GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)

[Algot Runeman]

Grabologists - perfect!

[Algot Runeman]

incur

become subject to (something unwelcome or unpleasant) as a result of one's own behavior or actions


Photo Credit: Flickr user: harttmlp - Creative Commons License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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This dog incurred it's master's displeasure by sleeping on the couch.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

incur

become subject to (something unwelcome or unpleasant) as a result of one's own behavior or actions

When in a restaurant in Britain, you don't use their current currency to pay for your curry with currants, you may well incur curt currish curses.

[voralfred]

incur

become subject to (something unwelcome or unpleasant) as a result of one's own behavior or actions

When in a restaurant in Britain, you don't use their current currency to pay for your curry with currants, you may well incur curt currish curses.

This reminds me of asking Algot, would you say that the dog that incurred its master's displeasure was a cur? Contrariwise, it has such a friendly, innocent look I'd call it "Mon coeur"!

[Algot Runeman]

hibiscus

a plant of the mallow family, grown in warm climates for its large brightly coloured flowers or for products such as fibre or timber.


C. Frank Starmer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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The hibiscus photo was so showy, it dominated the WotD post.
There is a family link to these confections common to campouts.

Wikimedia Commons user: smith609

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

hibiscus

a plant of the mallow family, grown in warm climates for its large brightly coloured flowers or for products such as fibre or timber.

A Belgian website (showing 8 pictures) claims that the climate where I live allows about 20 hibiscus varieties to grow outdoors in the garden. There are also +/- 120 potted varieties. Grown in pots, I mean.

I don't know if I, either potted or sober, have ever seen or smelled any variety, at home or abroad, but I'm very familiar with Hibiscrub®. Might that surgical soap be scented with hibiscus perfume?

[Algot Runeman]

homeopath

a person who practices homeopathy


Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... n_1841.jpg

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Sadly, Herr Hahnemann, original homeopath, seems to have spent too much time self medicating. He looks worn out.
Of course, heteropaths have been known to self medicate, too.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

... He looks worn out. ...

Yeah. He'd already spent days looking for his mislaid dentures.

[Algot Runeman]

arachnoid

like a spider or arachnid


Flicker user: Daveybot Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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Wally wore a special arachnoid glove for Halloween to which he had sewn three extra "fingers." Nobody thought it really looked much like a spider, but he got credit for the costume effort.

[voralfred]

"Arachnoid 30C" (30C means you dissolve one spicule on a leg of the spider whose picture Algot posted into the Atlantic. Then you impregnate sugar granule with a drop of this solution) may not yet exist, but thanks to Hahnemann "Aranea Diadema 30C" does and is for sale for 6$ on the Web (though I won't post the address where to buy it)

[Algot Runeman]

leveret

a young hare in its first year


Wikimedia Commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_Hare444.jpg
User: benjamint
Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

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Leverett Saltonstall was the 55th governor of Massachusetts in the US and a US senator. I don't actually know if anyone called him "Bunny." As a politician, it is certain he used the governor's position to lever it into the senate seat. Consistently well coiffed, he seldom had a "bad hare day."

[Algot Runeman]

lambada

a fast, erotic Brazilian dance that couples perform with their stomachs touching

Illustrating image held back to avoid averse attention.

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No lambada for you!

[Algot Runeman]

buckler

a small, round shield held by a handle or worn on the forearm


Photo Credit: John "Jay" Glenn on Flickr Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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Bob's buckler broke because Bill bashed boldly, bearing a behemoth's bludgeon.

[voralfred]

In the absence of an image for lambada, here's al least an image for lambda...

Not as interesting, but no averse attention either...

You can also find an image here, which should attract no adverse attention..
Yummy-yummy.. but it does not fit the above definition.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

This image reminds me of:

• 1. "With it or on it!"
  
  2. a Petri dish

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

lambada

a fast, erotic Brazilian dance that couples perform with their stomachs touching

To the onlooker the Lambada is no more erotic than the Tango, the Raqs sharqi, the Parisian Apache and Java, or a couple's Flamenco. It depends on the interpretation by the onlooker. It too is "in the eye of the beholder".

In its 1989 heyday Kaoma's Lambada video-clip was shown almost dayly on some TV station available on Belgian cable. It was (still is) a delight to watch.

I found the quote from this Wikipedia page most remarkable:

This re-insertion of Lambada changed the way people danced. For the first time in more than 30 years, since the Beatles, young couples started to dance together once more.

Unfortunately, it came 20 years too late for me. But instead I do enjoy watching classical ballet and well performed Tango, Lambada, Flamenco (though I don't really like the "belly dance"), dances where you can actually see the lovely figure and graceful motion of beautiful women.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

In the absence of an image for lambada, here's al least an image for lambda...

Here's another lambda image

[Algot Runeman]

pyrography

the art or technique of decorating wood or leather by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point


Image Credit Wikimedia Commons user Alertomalibu http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... A8bres.jpg

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I burn with envy every time I see pyrography as well done as the image above. My own efforts consistently resemble the "scorched earth" results of a massive battle.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

pyrography

the art or technique of decorating wood or leather by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point

I love quatre-quarts cake. With strawberries and whipped cream. And I can bake it myself too.

Spoiler: show

But once I got distracted hugging and cuddling my wife and I left the cake in the oven too long. When she saw the result,

Spoiler: show

my wife remarked dryly:
"If I were you, I'd put it on a pedestal. As a sculpture, it isn't half bad. Kitchen Drama Pyrography, you know?"

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I wonder if African raised tattoos are a form of pyrography too?

Spoiler: show

[Algot Runeman]

quatre-quarts cake

Yummy. Pound cake, as I would say it, and eat it, especially with vanilla ice cream.

Do you need a special occasion to make one? Is quatre-quarts cake accepted better than the fruit cake that is commonly sent around Christmas time, and not always eaten by the recipient?

[Algot Runeman]

yogi

a person who is proficient in yoga


Photo Credit: Jean-Marie Hullot http://www.fotopedia.com/items/jmhullot ... e6fdf265ca
Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) license

or could this be the one?

Image Credit: William S Keller, National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidef ... Page-2.htm
Photos that are a work product for agencies of the US federal government are generally in the public domain. Yogi Bear is a trademarked character of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

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Yoga, Yogi, Yoda, You do the Voodoo that you do!

[Algot Runeman]

sclerous

hardened or bony (used to describe body tissue)


"Pulmonary arteriolar sclerosis in pulmonary veno-occlusive disease"
Photo: Yale Rosen (pulmonary_pathology) on Flickr

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Bob had no sclerous intent when he tossed the soup bone to his dog.

By the Way, just why do we worry so much about the ides of March when in the US, it is the ides of April when taxes are due?
Happy March 15th everyone.

[Algot Runeman]

metheglin

a spiced or medicated variety of mead, associated particularly with Wales.


Credits: Derived from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... f_mead.jpg
Marieke Kuijjer Creative Commons license: cc-by-sa

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Mead, not the famous Margaret of anthropology fame, is but a drink, but I've never actually seen whales imbibe the ordinary variety. I've heard one can fin forward faster after a bit of metheglin. Ah the spice of life.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

metheglin

a spiced or medicated variety of mead, associated particularly with Wales.

My grandma never heard of metheglin, nor of meth. She never felt any need for psychostimulants because grandpa could quite expertly titillate her to dizzying summits.

Nevertheless, grandma often but moderately indulged in a "Bolleke", the Sinjoren's mead (*).



(*)
1. The nickname of inhabitants of Antwerp is Sinjoren, after the Spanish word señor, which means 'mister' or 'gent'. It refers to the leading Spanish noble-men who ruled the city during the 17th century.

2. A Sinjoor with a whale of a hangover after too many "bollekes", is called a zuipschuit (= lush).

[Algot Runeman]

EPS, thanks for the lush description of the folk of Antwerp.

OED, today, gave us this extended and lush discussion of mead, more than I ever thought I'd know.
http://blog.oup.com/2011/03/mead/