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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 27 of 27 1 2 … 25 26 27 Go to page... PAGNILOQUENT - my father uses long words wofahulicodoc #233195 12/15/24 03:24 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA MAGNILOQUENT PRONUNCIATION: (mag-NIL-uh-kwuhnt) MEANING: adjective: Characterized by lofty, grandiose, or pompous speech or writing. ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from magniloquence, from Latin magnus (large) + loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1640. _______________________________ MAGNILOQUEENT - delivered by our gifted orator of a monarch MAGNITOQUENT - ...wearing a large hat MAGNILOQUINT - full of five-syllable words Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter CURSET - blue vocabulary wofahulicodoc #233202 12/17/24 03:27 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA CORSET PRONUNCIATION: (KOR-sit/suht) MEANING: noun: A close-fitting undergarment, worn historically by women to shape the body and make the waistline smaller. verb tr.: To confine, control, or regulate strictly. ETYMOLOGY: From Old French corset, diminutive of cors (body), from Latin corpus (body). Earliest documented use: 1299. ___________________________________ CARSET - identical vehicles, one for each day of the week CORKSET - assorted bottle stoppers CORBET - Tom, the Space Cadet if the 1950s Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter TIGHT-RACED - neck-and-neck; not yet decided wofahulicodoc #233203 12/17/24 11:53 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA TIGHT-LACED PRONUNCIATION: (TYT-laysd) MEANING: adjective: Excessively proper, strict, or old-fashioned. ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to a tightly laced bodice, popular in the past. Earliest documented use: 1741. _______________________ TIGHT-LACKED - loose and rattling EIGHT-LACED - having multiple redundancies of fasteners TIGHT-PLACED - next to no wiggle-room Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter NO-DICE RIPPER - a flirt sending a mixed message wofahulicodoc #233210 12/23/24 03:14 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA BODICE-RIPPER PRONUNCIATION: (BOD-is rip-uhr) MEANING: noun: A type of historical romance, such as a novel or film, featuring passionate and often explicit romantic encounters and forced seduction. ETYMOLOGY: From bodice (fitted upper part of a woman’s dress), a respelling of bodies, plural of body + ripper, from rip, from Middle English ripper (to pull out sutures). Earliest documented use: 1979. ______________________ BODICE-ZIPPER - a closure that makes getting out of a tight corset much easier BODICE-RIPPLER - a maneuver that increases the showiness of the upper body, used by strip-teasers to call attention to their bosom without showing any more BODICE-TIPPER - customer who stuffs a $20-dollar-bill in a lap-dancer's bra Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter SEARCHY - trying to find something that's missing wofahulicodoc #233211 12/23/24 03:25 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA STARCHY PRONUNCIATION: (STAR-chee) MEANING: adjective: 1. Relating to, containing, or stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff and formal. ETYMOLOGY: From the use of starch in stiffening cotton and linen in laundering. Earliest documented use: 1633. ______________________ SITARCHY - government by stringed musical instruments playing ragas ST. ARCHY - how you address a canonized cockroach (according to Mehitabel) STAR CRY - what a movie idol does, after not winning the Oscar as expected Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter VELVET CLOVE - a spice with a smooth nappy flavor wofahulicodoc #233212 12/23/24 03:42 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA VELVET GLOVE PRONUNCIATION: (VEL-vet gluhv) MEANING: noun: An outward appearance of gentleness concealing an underlying firmness or resolve. ETYMOLOGY: From velvet, from Old French veluotte, from velu (velvety), from Latin villus (tuft) + glove, from Old English glof. Earliest documented use: 1850. ____________________________ VELVET GROVE - an orchard of velvet trees ELVET GLOVE - hand covering worn by the King on formal occasions (i.e. he wasn't playing the guitar) VELVET LOVE - the fondness of teens and pre-teens for a horse-loving 12-year-old, based on a story by Enid Bagnold and a 1940s movie with Mickey Rooney and a young Elizabeth Taylor Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter DI'S SECT - worshippers of Princess Diana wofahulicodoc #233213 12/23/24 02:48 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA DISJECT PRONUNCIATION: (dis-JEKT) MEANING: verb tr.: To scatter or disperse. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin disjicere (to scatter), from dis- (apart) + -jicere, from jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1581. ________________________ MISJECT - to commit a throwing error DISK-E.C.T. - shock therapy for a computer hard drive that's become psychotic and does crazy things DIS JEST - a joke by Rodney Dangerfield, who complained he never got any respect Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter AQUATIVE - watery wofahulicodoc #233219 12/24/24 07:58 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA EQUATIVE PRONUNCIATION: (EK-wuh-tiv) MEANING: adjective: Expressing identity or a degree of comparison. noun: A case in some languages indicating equivalence or similarity between two things. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aequare (to make equal). Earliest documented use: 1913. _______________________ PEQUATIVE - like a whaling ship EQUOTIVE - taking someone's words out of context EQUUTIVE - horsey EQUALIVE - falsely sweet; saccharine (as it were) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter ZYGOMORPHIC - shaped like a cheekbone wofahulicodoc #233225 12/26/24 06:36 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA ZYGOMORPHIC PRONUNCIATION: (zy-guh-MOR-fik) MEANING: adjective: Having a single plane of symmetry: divisible into two mirror-image halves along only one axis. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zygo- (yoke) + -morphic (shaped). Earliest documented use: 1875. The term contrasts with actinomorphic structures (from actino- meaning ray), which have radial symmetry. __________________________ ZYMOMORPHIC - budding, yeast-shaped ZYGOMORPHIA - a sleep-like state induced by a product of fermentation (a drubnken stupor, for example) ZYGOTOMORPHIC - shaped like a fertilized egg Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter EXCUBAN - an emigrant from Havana wofahulicodoc #233226 12/26/24 06:47 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,769 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA EXCUBANT PRONUNCIATION: (EKS-kyoo-buhnt) MEANING: adjective: On guard. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin excubare (to lie on guard), from ex- (out) + cubare (to lie down), which also gave us cube, cubicle, concubine, and incubate. Earliest documented use: 1831. ________________________ EXCUBART - pictures drawn by former boy scouts EXCURRANT - a former berry EXCUMBANT - the ousted ruler Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 27 of 27 1 2 … 25 26 27 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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