I kind of like this. Similar to hanitiser, it's the kind of portmanteaucorn I can imagine someone blurting out accidentally or perhaps a young child inventing.
My sister-in-law's uncle passed away recently. He was a funeral director. The family business had started off as a taxi enterprise, but due to the lack of services at the time in the area - immediately post WW2 - they often found themselves driving patients to hospital and transporting bodies from where they had died to cemeteries. Before it eventually morphed into a funeral parlour and associated services business, the enterprise had come to be known locally as Coming, Going, Gone.
'Fifteen years ago if you’d told April Little that she’d make $300,000 a year, she would have pictured a life free of financial stress.
“The white picket fence—I have the whole visual in my head,” says Little, 38 years old, a human-resources executive turned career coach in Rochester, N.Y. “I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but when I got to that proverbial mountaintop I realized there’s a lot of expenses. And I still don’t own a home.”
So go the plush-but-not-too-plush lives of the Americans who qualify as HENRY—high earner, not rich yet.'
- Callum Borcher, 'Meet the HENRYS: The Six-Figure Earners Who Don’t Feel Rich', Wall Street Journal, 5 October 2024.
My understanding is that it's a rehearsal - of an opera or musical - where the actors/dancers do a run through with the the band/orchestra for the first time. Usually without full sets, staging, costumes, etc.
"A digital nomad visa or in some cases a temporary residency permit allows a visitor a right to stay in a country and work remotely via a computer/laptop to a foreign-based employer or business. These visas typically have a duration of 12 months and can be extended for one or more years depending on the country issuing the visa."
I've seen recent YouTube videos where police in the USA use this to mean "issue a complaint/notice of trespass against a person".
So something like the cops turn up at a hotel where a drunk guest is making a scene and they say: "You'll have to leave, you've been trespassed by the management."
An Australian Aboriginal English term for a stillborn child. Also star baby.
"Stillbirth is when a bubba is born sleeping. Some mobs call them star baby or gone baby. This website has information that can help keep you and your bubba safe and strong." - safebubba.com.au
An Australian Aboriginal English term for a stillborn child. Also gone baby.
"Stillbirth is when a bubba is born sleeping. Some mobs call them star baby or gone baby. This website has information that can help keep you and your bubba safe and strong." - www.safebubba.com.au
Wine producer Dr Andrew Pirie has participated in the research process at his Apogee vineyard near Lebrina in northern Tasmania with a good improvement in botrytis control in Chardonnay grapes for the 2024 vintage.
“It is an occasional problem in this variety but in the 2024 ripening period the disciplined research approach from Kathy Evan’s team at TIA gave significantly positive results,” Dr Pirie said.
“We learnt very clear cut that double-sided leaf plucking in the bunch zone gave us a significant decrease in our infection,” he said.
Wouldn't be the first time a trade name has escaped its natural confinement and leapt over the brand fence to general use. You can Google that whoops internet search that if you want.
With regard to this definition - adjective: Of superior grade; fine - fancy apples in Tasmania was a term used to mean export quality, particularly on apple crate labels.
A named coined by my mother for my sister's country property. Despite having bought an excavator, tractor and other expensive toys, sister and husband don't actually produce anything.
In the past few weeks, you might’ve come across images of Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris embracing, or SpongeBob in Nazi garb.
They’ve been created by artificial-intelligence image generation tools from Google and xAI and are raising all sorts of questions about what these tools should and shouldn’t be allowed to make, as I reported with my colleague Miles Kruppa.
Among the companies that make these tools, there is no consensus on guardrails. AI image generators run by Google and OpenAI don’t let users create visuals of specific, recognizable people. Elon Musk's xAI’s does."
-'Fake Image Flood', Meghan Bobrowsky, Wall Street Journal, 8/9/2024
Presumably this definition (among others) of scuttle is on the money:
noun Nautical, a small hatchway or opening in the deck, with a lid for covering it; also, a like hole in the side of a ship, or through the coverings of her hatchways; by extension, a hole in general.
Ew, that's terrible. From stonewall maybe? But as I have felt while watching the 'street BMX' at the Olympics recently, sports commentary can often seem like a foreign language for irregular observers.
"There may even be active deception around this topic. A graph was recently put out by the ONS Office for National Statistics in the UK. The text on the graph states that the majority of Long COVID cases were contracted from cases people had more than two years ago, and at first glance, the graph seems to support the assertion. But if you look at the graph a little more closely, you realize they’ve monkeyed with the X-axis and the size of the bins groups of data within a specified range for each one of the bars in the chart. If you actually fix the X-axis, it’s clear that Long COVID has been skyrocketing in the last year. It appears that the ONS may have purposely manipulated the chart to hide the fact that Long COVID is exploding right now, because building such a jimmied custom chart takes MUCH more work than simply plotting the data."
Recently I've seen usage of this to describe clothing style. Protesters hope to make it difficult for them to be identified by 'authorities' by all wearing plain black clothing which they refer to as black bloc.
I'm a bit over -shaped formations. An egghead I follow on Twitter often talks about poll-shaped objects, meaning (opinion) polls he doesn't think have much integrity.
A term used by end-greyhound-racing advocates: the practice of counting as 'adopted' dogs that languish in kennels for months or years in order to make adoption figures look good.
A euphemism for cutting employment by not replacing departing staff.
"The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has sounded the alarm over the university management’s reckless cost-saving measures. In a move that reeks of short-sightedness, the University management’s proposed 'strategic vacancy management' threatens to plunge the institution into a crisis of morale, burnout, and diminished educational quality." - https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/05/nteu-concerned-over-utas-jobs/
"Athrotaxis selaginoides is a species of Athrotaxis, endemic to Tasmania in Australia, where it grows at 400–1,120 m elevation. In its habitat in the mountains, snow in winter is very usual. It is often called King Billy pine or King William pine (believed to be in reference to William Lanne, an Aboriginal Tasmanian man),3 although it is not a true pine." - Wikipedia
TLDR: Crowther, a Premier of the state of Tasmania, was a grave robber of Aboriginal remains including those of William Lanney, known as King Billy. WL was effectively the last remaining Aboriginal leader who had grown up in pre-colonial Tasmania. Crowther cut his head off and preserved it in rum, then sent it back to England for a museum collection. He also removed and used WL's scrotum as a tobacco pouch.
Dr Saul said that at the time of writing our 2024/25 budget submission, the service operated on 0.8 of a psychiatrist, three nurses and a 0.4 registrar. The Registrar position would not continue this year, thereby halving the medical cover for the prison.
"The only positions funded as part of the prison mental health service are the psychiatrist and one nursing position.
"Staff working in the service are at risk of burnout due to stress and moral injury, that is, burnout caused by witnessing adverse patient outcomes due to a lack of resources."
Comments by bilby
bilby commented on the word Swiss Army
Often used in an adjectival sense of objects that serve multiple purposes, or purportedly 'do almost everything' necessary in a certain context.
November 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word besteal
*bilby bestole up behind vendingmachine, waiting for the moment to pounce*
November 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word jarlic
moaths.
November 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word jarlic
Store it next to the jar of minced oaths.
November 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word jarlic
I kind of like this. Similar to hanitiser, it's the kind of portmanteaucorn I can imagine someone blurting out accidentally or perhaps a young child inventing.
November 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word hamlet
In the sense of village, has a common origin with home.
November 8, 2024
bilby commented on the list gate-jseEgkVpsuohiRxBJGSMB
Watergate surely.
October 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word langar
The examples suggest the term (also) applies to the kitchen that makes the food.
October 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word gool
Got me thinking ... do we have a list of breaches?
October 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word notdog
Wash it down with a nojito at your faux fiesta.
October 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word limber pine
How flexible are these limbs? Are we talking yoga positions or what?
October 16, 2024
bilby commented on the list b-your-mission--find-thetraps-b
bull trap is used in stock market commentary.
October 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word wuthering
Well, it appears there is a gesture for wuthering. See demonstration by the acknowledged expert here: https://youtu.be/cDSa9q5Mjo8?feature=shared&t=45
October 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word volupty
Rhymes with ...
October 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word say-do gap
The 'gap' or difference between what people say they are committed to and what action they actually take.
October 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word coming, going, gone
My sister-in-law's uncle passed away recently. He was a funeral director. The family business had started off as a taxi enterprise, but due to the lack of services at the time in the area - immediately post WW2 - they often found themselves driving patients to hospital and transporting bodies from where they had died to cemeteries. Before it eventually morphed into a funeral parlour and associated services business, the enterprise had come to be known locally as Coming, Going, Gone.
October 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word Tasman Sea
Where my ashes will be scattered, if you ever need to find me.
October 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word Gegagedigedagedago
Thank you for the explanation.
October 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word Gegagedigedagedago
Touch grass?
October 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word trend
Compare trender.
October 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word HENRY
'Fifteen years ago if you’d told April Little that she’d make $300,000 a year, she would have pictured a life free of financial stress.
“The white picket fence—I have the whole visual in my head,” says Little, 38 years old, a human-resources executive turned career coach in Rochester, N.Y. “I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but when I got to that proverbial mountaintop I realized there’s a lot of expenses. And I still don’t own a home.”
So go the plush-but-not-too-plush lives of the Americans who qualify as HENRY—high earner, not rich yet.'
- Callum Borcher, 'Meet the HENRYS: The Six-Figure Earners Who Don’t Feel Rich', Wall Street Journal, 5 October 2024.
October 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word stake-hook
How high are the stakes?
September 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word sitzprobe
My understanding is that it's a rehearsal - of an opera or musical - where the actors/dancers do a run through with the the band/orchestra for the first time. Usually without full sets, staging, costumes, etc.
September 26, 2024
bilby commented on the word intractability
There's a tracta bogged in the middle of this word.
September 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word digital nomad
"A digital nomad visa or in some cases a temporary residency permit allows a visitor a right to stay in a country and work remotely via a computer/laptop to a foreign-based employer or business. These visas typically have a duration of 12 months and can be extended for one or more years depending on the country issuing the visa."
- definition from Nomadgirl
September 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word Vegemitini
Wot?
September 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word Tasmanian wolf
The passing of poor Benjamin is in fact the basis of Threatened Species Day, 7 September.
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word Tasmanian wolf
Ok WeirdNet the last known specimen died on 7 September 1936 so this species unfortunately not 'rare' but extinct.
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the list wolf-NcVBfv1BNeOOlBbzG2RzZ
in bocca al lupo
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word trespass
I've seen recent YouTube videos where police in the USA use this to mean "issue a complaint/notice of trespass against a person".
So something like the cops turn up at a hotel where a drunk guest is making a scene and they say: "You'll have to leave, you've been trespassed by the management."
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the list fox-nyibzPojIWMym5_sOn1NV
Linfox?
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word octopyranose
The -ose -ose Wiktionary definition reminds me of the Two Ronnies 'Four Candles' sketch: https://youtu.be/Ozpek_FrOPs?feature=shared
September 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word kisspeptin
Pucker up!
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word redbed
Oh, you geologists out rhyming wittily when everyone thinks you're just stone boffins!
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the list 12-new-three-letter-words-for-scrabble-897Ppt5waUItBz1QBUc0e
Ack!
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word syrup
Etymologically, has the same root as shrub and sherbet.
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word sherbet
Etymologically, has the same root as shrub and syrup.
September 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word trepanning
I see a which see!
September 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word machair
Next to matable?
September 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word catarrh
Want to hear a pirate say this word.
September 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word Sumba
'Passed to the Dutch' ... uh, the Dutch East Indies was militarily occupied.
September 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word double-sided leaf plucking
Plucked if I know :-/
September 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word gone baby
An Australian Aboriginal English term for a stillborn child. Also star baby.
"Stillbirth is when a bubba is born sleeping. Some mobs call them star baby or gone baby. This website has information that can help keep you and your bubba safe and strong." - safebubba.com.au
September 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word star baby
An Australian Aboriginal English term for a stillborn child. Also gone baby.
"Stillbirth is when a bubba is born sleeping. Some mobs call them star baby or gone baby. This website has information that can help keep you and your bubba safe and strong." - www.safebubba.com.au
September 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word liceaceæ
cea having a day out here.
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word liveness
WeirdNet being WeirdNet.
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word chizzel
Fo shizzel.
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word fascist
Definitions, photos, etc. are auto-retrieved from available databases.
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word double-sided leaf plucking
Wine producer Dr Andrew Pirie has participated in the research process at his Apogee vineyard near Lebrina in northern Tasmania with a good improvement in botrytis control in Chardonnay grapes for the 2024 vintage.
“It is an occasional problem in this variety but in the 2024 ripening period the disciplined research approach from Kathy Evan’s team at TIA gave significantly positive results,” Dr Pirie said.
“We learnt very clear cut that double-sided leaf plucking in the bunch zone gave us a significant decrease in our infection,” he said.
- https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/09/managing-botrytis-in-wine-grapes/
September 16, 2024
bilby commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy
German shepherd's pie. Trump inspired!
September 13, 2024
bilby commented on the word washlet
Wouldn't be the first time a trade name has escaped its natural confinement and leapt over the brand fence to general use. You can Google that whoops internet search that if you want.
September 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word dorveille
Indeed.
September 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word tuckshop
Still in current use in Australia.
Example: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/09/move-to-save-school-canteens-tuckshop/
September 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word fancy
With regard to this definition - adjective: Of superior grade; fine - fancy apples in Tasmania was a term used to mean export quality, particularly on apple crate labels.
September 11, 2024
bilby commented on the word circle of life
This is the name of a doughnut shop near me. Applause.
September 11, 2024
bilby commented on the word evulgate
Sounds dirty but isn't?
September 11, 2024
bilby commented on the word Nothing Farm
A named coined by my mother for my sister's country property. Despite having bought an excavator, tractor and other expensive toys, sister and husband don't actually produce anything.
September 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word no-hanging fruit
"Banning kids from social media - it’s no-hanging fruit - not even on people’s Top 20 list of issues to address.
That Too Hard Basket is overflowing."
- Twitter, https://x.com/gomichild/status/1833277800771686808
September 9, 2024
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
indue (or indew)
September 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word guardrail
In the past few weeks, you might’ve come across images of Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris embracing, or SpongeBob in Nazi garb.
They’ve been created by artificial-intelligence image generation tools from Google and xAI and are raising all sorts of questions about what these tools should and shouldn’t be allowed to make, as I reported with my colleague Miles Kruppa.
Among the companies that make these tools, there is no consensus on guardrails. AI image generators run by Google and OpenAI don’t let users create visuals of specific, recognizable people. Elon Musk's xAI’s does."
-'Fake Image Flood', Meghan Bobrowsky, Wall Street Journal, 8/9/2024
September 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word vagooter
Well that's what I'd do, you giant money-pinching larder of fossilised snacks.
September 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word vagooter
I think the solution is to agree whilst calling me something insulting.
September 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word vagooter
#wordswedontneed
September 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word racket
Imagine an ESL/EFL learner coming up to you and aksing: "What does racket mean?"
September 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word racket
One of those words with a surprisingly large number of meanings.
September 6, 2024
bilby commented on the list pill-4BWhji1vYwo_U_JLy2Vwk
pillbox hat
September 5, 2024
bilby commented on the list pill-4BWhji1vYwo_U_JLy2Vwk
poison pill
September 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word medireview
Like Cupertino effect.
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word medireview
Is there a general term for computerspeak that was born of programming issues?
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word U-tube
Looks like pointy-headed boffins missed the boat here.
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word Fannie Flagg
A writer. Co-screenwriting credit for 'Fried Green Tomatoes'.
September 2, 2024
bilby commented on the word Vanhattan
Vanhattan, a portmanteau of vanguard, banana, hazardous, rattan and antibodies.
Used to refer to the human body's natural defences against fruit carelessly left in papasan chairs.
September 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word irksum
Who is doing this amending?
August 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word black mauls
See TCD definition on physalospora.
August 28, 2024
bilby commented on the user latonio
Same, mostly.
August 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word radiolarite
My new favourite indie radio station.
August 24, 2024
bilby commented on the word nanonana
A very, very small banana, staple of the nanofruit industry.
August 24, 2024
bilby commented on the word sycamore
Buried in the etymology, moron = mulberry.
August 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word Mr Sparky
A taser. As heard on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14QxMC8B_U
August 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word fore-scuttle
Presumably this definition (among others) of scuttle is on the money:
noun Nautical, a small hatchway or opening in the deck, with a lid for covering it; also, a like hole in the side of a ship, or through the coverings of her hatchways; by extension, a hole in general.
August 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word fore-scuttle
"The forecastle was small, with no means of ventilation or admission of the light of day, excepting by the fore-scuttle."
At least from this example we can determine that forecastle and fore-scuttle are not the same thing.
August 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word bunyavirus
The name derives from Bunyamwera, a town in Uganda where the original type species Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus was first discovered.
August 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word soft-land
Not a theme park :-/
August 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word Cruel Sea
Came here looking for Tex Perkins :-/
August 19, 2024
bilby commented on the list mangrve-kjUzBBbbp1cTPsbUfNrjH
vengram I think :-/
August 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word iced vovo
A pink coconut and raspberry biscuit made by Arnotts.
August 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word avocadart
avo, a portmanteau of abracadabra and iced vovo. Used when a genie grants you a wish of unlimited packaged biscuits.
August 16, 2024
bilby commented on the list rat-XHQFHtt-_-HnXwxTeo5cq
ratfuckers? Hello Kevin.
August 16, 2024
bilby commented on the list rat-XHQFHtt-_-HnXwxTeo5cq
as flash as a rat with a gold tooth
August 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word avocadart
Avocarto.
August 16, 2024
bilby commented on the user milani
And Trinidad?
August 14, 2024
bilby commented on the word clam-cracker
Use of molest in TCD definition is delightful.
August 14, 2024
bilby commented on the word egalness
Half-arsed formation from the French egalite.
August 13, 2024
bilby commented on the word tinsels
No no no it is not a verb.
August 13, 2024
bilby commented on the word doom loop
"Finally, we’re aiming to crack down on customer service ‘doom loops,’ frustrating cycles that customers experience when seeking assistance.
Consumers should be able to talk to real people instead of being sent through a maze of menu options and automated recordings.
That’s why the CFPB is working to help consumers talk to a real person by pressing a single button. And the FCC is looking into doing the same."
- USA President Joe Biden, 13 August 2024, Twitter: https://x.com/POTUS/status/1823037215833784512
August 13, 2024
bilby commented on the word smudge
Compare smirch.
August 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word ginglymodi
C'mon, c'cmon, do the Ginglymodi with me.
You've got to swing your hips now ...
August 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word ginglymodi
Words That Sound Like Dance Crazes.
August 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word fishing vessel
WordNet definition writer phoning it in.
August 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word tallot
Clearly fell into disuse due to inferior palindrometry.
August 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word QSR
Seems like an acronym for quick service restaurant in modern use.
August 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word radioberyllium
My new indie pop station.
August 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word AI
Yes well AI art is getting added to a list.
August 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word chitter
Yeh I'd be careful with that one :-/
August 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word renderer
The most famous of which is of course Rudolph.
August 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word badger
Someone who makes badges?
August 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word pig-sized
Yes quite but what is the standard size of a pig?
July 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word blackberrita
That's why climate action isn't taking off! Not enough appropriate cocktails.
July 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word blahgarita
A somewhat orange-flavoured or -coloured word cocktail of tosh and humbug.
July 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word blackberrita
As distinct from a blahgarita, a vaguely orange-flavoured or -coloured word cocktail of tosh and humbug.
July 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word stone
Ew, that's terrible. From stonewall maybe? But as I have felt while watching the 'street BMX' at the Olympics recently, sports commentary can often seem like a foreign language for irregular observers.
July 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word whiffletree
I've never seen an animal with a gate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
July 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word taberfuckingnak
My very amateur take is that most languages don't cope well with infixing (leaving profanity aside).
July 14, 2024
bilby commented on the word dispope
I repope your unpope and raise you a bishop.
July 11, 2024
bilby commented on the word hedgers
Or are they Benson burners?
June 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word hedgers
People who smoke Benson & Hedges?
June 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word mary-bud
Ideal for your Sounds Like Dopehead Slang But Isn't list.
June 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word spoiler effect
Generally not applicable to transferable vote systems a.k.a. 'ranked choice'.
June 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word mycomycetous
My, my, what have we here?
June 24, 2024
bilby commented on the word horn stalkball
horn stalykball ... a kind of Polish cave game where you score points by using a deer horn to hit a ball between stalactites.
June 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word yerk
Clearly absent of enough work
I perchance may indulge a small quirk
By grabbing your knee
Bringing closer to me
And twanging it with playful yerk
June 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word beer-engine
C'mon, c'mon, do the locomotion with me!
June 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word real superhero
Lol spandex sighting!
June 19, 2024
bilby commented on the word dastardice
Might try to revive this.
June 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word from goo to you by way of the zoo
Is good!
June 18, 2024
bilby commented on the word jimmy
"There may even be active deception around this topic. A graph was recently put out by the ONS Office for National Statistics in the UK. The text on the graph states that the majority of Long COVID cases were contracted from cases people had more than two years ago, and at first glance, the graph seems to support the assertion. But if you look at the graph a little more closely, you realize they’ve monkeyed with the X-axis and the size of the bins groups of data within a specified range for each one of the bars in the chart. If you actually fix the X-axis, it’s clear that Long COVID has been skyrocketing in the last year. It appears that the ONS may have purposely manipulated the chart to hide the fact that Long COVID is exploding right now, because building such a jimmied custom chart takes MUCH more work than simply plotting the data."
- https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/from-long-covid-odds-to-lost-iq-points-ongoing-threats-you-dont-know-about
June 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word black bloc
Recently I've seen usage of this to describe clothing style. Protesters hope to make it difficult for them to be identified by 'authorities' by all wearing plain black clothing which they refer to as black bloc.
June 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word glass sponge
Apparently someone out there is counting the points on siliceous spicules.
June 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word proctologic
The kind of logic espoused by someone with their head up their arse?
June 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word Andrić Ivo
Try 'Bridge on the Drina' as a cure for insomnia.
June 16, 2024
bilby commented on the list hip-hip-hooray-wamgkCmN9k16CVIbLSOHP
hip and shoulder
June 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word R-Kellying
FFS leave chooks out of this.
June 14, 2024
bilby commented on the word vacancy control
New bit of management-speak for staff cuts. See here: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/06/on-mental-health-staffing-vacancy-control/
June 13, 2024
bilby commented on the word genipap
Also marmalade-box.
June 13, 2024
bilby commented on the word batter
So how did they get the pyramids out of the deep fryer?
June 13, 2024
bilby commented on the word friend shaped
I'm a bit over -shaped formations. An egghead I follow on Twitter often talks about poll-shaped objects, meaning (opinion) polls he doesn't think have much integrity.
June 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word gahnite
Gah!
June 11, 2024
bilby commented on the word Minoans
My minor Minoan miner's mum moaned mainly about more mean mynahs mimicking Minoan mimes' memes.
June 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word plant hopper
Untrammelled vegan.
June 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word epiphylly
Girl's name for the type who likes to wear lace frocks while reading dark science fiction in the conservatory.
June 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word epiphylly
Pretty word.
June 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word crowbar
So, a crow walks into a bar. And the bartender says ...
June 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word crowbar
I'm not very convinced by this etymology.
June 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word droving
C'mon, potatoes aren't that expensive.
June 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word droving
Briefly I wondered why vendingmachine was roasting stones.
June 4, 2024
bilby commented on the user qwer1234
That's all you need.
June 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word dooms
Dooms interesting, hey what.
June 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word dooms
I was not aware of this usage as an intensifier. Promising.
June 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word jimsonweed
Well, close friends of Jim have known this for a long time.
May 29, 2024
bilby commented on the word short statured person
Modern alternative to derogatory midget and somewhat loaded dwarf.
May 29, 2024
bilby commented on the list banana-OHlBVHUJ1FA-xWseKqcCt
Bananas in Pyjamas
May 29, 2024
bilby commented on the word Bush Week
"What is it, Bush Week?" is an Australian expression used when something is poorly organised or underwhelming.
May 29, 2024
bilby commented on the list im-bushed-TPI9Kn08wQXn6EOB579qC
Bush Week
May 29, 2024
bilby commented on the list something-strange-pz6Zzj5dJzVRQjw1amlQf
Who 're you gonna call?
May 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word discountenance
So, not the face you make when you got a bargain.
May 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word bukkum-wood
Both alternatives have two sets of double letters.
The double-letter tree :-)
May 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word screwed-work
Not prostitution :-/
May 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word dangle-monkey
See dangles.
May 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word lash-pole
Pawel - a pale, Polish beanpole - used a preppy pal's pulley to pull an ash lash-pole across a creased cross-pole coarsely.
May 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word hygrometry
Hmmm. I think we need to explore the potential here for moist avoidance.
May 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word dangles
whichbe's definition reminds me of at least two US presidential candidates :-/
May 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word dangles
For a musical interlude see dangle-money.
May 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word Iriomote cat
So Iriomote is a remote island?
May 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word nutpick
Not a dance craze.
May 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word greyhound shelving
A term used by end-greyhound-racing advocates: the practice of counting as 'adopted' dogs that languish in kennels for months or years in order to make adoption figures look good.
May 25, 2024
bilby commented on the word chilicoyote
Surely when the Coyote brothers - Wil E. and Chil I. - team up they will finally catch that pesky road runner.
May 24, 2024
bilby commented on the word chilicoyote
Here was me hoping for a piquant baddie in a new Warner Brothers cartoon.
May 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word try
I confess I did not have Erin marked as a rugby fan!
May 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word startling
When a starling lands in a cup of T.
May 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word color TV
Almost as good as colour TV.
May 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word potato chaser
I just randomed an ethnic slur, how's your day going?
May 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word comminuible
One of those it-has-a-name? words.
May 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word unthawed
An incorrect usage, good gawd!
Using unthawed when shoulda used thawed
If you don't get it right
Then alexz just might
Send you to meet your sweet Lord
May 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word mandrins
A bit like an ornge, but smaller.
May 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word paracellulose
TCD definition writer clearly not impressed.
May 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word strategic vacancy management
A euphemism for cutting employment by not replacing departing staff.
"The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has sounded the alarm over the university management’s reckless cost-saving measures. In a move that reeks of short-sightedness, the University management’s proposed 'strategic vacancy management' threatens to plunge the institution into a crisis of morale, burnout, and diminished educational quality." - https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/05/nteu-concerned-over-utas-jobs/
May 20, 2024
bilby commented on the word blennioidea
I wonder how you achieve that. Is it like three Xmas gatherings in a row without any punches or plates thrown?
May 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word blennioidea
Superfamily. No pressure then.
May 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word King Billy pine
"Athrotaxis selaginoides is a species of Athrotaxis, endemic to Tasmania in Australia, where it grows at 400–1,120 m elevation. In its habitat in the mountains, snow in winter is very usual. It is often called King Billy pine or King William pine (believed to be in reference to William Lanne, an Aboriginal Tasmanian man),3 although it is not a true pine." - Wikipedia
May 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word ankle grinder
There is quite a bit of background to this: https://tasmaniantimes.com/tag/william-crowther.
May 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word ankle grinder
"Some absolute legend has taken down the Crowther statue with an Ankle Grinder (new name all tradies must use from now on.)
No it wasn’t me, I had plans to but the heart attack put that on the back foot."
May 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word joglo
An open-sided Javanese hall. https://blue.kumparan.com/image/upload/fl_progressive,fl_lossy,c_fill,q_auto:best,w_640/v1634025439/01811812e9daa2e2d6db12ed45414b0e.jpg
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word bankshall
Hmmm. The Javanese structure referred to is typically called a joglo and looks like this: https://blue.kumparan.com/image/upload/fl_progressive,fl_lossy,c_fill,q_auto:best,w_640/v1634025439/01811812e9daa2e2d6db12ed45414b0e.jpg
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word biffin
Biff, Betty and Bill buffed a big bellyful of beefy baked biffins.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word biffin
Another QMS classic. Far out.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word grain-soap
Give soap the finger!
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word Dorking fowl
Sounds like a minced oath.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word deckled
Etymology available at deckle.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word short manure
Thank you vendy.
May 3, 2024
bilby commented on the word fecifork
Wow.
May 3, 2024
bilby commented on the word ambulance cemetery
"Ambulance Cemetery:
A new term coined by Israeli army at Al-Amal Hospital in #Gaza, where they destroyed all medical ambulances & buried them under rubble.
They not only killed doctors & wounded but also aimed to prevent any chance of survival for injured, ensuring their demise."
- https://x.com/NourNaim88/status/1785676704221966533
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word camass-rat
Finally, the ass-rat we've been looking for.
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word short manure
Stock trading strategy? Slur on dwarfs? The mind boggles.
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word bag
Compare etymology of budget.
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the user jrex167
Never mind. Commenting only costs two cents.
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word parlor-jumping
Feels like this is a terrible omission from the Paris Olympics.
May 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word atrochous
Next time I get a puncture while out riding my bike I can stoically tell myself: "Wheelless, as a rotifer."
April 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word swough
Ideal for pronunciation roulette.
April 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word argentaffin
New flavour of fuflun just dropped.
April 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word moral injury
Dr Saul said that at the time of writing our 2024/25 budget submission, the service operated on 0.8 of a psychiatrist, three nurses and a 0.4 registrar. The Registrar position would not continue this year, thereby halving the medical cover for the prison.
"The only positions funded as part of the prison mental health service are the psychiatrist and one nursing position.
"Staff working in the service are at risk of burnout due to stress and moral injury, that is, burnout caused by witnessing adverse patient outcomes due to a lack of resources."
- https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/04/bed-block-causing-hobart-hospital-crisis/
April 30, 2024
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