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- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3499
Re: Coterie
Basically, yes. Now I'm also thinking that coterie may be in the middle, but it can go either way, depending on how it's deployed by the user and taken by the usee.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3499
Re: Coterie
If a cabal is usually up to no good, and a clique is as much for the exclusion of others as for the inclusion of like minds, where does a coterie fall? Any thoughts?
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peroration
- Replies: 2
- Views: 608
Re: peroration
Dr, Goodword has treated this word, here. Perhaps someone would like to be the first to post a reply to it?
Welcome to the Agora, by the way!
Welcome to the Agora, by the way!
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Exemplar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7293
Re: Exemplar
A pronunciation thought-let; when saying words in a vacuum, as individuals, I frequently pronounce them too distinctly. As an example, words that begin with ex-. In normal speaking, it probably comes out as eg-z or ig-z. As an individual word, eks-. Is that what others find in their speaking/reading?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Velutinous
- Replies: 1
- Views: 653
Velutinous
The fuzzy GW for 4/10/24: • velutinous • Pronunciation: vê- lut -ên-ês • Hear it! [/url] Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Velvety, covered with a fine, soft, silky fiber. Notes: Today's Good Word is one that botanists have been hiding from us for centuries; it is most frequently used to refer to s...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Maundy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8368
Re: Maundy
For more on maundy money, see here.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:33 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Volitant
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3529
Re: Volitant
On an infamous note, Volare was also used as the name of a Plymouth automobile that didn't have a great reception.
I remember well some summer eves, walking among the volitant swallows swooping about, gobbling up the pesky mosquitos.
I remember well some summer eves, walking among the volitant swallows swooping about, gobbling up the pesky mosquitos.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bibelot
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3311
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: 2913
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: 1602
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: 3418
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: 3275
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: 2778
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: 2662
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: 3451
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.