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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Exodic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 31
Re: Exodic
Every other source I found on the internot gives the second meaning, and in the same words in the same order. Everyone copying everyone else? However, a contemporary non-medical use might be thus: I'm glad I already live in the path of totality for the eclipse. The exodic routes from my city will li...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Tetchy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2995
Re: Tetchy
Here's an idea for a niche dictionary: words that don't have clear origins. Words that seem to pop up out of nothing and nowhere, but hang in there and become part of the language.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:36 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bête noire
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2418
Re: Bête noire
A rarity, a two-word Good Word. I wonder if, in time, English will squish them together and make one word out of them.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Incipient
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2687
Re: Incipient
If we do change the 'c' to an 's', and the middle 'i' to an 'a', we can create 'insapient'. It's the 'non' meaning of in-, not the 'in', but I like it. We may be scientifically called homo sapiens , but so often we act insapiently. ( Sapient on the Agora.) It may even actually have been a word once ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Furbish
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2618
Re: Furbish
I'm going to have to keep the re-. I keep trying to make this word mean furnish.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Relevant
- Replies: 3
- Views: 99
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dapper
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2727
Re: Dapper
I can see why the roots of this word could mean 'fat' or 'thick'. It is only in the last few generations that being slim and trim were considered signs of health and wealth. So, not that long ago, to be dapper would have required being well-fed and smooth.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:50 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Encomium
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2535
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:46 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Panegyric
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2946
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Kickshaw
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5377
Re: Kickshaw
I haven't been dwelling on this one for the last year, I admit, but I will say I don't believe I've ever come across it in the wild. Gewgaw, doodad, etc., yes. But not this one. Anyone?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Symptom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4559
Re: Symptom
Could we go so far as to say that it is symptomatic of the human condition that we find it easier to treat symptoms rather than causes? And once the symptoms have been covered up, we tend to ignore and forget about the causes?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:15 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cleave
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2649
Re: Cleave
Given the opposite meanings, mightn't Woody grab the superglue and go out to repair the previously cleft firewood?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:31 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Virgule
- Replies: 1
- Views: 83
Re: Virgule
Taken up and treated here.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Sultry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 108
Re: Sultry
The connection is also made in French: La petite mort (the little death). It began life as a short loss of consciousness, but took on other meanings.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Juggernaut
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5230
Re: Juggernaut
While in Notes, the verb form is used for a positive result, I wonder how often juggernaut in general is. It carries so much violent baggage that even when trying to think positive, there are serious negative tones.