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- Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: missive
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4364
missive
At this time of year when we receive greeting cards with missive updates folded in the card. I thought "missive" might make a good word. My thought is that only recently, the word meant a missile sent over the lines at others, then a verbose correspondent or book, and now it is almost a wo...
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 2:01 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: dive (n)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8818
Re: dive (n)
Don't base runners dive for home plate in baseball?
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 1:58 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: mumbletypeg
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11669
Re: mumbletypeg
@Slava That does make a lot more sense, but these boys are;t using jackknives then but real knives with sheaths and handles that have some heft. it does seem to be a safe game the way you explain it. Can you imagine coming home with a hole in your shoe and foot? There would be hell to pay, starting ...
- Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: mulct
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5592
mulct
mulct to swindle; to obtain by fraud I found that it's from the 1584 and the 15th century. It has Latin roots. There are n. & v. forms of this word. Unable to determine a history, any able to scry its history? Other definitions include "to get money out of people through a tax or fee under...
- Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: drag (n.)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8627
drag (n.)
Drag is a four-letter word that has multiple uses and meanings depending on context. The context I am thinking about is in regards to streets and vehicles which are tightly coupled. Here is what I was musing about "The Johnson boy was caught drag racing down the main drag of town in his new dra...
- Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:50 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Mittyesque
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8011
Re: Mittyesque
You are correct about Ben Stiller, and not Tom Hanks version of the movie. My mistake!
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:20 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Mittyesque
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8011
Mittyesque
Mittyesque is perhaps a little too new for a Good Word. It comes from the short story of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and the movie with Danny Kaye circa 1939. It means, denoting an ineffectual person who spends more time in heroic daydreams than paying attention to the real world, or...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 4:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: television
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6177
television
The word television is a chimera word because it is a combination of greek and Latin roots. Apparently, some Wordniks dislike the word because of this mashup nature. Plus, it was invented by the Germans. There must be some interesting dark corners in its history that might be worth shedding light on...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 4:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: ouroboros
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8358
Re: ouroboros
I just used this worked last week.
- Mon May 25, 2020 10:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Latitude and Longitude have more breath and far reaching meaning
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7764
Latitude and Longitude have more breath and far reaching meaning
These words are ubiquitous for those of us that can remember taking actual Geography classes. The roots and meaning of these words are related to breathing room for latitude. And longitude means the reach to the East in Europe, since the Atlantic was the ultimate border to the west. It is worth a pe...
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Matelot
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7058
Matelot
A sailors bunk mate or the sailors that share the bunk area.
The entemology is quite broad including French, Old Dutch, and Norse.
Found it in “Merry Hall” by Beverley Nichols a sprite book on his exploited building a garden at a manor in England after WWII.
The entemology is quite broad including French, Old Dutch, and Norse.
Found it in “Merry Hall” by Beverley Nichols a sprite book on his exploited building a garden at a manor in England after WWII.
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:48 am
- Forum: Site News
- Topic: alphaDictionary.com IS NOW "MOBILE-FRIENDLY"!
- Replies: 5
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- Tue Jul 12, 2016 8:16 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: parosody
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7473
parosody
the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry. Also, used in linguistics.
Greek root.
Greek root.
- Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:43 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: mumbletypeg
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11669
mumbletypeg
A child's game is played with a pocket knife, where the goal is to stick the knife in the ground or wood surface while launching it in prescribed ways or manipulation. One way is to toss the knife at the feet, the closest wins; landing the knife in your foot is an automatic win. To be that young, bo...
- Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:15 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Vaudeville
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8867
Vaudeville
A entertained format populate in the UAS and Canada the consisted of a variety of acts including singers, magicians, play scenes, musicians, etc. it was populate from the 1880's to the 1930's. The words source has many sources and is thought to be a corruption of the French voix de ville, translates...