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- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Insult
- Replies: 5
- Views: 269
Insult
Missing Good Word for 3/6/2024: • insult • Pronunciation: in- sêlt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Verb Meaning: To offend, affront, to treat with scornful indignity, showing great disrespect. Notes: What is interesting about today's Good Word is that its noun is marked by a simple shift of the accent ba...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Hermeneutic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2579
Re: Hermeneutic
One theory on hermetically sealed is that Hermes "invented the process of making a glass tube airtight (a process in alchemy) using a secret seal". Here's the whole entry at etymonline.com.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Anile
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3138
Re: Anile
Sorry 'bout that. Just 'annis' is the transliteration.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Dement
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2568
Re: Dement
I need to take a break from reading the news, both world and local. The steady drip of disasters and flood of political machinations is dementing.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Anile
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3138
Re: Anile
In some perfunctory wandering, I see that there is an Ancient Greek ἀννίς that meant grandmother. I wonder if that played a role in how anus ended up meaning old woman as well as ring. That is an odd coupling, I'd say.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Marathon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2689
Re: Marathon
And every 4 years the US goes into a marathon race to their Presidential elections.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Panurgic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2799
Re: Panurgic
I'd say this one's probably been well replaced by the modern DIY-er. Perhaps to the good, as Monsieur Rabelais rather spoiled its beneficial meaning. As Collins Dictionary defines Panurge: "the mirthful, roguish, cowardly companion of Pantagruel in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel ". Som...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: PLOY
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7599
Re: PLOY
Continuing to ply my ploy of responding to unanswered posts, I'll say hello to this 12-year-old lonely post. If anyone wishes to jump in and play, there are well over 600 left:
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- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Potpourri
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5364
Re: Potpourri
My glance at the internot would seem to indicate that the 'hotch' version is more Brit-speak, with 'hodge' being USuns.
In case anyone wishes to wander on over there, the Doctor did treat hodgepodge on its own.
In case anyone wishes to wander on over there, the Doctor did treat hodgepodge on its own.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Potpourri
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5364
Re: Potpourri
A regular part of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was called Potpourri, with as many varying pronunciations as they could come up with.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:52 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Deign
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2871
Re: Deign
Doctor still means teacher, at least in academia. Aren't professors usually referred to as Doctor Whos-n-such? It's that Piled Higher and Deeper after their name that make the difference.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Fruition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 315
Re: Fruition
Taken up and treated here.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Estimable
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3055
Re: Estimable
Well, I got nothin'. However, going through the Qs in my big dictionary, I did learn that there is such a thing as Quasimodo Sunday. Also called Low Sunday, it's the Sunday after Easter, which makes it April 7 this year. Veddy interestink. I hope I remember so I can send a weird e-mail to all my fri...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Pungent
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2832
Re: Pungent
One of my favorite turns of phrase has long been 'pungent unguent'. Think old-fashioned Ben-Gay for an example.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:41 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Estimable
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3055
Re: Estimable
Looks like I'm perhaps behind the times, eh?