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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread ombibulous - (I'll have a drink of anything!) #64354 04/07/02 11:33 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill OP Carpal Tunnel OP WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... "I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all." --H.L. Mencken Mencken also called bootleggers booticians and coined boozehound. http://www.synergisticbooks.com/ombibulous.html Your Happy Epeolatrist! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ombibulous - (I'll have a drink of anything!) #64355 04/08/02 02:23 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill OP Carpal Tunnel OP WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... ombibulous So did ombibulous ever officially enter the language? I tried OneLook, Forthright, Google, and (ahem) Worthless Word for the Day...nothing. But, then, Google didn't hit the listed website until I tried H L Mencken drinking words instead of ombibulous. Your Happy Epeolatrist! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ombibulous - (I'll have a drink of anything!) #64356 04/08/02 02:33 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear WO'N: Even the ombibulist has to be on his guard. Take the case of the guy who pounded on the door of a tavern hours after it had closed, until owner opened upstairs window. The guy below demanded a quart of half-and-half. A brief delay, and the owner opened the door and handed out a pitcher. The drunk took a draft and screamed "That's piss!" "Right," said the owner. "Half mine and half my wife's." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ombibulous - (I'll have a drink of anything!) #64357 04/08/02 03:00 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >So did ombibulous ever officially enter the language? this query raises a thorny issue: what determines when a word officially enters the language? but that would be a rather major digression, and we wouldn't want to go there! all I will say is that it isn't in W3 and it isn't in OED; but then neither is another menckenian gem, bibliobibuli (see wwftd :). on the other hand, and for what it's worth, both menckenian and menckenese can be found in W3, so I guess they're officially American English. joe (unofficially) f. p.s. - the updated OED2 (online) has: Menckenesque, a., Menckenian, a. Menckenism, n. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Menckenism: #64358 04/10/02 08:19 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC So there must be a Menckenism for getting a word into the language? TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Menckenism: #64359 04/10/02 08:39 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,562 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,562 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA Aitchelly, it's just been described ! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 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. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,373 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 155 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 25 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,562 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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