During the wee hours of the morning, as I kept awakening from my late evening Tex-Mex dinner, gulping glasses of water, the word "thirstifying" popped into my head (and wouldn't leave). It should be a word, since I can't think of any synonym that would use fewer than four words.

ERISAguru

>...use fewer than four words.

so, you were dying of thirst[3], parched[1], even thirsting[1]?

Nope -- wrong definition. "Thirstifying" does not describe the victim, but the agent. My definition would be, "having the quality of making one thirsty." It could be applied to food (salted peanuts, tacos) or to activities (running a marathon), or to certain drugs (antihistimines).

ERISAguru

Do you mean like "thirstogenesis"?

ah... dipsetic

Poster: tsuwm
Subject: Re: Is this a word?

ah... dipsetic

My SOED says "dipsas : a mythical serpent whose bite causes a raging thirst."
sonofagun!
wow

Um... dehydrating, anyone?
Kind of dull compared to dipsetic, though...

Thirst-inducing.

I [heart] hyphenated words.

I'll go with thirst-inducing. Dipsetic wouldn't be understood by anyone wasn't a tsuwm addict. Dehydrating doesn't mean quite the right thing; you can be thirsty without being dehydrated. Thirstifying has a mock rustic ring to it that could be taken amiss in some contexts.

yes but.... part of my quixotic campaign is to (re)introduce potentially useful (albeit currently worthless) words. it seems as though dipsetic might have some potential....

besides. enigma suggests Dirac, one of those dry physicists.

So this Tex-Mex was dipsetic, and possibly dyspeptic--let's just hope it wasn't septic!

Oops, I think I meant "dyspepsia-inducing". Forgive my agent-victim dyslexia; it must have been something I ate.

THIRSTIFYING It's inventive and creative--who cares about protocol. Reminds me of a story in 1965, when Tide advertised Intensified Tide. I have never heard that word since, but my then 4 year old brother loved using it. "Mom, are you using Intensified Tide?" he said almost daily. Or "Is this intensified?"

enthusiast