Oh, my Word!

[VinnyQ]

Current Word: hispid

hispid:

made of, or having, strong hair or bristles.

Try to use it whenever possible while posting. Have fun

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previous words:
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pretermission
v.

1. To disregard intentionally or allow to pass unnoticed or unmentioned.
2. To fail to do or include; omit.
3. To interrupt or terminate.


succulence

1. Full of juice or sap; juicy.
2. Botany. Having thick, fleshy, water-storing leaves or stems.
3. Highly interesting or enjoyable; delectable: a succulent bit of gossip.

cyn·i·cal
1. Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others: a cynical dismissal of the politician's promise to reform the campaign finance system.

2. Selfishly or callously calculating: showed a cynical disregard for the safety of his troops in his efforts to advance his reputation.

3. Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness: a cynical view of the average voter's intelligence.

4. Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity: cynical laughter.

snark
n.
any kind of unexplained or threatening event on a computer; a system failure
(but mostly a fun word to say )

valediction
n.
1. An act of bidding farewell; a leave-taking.
2. A speech or statement made as a farewell.
3. A word or phrase of farewell used to end a letter or message

chimerical
adj

1. Created by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; highly improbable.
2. Given to unrealistic fantasies; fanciful.
3. often chimeric Of, related to, or being a chimera.

inapposite
adj.
Not pertinent; unsuitable.

Mysophilia
n.
the practice of ingesting the body fluids of corpses, particularly urine.

exculpate
v.
To clear of guilt or blame.

Venial
adj.
Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable: a venial offense.

beholden
adj.
Owing something, such as gratitude, to another; indebted.

brouhaha
n.
An uproar; a hubbub.

Prestidigitation

n.
1. Performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands; sleight of hand.
2. A show of skill or deceitful cleverness.

flaccid

1. a: not firm or stiff; also : lacking normal or youthful firmness <flaccid muscles> b of a plant part : deficient in turgor
2 : lacking vigor or force <flaccid leadership>

turgid

1. being in a state of distension : SWOLLEN, TUMID <turgid limbs>; especially : exhibiting turgor
2. excessively embellished in style or language : BOMBASTIC, POMPOUS

proctophobia
n.

1. uh ... ask Fat Man WBP

Pyrrhic
adj.

(of victory) achieved at too great a cost.

sophistry

n. pl. soph·is·tries

1. Plausible but fallacious argumentation.
2. A plausible but misleading or fallacious argument.

infra dig
adj.
Beneath one's dignity.

comeuppance
n.
A punishment or retribution that one deserves; one's just deserts: “It's a chance to strike back at the critical brotherhood and give each his comeuppance for evaluative sins of the past” (Judith Crist).

holistic
adj.
1. Of or relating to holism.
2.
a. Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.
b. Concerned with wholes rather than analysis or separation into parts: holistic medicine; holistic ecology.

triskaidekaphobia
n.
An abnormal fear of the number 13.

adventitious
adj.
1. Not inherent but added extrinsically. See Synonyms at accidental.
2. Biology. Of or belonging to a structure that develops in an unusual place: adventitious roots

doppelganger
n.
A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart.

pleonasm
n.
1.
a. The use of more words than are required to express an idea; redundancy.
b. An instance of pleonasm.
2. A superfluous word or phrase.

Proctoparalysis
Paralysis of the anus, leading to incontinence of faeces.

legerdemain
n.
1. Sleight of hand.
2. A show of skill or deceitful cleverness: financial legerdemain.

nugatory
adj.
1. Of little or no importance; trifling.
2. Having no force; invalid. See Synonyms at vain.

grandiloquence
n.
Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.

adamantly
adj.
Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding. See Synonyms at inflexible.

n.
1. A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
2. An extremely hard substance.

flibbertigibbet
n.
A silly, scatterbrained, or garrulous person.

tactile
adj.

1.
a. Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible.
b. Characterized by or conveying an illusion of tangibility: “Heaney must thus continue to be a poet rich in tactile language” (Helen Vendler).
2. Used for feeling: a tactile organ.
3. Of, relating to, or proceeding from the sense of touch; tactual: a tactile reflex.

puerile
adj.
1. Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
2. Immature; childish. See Synonyms at young.

cat-o'-nine-tails
n. pl. cat-o'-nine-tails
A whip consisting of nine knotted cords fastened to a handle, used in flogging.

recherche
adj.
1. Uncommon; rare.
2. Exquisite; choice.
3. Overrefined; forced.
4. Pretentious; overblown.

namby-pamby
adj.
1. Insipid and sentimental.
2. Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless

zuchetto
n.
A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope's is white; a cardinal's red; a bishop's purple; a priest's black.

noisome
adj.
1. Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul: a noisome odor.
2. Harmful or dangerous: noisome fumes.

Knismogenic
adj.
Causing a tickling sensation.
Origin: G. Knismos, tickling, + -gen, production

hebetude
n.
Dullness of mind; mental lethargy. Stupid.

amargous
adj.
exceedingly bitter

homalocephalous
adj.
Having a flattened head.
Origin: G. Homalos, level, + kephale, head

bedlamite
n.
A mentally ill person.




[This message has been edited by VinnyQ (edited 01-24-2003 11:12 AM).]

[Agamemnon]

2nd word in current list:

homalocephalous

[quercitron]

3rd word in current list...actually, we could turn this into a game, couldn't we?

like Assassin, use these words all over the Labyrinth...

amargous

[This message has been edited by quercitron (edited 05-06-2002 07:13 PM).]

[Vinny]

Yeah sure! Give yourself one superduperwangwangchuga every time you use one of the current words.

Score:

vinny: 1 superduperwangwangchuga

[Orbiting]

I was wondering about the inclusion of homalocephalous in the thread about Chirac and LePen - I should read this forum more often.
-o-

[Bicho the Inhaler]

Yeah, Ferris used both bedlamite and homalocephalous in the same post.

Ooh, do I get two points??

[VinnyQ]

Haha, excellente, Ferris.
Thanks for pointing that out, Orb.

Bicho, I think not.

[Ferris]

[Hitchhiker]

quercitron: what does "amargous" mean, anyway?

[Zealot]

I would also like to know... Dictionary.com doesn't have it at all...

[Vinny]

While we ponder the meaning of amargous, add this word to your posting vocabulary.

hebetude

[quercitron]

amargous: exceedingly bitter

[Vinny]

bed·lam·ite Pronunciation Key (bdl-mt)
n.
A mentally ill person.

homalocephalous
Having a flattened head.
Origin: G. Homalos, level, + kephale, head


heb·e·tude Pronunciation Key (hb-td, -tyd)
n.
Dullness of mind; mental lethargy. Stupid.

[Agamemnon]

Knismogenic
A new word for today.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.............stop it please..........ha ha ha ha!

[Ferris]

Kiss your what?

[Werebear]

Personally, I always favored noisome... though zuchetto is a nice word, and tough to use in everyday message posting.

Werebear

[This message has been edited by Werebear (edited 05-23-2002 01:18 PM).]

[mathgrant]

namby-pamby

[Werebear]

...count on mathgrant to use such namby-pamby words like that. Hey, the word describes itself! Any others out there? *Grin*

Werebear

[Vinny]

"word" ?

[Orbiting]

recherche
(can't manage the accent marks - anybody know how to do that?)

[Sofis]

Don't American keyboards have keys for diacritical marks? If so, that is so lame. I laugh at your pitiful keyboards :p.
áéíóúýàèìòùäëïöüÿâêîôûãñ (I can't do cedillas (as in ç), though.)

[This message has been edited by Sofis (edited 05-28-2002 03:15 PM).]

[EEEM]

We probably can, I just don't know how.

[Chuck]

It's easy. Copy and paste them from Sofis's post.

[Zealot]

There are keyboard codes to make letters with accent marks. For example, ALT + 0233 will type an é in Times New Roman. That is, hold down ALT and press 0233. To find the codes, use the character map. Mine is in my programs folder under accessories and then system tools. On one of my computers, the one with Windows ME, I had to download it.

[mathgrant]

Well, I won't get any namby-pamby Windows ME!

cat-o'-nine-tails

[Werebear]

Windows ME. *shudders* I'd say anyone who likes Win ME is...

puerile

Werebear

[Beartalon]

Personally WereBear, I like the word and acting:

tactile

but everyone probably knows what that means.

[Macros]

flibbertegibbet

i swear to god its a word

[Fat Man With Butt Plug]

I'll second that!

[mathgrant]

I hate that guy adamantly!!!!

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Sometimes life gives you a deck without any aces. Deal with it!
The person sending the Morse code message found that he couldn't properly do a dot. He exclaimed, "Dash it all!"

[Cadmium]

How about grandiloquence?

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F U cn rd dis U mst uz Unix.

[Macros]

magranth, adamant is a well known word, i request it is struck from the record
and fat an rocks, the jokes roll from him incessantly

[Hitchhiker]

Adam Ant is also a well-known singer.

How about nugatory?

[Orbiting]

How about legerdemain?

[Fat Man With Butt Plug]

Proctoparalysis
Ooooh, that hurts soooooo gooooooood!

[Amb]

All this pleonasm is driving me ludicrous

[mathgrant]

I still hate you, not because you're fat, but because of those last two words!

*hopes he's just a doppelganger*

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Sometimes life gives you a deck without any aces. Deal with it!
The person sending the Morse code message found that he couldn't properly do a dot. He exclaimed, "Dash it all!"

[Coyote]

Hmmm...well, I can kind of understand your objection to 'butt', since it's a well-known colloquialism for a part of the human anatomy.

And Lord knows, human anatomy is terribly offensive.

But I don't understand your inclusion of 'plug' as an objectionable word--seems a bit adventitious to me.



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The Grey Labyrinth--a twisty maze of little Passages, all different.

[dorkphish]

I wonder if I suffer from triskaidekaphobia

Originally posted by someone else:

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"13"

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :0

Okay I do

[Vinny]

holistic

adj.
1. Of or relating to holism.

2.
a. Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.
b. Concerned with wholes rather than analysis or separation into parts: holistic medicine; holistic ecology


[This message has been edited by Vinny (edited 10-05-2002 12:44 AM).]