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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Looking for two words #190279 04/03/2010 7:37 PM Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 1 Mermietta stranger Mermietta stranger Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 1 I'm looking for two words: The first is the term for someone who dies on their birthday, and the second (which I may be making up) is the term for someone who has a large vocabulary... Any help would be appreciated, Thanks! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking for two words Mermietta #190281 04/03/2010 9:33 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass vocabularian - an obscure term which can take that meaning link Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking for two words Mermietta #190359 04/09/2010 9:06 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 If the baby dies inside or on it's way out of the mother then it is stillborn. If you mean a person dies on the same calendar day as when he was born, then I don't know if there is a word for that. If he happens to be at a birthday party in his favour when he kacks off, well we can call him unlucky. HA! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking for two words belMarduk #190361 04/09/2010 10:33 PM Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 655 Florida, USA beck123 addict beck123 addict Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 655 Florida, USA Originally Posted By: belMarduk If you mean a person dies on the same calendar day as when he was born, then I don't know if there is a word for that. I don't know of any distinguishing word for the case described. "Befuddler" will probably be used by some genealogist far in the future. And dying on one's birthday will save the estate some money at the stone carver, so it may deserve its own word. Maybe we can coin "natamortuant" or "annicadaver" (the latter of which, though probably in use already as the name of some emo garage band, does roll off the tongue in a pleasing manner.) "Poor bastard," while probably spoken under these circumstances more often than not, has too many other applications to be useful here. "I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking for two words beck123 #190364 04/09/2010 11:50 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 ..."Poor bastard," while probably spoken under these circumstances more often than not, has too many other applications to be useful here. HA! True, but appropriate. Natamortuant sounds a little too funeral homish; you know, like how they use every euphamism available to avoid saying "the dead guy" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking for two words belMarduk #190365 04/10/2010 12:02 AM Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 655 Florida, USA beck123 addict beck123 addict Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 655 Florida, USA Maybe "natamort?" "I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking for two words Mermietta #190499 04/16/2010 11:23 AM Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 18 Onamography stranger Onamography stranger Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 18 Originally Posted By: Mermietta The first is the term for someone who dies on their birthday, Since candles are used on both occasions, probably 'Candlearian' would work. www.onamography.com Support us here --> Facebook Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Looking for two words Mermietta #190501 04/16/2010 11:31 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh someone who dies on their birthday If I needed such a term, I would use "someone who died on their birthday". (The generic singular use of they did not even give me pause to wonder.) If something more exotic, ad hoc, and nonce-like is desired, one could read some biographies of people who died on the same day they were born. Collection of a list of such people would be a necessary prerequisite. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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