call me Taliesin.
"I was nine full months In the womb of Ceridwen. Before that I was Gwion, But now I am Taliesin."I was with my king In the heavens When Lucifer fell Into the deepest hell.
"I carried the banner Before Alexander. I know the names of the stars From the North to the South.
"I was in Caer Bedion Tetragrammaton. I accompanied Heon To the vale of Hebron.
"I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
"I was patriarch To Elijah and Enoch. I was there at the crucifixion Of the merciful Mabon.
"I was the foreman At the construction of Nimrod's Tower. I was three times In the prison of Arianrhod.
"I was in the ark With Noah and Alpha I witnessed the destruction Of Sodom and Gomorrah.
"I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy
"I was with the Lord In the manger of the ass. I upheld Moses Through the water of Jordan.
"I was at the Cross With Mary Magdalene. I received the muse From Ceridwen's cauldron.
"I was a harping bard To Deon of Lochlin. I have gone hungry For the Righteous One. "I was at the White Mount in the court of Cynfelyn. In stocks and in fetters For a year and a day.
"I was in the larder In the land of the Trinity. And no-one knows whether my body Is flesh or fish.
"I was instructor To the whole universe. I shall be until the judgement On the face of the Earth.
"I have sat in the perilous seat Above Caer Sidi. I shall continue to revolve Between the three elements.
"There is a marvel in the world Which I cannot reveal."
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Elphin
"Fair Elphin, cease your lament! Swearing profits no-one. It is not evil to hope.Nor does any man see what supports him, Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo, Nor does God break his promise. No catch in Gwyddno's weir Was ever as good as tonight's.
"Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks! Such sorrow does not become you, Although you consider yourself cheated. Excessive sorrow gains nothing, Nor will doubting God's miracles. Although I am small, I am skilful. From the sea and the mountain, From the river's depth God gives His gifts to the blessed.
"Elphin of the generous spirit, Cowardly is your purpose, You must not grieve so heavily. Better are good than evil omens. though I am weak and small, Spumed with Dylan's wave, I shall be better for you Than three hundred shares of salmon.
"Elphin of noble generosity, Do not sorrow at your catch. Though I am weak on the floor of my basket, There are wonders on my tongue.
"While I am watching over you, no great need will overcome you. be mindful of the name of the Trinity And none shall overcome you."
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Elphin
finder of the radiant brow "Taliesin"
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word brow
high, low and middle brow - a quick, nifty journey, Ruzuzu.
not to mention & to mention ill brow and nae brow in CD&C
over the edge perhaps?
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word La Rambla
"the grand strand"
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Guadalquivir
"great river"
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word almuerzo
a bite : lunch
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fulano
What's-his-name
April 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word azúcar
sugar
April 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word masaje
massage
April 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word jaque
Chess' check
April 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word toronja
grapefruit
April 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word zanahoria
carrot
April 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cero
zero
April 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word eyebrows
and say has (cejas)..........some...what?
April 16, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word blueback
fascinatingly also known as a red-fish in Idaho.
sockeye onchorynchus-nerka
Is that the reason they are called sockeye?
April 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word escaped cattle
What's the catch? (see latch)? Did all of you catch up? Did all of you catch fire (with inspiration(like the kingfishers and did your dragonflies draw flame as in Hopkins' Inversnaid))? How was the plains trip?
April 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word lājward
persian blue
April 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word in the blue
see Century Dictionary definition of blue : heavy winter coat of deer
April 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fellah
fellows cultivate?
April 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cedilla
from seventh letter of the Phoenician alphabet - zen
April 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ghazal
from semitic root - gzl - to spin
April 14, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Senator Bedfellow
Senator Lucias Bedfellow was the greedy and arguably evil senator for Bloom County's state. He frequently came under scrutiny from his constituents in the meadow; it somehow got to the point that Hodge-Podge would honk Bedfellow's nose every time that the man spoke (for talking "bull patties"). The local press also made a habit of going after the Senator (mostly in the form of aggressive innuendos by Milo Bloom, much of which questioned his involvement in the controversial disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa). Bedfellow was involved in a number of scandals (albeit mostly cooked up by the local press), the final being the illicit trade of illegal Bill the Cat tote bags in 1983. He was convicted and sent to prison, and was never referenced again in the strip. The last panel he appears in shows him behind bars, being approached by burly thugs angered over his support of capital punishment.
Senator Bedfellow eventually reappeared 22 years later as a recurring character in Opus, with no mention of his incarceration. The new Bedfellow, like the old, was often the target of newspaper articles, and is mentioned several times as having an ex-wife. He disappeared after the first few years.--Wikipedia's article on Bloom County
April 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Belen
Bethlehem
April 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list verba-silvestres
a true drue(id) list!!
April 12, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word dollanity
Just a step away from droleanity!
April 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word xanadu
and 'these days'
April 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word xanadu
I have 'no regrets'
April 11, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list awesome-words--8
words of some awe
April 7, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Dot Island
in Yellowstone Lake
April 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Arizona Island
in Jackson Lake
April 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Jackson Pollock
born in Cody, Wyoming
April 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sootheing sooth
soo sure theing: only a truth
April 6, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word absinthial
What a worm would dew! (see refrigeratory)
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word caseworm
see bagworm
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word lowlife
worm squirm??
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word groundswell
prelude to an earthburst?
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word lowlife
sentenced to a worm term! (turning)
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word pogonophoran
that's hard to digest.
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word flagworm
a liminal worm?
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word boud
What is the 'boud' (baud) rate?
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word boud
contracted scotch?- put the 'we' in (we)evil?
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bagworm
see railroad worm
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word gimlet
see refrigeratory the 'essense' of worming??
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word machaerid
armored worms ?
April 5, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word polychete
It is hard to shoo-away a polychete!
April 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list trea-for-sure
sure-in-cinq
April 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Lieldienas
What is Lent?
April 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word genuine-flect
emphasize the yoU-IN
April 4, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word dinothere
What a montrous beast!
April 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word verb
How to subverb! That is the question! Or is that subver(b)sive?
Or is it the use of ad(d)verbs? (that is subversive?)
April 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word even
Even, amen certainly is an adverb! (gather around) together!
April 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word yellowcake
Homer's favorite baseball team is the isotopes! Right?
April 3, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word shore sore
wane wound
April 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word break-in-through
to the other side: Doors
April 2, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word motmot
a tip of the tails
April 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word even
n. In the Pythagorean philos., that element of the universe which is represented by the even numbers: identified with the unlimited and imperfect. (from the Century Dictionary definition above)
Odd, for one, to be even, too!
April 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Mecoptera
see the tips in visuals
April 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word skaw
the northmost of the North sea: see example sentence from Verbatim above ' rough hair'
April 1, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word plumulaceous
a caring carousel
March 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ravel
revel in ravel
March 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word locknit
raveled
March 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list wild-as-apples
Northern Spy! a particularly dark eye that saps the wine vine
March 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list a-summer-of-hummingbirds
bubble-gum-mint
March 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word copperas
as in bronzed-blue-soothe-sooth-to add lustration
March 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Zeitmunity
all-things-com-munity! (comme on! comme out! comme in!)
March 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word feistgeist
a mongrel spirit: a mid-brid (hi-flying mixed letters)
March 30, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list eggcorns--1
as is 'pair-a-praising'
March 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bayous
Are you bias-ed? that's understandable!
March 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Phutball
let's see
March 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word inkling
see first comment in this grouping
March 28, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word peano curve
space-filling curve
March 27, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hornero
A horno is an mud oven used by the Pueblo Indians
March 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Cinclodes excelsior
lofty one
March 25, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Uaxactun
Mayan ruin that sounds like 'Washington'
March 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word discourse
this course Off Corsica, of course
March 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word ablution
the definition doesn't mention raccoons or bears. Why? (see Alquonkian comments)
March 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Algonkian
Is raccoon Algonkian for 'masked bandit' scratching out a living? (see raccoon and its Algonquin etymology.)
or is it '' Spanish colonists adopted the Spanish word mapache (for raccoon) from the Nahuatl mapachitli of the Aztecs, meaning '(the) one who takes everything in its hands.'
In many languages, the raccoon is named for its characteristic dousing behavior in conjunction with that language's term for bear, for example Waschbär in German, orsetto lavatore in Italian, mosómedve in Hungarian and araiguma (アライグマ) in Japanese. In French and Portuguese (in Portugal), the washing behavior is combined with these languages' term for rat, yielding, respectively, raton laveur and ratão-lavadeiro. - Wikipedia
The debate continues its ablution?-.. with no evident solution...with loose ends (a-swashing)???
What a man(o)date!
March 23, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word etat present
an exhaustive summary of up-to-date knowledge about a subject, as opposed to new information or original thought - Luciferous Logolepsy
March 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word epoch date
00:00:00 UTC January 1,1970 - computer date?
March 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Algonkian
a geological date (period)
March 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word novolescence
up-to-date state
March 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word exergue
place for date??
March 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word cuspidate
to make a point - N.B. not cupidate
March 22, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word firebrand
incend who sends out? (or incenses outsensed)
March 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the list why-i-adore-this-site
No Comments? ..............Yet?...............a priori?
...and i adore this list ..tooo........
March 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word surreal
Soon to be an epic length film " Al Surreel Rithm" (Al Gore didn't invent it!)
- a priori from comments below?!
March 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word sloid
If it is Finnish work, is it floid or flojd?
Or is that a finishing school subject?
March 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word melittologist
The sweets hive it.
March 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word superior bettor
for bettor or worse
March 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Green Baize
What other color is there in Wisconsin?
No other color felt so rite???
March 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word uncleish
unleash...uncle-ish...uncle-like......on.cleing being?!
March 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word senryu
an ironic haiku
March 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word croquinole
curling one's hair with a curling iron
March 20, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word catalase
has an iron core to its structure, and iron is essential to its action.
March 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word epinglette
What is an ipinglette, I wonder? What does it clear priming for? What type of ordnance will it inspire?
March 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word specular pig iron
spiegel
March 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Richard Rorty
known for coining the concept of "ironism"
March 19, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word climban
clamber, climb
March 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word labrador duck
What do Labrador Retrievers wish they could still retrieve?
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word anatidaephobia
ducking a duck??
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word querquedule
Is a white one a Albuquerquedule? (or an oaken one??) to whom would one ateal? Whose O'pintail would prevail?
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Tadorninae
how better to be adorned and adored?
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Paperinik
paleo-duck ( a comics figure???)
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word anseres
is this ducking the answer?
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word orpington
ducking duck cousins??
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word kook
a strange duck?!?!
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word mullingong
has a certain ring-neck to it
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word beduck
a true bluebilled duck ducks the issue
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word fuliguline
if one can see flight, one can hear how to sing it
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word scaup
What is the scaup? (ducks primigeniall advantage?)
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word hadrosaur
How many thick-lizards are there?
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word buffle
How low (Halo) (howhigh)???????????????
March 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word bufflehead
What is a buffle?
March 17, 2012
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