GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

slumgullion

Miso soup is shorter than slumgullion. Well, it takes just as long to cook or eat it, I mean that miso has less characters. No, no, miso can have as many flavours as slumgullion or even more. I mean that it has less letters. No, there are no letters in it, it's not alphabet soup. I mean that the spoken and written word is shorter.

What? You *added* letters? ... Aarrgghh!

[Algot Runeman]

E.P.S.

[laurie]

What? You *added* letters? ... Aarrgghh!

Peas, carrots, and numbers, too.

What a slumgullion quisling he is !!!

[Algot Runeman]

osmic

Pronunciation: /ˈäzmik/
adjective
relating to odors or the sense of smell.

Derivatives
osmically
Pronunciation: /-ik(ə)lē/
adverb

Origin:
mid 20th century: from Greek osmē 'smell, odor' + -ic


Drew Bennett

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Anya entered the room and all of us were overwhelmed by the osmic assault of her perfume.

[voralfred]

Would you call an astrophysicist so engrossed in his study of distant galaxies, in order to understand the origin of our Universe, that he forgot to change clothes (and socks... ) for a few weeks an osmologist?

Ah, the Osmic Background !

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

osmic

What Auric Goldfinger planned to do to the gold in Fort Knox, Osmic Nosebleed intended for the flower farms of Grasse. Not to get rich, but because Osmic suffered allergic epistaxis by severe osmical reaction to perfume in general and Jasmine in particular.

[Algot Runeman]

pulverulent

Pronunciation: /ˌpəlˈver(y)ələnt/
adjective
archaic
consisting of fine particles; powdery or crumbly.

Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin pulverulentus, from pulvis, pulver- 'dust'


Government Press Office

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Grain needs careful handling, especially in industrial bakery quantities. Pulverulent flour is explosively flamable. Dusty, holding his lighter high above his head, decided his last act was going to be a test of that assertion.

[Algot Runeman]

jalopy

Pronunciation: /jəˈläpē/
noun (plural jalopies)
informal
an old car in a dilapidated condition.

Origin:
1920s (originally US): of unknown origin


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John Lloyd

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During my childhood, jalopy had an additional meaning. The older kids bought the dilapidated cars, stripped the rusted parts away, repainted what was left, mechanically restored the essentials like engine, brakes, exhausts...maybe. Then, of course, they drove around town honking at each other and sat for hours at the drive-in restaurant, sharing stories of their rebuilds.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

jalopy

Almost the TV-jalopy's archetype was Lieutenant Columbo's Peugeot 403 convertible.

[Algot Runeman]

voluptuary

Pronunciation: /vəˈləpCHo͞oˌerē/
noun (plural voluptuaries)
a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.

adjective
concerned with luxury and sensual pleasure: a voluptuary decade when high living was in style

Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin volupt(u)arius, from voluptas 'pleasure'


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Sally, a dedicated voluptuary, even over lunch, made everybody very happy at the diner.
Elaine, so kind to her former boyfriend, Jerry, faked her voluptuary responses over and over.

[Thanks to When Harry Met Sally and Seinfeld]

[Algot Runeman]

vidiot

Pronunciation: /ˈvidēət/
noun
informal
a habitual, undiscriminating watcher of television or videotapes.

Origin:
1960s: blend of video and idiot


wbtvhist

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Marge couldn't decide if her current boyfriend was a channel surfer or simply a vidiot.

[It actually was true, early TV watchers sometimes gazed at the test pattern before the actual shows began.]

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

vidiot

Hey, be civil, please!

[Algot Runeman]

proxemics

Pronunciation: /präkˈsēmiks/
plural noun
[treated as singular]
the branch of knowledge that deals with the amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others.

Derivatives
proxemic
adjective

Origin:
1960s: from proximity, on the pattern of words such as phonemics


Kevin Makice

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In crowds, mass dynamics may alter the norms of proxemics. While people move in common, they don't necessarily interact. There isn't a tendency to engage verbally or through eye contact even if one's pace and direction of movement is the same as all of those around.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

proxemics

Don't confuse proximal brush with proxemic altercation!

[laurie]

proxemic altercation

Hmmm... Proxemic kissin' cousins they ain't!

[Algot Runeman]

gaff [definition 4]

Pronunciation: /gaf/
noun
British informal
a house, apartment, or other building, especially as being a person’s home: John’s new gaff is on McDonald Road

Origin:
1930s: of unknown origin


Timothy K



On his way to see Joe hoping for a spot of tea, Sid passed Jody's pad, Mary's flat, Josie's digs, Matt's house and Louie's loft, but when he got to Joe's gaff, nobody was home.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

gaff

I wonder who erected the fence around that gaff. The owner or the neighbours?

[laurie]

That's a gaffe of a gaff !!!

[Algot Runeman]

Juneteenth

Pronunciation: /ˌjo͞onˈtēnTH/
noun
a festival held annually on the nineteenth of June by African Americans (especially in the southern states), to commemorate emancipation from slavery in Texas on that day in 1865.

Origin:
1930s: blend of June and (nine)teenth



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Jake stood side by side with hundreds of others to celebrate Juneteenth at the celebration on Galveston Island, Texas.

[Apologies for the late postings. I'm at jury duty all week. Will generally need to "reveal" the WotD late.]

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Juneteenth

Old Amos always remembered it as Juneteeth.
Simply because that day he finally got his good dentures, which he only wore on Subdays, Holidays and visits to the local cathouse.

[Algot Runeman]

orrery

Pronunciation: /ˈôrərē/
noun (plural orrereries)
a mechanical model of the solar system, or of just the sun, earth, and moon, used to represent their relative positions and motions.

Origin:
early 18th century: named after the fourth Earl of Orrery, for whom one was made


Don Pezzano

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Oscar was obstinately ornery, but exceptionally so today because he had intended to open an ordinary, Earth orbital orrery and got a total fake instead.

[Astronomy buffs (in the buff or fully clothed) might find this cartoon of interest.]
http://xkcd.com/1071/large/

[laurie]

One of my favorite paintings as a child was Joseph Wright's The Orrery.

It seemed mysterious and spooky...

[Algot Runeman]

ingeminate

Pronunciation: /inˈjeməˌnāt/
verb
[with object] archaic
repeat or reiterate (a word or statement), typically for emphasis.

Origin:
late 16th century (originally as engeminate): from Latin ingeminat- 'redoubled', from the verb ingeminare, from in- (expressing intensive force) + geminare (see geminate)


Logan Zawacki

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"Boy, I say, Boy. Come over hear and help me. I need help, Boy. Come give it to me. Do you hear me, Boy?" Foghorn Leghorn didn't, knowingly ingeminate. Nonetheless, he did ingeminate. There is no doubt about his repetitious, tendency to repeat everything he said, and, he did it over and over, and, also, too, as well.

[Algot Runeman]

smoosh

Pronunciation: /smo͞oSH/
verb
[with object] informal
squash, crush, or flatten: use a sharp knife so as not to smoosh the broccoli

Origin:
mid 20th century: origin unknown

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Hillary loved him. At six she chased him through the schoolyard. At 14 she gazed at him across the Algebra classroom. At 17 she smooched him on the lips. At 20 they married. At 22 she smooshed his broccholi at dinner whenever she liked.

[Algot Runeman]

canorous

Pronunciation: /kəˈnôrəs, ˈkanərəs/
adjective
rare
(of song or speech) melodious or resonant.

Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin canorus (from canere 'sing') + -ous


Andrea Pineda

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Paul sat in the pew, cell phone in back pocket, set only to vibrate. Just before the closing hymn, during a silent prayer, his phone's buzz resonated perfectly in the bench's wood, audible throughout the church. Nobody thought it was delightfully melodious or canorous.