testing... testing... DUMPLINGS!
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 6 April 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
I'm rather fond of 'defenestrate'.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 6 April 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
Mention Family Guy and get defenestrated by means of a kick
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
Is there a connection?
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link
Don't tell me, I don't wanna know.
Can anyone be defenestrated by means of a kick though? Pretty sure has to be a throw, or at least a drop to qualify.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
I'm sorry, it was a reference to the thread titled "Animation Snob Thread (no Disney, no Pixar, no mainstream anime, mention Family Guy and you get kicked out a window), puppet films are allowed"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link
Oh lol
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 04:40 (four years ago) link
"I'm not a Furry...but"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
‘...Violent J is a good role model for dads the world over.’
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
'Helpmeet' I'd not heard of before today.
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
Sounds like a Dickens character.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
Lissom
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 15 November 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
Blithe
― rob, Sunday, 15 November 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
Ambergris
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Sunday, 15 November 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Isinglass
Extreme infighting described as cannibalism
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
Pitcher of margaritas
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 02:01 (three years ago) link
Accidental Partridge
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 3 May 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
Quite fond of people saying something Slaps or Whips. It would sound quite unnatural if I said it though.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
Tempting offer:
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― Alba, Thursday, 10 June 2021 12:47 (two years ago) link
Last night my wife unironically used the phrase "gussied up" to describe someone, which delighted me. A few minutes later in the same conversation, and equally un-self-conciously, she uttered the phrase "hotsy-totsy". I was bowled over!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 25 September 2021 01:05 (two years ago) link
Chonky
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:10 (two years ago) link
Sounds like the lady’s got moxie!
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:20 (two years ago) link
A heckin' chonker
― may the florist be with you (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
Stravaig
― She's got a dog in Ballymena (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 August 2022 11:01 (one year ago) link
seems like a very German word, but it's a good one.
― calzino, Sunday, 7 August 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
Lackadaisical
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Friday, 11 November 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
I overheard someone say "higgledy-piggledy" today and my heart soared a little - first recorded usage is in 1590 apparently! Is there a word for words like this or harum-scarum? It also reminded me of one of my favourites, "heedrum-hodrum"...
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19214989.scots-word-week-heedrum-hodrum/
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2023 17:34 (nine months ago) link
flibbertigibbet
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Monday, 24 July 2023 18:02 (nine months ago) link
willy-nilly
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 July 2023 18:17 (nine months ago) link
Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey deucy, hoochy koochy, hinky dinky, heeby jeeby, harum scarum, helter skelter, honky tonky, palsy walsy, lovey dovey, pitter patter, teeter totter, tootsie wootsie, boogie woogie, piggy wiggy. Razzle dazzle, rosy posy, georgie porgy, roly poly, walky talky, namby pamby, wishy washy, twiddle twaddle, tittle tattle, fiddle faddle, shilly shally, dilly dally, silly billy, willy nilly, fuddy duddy, hunky dory, teenie weenie, itsy bitsy. Look out! He's got a gun!
― Grandall Flange (wins), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:15 (nine months ago) link
I said higgledy piggledy yesterday! For some reason. I think I first saw it in Bloom County.
― orifex, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:51 (nine months ago) link
Argy Bargy!
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 24 July 2023 22:36 (nine months ago) link
Reduplicatives: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/easy-peasy-jiggery-pokery-reduplicative-words
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 03:50 (nine months ago) link
they are called tautonyms and ancient Chinese is full of them
― all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 04:04 (nine months ago) link
"lickety-split" is a neat conjoined term that isn't reduplicated.
unrelated, i like "one fell swoop"
― all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 04:17 (nine months ago) link
"can/cannot sanction your/this buffoonery" coined by Tommy Lee Jones in the making of Batman Forever
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 October 2023 15:19 (six months ago) link
amaneuensis
factotum
dogsbody
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 30 October 2023 22:13 (six months ago) link
*amanuensis
Syllabub
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 16:21 (five months ago) link
Goonette
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
carpenter
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:19 (five months ago) link
it just sounds good
fuiud = fuck you if you disagree
Pretty much the only acronym I like
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 December 2023 20:22 (four months ago) link
Fuck Thank you, I never could figure out what fuiud meant.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 29 December 2023 21:59 (four months ago) link
otm
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:11 (four months ago) link
I like archaic one-syllable words that were coined so long ago that there were plenty of single syllables still available for that purpose. Some of them like 'cud' still have a marginal but continuing life. Others, like 'fid' have retreated into some tiny crevice of use by a coterie of specialists.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:43 (four months ago) link
gams
― z_tbd, Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:14 (four months ago) link
gedda a load of em
― z_tbd, Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:15 (four months ago) link
I like archaic one-syllable words that were coined so long ago that there were plenty of single syllables still available for that purpose
this concept is delightful
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Saturday, 30 December 2023 06:18 (four months ago) link
And yet, even among all possible 2 letter words, there are plenty that aren't being used.
Out of the 26 possible words beginning with A, there's at least 10 good words just going to waste:
AAABACADAEAFAGAHAIAJAKALAMANAOAPAQARASATAUAVAWAXAYAZ
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 30 December 2023 09:16 (four months ago) link