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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 24 1 2 3 4 5 … 23 24 Go to page... GOB'S POUND - what English sailors get paid in wofahulicodoc #232791 02/23/24 05:42 PM 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 LOB'S POUND PRONUNCIATION: (LOBZ pound or lobz POUND) MEANING: noun: 1. Prison. 2. Difficulty. 3. Entanglement. ETYMOLOGY: From lob (a bumpkin, lout) + pound (enclosure). Earliest documented use: 1597. ________________________________ LAB'S POUND - animal shelter that admits only Labrador Retrievers LOB'S POND - fishing hole out in the country LOEB'S POUND - one-man show about the modernist American poet, commissioned by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter ALIABLE - having no responsibility wofahulicodoc #232792 03/01/24 12:30 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 ALIBLE PRONUNCIATION: (AL-uh-buhl) MEANING: adjective: Nutritious; nourishing. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin alere (to nourish). Ultimately from the Indo-European root al- (to grow or to nourish), which also gave us adolescent, adult, old, alumnus, altitude, enhance, coalesce, prolific, altricial, adolesce, hauteur, and palimony. Earliest documented use: 1653. _______________________________ FALIBLE - capable of making misstakes ALIBLED - what happened when the boxer sustained a cut ALL-BLÉ - nothing but locally-grown flour in our French bread Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter FULGUARANT - 100% satisfied or your money back ! wofahulicodoc #232793 03/01/24 12:56 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 FULGURANT PRONUNCIATION: (FUHL/FULL-guh-ruhnt) MEANING: adjective: 1. Flashing like lightning. 2. Brilliant. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fulgurate (to flash), from fulgor (brightness), from fulgere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which also gave us blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, flame, refulgent , fulminate, and effulgent. Earliest documented use: 1611. __________________________ FULGRANT - a generous scholarship from the US government to fund "educational exchange" for US citizens to study abroad, and foreign students to do research here, at many levels of post-graduate study; it was begun after World War II after being proposed by Senator J. William Fulbright. FULGURANTE - what you need to join a red-hot poker game FUGURANT - capable of being developed into a many-voiced musical composition; Johann Sebastian Bach was a master of this type of composition Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter INFRACTUOUS - given to breaking rules wofahulicodoc #232794 03/01/24 01:17 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 ANFRACTUOUS PRONUNCIATION: (an-FRAK-choo-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Full of twists and turns. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin anfractus (winding), from an- (around) + fractus, past participle of frangere (to break). Earliest documented use: 1425. ____________________________ ANFRANCTUOUS - like the diary of a young girl caught up with her family in a catastrophic situation beyond her control ANFRACTIOUS - not unruly, quarrelsome, testy ANFRACTUOUS - never looking similar, no matter how much the scale is magnifed or reduced Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter (Honi soit qui mal y pense) wofahulicodoc #232795 03/01/24 01:38 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 HELlOTROPIC PRONUNCIATION: (hee-lee-uh-TROP-ik, -TROH-pik) MEANING: adjective: Turning toward the sun or the light. ETYMOLOGY: from Greek helio- (sun) + -tropic (turning). Earliest documented use: 1875. ________________________ HELlCOTROPIC - attracted to screwing HELLOTROPIC - tending to turn to face those who greet you ELlOT RO PIC - a photographic image created by Mr. E. Ro HE-LlON TROPIC - preferring the lion with the best mane Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter ANTELUKAN - describing the time of Anakin et al wofahulicodoc #232796 03/03/24 03:11 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 ANTELUCAN PRONUNCIATION: (an-tuh-LOO-kuhn) MEANING: adjective: Before dawn. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ante- (before) + lux (light). Earliest documented use: 1609. _____________________________ INTEL-U-CAN ! - motivational slogan for a chip-maker TANTE LUCAN - my mother's sister from Berlin ANTE-LUCAS - that would be Hollywood before 1977 and the release of Star Wars (His American Graffiti had come out in 1973, but that doesn't count) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter TER GIVE RATE - how much ya donate and how often wofahulicodoc #232799 03/05/24 08:16 PM 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 TERGIVERSATE PRONUNCIATION: (tuhr-JIV-uhr-sayt, TUHR-juh-vuhr-sayt) MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To evade or to equivocate. 2. To change one’s loyalties. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin tergiversari (to turn one’s back), from tergum (back) + vertere (to turn). Earliest documented use: 1654. ____________________________ HER GIVER'S ATE - a way of assigning an estimate to how she responds to fund-raising appeals FERGIVER SATE - ran outa patience with this kind of behavior TERGID VERSATE - producing bulging, ready-to-pop poetry Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter BLOGGERHEAD - chief internet poster wofahulicodoc #232800 03/06/24 03:09 PM 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 LOGGERHEAD PRONUNCIATION: (LOG-uhr-hed) MEANING: noun: 1. A blockhead: a dull or slow-witted person. 2. A loggerhead turtle. ETYMOLOGY: From dialectal logger (block of wood) + head, from Old English heafod (top of the body). Earliest documented use: 1595. _______________________________ LODGERHEAD - where the residents of the boarding house meet their bathroom needs LONGERHEAD - one way to differentiate among hammers LOGGER HEAR - how he knows to get out of the way when a tree is falling Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 'NOUGH - ...don't want no more wofahulicodoc #232801 03/06/24 03:20 PM 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 HOUGH PRONUNCIATION: (hok) MEANING: verb tr.: To cripple, disable, or to make ineffective. noun: The joint in the hind leg of a quadruped animal such as a horse, equivalent to the ankle in a human. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hoh (heel). Earliest documented use: 1400. __________________________ HOUSH - a drunk's residence PHO: UGH! - I don't like that Vietnamese soup HAUGH - a pugnacious air of superiority; if you have it you are "haughty" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter ANFRACTUOUS wofahulicodoc #232807 03/12/24 01:30 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 ANTIFRACTIOUS - holding together, like the strong nuclear force ANTIFACTIOUS - dogmatic and untrue ANAFRACTIOUS - breaking up (opposite of catafractious, breaking down) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 24 1 2 3 4 5 … 23 24 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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