Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: hypersnickety

[hyper- + snickety : fussy, pernickety]
/HY per SNIK iti/?
nonce-wd excessively over-particular

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the worthless word for the day is: majuscule

[fr. L. majusculus, rather large] /MA jus kyul/
[n] a large (capital) letter [adj] uppercase
so, majuscular compare minuscule

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the worthless word for the day is: hoddypeak

[fr. hoddy-dod, a shell-snail + peak]
obs. a fool, simpleton, blockhead

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the worthless word for the day is: badot

Amelia W. thinks "badot cumber-ground" is a
fabulous insult and wants to say it aloud..

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the worthless word for the day is: ferial
[L. feria, ordinary day] /FE ri al/
of or relating to a weekday on which no feast is observed

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the worthless word for the day is: cumatic

(from Gr. kumat, wave; after L. cumatilis)
[obs.] sea-colored, blue

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the worthless word for the day is: carneous

(from L. carneus)
1. consisting of flesh, fleshy
2. [obs.] flesh-colored, pale red: incarnadine

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the worthless word for the day is: omerta

[It. dial.] (o-mer'-ta)
refusal to give evidence by those concerned with
Mafia activities, code of silence

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the worthless word for the day is: digladiation

(dai-gla-di-a'-tion) [from L. dis + gladius, a sword]
1) fighting or fencing with swords
2) fig. strife or bickering of words;
wrangling, contention, disputation

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the worthless word for the day is: excubant

[rare (pedantic)] (ex'-cu-bant)
keeping watch
(from L. excubare, to lie on guard)

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the worthless word for the day is: apophenia

the spontaneous perception of connections and
meaningfulness in unrelated things; seeing patterns
where none, in fact, exist

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the worthless word for the day is: inficete

[rare] (in-feh-seat')
unfacetious; not witty
(from L. inficetus)

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the worthless word for the day is: liminal

/li'-mi-nal/ (from L. limen, threshold)
1) of or relating to a sensory threshold
2) barely perceptible

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the worthless word for the day is: exordium

/eg-zor'-dee-um/
[L.] a beginning or introduction especially to a
discourse or composition

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the worthless word for the day is: antithalian

(anti tha' lian)
[from anti- + Thalia, the Muse of Comedy]
disapproving of festivity and laughter

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the worthless word for the day is: phreaking

[vbl. n.] the use of a telephone network without
payment; now, generally, to use an electronic
device to invade some type of network or system
(U.S., coined in the 60s - from modified
spelling of freak, under the influence of phone)

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the worthless word for the day is: peirastically

in the way of attempt or experiment, tentatively
[Gr. peirastikos, tentative]

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the worthless word for the day is: solifidian

one who holds that faith alone without achievement
or personal merit is sufficient to insure salvation
- compare nullifidian; also, cf. antinomian

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the worthless word for the day is: agathism

(ae'-gath-ism)
the doctrine that all things tend towards ultimate
good, as distinguished from optimism which holds
that all things are now for the best
(from the Gr. agathos, good)

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the worthless word for the day is: eudaemonia

(also eudemonia)
a contented state of being happy and healthy and
prosperous; a feeling of well-being and happiness

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the worthless word for the day is: perendinate

(puh-ren'-din-ate)
[rare] a) trans. to put off until the day after
tomorrow, to defer from day to day b) intr. to
stay from day to day, to make an indefinite stay

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the worthless word for the day is: gowpen

(gau'-pen)
[Scot] a double handful

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the worthless word for the day is: shot-clog

[obs, rare] an unwelcome companion tolerated only
because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest

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the worthless word for the day is: velitation

[fr. L velitari, to skirmish] /vel i TEY shun/
now rare a minor dispute or contest

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the worthless word for the day is: docity

[perhaps alter. of docility]
dial. teachableness; quickness of comprehension

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the worthless word for the day is: testudineous

[fr. L. testudine-us] /tes tju DIN eus/
1) like the shell of a tortoise {Blount}
2) slow, like a tortoise

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the worthless word for the day is: cumber-ground

[fr. cumber, to block up]
a person or thing that uselessly cumbers the ground;
a useless or unprofitable occupant of a position

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the worthless word for the day is: furciferous

[fr. L furcifer, yoke bearer, scoundrel] /fur CIF er ous/
rare rascally

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the worthless word for the day is: sustention

[fr. sustain, after such pairs as retain : retention,
detain : detention] /suh STEN chen/
an act or instance of sustaining; the state or
quality of being sustained

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the worthless word for the day is: jolterhead

[origin obscure] also jolthead
obs. a blockhead

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the worthless word for the day is: jawhole

[fr. jaw, an outpour of liquid + hole] Scot.
an uncovered sewer, house-drain, or cesspool

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the worthless word for the day is: quakebuttock

a coward

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the worthless word for the day is: tongue-shot

[tongue + shot, range or distance]
speaking or talking distance, voice-range

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the worthless word for the day is: footpad

[fr. foot + obs. pad, highwayman]
historical a highwayman who robs on foot

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the worthless word for the day is: barlafumble

[fr. parley, call for truce + ?] Scot. obs.
a call for a truce by one who has fallen in fighting
or play; a request for a time out

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the worthless word for the day is: enthymeme

[fr. Gk enthyméma thought, argument] /EN thuh meem/
Logic a syllogism or other argument in which a
premise or the conclusion is supressed

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the worthless word for the day is: jargogle

[origin unknown, but perhaps related to jargon]
obs. to confuse or jumble

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the worthless word for the day is: dunkle

Scot. [v] to make a dint or pit in; to dint
[n] the cavity produced by a blow, or in consequence
of a fall

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the worthless word for the day is: automagically

[blend of automatic + magically]
/aw toh MAJ i klee/ now chiefly computer jargon
automatically, esp. in a way that seems ingenious
or inexplicable; as if by magic

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the worthless word for the day is: truthiness

[fr. truth via truthy]
1) obs. rare truthfulness, faithfulness
2) nonce usage the quality of preferring concepts or
facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or
facts known to be true

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the worthless word for the day is: pluto

[fr. Pluto, the declassified planet]
to demote or devalue someone or something

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the worthless word for the day is: mattoid

[fr. It. matto, mad + -oid, resembling] /MAD oid/
[adj] semi-insane
[n] a semi-insane person; a borderline psychopath

"These mattoid scientists make a direct and disastrous
attack upon the latent self-respect of criminals."
- H. G. Wells, Mankind in the Making (1903)

"The hostages give him an excuse not to obey the
mattoids who enrich themselves by creating wars."
- Orlando Sentinel, 10 Sept. 1990

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the worthless word for the day is: vendition

[F. fr. L. vendere, to vend] /ven DISH en/
the act of vending or selling; sale

"Several taverns are set apart solely for the
vendition of this liquor."
- Henry Fielding,
Journal of a voyage to Lisbon (1754)

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the worthless word for the day is: miserabilism

[fr. L miserabilis, miserable] /MIZ er(a) ba LIZ em/
a philosophy of pessimism; self-indulgent pessimism;
gloomy negativity

""Capitalism sure is sunny!" cried the unemployed
Laredo toolmaker, as I was out walking, in the streets
of Laredo. "None of that noxious Central European
miserabilism for us!" And indeed, everything I see
about me seems to support his position."
- Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

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the worthless word for the day is: epenthesis

[fr. Gk epentithenai, to insert a letter]
/e PEN(t) thuh sis/
the insertion (or development) of a sound or
letter within a word

epenthesize, to so insert

epenthesis describes the extraneous vowel sounds
you hear in (and the misspelling of) words such as
athlete, film, nuclear, realtor, Lithuania and
Tijuana(!) -- this purportedly stems from a need
to make things easier to pronounce!

in Phonetics, the special case of the development
of a vowel between two consonants is also called
anaptyxis [Gk, unfolding]

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the worthless word for the day is: euphuistic

[After Euphues, in Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit by
John Lyly; from Gk euphues, shapely] /YU fyu IS tic/
of the nature of or characterized by euphuism
(high-flown diction); hence, euphuistically

"Pistol, however, is not an original invention of
Shakespeare's; but he was intended to be a satire
upon some euphuistic and bombastious characters that
are to found in other plays of his time.."
- Charles C. Clarke, Shakespeare Characters (1863)

"As for Gongora, that puerile asshole, that
proparoxytonic, euphistic [sic] versifier, that
dabbler in vortices, tricliniums, promptuaria, and
vacillating Icaruses, that shadow on the sun and
eructation of the wind... he is the last thing that
worries me now."
- Arturo Perez-Reverte, Purity of Blood
(trans. by Margaret Peden) (2006)

"A poem, most euphuistically entitled The Cherubic
Wanderer."
- Robert A. Vaughan, Hours with the mystics (1860)

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the worthless word for the day is: diversiloquent

[fr. L. diversus, diverse + loquentem, speaking]
/dy ver SIL o kwent/?
rare speaking diversely

Diversiloquent, speaking in different ways.
- John Craig, A new universal etymological, technological,
and pronouncing dictionary of the English language (1848)

Electric, effable, true-born, didactive,
Diversiloquent, dynastic, conclusive...
- The Fat Knight (Anon.) (1896)

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the worthless word for the day is: extirp

[ad. F. extirper, ad. L. ex(s)tirpare]
obs. or arch. extirpate (to root out, exterminate)

"Who such a black concatenation
Of mischief hath effected, that to extirp
The memory of't must be the consummation
Of her and her projections--"
- John Webster, The White Devil

[T]he vice is of a great kindred, it is well allied:
but it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar,
till eating and drinking be put down.
- Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (III. ii. 110)

"Errors or defects in the details are readily
extirped or supplied."
- John Austin, Lectures on jurisprudence (1873)

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the worthless word for the day is: diversivolent

[fr. L. diversus, diverse + volentum, wishing]
/dy ver SIV o lent/?
desiring strife or differences: contentious

"Lawyer. Most literated judges, please your lordships
So to connive your judgments to the view
Of this debauched and diversivolent woman,
Who such a black concatenation
Of mischief hath effected, that to extrip
The memory of't must be the consummation
Of her and her projections--
Vittoria. What's all this--?
Lawyer. Hold your peace.
Exorbitant sins must have exulceration."
- John Webster, The White Devil

"Yo[n] diversivolent lawyer, mark him:
"knaves turn informers, as maggots turn to
flies; you may catch gudgeons with either."
- ibidem

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the worthless word for the day is: bouleversement

[F, fr. OF bouleverser, to overturn] /boole VER suh MA(n)/
1) a violent disturbance; tumult
2) a turning upsidedown: reversal