3. To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [Slang]
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- Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:10 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Soak
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10696
Re: Soak
Being as C. S. Lewis was born in 1898, I'd go with pub-crawling, as someone in their 40s would have been wont to do before the pubs closed. Either that, or they just stopped to soak up the quiet of the night.
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:57 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: gruntled and whelmed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19966
Re: gruntled and whelmed
Hmm. I've heard "underwhelmed" and "underwhelming" before, in the sense of being not to impressed with a presentation, but I didn't know their coinage was so recent in the scheme of the language. My late friend Larry Bowen often talked about using the term "fully gruntled&qu...
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:42 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Terrible Analogy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10972
Re: Terrible Analogy
True, a lot is by feel. If you're out in a boat but don't have a depth-finder of fish-finder you could be fishing blind, so to speak, not being able to see where they're schooling below you. You also may not be able to tell if you've hit a snag when reeling in, or where the gulls are feeding on a sh...
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Duffel or Duffle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7359
Duffel or Duffle
duf·fel or duf·fle (dŭfəl) n. 1. A blanket fabric made of low-grade woolen cloth with a nap on both sides. 2. Clothing and other personal gear carried by a camper. 3. A duffel bag. [Dutch, after Duffel, a town in Belgium.] duffel see duffle duffle (n.) Look up duffle at Dictionary.com1670s, from D...
- Tue Oct 06, 2015 5:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Good Words Five Days a Week
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43806
Re: Good Words Five Days a Week
Only 15 years? Does that count yDc and, going back further, A Web of Online Dictionaries, too? Maybe people don't realize you've been a retired professor for a number of years. To quote The Grateful Dead, "What a long, strange trip it's been!" Glad to have been an early part of it, Doc.
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Sesquibimillennial
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15494
Re: Sesquibimillennial
Chuck, How do you think Romans would have said "2500th"? MMDΘ :D (With an Athenian Lisp) Remember sesqui - means "a half AND". I believe Eduardo had it correct in translating "two and a half thousand". ... --RB I remember the "que: from "SPQR" - "Se...
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:25 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Paronomasia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6709
Re: Paronomasia
I'll be copying that comment to the board, Perry!
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 5:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Paronomasia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6709
Paronomasia
par·o·no·ma·sia (păr′ə-nō-māzhə) n. 1. Word play; punning. 2. A pun. [Latin, from Greek paronomasiā, from paronomazein, to call by a different name : para-, beside; see PARA-1 + onomazein, to name; see ONOMASTIC.] par′o·no·mastic (-măstĭk), par′o·no·masial (-māzhəl) adj. The American Heritage®...
- Tue May 05, 2015 7:24 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Alzheimer's
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14773
Re: Alzheimer's
That's why I asked the Good Doctor to create a Res Diversae when the Agora first started....
Not language related, but worth keeping in mind. Keep living in honor of those who have gone before you.
- Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:37 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Asymptotic
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6605
Asymptotic
Asymptotic From: as·ymp·tote (ăsĭm-tōt′, -ĭmp-) n. A line whose distance to a given curve tends to zero. An asymptote may or may not intersect its associated curve. [Ultimately from Greek asumptōtos, not intersecting : a-, not; see A- + sumptōtos, intersecting (from sumpiptein, sumptō-, to converg...
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:04 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Acerbate
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6179
Re: Acerbate
akros "high", found in the borrowed word acrobat, from Greek acro "high" + bat, from bainein "to walk". So, somebody who is walking while drunk or high on drugs would be a high walker, or an acrobat? A new crime to be charged with instead of DWI: Acrobatcy or WWH -- Wa...
- Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:26 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Joust
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6416
Re: Joust
Jousting is the State Sport of Maryland. In the modern version, a horseback rider takes a pointed lance and tries to spear a ring hanging from a support.
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:50 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: militate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6510
Re: militate
I see the relationship between military and militate and why they are related. One observation: is anyone able to use militate in a sentence without following it with "against"? militate (v.) 1620s, "to serve as a soldier" (now rare), from Latin militatum, past participle of mil...
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:12 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: What is a good Good Word?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 43371
Re: What is a good Good Word?
Maybe because they are merely informative, describing what makes for a Good Word; not much to discuss about them.
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:03 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Petrichor
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15841
Re: Petrichor
According to the Good Word Dictionary it was used five and nine years ago (we've been around a loooonnnngggg time here!).