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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 19 of 101 1 2 … 17 18 19 20 21 … 100 101 Go to page... ...talk about an appropriate Word for the Day :-( wofahulicodoc #230838 01/07/21 03:54 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA EXIGENCY PRONUNCIATION: (EK-si-jen-see, eg-ZIJ-uhn-see) MEANING: noun: An urgent need or requirement. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exigere (to demand, to drive out), from ex- + agere (to drive). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ag- (to drive, draw), which also gave us act, agent, agitate, litigate, synagogue, ambassador, exiguous, incogitant, intransigent, cogent, axiomatic, ambagious, ambage, agonistes, and actuate. Earliest documented use: 1588. ___________________________ EX-AGENCY - used to work for the CIA EXILENCY - 1. title of great respect; 2. expulsion EIGENCY - property of a vector which, when operated by a non-zero square matrix, gives a scalar multiple of itself Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter COST RUE - Buyers Remorse wofahulicodoc #230839 01/08/21 01:18 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA CONSTRUE PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-STROO) MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To interpret, understand, analyze, or explain. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin construere (to construct), from con- (with) + struere (to pile up or arrange). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ster- (to spread), which also gave us structure, industry, destroy, street, stratagem, stratum, stratocracy, and Russian perestroika. Earliest documented use: 1362. _______________________________________ CORNS TRUE - when your feet tell you it's going to rain, and it does CONSTRUM - the prisoner invented a new guitar-picking style COMSTRUE - what happens to your dream when you wish upon a star Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter DISINTER RESTED - dug up the body, then took a nap wofahulicodoc #230840 01/09/21 02:08 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA DISINTERESTED PRONUNCIATION: (dis-IN-truh-stuhd, dis-IN-tuh-res-tid) MEANING: adjective: 1. Free of bias or self-interest; impartial. 2. Indifferent or not interested. 3. No longer interested. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dis- (apart, away) + interesse (to be in between), from inter- (between) + esse (to be). Earliest documented use: 1631. ____________________________________ DISH - INTERESTED? - look at the figure on that girl! DIS I'N'T 'ERS, TED - Teddy, it doesn't belong to that woman DIS IN: THERE'S TED ! - Headline: "Senator Kennedy found!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter VARDY - having attended college in Cambridge, MA wofahulicodoc #230841 01/12/21 02:23 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA VARDY PRONUNCIATION: (VAHR-dee) MEANING: noun: Judgment or opinion. ETYMOLOGY: A dialect variant of verdit, from verdict, from Anglo-Norman ver (true) + dit (statement, speech), from dicere (to say). Ultimately from the Indo-European root deik- (to show, to pronounce solemnly), which also gave us judge, verdict, vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, paradigm, interdict, fatidic, diktat, retrodiction, and interdigitate. Earliest documented use: 1738. _____________________________ PARDY - what you do when you break it VERDY - a green opera composer BARDY - Shakespearean ______________________________________________ [Anu added: ...this shortening (or respelling of a word based on its pronunciation) happens more often than you might think. Chances are you already use such words without a second thought. Examples: ornery (from ordinary), raiment (from arrayment), and donut (from doughnut). An extreme example of this process of linguistic evolution is the transition of eleëmosynary to the present-day alms.] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter TUBEROUS - begonia-shaped wofahulicodoc #230842 01/13/21 01:30 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA JUBEROUS PRONUNCIATION: (JOOB-uhr-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Doubtful; undecided; hesitating. ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of dubious. Earliest documented use: 1871. _______________________________ J-JUBEROUS - resembling a small jelly candy JABEROUS - like a manxome creature with biting jaws and snatching claws and flaming eyes, that burbles as it whiffles through the woods UBEROUS - for hire to drive you somewhere Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter SCROUCH - when it itches, and also hurts wofahulicodoc #230843 01/14/21 12:47 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA SCROOCH PRONUNCIATION: (skrooch) MEANING: verb intr.: To crouch or huddle. verb tr.: To squeeze. ETYMOLOGY: A dialect variant scrouge (to squeeze or crowd), perhaps influenced by crouch. Earliest documented use: 1844. ________________________________ SHROOCH - when the catch-of-the-day was Haddock, instead of Cod (cf. scrod/shrod) SACRO-OCH - said by a Scotsman with a pain shooting down his leg SCROOGH - he who said "Bah, 'umbug" ________________________________ [not "scrunch" ?] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: VARDY - having attended college in Cambridge, MA wofahulicodoc #230844 01/14/21 05:15 AM Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,255 Likes: 7 London, UK A A C Bowden Pooh-Bah A C Bowden Pooh-Bah A Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,255 Likes: 7 London, UK Originally Posted by wofahulicodoc VARDY PRONUNCIATION: (VAHR-dee) Jamie Vardy – a leading British soccer player (plays for Leicester City). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: VARDY - having attended college in Cambridge, MA A C Bowden #230845 01/15/21 02:20 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Originally Posted by A C Bowden Originally Posted by wofahulicodoc VARDY PRONUNCIATION: (VAHR-dee) Jamie Vardy – a leading British soccer player (plays for Leicester City). Interesting. One might expect Anu to be aware of the football world. Is there also a Jouber or a Scrooch or a Meech who plays? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter TEECH - what a bad spelling instructor does wofahulicodoc #230846 01/15/21 02:28 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA MEECH PRONUNCIATION: (meech) MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To move in a furtive manner. 2. To loiter. 3. To whine. ETYMOLOGY: A variant of mitch (to steal, hide, shirk), from Old French muchier (to hide). Earliest documented use: 1624. ____________________________ CME - ECH - never was fond of compulsory Continuing Medical Education MERCH - Newspeak for "sales goods" MEECE - several gadgets I use for I/O on my old computers Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter SNOBOT - a positronic Saint Bernard dog wofahulicodoc #230847 01/16/21 03:21 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,731 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA SNOOT PRONUNCIATION: (snoot) MEANING: noun: 1. A snob. 2. A nose or snout. verb tr.: To treat with disdain. ETYMOLOGY: A variant of snout, of German/Dutch origin. Earliest documented use: 1861. ___________________________ SMOOT - a unit of length, measuring about 67 inches. Used in particular to measure the length of the MIT Bridge (Cambridge, MA), which is about 364.4 Smoots long (plus-or-minus one ear) SUNOOT - the weather on a bright day in Glasgow SNOWT - there's been a blizzard! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 19 of 101 1 2 … 17 18 19 20 21 … 100 101 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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