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Definition for copasetic:
copacetic: completely satisfactory;
pic·a·resque/?pik?'resk/
Adjective: Of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.
picaresque
Ordinary Rogue
the worthless word for the day is: vampirarchy
[vampire + -archy, rule of]
exploitative rule comparable to rule by vampires
"A sceptical critic has pretended, with a degree of
malice prepense against the Vampyrarchy,.. that his
Imperial Majesty's surgeons-major and counsellors of
war might perchance be deceived in some respects."
- New Monthly Magazine (1823)
"[P]olitical humorists of the nineteenth century
sometimes referred to the ruling classes as the
"vampirarchy" rather than the "hierarchy.""
- Jay Stevenson, Ph.D.;
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires (2002)
"Some believe that we are secretly ruled by the
Illuminati or a similar vampirarchy."
- Stephen Chrisomalis, The Phrontistery
note: malice prepense :: malice aforethought
the worthless word for the day is: tortiloquy
[fr. late or med.L. tortiloquium < tortus,
crooked + loqui, to speak]
obs. rare crooked talk {Blount, 1656}
"[W]e should certainly rescue from the list of
defunct words the splendid "tortiloquy", meaning
"crooked speech", of which there is currently no
shortage."
- Guardian Unlimited, Sept. 1 2007
the worthless word for the day is: ostrobogulous
[attributed to Victor B. Neuburg, British writer]
/OS tro BOG ju lus/
chiefly humorous slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre,
interesting, or unusual
hence, ostrobogulation and ostrobogulatory (see
Ostrobogulous Pigs, by A. Graves)
"It was sick, dirty, or more precisely, 'ostrobogulous',
which according to Victor Neuburg.. meant etymologically
full of (Latin, ulus) rich (Greek, ostro) dirt
(schoolboy, bog)."
- Times Lit. Suppl. 27 July 1973
"'Ostrobogulous' was Vickybird's favourite word. It stood
for anything from the bawdy to the slightly off-colour.
Any double entendre that might otherwise have escaped his
audience was prefaced by, 'if you will pardon the
ostrobogulosity'."
- Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Magic of My Youth (1951)
"A tissue of ostrobogulous lies, he calls them. With the
writer laughing behind each page at the reader's gulli-
bility, and no one else in this dead, dead town reads,
except for Mrs. Pomeroy, and all she reads is
Anne Bradstreet!"
- Charles Johnson, Oxherding Tale (1982)
the worthless word for the day is: entheomania
[fr. L, entheos, divinely inspired + -mania]
a passion for divine inspiration; religious mania
cf. demonomania
""Before the Beginning"!.. its very vastness
prevents its doing injury to a mind not already
unhinged from some other cause. This fact, coupled
with a saving sense of humor, is sufficient to
keep any normal person safe from entheomania."
- William Wooten, The Planetarian Apocalypse (1956)
"[The psychiatrist] is often much more aware of
the pathological forms of religious involvement,
such as entheomania, scrupulosity, asceticism,
fantasy, denial, etc., than the wholesome forms
of religious participation."
- Eric G. Swedin, Healing Souls (2003)
the worthless word for the day is: feriation
[fr. L. feriari < feria, holiday]
obs. holiday keeping; cessation of work
<a welcome midwinter feriation - D. Grambs>
"[A]s though there were any feriation in nature..."
- Sir Th. Browne, Pseudodoxia (1646)
"Simple feriation was enough for the weekend.
No binges, no feasts."
- Coleman Barks from New Words,
White Trash, ed. by Robert Grey (1976)
tacturiency - the desire of touching
[fr. L. tangere, to touch]
the worthless word for the day is: visuriency
[fr. L. visere, to behold + -ency]
obs. nonce-word the desire of seeing
as Morris Bishop states in The Exotics, The love
scene is majestic, though verging on the indelicate:
"[T]hat each part and portion of the persons of either
was obvious to the sight and touch of the persons of
both; the visuriency of either, by ushering the
tacturiency of both, made the attrectation of both
consequent to the inspection of either."
- Sir Th. Urquhart, The Jewel (1652)
the worthless word for the day is: ostrobogulous
[attributed to Victor B. Neuburg, British writer]
/OS tro BOG ju lus/
chiefly humorous slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre,
interesting, or unusual
hence, ostrobogulation and ostrobogulatory (see
Ostrobogulous Pigs, by A. Graves)
"It was sick, dirty, or more precisely, 'ostrobogulous',
which according to Victor Neuburg.. meant etymologically
full of (Latin, ulus) rich (Greek, ostro) dirt
(schoolboy, bog)."
- Times Lit. Suppl. 27 July 1973
"'Ostrobogulous' was Vickybird's favourite word. It stood
for anything from the bawdy to the slightly off-colour.
Any double entendre that might otherwise have escaped his
audience was prefaced by, 'if you will pardon the
ostrobogulosity'."
- Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Magic of My Youth (1951)
"A tissue of ostrobogulous lies, he calls them. With the
writer laughing behind each page at the reader's gulli-
bility, and no one else in this dead, dead town reads,
except for Mrs. Pomeroy, and all she reads is
Anne Bradstreet!"
- Charles Johnson, Oxherding Tale (1982)
the worthless word for the day is: titivil
[L. Tutivillus, of unknown origin] /tit uh vil/ obs.
1) a name for a demon or devil in the mystery plays,
said to collect fragments of words dropped, skipped,
or mumbled in the recitation of divine service, and
to carry them to hell, to be registered against the
offender
2) hence, a term of reprobation: a bad or vile character,
scoundrel, knave, villain b. esp. a tattletale
the worthless word for the day is: gleek
to joke or jest
the worthless word for the day is: obdormition
numbness caused by pressure on a nerve,
like when your foot is asleep
(so that's what that's called)
the worthless word for the day is: dendrochronology
the study of growth rings on trees
(so that's what that's called)
the worthless word for the day is: philogynist
a lover or friend of women; one who esteems
women as the higher type of humanity
the worthless word for the day is: frass
debris or excrement produced by insects
the worthless word for the day is: ornithocopros
the dung of birds: guano
the worthless word for the day is: lapidate
to stone to death
the worthless word for the day is: jugulate
to slit the throat
the worthless word for the day is: burke
this interesting word comes to us from British via
a William Burke and originally meant "to suffocate";
Burke was a 19th century Irish criminal executed for
smothering victims to sell their bodies for
dissection. the current figurative senses include
(1) to suppress quietly or indirectly burke an
inquiry, and (2) bypass, avoid.
the worthless word for the day is: gorbellied
this would be corpulent
from Shakespeare, through Joyce:
"Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone?
No, ye fat chuffs..."
"Saint Thomas... whose gorbellied works I
enjoy reading in the original... likens
it in his wise and curious way to an
avarice of the emotions."
the worthless word for the day is: malefic
1) having an unfavorable or malignant influence:
baleful
2) malicious; evil
the worthless word for the day is: equifinality
the property of allowing or having the same
effect or result from different events
the worthless word for the day is: explaterate
to talk continuously without stop;
to run off at the mouth [slang]
the worthless word for the day is: cafard
[F] severe depression or apathy
also, idiomatically, the blues
"Not infrequently men spent loving weeks and months preparing their own death in some complicated mechanical fashion. The occupation drove away the cafard by giving them something interesting to do and think about." - John Masters, Bugles and a Tiger
the worthless word for the day is: octothorp(e)
the symbol # on your telephone or keyboard
(hash mark, pound sign, number sign)
the worthless word for the day is: Paraskevadecatriaphobia
(from Greek tris=three, kai=and, deka=ten)
is fear of the number 13; it is a superstition and related to a specific fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia
bonus word:
Triskaidekaphobia
Main Entry: tris·kai·deka·pho·bia
Pronunciation: \ˌtris-ˌkī-ˌde-kə-ˈfō-bē-ə, ˌtris-kə-\
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek treiskaideka thirteen (from treis three + kai and + deka ten) + New Latin phobia — more at three, ten
Date: circa 1911
: fear of the number 13
the worthless word for the day is: hesternal
pertaining to yesterday (from L. hesternus, of yesterday)
"In enervating slumbers from the hesternal dissipation or debauch."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham; or the adventures of a gentleman
bonus word: hesternopothia - a pathological yearning for the good ol' days
(from L. hesternus, of yesterday + pother, mental tumult) :^)
the worthless word for the day is
Newspeak
In the book, 1984, by George Orwell, Newspeak was the name given to state propaganda, always the exact opposite of truth, that was offered to the population supposedly as news.
tarradiddle \tair-uh-DID-uhl\, noun:
1. A petty falsehood; a fib.
2. Pretentious nonsense.
Oh please! Even in the parallel universe, tarradiddles of this magnitude cannot go unchallenged.
-- "Taxation in the parallel universe", Sunday Business, June 11, 2000
Mr B did not tell a whopper. This was no fib, plumper, porker or tarradiddle. There was definitely no deceit, mendacity or fabrication.
-- "Looking back", Western Mail, May 11, 2002
Other amendments, such as a chef at the birthday party, a dancing bear in the hunting scene, and a brief solo for the usually pedestrian Catalabutte, seemed more capricious, and the synopsis suggested further changes had been planned but perhaps found impractical. Some tarradiddle with roses for death and rebirth also necessitated different flowers for the traditional Rose Adagio.
-- John Percival, "The other St Petersburg company", Independent, November 22, 2001
Tarradiddle is of unknown origin.
ok here ya go ;)
hey tp
just pass the salt..
;~)
please
I'm serious. I do not like the unknown or the unexpected.
I cannot stand being surprised
I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say `Pass the salt.'
It could mean, you know, `Can I have some salt?'; or it could mean, `I love you.'; It could mean `I'm very annoyed with you'; really, the list could go on and on.
Words are little bombs, and they have a lot of energy inside them.
the worthless word for right now is..
unanswerable
bush's lies..
the worthless word for the day is..
unmonitorable
the DRE (direct record electronic) voting machines have been center stage at every bush-era stolen election..
just think about it..
the worthless word for the day is: nutant
[fr. L. nutare, to nod]
chiefly Bot. nodding; drooping
"The old bandstand stood empty, the equestrian statue
of the turbulent Huerta rode under the nutant trees
wild-eyed evermore, gazing over the valley..."
- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947)
the worthless word for the day is: gracile
[L. gracilis] /GRAS ul/ or /GRAS ile/
1) gracefully slender 2) graceful
"They were divided into two types-a slender "gracile"
type and a burlier, more primitive-appearing "robust"
type." - Donald. C. Johanson,
Lucy: The Beginning of Humankind (1987)
"The iceberg shattered like a gracile wine glass
being sung to by a heavy soprano."
- Reuters, October 02, 2006
the worthless word for the day is: vertiginous
[ad. L. vertigo, a whirling] /ver TIJ uh nus/
1) revolving; whirling round
2) affected with vertigo or dizziness; giddy, dizzy
3) unstable
"Wherever it was, in whatever city, it was a vast and
crowded station. Through its high windows the sun made
great solid bars of light in the dusty air that were
vertiginous to look up at: he remembered that."
- John Crowley, The Translator (2002)
"Recall my earlier mad cows and how they stayed young
as they moved about at vertiginous speeds, while the
sensible farmer got older every day."
- Joao Magueijo, Faster Than the Speed of Light (2003)
the worthless word for the day is: pessimize
[fr. L. pessimus, worst] /PES uh mize/
to take a negative view of; make the worst of
also, to act or speak in a pessimistic manner
cf. pessimal
"'You don't stay at Notre Dame very long making
a lot of third-and-eights,' Holtz pessimized."
- Chicago Sun Times Sept. 6, 1999
(quoting Lou Holtz)
"People optimize their own opinion and pessimize
others'." - E. Robert Morse, Amazement (2002)
the worthless word for the day is: objurgatory
[L. objurgatorius] /ob JURG uh tor ee/
expressing (a harsh or violent) rebuke
""You did not head for your pretended creek," he
added, after dealing in some objurgatory remarks that
we do not deem it necessary to record, "but steered
for that bluff, where every soul on board would have
been drowned, had we gone ashore.""
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder (1841)
the worthless word for the day is: internecion
[fr. L. internecare, to kill, destroy] /in ter NESH un/
rare (mutual) destruction, slaughter, massacre
"By the Spaniards in the West Indies, the numbers
of Internecions and Slaughters would exceed all
Arithmetical Calculation."
- Sir Matthew Hale,
The primitive origination of mankind (1677)
the worthless word for the day is: meticulosity
[from meticulous (after curious : curiosity)]
/muh tik yuh LAS ud ee/
the quality or state of being meticulous:
meticulousness
"..unconsciously explaining for inkstands, with a
meticulosity bordering on the insane, the various
meanings of all the different foreign parts of
speech he misused..."
- James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake (1939)
"Pam Wilkinson, editor extraordinaire, and my son
Stuart Calderwood, who canvased the manuscript with
a meticulosity bordering on the insane, have from
many blunder freed me, if not foolish notion."
- James L. Calderwood (1989, Acknowledgment)
the worthless word for the day is: nocuous
[fr. L. nocere, to harm] /NAH kyu wus/
harmful; noxious
hence: nocuously, nocuousness (both rare)
"To have that 'other woman', what's her name, accuse
him of adultery is self-seeking, nocuous, media
sensationalism."
- San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 1992
the worthless word for the day is: internesia
[blend of internet + amnesia] informal
the inability to remember either the location
of or information contained on a web site
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