I'm trying to understand the connection between the definition of mince in phrases like minced oath and mince your words and its etymology "minūtiāre"-- to make smaller. Because every time I hear "I'm not one to mince my words", the first thing I picture is someone with a bunch of words on a chopping board and a cleaver.
Is the idea that a minced oath, in general, was not only euphemized, but also contracted, i.e. made smaller?
You might want to put your definition in the comment section of the word veteranarian rather than here on the comment section of your list. Less confusing that way, especially if you intend to add more words to your list.
It's got connections with Sputnik and Beatnik. (But I think more with the latter than the former, hence the hippy-heart in w♥rdnik.) It's striving to be the "first" in a Sputnik way, but also it wants to be counter-cultural in a Beatnik way: to revolutionize the way dictionaries work. (See Erin Mckean's video on TED)
Even if I've checked 6 or 7 times that the right movie is in the right case, if I don't check the second before I drop it down the slot, I am quite convinced it either had no movie in it or it was the wrong movie.
Do I get a full 4+ points to my credit score by clicking on your link? What a boon you are to us! Thank you so much! Wow, you chose the right place to advertise! Merry Christmas!
I heard that this might be the name for a type of elephant, turtle, or dog. I think also someone said it was the name of blue flower? Pretty impressive word, though.
What an interesting word! Why bed? Sure, the water lies there, but it also runs there as well. Might as well be rivertrack. But it's not-- and I think it shouldn't be. I wonder how this concept is played out in other languages.
I would guess, according to its etymology, that a Christmas carol is one that sung in a chorus, going door-to-door. A Christmas song is just a more general category? So "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" is a Christmas song, but not one you'd really sing in a group at someone's doorstep.
Plural of halfa grass. Also halfassed form of halfass. I guess technically speaking it's sixseventhsassed form of halfass. (Or would that be oneseventhassed?)
Hmm... I'm sorry. Not sure what I was thinking-- there was supposed to be a pun in there, which, now, totally escapes me. I guess my comment was a prime example of halfasseddumbassery.
It would be nice if we could add a picture of an illuminated manuscript to illustrate the etymology. (Or is it not so much a manuscript but an ancient legal document? Hard to tell ...)
Don't like words like these. It's almost like they are trying to making fun of language itself. Whoever coined this word liked using dumbass so much that they had to expand its usage. It's almost self-referential in that sense.
Although ... if the pronunciation de-silenced the 'B,' I might like it. As in dum-BASS-ery.
It's like a combination of fraught + throughout. What do you call these type of words, i.e., the unintentional combination of similar words (Like "regardless + irrespective = irregardless")?
"However, she has to do it under the noses of both Ordell, the ATF man and a local cop." Both? Someone's missing a nose. Sounds like a job for Gogolumbo.
OK ALREADY! My guilt builds, builds, and builds each day! I admit it-- they are my words! Are you happy? These words that I used to love, I now hate! Pygopagus, sanglant, Astacus, sweetbread, checkerberry, sparple, horse coursing ... I admit it. OUT, DAMNED SPOT! OUT, I SAY!! It was me. I broke the favorites machine! These things of darkness, I acknowledge mine!
But any such etymological regression must eventually lead to the rootless root and the unrooted rooter. The fabulous first fount of phrases. The majestic magician of madeupicals.
I wonder if that's too narrow still. What about words like runcible that are pure nonsense and can't be strictly understood? I'd say they're still words. And I'd like to think that I am free to make up words, and they are indeed words (in the barest sense), even if the rest of the population never happens to adopt or understand them. They may not be very good words, but what else would they be?(Maybe in that case, the communicator and communicatee are one and the same?)
I'm going to quote this possible etymology and let it speak for itself:
O.E. cudele "the cuttlefish;" perhaps related to M.L.G. küdel "container, pocket;" O.N. koddi "cushion, testicle;" and O.E. codd (see cod).
No-- that can't speak for itself; I'll have to ruin it. But something to note: the prominence of the 'd' in the provenance of the 't'. (Makes you wonder where the 't' comes from.)
Good point, rolig. "Piece" in that sense, then, doesn't mean "part" but is more like "piece" in "piece of art." An example, a paragon? So something like "what an example of workmanship?"
Uselessness-- then there's something else. Else than what?
Any more words like this- the necessary double negative? While it means the same as abled, you can't actually use abled without coming across as insensitive.
I can't stop myself from reading this as alla-tonce-ness. Is Tonce a cat? (CF SNL Toonces) Does alla = allah? or does alla = "other" (greek)? Or alla = "but" (Greek). Othercatness or Buttcatness?
This word doesn't work. It never has. It's too ... too what? Too sweet? Too obvious? Too forced? Too tongue-tying? And the imagery it evokes is sticky, slow, and viscous-- sort of the opposite of what it wants to do.
Was wondering about "Random word" link at top. Last night it was great fun, giving me plenty of new words to think about. But today it was the opposite-- spitting out mostly typos like "Goolge" or randomly culled proper names or even computer code. I'm sure this is something on your radar, but just thought I'd point it out.
The etymologies don't help much. One gives us the impression of some sort of clean, baptismal rebirth: new, fresh. The other claims it derives from mold and mucus. So I guess the resolution is to see moist in the sense of a new and fresh, moldy mucus. (As in, "Hey that's some new mold on that there mucus!")
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Jubjub commented on the user hernesheir
I don't know how to express my gratefulness for all your entries on potatoes except by saying they made me quite hungry.
June 13, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word mince
In Japanese culture, the mincing gait seems to describe the behavior and effects associated with foot binding.
June 12, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word revenant
Dawn-sniffing revenant,
Plodder through midnight rain,
Question me again.
from "Casualty" by Seamus Heaney
June 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word tumbril
Something of his sad freedom
As he rode the tumbril
Should come to me, driving,
Saying the names
Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard,
Watching the pointing hands
Of country people,
Not knowing their tongue.
Out here in Jutland
In the old man-killing parishes
I will feel lost,
Unhappy and at home.
from "The Tollund Man" by Seamus Heaney
June 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word opsonin
There's ketchup in our blood?
June 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word mince
I'm trying to understand the connection between the definition of mince in phrases like minced oath and mince your words and its etymology "minūtiāre"-- to make smaller. Because every time I hear "I'm not one to mince my words", the first thing I picture is someone with a bunch of words on a chopping board and a cleaver.
Is the idea that a minced oath, in general, was not only euphemized, but also contracted, i.e. made smaller?
June 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word pas de chat
Alors, du chien, oui?
June 10, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word snarfing
I seem to remember Vonnegut giving it a rather different and disturbing definition.
June 10, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word noctivagant
(12 months late) Peripate?
June 10, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word avast
5 examples here, but only one uses the word avast. Avast, a bug!
February 1, 2010
Jubjub commented on the list words-i-made-up-the-definitons-to
You might want to put your definition in the comment section of the word veteranarian rather than here on the comment section of your list. Less confusing that way, especially if you intend to add more words to your list.
January 12, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word munch
Are munches always given in bunches? My wife used to smother our kids with oodles of smooches. Never knew what to call that.
January 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word get my goat
How 'bout some chevre o' lait?
January 11, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word must needs
Oh no! I've spilt perfume on my legs. I have musk-knees!
January 7, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word racist
A blatant case of brunettism!
January 7, 2010
Jubjub commented on the list lost-for-word
Wow. I sort of feel like I'm a part of CSI:Wordnik :)
January 6, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word w♥rdnik
pronounced w-heart-erd-nik? :)
January 6, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word I miss wordie
It's got connections with Sputnik and Beatnik. (But I think more with the latter than the former, hence the hippy-heart in w♥rdnik.) It's striving to be the "first" in a Sputnik way, but also it wants to be counter-cultural in a Beatnik way: to revolutionize the way dictionaries work. (See Erin Mckean's video on TED)
January 6, 2010
Jubjub commented on the list lost-for-word
Looks like it can be abbreviated as autopod as well.
January 6, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word 2000 - 2009
Was there ever a consensus on what to call this decade? The naughties or the 2000s? Or will it simply become that-decade-whose-name-should-not-be-said?
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word Z
I know ... looking at the pile of letters I've heaped on Zeitgeist, I'm embarrassed.
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word Z
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word Y
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word X
Boy or Girl?
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word W
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word V
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word U
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word T
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word S
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word R
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word Q
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word P
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word O
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word N
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word M
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word L
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word K
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word J
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word I
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word H
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word G
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word F
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word E
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word D
Boy
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word C
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word B
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word A
Girl
January 2, 2010
Jubjub commented on the word rhinoceroses
@ruzuzu, 20 percent only if the service is absolutely bovine.
December 31, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word returning movies
Even if I've checked 6 or 7 times that the right movie is in the right case, if I don't check the second before I drop it down the slot, I am quite convinced it either had no movie in it or it was the wrong movie.
December 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word grappa
A sip of it will put hair on your hair.
December 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word those wingnuts on my roof
You're right-- a little spilled salt over the shoulder should do the trick.
December 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Common Object Art
For a second there, I thought you said grappa Fanta. Now that would be some pop!
December 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word those wingnuts on my roof
Oops. All out of um ... bridges. Would you like to take a fence instead? I'll even throw in a grain of salt!
December 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Jubjub
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
December 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Meredith
I don't know ... Burgess Meredith is quite something.
December 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Kennesaw Mountain
_Best Name Ever!_ His name alone might be the reason I've followed baseball all these years.
December 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the user raisemycredit4
Do I get a full 4+ points to my credit score by clicking on your link? What a boon you are to us! Thank you so much! Wow, you chose the right place to advertise! Merry Christmas!
December 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word those wingnuts on my roof
I find birdwatchers to be terrible ice-guardians. Too busy watching birds, silly wingnuts!
December 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
I heard that this might be the name for a type of elephant, turtle, or dog. I think also someone said it was the name of blue flower? Pretty impressive word, though.
December 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word woty09
ln÷oæΣï
December 27, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word assonant
Oops, I think I sat on him.
December 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word assistant
Perhaps I should help the bug out?
December 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word assailant
That poor little bug looks like his bottom is hurting.
December 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word depressant
I shouldn't have smooshed that poor little bug.
December 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word consonant
That dirty little bug would swindle his own child.
December 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word coolant
That's the tiniest leather jacket I've ever seen.
December 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word adamant
Aw shoot! I must have left the sugar out.
December 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word snailpapers
Derived from snail-mail.
December 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word strenth
Without the 'g' it's not so stron.
December 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word ... v :
What are these: ***?
December 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Bubo
Mechanical Owl in "Clash of the Titans" commissioned by Athena, built by Hephaestus, and given to Perseus to provide him wisdom.
December 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word riverbed
What an interesting word! Why bed? Sure, the water lies there, but it also runs there as well. Might as well be rivertrack. But it's not-- and I think it shouldn't be. I wonder how this concept is played out in other languages.
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word rick
Gives new meaning to being rick-rolled.
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dalek
Cyberman: Daleks, be warned; you have declared war upon the Cybermen.
Dalek: This is not war. This is pest control!
Cyberman: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?
Dalek: Four.
Cyberman: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?
Dalek: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You are superior in only one respect.
Cyberman: What is that?
Dalek: You are better at dying!
Sorry, was just watching this and thought this quote did a good job of expressing the essence of the dalek.
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the list wilfred-j--funks--ten-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language--1932--1933
Maybe unicorns too.
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the list wilfred-j--funks--ten-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language--1932--1933
I'm surprised this list doesn't have cute, frolicking, faeries, hugging, and kissing on it.
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the list wilfred-j--funks--ten-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language--1932--1933
I second!
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word irrefragable
I fragged you! No take-backs!
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word cross-dressers
Another name for members of the Fig-Leaf Campaign?
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word have yourself a merry little christmas
I would guess, according to its etymology, that a Christmas carol is one that sung in a chorus, going door-to-door. A Christmas song is just a more general category? So "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" is a Christmas song, but not one you'd really sing in a group at someone's doorstep.
December 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word nice
I suppose I'm really not supposed to be here. Although it looks rather... uh, nice.
December 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word naughty
Ah! Here I am.
December 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word good
Oops. I'm not supposed to be here.
December 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word racist
gangerh, I'm all about breed and chese and good ale.
EDIT: Oops-- That came out the wrong way. I was just commenting on the meaning of jub, where breed is used as ME word for bread.
December 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word racist
What's the word for someone who really is pro-races? Like Foot races, car races, bike races, and wheel-barrow races?
December 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word have yourself a merry little christmas
If you play it backwards, you can hear "santa is dead" over and over again.
December 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word halfas
Plural of halfa grass. Also halfassed form of halfass. I guess technically speaking it's sixseventhsassed form of halfass. (Or would that be oneseventhassed?)
December 21, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dabble
Hmm... I'm sorry. Not sure what I was thinking-- there was supposed to be a pun in there, which, now, totally escapes me. I guess my comment was a prime example of halfassed dumbassery.
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word stealer of milky butterfly poop
We should farm them and market a new butter substitute!
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word paramnesia
I always thought deja vu was more trippy rather than dreadful.
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dabble
Anyone notice that American Heritage half-asses their etymologies? It's like a task they really don't want to do.
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word surfline
Words that need a hyphen. Otherwise, you read it like sur-fline. Sort of supine but on a flint-like substance.
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word rubric
It would be nice if we could add a picture of an illuminated manuscript to illustrate the etymology. (Or is it not so much a manuscript but an ancient legal document? Hard to tell ...)
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word haeccity
Misspelling of haecceity. Whoever wrote this is not a dunce.
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dumbassery
Don't like words like these. It's almost like they are trying to making fun of language itself. Whoever coined this word liked using dumbass so much that they had to expand its usage. It's almost self-referential in that sense.
Although ... if the pronunciation de-silenced the 'B,' I might like it. As in dum-BASS-ery.
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word throught
It's like a combination of fraught + throughout. What do you call these type of words, i.e., the unintentional combination of similar words (Like "regardless + irrespective = irregardless")?
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word belilaced
From a Robert Frost poem, "But only a belilaced cellar hole,/Now slowly closing like a dent in dough."
I always want to read it as belly-laced, rather than be-lilac-ed.
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word colorway
This seems like a word of lazy origins. Is there a better word to describe the arrangement of colors?
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word the da vinci cod
What is the wordie way of laughing very hard? Teach me, so that I may express my enjoyment of this comment.
November 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word beetlestomper
"Though we now know you actively stomped a fairy and its insides were rainbow. ;-)"
Oh my! But I kinda figured as much. Them and unicorns.
November 30, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word hour-and
Potential nickname for modern analysand? (Sorry, the best I got for this random word.)
November 29, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Cromwell's
No Irish fare served at this restaurant.
November 29, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Unabashed
I hope she's not shamed. Hopefully, just mended and mused.
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word wordie treatment
Other anagrams:
Wrote, terminated.
A tormented write.
We terminated rot.
Demean tot writer.
Moderate net writ.
Teamed retort win.
I'm sorry, I'm on an anagram kick ('A Grammarian's Moronic Kinky')
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word value-conscious
Is vacuous clone.
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Flypaper
Flap Pyre
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Half-Marathon
A half-ton harm.
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Thalidomide
Anagram: A limited Doh!
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Heliocentrics
Anagram: "Is hot, encircle."
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word I am lying when I say this
"I am lying when I say this hasn't been tagged yet." Well, at least it's honest. Or is it?
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word It
"It hasn't been tagged yet." Then how did he get to be it?
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word reggie
Hmmm. A verbification? I reggie, you reggie, he/she reggies. But what does it mean?
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word prision
As in "Oshifer, (hic) pleashe don't take me to prision(hic).
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word kunjungan
kunjungan-jungan, what's your fungan?
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word STRONG
Once you see it in all caps, you really can't write it any other way.
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Disneyland's
Come try our Big Mick, Mickey nuggets and Mick Rib at Disneyland's!
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Ordell
"However, she has to do it under the noses of both Ordell, the ATF man and a local cop." Both? Someone's missing a nose. Sounds like a job for Gogolumbo.
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word dramastically
In 8th grade, I used this word in a speech, and once I was told of my error, I was samultimeously flubbergasted and reppauled by my ignoranity.
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word morular
Or perhaps she really did see the writing on the wall....
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the user midsamme
"Force factor claims to build muscles ..." rachelpriest doesn't seem too sold on her own product.
November 28, 2009
Jubjub commented on the user Jubjub
Aww, gee whiz. You're putting too much mush in my room. ;)
November 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Recent Favorites
But the funny thing is, I have no qualms. (that is, I didn't favorite that word.)
November 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Recent Favorites
OK ALREADY! My guilt builds, builds, and builds each day! I admit it-- they are my words! Are you happy? These words that I used to love, I now hate! Pygopagus, sanglant, Astacus, sweetbread, checkerberry, sparple, horse coursing ... I admit it. OUT, DAMNED SPOT! OUT, I SAY!! It was me. I broke the favorites machine! These things of darkness, I acknowledge mine!
November 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word turkey
You turkey!
November 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word beauregard
I think it's pronounced, the more southern you are, bore-regard.
November 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word bottoms
Bottoms are tops.
November 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word madeupical
But any such etymological regression must eventually lead to the rootless root and the unrooted rooter. The fabulous first fount of phrases. The majestic magician of madeupicals.
November 26, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word madeupical
I wonder if that's too narrow still. What about words like runcible that are pure nonsense and can't be strictly understood? I'd say they're still words. And I'd like to think that I am free to make up words, and they are indeed words (in the barest sense), even if the rest of the population never happens to adopt or understand them. They may not be very good words, but what else would they be?(Maybe in that case, the communicator and communicatee are one and the same?)
November 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word cuttlefish
I'm going to quote this possible etymology and let it speak for itself:
O.E. cudele "the cuttlefish;" perhaps related to M.L.G. küdel "container, pocket;" O.N. koddi "cushion, testicle;" and O.E. codd (see cod).
No-- that can't speak for itself; I'll have to ruin it. But something to note: the prominence of the 'd' in the provenance of the 't'. (Makes you wonder where the 't' comes from.)
November 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word piece of work
Good point, rolig. "Piece" in that sense, then, doesn't mean "part" but is more like "piece" in "piece of art." An example, a paragon? So something like "what an example of workmanship?"
Uselessness-- then there's something else. Else than what?
November 25, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word efective
Another cheap-as word. The 'd' fell off!
November 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Arakawa
Part of a famous palindrome: "A wak, a ra, Arakawa.
November 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Rebholz
Where Luke's friends hid during the Hoth invasion.
November 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word hypomagnesaemia
Nor to be confused with hypomilkofmagnesaemia, also known as hypomommamia.
November 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word trouver
Clearly, one who trouves.
November 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word sistance
It's like resistance, but doing it one less time.
It's also snobbishly above subsisting.
November 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word hypomagnesaemia
The example says this is also known as grass staggers, which is by far a better word(s).
November 24, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word comatoes
Just walk it off, kid. Walk it off.
November 23, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word a-time
When B.A. Baracus had his aristeia.
November 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word non-disabled
Any more words like this- the necessary double negative? While it means the same as abled, you can't actually use abled without coming across as insensitive.
November 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word downfa
This is a cheap-as word.
November 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word cheap-as
So cheap, they skimped on the last S.
As in: "Being a cheap-as can lead to your downfa
November 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word gB»ÛÚš
Even a merely good Britain is doubly better than a twice United states.
November 22, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word Psychol
It will leave your soul smelling like a Carolina pine forest.
November 19, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word misspeaks
The same one who found Marsha and Mel Lowes distasteful and couldn't stand to listen to their daughter Belle?
November 19, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word misspeaks
I heard she pells too.
November 19, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word ln÷oæΣï
I think this is one of those words that, when pronounced correctly, is inaudible to the human ear. Only gods and dogs can hear it.
November 19, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word basilateral
It's a sheepish farewell to Al.
November 18, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word ln÷oæΣï
This word is absolutely gorgeous.
November 18, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word self-referential
See self-referential.
November 17, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word allatonceness
I can't stop myself from reading this as alla-tonce-ness. Is Tonce a cat? (CF SNL Toonces) Does alla = allah? or does alla = "other" (greek)? Or alla = "but" (Greek). Othercatness or Buttcatness?
November 15, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word firkin
Firkin Robert Frost firkin firkins "forty firkins" in his firkin firkinly poem "Directive." (said in the voice of a displaced Smurf.)
November 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word beauteous
This word is absolutely horrible. Or should I say horrideous?
November 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word mellifluous
This word doesn't work. It never has. It's too ... too what? Too sweet? Too obvious? Too forced? Too tongue-tying? And the imagery it evokes is sticky, slow, and viscous-- sort of the opposite of what it wants to do.
November 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word ☃
My computer's font is giving me a picture of a conch. Maybe to represent Frosty's conch-ousness? Happy Birthday!
November 14, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word comments
Was wondering about "Random word" link at top. Last night it was great fun, giving me plenty of new words to think about. But today it was the opposite-- spitting out mostly typos like "Goolge" or randomly culled proper names or even computer code. I'm sure this is something on your radar, but just thought I'd point it out.
November 12, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word moist
The etymologies don't help much. One gives us the impression of some sort of clean, baptismal rebirth: new, fresh. The other claims it derives from mold and mucus. So I guess the resolution is to see moist in the sense of a new and fresh, moldy mucus. (As in, "Hey that's some new mold on that there mucus!")
November 12, 2009
Jubjub commented on the user Jubjub
No. Should I have? :)
November 12, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word form-factor
I get the form, but why the factor?
November 12, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word carinaria
Mmm. I could go for some carinaria in a marinara sauce.
November 11, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word fireplace fender bender
So a theater would be a playsplace? A shirtsleeve, an aceplace? Eyes, a maceplace?
November 10, 2009