I see a whole alternative calendar unfolding here. Like High July, where you get stoned instead of drunk for a month. I've already ordered a 20kg sack of potatoes for Starch March.
"The confetti in Times Square has thousands of people's wishes written on them. In 2015 wishfetti became a part of the tradition. People write their wishes for the new year and submit them to the Wish Wall in Times Square (or online) and those wishes are turned into the confetti that falls over the crowd at midnight." - '35 Fun New Year's Facts to Brush up on the Holiday's History', https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/g4933/new-years-facts/
I've heard that Almost Solveig are being supported on their Reports Of Our Demise Were Overstated Although Probably Justly So tour by Tangerine Banjorine.
But let's assume it is. Points are scored by whacking a toad with a broomstick between the legs of a black cat and into a cauldron filled with brimstone. A bonus point is awarded if the cat gives you a filthy glare. In the modern game, copies of Macbeth may be used instead of toads.
I have eaten all the cookies and now don't feel like hommous, but it's the thought that counts. Thank you Erin. I am now perilously close to commenting freely again.
The walkout music for the Angels' Roger Repoz - at least on the night I as a four-year-old attended a game at Anaheim stadium with the whole family - was 'Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darling'. He played professional baseball for 17 years in USA major and minor leagues, Japan and Puerto Rico. He was of Yugoslav parentage. Interestingly the Spanish verb reposare is cognate with the English repose so any Hispanic- or Italian-background players and fans would also have got the joke.
An Australian equivalent would be Multi-Function Polis, a futuristic city-within-a-city once proposed for Adelaide. No-one really grokked the concept and it became so controversial with all kinds of scaremongering that the project was eventually dropped.
First usage I saw was by military history author and researcher Chris Owen in the following tweet: "What are the reasons for Russia's Blyatskrieg – its rapid collapse east of Kharkiv – and why might Napoleon Bonaparte have known some of the answers? Here's a 🧵 exploring some possible deeper reasons for Ukraine's stunning successes in recent days."
"The spokesman said it would be appropriate for mourners to bring candles to the event, to symbolise the time the queen tried to use the state Poverty Fund to heat Buckingham Palace despite with her own personal fortune and estate worth an estimated £40,000,000,000, the property portfolio of which generates £300 million per year and which had a family thrown out during the covid eviction ban for a £32 unpaid bill.
'Who knows, maybe Elton will re-do Candle in the Wind again like he did in 1997 when that doll-faced strumpet was put to bed with a shovel?'”
In road cycling, a notional distance before the end of the race where mechanical mishaps will not penalise a rider. It's usually 2 or 3 kilometres. For example, if a cyclist's chain breaks and he has to wait for a replacement, at the end of the stage he will be awarded the same finishing time as the group he was with when the mechanical occurred.
We used to sing a song - a sea shanty - when I was a kind of youth ambassador to Indonesia, inserting a local place name at the end. eg. From Melbourne to Lampung's a bloody long way.
Now this is the story of Gentleman Jim
Somebody threw a tomato at him
Now tomatoes don't hurt if they have the thin skin
Fun fact: I lived in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for over 2 years and was referred to as Pak Amy, ie. Mr Amy, in the local way of referring to married men and women after their first child (and then first grandchild).
The AHD definition above refers to the Australian territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The disambiguation is useful because the islands were initially settled in error; a British officer of the day was ordered to claim and settle the Cocos Islands for Britain, but his only map had these islands marked on it and not the Cocos Islands located in the Bay of Andaman that the British Government intended.
The list name references the title of William Fotheringham's biography of pro cyclist Tom Simpson. The apocryphal story is well enough told on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tom_Simpson
Imma say that 'phosphoric light of rotten wood' takes a magick phenomenon and then trashes it. Like chancing upon a forest fairy and then daubing it with Cheez Whiz.
"Residents across the coast of north-west Tasmania have additional opportunities to explore ideas and research topics of interest with the launch of a new educational platform, based in the Wynyard area.
The University of Wynyard, or UWYN, is a communiversity – a community based university that looks to link members of the community together for digital conversation, local events and project collaboration."
"One is reminded of the so-called plot claimed to have been uncovered by the FSB last April by Ukrainian neo-Nazis to kill Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov in Moscow. As evidence they reported an improvised explosive device and a large variety of weapons, as well as Ukrainian passports and nationalist literature. Because there must never be any doubt about the sympathies of the would-be assassins, who clearly had no interest in covert operations, there was a picture of Hitler and red t-shirt with a swastika. Most bizarre of all was the presence of three copies of the SIMS video game, presumably because the officer staging this scene misunderstood his orders to supply three SIM cards, which might have some role in a car bomb. Lest there be any doubt about the authenticity of this plot another video showed an inscription in an unidentified book that had been found, signed in Russian with the words ‘signature illegible'."
- Lawrence Freedman, 'Constantly Operating Factors -
1996 June 15, Colleen Condron, 'Oh No, Another peeve about children.....', in alt.peeves, Usenet1:
The crumb grinders were in the communal backyard playing when I left for work some 13 hours ago, and they are still there. Screaming. And yelling those inane things that only kids will yell. Over and over and over.
Currently being investigated by a parliamentary inquiry. It relates to Barilaro creating a new post of Trade Commissioner in New York, with $500,000 a year salary, then the appointee being replaced by Barilaro days after he left parliament. A public outcry forced him to withdraw from the role.
This got me thinking about hot air balloons. A mode of 'transport' with no brakes, no steering, where you're standing in a flammable basket with a roaring gas flame. I'm surprised it ever got off the ground.
I knew a girl who used to say she worked at the Pancake Parlour, which was a well-known Melbourne (Australia) pancake restaurant. It was her code for massage parlour, which was the term used at the time for illegal brothels. I sensed at the time - it was about 1987 - from the way she said it that others also used the Pancake Parlour label, or indeed pizza parlour.
Well, I saw a rather interesting shadow on the other side of the road that I thought might have been a hat that had been lost by a snowman. And then there was a butterfly with hommous on its nose!
Australian slang, residents of the Australian capital city of Canberra. The term originated from an on-screen autotranscribe of Canberrans during a much-watched media conference at peak COVID-19 mania.
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bilby commented on the word baboosh
Wait, so babaganoosh is a slipper-ful of agan?
February 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word epha
Best bushel epha.
February 6, 2024
bilby commented on the word copal
Precursor to copium?
February 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word water-brash
Is there potential for a water-y list of things that are not really water?
February 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word lamium
What kind of nutlets do you prefer?
February 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word tube-union
And here was me thinking toothpastes of the world were going to get together to lobby for better wages.
February 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word dagger-plant
Maybe don't gift one to Macbeth, just saying.
February 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word mooring tower
'Trust in god but tether your airship' - proverb
February 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word pœcilonymy
Aaand it has no synonyms :-(
February 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word whatshisface
I'll never forget whatshisface, such great times we had.
February 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word hippo
Overheard joke:
What's the difference between a hippo and a Zippo?
One's quite heavy, the other's a little lighter.
February 3, 2024
bilby commented on the word mygalomorph
Anyone trying to find giant, stocky spiders can stand down as far as I'm concerned.
February 3, 2024
bilby commented on the word gruid
A crane (bird).
February 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word matapi
Also zebucan.
February 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word alyaunte
Zyghourknee Wiefyr is great in this.
February 1, 2024
bilby commented on the word escarbuncle
Ha, classy way to ascertain that your coat of arms does not feature a putrid boil leaking pus.
January 31, 2024
bilby commented on the user cuongstore
phuc ơphph
January 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word gaffle
Interesting that the three TCD definitions are all quite different, yet all reek of violence.
January 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word hare
I'm kindly leaving space for y'all to make the grey hare jokes.
January 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word hare
Etymology links back to grey ...
January 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word milk-sick
See tremetol.
January 31, 2024
bilby commented on the list bird-wirds-nicknames
madge
January 31, 2024
bilby commented on the word hornpout
I see a which see!
January 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word mobot
So I still have to trim my own moustache?
January 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word The Glost World
After surprisingly acquiring a taste for porcelain biscuit, recreated dinosaurs wreak havoc on a remote island of ceramics factories.
January 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word homalonotid
Macaulay Culkin?
January 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word aquametrics
Who knew?
January 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word fiaschetta
Diminutive of fiasco.
January 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word germy
Like the buttons on a vendingmachine.
January 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word dreg
Compare dross.
January 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word berbine
"Bitter barberry berbine is better than billbeetle-bitten bulbo-tubers," babbled bilby biliously.
January 29, 2024
bilby commented on the word anilinium
Most of that definition is a foreign language :-/
January 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word maholi
*bats ears*
January 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word nonsailor
Quite a large category when you think about it.
January 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word Bobcat Goldthwait
An actor, comedian, writer, producer, etc.
January 28, 2024
bilby commented on the word echimys
Well pardon me, I was looking for improper spiny rats thank you very much.
January 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word lunch
This etymology is some ride.
January 27, 2024
bilby commented on the word snickersnee
I see a which see!
January 24, 2024
bilby commented on the user eldsolution
I usually elevate my feet with a pouffe.
January 24, 2024
bilby commented on the word stallinger
One suspects that ruzuzu is a stallinger of fufluns.
January 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word carpopodite
Tagging currently disabled :-/
January 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word carpopodite
Things that go pop!
January 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word forge-train
Also puddling-rolls.
January 23, 2024
bilby commented on the word spelling checker
Also spelling chequer :-/
January 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word compactin
Reverses the effects of expandin?
January 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word black sugar
Needs a Rolling Stones song :-/
January 22, 2024
bilby commented on the word pondokkie
Compare Malay pondok, hut.
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word fertile worker
I think this relates to worker ants, etc. that are usually sterile.
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word papuan subregion
Show me your little-explored subregions baby.
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word muster dog
Not to be confused with a mustard hog.
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word surcingle
See also wanty.
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word ash-key
Also kit-key.
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word attaint
_____ what it used to be :-/
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word flying fox
Main item in their diet is flying sheep.
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word roussette
Fox-bat, shark, etc.
January 21, 2024
bilby commented on the word dislive
I could dislive a pizza right about now.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word wrecking-train
So a train wreck is following by a wrecking-train, not caused by it?
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word Tonga
Joins East Timor ('east east') as being a country whose name is a cardinal direction.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word underpromise
Meanwhile overdeliver has no definition on this site.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word heathen delight
See turkishness.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word turkishness
Although frankly heathen delight has a good ring to it for an innocuous sweet treat.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word turkishness
Hey TCD you could/should have stopped at hence.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word roussette
So a dogfish is not a dog but it might be a fruit bat. I hope that's clear enough for you newbies.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word gloryless
I know it's only a root but sheesh.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word lapkin
But like fapkin, I often wonder what it's for.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the word debacle
'Also attested in Old French desbacler ("to clear a harbour by getting ships unloaded to make room for incoming ships with lading")' is fascinating.
January 17, 2024
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
testacella
January 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word galenite
Discovered on a windy evening, fo shure.
January 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word reredos
When one redo isn't enough.
January 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word spicy pillow
Spicy and ripe. You're making me hungry and I'm all out of silica gel.
January 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word albeit
Also all-be.
January 15, 2024
bilby commented on the word añu
Also known as mashua. And my Colombian mother-in-law calls it nabu.
January 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word BLS1
What type of galaxy are you?
January 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word cryptobranch
Where you withdraw Bitcoin?
January 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word sumarotene
Want suma dis?
January 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word quality escape
That's perversely beautiful.
January 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word girland
Theme park?
January 12, 2024
bilby commented on the word shelly
Silly shilly-shallying Sally shrilly sang softly a shelly Seychelles sea-shanty.
January 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word fall canker-worm
Triple downer.
January 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word corn-fly
Sooo, apparently not an airshow in Nebraska.
January 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word beetleskin
I feel like any dictionary entries that use a 'slang' label should identify where and possibly even when.
January 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word rundel
See also rundle.
January 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word Qliphoth
Also kellipot apparently.
January 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word closed compound
Ah, it has a name!
January 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word ennui
After careful thought, I conclude I am not a vampire. Unless my victims have hommous coursing in their veins, in which case ...
January 10, 2024
bilby commented on the word wimple
Compare guimpe.
January 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word submergeable
Will it float?
January 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word Damp January
I see a whole alternative calendar unfolding here. Like High July, where you get stoned instead of drunk for a month. I've already ordered a 20kg sack of potatoes for Starch March.
January 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word wet-getables
As compared to get-wetables: umbrella, gumboots, rain jacket, etc.
January 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word revert
Does anyone else hate the modern misuse of this to mean reply, respond?
January 9, 2024
bilby commented on the word scrog
Also scroag.
January 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word zingiberaceæ
Need some more zing in your life? Look no further.
January 8, 2024
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
obolary
January 8, 2024
bilby commented on the list set-phasers-to
unsupervised is delightful
January 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word irritable organ
See tendril-climber.
January 8, 2024
bilby commented on the word parkia javanica
Interesting that the database has an entry for this but not for parkia.
January 7, 2024
bilby commented on the word qwhat
I like it and I don't know qwhy.
January 7, 2024
bilby commented on the word embowl
--> embowlism, disembowl, etc.
January 7, 2024
bilby commented on the word scabbard-plane
I see a which see.
January 7, 2024
bilby commented on the user skidword
Well you've come to the right place. Welcome.
January 7, 2024
bilby commented on the word wishfetti
Presumably the singular is wishfetto.
January 7, 2024
bilby commented on the word banjorine
Fruity.
January 7, 2024
bilby commented on the word wishfetti
"The confetti in Times Square has thousands of people's wishes written on them. In 2015 wishfetti became a part of the tradition. People write their wishes for the new year and submit them to the Wish Wall in Times Square (or online) and those wishes are turned into the confetti that falls over the crowd at midnight." - '35 Fun New Year's Facts to Brush up on the Holiday's History', https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/g4933/new-years-facts/
January 7, 2024
bilby commented on the word banjorine
I've heard that Almost Solveig are being supported on their Reports Of Our Demise Were Overstated Although Probably Justly So tour by Tangerine Banjorine.
January 3, 2024
bilby commented on the user nordicwalker
Well you've now racked up 1 comment.
January 3, 2024
bilby commented on the word dogwood
Tree with good bark =-/
December 31, 2023
bilby commented on the word whanger
Australian slang - a stick with a claw at the end used for throwing balls.
December 30, 2023
bilby commented on the word milkweed
Used in cheap Dylan Thomas knock-offs.
December 30, 2023
bilby commented on the word long-necked eel
*bats ears*
Well helloooooo there.
December 30, 2023
bilby commented on the word shrink-wrap
What a newly-graduated psychologist is packaged in.
December 30, 2023
bilby commented on the word silicene
An era when many important things are made of silicon.
December 28, 2023
bilby commented on the word grubbing-hoe
Good insult.
December 28, 2023
bilby commented on the word sunk-band
Solveig salvage soon?
December 28, 2023
bilby commented on the word sunk-band
Oh no!
December 28, 2023
bilby commented on the word throat-bolt
Projectile vomit :-/
December 27, 2023
bilby commented on the word sunk-band
A punk band past their best?
December 27, 2023
bilby commented on the word elemi
LMI.
December 27, 2023
bilby commented on the user terry0312
Lay is a transitive verb.
December 26, 2023
bilby commented on the user terry0312
Lay what next to you?
December 26, 2023
bilby commented on the word satellite-sphinx
Very suave name for a moth.
December 22, 2023
bilby commented on the word FTSE
Pronounced 'footsie'.
December 22, 2023
bilby commented on the word Jubula
Owl or Liverwort is the new Cheese or Font.
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word club-rush
Cultivated by popping a pill on the dance floor.
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word snow-eyes
Great annals of dictionary crafting and all that but frankly 'a contrivance' isn't very helpful or descriptive.
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word barauna
C'mon, surely the colour is browner rather than redder.
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word Chester White
What's with the insinuation about drooping ears?
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word execrable
adjective - very bad at Scrabble
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word eyelet-set
Jetset Jed let fretful Chet bet a comet to an eyelet-set his not-dead-yet pet wouldn't bedwet the crochet sheetset.
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the list fire-beariang-or-fire-producing-72XDSnk8arsS63DSeuheo
incendiary
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word catechetical
Cruel 'Cattle-Call' Cecil caused a cacophony by kicking kitty-corner a cold kettle of crinkle-cut catechetical kettle-corn.
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word saguaro
Oh gosh, I didn't realise that the cartoon cactus had a name. Of course it would, thinking about it logically, but, you know.
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word sushimi
Eggcorn?
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the word brass farthing
Anything for you, brass razoozoo.
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
floccose
December 21, 2023
bilby commented on the user oluwashina
Welcome. Make yourself at home. Somebody will be along with a tray of fufluns any minute.
December 19, 2023
bilby commented on the word setigerous
Go on, unleash your inner tiger.
December 19, 2023
bilby commented on the list fictional-music-genres
Yes, chip shop is a sub-genre of greasy listening.
December 19, 2023
bilby commented on the word catalectic colon
See hephthemimeres.
December 19, 2023
bilby commented on the list space-stuff-lBDSdo2v4h-J
peregrine
December 19, 2023
bilby commented on the word ascii
Reminds me a bit of Groundhog Day.
December 19, 2023
bilby commented on the word ascii
First meaning is very cool.
December 19, 2023
bilby commented on the list space-stuff-lBDSdo2v4h-J
Super list already, well done.
December 18, 2023
bilby commented on the word yvory
Y lyke it!
December 18, 2023
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
brass farthing
December 18, 2023
bilby commented on the word brass farthing
Still asking the big questions.
December 18, 2023
bilby commented on the word brass farthing
Which is worth more, or indeed less: brass farthing or brass razoo?
December 18, 2023
bilby commented on the word sea-turn
Bring back the expression 'thick weather', that is wondeful.
December 18, 2023
bilby commented on the word black-ends
Well you can refuse coke from everywhere if you want.
December 18, 2023
bilby commented on the word lymecycline
What bike share schemes are made of.
December 18, 2023
bilby commented on the user romanvasilenko
I reckon you can probably go right ahead. Trust us, we're werd nerds.
December 17, 2023
bilby commented on the user romanvasilenko
Before what?
Before giving us a million dollars?
December 17, 2023
bilby commented on the list what-do-do-with-things-you-detest-UWrDJ5dfQ00yCnqilXyLo
Rickroll it?
December 9, 2023
bilby commented on the word tip turkey
Aka bin chicken.
December 9, 2023
bilby commented on the word tip turkey
In Australia, the straw-necked ibis. So called because it likes to scavenge rubbish.
December 9, 2023
bilby commented on the word korma
At least someone is posing the big questions here.
December 8, 2023
bilby commented on the word korma
Is it bad karma to make bad korma?
December 8, 2023
bilby commented on the word pouting
The fishing and the fish are the same word.
December 6, 2023
bilby commented on the word redfieldia
'Somewhat related to' sounds like an erratic second cousin you disown when it suits you.
December 6, 2023
bilby commented on the word polycarbophil
What does the -phil morpheme signify?
December 6, 2023
bilby commented on the word dunce
SCOTUS also a dunce? Discuss.
December 6, 2023
bilby commented on the word osmolarity
I imagine this is how word-manglers like George W Bush might say similarity.
December 5, 2023
bilby commented on the word matzo
Made famous in the song 'Matzo Man'.
December 5, 2023
bilby commented on the word pantisocracy
Don't get your pantisocracy in a twist!
December 4, 2023
bilby commented on the word betyár
In Hungarian, a highwayman.
December 4, 2023
bilby commented on the word berenicea
As a discerning gentleman I prefer my zoœcia arranged regularly.
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the word half-belt
What a half-wit uses to keep his pants up.
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the word bbls
I can still only find one b in barrel. Help.
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
wine-carriage
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the word wine-carriage
Bring back these!
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the word granary-weevil
Sounds like a good insult to me.
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the word sublime
Just checking in to see how Curtis is doing.
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the word sarlyk
"We were having a good ol' sarlykkety-sarlyk when rudely interrupted by an earthquake," reminisced Ganzorig.
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the user reesetee
Well if it looks like a duck ... it might be a shoveler? Modern life is very hard :-/
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the user reesetee
Hiya! Came across spoonie today, appears to be a duck.
December 1, 2023
bilby commented on the word aulophobia
Does this include fancy champagne glasses?
November 29, 2023
bilby commented on the word elaterid
Dire tale backwards. Click bait masquerading as click beetle!
November 29, 2023
bilby commented on the word putty-eye
May thy orbit be fleshy ...
November 29, 2023
bilby commented on the word lemon balm
How do American speakers of English distinguish between this and lemon bomb?
November 29, 2023
bilby commented on the word daughters-in-law
One of those entries where the reverse dictionary needs to have a cup of tea and a good lie down.
November 28, 2023
bilby commented on the word Chicagorilla
But don't get risky in your frisky and end up with Chicagonorrhea.
November 28, 2023
bilby commented on the word Chicagorilla
Why stop at gorilla? Maybe take a ride in a Chicagondola, if they ever build it. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/06/chicago-plans-aerial-cable-car-network-skyline
November 28, 2023
bilby commented on the word bilby
*bows gracefully, or at least I think so*
November 27, 2023
bilby commented on the word bilby
Sounds like you're already a bit salty, vendypants!
November 26, 2023
bilby commented on the word Nowhere Else
I have not in fact been to Nowhere Else although I passed close by. Probably on the way to somewhere else :-/
November 24, 2023
bilby commented on the word Nowhere Else
A locality in Tasmania, Australia. Nowhere Else - Google Maps
November 24, 2023
bilby commented on the word Mobius strips
... for a living but dreams of being a professional dancer?
November 24, 2023
bilby commented on the word ronson
Yes but what is the link between the term ronson and fire?
November 23, 2023
bilby commented on the word farkakteh
Well. I know how Australians would pronounce it :-/
November 23, 2023
bilby commented on the word eclipse
A loose one will sink an ecshipse.
November 23, 2023
bilby commented on the list phraseologue---confabular-locutions
"i feel like a sitcom writer now" :-))))) loool
November 22, 2023
bilby commented on the word free-select
Relevant context for the classic Australian movie 'On Our Selection'.
Watch - original 1932 version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SjeWCuyDk or 1995 remake https://archive.org/details/dad-and-dave-on-our-selection-1995
November 22, 2023
bilby commented on the word dihydropyrrole
Nice result with the word drop neatly dropped in the middle of this. Poetic justice.
November 22, 2023
bilby commented on the user bilby
I hope there are some exciting new flavours. How about roasted vendingmachine with caramel?
November 22, 2023
bilby commented on the user bilby
Yes I think it was something to do with my laptop and a new login system at Wordnik having a wee pith-feud.
November 20, 2023
bilby commented on the word witch ball
But let's assume it is. Points are scored by whacking a toad with a broomstick between the legs of a black cat and into a cauldron filled with brimstone. A bonus point is awarded if the cat gives you a filthy glare. In the modern game, copies of Macbeth may be used instead of toads.
November 20, 2023
bilby commented on the word braggest
Another case where the examples are more useful than the definition(s).
November 20, 2023
bilby commented on the user bilby
I have eaten all the cookies and now don't feel like hommous, but it's the thought that counts. Thank you Erin. I am now perilously close to commenting freely again.
November 20, 2023
bilby commented on the user bilby
I have logged in 3 times in the last 5 minutes, yet whenever I click a word I find myself logged out again.
Thusly I am trapped in a nether world between bilby and unbilby. Send hommous.
November 20, 2023
bilby commented on the word wordnik
Wordnik is the successor to Wordie, presumably a portmanteau of word and, uh, boulangerie.
August 26, 2023
bilby commented on the list things-that-were-hidden-by-the-snow
Found a dead alpinist yet?
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/missing-climber-body-37-years-switzerland-glacier/
August 23, 2023
bilby commented on the word cliff face
If coalface can be a compound then why not cliffface? The would be an effing good word.
August 2, 2023
bilby commented on the word tapeworm bikini line
See tapekini.
July 15, 2023
bilby commented on the word repose
The walkout music for the Angels' Roger Repoz - at least on the night I as a four-year-old attended a game at Anaheim stadium with the whole family - was 'Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darling'. He played professional baseball for 17 years in USA major and minor leagues, Japan and Puerto Rico. He was of Yugoslav parentage. Interestingly the Spanish verb reposare is cognate with the English repose so any Hispanic- or Italian-background players and fans would also have got the joke.
June 17, 2023
bilby commented on the word EPCOT
An Australian equivalent would be Multi-Function Polis, a futuristic city-within-a-city once proposed for Adelaide. No-one really grokked the concept and it became so controversial with all kinds of scaremongering that the project was eventually dropped.
October 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word buffet-stool
TCD is soooo dated.
October 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word woolly sunflower
Also known as Oregon sunshine.
October 13, 2022
bilby commented on the list jumbo-shrimp
bog rose?
October 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word hendecagram
Eleven chickens surely.
October 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word austringer
There was a political party here who had a goshawk on their logo and now they don't. So what do you call someone who lets their goshawk escape?
October 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word ch'ing dynasty
Not to be confused with the ka'ching dynasty, overthrown by cash registers.
October 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word bullantic
Calm down, bull ants.
October 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word knocknobbler
I would be good at this.
October 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word flight ceiling
Guaranteed there'll be a spider up there.
October 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word portance
So mien is on the other side from starboard?
October 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word oppressest
Thou who deppressest the food pellet lever, shall getteth one.
October 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word errorists
Terrorists who wage war against tea.
October 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word crinivorous
No.
October 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word dampne
Hot dampne!
October 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word texas grama
I aint payin' no syntaxes.
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word Teeny Brumby
In 2022, a mayoral candidate for Burnie City Council, Tasmania, Australia. See also brumby.
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word bowline lizard
Not of course to be confused with the bowling lizard who, despite having trouble with shoe sizes at the local alley, is quite a decent chap.
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word shoobie
Shoobie wap, shoobie shoobie wap
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the list portmonthteaus
Would feel a bit negative to end that one with -No.
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word bellybuttons
Ok fess up, who has more than one?
October 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word deer stalker
Did you dare a queer, weary, dear stork to stalk deer drearily?
October 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word franchiser
Any rhymes with -chiser?
October 2, 2022
bilby commented on the list in-whale-qJP4YQiSCk0qoIxi9m-S2
It's coming along well!
October 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word flasket
Wait. A flasket could be a basket, or could also be something in a basket. What kind of trickery is this?
October 2, 2022
bilby commented on the list in-whale-fishing-ZBADfYxFaFExVk1fHkNWn
Jonah is looking forward to the companion in-whale list.
September 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word bisognio
From Italian verb bisognare, to need, hence a bisognio is a needy person (in the classic sense).
September 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word gurry-ground
Yuck.
September 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word guttifer
OMG drop bears!
September 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word woo back
Chewbacca tried to woo back a rude linebacker who drove a blue-black Studebaker.
September 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word calamistrated
Good heavens we need to bring this back.
September 27, 2022
bilby commented on the list late-to-the-party-vwhMYaxKLWShX-CpcPD94
*marches in with a crate of home-made raspberry water kefir*
September 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word thuttocks
Look, a nice magpie over there!
September 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word verlan
Jakarta used to have something like this. Don't know about now, as I haven't been there since 1999.
For example bokap (father) was derived from standard Indonesia bapak.
September 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word incobegence
Where does the be come from? Hamlet clearing house was he?
September 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word pelleting
I knew it was a verb!
Hit that lever, guys!
September 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word blyatskrieg
First usage I saw was by military history author and researcher Chris Owen in the following tweet: "What are the reasons for Russia's Blyatskrieg – its rapid collapse east of Kharkiv – and why might Napoleon Bonaparte have known some of the answers? Here's a 🧵 exploring some possible deeper reasons for Ukraine's stunning successes in recent days."
September 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word blyatskrieg
Possibly coined today, to describe the dismal Russian war effort as they retreat from parts of Ukraine they had occupied.
From blyat, all-purpose Russian swear word roughly similar in usage to fuck in Engllish, + krieg (war).
September 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word mnemonicks
Mick Hicks' quickly picked Felix Dix to get a sick fix from slick Route 66 mnemonicks kicks.
September 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word put to bed with a shovel
"The spokesman said it would be appropriate for mourners to bring candles to the event, to symbolise the time the queen tried to use the state Poverty Fund to heat Buckingham Palace despite with her own personal fortune and estate worth an estimated £40,000,000,000, the property portfolio of which generates £300 million per year and which had a family thrown out during the covid eviction ban for a £32 unpaid bill.
'Who knows, maybe Elton will re-do Candle in the Wind again like he did in 1997 when that doll-faced strumpet was put to bed with a shovel?'”
- Modest 'Mourning Glory' for Betty, 10 September 2022, https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/09/modest-mourning-glory-for-betty/
September 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word Gentle Annie
I have never heard this usage in my lifetime.
September 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word corkscrew-plant
Ah, so this is what you use to open a bottle gourd.
September 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word scry
Seems to have escaped the lists of collective nouns.
September 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word halching
We should yoink this for use with computer cables, etc.
September 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word antimoney
Great. Surely the uncoins of this are minted from antimony.
September 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word candle-hour
Sorry, I don't think that's a mandle: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/mandles-candles-for-men
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list dungeons-and-dragons-5uZe8GVIUAU46ERM7YPqz
I love foreign language lists.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word mantle
Interesting how many meanings this has compared to dismantle.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word brattach
Scottish term for flag/banner.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word winter-mother
Insect love, anyone?
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word alkarsin
OMG Cadet's fuming liquid was a heaps better name.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word clitoria
Found it!
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list dungeons-and-dragons-5uZe8GVIUAU46ERM7YPqz
Wait, dungeon is not on the list.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word mapinastine
The trolls are everywhere.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word hippest
Hip, hipper, hippo, hippest, hooray!
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word sepium
Oh how do I love to go out and hurl some epithets at hedgerow plants.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word strangle-tare
As if broomrape wasn't a bad enough name.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word phthisicky
I see the pronunciation guy is not brave enough to poke his head above the water here.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word hurley
Earlier a surly, gnarly, sturdy, burly Charlie unfairly furtively filched a Gaelic girly's curly hurley.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word nostril
Originally nosethirl.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word safety zone
In road cycling, a notional distance before the end of the race where mechanical mishaps will not penalise a rider. It's usually 2 or 3 kilometres. For example, if a cyclist's chain breaks and he has to wait for a replacement, at the end of the stage he will be awarded the same finishing time as the group he was with when the mechanical occurred.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word fake puncture
Cycling. See here: https://www.sbs.com.au/sport/article/evenepoel-denies-faking-puncture-after-retaining-gc-lead-in-tomares/ybcy79fcx
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word lever-frame
A perfect spot for my Skinner box.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word bundobust
Examples also suggest another meaning like agreement, accord.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word DIRT
So the Tax Department collects DIRT? Well well.
September 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word spiroylous acid
Wait. There's no definition at spiroylous, so has this word now been lost?
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word great tits
Oh my, the visuals!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word heterobicycle
Your shitposting sock-puppet name is your sexual orientation and your preferred transport
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word wrongeous
So there was a specific antonym for righteous.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word I would
I have never heard this usage.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word lilium auratum
Yeah, I bet they're not real gold.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word pentelican
A pelican that ate a few Scrabble letters.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word water joint
Ok so not a pub serving the good stuff.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Egghead anthropomorphism is better than bubble wrap!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Just can't stop!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Pop!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Pop!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Pop!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word anthropopeia
Pop goes the deduction of the laws that regulate the interactions of the anatomical, biological, and psychological elements of human physiology!
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word percussioner
How does one get to be a nipple-fitter?
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word plantain-lily
Funkia and your mother and your grandmother.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word tamaraw
Also tamarau.
September 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word sesquiduple
"If I've told you once, if I've told you twice, if I've told you sesquiduple times..."
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word liopelmidae
Now now.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word murye
Eate, drynk and be murye.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word misshelves
New character in the Mr Men series.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word gentleman jim
We used to sing a song - a sea shanty - when I was a kind of youth ambassador to Indonesia, inserting a local place name at the end. eg. From Melbourne to Lampung's a bloody long way.
Now this is the story of Gentleman Jim
Somebody threw a tomato at him
Now tomatoes don't hurt if they have the thin skin
But this here tomato was wrapped in a tin
Haul away!
Haul away!
From ____ to ____ is a bloody long way.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word obnosis
But of course.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word mullen
Also moleyne.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word Sioux
Limericks on sioux.
September 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word valve
YouValve doesn't really do it for me.
September 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word devoice
An Irish device :-/
September 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word attributive noun
The fun thing in English is that you can stack 'em up to your heart's delight.
e.g. Watford Library photocopier paper supply cupboard.
September 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word lexicographer's paradox
See definitionless.
September 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word murderhobo
September 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word jaw-tackle
Belay your jaw-tackle, bilby!
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word picklist
One who pickles, duh.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word Mysore
A muddled Mysore miso-maker messily mixed mushrooms, mashed mangoes and mightily yummy marshmallows in his mum's multi-mixer.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word thebaine
Thebaine of my life is barking dogs :-/
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word cranock
Next time you need to measure lime in Wales you're all set. Never let it be said that Wordnik doesn't prepare you for life's challenges.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word hawkish
Harriet the hardy, hairy, hawkish harridan awkwardly handled a horribly-hot, kinky hickory half-halter.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word dodo
What would a dewey-eyed dodo do with two huge tubes of chewy tomato-avocado-potato stew?
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word definitionless
Why is there a definition here?
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word tonic section
Gin section can't be far away, surely.
September 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list can-we-get-along
It seems that if you edit a list description or title on an old list, it rockets to the top of the New List column on the Community Page.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the list put-me-back-on-my-bike-UToeNCrf6-wRMQ-Aibl_k
Merci yarb!
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word bandgap
Ok, I was thinking more like when the bass player ODs on cocaine.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word pet-wood
Move over pet rocks!
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
modulet
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word Cocos Islands
Fun fact: I lived in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for over 2 years and was referred to as Pak Amy, ie. Mr Amy, in the local way of referring to married men and women after their first child (and then first grandchild).
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word Cocos Islands
The AHD definition above refers to the Australian territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The disambiguation is useful because the islands were initially settled in error; a British officer of the day was ordered to claim and settle the Cocos Islands for Britain, but his only map had these islands marked on it and not the Cocos Islands located in the Bay of Andaman that the British Government intended.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the list put-me-back-on-my-bike-UToeNCrf6-wRMQ-Aibl_k
The list name references the title of William Fotheringham's biography of pro cyclist Tom Simpson. The apocryphal story is well enough told on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tom_Simpson
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the list put-me-back-on-my-bike-UToeNCrf6-wRMQ-Aibl_k
Always a good time to get on your bike!
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word jaguar
See also jaguarondi.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word intropunitive
Stop it.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word HTF
USA-Australia cultural divide right there.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word pisang-ayer
Literally means 'water banana'.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word valerianella
Never pappous! We are NOT having any of that.
August 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word family acrididae
They probably cold call people telling them they have a long-standing debt to Grasshoppers Inc that can be paid off with iTunes cards.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word family acrididae
Wait, there are insects out there impersonating locusts?
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word cushion-steam
Hey, I have a list for that!
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word cushion-steam
Sounds like a fart to me.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word nanoneedle
Dennis Norris nicked nine iron-knotted nanoneedles from an unnamed nanna's knitted knapsack.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word September 11
Need something to celebrate? It's National Bilby Day! https://www.savethebilbyfund.org.au/national-bilby-day/?mc_cid=682bb97487&mc_eid=0730901c31
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word chocolate bar
Wait what the heck Canada?
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word meadow-shoe
So, like a snowshoe for horses.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word goldmanite
Contains everything under the sun except gold :-/
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word supertable
Where Supertramp sit down to dinner.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word ulna
See also ulnage.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word soundtracking
Ack, verbing!
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word nematocerous
Not all pointy-ended critters are rhinoceros
They could well be insects nematocerous.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word PDW
Last stop before PDX.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word gab-motion
Celebrate Hyphen Day at TCD!
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word henchboy
Makes me think of 'Bugsy Malone'.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word nonactin
Doesn't sound like it would be very efficacious.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word woodwose daubed with Cheez Whiz
See needfire.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word needfire
After typing that, I hit Random word and landed on woodwose!
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word needfire
Imma say that 'phosphoric light of rotten wood' takes a magick phenomenon and then trashes it. Like chancing upon a forest fairy and then daubing it with Cheez Whiz.
August 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word polypyrrole
Polypyrroles is a pesky plural of polypyrrole, a plain polymer with repeating pyrrole parts and not a perfunctory pyrrolocarbazole.
August 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word ramscoop
Yes, bring on sheep-powered space travel.
August 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word lamp-case
Goodness me, I have just right list for this word then.
August 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word yack
Yackety Yack is a quite strange but interesting, indeed funny, Australian avant garde movie from the 1970's.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word lamp-case
Are you collecting these ruzuzu?
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word betweenane
When the lab geeks are phoning it in.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word Tokelau
Brave move to name your country after a parasitic skin disease.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word zoner
I don't get it. I am probably Too Old.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word dunnish
Law and Order series?
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word tids
Wait what?
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word Praties
Tasmania is home to a baked potato fast food chain named Praties. See praty.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word lunule
Surely this should be a pasta shape.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word tapir
Also bush-cow.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the list ruzuzus-big-ass-list
bumastus?
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word onga-onga
8 feet high?! OUCH
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word Ш
Here, have a toast rack.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word acronym
initialism gives one the sick, so it does.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word big dance
In modern Australian slang, the big dance is the final of a sporting competition.
August 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word woylie
Willy the wily woylie royally wheeled a white-walled red-wheeled wheelbarrow really well.
August 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word Kurds
Key enemies include Saddam Hussein and Little Miss Muffett.
August 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word redirect
How did I get here?
August 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word communiversity
"Residents across the coast of north-west Tasmania have additional opportunities to explore ideas and research topics of interest with the launch of a new educational platform, based in the Wynyard area.
The University of Wynyard, or UWYN, is a communiversity – a community based university that looks to link members of the community together for digital conversation, local events and project collaboration."
- Tasmanian Times, New ‘Communiversity’ Launches in North-west Tasmania, 23 August 2022. https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/08/new-communiversity-launches-in-north-west-tasmania/
August 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word hagbut
Also hackbuss.
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word jaggy
The examples suggest techs use it in relation to low-resolution images.
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word fonduer
Due you fondue?
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word sacced
And the quarterback is toast!
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word interferometer
I hope these things are tamper-proof :-/
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word SIM
This made me laugh:
"One is reminded of the so-called plot claimed to have been uncovered by the FSB last April by Ukrainian neo-Nazis to kill Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov in Moscow. As evidence they reported an improvised explosive device and a large variety of weapons, as well as Ukrainian passports and nationalist literature. Because there must never be any doubt about the sympathies of the would-be assassins, who clearly had no interest in covert operations, there was a picture of Hitler and red t-shirt with a swastika. Most bizarre of all was the presence of three copies of the SIMS video game, presumably because the officer staging this scene misunderstood his orders to supply three SIM cards, which might have some role in a car bomb. Lest there be any doubt about the authenticity of this plot another video showed an inscription in an unidentified book that had been found, signed in Russian with the words ‘signature illegible'."
- Lawrence Freedman, 'Constantly Operating Factors -
Stalin's Lessons for Putin', published 24 August 2022. Constantly Operating Factors - by Lawrence Freedman (substack.com)
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
adays
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word sRLV
srsly?
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word crumb grinder
Citation from Wiktionary:
1996 June 15, Colleen Condron, 'Oh No, Another peeve about children.....', in alt.peeves, Usenet1:
The crumb grinders were in the communal backyard playing when I left for work some 13 hours ago, and they are still there. Screaming. And yelling those inane things that only kids will yell. Over and over and over.
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word cocomplete
Coco is my favourite variety of mplete.
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the user oanhhoang
Are ever gonna let me down?
August 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word gap-bridge
Don't all bridges close gaps?
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the user dontcry
*waves*
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word waterbuck
But where does it stop?
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word Ish Kabibble
An American musician and comedian, 1908-1994.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word looksist
Don't like.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word seal cracker
An explosive device used by the aquaculture industry to scare seals away from fish pens in waterways.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word piskashish
A peeved, pesky piskashish placed crispy snack-pickle shishkebab picnic packs into its pressed subtle-purple pinstriped pantsuit.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word trashsport
Unless it refers to the synchronised dumpster diving team coached by vendingmachine?
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word trashsport
Term doesn't appear to have caught on.
August 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word meeting-seed
Oh wow! This is definitely a food pellet flavour.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word debuff
To have one's buffalo stolen.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word cavalero
Do ask do tell.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word sircar
Also sarkar, sirkar.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word disbase
Who dis?
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word meawl
Bob Dylan singing meal.
August 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word visioneering
So it's like envisioning after a frothy corporate wizard cast an expecto bullshittus spell?
August 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word foreguess
As forgive is to forget, so foregive is to foreguess. Guilty.
August 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word canadew
Why am I writing like a Geordie?
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word canadew
Kubla built heself a nice gaff at Xanadu
Proper belta palace, and gardens of canadew
But robbers on the loot
Stole all the best fruit;
What's a poor Mongol emperor gonna do?
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word canadew
Unless of course Xanadu claims the canadew.
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word rickets
A sick, hick cricket with rickets nicked a pixie's stick to play quick mixed cricket on a sticky wicket.
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
lighting-station
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word feutre
Can we shove a few French cutthroat loanwords into a <em>thundre dôme</em> and just sit back and watch?
August 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word foreguess
To foregive is better than to foreguess.
August 19, 2022
bilby commented on the user loveofwords
Sounds like you've come to right place :-)
August 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word biggon
Whig big-wig Greg Muggins dug a fat, jiggly bug and a busted jug of fine fig fudge from a fluffy wig under his friggin' biggon.
August 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word sheep-fly
Is there a porcine variety?
August 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word feutre
Another angle on feutred.
August 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word cooja
Could you quickly cool a clay cookie jar in an acutely kooky rajah's cute cooja?
August 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word jib-o'-jib
Garrulous Job and glib Jeb jabbered jollily about the bodgy two-bob jib-o'-jib job.
August 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word dihydrolipoamide
We need the Ned Flanders pronunciation.
August 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word self-dual
Cloning?
August 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word feutre
I must confess to being a bit behind in feutring my spears.
August 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word bohereen
See also boreen.
August 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word cheaping
Also chepinge.
August 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word scrooch
Should come in handy in active shooter situations :-/
August 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word hA
Funny, but it takes you a while to get it.
August 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word antescript
Right. Plus there's anteprocrastination which goes before this.
August 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word aizoaceous
Simply thrilling amount of vowels bursting out of this word.
August 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word rolling pronoun
Seems like everything has wheels on it these days.
August 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word homiliary
Not to be be confused with hominiliary, a book of delicious hominy recipes.
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word curassow
How are they not brilliant blue?
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word begster
Very good.
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the user vsrixyz
Welcome back after 11 years! Just popped out for some fresh air?
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the user ownill
Well done.
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word toaze
Heid, showlders, neez and ...
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word boops boops
You can say that again!
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word cutiterebra
Well aren't you a cuti.
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word canadew
Canada needs to own this. A bit like the way New Zealand did with kiwi fruit.
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
While I'm here I'd like to provide a useful link to alexz's fine list: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/self-censored
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the list phraseologue-one-two-punch
*affixes gold start to this list*
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word coiffeur
Men only! Women are too emotionally unstable to be trusted with hairdressing :-/
August 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word toto'er-seas
See herring-spink.
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word Silver Ferns
Nickname, probably official, of the New Zealand netball team.
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word acephalopodius
Fancy name for a blob :-/
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word osterix
*cartoon fans breathe a sigh of disappointment*
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word synotia
This is actually a medical term. If you search on the term, for images, you will get the idea. NOT for the faint-hearted.
A medical dictionary I looked up said: 'Fusion or abnormal approximation of the lobules (lobes) of the auricles of the external ears in otocephaly.'
otocephaly is another $100 word you'll need to look up.
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word magnetic phantom
Although, you know, it might be handy to keep on the fridge door.
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word magnetic phantom
C'mon I only need a regular phantom.
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word rescowe
To rescue a cow?
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word cat-rake
So cat-rake = ratchet-drill, tbh I am none the wiser.
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the list words-that-mean-pink-4bOQYfij21QF5aX80mOu5
Calling vanderpink!
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word uptoss
Ho ho ho!
August 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word Gabi
Hi Gabi. Meet Steve, the starchy potato who is the staple food of the British Isles.
August 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
Skippy the slappy seal flipped the sloppy hippy's floppy, fluffy slipper zip with its slippery flipper.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word Pork Barilaro
Currently being investigated by a parliamentary inquiry. It relates to Barilaro creating a new post of Trade Commissioner in New York, with $500,000 a year salary, then the appointee being replaced by Barilaro days after he left parliament. A public outcry forced him to withdraw from the role.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word General Booty
In 2022, a quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners, USA.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word Argel Fucks
A former Brazilian professional footballer. In 2020 he changed the spelling of his surname to Fuchs.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word Jizz Hornkamp
In 2022, a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Willem II.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word spark-arrester
Defund the police.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word you don't have to take off your pants to fart
Translation of a Danish saying that means overkill.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the list who-farted-75HJ2Pth_NrRur5yC-Ob6
Great contributions :-) I'm tempted to have a look at some other languages to see if there's some good onomatopoeia there.
August 9, 2022
bilby commented on the list things-avian
singing-muscle
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word subshrub
Beelzebub scrubs a hushed subshrub thrush in a slushy rub-a-dub-dub rubber tub.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word kayak
Seeing as this is a palindrome, a kayak should be able to travel backwards as easily as it travels forwards.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word daunyng
Wow, my first thought was that this was a Vietnamese word.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word animal fries
Never heard of this.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word protestival
*barfs*
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word fodientia
I tried solo but I had 'irreconcilable artistic differences' with myself.
August 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word superb parrot
For example, could/should I have been the superb bilby and not the greater bilby? Easy mistake to make.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word superb parrot
Does superb actually mean anything in the scientific sense or was the person doing the naming just hella impressed?
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
broud
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word smoothbore
Tucker Carlson :-/
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the list just-cause-i-like-em-s
likam :-/
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word stenhuggarite
Aww, I randomed a hug!
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word ennuyée
Lol bilby wtf dawg dats NUIA idek.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word ennuyée
Because it's Friday I'm going to provide a helpful abbreviation for your texting conversations: NUIE.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word love tree
Well, hang me in your love tree baby.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word partrich
Found in a partri?
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word clancy
"In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
Gone a-droving 'down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know."
- A.B. Patterson, Clancy of the Overflow
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word pygarg
Ah, the infamous Deuteronomy menu.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
miswive
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word dirigible
This got me thinking about hot air balloons. A mode of 'transport' with no brakes, no steering, where you're standing in a flammable basket with a roaring gas flame. I'm surprised it ever got off the ground.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word fodientia
My new indie pop band is Only The Aardvarks, thank you.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word Smarta
Big opportunity missed here.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
Are the socks grippy and fuzzy, or do we get to make some kind of fashion choice? Nurse Ratchet please advise.
August 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word crib death
Generally known these days as SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word herring-hog
Neither herring nor hog, 0 for 2.
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word check-spring
Do we not have a spring list?
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the list gesundheit
fnese
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word cowan
So are there batty conspiracies about cowans as well?
August 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word asshelmet
Trying to define and explain insults is hard work :-/
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word wampum
Also seawan.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word dust-point
*points*
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word gru-gru
You say gru-gru, I say gri-gri.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word hound dog
Compare horn dog.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word accountant
Plot twist: I worked at the Pancake Parlour for a while, probably my first proper job. I was a dishwasher.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word accountant
I knew a girl who used to say she worked at the Pancake Parlour, which was a well-known Melbourne (Australia) pancake restaurant. It was her code for massage parlour, which was the term used at the time for illegal brothels. I sensed at the time - it was about 1987 - from the way she said it that others also used the Pancake Parlour label, or indeed pizza parlour.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word steller
Good joke.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the list lock-me-up
I do not remember making this list. Perhaps it occurred that time I was abducted by aliens.
August 3, 2022
bilby commented on the list specific-excrement
See also acoprosis for specific non-excrement :-/
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word anatifa
I would also like to see a thoracic cirriped punching Richard Spencer in the head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCg8FmPlC8
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word living space
Surely a calque of lebensraum.
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word astralin
Sanction it!
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word obmutescent
No comment.
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word scherif
I schot the scherif.
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word cow tipping
*rolls hippogriff*
August 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word writh's
Yeah nah.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list not-gonna-fly-Nnyhv4qDQD5cWLDxfRymr
Behold, one of my worst list ideas ever. I think the technical term is sottisier.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word homage-jury
The kind of definition you can read a few times and still not really understand.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word lol
The suffix for beta-blockers is -lol, often -olol although sometimes -alol is also used.
Examples: atenolol, metoprolol, propranolol, primidolol, etc.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word boudoir
Not fair that only ladies get a pouting room.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word rotalidea
i'm sorry, I haven't had time to put my perforate foraminifers in order.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word cow tipping
In any case, if you were going to do this why resort to cows when you could tip a hippogriff?
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word devastitation
Ooh, this is so ugly.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
PEBKAC?
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word Hwfa Gwyn
Chief Financial Officer for Hybrid Air Vehicles. Pronounced Hoofer.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word cow tipping
Are there enough fictional pastimes for a list? Thinking back to John Clarke's farnarkling.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word square rig
Do not place in round well.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word steller
This is where someone helpfully suggests the bilby should be named after me. Go on.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word steller
If I were going to choose an animal to be named after me, I suspect it would not be a sea cow.
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list el-diablo-de-profundo
printer's devil
August 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word stallage
'Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw' is not obsolete, it's on Fox News every night :-/
July 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word huckery
huckery duckery schlock
bilby tried on a smock
the smock was so cute
on a marsupial hirsute
huckery duckery schlock
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word monocœlia
What what what.
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the user wordnikette
Wow, good bloodlines!
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word HIMARS
As of July 2022, USA-donated HIMARS are being used by Ukraine in the war against Russia.
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word HIMARS
Acronym for a specific kind of moveable weapons system developed in the 1990s, usually truck-mounted, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word arty
Military slang for artillery.
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
Very interesting. Reminds me a bit of underworld slang.
July 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word Averno
Honestly I feel that this has good metaphor potential.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word secretin
"Of its chemical nature nothing is known"...sshhh!
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word imbecilitate
Social media says hello.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word bruang
Mis-spelling of native name beruang in Indonesian and Malay.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word drisheen
Yuck.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word ataxite
IRS employee?
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word fogging
Frankly amazing btw that over the years we have not acquired a crusty old puffernut to make railway lists.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word roncador
Yeah I'd make rude noises too if I were a fish and you took me out of water.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word kamuning
Scientific name was changed in 1820 to Murraya paniculata. A.k.a. orange jasmine, kemuning in Indonesian and Malay.
July 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word fogging
Don't know. Looks as if it's still a thing though as you can buy the detonators: https://therailwayshop.co.uk/products/railway-detonator-fog-signal-box-of-10
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word resiling
For a moment there I thought I'd randomed some riesling :-/
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word proscolex
Show us your horny processes.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word takedaite
Take dat!
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word fogging
Some handy instructions: https://www.victorianrailways.net/signaling/fog_signalling.pdf
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the list fowl-words
pophole?
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word bugs
I recently listed quiescent encysted protozoan which does not sporulate but get a 404 error trying to bring up that page.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word hexadecapolar bear
Don't just settle for a bipolar bear.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word shoot and scoot
Military term: fire, then move before the enemy can pinpoint where the firing originated.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word candlewaster
Sounds like it would have been a pretty feeble insult even back in the day.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word shorthead
Century Dictionary is named thus as it hasn't been updated in that period of time?
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word bin juice
The mysterious liquid at the bottom of a bin or dumpster.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word lawyers, guns and money
Perfect addition to my Food Pellet Flavours list.
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the list why-did-the---cross-the
Why did the applesauce cross the cris?
July 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word genus cerastium
As we say in Australia, may a wanton wombat of delight snuffle through your underbrush.
July 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word why did the bilby cross the road
Well, I saw a rather interesting shadow on the other side of the road that I thought might have been a hat that had been lost by a snowman. And then there was a butterfly with hommous on its nose!
July 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word beaglepuss
I did not know these had a name.
July 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word genus cerastium
Mouse? Chick?
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word carminative
Cool word!
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word bee-feeder
Not sure why the queen trusts these to guard the palace.
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word tin-worm
CDC definition-writer phoning it in again.
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word long-legged tattler
See stone-snipe.
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word fop
See also musk-cod.
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the list seals-8MLRJ_pGUWZovaajZa9W9
Suggestions, hmmm. Have you tried balancing a ball on your nose?
July 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word viceman
The viceman cometh.
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word copyhold
Read that CDC definition for an instant headache.
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word muck-hack
Like a cocktail fork, only bigger?
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word noss
From the Norse word for nose according to one of the examples.
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word bitthead
Remarkably, the comic strip rip-off Beavers and Bitthead was never successful.
July 25, 2022
bilby commented on the list seals-8MLRJ_pGUWZovaajZa9W9
It is not an open list. It has been sealed, ma'am!
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word liquid fruitcake
A bilbyism for mulled wine.
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word snooze
Whose Kalmazoo Zoo kangaroos snooze in used blue-chartreuse-rouge cruise shoes?
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the list orange-poetry
*affixes gold star on alexz's work*
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word blesser
South African slang: a priest or pastor.
July 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word atlatl
Would be a good name for an aerospace port.
July 23, 2022
bilby commented on the list i-don-t-like-cricket-i-love-it
Bazzball?
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word bedlamer
TMI :-(
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the list last-names-that-are-professions
I always wonder about the surname Rowbottom.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word cross-eyed hook
Here be pirates lurking.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word aleconner
Bet they did more than 'look' at the goodness, hey.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word whistling-arrow
The kettle's boiling or you're about to get an arrow through the head would have made for interesting tea making in those times.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word arsepane
Organic chemistry!
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word tripel
Hit random word on a Friday and found beer. The rest is history.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word hypnosporange
At last, a rhyme for gorringe.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word giaour
When you're at the Boxing Day sales to buy a vowel.
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word hardy-hole
Minnie the Moocher was a blacksmith?
July 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word fewmet of Christ
The food pellet equivalent of a Catholic wafer.
July 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word colter
So much for 'swords into ploughshares', they're pretty much the same thing.
July 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word blemmatrope
I am sure ruzuzu collects these.
July 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word reraped
:-(
July 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word web-frame
Funny how shipbuilding has a term that contains two internet terms, good reminder of how malleable language is.
July 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word philanthropath
Wingnut SPAM
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
This turning into a weird jean dimmock page. Who's going to turn up next? Vasily Petrovich Goloborodko?
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word foe
Compare fey.
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
Uffa, drive-by verbing with culted. It's turning nasty.
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
I'm tempted to add portraymentism to the list of possible long-COVID symptoms reflecting cognitive disturbance.
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word dak-boat
*bing* You've got dak!
July 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word non-Cavendish banana
Preposterous.
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word riesling with a hint of kerosene
Strange but true: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2020/10/tasmanian-riesling/
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
Also, vendingmachine please tell us your 2,190,612th and 2,190,614th favourite words so we can get some idea of where portrayment sits. Thank you.
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word absolute kettle
See portrayment.
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
No-one has ever called me an absolute kettle. What am I doing wrong?
July 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word loving-cup
See parting-cup.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word parting-cup
Sorry but why does a loving-cup need more than two handles? Someone draw me a diagram? I mean, someone draw my friend a diagram?
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word irenarchy
A which see!
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word portrayment
Wtf is going on here?
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word ghost-show
I aint afraid of no ghost-show.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word spotted hyena
Before painting buses, Boris Johnson got hyexit done :-/
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word Ken Behrens
Australian slang, residents of the Australian capital city of Canberra. The term originated from an on-screen autotranscribe of Canberrans during a much-watched media conference at peak COVID-19 mania.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word croweater
I still hear this occasionally, though with decreasing frequency I would guess, ditto banana bender, sandgroper and apple-islander. Meanwhile gum-sucker and cornstalk have passed into oblivion.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word apple-islander
Australian slang, a person from the island state of Tasmania.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word cornstalk
Compare gum-sucker.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word spotted hyena
To me they have a funny body shape, like the person creating the prototype was drunk and careless by the time they got to the back end of the animal.
July 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word kanga
Australian Sikhs are on a winner.
July 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word advoutry
More fun than whataboutery :-/
July 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word advouter
There's also advoutress.
July 13, 2022
bilby commented on the list a-testicle-by-any-other-name
hart's-truffles maybe.
July 13, 2022
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