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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 46 of 109 1 2 … 44 45 46 47 48 … 108 109 Go to page... Re: The Zeroth Dimension (tip my hat to Isaac Asimov) LukeJavan8 #220039 01/27/15 04:47 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter a stroke of bad luck wofahulicodoc #220040 01/27/15 04:58 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA APOPLECTIC PRONUNCIATION: (ap-uh-PLEK-tik) MEANING: adjective: 1. Extremely angry. 2. Relating to or affected by apoplexy (stroke). ETYMOLOGY: From Latin apoplecticus, from Greek apoplektikos (relating to a stroke), from apoplessein (to disable by a stroke). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plak- (to strike), which also gave us plague, plankton, fling, and complain. Earliest documented use: 1625. _________________________ APPLECTIC - can't read the instructions on my little downloaded smartphone program MAPOPLECTIC - @#$%^"# navigation program directed me straight into a swamp! AMPOPLECTIC - all of a sudden the power went out Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: a stroke of bad luck wofahulicodoc #220041 01/27/15 05:03 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,933 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,933 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water APOPELECTIC when a pope can't make a decision. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 'Lection is pending? LukeJavan8 #220042 01/27/15 07:02 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 APOPELECTIC when a pope can't make a decision. APOPELECTIC - interregnum at the Vatican ? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 'Lection is pending? wofahulicodoc #220043 01/27/15 09:04 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,933 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,933 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water Could definitely apply Last edited by LukeJavan8; 01/27/15 09:05 PM. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter a lot of gall, one way or another... wofahulicodoc #220052 01/28/15 05:16 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA JAUNDICED PRONUNCIATION: (JAHN-dist) MEANING: adjective: 1. Exhibiting prejudice from envy or resentment. 2. Having jaundice: a disease that makes the skin, white of the eyes, etc., to be yellow, caused by an increase of bile pigments in the blood. ETYMOLOGY: from Old French jaunice (yellowness), from jaune (yellow), from Latin galbinus (yellowish), from galbus (yellow). Earliest documented use: 1640. __________________________ FAUNDICED - showing the symptoms of a Pandemic JAUNDICTED - subjected to inflammatory discussion by a yellow journalist JAUNEDICED - cut into tiny little yellow cubes, viz. (Well,sorta. Do you like this one better?) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter - - - -capital crime. wofahulicodoc #220053 01/28/15 05:22 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,933 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,933 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water FAUNDICID(E) - murder of a faun (please excuse extra letter) ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter The Es have it wofahulicodoc #220061 01/29/15 02:38 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA METASTASIZE PRONUNCIATION: (muh-TAS-tuh-syz) MEANING: verb intr. 1. To spread or escalate in an undesirable manner. 2. (Of a cancer) To spread to other parts of the body. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin metastasis (transition), from Greek methistanai (to change), from meta- (beyond) + histanai (to set). Earliest documented use: 1907. ________________________________________ METASTASEIZE - Colonialism gone wild METESTASIZE - I should try one on and see how it fits (pron. "me-test-a-size") Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The Es have it wofahulicodoc #220079 01/30/15 02:40 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA SCABROUS PRONUNCIATION: (SKAB-ruhs) MEANING: adjective: 1. Rough: having small raised dots or scales. 2. Salacious. 3. Difficult to deal with; knotty. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin scaber (rough). Earliest documented use: 1585 ____________________________ SCARBROUS - a fair source of parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme CABROUS - Ubereal SABROUS - like a dance popularized by Aram Katchaturian in his Gayne Ballet * *Edit: These days they seem to prefer it be spelled "Khachaturian." Sigh. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The Es have it wofahulicodoc #220122 02/03/15 02:34 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA NIMROD PRONUNCIATION: (NIM-rod) MEANING: noun: 1. A stupid person. 2. A hunter. ETYMOLOGY: In the Bible, Nimrod was a hunter and Noah’s great-grandson. It’s not clear how the sense of the word transferred from a hunter to a stupid person, but the new sense was popularized in the Bugs Bunny cartoons when Bugs Bunny called rabbit-hunting Elmer Fudd as “Poor little Nimrod”. Earliest documented use for sense 1: 1933, for sense 2: 1623. Even earlier, the first recorded use in English is from 1548, in a now-obsolete sense as a tyrant. _______________________ NIMROAD - what you drive on to visit the rats (well, I suppose technically there should be an H in it, too ) AIMROD - a sighting device to assist in pointing a moderately large telescope at its desired target Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 46 of 109 1 2 … 44 45 46 47 48 … 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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