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- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bibelot
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2875
Re: Bibelot
For a double entendre , "Randy Gauntlet was quite taken with the little bibelot he picked up in the airport." I think I have a strange spell-check dictionary, neither entendre nor bibelot was in there until I put them there. There's probably some pun to be made with bibe-a-lot, too, but I ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Avast
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2551
Re: Avast
Speaking of pirates, there is a gag holiday called Talk Like a Pirate Day. It's on September 19, and next year will be its 30th anniversary.
Avast the word is quite popular with crossword constructors, too.
Avast the word is quite popular with crossword constructors, too.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Eclipse
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1025
Re: Eclipse
I don't usually reply first to my own suggestions, but as I just got back from experiencing totality, I figured I'd share. The difference between 99 and 100 percent is literally like turning out the only light in the room. Or more like turning a 3-way bulb down, if you could. Lights are on; go down ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bunny
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3013
Re: Bunny
Bunny is at least a cutsey sounding term of endearment. I watched a movie yesterday, Cover Girl, where Gene Kelly's character called his girlfriend, Rita Hayworh, 'chicken'. Weird.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Manipulate
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2845
Re: Manipulate
The relationship to hand goes further, too. After all, isn't a handler one who manipulates? Back in the day, when I got my first job at a pizzeria, we actually measured the ingredients for the sauce by hand. 3 cans of sauce, a manipule of X, a small manipule of Y, 3 more of Q, etc. Of course, we did...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Kowtow
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2508
Re: Kowtow
Kowtowing is not a popular activity in the US
Except among certain conservative republicans, that is.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:56 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Morass
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2386
Re: Morass
I like morassic. If the US government ever becomes functional again, we could look back and call this the morassic age.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Connive
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3116
Re: Connive
I wondered in an old post if a contrivance were pejorative. Now I'd say that it can be, but if the contriving isn't nice, connivance would be the better word to use. And vice-versa.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Torch
- Replies: 1
- Views: 59
Re: Torch
Yes, in case you thought it too, having seen the Modern German word, queer is a relative.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: ute/Ute
- Replies: 1
- Views: 64
Re: ute/Ute
Well, the first one is a trimming of utility, covered in utile. Not related to futile, by the by. Perhaps a suggestible word for the Agora?
The Utes, however, seem to have a murky etymology. The closest I got was a 'perhaps from'.
The Utes, however, seem to have a murky etymology. The closest I got was a 'perhaps from'.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Nacreous
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2401
Re: Nacreous
Even having read this way back when it first came out, and several times since then, I can't seem to break myself of the habit of pronouncing it with a 'knack'. Sigh.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Etagere
- Replies: 1
- Views: 60
Re: Etagere
Would putting the decoration on the first letter alter the pronunciation to 'ay'? I took 4 years of French in high school, but that was a couple of years back, and I never used it either.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bardolatry
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4837
Re: Bardolatry
GBS of course was thinking idolatry of the Bard when he coined his word, but idolatry has two parts itself. The -latry part is covered in the Dr.'s discussion of epeolatry . Another word to add to the list started there is angelolatry. Perhaps of interest is that -latry is related to larceny .
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:11 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Larceny
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2463
Re: Larceny
Fascinating that larceny and idolatry are related. The -latry ending to idol is larcenous.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Verge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 253
Re: Verge
The verger verged on verging the vicuña to the verge with his verge?