Author Topic: WORD OF THE DAY (Read 6789 times)

Mikal · « **on:** June 12, 2004, 05:03:45 PM »

That's right folks - IT'S BACK!

Mikal · « **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2004, 05:05:58 PM »

Drabbing:
1.)A slattern.
2.)A woman prostitute.
3.)Going about with loose women

To consort with prostitutes: “Even amid his drabbing, he himself retained some virginal airs” (Stanislaus Joyce).

Bob · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2004, 04:02:09 PM »

boondocks (BOON-doks) noun

1. An uninhabited area filled with thick brush.

2. A rural area; backwoods.

[From Tagalog bundok, mountain.]

"She (Yoshiko) thought my hometown, Nagoya, which is even farther west,
was really out in the boondocks."

Mikal · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2004, 04:56:16 PM »

woolgathering \WOOL-gath-(uh)-ring\, noun: Indulgence in idle daydreaming.

Similarly, in the meadow, if you laze too late into the fall, woolgathering, snow could fill your mouth.
--Edward Hoagland, "Earth's eye," Sierra, May 1999

What the hell is Edward Hoagland about? That qoute is fucked up.

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Mikal · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2004, 05:09:26 PM »

All right folks, due to someones misgivings (that someone shall remain anonymous. For privacy sake we shall call him Robert P) my word of the day is back. So here it is:

Cockaigne \kah-KAYN\, noun:
An imaginary land of ease and luxury.

Outside, in the dark, a wobbly patch of life upon the blue snow, the deer perhaps browsed, her soft blob of a nose rapturously sunk in the chilly winter greenery, her modest brain-stem steeped in some dream of a Cockaigne for herbivores.
--John Updike, Toward the End of Time

Everyone was seeking renewal, a golden century, a Cockaigne of the spirit.
--Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

Cockaigne comes from Middle English cokaygne, from Middle French (pais de) cocaigne "(land of) plenty," ultimately adapted or derived from a word meaning "cake."

Trivia: References to Cockaigne are prominent in medieval European lore. George Ellis, in his Specimens of Early English Poets (1790), printed an old French poem called "The Land of Cockaign" (13th century) where "the houses were made of barley sugar and cakes, the streets were paved with pastry, and the shops supplied goods for nothing."

Sounds to me like Mr.Ellis may have had a little Cockaigne while scribbling his poems down.......

Pornomonkey · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2004, 11:19:12 PM »

Abugawug-ah - to be said in a menacing tone to scare someone shitless.

"Abugawug-ah!"

Angervate: (see Angervated)

Angervated, adjective: To be angry and aggrevated.

"You angervate me!" - Pornomonkey

Mikal · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2004, 01:19:18 AM »

Congradulations Pornomonkey, you single handedly managed to ruin the "Word of the day" topic. Hang your head in shame. You have disapointed not only me, but jesus too. For shame.

Ps. I was going to add an emoticon, but there isn't one that can convey this kind genuine disapointment.

Pornomonkey · « **Reply #7 on:** August 19, 2004, 02:29:25 AM »

Hmm, don't really know what to say...I'm sorry.

Congratulations, Pornomonkey <-- 'T', not 'D', and commas before name referrals.
Single-handedly <-- Hyphens are needed in such compound words.
Disappointment*x2
Jesus, <-- Proper noun (name), names always begin with a capital letter...comma missing, yet again.
P.S. <-- Initials must be capitalized. Periods to seperate each initial.
:digits: <-- Closest thing to arrows pointing upwards.
Sorry for the corrections, I despise spelling and punctuation flaws.

Slaughter · « **Reply #8 on:** August 20, 2004, 12:37:31 PM »

HAHAHA.. You got owned.. By a kid.. MY LITTLE BROTHER! HAHAHA!

Word of the Day for August 20, 2004

Skeet:

1) To shoot your man juice up on ur bitch.

Bob skeeted all over Sally's face.

2) To pull out of a woman and ejaculate on her.

Just like skeet shooting. PULL! and then you shoot.

3) To ejaculate. (This word is derived from the white targets thrown in "skeet hunting" or "skeet shooting", therefore this was created because of a reference to a round white thing moving at high speed.)

She got skeet all over her face.

Mikal · « **Reply #9 on:** August 21, 2004, 08:34:34 PM »

Well done. My grammar is poor and my punctuation is shabby. But damn I am good looking. And Angervate is still stupid. :flower:

Mikal · « **Reply #10 on:** August 21, 2004, 08:36:24 PM »

verbose \vuhr-BOHS\, adjective:
Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by an excess of words; wordy; as, "a verbose speaker; a verbose argument."

. . . his singular style of flattening verbose politicians with the phrase: "Will you please get to the point."
--Paul McCann, "Pioneer of TV debate put end to deference," Times (London), August 8, 2000

One reason I admire Oscar is that he's the least verbose, if sometimes plain to the point of being uninteresting.
--Frank Rich, "Conversations with Sondheim," New York Times Magazine, March 12, 2000

Many tombstones have inscriptions that are not only touching but also, by modern standards, verbose.
--Francine Prose, "Entering New Castle, Del.," New York Times Magazine, February 27, 2000

Mikal · « **Reply #11 on:** August 23, 2004, 08:20:13 PM »

punc·til·i·o ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pngk-tl-)
n. pl. punc·til·i·os
A fine point of etiquette.
Precise observance of formalities.

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[Obsolete Italian punctiglio, from Spanish puntillo, diminutive of punto, point, from Latin pnctum, from neuter past participle of pungere, to prick. See peuk- in Indo-European Roots.]

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punctilio

\Punc*til"io\ (p[u^][ng]k*t[i^]l"y[-o]), n.; pl. Punctilios (-y[=o]z). [It. puntiglio, or Sp. puntillo, dim. fr. L. punctum point. See Point, n.] A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as, the punctilios of a public ceremony.

They will not part with the least punctilio in their opinions and practices. --Fuller.

Mikal · « **Reply #12 on:** August 25, 2004, 06:55:35 PM »

nimbus \NIM-buhs\, noun:
1. (Fine Arts) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo.
2. A cloud or atmosphere (as of romance or glamour) that surrounds a person or thing.
3. (Meteorology) A rain cloud.

Sometimes when she stood in front of a lamp, the highlights on her hair made a nimbus.
--James Morgan, The Distance to the Moon

Mikal · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2004, 03:58:40 PM »

wizened \WIZ-und\, adjective:
Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; as, "a wizened old man."

Her eyes were clear and shining, full of love, and set deeply in the creases of her wizened face.
--Catherine Whitney, The Calling

At five foot six, 130 pounds, Erdos had the wizened, cadaverous look of a drug addict, but friends insist he was frail and gaunt long before he started taking amphetamines.
--Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

A thorny bramble bearing wizened leaves grew with the bittersweet in a crevice that ran downhill from the duo of trees.
--Mary Parker Buckles, Margins: A Naturalist Meets Long Island Sound

Andrews wizened and mis-used wang was sad in its daily droopeyness.
- Mike Goodwin

Mikal · « **Reply #14 on:** September 18, 2004, 06:05:52 PM »

machination \mack-uh-NAY-shuhn; mash-\, noun:
1. The act of plotting.
2. A crafty scheme; a cunning design or plot intended to accomplish some usually evil end.

He was telling me how he could have married the royal princess as a reward for his bravery in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he was an infantryman in the Kaiserliche und Konigliche Austro-Hungarian army, but for the machinations of the evil Archduke somebody-or-other.
--George Lang, Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen

Alongside the various representations of sincere tears, then, are a series of representations of insincerity and emotional machination.
--Tom Lutz, Crying

To keep away from them and steer clear of their inveigling schemes and grasping machinations . . . has been my constant life-long effort.