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- Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:09 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Fussbudget
- Replies: 3
- Views: 778
Re: Fussbudget
Wasn't that one of the names Linus Van Pelt used to call his sister Lucy in the Peanuts comic strip? 

- Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Troth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 330
Re: Troth
I seem to recall some interaction in school where someone commented on a teacher's use of the word betroth, and made a joke about someone pledging their trough. 

- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:56 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coalesce
- Replies: 2
- Views: 442
Re: Coalesce
Was this the original source or inspiration for the word coalition? 

- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:54 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Emergency
- Replies: 1
- Views: 340
Re: Emergency
A wordy but now-retired coworker used to refer to emergencies as "emergent situations."
(He once told me I should use my leave time so as to give myself a "restorative break." He could have left out the last four syllables.
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- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:47 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Voracious
- Replies: 1
- Views: 378
Re: Voracious
As a child I was a voracious reader, always leaving the library with as many books as I could safely carry.
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:43 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Wanton
- Replies: 1
- Views: 462
Re: Wanton
So... Heidi Fleiss was tried in the court of public opinion (and others) and found wanton? 

- Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:27 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Hoyden
- Replies: 3
- Views: 742
Re: Hoyden
Sounds like one of those words Professor Frink made up on The Simpsons 

- Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:13 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Wreak
- Replies: 2
- Views: 570
Re: Wreak
That German relative is pronounced "rekken," no? 

- Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:24 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Lollygag
- Replies: 2
- Views: 586
Re: Lollygag
Whenever I see or hear the word lollygag I'm reminded of an episode of The Flintstones where Fred proactively ended the feud with his country cousins the Hatrocks, then unwittingly reinstated it. 

- Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:16 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Fiasco
- Replies: 4
- Views: 922
Re: Fiasco
I have to wonder: if the word comes from a Germanic root, maybe it came from the Germanic tribes that invaded southern and western Europe during the Migration Period? 

- Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:09 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Abet
- Replies: 1
- Views: 538
Re: Abet
Once again I turn to the words of Homer J. Simpson: "Have you forgotten what you promised at our wedding? To love and cherish, to aid and abet?" 

- Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Moab
- Replies: 3
- Views: 825
Re: Moab
"Massive Ordinance Air Blast"? I always thought -- and since we're talking about the military there may be something to this -- that it stood for "mother of all bombs." :o Somewhere, in fiction at least (if nowhere else), there must be a Moab Airlines, with a photo of planes capt...
- Mon May 21, 2018 12:32 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Tuxedo
- Replies: 5
- Views: 915
Re: Tuxedo
Several European languages (German, French, Russian, Polish, ...) use the English word smoking for tuxedo. Tuxedoes were considered similar to smoking jackets . Interesting that French uses the English word to represent a tuxedo, since France actually has a government watchdog agency to "safeg...
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:30 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Unguent
- Replies: 3
- Views: 819
Re: Unguent
Unguentous ? :? I prefer the related unctuous , though I guess that "oilyness" is more metaphorical. :) I saw the word in a nostalgic article about the Isley Brothers in reference to lead singer Ronald, calling him something like "maybe the most unctuous of the soul balladeers."
- Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:55 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Clickbait
- Replies: 4
- Views: 818
Re: Clickbait
The kind of clickbait I don't like is the type like Luke described, where the link teases info about a person who is not included on the target website, or a "photo" of an event that never actually happened. 
