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the worthless word for the day is: culch
1) rubbish, refuse (South of Engl., and NE U.S.)
2) a person or thing not highly regarded
This word, when applied to human beings, has a
secondary sense of disgust. ‘He's a mean old culch!’
- 1891 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore
the worthless word for the day is: pygalgia
/py GAL jee uh/ a pain in the buttocks
(not to be confused with rectalgia or proctalgia :)
the worthless word for the day is: shaconian
someone who is convinced that Bacon ghosted
Shakespeare's plays
the worthless word for the day is: logogogue
a person who lays down rules about words;
a language dictator
the worthless word for the day is: lexiconophilist
a collector of dictionaries and word books
the worthless word for the day is: logopandocie
a readiness to admit words of all kinds
[nonce-word]
The system of admittance to these hallowed grounds,
by reason of its logopandocie, may deservedly be
referred to as adfenestration.
the worthless word for the day is: fardel
bundle; burden
When he himself might his Quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To groan and sweat under a weary life...
-Hamlet
the worthless word for the day is: foetor
/FEE tor/
an offensive odor: stench (also fetor)
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone,
But love is not over - and what love, O comrades
Perfume from battle-fields rising,
up from the foetor arising.
- Walt Whitman, from "Ashes of Soldiers"
the worthless word for the day is: excruciate
1) to inflict intense pain on: torture
2) to subject to intense mental distress
the worthless word for the day is: pickthank
one who strives to put another under obligation;
an officious person; hence, a flatterer
As, in reproof of many tales devised,
which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,
By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers,
I may, for some things true, wherein my youth
Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,
Find pardon on my true submission.
-Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part i
the worthless word for the day is: chalcenterous
having bowels of brass, tough
"Sir James Murray added to his linguistic acumen
and his tireless industry (which did not scruple
to tire less chalcenterous workers) a Scotsman's
hard, keen sense of the practical."
- R. W. Chapman, Lexicography
the worthless word for the day is: fullage
refuse, street-sweepings, filth
Some storm or other must be near at hand
to sweep away the fullage of the Land
-T Plunket
the worthless word for the day is: kalopsia
the delusion that things are more beautiful
than they really are
the worthless word for the day is: pataphysics
"The science of imaginary solutions, which
symbolically attributes the properties of
objects, described by their virtuality, to
their lineaments" - Alfred Jarry
Joan was quizzical
studied pataphysical
science in the home...
-Lennon/McCartney,
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
the worthless word for the day is: jocoserious
combining jocular and serious matters
the worthless word for the day is: vaward
the foremost part: forefront
the worthless word for the day is: katzenjammer
[German] 1) hangover
2) distress, depression or confusion resembling
that caused by a hangover
3) a discordant clamor
the worthless word for the day is: einfühlung
/INE fu lung/
[German] understanding so intimate that the
feelings, thoughts, and motives of one person
are readily comprehended by another
the worthless word for the day is: schwarmerei
\shver ma RYE
[German] excessive or unwholesome sentiment
the worthless word for the day is: luftmensch
[Yiddish] an impractical dreamer having no
definite business or income
the worthless word for the day is: mokita
[Papuan] the truth that everyone knows but
no one talks about
the worthless word for the day is: réchauffé
/ray show FAY/ [F, warmed over]
1) something that is rehashed
2) a warmed-over dish of food
the worthless word for the day is: garboil
a confused disordered state: turmoil
the worthless word for the day is: fap
intoxicated; fuddled
"And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered..."
Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
the worthless word for the day is: carlot
a peasant, in the pejorative sense
"And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
That the old carlot once was master of."
Shakespeare, As You Like It
the worthless word for the day is: discalced
unshod; barefoot discalced friars and nuns
Miss Gibletts was now handspringing naked and
discalced through the shrubbery....
-Theroux, Darconville's Cat
the worthless word for the day is: pot-walloper
1) a person who qualified to vote in parts of
England by having boiled (walloped) his own pot
for six months, thereby establishing residency
2) one who cleans pots; a scullion [U.S. slang]
According to Morris, the railroad trip west wasn't worth taking until a young Englishman, Fred Harvey, began providing food along the way. Harvey, who started out in New York as a ``pot walloper'' (dishwasher), longed for his own first-class restaurant. When he took a job as a railroad freight agent to finance his dream he saw a chance to replace the notoriously bad station cafe food with fine fare in quality restaurants. ``Harvey Houses'' on the Santa Fe line became legendary.... -from Kirkus reviews
the worthless word for the day is: graustark
1) an imaginary place of high romance
2) a highly romantic piece of writing
(from a 1901 bestseller, Graustark)
Ellen Kushner is a throwback. I think she's doing it on purpose, in fact. Her first novel, Swordspoint, was a marvelous Graustark novel, in that wonderful tradition of nonmagical imaginary kingdoms that was almost buried in the avalanche of Tolkien-ish middle-earths in the last two decades. - Orson Scott Card
the worthless word for the day is: swingeing
[Brit] whopping, capital
/SWI njin/ or /SWIN jeen/
The lord chief justice then applied the only sentence that was available to him -- a sentence still passed occasionally today, and that has a beguiling charm to its language, despite the swingeing awfulness of its connotations. - Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
the worthless word for the day is: sin-wat
"A sin-wat," she cried. "A man who wants
all of somebody's love. That's very bad."
-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
the worthless word for the day is: quotinoctian
occurring every night, nightly
phony latinate? cf. quotidian
from quot (many) + dies (day)
the worthless word for the day is: boanthropy
the delusion that one is an ox (cf lycanthropy)
bonus delusions:
cyanthropy - delusion that one is a dog
galeanthropy - delusion that one is a cat
zoanthropy - delusion that one is an animal
the worthless word for the day is: waveson
wreckage floating on the sea: flotsam
(note that jetsam is stuff thrown overboard to
lighten the load in time of distress and sinks
or is washed ashore)
the worthless word for the day is: caseifaction
"...built at the outskirts of town especially
for this unprecedented caseifaction...."
Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
the worthless word for the day is: phatic
have a nice day...
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: tetrapyloctomy
"What's tetra...?", I asked.
"The art of splitting a hair four ways. This
is the department of useless techniques.
Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example,
is how to build machines for greeting uncles.
We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs,
since it's the art of being saved by a hair.
Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless."
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: jugulate
to slit the throat
the worthless word for the day is: lapidate
to stone to death
the worthless word for the day is: ornithocopros
the dung of birds: guano
the worthless word for the day is: frass
debris or excrement produced by insects
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: dendrochronology
the study of growth rings on trees
(so that's what that's called)
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: gleek
to joke or jest
the worthless word for the day is: whelm
to cover or engulf completely with usually
disastrous effect
the worthless word for the day is: bezonian
a low fellow or scoundrel
the worthless word for the day is: geck
a dupe
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most notorious geck and gull
That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.
- Malvolio, in Twelfth Night
the worthless word for the day is: furrahin
[Scot] the right-hand hindmost horse that
walks in the furrow in plowing
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