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17 Apr 05 - 06:49 PM (#1463841) Subject: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Skipy Quite often I will say to some of my work mates "today's word is" I will then give them a new word (to them) & challenge them to get it into conversation. Today's word is "serendipity" All catters reading this thread MUST use the word it it's correct context within 24 hours of reading this! Skipy Report back! |
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17 Apr 05 - 06:50 PM (#1463842) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Sorcha This is weird....just today I was thinking of words I like the sound of. This one is high on the list. Is that serendipity or what? |
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17 Apr 05 - 06:51 PM (#1463843) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Peace I will report back; however, serendipity may prevent that occurrence. |
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17 Apr 05 - 07:16 PM (#1463859) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: frogprince Went to a small concert last night expecting to see one local favorite; as serendipity would have it though, he brought along two other of our favorites. |
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17 Apr 05 - 07:20 PM (#1463863) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Bobert I did not dip with that woman, Serin... |
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17 Apr 05 - 07:25 PM (#1463868) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Peace The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Singers |
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18 Apr 05 - 05:49 AM (#1464137) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: The Fooles Troupe Obfuscation! |
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18 Apr 05 - 06:35 AM (#1464152) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Mr Red Eschew obfuscation! |
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18 Apr 05 - 06:42 AM (#1464156) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Bunnhabhain Reciproexclusional! |
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18 Apr 05 - 07:08 AM (#1464175) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Davetnova Bunny yer Haverin' (I always wanted tos ay that and now I've got the chance, serendipity or what?). |
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18 Apr 05 - 09:37 AM (#1464284) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Jerry Rasmussen Sanguine. Jerry |
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18 Apr 05 - 09:39 AM (#1464286) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,MMario What it truly serindipitous is that it is *yesterday's* word - since I don't want to use it! |
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18 Apr 05 - 09:41 AM (#1464289) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Emma B New day - new word...... Radio programme celebrating Boswell's dictionary produced this one.. Anatiferous - and, yes it is still in my modern Oxford Dictionary |
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18 Apr 05 - 10:09 AM (#1464303) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Thats a ducky little word |
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18 Apr 05 - 12:06 PM (#1464382) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: John MacKenzie Floccinoccinihilipilification, it describes GWB exactly. G.. |
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18 Apr 05 - 12:17 PM (#1464394) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: katlaughing Someone used "electrickery" on a talk show the other night in regards to problems with a new house being built. I LIKE it! |
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18 Apr 05 - 12:35 PM (#1464409) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: open mike one of my favorite numbers is eleventyseven... i guess i should be on teh numerology or lucky charms thread... |
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18 Apr 05 - 02:25 PM (#1464498) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Skipy Swampdonkey |
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18 Apr 05 - 02:29 PM (#1464505) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Liz the Squeak The word today is LEGS.... Go, spread the word! LTS |
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19 Apr 05 - 02:37 AM (#1465023) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: mack/misophist Serendipity is just another word. As such, it's almost fungible. At least for funambulists, it is. |
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19 Apr 05 - 05:17 AM (#1465094) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Emma B Tuesday's word.....from the Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Words Turpiloquence - Do you turpilocute? |
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19 Apr 05 - 05:21 AM (#1465097) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST Yes unfortunately. But the prescribed meds seem to lessen the turping. |
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19 Apr 05 - 10:29 AM (#1465325) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Splott Man May I offer my contrafibularities? |
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19 Apr 05 - 10:56 AM (#1465351) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: John MacKenzie Contrafibularities Blackadder? ...... Dr Samuel Johnson. G.. |
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19 Apr 05 - 10:59 AM (#1465356) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: gnu I might, if I knew what it meant. What does it mean? |
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19 Apr 05 - 11:11 AM (#1465374) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: gnu C'mon Emma, you made it up. Tell what it means. |
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19 Apr 05 - 11:41 AM (#1465395) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Bill D eudaemonic...we need more stuff that is eudaemonic (producing happiness and well-being. |
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19 Apr 05 - 03:05 PM (#1465591) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos Someone should have told Hans Christian Andersen that goose eggs are not Anatiferous. A |
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19 Apr 05 - 04:57 PM (#1465731) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Bill D goose? That were swans he were confoozed about. |
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19 Apr 05 - 05:02 PM (#1465743) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Georgiansilver Todays word is LOVE...lets all love each other....lets all be in love with each other...no hate! just love! |
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19 Apr 05 - 05:21 PM (#1465754) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: gnu I Googled the word for the day after unsuccessfully searching for it in three dictionaries. Now I know what it means. |
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19 Apr 05 - 05:55 PM (#1465795) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Skipy PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.) |
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19 Apr 05 - 05:59 PM (#1465799) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Skipy Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. (36 letters) We actually used this as a quiz question @ Stanford in the Vale last Saturday in a quiz we hosted to raise cash for the hall! Skipy |
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19 Apr 05 - 06:20 PM (#1465824) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Georgiansilver Disperceptioconamericosionicalioritosis. The lack of total understanding of basic words. Difficult if you suffer from Dyslexia eh? |
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19 Apr 05 - 06:59 PM (#1465869) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Emma B OK Wenesdays Words - for the animal lovers.......it's a load of Waggying and Werderobe I don't make these up honest! |
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19 Apr 05 - 07:10 PM (#1465878) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Skipy you made "Wenesdays" up! Skipy |
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19 Apr 05 - 07:16 PM (#1465882) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Peace No she din't. |
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19 Apr 05 - 07:44 PM (#1465898) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST It's actually ODINSday as in the Norse God |
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19 Apr 05 - 07:46 PM (#1465900) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Norseman Odin, Thor and Freya are the origins on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Saturnsday...Sunsday, Moonsday, but what is Tuesday? |
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19 Apr 05 - 08:06 PM (#1465925) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: HuwG Tiv's day. Tiv, or Tiu (Tiv is probably the Romanised spelling) is another norse goddesss. |
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19 Apr 05 - 08:07 PM (#1465928) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Gray D "Tuesday This day was named after the Norse god Tyr. The Romans named this day after their war-god Mars: dies Martis. " Source is here I would like today's word to be deliquesce or mellifluous, because . . . erm . . . well, just because. Gray D |
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20 Apr 05 - 12:56 AM (#1466071) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Bill the Collie The word: spurned sounds great if you roll your r's |
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20 Apr 05 - 03:33 AM (#1466111) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Davetnova I rolled mine and fell of the chair. |
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20 Apr 05 - 06:05 AM (#1466171) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Georgiansilver Am I right in thinking that the longest word in the English Dictionary is Floccinaucinihilipilification? Best wishes, Mike. |
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20 Apr 05 - 09:24 AM (#1466257) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos I would say that no-one can be wholly right thinking such thoughts, Mike. A |
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20 Apr 05 - 09:37 AM (#1466265) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos "And in the Middle Ages, how concerned people who lived close to the world of nature were with the feces of animals. And what a variety of names they had for them: the Crotels of a Hare, the Friants of a Boar, the Spraints of an Otter, the Werderobe of a Badger, the Waggying of a Fox, the Fumets of a Deer. Surely there might be some words for the material so near to the heart of Ozy Froats [an academic studying feces] than shit? What about the Problems of a President, the Backward Passes of a Footballer, the Deferrals of a Dean, the Odd Volumes of a Librarian, the Footnotes of a Ph.D., the Low Grades of a Freshman, the Anxieties of an Untenured Professor? " -- Robertson Davies, "The Rebel Angels" You choose shitty words, dear EmmaB!! :) This could be a whole thread in itself -- names for scat by profession. Broken strings of a folkie, the Leavings of Liverpuddlians, the backup of lorry drivers, and the mudkits of Mudcatters. A |
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20 Apr 05 - 11:22 AM (#1466352) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Emma B Great quote Amos- I was limited by alliteration The professions that come to mind first..... The dead wood of lumberjacks The remnants of tailors The surplus of clergymen The stools of milkmaids and nearer to home.... The cast-offs of ceilidh dancers! and tomorrows word is........? |
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20 Apr 05 - 12:14 PM (#1466395) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Scaramouche If I suggest Whigmaleerie would it be spurned? |
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20 Apr 05 - 12:51 PM (#1466415) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: John MacKenzie Only if yir whigmaleerie wis tapsalteerie, and ye huv fernitickles oan yer cheeks. G |
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20 Apr 05 - 05:46 PM (#1466578) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Skipy borborygm. Skipy |
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20 Apr 05 - 05:52 PM (#1466583) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: mandoleer A word that I knew the meaning of when it came up on a Call My Bluff - moslings. Calculated to get people confused and to stop any conversation when you introduce it... (No, it's NOT the young of the moose...) |
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20 Apr 05 - 07:07 PM (#1466644) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Emma B My word for Thursday is "Tetrorchid" - who's got the balls to use that one? |
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20 Apr 05 - 09:46 PM (#1466729) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST Certain species of West African birds have been seen feeding at a Tetorchid -- specifically, Tetrorchidium didymostemon. A |
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20 Apr 05 - 09:48 PM (#1466732) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Amos The jeweler's studio floor was littered with scraps and moslings, the residue of much polishing by hand. A |
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20 Apr 05 - 09:52 PM (#1466741) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Amos As the herd grew nearer the susurrus of borborygmi filled the jungle air. A. The extremely rare word you seek is borborygm, or sometimes borborygmus, plural borborygms or borborygmi. This means 'a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines', and it is also used in figurative senses. |
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21 Apr 05 - 06:42 AM (#1466869) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST ... is concupiscence. Ah, I remember the concupiscence of youth... been there, fucked that. |
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21 Apr 05 - 07:50 PM (#1467431) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Emma B A Thursday Word for any collectors out there........ Tyrosemiophile |
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21 Apr 05 - 08:01 PM (#1467447) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Gray D Well, there's always antirrhinum. Although I don't mind them so I spose that would make me rather more prorrhinum. Gray D |
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21 Apr 05 - 08:09 PM (#1467459) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Kaleea I'm a thinkin' that this hyar werd o' th' day stuff is too oderiferous fer me. |
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22 Apr 05 - 06:32 PM (#1468407) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: mandoleer I would think the jeweller had been moonlighting if there were moslings on his floor, or perhaps he had been burgled and the moslings were but tiny traces left by his unwelcome visitor.... |
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22 Apr 05 - 07:05 PM (#1468429) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos Being distracted this morning, the dictionary I grab is the OED, and there is "moslings" -- kind of an adorable word (like a kitten). In the 1875 quote "...used in wiping off metals while grinding and polishing." But it's not in the Century. Too old? Not even an "archaic." But Morsel v! We have to look into that. Oh, my God, there's not even a "morsel v." A |
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22 Apr 05 - 07:06 PM (#1468430) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos The jeweler defintion is probably archaic. Here's another: Moslings (Mos"lings) n. pl. Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Simmonds. But it makes sense such scraps would be useful in buffing silver. A |
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22 Apr 05 - 07:07 PM (#1468431) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Peace Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Moslings \Mos"lings\, n. pl. Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. --Simmonds. |
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22 Apr 05 - 11:10 PM (#1468594) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Bill D carviofraliepsis....The palliative, reciprocal obfuscations of transitional Mudcat presumptive etiology. (Me and the Red Queen agreed on that one in the wee hours last night when the Nyquil was kicking in.) |
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22 Apr 05 - 11:43 PM (#1468610) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Bill D oh, BTW, the word I always use to test a new dictionary or word list is haruspex,.....if they have it, they are likely to have a good assortment. |
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23 Apr 05 - 12:33 AM (#1468625) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Peace Takes a lot of guts to do that. |
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23 Apr 05 - 06:21 AM (#1468692) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos haruspex :A religious official in ancient Rome who interpreted omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals. The haruspices were part of a group of seers or auguries whose official function was not so much to foretell the future as to work out whether the gods approved of some proposed course of political or military action A |
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23 Apr 05 - 08:49 AM (#1468757) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos Some of my favorites from the vigorous 19th centruy when the language expanded in the US almost as fat as the US did: sockdologer (a real lollapalooza) skedaddle (to scat, vamoose, blow, run away, or git) hornswoggle (to astonish or amaze) blustrification (the action of celebrating boisterously), goshbustified (excessively pleased and gratified), dumfungled (used up). A |
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23 Apr 05 - 09:08 AM (#1468765) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: robomatic I've never actually found this in a dictionary but years ago I purchased an illustrated book called "An Osborn Festival Of Phobias" featuring illustrations meant to convey the random emotions of the mind. The word that managed to lodge in the inner crags of my medulla is: tachistothanataphobia |
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23 Apr 05 - 09:16 AM (#1468769) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: The Fooles Troupe A fear of things that flash past the eye so fast that fnord many people miss conciously seeing them. |
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23 Apr 05 - 10:54 AM (#1468789) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST What? |
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23 Apr 05 - 11:02 AM (#1468794) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,Bill the Collie GUEST: fnord |
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23 Apr 05 - 11:15 AM (#1468803) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Peace Robomatic, I am sorry to learn that you have crabs in your medulla and that they have caused tachistothanataphobia. I had crabs once, but they were in my crotch. It gave me crotchistocrawlusophobia. I am getting over it. I hope you are too. Bruce |
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23 Apr 05 - 11:44 AM (#1468818) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: *Laura* Antidisestablishmentarianism. haha. |
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23 Apr 05 - 11:50 AM (#1468823) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: robomatic "Fear Of Head-On Collisions" |
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23 Apr 05 - 05:01 PM (#1468966) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Emma B ......and Dracula suffered from scorodophobia....... |
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23 Apr 05 - 05:03 PM (#1468967) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Georgiansilver Perverdegegredation........definition please. |
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23 Apr 05 - 05:04 PM (#1468968) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Peace What is the scorodo. Sounds like a dragon or sumthin. The scorodo dragon. |
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23 Apr 05 - 07:30 PM (#1469028) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: The Fooles Troupe Ah well. It looks like the secret currently fnord continues to be safe. |
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24 Apr 05 - 07:10 AM (#1469216) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Mark Cohen Amos, thank you for mentioning Robertson Davies. I read some of his novels many years ago, wanted to read them again, but had completely forgotten both his name and the titles of the books! Aloha, Mark PS, the title of one of his books would fit in this thread: The Manticore |
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24 Apr 05 - 10:58 AM (#1469267) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: rock chick "Serendipity" Mudcat Ahhhh Now Xenophobia is a word /problem that we Catters would not have.........I hope ;o)) Happy friends everywhere. |
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24 Apr 05 - 07:06 PM (#1469639) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: GUEST,skipy found this out there:- What is the longest word in Spanish? The answer depends on what you mean by the longest word, but regardless of your definition the longest word isn't superextraordinarísimo, Well as far as I can see the longest word in Spanish is :- "Span" quite good really as a span is a measure of length e.g. the hand or of course a bridge! Skipy |
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24 Apr 05 - 07:19 PM (#1469654) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: mandoleer Nice work, Brucie and Amos. (Sounds like a 50s cartoon strip, that...) Now can anyone come up with a definition of erglewinder? |
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24 Apr 05 - 08:25 PM (#1469706) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos Scorodo appears to be a plant type -- a woodland sage of some sort. From Wikipedia: A fnord is disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a conspiracy. The word was coined as a nonsense word in the Principia Discordia by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill, but was popularized by the Illuminatus trilogy of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. In these novels, it is claimed that the interjection "fnord" possesses hypnotic power over readers. A conspiracy of the world's controlling powers conditions everyone from a young age to be unable to consciously see the word "fnord"; instead, every appearance of the word will unconsciously generate a general feeling of uneasiness and confusion. In the Shea/Wilson construct, fnords are scattered liberally in the text of newspapers and magazines, causing fear and anxiety in those following current events. However, there are no fnords in the advertisements, encouraging a consumerist society. It is implied in the books that fnord is not the actual word used for this task, but merely a substitute, since most readers would be unable to see the actual word. In the movie They Live, the main character discovers a similar conspiracy, when commercials are revealed to have hidden conformity messages visible only with specially prepared glasses. To see the fnords means to be unaffected by the supposed hypnotic power of the word or, more loosely, of other fighting words. The phrase "I have seen the fnords" was famously graffitoed on a railway bridge (known locally as Anarchy Bridge) between Earlsdon and Coventry city centre throughout the 1980s and 1990s, until the bridge was upgraded. The bridge and the phrase were mentioned in the novel A Touch of Love by Jonathan Coe (ISBN 0140294910). "Fnord" has become a popular word with followers of Discordianism. It is often used in Usenet and other computer circles to indicate a random or surreal sentence; anything out of context (intentionally or not) may be labelled "fnord". A |
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24 Apr 05 - 08:37 PM (#1469717) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: The Fooles Troupe So now you have given the secret away, but they still can't see the real ones. |
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24 Apr 05 - 08:45 PM (#1469721) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: The Fooles Troupe And yes, they ARE in the message above.... but only the educated can figure out how to tell, especially for MSIE V 6 users. |
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24 Apr 05 - 09:19 PM (#1469752) Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:- From: Amos An Erglewinder is someone who specializes in irritating the Mayor of Ocala. Very little used. A |