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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 43 of 109 1 2 … 41 42 43 44 45 … 108 109 Go to page... Re: No fair... wofahulicodoc #219769 01/07/15 03:17 AM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska BONGUEUR: The person who supplies, owns, or starts the water pipe. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: No fair... Tromboniator #219771 01/07/15 11:57 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Originally Posted By: Tromboniator BONGUEUR: The person who supplies, owns, or starts the water pipe. Good to know; I had thought it might be a poorly-enunciated French greeting. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Didn't we used to call that "Deus ex Machina"? wofahulicodoc #219772 01/07/15 12:12 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA (also called, "Becasue the author said so, that's why...") _________________________________________________ PERIPETIA or PERIPETEIA PRONUNCIATION: (per-uh-puh-TEE-uh, -TIE-uh) MEANING: noun: A sudden or unexpected change of fortune, especially in a literary work. A classic example is Oedipus learning about his parentage. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek peripiptein (to change suddenly), from peri- (near, around) + piptein (to fall). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, pterodactyl, helicopter, pterodactyl, propitious, pinnate, pteridology (study of ferns), lepidopterology (study of butterflies and moths), pencel (flag at the end of a lance), and impetuous. Earliest documented use: 1591. ___________________________ PERIPETELA - around the kneecap HERIPETIA - whatever you say, he'll say it again right afterwards EERIPETIA - the Hound of the Baskervilles, right! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter I can see clearly now wofahulicodoc #219785 01/08/15 01:41 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA LOCUS CLASSICUS PRONUNCIATION: (LO-kuhs KLAS-i-kuhs) MEANING: noun: An authoritative and often quoted passage from a book. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin locus (place) + classicus (classical, belonging to the first or highest class). Earliest documented use: 1853. ________________________________ FOCUS CLASSICUS - see biconvex lens LOCUS GLASSICUS - Murano, Venice, Italy LOCUST CLASSICUS - grasshopper (common or garden variety...in the presence of population pressure) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I can see clearly now wofahulicodoc #219798 01/08/15 11:08 PM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska LOCUS CLASTICUS – The old prison yard. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I can see clearly now Tromboniator #219802 01/09/15 02:30 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA I would have thought SCLASTICUS would be the schoolyard ? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I can see clearly now wofahulicodoc #219804 01/09/15 03:24 AM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska Breakin' rocks in the hot sun; I fought the law and the law won. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Recycle ! Tromboniator #219807 01/09/15 02:52 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Ah. LOCUS CLASHICUS. ____________________________ LITTERATEUR PRONUNCIATION: (lit-uhr-uh-TUR, lit-ruh-) MEANING: noun: An author of literary or critical works. ETYMOLOGY: From French littérateur, from Latin litterator (teacher of letters, grammarian, critic), from litterae (letters, literature), from littera (letter). Earliest documented use: 1806. _______________________________ LITTERATOUR - See the junkyards of the world! LITTERANTEUR - Templeton, the rat from Charlotte's Web for whom "a Fair is a veritable smorgasbord." Portmanteau word, from "litter" and "restauranteur." LISTERATEUR - shared a combined Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on germ theory and antisepsis. (Or would have, if there had been a Nobel Prize when they were active) _________________________________ Strange how many of this week's words are of European origin. English for all its richness is not yet the language of the Arts... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Fiat Lux wofahulicodoc #219849 01/12/15 05:33 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,710 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA APRICATE PRONUNCIATION: (AP-ri-kayt) MEANING: verb intr.: To bask in the sun. verb tr.: To expose to the sun. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin apricari (to bask in the sun). Earliest documented use: 1691. Despite a similar spelling, the word apricot has a different origin. It’s from Latin praecox (early-ripening). _________________________ CAPRICATE - to turn into a goat AGRICATE - to combine a whole bunch of little worthless swamps into one large farm APRILATE - May Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter - - - -mouth agape wofahulicodoc #219850 01/12/15 05:37 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,931 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,931 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water GAPRICATE- to stare at ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 43 of 109 1 2 … 41 42 43 44 45 … 108 109 Go to page... 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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