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you mean to say that you can degauss something but you can't gauss it?

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 Originally Posted By: tsuwm
... Hydra's inciteful and inflammatorily dahilistic suggestion to use the execrable reverse dictionary ...


There was no malice behind my jest. Just a bit of chummy badinage.

And FWIW, I was sure "galvanize", having satisfied all dale's conditions, was a winner.


But the search goes on...

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 Originally Posted By: Hydra
And FWIW, I was sure "galvanize", having satisfied all dale's conditions, was a winner.But the search goes on...

Nah, galvanize doesn't fit all the requirements. Galvanize just means to stimulate or goad into action, like giving someone an electric shock. The word dhman is looking for is more reflective and passive, and contains more along the lines of provoking enquiry by opening up new doors in the mind to step through or demonstrating how there are possibilities to explore that have been overlooked. Do I understand you right Dale?

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You could trawl through this list of eponyms Dale.

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two: Point well taken as that usage had slipped my ancient mind

Pook you most certainly do understand and you have defined the concept much more elegantly than I

Hydra: Bandiage and whimsy are most important in this atmosphere of collective dysfunctional internecine altercation

Thank you most kindly for that link which I have afforded a place of honor in my List of Faves

morph: Isn't "continuing on" redundant or something or were you merely entertaining a wisp of whimsy

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 Originally Posted By: dalehileman
a wisp of whimsy

Is that the same as a 'whim-o-the-wisp'?

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 Originally Posted By: dalehileman
a wisp of whimsy

Is that the same as a 'whim-o-the-wisp'?

That's it!!! He wants "flibbertigibbetify"!!! Right, Dale?

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morph: Isn't "continuing on" redundant or something or were you merely entertaining a wisp of whimsy

Let's by all means divert this epic quest off on a redundancy tangent. There might even be a beneficial result. Absent a stimulator device that can gently zap the tip-of-the-tongue area of the brain (hopefully without producing coprolalia), shifting attention to another subject may the best that can be done, allowing the recalcitrant memory bit ample room and opportunity to make a revelatory visit.


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 Originally Posted By: The Pook
 Originally Posted By: dalehileman
a wisp of whimsy

Is that the same as a 'whim-o-the-wisp'?

I have a need to keep my wispy circuits optimized, lest whimsy render me wistful.

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 Originally Posted By: twosleepy
 Originally Posted By: The Pook
 Originally Posted By: dalehileman
a wisp of whimsy

Is that the same as a 'whim-o-the-wisp'?

That's it!!! He wants "flibbertigibbetify"!!! Right, Dale?

I'm frequently reminded that nothing dredges the verbal channel like nonsense words—or phrases—or clauses—or sentences …

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