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A Brand new word a day 1
Sun Sep 07 2014, 17:50
First topic message reminder :
Please feel free to add your own word, please add the meaning
Macrocephalic
Having an unusually large head.
Please feel free to add your own word, please add the meaning
Macrocephalic
Having an unusually large head.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Sep 24 2014, 17:46
He did manage to spell frottage wrongly though 

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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Sep 24 2014, 17:47
Sod off and start an Gilbert thread.

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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Sat Sep 27 2014, 16:08
erontquay wrote:palpebration winking
Is that akin to 'heavy petting'.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Sun Oct 12 2014, 19:47
Yes.
Flapdoodle...... Nonsense


Flapdoodle...... Nonsense

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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Oct 15 2014, 12:00
gradgrind.
MEANING:
noun: Someone who is solely interested in cold, hard facts.

MEANING:
noun: Someone who is solely interested in cold, hard facts.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Oct 15 2014, 12:08
Ah, but what is the name for the phenomenon it exemplifies?
sim to Hoover
Gerrymander
Boycott
etc
ie to take a persons name, and apply it to the general phenomena with which they had been associated
sim to Hoover
Gerrymander
Boycott
etc
ie to take a persons name, and apply it to the general phenomena with which they had been associated
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Oct 15 2014, 12:20
After Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian mill-owner in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times. Gradgrind runs a school with the idea that hard facts and rules are more important than love, emotions, and feelings. Earliest documented use: 1855.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Oct 15 2014, 12:24
But what do you call the phenomenon of doing that sort of thing, in general?
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Oct 15 2014, 12:26
Stumped I'm afraid ragbru. You will have to tell me

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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Oct 15 2014, 12:28
I do not know: that is why I asked.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Oct 15 2014, 12:40
google says eponyms
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Wed Oct 15 2014, 12:52
I am still not knowing what the verb of 'eponimising' should be!
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Fri Oct 17 2014, 11:47
I like this one,
flummadiddle
USAGE:
"Gilly talks to hear his head rattle. He passes the time with flummadiddles. I learned right away that he says things without giving any thought to them."
Dorothy Garlock; Larkspur; Warner Books; 1997.

flummadiddle
USAGE:
"Gilly talks to hear his head rattle. He passes the time with flummadiddles. I learned right away that he says things without giving any thought to them."
Dorothy Garlock; Larkspur; Warner Books; 1997.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Fri Oct 17 2014, 18:52
farraginous
Composed of a variety of substances.
Composed of a variety of substances.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Mon Oct 20 2014, 14:01
Baleen
apparently, whalebone is NOT bone
apparently, whalebone is NOT bone
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Tue Oct 21 2014, 13:58
Osculation
noun
1. the act of kissing.
2. a kiss.
3. close contact.
noun
1. the act of kissing.
2. a kiss.
3. close contact.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Fri Nov 14 2014, 12:17
Assoil.... No Not what you think
To pardon.
To atone for.

To pardon.
To atone for.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Sun Dec 28 2014, 09:29
Quondam.......Former, onetime.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Mon Dec 29 2014, 15:59
Obsequious
adjective:-
1 characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning:
an obsequious bow.
2 servilely compliant or deferential:
obsequious servants.
3 obedient; dutiful.
adjective:-
1 characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning:
an obsequious bow.
2 servilely compliant or deferential:
obsequious servants.
3 obedient; dutiful.
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Mon Dec 29 2014, 21:33
Déshabillé
Seems to be one of them borrowed foreign words which roughly translates as nakky.
Bung it in Google images.
I did.
Seems to be one of them borrowed foreign words which roughly translates as nakky.
Bung it in Google images.
I did.




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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Tue Dec 30 2014, 13:02
Freegan......an activist who scavenges for free food (as in waste receptacles at shops and restaurants) as a means of reducing consumption of resources
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Fri Jan 02 2015, 13:30
bardolatry
Humourous and excessive admiration of Shakespeare, 'The Bard of Avon'
Humourous and excessive admiration of Shakespeare, 'The Bard of Avon'
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Re: A Brand new word a day 1
Sat Jan 03 2015, 13:49
A modern one :-
Cybersquatting
The practice of registering well-known names as Internet domain names, in the hope of reselling them at a profit.
Cybersquatting
The practice of registering well-known names as Internet domain names, in the hope of reselling them at a profit.
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