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.
When I was living in college, there was one fixed line phone (for incoming calls only) on every second floor. Yeah it was that long ago. Anyhap, usually the people whose rooms were near the phone had the job of answering it, then running around to try to find the person who was being called.
I almost feel like chair should be here because the baddie team at some stage will brain a good guy or an innocent with a chair. But it's not slang. I came, I saw, I tried.
A senator I was interviewing recently said 'do a solid' and at the moment I had my head in the press conference; I didn't realise until afterwards that I have no idea what this means. He's not that young, though younger than me. And a keen surfer, so probably jargoned-up to the eyeballs.
From etymonline.com regarding the phrase get the mitten.
"From 1755 as 'lace or knitted silk glove for women covering the forearm, the wrist, and part of the hand,' worn fashionably by women in the early 19c. and revived towards the end of it. Hence get the mitten (1825), of men, 'be refused or dismissed as a lover' (colloquial), from the notion of receiving the mitten instead of the hand."
"A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as involuntary relocation during second grade social studies instruction, but board members have asked them to reconsider the phrasing, according to the state board’s chair."
"Lauren Bird, Biodiversity Coordinator with NRM North, works with land managers and the community to monitor and protect remaining populations of the critically endangered plant shy Susan.
'Shy Susan is a native plant adorned in purple flowers in spring and the only place in the world that it is found is in the Beaconsfield foothills in Tasmania. As of 2021 there were less than 200 shy Susan plants remaining in the wild,' Lauren said."
Unit of length equal to one hundred millionth of a centimeter (used to measure wavelengths of light), 1892, named for Swedish physicist Anders Ångström (1814-1874).
"'person who disregards laws,' 1924, from scoff (v.) + law (n.). The winning entry (from among more than 25,000) in a national contest during Prohibition to coin a word to characterize a person who drinks illegally. The $200 prize was shared by two contestants who sent in the word separately: Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler.
Similar attempts did not stick, such as pitilacker (1926), winning entry in a contest by the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to establish a scolding word for one who deliberately mistreats animals (submitted by Mrs. M. McIlvaine Bready of Mickleton, N.J.)."
"I wrote andscape instead of landscape & it feels like exactly the kind of word that could have some meaningfully meaningful meaning that has people scratching their chins.
andscape: the idea that place is neither complete nor finished."
Probably from the "yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries.":
MOOS: The candidates tend to do a lot of pointing during these tours. They do a lot of touching as well. Pass by objects that could be felt anyone. What is this thing, is it a missile, does it fly? It is a wind turbine.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It looks like a big surfboard.
MOOS: Just begging to be autographed. The candidates seem happiest during the tours when they are meeting the works especially ones that address them as Mr. President.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you doing, Mr. President?
OBAMA: Good to see you. It's got a ring to it.
MOOS: He thinks that has a nice ring to it. Listen to what Hillary heard from a steelworkers' union official talking about looking for a leader.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That has testicular fortitude. You know, that's exactly right.
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I do think I have fortitude. Women can have it as well as men.
MOOS: These tours sure require fortitude. Candidates better be prepared to do a lot of nodding.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every one of those ports can be fitted with special probes to measure like oxygen concentration.
MOOS: Nodding, nodding. Remind you of anything? At least going on all these tours is good preparation to become nodder in chief. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
ROBERTS: Do you think he meant to say intestinal fortitude?
"If the Saudis wanted to do some golfwashing, they could dump a bunch of money into the LPGA. They could say "Look we're trying to help women" and then hope nobody digs too deep. This idea is going to look like a series of made-for-tv silly season events with no tv."
- farmer, 'LIV with some big money announcements' topic thread, 8 June 2022.
"It is probable that one of these days the common sense of mankind will rise in rebellion against this word and abolish it. What is the Duke of Mirepoix to us because his wife was amiable to Louis XV.?
If she be not fair to me,
What care I how fair she be?
The Duke of Mirepoix made himself convenient to the king, and his name is now convenient to the people—the convenient name for the faggot of vegetables that flavours a stew or a sauce."
"Solar panels are not a new way of providing cheap power across much of the African continent, where there is rarely a shortage of sunshine. But growing crops underneath the panels is, and the process has had such promising trials in Kenya that it will be deployed this week in open-field farms.
Known as agrivoltaics, the technique harvests solar energy twice: where panels have traditionally been used to harness the sun’s rays to generate energy, they are also utilised to provide shade for growing crops, helping to retain moisture in the soil and boosting growth."
The straightforward meaning in Italian is tissue paper.
The political meaning is government propaganda 'news'.
The modern slang meaning is a bimbo, particularly with refernce to showgirls. It was popularised by the long-running satirical TV program Striscia La Notizia which uses two dancing girls to bring news sheets to the presenters.
Competitive cycling term. A rider is said to be 'chewing the handlebars' if they are struggling to keep up, manifested as adopting a very low riding position and showing a facial grimace.
I interviewed the mayor today about suburban speed limits. The AI transcription I use (Otter) with audio recordings changed her 'vulnerable road users' into 'honourable road users'.
I will now expect you to address me by my correct title, The Honourable Road User for Moonah.
"Morrison’s death spiral is either pathetic or immensely satisfying, depending how much schaden you like stirred in your freude.
Or you can feel nothing, and just watch the smug ninnyhammer limp on for another five days of fibberish, posing regularly with the glazed-ham-in-suit candidates the Liberal Party prefers, or its female equivalent the screeching bottle-blonde harridan low-dealing a deck of victim cards."
Weird bug of the day is that The System will not allow me to add speed-delimited ontocycle to this list. Either by typing it into the box at the top of the list, or by going to the word page then clicking 'List' then selecting Spy Satellite from the dropdown. Double nup. I have been able to add other words since attempting that. It can't be the hyphen because there are already several hyphenated entries on the list.
For Quordle I like to lead with RAISE YOUTH which seems to get me on track most of them time. Plus it's something I can remember. Also POUTY ALIEN; all I have to do is think of vendingmachine.
HEART and LIONS together have the 10 most commonly occurring English letters. That's a bit deceptive though due to words like the and doesn't necessarily reflect their frequency in the Wordle list words.
I don't understand why now the sessions are so short. It's like the system automatically logs me out about every two days. Why? Not as if we (users) store any sensitive information here like actual identity, phone number, credit card, etc. If someone adopts a word that stuff is done over on Stripe and not on this database. So I don't get it. Wot, I'm being protected from the chance that some stranger gonna come along and secretly add words to my lists when I'm not looking?
"First Nations rangers are trialling thermal imaging drones to track one of Australia’s rarest and most secretive wallaby species in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The endangered black-footed rock-wallaby, or wiliji as it is known by traditional owners in the area, is a small and extremely agile animal that darts among rocky outcrops and caves, making it challenging to find and track."
- 'Rangers trial drones to track rare rock-wallaby', Charles Darwin University media release, 28 Feb 2022.
"What prompted both the DxE investigation and the whistleblower to come forward is Iowa Select’s recent adoption of the mass-extermination method known as ventilation shutdown, or VSD. Under this method, pigs at the company’s rural Grundy County facility are being “depopulated,” using the industry’s jargon, by sealing off all airways to their barns and inserting steam into them, intensifying the heat and humidity inside and leaving them to die overnight. Most pigs — though not all — die after hours of suffering from a combination of being suffocated and roasted to death."
Etymonline.com says: "...said to be originally a hobo term (but monekeer is attested in London underclass from 1851), of uncertain origin; perhaps from monk (monks and nuns take new names with their vows, and early 19c. British tramps referred to themselves as "in the monkery")."
Sports term for a player making a dive for a ball they can't get. Mainly because it looks bad to your team-mates if you just stand and watch it, even though the result is the same.
"Ms O’CONNOR – Minister, through you, and this might be a question for Mr Dietrich. This financial year there was a decline in the proportion of track rated as good on the track quality index. This is particularly pronounced in the Derwent Valley, which declined from 61.2 per cent to 45.1 per cent. This seems a fairly substantial degradation in a single year. Can you provide any details of the causes of this decline in quality of track?
Mr DIETRICH – Thank you for the question, Ms O’Connor. The figure of 75.9 to 73.5 is a slight deterioration, particularly in the Derwent Valley. That’s related to the tamper. So, the Derwent Valley is still at that level of condition. It’s scheduled to be tamped in early 2022, which will then bring those statistics back up and the overall statistics back in line with the trend that we expect."
"to defecate," 1846, from a cluster of older nouns, now dialectal or obsolete, applied to things cast off or discarded (such as "weeds growing among corn" (early 15c.), "residue from renderings" (late 15c.), underworld slang for "money" (18c.), and in Shropshire, "dregs of beer or ale"), all probably from Middle English crappe "grain that was trodden underfoot in a barn, chaff" (mid-15c.), from French crape "siftings," from Old French crappe, from Medieval Latin crappa, crapinum "chaff." Related: Crapped; crapping.
For connection of the idea of defecation with that of shedding or casting off from the body, compare shit (v.). Despite the etymological legend, the word is not from the name of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910) who was, however, a busy plumber and may have had some minor role in the development of modern toilets.
I note the Wiktionary entry now reads: The capital city of a state (national subdivision). Also, those changes were made some years ago now. So ... Wordnik does not show 'live' Wiktionary definitions?
Weird, I created this word on 4 October 2013. Just the other day we celebrated his 8th birthday. I thought eight candles on a giant beetroot ice-cream fuflun was a bit much but he insisted.
Jean Dieudonne was a very influential French mathematician, who worked in the mid 20th century. He was one of the founding members of the collective that published under the name of Nicolas Bourbaki. The group, which was highly influential from the 1950s through the 1980s is best know for publishing a series of textbooks, collectively known as the Elements of Mathematics, The group is known for the extreme rigor with which they lay out the fundamentals of different branches of mathematics.
Dieudonne's essay "The Architecture of Mathematics" has become known as Bourbaki's manifesto.
Note that words are case sensitive. No-one searches all caps words; while it's plausible someone might search for phototeller, no-one is searching for PHOTOTELLER.
"Any lover of Kermit the Frog knows he famously rode a bike in "The Muppet Movie", and in fact has piloted a bicycle quite often in his career. But when I started the #freshKermit hashtag with this quick post a few years back, I wasn't thinking of the friendly amphibian riding a velocipede, I just saw those bright green colors in some of our newest NYC bike lanes and, well people remembered."
In Middle English and as late as 17c., it was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts (such as Old English fingeræppla "dates," literally "finger-apples;" Middle English appel of paradis "banana," c. 1400). Hence its grafting onto the unnamed "fruit of the forbidden tree" in Genesis. Cucumbers, in one Old English work, are eorþæppla, literally "earth-apples" (compare French pomme de terre "potato," literally "earth-apple;" see also melon).
Scroll down the reverse dictionary entries on this page and tell me it's not a demi-Hemingway-Joyce unicorn on a rocket-sled through a badly-plumbed time tunnel.
"Built by Joseph Moir in 1870, the tower produced small-diameter shot balls using the 'long drop and water' method. Lead ingots laced with arsenic and antimony were hauled to the top of the tower, where they were melted. The liquid was then poured down the centre of the tower through a colander, which separated it into drops. Once in free-fall, these drops formed naturally into spheres. They instantly solidified upon hitting a pool of water at the bottom of the tower."
"We found more than 80% of all the menu items were discretionary or 'junk' foods. A large number of menu items (42%) were categorised as 'discretionary cereal-based mixed meals', which includes foods such as pizzas, burgers, kebabs and pidés."
"Given the way the lockdowns are going, vax to the max is clearly key to recovery so there needs to be an Australia-wide approach rather than relying on individual businesses, or the states, to decide how to handle the unvaccinated." - Nikki Savva, 'Prime Minister Scott Morrison a cranky man in need of a plan', Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2021.
"Stock market meaning 'speculator for a fall' is 1709 shortening of bearskin jobber (from the proverb sell the bearskin before one has caught the bear); i.e. 'one who sells stock for future delivery, expecting that meanwhile prices will fall'."
'To sleep in the same bed while fully clothed, a custom formerly practiced by engaged couples in New England and in Wales' is a definition with quite a lot going on.
"late 14c., orix, also in Middle English origen, from Latin oryx, from Greek oryx (genitive orygos), an old name of some sort of Libyan and Egyptian antelope with pointed horns, perhaps originally the gazelle; 'the digging animal', literally 'pick-axe', but according to Beekes this is probably a folk-etymologizing of a borrowed word Used in Greek and Latin bibles to render Hebrew tho, which early English Bibles misidentified as everything from a small hibernating animal or dormouse to a kind of bird like a guinea hen to a wild bull. Now applied to a specific genus of large antelopes of North Africa and Arabia.
Just found this snide aside on the etymonline.com entry for jail:
"Persistence of gaol (preferred in Britain) is 'chiefly due to statutory and official tradition' OED, and, probably, the fact that it is known the Americans spell it the other way."
"Rogero: Shall any broken quacksalver’s bastard oppose him to me in my nuptials? No; but I’ll show him better metal than e’er the gallemawfrey his father used. Thou scum of his melting-pots, that wert christen’d in a crusoile with Mercury’s water to show thou wouldest prove a stinging aspis! for all thou spitt’st is aqua fortis, and thy breath is a compound of poison’s stillatory: if I get within thee, hadst thou the scaly hide of a crocodile, as thou art partly of his nature, I would leave thee as bare as an anatomy at the second viewing."
Re etymology, etymonline.com notes: "Beekes writes that 'Frisk's etymology as a compound from krokē 'gravel' and drilos 'worm' (with dissimilation) should be forgotten'."
Meanwhile this note on Wikipedia on the etymology of sundog is worth consideration:
"In Abram Palmer's 1882 book Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, by False Derivation Or Mistaken Analogy, sun-dogs are defined:
The phenomena of false suns which sometimes attend or dog the true when seen through the mist (parhelions). In Norfolk a sun-dog is a light spot near the sun, and water-dogs are the light watery clouds; dog here is no doubt the same word as dag, dew or mist as 'a little dag of rain' (Philolog. Soc. Trans. 1855, p. 80). Cf. Icel. dogg, Dan. and Swed. dug = Eng. 'dew'."
"When Simone Biles pushed off the vaulting table Tuesday, she entered that terrifying world of uncertainty. In the Olympic team final, Biles planned to perform a 2½-twisting vault, but her mind chose to stall after just 1½ twists.
“I had no idea where I was in the air,” Biles said. “I could have hurt myself.”
Biles, who subsequently withdrew from the team competition and then the all-around final a day later, described what went wrong during that vault as “having a little bit of the twisties.”
The cute-sounding term, well-known in the gymnastics community, describes a frightening predicament. When gymnasts have the twisties, they lose control of their bodies as they spin through the air. Sometimes they twist when they hadn’t planned to. Other times they stop midway through as Biles did. And after experiencing the twisties once, it’s very difficult to forget. Instinct gets replaced by thought. Thought quickly leads to worry. Worry is difficult to escape."
"Also known as an immersion or survival suit, a Gumby suit is made out of neoprene, a flexible, fire-retardant, synthetic rubber material which is also used to make wetsuits and laptop sleeves. Waterproof and insolated to protect the wearer from hypothermia during cold water immersion, the suits are meant to be worn by crew members when abandoning a ship.
The cumbersome suits are usually one-size-fits-all and outfitted with built-in boots that resemble adult footies, a hood and large gloves. Because neoprene material consists of closed-cell foam that contains tiny air bubbles, the suit can also act as a personal flotation device.
As you may have already guessed, the suits are named after the green, angular 1960s clay animation character "Gumby." However, unlike Gumby, the survival suits usually come in bright orange, red or yellow colors, making them easier for search crews to spot in the water. Additionally, the suit's arms, legs and head have strips of reflective tape sewn on, making the wearer more visible at night."
"A nepus gable is a wallhead gable on the front of a building surmounted by a chimney and containing a window opening to allow light in to an attic space."
"The Federal Aviation Administration has set new rules related to commercial space astronaut wing program and the criteria used to reward those commanding, piloting, or working on privately funded spacecraft with the Commercial Space Astronaut Wing Badge.
The order was issued on July 20, the same day billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin rocket crew made history by blasting off the West Texas desert, reaching space, and returning to Earth.
NASA, the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration and some astrophysicists consider the boundary between the atmosphere and space to start at 50 miles above. Bezos actually met the requirement by going 62 miles above sea level.
To earn wings, the FAA now states that passengers must “perform in flight activities that were necessary for public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.” Judging by Blue Origin’s automation, Bezos doesn’t meet this criterion."
"Well as a development, this proposal has been incredibly destructive. Not only has it, you know, created division within the community, it’s created a drain on time, energy and money resources. But yes, it’s been an absolute hobble on any creative ideas and investment in other solutions to visitation on the mountain."
The passage in Don Quixote from which this originates is quite delightful:
"So saying, and heartily recommending himself to his lady Dulcinea, whom he implored to succour him in this emergency, bracing on his target, and setting his lance in the rest, he put his Rozinante to full speed, and assaulting the nearest windmill, thrust it into one of the sails, which was drove about by the wind with so much fury, that the lance was shivered to pieces, and both knight and steed whirled aloft, and overthrown in very bad plight upon the plain." (Smollett Translation, 1755)
"We help communities build large underground water storage tanks called berkads. These berkads collect, channel, and filter torrents of rainwater, capturing it for use between rains. The result of just one day of rain: enough clean, fresh drinking water for an entire community for months. In fact, one berkad can hold up to 80,000 gallons of water..."
Wikipedia says: "Their songs are described as 'simple but delightful', many descending in pitch, and some species are excellent mimics. Gerygone means 'born of sound' (Magrath 2003)."
"Shadow Minister for Government Services and the NDIS Bill Shorten and Tasmanian Senator Anne Urquhart will hold a doorstop and pic fac this Thursday at the Autism Specific Early Learning and Care Centre in Burnie, Tasmania, to speak about the future of the NDIS." - in email from the senator's media advisor, 14 July 2021
A politically-convenient 'lockdown' that sounds tough but that doesn't have many restrictions, particularly the kind of mobility restrictions that are somewhat unpopular but also quite often effective against the spread of COVID-`19.
"The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Compare also Danish fise "to blow, to fart," and obsolete English aske-fise, "fire-tender," literally "ash-blower" (early 15c.), from an unrecorded Norse source, used in Middle English for a kind of bellows, but originally "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" OED."
"Mashers (detestable word) and flirts, coquettes and dandies, pass and repass doing the block, in the most self-satisfied and complacent manner, and exhibiting every variety of walk, swagger, strut, and waddle."
early 14c., clogge "a lump of wood," origin unknown. Also used in Middle English of large pieces of jewelry and large testicles. Compare Norwegian klugu "knotty log of wood." Meaning "anything that impedes action" is from 1520s, via the notion of "block or mass constituting an encumbrance."
The sense of "wooden-soled shoe" is first recorded late 14c.; they were used as overshoes until the introduction of rubbers c. 1840. Originally all of wood (hence the name), later wooden soles with leather uppers for the front of the foot only. Later revived in fashion (c. 1970), primarily for women. Clog-dancing "dancing performed in clogs" is attested from 1863."
Gotta defer to that wondrous trove of etymonline.com for this:
"Another theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical Latin (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "cock-sucker." OED inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others."
"As they start their careers, doctors swear to uphold the Hippocratic Oath. If people tackling misinformation were to establish an equivalent oath, we should make sure to borrow one of the original’s phrases: “Prevention is preferable to cure.”
As with medicine, so with misinformation: It is better to prevent misinformation from spreading at all than to try to debunk it once it’s spread.
Here’s why. Debunks don’t reach as many people as misinformation, and they don’t spread nearly as quickly. If they do reach us, they generally struggle to erase the misinformation from our debates or our brains. Even when we’ve been told that the misinformation is false, research suggests it continues to influence our thinking.
So it helps to take a page from medicine: Prevention, not cure, may be a more effective way to combat misinformation.
Understanding how prebunks work (and how they don’t) is essential for reporters, fact checkers, policy makers and platforms."
After running into some political headwinds about not meeting vaccination targets, the Australian Government has now invented the term vaccination allocation horizon to provide numbers on vaccine rollout.
Question for Wordnik: Why does the below appear in the examples seven times? Surely there are plenty of others. In any case, one would think there is no point in any 'example' being shown more than once.
"Another boon is for the President of the United States to echo and reinforce Islamofascist propaganda themes, as Mr. Obama did in his first interview with an Arab language television network."
Was hilarious that some deluded people were saying this about Sidney Powell vis-a-vis the Trump bid to overturn the 2020 US Presidential election result.
An Australian saying with meaning something like 'you need to calm down'. Derived from an advertising campaign for the analgesic Bex, no longer manufactured. Or at least not with original formula, which was found to cause certain medical issues.
You'd be hard pressed to convict a dictionary compiler from any major publication of 'pushing a political agenda' but I'm sure you feel better for having had a rant.
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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
bilby commented on the word umbrage lamb
See comments on Whoa Black Betty: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/whoa-black-betty-HQ0x0b_1xVTMD9AXNjsC8
July 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word caw sampan
See caw citation on champan, and sampan.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word ampelmann
Images should help you out here. Cult hero of former East Germany after reunification.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word beaut brekky
Australian slang: a good breakfast.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the list whoa-black-betty-HQ0x0b_1xVTMD9AXNjsC8
Just add in your in own whoas.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word itzibu
Tough rhyme :-/
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word bu
Also itzibu.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the list words-for-poem-inspiration-T_lmf897zQVL4wMdokMrj
How about we leave a word or words for you and work with them? Deal?
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the list words-for-poem-inspiration-T_lmf897zQVL4wMdokMrj
Writer's block?
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word bowl-and-beans
Or lunch :-)
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word bowl-and-beans
Some kind of Native American game?
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word phone sex
Leon was actually very funny. Also a trained circus performer who could breathe fire, ride a unicycle, etc.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word phone sex
When I was living in college, there was one fixed line phone (for incoming calls only) on every second floor. Yeah it was that long ago. Anyhap, usually the people whose rooms were near the phone had the job of answering it, then running around to try to find the person who was being called.
I remember this conversation happening:
Leon: Phone for you Maryanne.
Maryanne: Is it a guy or a girl?
Leon: Telephones are asexual.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word Shawnee cake
Shawnee meet Johnny, Johnny Shawnee.
July 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word prefossette
Quite easy to identify really, just stick your head into the jaw of the rhinoceros.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word ramcat
See etymology on tomcat.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word rubbidge
Isn't it about time we took umbrage
At neglect of our linguistic heritage?
But if your penchant for norms
Eschews archaic forms
You might be agin preserving this rubbidge.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the list professional-wrestling-slang-5V5seeZRNJ54pzXowKeaW
I almost feel like chair should be here because the baddie team at some stage will brain a good guy or an innocent with a chair. But it's not slang. I came, I saw, I tried.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word solid
A senator I was interviewing recently said 'do a solid' and at the moment I had my head in the press conference; I didn't realise until afterwards that I have no idea what this means. He's not that young, though younger than me. And a keen surfer, so probably jargoned-up to the eyeballs.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word pentapterous
Ah, fruit flies explained.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
The deed is done.
July 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word mitten
From etymonline.com regarding the phrase get the mitten.
"From 1755 as 'lace or knitted silk glove for women covering the forearm, the wrist, and part of the hand,' worn fashionably by women in the early 19c. and revived towards the end of it. Hence get the mitten (1825), of men, 'be refused or dismissed as a lover' (colloquial), from the notion of receiving the mitten instead of the hand."
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word crump
Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison, Donald Trump:
A bozo, a flim-flam, a grump.
After years of their guff
We'd all had enough
And they were dispatched with a satisfying crump!
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word enturbulate
Hubbardisms remind me of Zamboni Palin: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/zamboni-palin
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list it-s-wet-and-it-s-land-wetlands
coal-swamp
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word elphrish
A Scots form of eldritch.
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
I fear that our overlord McKean is secretly manipulating the sacred Skinner box Flavour Delivery AlgorithmTM.
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
Hmmm, this only works if you click on it in the Recently Listed Words on the Community page.
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
Did you know that if you click on "natural flavoring" you actually get a random word? A flavour surprise in every press!
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word flayings
Yes because one flaying is never enough.
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word overdribble
You don't want to watch me eating watermelon :-/
July 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word inexplicable
In my dictionary I'd leave the definition blank.
July 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word toom
See also toomly.
July 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word scroll-chuck
Woof!
July 7, 2022
bilby commented on the list food-pellet-flavours-wPzukDApb4zscp4sivXLI
Best place to try your luck is over on Skinner box.
July 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word hominy
Many manly anemones nominally know enemy mini-anemones nom-nom their homely anemone hammy hominy.
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word rockahominy
See hominy.
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word noddle
See also capernoity.
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word employest
employ, employer,_____
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word pacarana
Ambulant watermelon alert! https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/d7jdol/pacaranas_are_very_rare_rodents_native_to_south/
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word trewe
Trewe dis.
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word thalasseus
Oh. Those large terns.
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the list gesundheit
scharzhofberger
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word Skinner box
What's this week's flavour?
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word fornicatour
All aboard the velvet bus!
July 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word Ovifak
Where's the pronunciation guy when you need him?
July 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word reverse historian
A fortune teller.
July 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word ninu
Also Warlpiri, apparently.
https://www.australianwildlife.org/connecting-country-community-and-conservation-in-central-australia/
Bonus cute bilby drawings by schoolkids at the bottom of that article!
July 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word garzonidæ
Funny to me because Garzon is my wife's surname.
July 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word autotroph
Useful superpower.
July 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word B&H
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
July 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word matuta
Crabs.
July 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word vegivore
Hellooo.
July 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word abundance
Like a barn dance, but with more cinnamon sugar.
July 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word The Right Honourable Lord Pickles
Born Eric Jack Pickles, in 2022 a member of the UK House of Lords.
July 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word Pork Barilaro
In 2022, recently resigned NSW National Party (Australia) leader John Barilaro. Yes, also known for dodgy deals.
July 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word involuntary relocation
"A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as involuntary relocation during second grade social studies instruction, but board members have asked them to reconsider the phrasing, according to the state board’s chair."
- Brian Lopez, 'State education board members push back on proposal to use “involuntary relocation” to describe slavery', The Texas Tribune, 30 June 2022. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/30/texas-slavery-involuntary-relocation/
July 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word hopo
It's hard not to say hover at the hend :-/
July 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word hopo
How many hidden hopos could a hobbled hip-hop hippo hope to hippety-hop happily over?
July 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word funkia
Best known example is the so-called cold medina.
July 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word wuffle
Wiffle, waffle, wuffle
What's all this kerfuffle?
If you're that nutter
Overinclined to sputter
Then stick it up yer duffel.
July 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word analbuminemic
Anal + bum seems a bit redundant.
July 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word forceps
Biceps forward forceps back.
June 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word corn-cadger
I randomed corn-jobber just yesterday. Why so corny, Wordnik?
June 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word footbinding
So many horrific things done to women over the years. Almost deserves a list. But I'm sorry I can't handle it :-(
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word soil
See also sile.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word casquetel
Got beaver?
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the list hocus-pocus-i-see-a-crocus
hink pink
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word horse-parsley
Also known as alexanders, alisanders.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word octaword
lamellosodentate has lam, lame, me, mell, ell, so, dent and ate at least, so unlocks an octaword badge.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word basketworm
Which makes the better accessory, basketworm or bagworm?
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word octaword
Even a simple compound like passport has pass, port, ass, sport and or, five words, so I can't see eight being a problem.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word octaword
Great, let's see you do it.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word business ducks
Penguins. Coined (probably) by the presenter of the penguin documentary I watched last night.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word keypair
This word's a keeper.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word sky
I'm just starting to realise that there are usually more synonyms for abstract concepts or behaviour than there are for common objects and phenomena.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word spider-helmet
Wow. Now I need a helmet that provides protection against a capella.
June 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word spider-helmet
Anyone have a helmet list?
June 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word person
Compare parson.
June 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word sniddle
Hey diddle diddle
meet me in the sniddle!
June 28, 2022
bilby commented on the word shy Susan
"Lauren Bird, Biodiversity Coordinator with NRM North, works with land managers and the community to monitor and protect remaining populations of the critically endangered plant shy Susan.
'Shy Susan is a native plant adorned in purple flowers in spring and the only place in the world that it is found is in the Beaconsfield foothills in Tasmania. As of 2021 there were less than 200 shy Susan plants remaining in the wild,' Lauren said."
- 'Source Firewood Sustainably', https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/06/source-firewood-sustainably/
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word musk
Sooo, Elon Testicle. Perfect.
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the list a-testicle-by-any-other-name
musk
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word Arabian goggles
Wiktionary is the new Urban Dictionary?
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word kain-hen
RELIABLE CHICKENS WANTED FOR PAID WORK, APPLY NOW.
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word uterus unicornis
Wot.
June 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word A.U.
Unit of length equal to one hundred millionth of a centimeter (used to measure wavelengths of light), 1892, named for Swedish physicist Anders Ångström (1814-1874).
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
greeble
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word knick-knack
Which is quite a lot, even more that Republican which has three.
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word knick-knack
If you accept that nic-nac would be pronounced the same way, then this word has four silent ks.
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word mantrap
a woman's commodity - Grose, 'Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', London, 1785.
June 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word pitilacker
According to Etymonline, on scofflaw;
"'person who disregards laws,' 1924, from scoff (v.) + law (n.). The winning entry (from among more than 25,000) in a national contest during Prohibition to coin a word to characterize a person who drinks illegally. The $200 prize was shared by two contestants who sent in the word separately: Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler.
Similar attempts did not stick, such as pitilacker (1926), winning entry in a contest by the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to establish a scolding word for one who deliberately mistreats animals (submitted by Mrs. M. McIlvaine Bready of Mickleton, N.J.)."
June 25, 2022
bilby commented on the list double-trouble
moosemise
June 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word pug
In John Milesius any man may reade
Of divels in Sarmatia honored
Call'd Kottri or Kibaldi ; such as wee
Pugs and hobgoblins call. Their dwellings bee
In corners of old houses least frequented,
Or beneath stacks of wood ; and these convented
Make fearfull noise in buttries and in dairies,
Robin good-fellowes some, some call them fairies.
- Thomas Heywood, 'Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells', 1635
June 25, 2022
bilby commented on the word keach
As in, what, ladle yourself a glass from the punch bowl.
June 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word maccaboy
Fast food urchin?
June 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word agender agenda
Schwa ending for both for me :-/
June 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word vote bank
In Australia we usually say rusted on.
e.g. The rusted on Wordnik Party vote is about 9%.
June 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word haptodysphoria
Peach fondlers look away now.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word alantolactone
Clearly Helen and Alan have a thing going.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word sacred ax
Consider upgrading to holy hand grenade.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word Mutton Jeff
Mutt 'n' Jeff, comic strip characters.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word theanthropos
The God-man. Koo koo kajoob.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word mash-fat
Paula Deen cooking :-/
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word becquerel
Are you feeling run down, like you just lost a bequerel?
Stonkered, as if butt-slapped with a mackerel?
If you're seeking a means
To recharge your bounce beans
Perhaps a holiday and mango daquiri 'll?
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word pulls above his belt
Martial arts reference, where belt is measure of proven ability?
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word carnivorous
Anagram of coronavirus.
June 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word scopophobia
How much is reasonable?
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word Skinner box
Hey ruzuzu look what I found.
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word andscape
"I wrote andscape instead of landscape & it feels like exactly the kind of word that could have some meaningfully meaningful meaning that has people scratching their chins.
andscape: the idea that place is neither complete nor finished."
- Imogen Wegman, via Twitter
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the list zamboni-palin
somepody
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word copaline
Often prescribed after a course of hopium has been unsuccessful.
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word walrus
See also rosmarine.
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word bucket
BUG - If you scroll up you'll see there's a list titled Flanges &c but if you click the link you get a 404.
June 22, 2022
bilby commented on the word redshirt
Compare redskirt.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word frambaesia
Probably from the "yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries.":
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word waffle
Also, #crimesagainstfalafel.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word waffle
Ooh, that's very good.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word waffle
alexz has been appointed to create a tongue twister on this theme. Thank you.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word waffle
Etymologically-speaking, goes back to the same root as weave. Possibly weevil does too.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word stick-lac
Imma paddywhack this.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word carnival glass
Also aurora glass.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word precocial
See also autophagi.
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the list animaliskt
serpent-kame?
June 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word hieratica
Was only available in select papyrus shops, not online.
June 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word despairers
Misery loves company :-/
June 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word vegetalin
I just drink it :-)
June 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word hanitiser
Eggcorn of hand sanitiser.
June 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word tulwar
A weapon with the word war in the name :-/
June 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word catmeat
Third definition is...wow!
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word raffia ruffia
Who else wants to see raffia ruffia and tuft-taffeta do-si-do the hokey-pokey?
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the list zamboni-palin
slungshot
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the list specific-excrement
faecalith
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word stound
So many definitions for a word I've never come across.
June 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word opakapaka
Parker Packer poked a pack of pickled puckered opakapakas.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word landwardness
Ever needed a fancy way to say hick?
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word scalma
Good thing Mr Dieckerhoff didn't have to grow up in Australia with a name like that :-/
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word pellet
Compare platoon, peloton.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word jobfish
The Wiktionary etymology contributor really putting in the big ones here.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word opakapaka
You can say that again!
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word serinette
I imagine ruzuzu collects these.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word horseradish
Etymologically the horse- bit of this is as in hoarse/coarse, not as in hi-ho Silver.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word testicular fortitude
This! From transcript of 'American Morning' on CNN, 1 May 2008. https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ltm/date/2008-05-01/segment/03
MOOS: The candidates tend to do a lot of pointing during these tours. They do a lot of touching as well. Pass by objects that could be felt anyone. What is this thing, is it a missile, does it fly? It is a wind turbine.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It looks like a big surfboard.
MOOS: Just begging to be autographed. The candidates seem happiest during the tours when they are meeting the works especially ones that address them as Mr. President.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you doing, Mr. President?
OBAMA: Good to see you. It's got a ring to it.
MOOS: He thinks that has a nice ring to it. Listen to what Hillary heard from a steelworkers' union official talking about looking for a leader.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That has testicular fortitude. You know, that's exactly right.
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I do think I have fortitude. Women can have it as well as men.
MOOS: These tours sure require fortitude. Candidates better be prepared to do a lot of nodding.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every one of those ports can be fitted with special probes to measure like oxygen concentration.
MOOS: Nodding, nodding. Remind you of anything? At least going on all these tours is good preparation to become nodder in chief. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
ROBERTS: Do you think he meant to say intestinal fortitude?
PHILLIPS: That is exactly what he meant to say.
ROBERTS: My goodness.
PHILLIPS: And she stomached it well.
ROBERTS: Yes. There you are.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word demand signal
I would like to signal my demand for fewer demand signals.
June 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word Martin's Mistake
As described on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cash
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word medium-sized leaf-eating monkey
See douc.
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word bergamottin
Oh for those of us with memory porous and rotten
Would that no words were ever, ever forgotten!
For it is after an age
I find me back on this page:
Grapefruit gone, but not bergamottin
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the list not-the-sum-of-their-parts
periodicities
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word bilbydactyl
Still waiting for a call-up from the Jurassic movie franchise.
June 14, 2022
bilby commented on the word debugger
Gay conversion therapy?
June 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word licuala
How many little licualas can a liquored koala lick if a liquored koala could lick licualas?
June 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word licuala
Not many, even if the trees are small. Don't even get me started on drunk koalas.
June 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word Jody call
I didn't realise there was a name for this. Brings Full Metal Jacket right back to me.
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the list not-the-sum-of-their-parts
hagden
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word bitter betch
Gut bitter betch
Never let ye retch
Till your gut is bitter
Und your bitter betch
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word hyote
Wiktionary contributor not feelin' it.
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word bumbast
Better than bombast.
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word accoucheuse
Gesundheit!
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word licuala
Note to foreigners: koalas do not live in licualas.
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word haldea
Need to get my snake grinder fixed.
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word Ita Buttrose
An Australian media personality. Appointed in 2019 as Chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the list not-the-sum-of-their-parts
baglama
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word golfwashing
Forum comment on Golf WRX:
"If the Saudis wanted to do some golfwashing, they could dump a bunch of money into the LPGA. They could say "Look we're trying to help women" and then hope nobody digs too deep. This idea is going to look like a series of made-for-tv silly season events with no tv."
- farmer, 'LIV with some big money announcements' topic thread, 8 June 2022.
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word golfwashing
Has been used recently to describe Saudi Arabia's sponsorship of high-profile golf events, the LIV series, to rehabilitate the image of the country.
Although the term is not used in this article, it's the heart of the issue: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/liv-golf-series-pga-tour-suspends-players-saudi-arabia-sportswashing-rcna32698
June 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word mirepoix
"It is probable that one of these days the common sense of mankind will rise in rebellion against this word and abolish it. What is the Duke of Mirepoix to us because his wife was amiable to Louis XV.?
If she be not fair to me,
What care I how fair she be?
The Duke of Mirepoix made himself convenient to the king, and his name is now convenient to the people—the convenient name for the faggot of vegetables that flavours a stew or a sauce."
- 'Kettner's Book of the Table', London, 1877, https://archive.org/details/b21528688/page/n21/mode/2up
June 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word mistressship
Madam puts on airs and graces but is clearly in hock to the big-S industry.
June 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word organic addled-pated buckwheat beetle
See confused flour beetle.
June 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word confused flour beetle
Is there a gluten-free version? Perhaps an organic addled-pated buckwheat beetle?
June 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word feather duster worm
Oh wow, poor little guy.
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word feather duster worm
Who am I insulting this week? Hmmmm ...
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word feather duster worm
Could be a good insult.
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word curba
"...used by the negroes..."
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word bestream
To watch a video online?
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word jujube
Etymonline takes the etymology back a step further, with the Greek zizyphon from the Persian zayzafun. Which sounds like fun!
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word halsemen
Seriously, how many executioners do you need?
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word quasicycle
That old bike you've been meaning to fix so that's it's at least rideable, but ...
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the user hamariwishes
I wish you'd bugger off.
June 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word calico
A good example of why the visuals generator is often pants.
June 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word Te Deum
Pronounced tedium :-/
June 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word contrafact
Oh I'm gonna confuse it all right.
June 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word attrit
Saw this in the wild recently, for the first time in my life. Was in relation to Russia-Ukraine war.
June 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word geocorisæ
Try singing 'Hey Hey We're the Land-Bugs' to the tune of that Monkees song.
June 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word draft evader
'Illegally' is spurious on that WordNet definition.
June 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word blenheim orange
Do you see nouns?
June 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word coinventorship
You decide: coin, vent or ship?
June 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word versicler
Miss you qms.
June 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word futter
Cognate with Italian fottere.
June 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word tushery
Derived from tush?
June 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word barra
In Australia usually heard as slang for barramundi.
June 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word weale
Always the bridesmaid :-/
June 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word armsaye
Also armscye.
June 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word bumper car
Could we change? Maybe it's time to get out of dodgem.
June 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word bumper car
Australians also refer to these as dodgem cars.
June 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word gallant
I suspect that tickets for the Met Gallant might be easier to come across.
May 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word bugs
My Dashboard says I have looked up 0 words. That is, err, a little malnourished for quantity.
May 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word buptkis
Have never heard anyone say this word in Australia.
May 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word gallant
Shares an origin with gala.
May 31, 2022
bilby commented on the word agrivoltaics
"Solar panels are not a new way of providing cheap power across much of the African continent, where there is rarely a shortage of sunshine. But growing crops underneath the panels is, and the process has had such promising trials in Kenya that it will be deployed this week in open-field farms.
Known as agrivoltaics, the technique harvests solar energy twice: where panels have traditionally been used to harness the sun’s rays to generate energy, they are also utilised to provide shade for growing crops, helping to retain moisture in the soil and boosting growth."
- https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/22/kenya-to-use-solar-panels-to-boost-crops-by-harvesting-the-sun-twice?utm_content=buffer07a8b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word phosphophyllite
Bonus cleavage.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word phosphophyllite
Check out the ph- levels on this wonder!
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word lustwort
Sundew is kind of all innocent like but we know who you really are, lustwort.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word velina
The straightforward meaning in Italian is tissue paper.
The political meaning is government propaganda 'news'.
The modern slang meaning is a bimbo, particularly with refernce to showgirls. It was popularised by the long-running satirical TV program Striscia La Notizia which uses two dancing girls to bring news sheets to the presenters.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word Velina Tchakarova
See also velina.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word Velina Tchakarova
In 2022, Director of Austrian think-tank AIES.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word coscup
Will cosplay coffee with vendingmachine and compare notes.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word coscup
Life goal added: to one day have a non-cosplaying cup of coffee with alexz.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word Shockoe Bottom
An inner suburb of Richmond, VA, USA.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word triangular crab
A square crab that lost a leg and is trying to get by?
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word pulka
I'd probably paint very large dots on mine.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word sebundy
Also sibbendy.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word bellows
Compare etymology for bulge.
May 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word chitosan
Etymology - probably from chiton?
May 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word aheylites
Gesundheit!
May 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word rose-engine
Those eccentric characters hide in all sorts of places.
May 27, 2022
bilby commented on the list double-trouble
forcible-feeble maybe?
May 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word parenthesized
I read this a parent-sized. As in, 'I think I'll need a parent-sized glass of wine at the end of this week.'
May 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word huller-gin
How to greet your liquor cabinet.
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word outlicker
Hitch this to your banana boat, matey!
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word Anisolabididae
Earwigs.
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word anisolabidid
Reference writer shorthand for 'from the same source as the previous anisolab'.
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word rerage
I'm not angry, I'm just looking in on a previous rage to see how it's getting on.
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word ethnic mass attack
Emoji for illustrative purposes only, I am crying from both eyes, the heart, the soul and the very universe within me.
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word ethnic mass attack
What's the euphemism for killing a whole bunch of children? :-.....
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word teuthidoidea
"Interesting idea but there's something fishy about it."
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word chew the handlebars
Competitive cycling term. A rider is said to be 'chewing the handlebars' if they are struggling to keep up, manifested as adopting a very low riding position and showing a facial grimace.
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word sloned
Is perticulure like permaculture? Maybe you can help me decide where best to plant my next apricot tree.
May 26, 2022
bilby commented on the user mayenaus
My hatred of brain-dead spambots is both digital and physical, bucko.
May 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word Niggerhead Rock
Well.
https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/05/land-council-decries-maps-with-offensive-place-name/
May 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word Surbhi Snowball
Apparently she is a businesswoman who is married and has two little Snowballs.
May 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word Surbhi Snowball
In 2022, a candidate for the seat of Flinders in the Australian federal election.
May 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word the Honourable Road User for Moonah
I interviewed the mayor today about suburban speed limits. The AI transcription I use (Otter) with audio recordings changed her 'vulnerable road users' into 'honourable road users'.
I will now expect you to address me by my correct title, The Honourable Road User for Moonah.
May 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word widow's walk
I love terms like this that give you quite a bit to unfardle.
May 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word unfardle
I am going to have to start saying, "Well, there's a lot to unfardle here."
May 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word monkeypox
Music to my big ears.
May 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word victim card
"Morrison’s death spiral is either pathetic or immensely satisfying, depending how much schaden you like stirred in your freude.
Or you can feel nothing, and just watch the smug ninnyhammer limp on for another five days of fibberish, posing regularly with the glazed-ham-in-suit candidates the Liberal Party prefers, or its female equivalent the screeching bottle-blonde harridan low-dealing a deck of victim cards."
- 'Exit Morrison Stage Left', 16 May 2022, https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/05/exit-morrison-stage-left/
May 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word nicotine
I know dictionary definitions are supposed to be 'neutral' but the first sentence of AHD definition is absolutely artistic deadpan.
May 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word monkeypox
A pox on all your squirrels!
May 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word tarnal
Minced oath for eternal God!
May 18, 2022
bilby commented on the word impros
Not always, chum.
May 18, 2022
bilby commented on the list still-more-bird-wirds
butterbird
May 17, 2022
bilby commented on the word to big to fail
You can't manage really long words like too?
Oh deary me, what's a poor bilby to do?
It's not hard, you know
- it's like to, plus an o -
End of lesson. You're welcome. Thank you.
May 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word ethnic mass attack
:-/
May 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word widow's walk
I love terms like this that give you quite a bit to unpack.
May 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word rosbif
Humorous or derogatory?
May 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word khagan
Nobody khan like khagan khan.
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word eavestrough
Like a gutter, but with a peerage.
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the list spy-satellite-s-05DmVv-j
Thank you, o Mighty One!
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the list spy-satellite-s-05DmVv-j
Weird bug of the day is that The System will not allow me to add speed-delimited ontocycle to this list. Either by typing it into the box at the top of the list, or by going to the word page then clicking 'List' then selecting Spy Satellite from the dropdown. Double nup. I have been able to add other words since attempting that. It can't be the hyphen because there are already several hyphenated entries on the list.
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word cast-net
Musical instrument that doesn't work because a piece is missing :-/
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the user liruimin
Please share.
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word underhammer
Hey Maxwell go try bang bang dis yo.
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word pintle
Surely time for a Wordle ripoff which-pint-is-that game.
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word whichs
Very good ruzuzu.
May 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word beau-catcher
Back atcha baby!
May 12, 2022
bilby commented on the word Bay of Hedgepiglets
Missile crisis, what missile crisis?
May 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word that secret place where the blarney roses grow
Not telling.
May 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word arson dog
Not a dog that sniffs arses, because that's all of them really.
May 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word whichs
Hey all dem badass bichs / biches
Do they identify as whichs or whiches?
I can't assess her -
Yon evil possessor -
As she got me by the brichs / briches
May 11, 2022
bilby commented on the word amen snorter
Australian slang: a person who goes to church a lot.
May 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word supertensor
Come on mate, you can't be both hyper and super.
May 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word bachelor's handbag
Australian slang: a supermarket bag of ready-to-eat roast chicken.
May 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word wambenger
Wambenger Asperger's thank you mambo-burger.
May 9, 2022
bilby commented on the word fetter
Not clear how you make cheese with these things.
May 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word Conflict Islands
On that basis, prolly now an Elon Musk target.
May 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word Conflict Islands
I've heard that you can go there and have a free argument with anyone.
May 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word Conflict Islands
In Papua New Guinea.
May 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word faze
Unable to explain why I hate this word so much.
May 6, 2022
bilby commented on the word skydiving
The word rort is very much in use across Australia. I think newspapers love to use it because it's short and sharp.
May 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word skydiving
I've tried everything yarb.
May 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word turducken
Working on my vegan version: a tofurkey inside a mock duck inside a seitan chicken. Gonna wrap it in an enigma too I reckon.
May 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word skydiving
I keep pressing vendingmachine's buttons and yet I never get anything. It's a rort.
May 3, 2022
bilby commented on the list pouchy-keen
You will be happy to know that the Finnish word for marsupials is pussieläimet which translates as 'bag animals'.
May 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word surreptitious
Gah, just realised it shares a morpheme with rape.
May 2, 2022
bilby commented on the list words-ending-with--board
bangboard
May 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word transfission
Classic TCD snark.
May 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word echinococcosis
You could get bored in the middle of writing this word and just doodle circles and it would probably still turn out fine.
May 1, 2022
bilby commented on the user deku
We like text.
April 30, 2022
bilby commented on the word wannabee old-fashioned husker
See bangboard.
April 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word opie
Mostly I behave like I'm under 13 :-/
April 29, 2022
bilby commented on the word bangboard
All that tossing of ears makes me nervous.
April 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word cocoyam
Eat them scrambled on cinco de mayo.
April 26, 2022
bilby commented on the word bangboard
I expect ruzuzu collects these.
April 24, 2022
bilby commented on the word Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
A Dutch road racing cyclist.
April 19, 2022
bilby commented on the list words-in-first-3-wordle-word-guess-list-fEttSrihG8
For Quordle I like to lead with RAISE YOUTH which seems to get me on track most of them time. Plus it's something I can remember. Also POUTY ALIEN; all I have to do is think of vendingmachine.
April 19, 2022
bilby commented on the list words-in-first-3-wordle-word-guess-list-fEttSrihG8
HEART and LIONS together have the 10 most commonly occurring English letters. That's a bit deceptive though due to words like the and doesn't necessarily reflect their frequency in the Wordle list words.
April 19, 2022
bilby commented on the word noil
Wouldn't a backwards lion have a butt for a face and roar out of its clacker? The world seems difficult sometimes.
April 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word feels old and structured, but isn’t
Might as well have said mealworm choir songsheets but there you go.
April 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word feels old and structured, but isn’t
Russian military capability.
April 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word Erin
My new saying is "Well, toss me on the colour wheel and spin me like a 78 playing Blueberry Hill."
April 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word shiver me timber
Got wood?
April 11, 2022
bilby commented on the user denese
Here, have some sassafras.
April 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word 7458
*compares warts with ruzuzu*
April 4, 2022
bilby commented on the word demon egg
Fine, but I'm sure the demon chicken came first.
March 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word sillykicaby
An turducken of angst methinks.
March 13, 2022
bilby commented on the word fueling chute
*counters with defueling chute*
Your move!
March 12, 2022
bilby commented on the list terms-that-are-examples-of-the-term
I'm tempted to take your plosive and raise you polyplosive.
March 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word lobster-toad
You think that with two goes they might have actually managed to get crab in the name.
March 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word pogie
There are also pogies for cyclists. They are like a pair of mitts that wrap around the handlebars, protecting the rider's hands from wind chill.
March 6, 2022
bilby commented on the list urchins-Q6jhG5tG9_
ruzuzu's searchin' for urchin...
March 5, 2022
bilby commented on the word egg-urchin
I suppose if you put enough egg-urchins into a cake-urchin you can bake a sponge-urchin. Can anyone confirm?
March 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word egg-urchin
Cake-urchin? It's a pantry invasion.
March 3, 2022
bilby commented on the list gesundheit
huisher
March 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word food
Is it requited?
March 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word bugs
I don't understand why now the sessions are so short. It's like the system automatically logs me out about every two days. Why? Not as if we (users) store any sensitive information here like actual identity, phone number, credit card, etc. If someone adopts a word that stuff is done over on Stripe and not on this database. So I don't get it. Wot, I'm being protected from the chance that some stranger gonna come along and secretly add words to my lists when I'm not looking?
March 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word shrewd
As part of COVID safety protocols I had to dispense with the *.
March 2, 2022
bilby commented on the word shrewd
Lard? No thanks I'm vegan.
March 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list pouchy-keen
wiliji
February 27, 2022
bilby commented on the word wiliji
"First Nations rangers are trialling thermal imaging drones to track one of Australia’s rarest and most secretive wallaby species in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The endangered black-footed rock-wallaby, or wiliji as it is known by traditional owners in the area, is a small and extremely agile animal that darts among rocky outcrops and caves, making it challenging to find and track."
- 'Rangers trial drones to track rare rock-wallaby', Charles Darwin University media release, 28 Feb 2022.
February 27, 2022
bilby commented on the list cities-named-after-another-state-cyXkmYNFLMR6
Also I seem to remember a Nevada City somewhere.
February 21, 2022
bilby commented on the list cities-named-after-another-state-cyXkmYNFLMR6
Washington, surely.
February 21, 2022
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
overegg
February 21, 2022
bilby commented on the word cluster-fly
Yeah. And I've heard that when these things get together to mate it often doesn't go well.
February 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word The Slap Butts
*whack!* ( ! )
February 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word Nebraska products
Wot, no giant bilbies?
February 16, 2022
bilby commented on the word cooker
See https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cookers&src=typeahead_click
February 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word cooker
Has just entered Australian vernacular as a term for rabid anti-vaxxer types currently filling out the 'convoy' protests in various places.
Possibly because they are seem to subsist on an endless diet of the conspiracy theories they cook up.
February 15, 2022
bilby commented on the word The Slap Butts
How do I join?
February 15, 2022
bilby commented on the list pure-science
I want to know more about the sausage catastrophe.
February 10, 2022
bilby commented on the list wordle-tAcc_IXQK8yV
I remember my Australian friends getting upset about favor. Everyone knows it's spelled f-a-v-o-u-r.
February 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word pogonius
Thank you but I feel the signature flavour - maple syrup and grass - needs some work.
February 8, 2022
bilby commented on the word pogonius
Also of OH FAIR TARTS and now I think I need a fuflun.
February 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word pogonius
TRAHOR FATIS is an anagram of HOT AIR FARTS.
February 7, 2022
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
gossamer
February 7, 2022
bilby commented on the word puffanemometer
Is it like the vendanemometer, used to measure the velocity of vendingmachine fired from a cannon?
February 1, 2022
bilby commented on the list us-places-named-after-non-us-places-nJSQDngyIS
I could do an Australian one of these but frankly I don't have enough years left to complete it.
February 1, 2022
bilby commented on the word situationship
I bow before Your Soil Highness.
January 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word natural language processing
What's with the Weird use of Capitals? Are Traumas worse than traumas, or just more self-important?
January 23, 2022
bilby commented on the word struthiolaria
Struth!
January 20, 2022
bilby commented on the list fads
Sorry, incorrectly added finger spinner when I meant fidget spinner.
January 18, 2022
bilby commented on the user kowbell_42
My nationality is grey, and a demure grey it is to be sure. And my tail is whitish with a black tip.
January 10, 2022
bilby commented on the word aporia
Love me a bit of purporting.
December 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word gfm
Not to be confused with gfy.
December 28, 2021
bilby commented on the user archetypemac
SPAM
December 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word ventilation shutdown
One of the most chilling euphemisms I've come across in a while. Far out.
December 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word ventilation shutdown
"What prompted both the DxE investigation and the whistleblower to come forward is Iowa Select’s recent adoption of the mass-extermination method known as ventilation shutdown, or VSD. Under this method, pigs at the company’s rural Grundy County facility are being “depopulated,” using the industry’s jargon, by sealing off all airways to their barns and inserting steam into them, intensifying the heat and humidity inside and leaving them to die overnight. Most pigs — though not all — die after hours of suffering from a combination of being suffocated and roasted to death."
- Glenn Greenwald, 'Hidden Video and Whistleblower Reveal Gruesome Mass-Extermination Method for Iowa Pigs Amid Pandemic', The Intercept, 30 May 2020. https://theintercept.com/2020/05/29/pigs-factory-farms-ventilation-shutdown-coronavirus/
December 22, 2021
bilby commented on the list flying-into-snow
Thanks!
*throws barfball at vendingmachine*
December 21, 2021
bilby commented on the user frey790
Geez if you're going to memorise pi at least make an effort.
December 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word moniker
Etymonline.com says: "...said to be originally a hobo term (but monekeer is attested in London underclass from 1851), of uncertain origin; perhaps from monk (monks and nuns take new names with their vows, and early 19c. British tramps referred to themselves as "in the monkery")."
December 18, 2021
bilby commented on the list flying-into-snow
Why thank you ruzuzu that's a lovely suggestion and acceppted.
December 17, 2021
bilby commented on the list rectal-foreign-bodies
You are overdue a banishment. How about El Salvador?
December 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word lionize
That's not the general understanding.
December 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word roll tide
I'm thinking Willy Wonka. A lake of chocolate, where - when the conditions are just right - delicious swiss rolls are washed ashore on the tide.
December 7, 2021
bilby commented on the word courtesy dive
Sports term for a player making a dive for a ball they can't get. Mainly because it looks bad to your team-mates if you just stand and watch it, even though the result is the same.
December 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word hand in
Phrasal verbs often transition to nouns.
eg. I pick up my child from school in a cargo-bike.
The school rules say that pick ups can only be done inside the front gate.
December 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word tamper
"Ms O’CONNOR – Minister, through you, and this might be a question for Mr Dietrich. This financial year there was a decline in the proportion of track rated as good on the track quality index. This is particularly pronounced in the Derwent Valley, which declined from 61.2 per cent to 45.1 per cent. This seems a fairly substantial degradation in a single year. Can you provide any details of the causes of this decline in quality of track?
Mr DIETRICH – Thank you for the question, Ms O’Connor. The figure of 75.9 to 73.5 is a slight deterioration, particularly in the Derwent Valley. That’s related to the tamper. So, the Derwent Valley is still at that level of condition. It’s scheduled to be tamped in early 2022, which will then bring those statistics back up and the overall statistics back in line with the trend that we expect."
- https://tasmaniantimes.com/2021/12/tasrail-and-threatened-plant-species/
December 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word polymutant
Polypandemic multimutant.
December 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word polymutant
Should have gone with multimutant.
December 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word thingamajig
The Javanese word for this is anu. Which also pops up in whatsisname, si anu.
December 3, 2021
bilby commented on the word BNPL
Buzz Now Pain Later.
December 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word flesh and blood
Shakespeare coined it after I showed him an animal rights activist video shot in a slaughterhouse.
December 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word Mazar-i-Sharif
An city?
November 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word nether-vert
This is definitely the kind of place vanderpink would lurk.
November 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word nether-vert
We need a Good Places for Lurking list.
November 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word Mr President
Only if the president is male.
November 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word untrusser
No wonder I have truss issues.
November 23, 2021
bilby commented on the word yatagan
You're ballbusting my spelling yet again?
November 23, 2021
bilby commented on the word sea-dace
Like a Dubliner saying 'see this'.
November 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word sack-packer
How many bad padded snack packs can Max the mad sad-sack sack-packer pack?
November 21, 2021
bilby commented on the user mareai
stop shouting please
November 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word carpark
Why would a fish need a huge boat?
November 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word trink
Ich will ein fishing-net mit ruzuzu trinken!
November 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word poll parrot
Is it dead?
November 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word jerkin
Fish or fashion or falcon.
November 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word blastopore
Does a whoopee cushion still work with one of these? Asking for a friend.
November 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word diffarreation
Worth reviving.
November 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word E.C.
Compare water closet.
November 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word VAXen
I prefer anti-vaxen to anti-vaxxers myself.
November 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word art.
imitates. life.
November 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word slubbing-jenny
I feel the TCD definition above needs to come with a translation.
November 10, 2021
bilby commented on the user fly_v
What if it's a < formation but you're looking at it from the wrong angle?
November 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word tonitruone
Probably derived from the Latin tonare, to thunder.
November 7, 2021
bilby commented on the word welly whanging
The definition above clearly says 'humorous sport' so I think it's time for our group chuckle now.
November 7, 2021
bilby commented on the list words-with-letters-in-alphabetical-order
Harder to find I presume.
November 7, 2021
bilby commented on the word wansed
See wanse.
November 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word oxyanion
Not just any old anion.
November 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word welly whanging
*throws Wellington boot at vendingmachine*
November 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word wasting palsy
Not pals then?
November 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word undressed
I sense that The Century Dictionary definition writer was not giving too many effs when they wrote this one.
November 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word camog
A player of the sport camogie.
November 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word citation cord
Citation needed.
November 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word couranto
Is this sprightly dance like that of vendingmachines during mating season?
November 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word invezzling
Meaning what?
November 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word cow pat
I think the point is that it isn't a pile, it's runny enough to flatten out into a disc. Like pancake batter, but with more flavour.
October 31, 2021
bilby commented on the word french pancake
Reminds of when we were in a pub and the English guy we were drinking with said, "Do you fancy going for a crap?"
Awkward silence as the two Australians looked sideways at each other.
"Oh well," he said, "I'll have to go by myself."
More awkwardness.
He walked out the door of the pub and returned about 15 minutes with a half-eaten French pancake.
October 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word griolet purchase
Now that you've visited this page your browser will forever attempt to display ads for griolets.
October 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word crybaby tree
Hey Mr Guinness! Y'll keep a record for world's slowest snappy comeback?
October 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word blood typing
I can explain those dark stains on the keyboard, Detective.
October 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word eudemonize
Happy demons, of course.
October 28, 2021
bilby commented on the user mariatripinn12
I'm going to Big Rock. Nothing but the best for me.
October 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word magnetoacoustics
Not to be confused with mangetoutstics
October 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word pedissequant
A sophisticated pissant. I like it.
October 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word transferrible
Is this how you'd spell transferrible?
Perchance it strikes you as terrible
But old-timey as 'tis
At least a dictionary whizz
Would on the whole not find it unberrible.
October 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word double weather bomb
Good cocktail potential. Double whisky bomb, double daquiri bomb, etc.
October 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word double weather bomb
Good spot alexz.
October 24, 2021
bilby commented on the user melsir
I have been here well over 10 years and still struggling.
October 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word the ultimate blended threat
Wot, better than putting half a ruzuzu in the vitamix with a tablespoon of maple syrup and a dash of vanilla?
October 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word stercorary
You will never get any of it. Never!
October 23, 2021
bilby commented on the word SPAC
A spastic free from sexually transmitted infection, aka STI.
October 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word furrowed whale
How do you like your whales, furrowed or smooth? Is it a bit like the peanut butter thing?
October 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word jackdog
Do you find yourself being contemptuous of dogs? Step right up.
October 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word bettabilitarian
I believe in self-improvement.
I'm a ... bettabilbitarian.
October 17, 2021
bilby commented on the user yeromi
Untuk.
October 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word cartoon physics
Useful term!
October 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word snotpalace
Reminds me of vendingmachine's place.
October 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word meritot
Wow, didn't know there was a name for this.
October 13, 2021
bilby commented on the word lace-runner
lol Alexz. But yes. With Wile E. Coyote plotting against him.
October 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word hyaline
Doesn't New York have one of these?
October 12, 2021
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
avener
October 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word froward
Synonym froppish.
October 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word remercies
You're welcome.
October 9, 2021
bilby commented on the list blouse-sKf21hW-kZsu
The two longest entries produce 404 errors.
October 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word war-cloud
Yes but it's only those woolly cumulus clouds that portend ram.
October 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word codonosigidæ
Fess up, who read this and did secrete gelatinous zoöcytia?
October 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word codonosigidæ
*covers vendingmachine's eyes*
October 7, 2021
bilby commented on the word codonosigidæ
Entirely naked animalcules!
October 7, 2021
bilby commented on the word crapaud
Etymonline says:
crap (v.)
"to defecate," 1846, from a cluster of older nouns, now dialectal or obsolete, applied to things cast off or discarded (such as "weeds growing among corn" (early 15c.), "residue from renderings" (late 15c.), underworld slang for "money" (18c.), and in Shropshire, "dregs of beer or ale"), all probably from Middle English crappe "grain that was trodden underfoot in a barn, chaff" (mid-15c.), from French crape "siftings," from Old French crappe, from Medieval Latin crappa, crapinum "chaff." Related: Crapped; crapping.
For connection of the idea of defecation with that of shedding or casting off from the body, compare shit (v.). Despite the etymological legend, the word is not from the name of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910) who was, however, a busy plumber and may have had some minor role in the development of modern toilets.
October 7, 2021
bilby commented on the word sugar-camp
Let's go camping!
October 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word chebacco-boat
Designed by a wookie, clearly.
October 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word state capital
I note the Wiktionary entry now reads: The capital city of a state (national subdivision). Also, those changes were made some years ago now. So ... Wordnik does not show 'live' Wiktionary definitions?
October 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word smoxploitation
Includes vaping fetishes or not? Discuss.
October 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word guitarfish
Rumoured to hang out with trumpetfish and bandfish.
October 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word PHOTOTELLER
Weird, I created this word on 4 October 2013. Just the other day we celebrated his 8th birthday. I thought eight candles on a giant beetroot ice-cream fuflun was a bit much but he insisted.
October 5, 2021
bilby commented on the user loganherbert
SPAM
October 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word wanderoo
I'm surprised Wandaru hasn't been filched for a car name.
October 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word Dieudonne
sionnach commented on the word dieudonne
Jean Dieudonne was a very influential French mathematician, who worked in the mid 20th century. He was one of the founding members of the collective that published under the name of Nicolas Bourbaki. The group, which was highly influential from the 1950s through the 1980s is best know for publishing a series of textbooks, collectively known as the Elements of Mathematics, The group is known for the extreme rigor with which they lay out the fundamentals of different branches of mathematics.
Dieudonne's essay "The Architecture of Mathematics" has become known as Bourbaki's manifesto.
October 4, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
esemplastic
October 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word pork-cat syndrome
So it's not the poor cats who get pork-cats? Good to know.
October 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word Cartesian devil
See bottle-imp (which tells you to see here, but at least there are some examples).
October 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word pork-cat syndrome
Do I want to know?
October 4, 2021
bilby commented on the user raymondbevilacqua
HEY YOU SHOUT JUST AS MUCH AS THAT WUTHERING PITHNINNY raybevilacqua WHAT ARE THE CHANCES.
October 4, 2021
bilby commented on the user raybevilacqua
Everyone reads at their own speed.
Note that words are case sensitive. No-one searches all caps words; while it's plausible someone might search for phototeller, no-one is searching for PHOTOTELLER.
October 3, 2021
bilby commented on the user raybevilacqua
Ray please stop it with all the capitals, we don't do that here. No need to shout.
October 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word carter
See also carterly.
October 2, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
syncretize
October 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word bamboo antshrike
Plant insectbird.
October 1, 2021
bilby commented on the user sionnach
How are you old bean?
October 1, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
erumpent
October 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word turbinid
Sikhs?
October 1, 2021
bilby commented on the user khushalgh
Bonjour.
September 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word peritrichous ciliate infusorians
See cothurnia.
September 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word kermit
"Any lover of Kermit the Frog knows he famously rode a bike in "The Muppet Movie", and in fact has piloted a bicycle quite often in his career. But when I started the #freshKermit hashtag with this quick post a few years back, I wasn't thinking of the friendly amphibian riding a velocipede, I just saw those bright green colors in some of our newest NYC bike lanes and, well people remembered."
- Streetfilms, http://www.streetfilms.org/new-freshkermit-bike-lanes-continue-to-sweep-le-twitterverse/
September 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word wigwassing
No definition on wee-guashing either.
September 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word kermit
Cyclist slang for 'green paint' cycle lanes, particularly those that have no barriers or other protection.
September 29, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
benison
September 29, 2021
bilby commented on the list manner-or-way
style
September 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word duodenotomy
I thought this was the chapter of the bible that has all the weird stuff in it like smiting people who eat pigs
September 28, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
rimrose
September 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word onirocritic
Yes, yes, everyone's a critic.
September 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word griefed
These days seems to be gamerspeak for killed.
September 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word scrupulize
To perplex with scruples. Not enough of this happens these days.
September 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word clapperless
Jeb Bush :-/
September 25, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
salubrious
September 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word aprium
Studious avoidance of apricum.
September 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word Aukus
My alternative suggestion of Usukas was however rejected.
September 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word Aukus
Hey should be Auukus because the others get two letters each so why not Australia?
September 24, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
antithesis
September 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word reëxamining
Taking the mickey here.
September 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word sunprint
An early term for photograph.
September 23, 2021
bilby commented on the word apple
Etymonline.com notes:
In Middle English and as late as 17c., it was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts (such as Old English fingeræppla "dates," literally "finger-apples;" Middle English appel of paradis "banana," c. 1400). Hence its grafting onto the unnamed "fruit of the forbidden tree" in Genesis. Cucumbers, in one Old English work, are eorþæppla, literally "earth-apples" (compare French pomme de terre "potato," literally "earth-apple;" see also melon).
September 23, 2021
bilby commented on the user pesulap
Bego bener.
September 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word blow-out
One of the blow-out grasses, Muhlenbergia pungens.
September 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word grama china
Grampa's indisposed.
September 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word grama china
See grama.
September 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word warlessness
Might be a useful nuanced alternative to peace.
September 20, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
inveigle
September 20, 2021
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
dearworth
September 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word swine-penny
I've heard a few theories about generating wealth but this approach is new to me.
September 20, 2021
bilby commented on the user dayashankar
See pikey.
September 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word antiuninoctisomnocyclist
A person who campaigns against the practice of sleepriding a unicycle at night.
September 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word Connecticutlet
A person from Connecticut.
September 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word teaze-tenon
10
September 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word teaze-tenon
--
September 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word teaze-tenon
10
September 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word teaze-tenon
--
September 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word cutlassfish
Swordfish v cutlassfish, who wins?
September 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word unsoncie
See unsonsy.
September 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word nonbanana
Yes we have nonbananas.
September 17, 2021
bilby commented on the user engelina1993
You're welcome.
September 14, 2021
bilby commented on the user edtechreader
WTF is a jiffy read?
September 13, 2021
bilby commented on the word forelay
Foreplay comes before forelay?
September 13, 2021
bilby commented on the user ziyyara_learning
Are they like flavours of ice cream?
September 13, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
sedulous
September 13, 2021
bilby commented on the word pandemic
This was the first word I listed on this site. 2007.
September 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word gestation
Fact check: we are indeed awesome.
September 12, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
heuristic
September 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word toad-eater
TheFreeDictionary says:
C17: originally a mountebank's assistant who would pretend to eat toads (believed to be poisonous), hence a servile flatterer, toady.
September 10, 2021
bilby commented on the list fireships-and-fizgigs
pitcher-bawd
September 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word quasiorder
So, not kwashiorkor.
September 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word assuages
Sausages made of WHAT?!
September 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word zoopsia
Who put the oops in ...
September 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word Fur
The Sahara's too hot for fur, but not Fur.
September 9, 2021
bilby commented on the user bloglifenews
Get a life.
September 9, 2021
bilby commented on the list jail-terms
sharaga?
September 9, 2021
bilby commented on the list specific-excrement
fimashing
September 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word wordnik blog
Wait till you find out about the dungeon.
September 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word FBS
Lol four good acronyms there slugging it out.
September 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word wantonhood
An area with lots of Asian restaurants?
September 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word zeroth
I'm writing a novel. Zeroth draft complete.
September 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word deoperculate
To turn off a coffee machine?
September 7, 2021
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
carpet-dance
September 6, 2021
bilby commented on the list hold-my-place
How about hyperite?
September 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word pretorture
Before what exactly?
September 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word sphenic
Sometimes I eat sphenic potatoes.
September 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word biggin
My ears project enough as it is, thanks anyway.
September 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word genus ascaris
The three-lipped mouth thing would be cool at parties.
September 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word murrelet
I read that as 'predominantly white underpants' and, well, ...
September 3, 2021
bilby commented on the word paw-waw
You say pow-wow, I say paw-waw.
September 3, 2021
bilby commented on the word copopod
Another goodie is prototroch. So curvy!
September 3, 2021
bilby commented on the word portcrayon
I suspect ruzuzu collects these.
September 3, 2021
bilby commented on the user timewebhosting
You're welc
September 3, 2021
bilby commented on the user jeowsome
Welcome to Wordnik, have a look around and make yourself comfortable.
September 3, 2021
bilby commented on the word ravel
Yes.
September 3, 2021
bilby commented on the word frankpledge
Also frithborh.
September 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word crapy
Plenty of examples and tweets of crapy spelling :-/
September 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word wolfish
Not a fish.
September 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word badelaire
S-shaped quillions were squillions, right?
September 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word ravel
Ravel means unravel, for all you irregardless fans.
September 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word coronavirus
Sorry. As I have not been vaccinated against sarcasm, an overflux of same meant I did not point out that the Examples are automatically generated.
September 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word coronavirus
What's COVID-19?
September 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word philocubist
Wonder why this is inverted from the usual item + phile formation.
September 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word dinoceras
A genus of dinosaurs that went extinct due to lousy spelling.
August 31, 2021
bilby commented on the word lad'p
That's some contraction!
August 31, 2021
bilby commented on the word buttonholer
Anyone else read this as buttholer? No? Crap.
August 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word counterpoison
Poison available for sale over the counter? Like horse ivermectin :-/
August 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word jerkass
Eggcorn for jackass or a deliberate upgrading thereof?
August 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word nonrodent
The two tribes of vertebrates, rodent and ...
August 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word wishing-cap
You'd think these would be pretty good sellers.
August 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word quagmire
Archaic forms: quavemire, quamyre, quabmire, quadmire, qualmire.
August 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word busk
Buskers should be made to wear pirate costumes.
August 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word copopod
This is one of the roundest words I've ever come across. It's like a string of Xmas balls.
August 29, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
prepossessing
August 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word racing green
Before Brexit?
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word spod
Ah, very good ry, thank you.
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word blubber-lip
Century Dictionary :-/
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the list may-or-may-not-be-specific-but-it-s-definitely-not-excrement
excruciament
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word passing-bell
Another doozy on life.
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word epacrises
When shrubs freak out.
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word pickerel
Fish or bird or plant. Now that's multiskilling.
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
tillet
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word spod
'one who uses talkers'...?
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word wherry
I've never seen any of these, but I'm unconcerned. No wherries mate.
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word wherret
Well, personally speaking, a jack in the box.
August 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word zeranol
Agonists of the world, unite!
August 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word foreken
Who knows, to perceive the future might be a curse rather than a blessing. Foreken hell.
August 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word forte
Asking for a friend. It's ruzuzu, but I'm not allowed to mention.
August 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word forte
Would adding an -e to fart make it more French?
August 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word 404
There are 404s on a whole bunch of capitalised surnames. I've come across heaps recently. From memory, Cartier and Boulanger were among them.
August 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word achesoun
See enchesoun.
August 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word passing bell
Reverse dictionary on this not nearly as wild a ride. Go to passing-bell for the Wonka tunnel experience.
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word passing-bell
For this reason alone I am going to have to love this word. You crazy little fecker.
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word passing-bell
Scroll down the reverse dictionary entries on this page and tell me it's not a demi-Hemingway-Joyce unicorn on a rocket-sled through a badly-plumbed time tunnel.
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word foster-earth
Ah. Was hoping it might be another planet we can go to if, umm, we ...
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word long drop and water
"Built by Joseph Moir in 1870, the tower produced small-diameter shot balls using the 'long drop and water' method. Lead ingots laced with arsenic and antimony were hauled to the top of the tower, where they were melted. The liquid was then poured down the centre of the tower through a colander, which separated it into drops. Once in free-fall, these drops formed naturally into spheres. They instantly solidified upon hitting a pool of water at the bottom of the tower."
- Callum J Jones, 'The Taroona Shot Tower', 25 August 2021, Tasmanian Times. https://www.tasmaniantimes.com/2021/08/tas-that-was-the-taroona-shot-tower/
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
loaf-sugar
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word whimsy
I didn't realise this could be a verb.
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word colliquation
But if you like 'putrefied flesh growing moister', have at it.
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word colliquation
Yeah, and anti-vax morons are uppity about new medicine. I reckon we have it pretty good.
August 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word dabchick
Also dompynge.
August 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word herb robert
A geranium,a.k.a. St Robert's Herb.
August 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word uniporter
And here was me thinking it was the lone bell-boy working the nightshift at that 2-star hotel.
August 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word bean-brush
Didn't even know they shaved.
August 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word oxalis tuberosa
See oca.
August 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word cyston
'modified for excretory purposes'...
August 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word rain trees
A deluge of rain trees?
August 24, 2021
bilby commented on the user vendingmachine
So sorry to hear about your mother. *big hugs*
August 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word batter-dock
I can't believe it's not pond weed.
August 23, 2021
bilby commented on the word Tang Dynasty
Impressive achievement for a drink powder.
August 23, 2021
bilby commented on the word feeder-bar
*reloads machine*
August 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word fck
And yet...
Stats: ‘fck’ is no one's favorite word yet, has 1 comment, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
August 21, 2021
bilby commented on the word greasy luck
Supposedly the equivalent of bon voyage! among whalers.
August 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word ill-laid
*blush*
August 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word ferninst
Irish origin?
August 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word crunch
Also cranch, craunch.
August 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word mingil
Early form of mingle.
August 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word feeder-bar
Hey ruzuzu, try pressing this for a food pellet.
August 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word riffly
Feels like a Lewis Carroll madeupical.
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word recuperator
Some of us are still waiting for answers from the Ponsard furnace.
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word ganch
TMI :-(
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the list jack--1
rail-jack
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word stewed quaker
Does anyone have a 'Take That, Mormons!' list?
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word B-NICE
Not what your grandmother taught you.
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word vodka luge
Clearly I have missed out on a few things in my life.
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word supernatural weapons of war
See ronko.
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word ARR
Things Pirates Might Like to Say.
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word niello
As in niello diamante?
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word Chrimble
I have never heard this. Want to.
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word wortwale
Better word than hangnail IMO.
August 19, 2021
bilby commented on the user newhotsite
No.
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word crevasse cycle
Need new tyres for my ____
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word stinking marten
See foulmart.
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word pessimum
Potentially quite a useful word.
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word banana
"Also called false banana."
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word deque
The boy stood on the burning deque...
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word and so
And so?
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word puddingtending
As in National Academy of Puddingtending.
https://twitter.com/ddoniolvalcroze/status/1427720714832863233?s=20
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word anti-stalking
To study a person's routine for the purpose of being better able to avoid them.
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word iota
Compare IOTA.
August 18, 2021
bilby commented on the word pyow
Pyow! Pyow!
August 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word pyow
No, this is clearly a mock gunfire noise made by the putty-nosed monkey, and others, during play shootouts.
August 17, 2021
bilby commented on the word discretionary cereal-based mixed meal
"We found more than 80% of all the menu items were discretionary or 'junk' foods. A large number of menu items (42%) were categorised as 'discretionary cereal-based mixed meals', which includes foods such as pizzas, burgers, kebabs and pidés."
- https://www.tasmaniantimes.com/2021/08/online-food-delivery-could-be-harming-our-health/
August 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word wekeen
Imitative? I'd be curious to know what sound the bird makes.
August 14, 2021
bilby commented on the list cattle
bucentaur?
August 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word drumbledairy
An early English variant of dromedary
August 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word Taliban
Trending :-(
August 13, 2021
bilby commented on the word pastourelle
So here we all were writing our poems about the romance of a shepherdess and not knowing what they were called.
August 13, 2021
bilby commented on the word wofare
Warfare causes wofare...or is it the other way around?
August 13, 2021
bilby commented on the list im-sure-theres-some-other-explanation
What's your explanation for flatus?
August 13, 2021
bilby commented on the user gancal3
aroint thee, pantywaist!
August 13, 2021
bilby commented on the word steening
Also steining.
August 13, 2021
bilby commented on the word semolina
Also semolella.
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word overpursue
How far is too far? Restraining order?
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
thraneen
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word spile-hole
It has a name!
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word splicing-fid
-fid 'split into parts' as in trifid.
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word thurse-hole
Do we have a list of potential minced oaths?
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word goldfinch
Given that gold is so heavy, how do they manage to fly?
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word lock hospital
Claphouse.
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the user bilby
Hey why so many comments, you leather-tipped sandrabbit?
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word vax to the max
"Given the way the lockdowns are going, vax to the max is clearly key to recovery so there needs to be an Australia-wide approach rather than relying on individual businesses, or the states, to decide how to handle the unvaccinated." - Nikki Savva, 'Prime Minister Scott Morrison a cranky man in need of a plan', Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2021.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/prime-minister-scott-morrison-a-cranky-man-in-need-of-a-plan-20210811-p58hpr.html
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the list quaintnesses
ladykin
August 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word spiggoty
Possibly an early version of spic.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word jessamy
Also jemmy jessamy.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word chiliomb
Compare chiliad.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word macaw
Bird appears to be named after the tree that produces the fruits it likes to eat.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word bosh
Now, now, cool your ingots.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word butter-carrier
Whoah Johnny, what the heck is print-butter?
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word inspissant
Who put the pissant in ...
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word antonymously
Looks ominously like anonymously.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word doubly magic
Physics more interesting than I thought.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word sand stargazer
Wow, cool name!
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word sodammonium
Presumably Americans who have trouble with aluminium pronounce this as sodamom.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word allopolyploid
The lop-pol-plo combinations in this word feel like a game of rock-paper-scissors.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word Hurly Long
A German golfer who competed at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the user austinlambris
Piss off mate, get a life.
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word superwives
One is not enough?
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
titch, menise
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word roller docker
Do we not have a pizza word list?
August 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word ordeal bean
Someone's having a bad day.
August 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word ditroite
Ditroite makes you think of Motown, but it should be rock.
August 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word land-beaver
Surely the verb is 'to beave'.
August 10, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
evanesce
August 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word leasy
Would be nice to have some examples that are not typos of least.
August 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word walking-straw
A stick insect, and hence the Australian epithet.
August 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word breenge
Sense is like to barge in or do something loudly in anger.
August 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word mawn
Wait, so this is like at the other end of the day from yawn? A wake up yawn not an I'm-ready-to-sleep yawn?
August 10, 2021
bilby commented on the word embracery
Compare brazier.
August 9, 2021
bilby commented on the user flourmilling
How long does it take for SPAMMERS to be deleted?
August 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word bragly
Makes me think of Donald Trump.
August 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word gavial
Also nakoo.
August 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word marginocephalia
Tbh boneheaded dinosaur could describe more than just pachycephalosaurs.
August 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word bear
Note on etymonline:
"Stock market meaning 'speculator for a fall' is 1709 shortening of bearskin jobber (from the proverb sell the bearskin before one has caught the bear); i.e. 'one who sells stock for future delivery, expecting that meanwhile prices will fall'."
August 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word woodchuck
Also land-beaver.
August 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word jacquerie
The peasants are revolting.
August 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word scaury
Dialect word from Orkney and Shetland islands, Scotland.
August 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word paraconsistent
Yes, I like the 'chute to open when it is supposed to.
August 7, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
extant
August 7, 2021
bilby commented on the word soft cancer
Possibly as in soft tissue cancer/sarcoma.
August 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word roar
See also rore.
August 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word rondelle
I need to start deploying this for 'something round', will be quite useful.
August 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word bundle
'To sleep in the same bed while fully clothed, a custom formerly practiced by engaged couples in New England and in Wales' is a definition with quite a lot going on.
August 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word shaw
Fair enough that he decided not to go with George Bernard Turnip Leaves.
August 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word origen
Would you prefer fries or salad with your unicorn?
August 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word origen
From etymonline:
"late 14c., orix, also in Middle English origen, from Latin oryx, from Greek oryx (genitive orygos), an old name of some sort of Libyan and Egyptian antelope with pointed horns, perhaps originally the gazelle; 'the digging animal', literally 'pick-axe', but according to Beekes this is probably a folk-etymologizing of a borrowed word Used in Greek and Latin bibles to render Hebrew tho, which early English Bibles misidentified as everything from a small hibernating animal or dormouse to a kind of bird like a guinea hen to a wild bull. Now applied to a specific genus of large antelopes of North Africa and Arabia.
Thou shalt eate no abhominacion. These are the beestes which ye shal eate: Oxen, shepe, Goates, Hert, Roo, Bugle, wylde goate, Unicorne, Origen, and Camelion. Coverdale translation of the Bible, Deuteronomy xiv.5, 1535"
August 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word oryx
See also origen.
August 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word origen
A Middle English form of the word oryx.
August 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word carbetimer
Train smash word.
August 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word gaol
Just found this snide aside on the etymonline.com entry for jail:
"Persistence of gaol (preferred in Britain) is 'chiefly due to statutory and official tradition' OED, and, probably, the fact that it is known the Americans spell it the other way."
August 5, 2021
bilby commented on the list life-photo-planner-B73HQ3UsgPaN
SPAM
August 5, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
basal
August 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word onamonapia
*sound of headdesk*
August 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word plungeon
Oooh!
August 2, 2021
bilby commented on the user stuartmathergibson
As ry noted, the search results on this site are case-sensitive. Try searching for words without using initial caps. e.g. sanative not Sanative.
August 2, 2021
bilby commented on the list words-that-i-use-far-too-often
Long time no SOG!
August 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word hangit
Notably as in 'half-hangit Maggie': https://random-times.com/2020/01/18/half-hangit-maggie-dickson-the-woman-who-survived-the-hangmans-noose/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHalf-Hangit%E2%80%9D%20Maggie%20Dickson%3A%20the%20woman%20who%20survived%20the,thought%20they%20would%20see%20her%20alive%20again%20afterward.
July 31, 2021
bilby commented on the word victrix
At last, a female role model to rhyme with Weet-Bix.
July 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word crusoile
"Rogero: Shall any broken quacksalver’s bastard oppose him to me in my nuptials? No; but I’ll show him better metal than e’er the gallemawfrey his father used. Thou scum of his melting-pots, that wert christen’d in a crusoile with Mercury’s water to show thou wouldest prove a stinging aspis! for all thou spitt’st is aqua fortis, and thy breath is a compound of poison’s stillatory: if I get within thee, hadst thou the scaly hide of a crocodile, as thou art partly of his nature, I would leave thee as bare as an anatomy at the second viewing."
- John Marston, 'The Insatiate Countess', 1613. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46312/46312-h/46312-h.htm
July 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word crocodile
Re etymology, etymonline.com notes: "Beekes writes that 'Frisk's etymology as a compound from krokē 'gravel' and drilos 'worm' (with dissimilation) should be forgotten'."
July 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word vegetize
I did not realise there was a verb for this.
July 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word dew
For etymological connection see sundog and fogdog.
July 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word braam
The sound the bilbymobile makes when it runs over vanderpink.
July 30, 2021
bilby commented on the word sundog
Compare fogdog.
July 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word fogdog
Meanwhile this note on Wikipedia on the etymology of sundog is worth consideration:
"In Abram Palmer's 1882 book Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, by False Derivation Or Mistaken Analogy, sun-dogs are defined:
The phenomena of false suns which sometimes attend or dog the true when seen through the mist (parhelions). In Norfolk a sun-dog is a light spot near the sun, and water-dogs are the light watery clouds; dog here is no doubt the same word as dag, dew or mist as 'a little dag of rain' (Philolog. Soc. Trans. 1855, p. 80). Cf. Icel. dogg, Dan. and Swed. dug = Eng. 'dew'."
July 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word fogdog
Rubbish etymology methinks. Far more likely by imitation of sundog.
Note that Oxford dictionary lists second meaning of fogdog as 'The part of a rainbow which meets the horizon'.
And sundog via the CID is 'A fragmentary rainbow; a small rainbow near the horizon; -- called also dog and weathergaw'.
July 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word fogdog
July 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word buck-fly
Mostly they turn up for free so good luck with that buddy.
July 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word Perseid
Sounds like Perseid-Leonid-Bielid is the meteor version of rock-paper-scissors.
July 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word the twisties
"When Simone Biles pushed off the vaulting table Tuesday, she entered that terrifying world of uncertainty. In the Olympic team final, Biles planned to perform a 2½-twisting vault, but her mind chose to stall after just 1½ twists.
“I had no idea where I was in the air,” Biles said. “I could have hurt myself.”
Biles, who subsequently withdrew from the team competition and then the all-around final a day later, described what went wrong during that vault as “having a little bit of the twisties.”
The cute-sounding term, well-known in the gymnastics community, describes a frightening predicament. When gymnasts have the twisties, they lose control of their bodies as they spin through the air. Sometimes they twist when they hadn’t planned to. Other times they stop midway through as Biles did. And after experiencing the twisties once, it’s very difficult to forget. Instinct gets replaced by thought. Thought quickly leads to worry. Worry is difficult to escape."
- Emily Giambalvo, 'Simone Biles said she got the ‘twisties.’ Gymnasts immediately understood.' Washington Post, 28 July6 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/07/28/twisties-gymnastics-simone-biles-tokyo-olympics/
July 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word fletcherise
Fine. Will consider it once USA has changed its spelling of meter to metre to reflect French origin.
July 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word quarrel
Quite endearing attempt by TCD to define synonyms.
July 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word my my
my or my my or my my my?
July 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word woodruff
Also mugget.
July 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word buffin
Any chance of a buflun?
July 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word freemason
Rhyme with capsaicin is perhaps my favourite here.
July 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word nidget
Possibly also nidgit.
July 27, 2021
bilby commented on the word šs
See sash.
July 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word pantostomata
Glad I'm not a biologist because I would totally write this as pantstomato every time.
July 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word ne wost
See nost.
July 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word Gumby suit
"Also known as an immersion or survival suit, a Gumby suit is made out of neoprene, a flexible, fire-retardant, synthetic rubber material which is also used to make wetsuits and laptop sleeves. Waterproof and insolated to protect the wearer from hypothermia during cold water immersion, the suits are meant to be worn by crew members when abandoning a ship.
The cumbersome suits are usually one-size-fits-all and outfitted with built-in boots that resemble adult footies, a hood and large gloves. Because neoprene material consists of closed-cell foam that contains tiny air bubbles, the suit can also act as a personal flotation device.
As you may have already guessed, the suits are named after the green, angular 1960s clay animation character "Gumby." However, unlike Gumby, the survival suits usually come in bright orange, red or yellow colors, making them easier for search crews to spot in the water. Additionally, the suit's arms, legs and head have strips of reflective tape sewn on, making the wearer more visible at night."
- What's a Gumby Suit?, https://news.yahoo.com/news/gumby-suit.html
July 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word nepus gable
There's a good photo there too.
July 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word nepus gable
"A nepus gable is a wallhead gable on the front of a building surmounted by a chimney and containing a window opening to allow light in to an attic space."
- source unknown, retrieved from here: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1696613
July 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word astronaut
Hey Jeff, for a 1% stake in your company I'll make some really good alternative suggestions. You'll love them! Guaranteed next day delivery my man.
July 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word astronaut
"The Federal Aviation Administration has set new rules related to commercial space astronaut wing program and the criteria used to reward those commanding, piloting, or working on privately funded spacecraft with the Commercial Space Astronaut Wing Badge.
The order was issued on July 20, the same day billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin rocket crew made history by blasting off the West Texas desert, reaching space, and returning to Earth.
NASA, the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration and some astrophysicists consider the boundary between the atmosphere and space to start at 50 miles above. Bezos actually met the requirement by going 62 miles above sea level.
To earn wings, the FAA now states that passengers must “perform in flight activities that were necessary for public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.” Judging by Blue Origin’s automation, Bezos doesn’t meet this criterion."
-Sorry, Jeff Bezos. You’re still not an astronaut, according to the FAA, https://granthshala.com/sorry-jeff-bezos-youre-still-not-an-astronaut-according-to-the-faa/
July 26, 2021
bilby commented on the word QUA
QFY - Are we having fun yet?!
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word QUA
QJB - The next time someone fires Jeff Bezos into space, leave the sod there.
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word QUA
QWF - Who farted?
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word QUA
QRZ - I just sat on ruzuzu, mayday!
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word QUA
QHS - I'm making hommous tonight, would you like some?
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word QUA
If anything I'd probably be too tempted to make up fake ones and insert them into the mix.
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word QUA
Wow. So many of them.
Maybe listworthy but I CBA.
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word enfinity
I think you're mesenformed.
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the word QUA
Any idea what Wiktionary is on about?
July 25, 2021
bilby commented on the list set-phasers-to
Confess that hollandaise made me laugh as much as any of the other fabulous contributions here.
July 24, 2021
bilby commented on the user vanishedone
Still vanished! True to type :-(
July 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word intercontinental Bezos missile
This funny.
July 24, 2021
bilby commented on the list lets-get-gastrophysical-9SPHwxY9f0Tq
Though you were enrolled in palealeontology?
July 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word fire breathing dragon clouds
Totally setting phasers to this ...
July 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word augitoporphyric
How are your phenocrysts today?
July 21, 2021
bilby commented on the word corolla
You'd have to assume that a definition the waxes about the gayness of its colours wasn't written recently.
July 21, 2021
bilby commented on the user lupita88
Welcome, have a look around.
July 21, 2021
bilby commented on the word clotshot
notclotshotrot
July 21, 2021
bilby commented on the word grivet
Also waag.
July 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word fitchew
Gesundheit!
July 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word hobble
"Well as a development, this proposal has been incredibly destructive. Not only has it, you know, created division within the community, it’s created a drain on time, energy and money resources. But yes, it’s been an absolute hobble on any creative ideas and investment in other solutions to visitation on the mountain."
- Vica Bayley, 'Cable Car Interview – Vica Bayley & Nala Mansell', https://www.tasmaniantimes.com/2021/07/cable-car-interview-vica-bayley-nala-mansell/
July 20, 2021
bilby commented on the word waulk
This is a muppet Swedish chef kind of word. Ok, Scottish chef.
July 20, 2021
bilby commented on the list eels
Does it not look like Tobias?
July 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word tilt at windmills
Did they sack the quarterback? To be sure, he was overthrown in very bad plight upon the plain.
July 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word tilt at windmills
The passage in Don Quixote from which this originates is quite delightful:
"So saying, and heartily recommending himself to his lady Dulcinea, whom he implored to succour him in this emergency, bracing on his target, and setting his lance in the rest, he put his Rozinante to full speed, and assaulting the nearest windmill, thrust it into one of the sails, which was drove about by the wind with so much fury, that the lance was shivered to pieces, and both knight and steed whirled aloft, and overthrown in very bad plight upon the plain." (Smollett Translation, 1755)
July 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word barcan
See also barchan.
July 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word berkad
Presumably a Somali term.
July 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word berkad
"We help communities build large underground water storage tanks called berkads. These berkads collect, channel, and filter torrents of rainwater, capturing it for use between rains. The result of just one day of rain: enough clean, fresh drinking water for an entire community for months. In fact, one berkad can hold up to 80,000 gallons of water..."
- World Concern, 'How One Day of Rain Can Change Everything', https://humanitarian.worldconcern.org/tag/somalia/
July 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word bilby
I have just been adopted. Not sure what this means. Ice cream for dessert? No more workhouse gruel for me!
July 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word weebill
But they do warble.
July 19, 2021
bilby commented on the word 404
BTW we've had the steampunk rhinos for a while, must be time for a change.
July 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word bug
Weird that Stuyvesant produces a 404.
July 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word slothound
Can sniff out poker machines?
July 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word cronge
Was it a gameing bonge?
July 15, 2021
bilby commented on the word gerygone
Wikipedia says: "Their songs are described as 'simple but delightful', many descending in pitch, and some species are excellent mimics. Gerygone means 'born of sound' (Magrath 2003)."
July 15, 2021
bilby commented on the word weebill
So if you see two, and one is slightly bigger, the smaller one is therefore ...
July 15, 2021
bilby commented on the word pic fac
"Shadow Minister for Government Services and the NDIS Bill Shorten and Tasmanian Senator Anne Urquhart will hold a doorstop and pic fac this Thursday at the Autism Specific Early Learning and Care Centre in Burnie, Tasmania, to speak about the future of the NDIS." - in email from the senator's media advisor, 14 July 2021
July 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word LGBTQQIIAAPSS+
Still no-one's gone near the SS on the end. Nazis?
July 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word pic fac
Media jargon for a 'photo opportunity', ie. a 'picture facility' for media at a community event or staged presentation with a politician.
July 14, 2021
bilby commented on the list la-bas-8kJjgQGj4c2h
See veneniferous.
July 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word mockdown
See tweets for some usage examples, mainly Australian references to the mockdown in New South Wales.
July 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word mockdown
A politically-convenient 'lockdown' that sounds tough but that doesn't have many restrictions, particularly the kind of mobility restrictions that are somewhat unpopular but also quite often effective against the spread of COVID-`19.
July 14, 2021
bilby commented on the word feisty
Best read in conjunction with base etymology above.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word feisty
More gold from etymonline.com:
"The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Compare also Danish fise "to blow, to fart," and obsolete English aske-fise, "fire-tender," literally "ash-blower" (early 15c.), from an unrecorded Norse source, used in Middle English for a kind of bellows, but originally "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" OED."
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word Gladys Bin Chicken
A nickname for Gladys Berejiklian, in 2021 Premier of the state of New South Wales, Australia.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word bin chicken
Ha, maybe. The current Premier (leader) of the state of New South Wales is Gladys Berejiklian, affectionately known as Gladys Bin Chicken.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word light pollution
No. I blame cartoonists.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word masher
"Mashers (detestable word) and flirts, coquettes and dandies, pass and repass doing the block, in the most self-satisfied and complacent manner, and exhibiting every variety of walk, swagger, strut, and waddle."
- Jessie Lloyd, 'Four O'Clock Promenaders' (1884), https://www.tasmaniantimes.com/2021/07/jessie-lloyd-biography/
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the list strine
Blessed are the list fixers.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the list strine
Anyway many thanks to the list fixers.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word Hootchie cord
See hootchie.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the list strine
Now I've forgotten what I wanted to add :-/
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the list strine
Well helllooooo you.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word zoppity
Urban Dictionary says:
Used as a "black man phrase" in "The Office"
The phrase can be taken as "I'm here for the goods," or "show me the love."
When Michael and Darryl went to ask for a raise from their boss:
Darryl: Alright, bring it home Mike. And don't forget the new black man phrase I taught you."
Michael: "pippitty poppitty gimme the zoppitty."
Darryl: Yes, sir! Ill be right outside if you need me.
July 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word bugs
Weird.
Is my list in witness protection? What has it done? Who has it spilled the beans on? The plot thickens.
July 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word bugs
*doffs trilby*
July 9, 2021
bilby commented on the word doucet
At last, an item for my Dessert or Musical Instrument or Testicle list.
July 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word bugs
My list 'Strine', which should be at https://www.wordnik.com/lists/strine, is now a 404. What happened?
July 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word clog
From etymonline.com
"clog (n.)
early 14c., clogge "a lump of wood," origin unknown. Also used in Middle English of large pieces of jewelry and large testicles. Compare Norwegian klugu "knotty log of wood." Meaning "anything that impedes action" is from 1520s, via the notion of "block or mass constituting an encumbrance."
The sense of "wooden-soled shoe" is first recorded late 14c.; they were used as overshoes until the introduction of rubbers c. 1840. Originally all of wood (hence the name), later wooden soles with leather uppers for the front of the foot only. Later revived in fashion (c. 1970), primarily for women. Clog-dancing "dancing performed in clogs" is attested from 1863."
July 8, 2021
bilby commented on the list a-testicle-by-any-other-name
clog.
July 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word atheroma
It's an English thing. Stale bread used to thicken a white sauce. Often served at Xmas with murdered animals.
July 8, 2021
bilby commented on the word cripping
See crip.
July 6, 2021
bilby commented on the word posse comitatus
Compare possum comitatus.
July 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word felon
Gotta defer to that wondrous trove of etymonline.com for this:
"Another theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical Latin (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "cock-sucker." OED inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others."
July 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word sarissa
Would be useful for picking mangoes.
July 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word prebunk
"As they start their careers, doctors swear to uphold the Hippocratic Oath. If people tackling misinformation were to establish an equivalent oath, we should make sure to borrow one of the original’s phrases: “Prevention is preferable to cure.”
As with medicine, so with misinformation: It is better to prevent misinformation from spreading at all than to try to debunk it once it’s spread.
Here’s why. Debunks don’t reach as many people as misinformation, and they don’t spread nearly as quickly. If they do reach us, they generally struggle to erase the misinformation from our debates or our brains. Even when we’ve been told that the misinformation is false, research suggests it continues to influence our thinking.
So it helps to take a page from medicine: Prevention, not cure, may be a more effective way to combat misinformation.
Understanding how prebunks work (and how they don’t) is essential for reporters, fact checkers, policy makers and platforms."
- https://firstdraftnews.org/articles/a-guide-to-prebunking-a-promising-way-to-inoculate-against-misinformation/?mc_cid=b24adba8d3&mc_eid=e0d10697a7
July 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word limerick
Kind of ironic that qms never posted one of his gems on this word.
July 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word limerick
Thank you for the adoption, Wordnik!
July 4, 2021
bilby commented on the list the-universal-calculator
Wait till the Swiss Army hears about this.
July 3, 2021
bilby commented on the word LGBTQQIIAAPSS+
Alphabet soup is right.
July 3, 2021
bilby commented on the word ice crepes
And maple syrup too, surely.
July 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word ice crepes
Served with ice cream no doubt.
July 2, 2021
bilby commented on the word Sunova Beach
A locale on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada.
July 1, 2021
bilby commented on the word flavocastaneous
About the colour of a labrador roasted at 180C for an hour I reckon.
June 29, 2021
bilby commented on the word jolkinin
C'mon dude, I was just ____
June 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word human hamster ball
I heard you can use them to stuff pelican flowers.
June 28, 2021
bilby commented on the word vaccination allocation horizon
After running into some political headwinds about not meeting vaccination targets, the Australian Government has now invented the term vaccination allocation horizon to provide numbers on vaccine rollout.
https://www.tasmaniantimes.com/2021/06/covid-vaccination-allocations-horizons/
June 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word pelican flowers
What if it smells like hastily-swallowed fish and wet waterbird feathers?
June 24, 2021
bilby commented on the word chuck-a-luck
Heard this recently in an episode of 'Foyle's War', which is set in 1940's wartime Britain. Had never heard it previously.
June 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word git
You little bastard.
June 16, 2021
bilby commented on the word treacle
'concerning venomous beasts', oh my!
June 15, 2021
bilby commented on the list jumbo-shrimp
waste diamond. See bort.
June 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word bort
waste diamond is quite a phrase.
June 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word bort
Etymonline says: "waste diamonds, small chips from diamond-cutting," 1620s, of unknown origin, perhaps related to Old French bort "bastard."
June 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word Dingdong Dantes
A Filipino actor and 'celebrity'.
June 12, 2021
bilby commented on the word duddle
See etymology on diddle.
June 12, 2021
bilby commented on the list forum-trollspeak
Yeah, feels like it should come with a free shower afterwards!
June 11, 2021
bilby commented on the list forum-trollspeak
Wow, super job alexz.
June 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word boon
Thank you Erin!
I am a repeat offender of many things here.
Well it was nice knowing you all.
June 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word boon
Question for Wordnik: Why does the below appear in the examples seven times? Surely there are plenty of others. In any case, one would think there is no point in any 'example' being shown more than once.
"Another boon is for the President of the United States to echo and reinforce Islamofascist propaganda themes, as Mr. Obama did in his first interview with an Arab language television network."
June 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word e-sports
I reckon the game v sport thing is going to rage for a while yet.
June 10, 2021
bilby commented on the list cattle
I don't know how cattle specific it is but hoofing-place.
June 9, 2021
bilby commented on the list instructions-RApHGfcqPa7w
Please mind the gap.
June 9, 2021
bilby commented on the list instructions-RApHGfcqPa7w
Do no feed the bilbies.
June 7, 2021
bilby commented on the word cliché
My observation is that Americans tend to use this as an adjective whereas in Australian English it is always used as a noun.
June 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word playing 4D chess
Was hilarious that some deluded people were saying this about Sidney Powell vis-a-vis the Trump bid to overturn the 2020 US Presidential election result.
June 5, 2021
bilby commented on the word have a Bex and a good lie-down
An Australian saying with meaning something like 'you need to calm down'. Derived from an advertising campaign for the analgesic Bex, no longer manufactured. Or at least not with original formula, which was found to cause certain medical issues.
June 4, 2021
bilby commented on the word assault rifle
You'd be hard pressed to convict a dictionary compiler from any major publication of 'pushing a political agenda' but I'm sure you feel better for having had a rant.
Perhaps also consider a Bex and a good lie-down.
June 4, 2021
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