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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Superannuate
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2495
Re: Superannuate
A most topical word here in the US of A these days. Should politicians be superannuated, and if so, at what age? I don't recall seeing it used in any commentary, though. Silly writers need to subscribe to the Good Word, eh?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Apricity
- Replies: 2
- Views: 228
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Blench
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2965
Re: Blench
I can easily understand the confusion with blanch, as when blenching in fear one may well go pale as well.
Mr. Putin continues his lack of blenching, most recently a bit earlier this year.
Mr. Putin continues his lack of blenching, most recently a bit earlier this year.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Corona
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7031
Re: Corona
Speaking of the corona, my city will get to see one in just a few short weeks. Here's what my local stamp club did in honor of the last one in 2017, which we didn't get to see. The neat things about the stamp is the ink of the moon is thermo-reactive. When warmed, it fades away to show the surface o...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Adjunct
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3275
Re: Adjunct
Appropriately, I guess, adjunct professors are the ones who get yoked with all the teaching tasks the full professors don't want.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:16 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Nauseous
- Replies: 0
- Views: 140
Nauseous
The Good Word of 3/10/2024: • nauseous • Pronunciation: naw -zee-ês • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Causing an urge to vomit, nauseating. (Most dictionaries would also include "nauseated" as a definition, but see our Notes.) Notes: Choosing among the various adjectives derive...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Vacuity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6970
Re: Vacuity
Nay, it's just there's a 5 coming up, so I thought to spread them out a tad.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Vacuity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6970
Re: Vacuity
As a real-life exemplar of a vacuity, we might find no one more fitting than former US Vice-President J. Danforth Quayle. My my, how he was panned back in the day. Of course, a few years after he was gone we got his president's son to pick on, too. Politicians make good targets.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Furlough
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5297
Re: Furlough
It turns out leave and leave are different words with different roots, so leave and love aren't related. At least not the going leave, that is.
Lief and leaf aren't related, either. Just homophones. Or is it homonyms?
Lief and leaf aren't related, either. Just homophones. Or is it homonyms?
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Lumbago
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6998
Re: Lumbago
Here's my theory on why lumbago is no longer the word: with greater specialization in medicine, there's a doctor for every kind of lower back pain, so there isn't a need for a general word anymore. I was hoping to come up with some kind of a pun tying lumbago, lumber, and timber together, but have t...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Illusive
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2899
Re: Illusive
While I gather the US's West Coast saw a tad, snow in my neck of the woods was rather illusive this season. I never even had to whine about unshoveled sidewalks!
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Luftmensch
- Replies: 4
- Views: 728
Re: Luftmensch
While it doesn't match any internot translations I came across, I'd translate the example usage as a 'pie in the sky' promise.
Many years ago I read that large projects are almost always 20% over budget.
Many years ago I read that large projects are almost always 20% over budget.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: baste
- Replies: 1
- Views: 581
Re: baste
I finally went looking and found out that this one's not one. It's three. And they are all sneaky ones we know little about, being "probably", "possibly', and "perhaps" in their write-ups on etymonline.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Meritocracy
- Replies: 2
- Views: 209
Re: Meritocracy
To forestall any mental meanderings, no, it's not related to termite. Even if our meretricious politicians are devouring our house from the inside out.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Terrestrial
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7890
Re: Terrestrial
Despite being roasty, toasty, and scorching hot, this is somehow not related at all to torch . Ain't language grand? :) Isn't it a bit interesting, too, that we speak of being on dry land? If you're at sea, you're not on any kind of land at all, now are you? It's still terrestrial, but not land.