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1Macumbeira
Nov 11, 2019, 3:39 pm

This quote made me think again about Rick's marvelous Vegas book

'One must draw everything one can from words, because it’s the one real treasure a true writer has. Big general ideas are in yesterday’s newspaper. If I like to take a word and turn it over to see its underside, shiny or dull or adorned with motley hues absent on its upperside, it’s not at all out of idle curiosity, one finds all sorts of curious things by studying the underside of a word – unexpected shadows of other words, harmonies between them, hidden beauties that suddenly reveal something beyond the word. Serious wordplay, as I have in mind, is neither a game of chance nor a mere embellishment of style. It’s a new verbal species that the marvelling author offers to the poor reader, who doesn’t want to look; to the good reader, who suddenly sees a completely new facet of an iridescent sentence'. ( Nabokov )

2Crypto-Willobie
Nov 11, 2019, 3:42 pm


'Words to me are but a plaything.'
-- Tommy Smothers

3RickHarsch
Nov 11, 2019, 6:41 pm

This has been running through my head for hours tonight:

Hear about the dead adjective?
Verbatim.

4RickHarsch
Nov 11, 2019, 6:42 pm

Word threads can go on forever. I will start with one of my favorite words:

fungus

5baswood
Nov 11, 2019, 6:53 pm

6RickHarsch
Nov 12, 2019, 6:02 am

Today's word, first fun one to come to mind:

trollop

7RickHarsch
Nov 13, 2019, 2:24 pm

angus

8George_Salis
Nov 13, 2019, 4:15 pm

A word I never saw before until last night: tramontane

A rare gem.

9RickHarsch
Editado: Nov 13, 2019, 4:21 pm

One of our winds here in the northern Adriatic region is the tramontana...Violent, occasionally spawns tornadoes, lasts around 20 minutes, summer storm wind from the north.

presumably called thus because the wind is from the mountains, sucked down by the rising heat...

10RickHarsch
Nov 13, 2019, 6:27 pm

phocine

commentary: many of these, like soricine, though nice to know and fun to use, could as far as the sound goes mean anything at all

Of course, it is words such as this, too, that Garcia Marquez would have chastized teachers for expecting children to learn how to spell them. I am with him entirely in regard to spelling being an unnecessary torture. No one should be forced to learn to spell against their will. But English spelling with all its quirks leads to much delight in both writing and reading. A guy who recently reviewed Eddie Vegas remarked on my expansive vocabulary--if only he knew how many words I use that I only know for a brief spell. If he asked me the meaning of all the words in that novel that he didn't know, I might not know half of them. I remember fremescent, though.

11RickHarsch
Nov 13, 2019, 6:27 pm

fremescent

12baswood
Nov 13, 2019, 6:53 pm

succour

To come to succour us, that succour want?

from The faerie Queene

13RickHarsch
Nov 13, 2019, 6:59 pm

Ah, that lost world. Today it's You come to suck or what? The present is brutal.

On a more serious note, isn't that question mark odd there?

14baswood
Nov 13, 2019, 7:19 pm

Its all part of Edmund Spenser cunning plan to involve the reader

the rest of the stanza is

How oft do they with golden pineons, cleave
The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant,
Against foul feends to aide us militant?

15RickHarsch
Nov 13, 2019, 8:17 pm

I never trusted that geezer

16RickHarsch
Nov 13, 2019, 8:17 pm

geezer

17RickHarsch
Nov 14, 2019, 3:32 pm

fartissimo

18George_Salis
Nov 14, 2019, 4:18 pm

agapemone

19Crypto-Willobie
Nov 14, 2019, 5:01 pm


homoscedasticity

20RickHarsch
Nov 15, 2019, 7:06 am

agape

21George_Salis
Nov 15, 2019, 12:45 pm

Greek words are the best. Taken from the notes to my third novel: Omphaloskepsis

22RickHarsch
Nov 15, 2019, 12:59 pm

innate

23RickHarsch
Nov 15, 2019, 12:59 pm

in nates

24RickHarsch
Nov 15, 2019, 12:59 pm

in Nejc (Slovene name)

25RickHarsch
Nov 15, 2019, 3:45 pm

Bolide

(bolibidinous)

26Macumbeira
Nov 15, 2019, 4:03 pm

Merriam webster define katabasis and anabasis as follows,

katabasis : a going or marching down or back : RETREAT
especially : a military retreat

anabasis : from the retreat of Greek mercenaries in Asia Minor described in the Anabasis of Xenophon : a difficult and dangerous military retreat

But they are the opposite, not ?

27RickHarsch
Nov 15, 2019, 4:38 pm

Along with Black Spring I found the Collosus of Maroussi in which Henry Miller explores the philosophical meanings and implications of katabasis, which means to descend (in order to gain something like liberation) (much like the essence of Tantric Hinduism)...The bora/burja is a katabatic wind, air sucked down form cold mountain heights when hot air over water (usually) rises...

Who was Merriam Webster anyway? Was she of the Lexington Websters?

28RickHarsch
Nov 15, 2019, 5:51 pm

disciplitude

And with this post, the brand new Anal-retentives group moves into the top ten most active on Library Thing!

29Crypto-Willobie
Nov 15, 2019, 9:20 pm

innate, innit?

30RickHarsch
Nov 16, 2019, 8:55 am

scorch

31George_Salis
Nov 16, 2019, 1:33 pm

Another one from Miss Mac: fuliginous

32RickHarsch
Nov 16, 2019, 5:43 pm

galoot

33RickHarsch
Nov 17, 2019, 7:28 am

ferment

fremescent

(2 for 1 on Sundays)

34AndreasJ
Nov 17, 2019, 3:47 pm

>26 Macumbeira:

Xenophon's book is named for the march "up country" that preceded the retreat.

I don't think I've ever seen it used to mean "retreat"; on the few times I've seen it used at all, it's been of military expeditions into the Asian hinterlands, specifically those of Cyrus the Younger (whom Xenophon accompanied), Alexander the Great, or Antiochos III.

35baswood
Nov 17, 2019, 4:43 pm

quinsy

36RickHarsch
Nov 17, 2019, 5:12 pm

frottage

37RickHarsch
Nov 18, 2019, 11:45 am

tippler

38baswood
Nov 18, 2019, 6:29 pm

concomitant.

39baswood
Nov 18, 2019, 7:08 pm

solipsist

40RickHarsch
Nov 18, 2019, 7:24 pm

sorelipissed

41RickHarsch
Nov 18, 2019, 7:25 pm

formicant

42George_Salis
Nov 19, 2019, 3:38 am

Hypogeum

43George_Salis
Nov 19, 2019, 3:39 am

Organon

44George_Salis
Nov 19, 2019, 3:40 am

Hamartia

45baswood
Nov 19, 2019, 5:37 am

skeptophilia

46RickHarsch
Nov 19, 2019, 10:20 am

>45 baswood: hilarious

47baswood
Nov 19, 2019, 12:05 pm

thought we might change the name of this group to Skeptophiliacs?

48Macumbeira
Nov 19, 2019, 1:41 pm

>47 baswood: I am pro !

49RickHarsch
Nov 19, 2019, 6:46 pm

hypogeal skeptophiliacs!

50RickHarsch
Nov 19, 2019, 6:46 pm

phocine

51George_Salis
Nov 20, 2019, 12:58 am

susurration

52RickHarsch
Nov 20, 2019, 10:55 am

flatulence

53blackdogbooks
Nov 20, 2019, 11:51 am

Saw an interesting flick on the composition of the Oxford dictionary - The Professor and the Madman.

54RickHarsch
Nov 20, 2019, 1:05 pm

And you can't contribute a word?

55baswood
Nov 21, 2019, 10:52 am

casuistry

56George_Salis
Nov 21, 2019, 2:47 pm

Nemes

57RickHarsch
Nov 21, 2019, 6:40 pm

nemes? in English?

58RickHarsch
Nov 21, 2019, 6:41 pm

sophistry

Sofaphile

59RickHarsch
Nov 21, 2019, 6:43 pm

grecophobe

60alco261
Nov 21, 2019, 8:42 pm

>19 Crypto-Willobie: ....and heteroskedasticity too....

metacarpophalangeal cavitation

61librorumamans
Nov 21, 2019, 10:53 pm

I'm very fond of squoyle which the OED defines by quotation thus:

"Squoyle in the New Forest..properly signifies a short stick loaded at one end with lead,..and is distinguished from a ‘snog’, which is only weighted with wood."
— J. R. Wise New Forest (1863)

62librorumamans
Nov 21, 2019, 10:54 pm

pusillanimous

63RickHarsch
Editado: Nov 22, 2019, 6:10 am

>61 librorumamans: Where I come from we scoff at the squoylees as we call them. We is snoggers!

64RickHarsch
Nov 22, 2019, 6:11 am

pustulant, pusillanimous, psoreyeass squoylees

65RickHarsch
Nov 23, 2019, 6:47 am

sludge

66Crypto-Willobie
Nov 23, 2019, 10:01 am

>60 alco261:

When I was three years old my statistician dad and his statistician friends thought it amusing to teach me to say 'homoscedasticity'. Not sure how well I did but thereafter it was a 'family word'...

67baswood
Nov 23, 2019, 11:45 am

>66 Crypto-Willobie: I had to look that up of course and then came to the conclusion that there are many words I will never understand

68baswood
Nov 23, 2019, 12:13 pm

voluptuary

69RickHarsch
Nov 23, 2019, 12:26 pm

Voluptuary

70RickHarsch
Nov 23, 2019, 12:27 pm

>66 Crypto-Willobie: In my house words that started with homo were not allowed. To this day when I make a gay or lesbian friend I ask if I can call them homosexual.

71Crypto-Willobie
Nov 23, 2019, 2:01 pm

Homo don't play dat...

72RickHarsch
Nov 23, 2019, 2:46 pm

zap

73librorumamans
Nov 23, 2019, 6:34 pm

scrump (v.)

74RickHarsch
Nov 23, 2019, 7:40 pm

Scrumpral (adj)

75Macumbeira
Nov 24, 2019, 12:13 am

bloviator

76RickHarsch
Nov 24, 2019, 8:03 am

gasbag

77librorumamans
Nov 24, 2019, 12:13 pm

scrump (v.)

Passing the Hendersons' orchard in that hot, heavy evening air, the boys hopped the fence to scrump among the trees, unable to resist the sweet scent of winesaps, empires, and spartans. They emerged a quarter hour later with bulging pockets and sticky chins. Jeremy, having stripped off and knotted the bottom of his t-shirt, nestled his haul in his arm, savouring its smell, as in later years he would each of his children, asleep having nursed their fill.

78RickHarsch
Nov 24, 2019, 1:34 pm

Despite his scrumpral past, Jeremy was vitamin deficient, a condition he attributed to having a man's name and a woman's milk sacs, though causals baffled him in their infinite jestrickery.

79baswood
Nov 25, 2019, 5:32 pm

concupiscence

80RickHarsch
Nov 25, 2019, 5:42 pm

satyriasis

81RickHarsch
Nov 27, 2019, 9:46 pm

sapid

82Macumbeira
Nov 27, 2019, 11:32 pm

taradiddle

83RickHarsch
Nov 28, 2019, 11:59 am

paradiddle

84RickHarsch
Nov 28, 2019, 6:05 pm

gibbon

85George_Salis
Nov 28, 2019, 11:08 pm

fragglestickcar

86RickHarsch
Nov 29, 2019, 6:03 am

rumpus

87RickHarsch
Nov 29, 2019, 6:14 pm

fribble

88George_Salis
Nov 30, 2019, 5:23 am

stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky

89RickHarsch
Nov 30, 2019, 9:58 am

I dreamed hit afternoon (slept til 3pm) that I was head of a small state and met with Stalin.

pizda

90RickHarsch
Nov 30, 2019, 9:59 am

kurac

91librorumamans
Nov 30, 2019, 11:56 am

kulak

92Crypto-Willobie
Nov 30, 2019, 2:27 pm

cletter

93Macumbeira
Nov 30, 2019, 3:59 pm

bombazine is a twilled fabric

94Macumbeira
Nov 30, 2019, 4:08 pm

scoria

95baswood
Nov 30, 2019, 4:44 pm

Psoriasis - very similar perhaps.

96Macumbeira
Dez 1, 2019, 1:38 am

: )

I found scoria in Moby Dick, where it is used as geological "refuse" or "slag"

97RickHarsch
Dez 1, 2019, 10:22 am

pus

98Crypto-Willobie
Dez 1, 2019, 11:43 am

clyster-pipe

99librorumamans
Dez 1, 2019, 11:53 am

suppuration

100RickHarsch
Dez 1, 2019, 11:11 pm

sanguinopurulence

101RickHarsch
Dez 1, 2019, 11:12 pm

clyster

102George_Salis
Dez 3, 2019, 7:01 am

tergiversation

103RickHarsch
Dez 3, 2019, 9:33 am

treble

104baswood
Dez 3, 2019, 10:57 am

paynim

105RickHarsch
Dez 3, 2019, 11:24 am

flap

106baswood
Dez 3, 2019, 12:05 pm

flapula

107librorumamans
Dez 3, 2019, 1:10 pm

frenulum

108RickHarsch
Dez 3, 2019, 3:14 pm

infundibuliform

109baswood
Dez 8, 2019, 5:20 am

wight

110RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 11:18 am

gerbil

111Macumbeira
Dez 8, 2019, 1:29 pm

whirliwig

112RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 4:34 pm

whirligig

113RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 4:34 pm

staunch

stanch

stench

114RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 8:59 pm

fingent

115RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 8:59 pm

finch

116RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 9:00 pm

flinch

117RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 9:00 pm

louche

118RickHarsch
Editado: Dez 8, 2019, 9:01 pm

coleoptera

119RickHarsch
Editado: Dez 8, 2019, 9:02 pm

coleoptile

120RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 9:02 pm

coleoptile, alternate meaning, neologism, a beetle shaped lizard

121RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 9:03 pm

coleoptophile

122RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 9:06 pm

bug: "an insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking."

123RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 9:07 pm

hoard

124RickHarsch
Dez 8, 2019, 9:08 pm

ermission

125librorumamans
Dez 9, 2019, 12:20 am

retromingent

126RickHarsch
Dez 9, 2019, 3:39 am

Define backwards.

127librorumamans
Dez 9, 2019, 9:26 am

sdrawkcab, obviously!

128RickHarsch
Dez 9, 2019, 12:14 pm

wrong! It's enifed

129RickHarsch
Dez 9, 2019, 12:14 pm

Or is this just me in the grip of retromingency?

130librorumamans
Dez 9, 2019, 12:28 pm

If that's the case, I suggest seeking immediate medical attention.

131RickHarsch
Dez 9, 2019, 12:37 pm

No need: I figured it out: just turned around...

132librorumamans
Dez 9, 2019, 12:56 pm

Good thinking, as long as you're not overly callipygian!

A word for which I am grateful, as I recall, to Aldous Huxley.

133RickHarsch
Dez 9, 2019, 1:13 pm

mesopygian...one of my favorites because if you type it into google I'm in the first entry, from my first vocable entry in LT back in 2011. Previously my use of it in a novel had been noted as one of two literary examples of it by some obscure oddword site that I can no longer find. Probably it split in half and, well, you know...

134librorumamans
Dez 9, 2019, 1:46 pm

as distinct from, say, hemipygian?

135RickHarsch
Dez 9, 2019, 3:36 pm

or homing pigeon

136RickHarsch
Dez 10, 2019, 1:12 pm

tippler

137RickHarsch
Dez 10, 2019, 1:12 pm

sot

138RickHarsch
Dez 10, 2019, 1:13 pm

guzzler

139Macumbeira
Dez 10, 2019, 1:32 pm

slut

140librorumamans
Dez 10, 2019, 5:15 pm

crapulent

141RickHarsch
Dez 10, 2019, 5:23 pm

periodically

142librorumamans
Dez 10, 2019, 6:05 pm

but not since the last time

143RickHarsch
Dez 11, 2019, 1:54 am

sporadicity

144baswood
Dez 11, 2019, 12:55 pm

impetrate

145RickHarsch
Dez 12, 2019, 8:42 am

flocculent

146RickHarsch
Dez 12, 2019, 11:46 am

integument

147baswood
Dez 12, 2019, 6:52 pm

Brexit

148librorumamans
Dez 12, 2019, 10:54 pm

autodismemberment

149RickHarsch
Dez 13, 2019, 3:16 am

lqarl

150RickHarsch
Dez 13, 2019, 3:16 am

autodidactyl

151Macumbeira
Dez 13, 2019, 2:29 pm

autopterodactyl

152RickHarsch
Dez 13, 2019, 2:53 pm

pterodactylant

153Macumbeira
Dez 14, 2019, 12:11 am

pterodactylo

154RickHarsch
Dez 14, 2019, 6:46 am

dactylosis

155Macumbeira
Editado: Dez 14, 2019, 2:05 pm

halitosis

156RickHarsch
Dez 14, 2019, 2:09 pm

I predicted that one.

Mephitis

157librorumamans
Dez 14, 2019, 8:02 pm

decussate ≠ bowdlerize

158Macumbeira
Dez 15, 2019, 5:06 am

scoria

159RickHarsch
Dez 15, 2019, 6:29 am

Ricardo Scoria, I taught him in Trieste.

160baswood
Dez 15, 2019, 6:50 am

161RickHarsch
Dez 15, 2019, 12:28 pm

Of course. Turning circle, a necessary collocation for budding navigators.

162Macumbeira
Dez 15, 2019, 2:39 pm

>161 RickHarsch:
I am reading the new Abulafia. Very good !
Not so good as your circumcision of Navigation, but close

163RickHarsch
Dez 15, 2019, 3:34 pm

These university tied folk never seem to get the genitalia that inflames the conflicting processes.

164RickHarsch
Dez 15, 2019, 4:11 pm

impertinent

165librorumamans
Dez 15, 2019, 5:02 pm

rebarbative

166RickHarsch
Dez 15, 2019, 5:38 pm

I say if the barbative is off the first time, leave it be

167baswood
Dez 16, 2019, 4:30 pm

rast

168baswood
Dez 17, 2019, 6:04 am

mickle

169RickHarsch
Dez 17, 2019, 8:17 am

goanna

170baswood
Dez 17, 2019, 9:12 am

uniparous

171RickHarsch
Dez 17, 2019, 9:40 am

primiparous

172RickHarsch
Dez 17, 2019, 9:41 am

parous, france

173RickHarsch
Dez 17, 2019, 9:41 am

porous pants

174baswood
Dez 17, 2019, 11:47 am

emunction

175librorumamans
Dez 17, 2019, 12:44 pm

a mickle needs a muckle

176George_Salis
Dez 18, 2019, 3:13 pm

deipnosophist

177baswood
Dez 19, 2019, 10:17 am

unbraste

178librorumamans
Dez 19, 2019, 11:24 am

lubricious

I love how, Mae-West-like, you can draw out the syllables of this word so that becomes in effect onomatopoeic.

179Macumbeira
Dez 19, 2019, 2:25 pm

harsch

180baswood
Dez 22, 2019, 4:01 pm

pensum

181baswood
Dez 22, 2019, 4:02 pm

skulking

182baswood
Dez 22, 2019, 6:10 pm

ataraxy

183Macumbeira
Dez 23, 2019, 2:42 pm

Ochlocracy

184RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:36 pm

prison

185RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:36 pm

Escape

186RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:38 pm

PERSIFLAGE

187RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:38 pm

giddy

188RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:39 pm

freshair

189RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:39 pm

it's the little things one misses in the stir

190RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:39 pm

ah, to read on the potty

191RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:39 pm

my own tooth brush...

192RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:40 pm

I miss my cell mate, that saucy gorilla

193RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 5:43 pm

toxygen

194baswood
Dez 23, 2019, 6:12 pm

sucking stones

195RickHarsch
Dez 23, 2019, 6:19 pm

The Beckett Cure (make of a free prison the whole of the near environment)

196Macumbeira
Dez 23, 2019, 10:57 pm

hurrah

197baswood
Dez 24, 2019, 3:35 am

supererogation

198baswood
Dez 24, 2019, 4:05 am

lepping

199RickHarsch
Dez 24, 2019, 10:13 am

flabellifer

200baswood
Dez 25, 2019, 4:06 am

throes

201RickHarsch
Dez 25, 2019, 12:16 pm

grippe

202RickHarsch
Dez 25, 2019, 12:18 pm

epiphyte

203Macumbeira
Dez 25, 2019, 11:17 pm

ulotrichous

204baswood
Dez 26, 2019, 4:23 am

a fortiori

205baswood
Dez 26, 2019, 4:46 am

drugget

206RickHarsch
Dez 26, 2019, 6:57 am

flocculent (see 203)

207RickHarsch
Dez 26, 2019, 6:59 am

mediocrerogation

208Macumbeira
Dez 26, 2019, 11:38 am

to prate

209RickHarsch
Dez 26, 2019, 12:41 pm

or not to

210baswood
Dez 26, 2019, 6:00 pm

manstuprating manustuprating

211librorumamans
Dez 26, 2019, 11:56 pm

Defenestrate

212Macumbeira
Dez 27, 2019, 1:03 am

Sesquipedalian

213baswood
Dez 27, 2019, 3:46 am

gravid

214baswood
Dez 27, 2019, 3:48 am

bugaboos

215RickHarsch
Dez 27, 2019, 6:31 am

glom

216Macumbeira
Editado: Dez 27, 2019, 6:39 am

xertz

217Macumbeira
Dez 27, 2019, 6:53 am

conundrums

218RickHarsch
Dez 27, 2019, 12:13 pm

Addumbdumb

219RickHarsch
Dez 27, 2019, 12:13 pm

wart

220RickHarsch
Dez 27, 2019, 12:13 pm

goiter

221RickHarsch
Dez 27, 2019, 12:14 pm

carbuncle

222Macumbeira
Dez 28, 2019, 1:34 am

sociolect

223Macumbeira
Dez 28, 2019, 1:43 am

Jugaad

224RickHarsch
Dez 28, 2019, 4:56 am

jughead

225Macumbeira
Dez 28, 2019, 6:36 am

jarhead

226RickHarsch
Dez 28, 2019, 10:39 am

filth

227RickHarsch
Dez 28, 2019, 10:39 am

blather

228RickHarsch
Dez 28, 2019, 10:39 am

nincompoop

229baswood
Dez 28, 2019, 11:53 am

Pali

230baswood
Dez 28, 2019, 2:24 pm

lingo

231baswood
Dez 28, 2019, 2:32 pm

endoskeletal

232Macumbeira
Dez 28, 2019, 4:09 pm

mulct

233Macumbeira
Dez 28, 2019, 4:10 pm

mephitic

234Macumbeira
Dez 28, 2019, 4:10 pm

Callipygian

235RickHarsch
Dez 29, 2019, 7:52 am

flak

236Macumbeira
Dez 29, 2019, 8:59 am

klaf

237RickHarsch
Dez 29, 2019, 3:38 pm

kinnikinnik

238Macumbeira
Dez 29, 2019, 10:46 pm

we are sliding down a less intellectual slope

239Macumbeira
Dez 29, 2019, 10:47 pm

ha'porth

240RickHarsch
Dez 30, 2019, 8:05 am

bole

241baswood
Jan 1, 2020, 5:01 am

stichomythia

242baswood
Jan 1, 2020, 5:17 am

gallimaufry

243baswood
Jan 1, 2020, 6:14 am

guerdon

244baswood
Jan 1, 2020, 6:51 am

contiguity

245Macumbeira
Jan 1, 2020, 8:03 am

periplous

246RickHarsch
Jan 1, 2020, 8:20 am

baffing

247baswood
Jan 1, 2020, 9:03 am

theophany

248baswood
Jan 2, 2020, 10:18 am

nemesis

249baswood
Jan 2, 2020, 11:42 am

extempore

250baswood
Jan 2, 2020, 12:28 pm

proverbial

251baswood
Jan 2, 2020, 5:05 pm

sparagmos

252baswood
Jan 2, 2020, 5:11 pm

sumptuous

253librorumamans
Editado: Jan 2, 2020, 11:54 pm

repetitive and loquacious and run-on and polysyndeton

254baswood
Jan 3, 2020, 5:57 am

cornucopia

255Macumbeira
Jan 3, 2020, 1:56 pm

loitering time

256Macumbeira
Jan 3, 2020, 3:41 pm

impercipient

257Macumbeira
Jan 4, 2020, 2:00 am

hienal

258baswood
Jan 4, 2020, 10:38 am

semiosis

259Macumbeira
Jan 4, 2020, 2:19 pm

braggadocio

260baswood
Jan 4, 2020, 4:37 pm

>259 Macumbeira: Character from the Faerie Queene, and so a word invented by Edmund Spenser?

261RickHarsch
Jan 4, 2020, 4:42 pm

festoon

262Macumbeira
Jan 4, 2020, 11:30 pm

>260 baswood: indeed. Word is quite popular in American politics

263baswood
Jan 5, 2020, 6:29 pm

laterite

264RickHarsch
Jan 5, 2020, 10:13 pm

imponderable (a word I often think about)

265Macumbeira
Jan 5, 2020, 11:14 pm

kibitzer

266baswood
Jan 7, 2020, 5:11 pm

off-ox

267baswood
Jan 7, 2020, 5:11 pm

ornery

268baswood
Jan 7, 2020, 5:14 pm

sumac

269RickHarsch
Jan 7, 2020, 5:15 pm

crass

270baswood
Jan 8, 2020, 1:24 pm

carnivalesque

271RickHarsch
Jan 8, 2020, 1:44 pm

desquamate or have we already?

272baswood
Jan 8, 2020, 3:26 pm

epideictic

273baswood
Jan 9, 2020, 4:51 am

alderliefest

274RickHarsch
Jan 9, 2020, 7:09 am

balderdash

275baswood
Jan 12, 2020, 11:10 am

philoprogenitive

276baswood
Jan 12, 2020, 11:17 am

eupeptic

277baswood
Jan 12, 2020, 1:39 pm

pullulate

278Macumbeira
Jan 12, 2020, 2:19 pm

Speaking of words, I recommend the movie The Professor and the Madman
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5932728/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2
It is a bit light but interesting nevertheless

279baswood
Jan 12, 2020, 7:23 pm

>278 Macumbeira: Interesting

280librorumamans
Jan 12, 2020, 9:06 pm

>278 Macumbeira:

Better than the movie, the book on which it's based.

Better than either: Caught in the web of words : James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary.

281librorumamans
Jan 12, 2020, 9:11 pm

". . . I guess I am simply accustomed to dealing with more edulcorated versions of xenophobia."

Valeria Luiselli. Lost children archive, p. 124.

282RickHarsch
Jan 13, 2020, 1:01 am

Droop

283Macumbeira
Jan 13, 2020, 11:08 pm

shellacking

284RickHarsch
Jan 14, 2020, 1:53 pm

frappe

285RickHarsch
Jan 15, 2020, 4:46 pm

tramp

286RickHarsch
Jan 15, 2020, 4:46 pm

scamp

287baswood
Jan 16, 2020, 3:54 am

crapulous

288baswood
Jan 16, 2020, 4:00 am

dahaga

289baswood
Jan 16, 2020, 4:30 am

antimacassar

290RickHarsch
Jan 16, 2020, 6:53 am

bilious

291baswood
Jan 16, 2020, 4:45 pm

adiposity

292RickHarsch
Jan 16, 2020, 7:29 pm

trapeze

293baswood
Jan 17, 2020, 9:17 am

pyrexia

294baswood
Jan 17, 2020, 1:24 pm

agape

295RickHarsch
Jan 17, 2020, 1:47 pm

epoxy

296RickHarsch
Jan 17, 2020, 1:48 pm

lip

297baswood
Jan 17, 2020, 4:46 pm

resin

298RickHarsch
Jan 18, 2020, 10:32 am

detonate

299Macumbeira
Jan 18, 2020, 3:26 pm

gambit

300Macumbeira
Jan 18, 2020, 3:26 pm

gambite

301Macumbeira
Jan 18, 2020, 3:27 pm

gamebite

302RickHarsch
Jan 18, 2020, 6:46 pm

daddypose

303RickHarsch
Jan 18, 2020, 6:47 pm

and of course gambol.

304RickHarsch
Jan 18, 2020, 6:47 pm

Dare we get thematic? I was thinking of words that are utterly innocent but sound obscene....like daddypose.

305RickHarsch
Jan 18, 2020, 6:48 pm

ply

306RickHarsch
Jan 18, 2020, 6:48 pm

labellum

307RickHarsch
Jan 18, 2020, 6:49 pm

ligula

308baswood
Jan 18, 2020, 6:56 pm

goose

309baswood
Jan 19, 2020, 4:45 am

quiddity

310RickHarsch
Jan 20, 2020, 10:07 am

glace

311baswood
Jan 21, 2020, 5:16 pm

pronity

312RickHarsch
Jan 21, 2020, 6:40 pm

traipse

313RickHarsch
Jan 21, 2020, 6:40 pm

esprit!

314RickHarsch
Jan 21, 2020, 6:41 pm

pronated (feet)

315RickHarsch
Jan 21, 2020, 6:41 pm

I vote pronity for the worst word so far.

316RickHarsch
Jan 21, 2020, 6:42 pm

patsy

317baswood
Jan 21, 2020, 6:54 pm

A pronity to post the worst word? It does sound horrible, But I am going to use it three times tomorrow (when speaking English) to see if it produces raised eyebrows. Then I can say using pronity has a pronity to raise eyebrows.

318librorumamans
Jan 23, 2020, 11:47 pm

ptyas

319baswood
Jan 24, 2020, 4:08 am

intrinsic

320RickHarsch
Jan 24, 2020, 5:07 am

runt

321RickHarsch
Jan 24, 2020, 5:39 pm

turn

322RickHarsch
Jan 24, 2020, 5:39 pm

nutria

323baswood
Jan 24, 2020, 6:17 pm

Antria

324baswood
Jan 24, 2020, 6:48 pm

daedalian

325librorumamans
Jan 24, 2020, 11:32 pm

I'm reading an analysis of a queer space by a cultural geographer. For this out-of-date old fart, it's a mine of bizarre jargon. I'll start with

catachresis

because a number of those words seem to be (mis)appropriated from other disciplines or from common use.

326baswood
Jan 25, 2020, 3:58 am

>325 librorumamans: I'm going to have to look these ones up. catachresis is a good start.

327RickHarsch
Jan 25, 2020, 5:38 am

I'll tell you one thing, other than a three week attack of spinal ephesus a few years ago, an attack of catachresis was one of the most painful non-surgical events in my life.

328RickHarsch
Jan 25, 2020, 5:38 am

dandle

329RickHarsch
Jan 25, 2020, 5:38 am

sic

330RickHarsch
Jan 25, 2020, 5:38 am

nit

331RickHarsch
Editado: Jan 27, 2020, 2:48 pm

One page of Anatomy of Melancholy to bolster the ol vocab:

Elixation

the action of boiling or seething...makes sense...elixir

332RickHarsch
Editado: Jan 27, 2020, 2:49 pm

assation

the act of baking or roasting

333RickHarsch
Editado: Jan 27, 2020, 2:49 pm

chylification

the formation of chyle

334RickHarsch
Editado: Jan 27, 2020, 2:52 pm

siccity

The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above.

ah: Noun
(uncountable)

Dryness.
Origin
From Latin siccitas, from siccus (“dry”).

335RickHarsch
Jan 27, 2020, 2:50 pm

chyle

that which is chylified

(or, lymph that is milky from emulsified fats, characteristically present in the lacteals, and most apparent during intestinal absorption of fats)

336baswood
Jan 29, 2020, 6:33 am

sublimation, calcination, rubification, encorporation, circination, sementation, albification, fermentation - it's all alchemy

337RickHarsch
Jan 29, 2020, 12:07 pm

It's allchemie?

338RickHarsch
Jan 29, 2020, 12:08 pm

speaking of Periplus: I found the beginning of a novel in an old notebook with two potential titles in it:
The Quietus of Spur Tank Road
The Periplus of Spur Tank Road

Spur Tank Road is an old and very interesting road in Chennai...

339baswood
Jan 30, 2020, 4:24 am

cupreous

340baswood
Jan 30, 2020, 11:57 am

apocrypha

341baswood
Editado: Jan 30, 2020, 5:05 pm

philoprogenitive

342RickHarsch
Jan 31, 2020, 12:45 am

misanthrantigenitive

343baswood
Fev 2, 2020, 5:33 pm

valetudinarian

344baswood
Fev 2, 2020, 5:41 pm

flagitious

345RickHarsch
Fev 2, 2020, 6:37 pm

fandango

346RickHarsch
Fev 2, 2020, 10:47 pm

alfalfa

347RickHarsch
Fev 3, 2020, 7:44 am

flasher

348RickHarsch
Fev 3, 2020, 7:45 am

freshet

349baswood
Fev 3, 2020, 11:14 am

desuetude

350RickHarsch
Editado: Fev 3, 2020, 1:00 pm

memeism

I found it in Celine. Looked it up. It's a made up word from the new favorite 'meme'. So Celine must have meant me me ism. (Which makes sense in context.)

351baswood
Fev 3, 2020, 5:58 pm

irrefragable

352RickHarsch
Fev 3, 2020, 6:27 pm

isba (russian)

353baswood
Fev 3, 2020, 7:06 pm

Faddists

354baswood
Fev 6, 2020, 6:05 am

word-mechanic is a journalist according to Robert Heinlein

355librorumamans
Fev 8, 2020, 10:13 pm

excoriation

356RickHarsch
Fev 9, 2020, 6:12 pm

execration