Word of the Day

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:14 pm

Clowder

Can anyone guess the meaning of this word?

And how 'bout:

Ovine
Edacious
Eidolon
Viviparous
Uxorial
Tenebrous
Sinapism
Reify
Quotidian

Well, that's all for now...

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MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:19 pm

Well,

Eidolon is the name of a metal band.

jweb · Post by **jweb** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:31 pm

Aunflin wrote:Clowder

Can anyone guess the meaning of this word?

Meow, meow, meow, meow
Meow, meow, meow, meow
Meow, meow, meow, meow, MEOW, meow, meow, meow
Meow...meow...MEOW!

( Somebody please

me

)

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:04 pm

LOL, jweb! But quite right. Clowder is a grouping of cats, though the term itself denotes the subject.

And Eidolon may very well be a Metal Band, but what does the word itself mean?

jweb · Post by **jweb** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:42 pm

Aunflin wrote:And Eidolon may very well be a Metal Band, but what does the word itself mean?

An image or representation. Or a phantasm, apparition, spectre, etc.

I wonder, does that mean the band is spooky, or without substance? Hmmm...

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:46 pm

Perhaps.

But it sounds like a good name for a Metal Band to me.

How 'bout Clowder as the name of a Jazz Band or something...?

jweb · Post by **jweb** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:47 pm

And by the way, my wife and I could never quite agree on the exact connotation of uxorious. For some reason, I can't seem to convince her that (technically) it's a bad thing to be uxorious.

jweb · Post by **jweb** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:49 pm

Aunflin wrote:How 'bout Clowder as the name of a Jazz Band or something...?

I don't know. I think any band named Clowder would have to cover "Cat Scratch Fever".

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:52 pm

I'm sure she'd love it if you were uxorious to her.

But if you were uxorial...well, she might take it the wrong way...

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:55 pm

...maybe you could titivate the house for her...it could prevent many termagant moods.

jweb · Post by **jweb** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:55 pm

Aunflin wrote:I'm sure she'd love it if you were uxorious to her.

But if you were uxorial...well, she might take it the wrong way...

Oh, no

about it

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:00 pm

hehehehe... That's what I thought.

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:22 pm

As long as you don't practice ovine relations like BKM, I think you're gonna be all right.

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:25 pm

jwebster wrote:
Aunflin wrote:How 'bout Clowder as the name of a Jazz Band or something...?
I don't know. I think any band named Clowder would have to cover "Cat Scratch Fever".

They could improvise a Jazz version of the song...I'm sure it would sound awesome!

jweb · Post by **jweb** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:29 pm

Aunflin wrote:And how 'bout:

Ovine
Edacious
Eidolon
Viviparous
Uxorial
Tenebrous
Sinapism
Reify
Quotidian

Well, that's all for now...

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OK, let's see...

The uxorial eidolon paid me its quotidian visit as I concocted a sinapism in the tenebrous hours before dawn. It was edacious, and consumed my ovine victuals faster than a viviparous clowder, impelling me to reify its insatiateness.

How's that Aunflin?

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:38 pm

Very good, jweb. And humorous.

Now, that's what I'm talking about.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:36 am

I honestly used to think I had a large vocabulary.

You guys make me feel more inadequate than a porn start with a small penis.

Post by **KiltanneN** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:12 pm

Thread Moderated:

I just moved it to the "Quill & Fountain".

Don't know why I didn't think of this before - but it really does suit being here much better.

Kilt

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:39 pm

Indeed, it does, kilt. (Don't know why it never occurred to me, either...)

Post by **Darb** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:52 pm

Help ... we've been hijacked by a habile haughty haggis-hawking hirsute hegelian hooligan with halitosis.

Oh the horror !

bob k. mando · Post by **bob k. mando** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:48 pm

how bout one that i just saw in a book and can't find @ dictionary.com or with google.

pissaciously - found in C.J. Cherryh's Explorer.

as used:
An hour and more until the aliens knew they were slowing and turning - and signaling their intentions. Which might also make a shot miss them, if the aliens pissaciously fired before they considered the blink signal.

obviously, it looks like a synonym for 'rash action'. possible misspelling?

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:35 am

It means "as if taking a piss in the wind."

aka recklessly

God, I'm soooo funny at this hour!!!

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:09 am

I can't find it, either, BKM. And I looked up every similar sounding word I could think of:

pis aller:a last resort or device.

piscary: the right of fishing in waters of another

piscine: of, relating to, or characteristic of fish

pissoir: a public urinal located in the street in some European countries.

pessary: a vaginal suppository

There were some others that "looked" similar in one way or another.

But I couldn't find pissacious/pissaciously or pessacious/pessaciously or passacious/passaciously. And I looked through every word book I've got--and I have many.

It almost sounds like a made up word or even slang of some sort. However, maybe it is a real word, though mayhap not English.

Hmmm...

This is gonna nag at my mind...

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:42 am

I went and checked out Meriam-Websters's sight since BKM couldn't find it at dictionary.com and...nothing. The word pissaciously is not listed as a word. Maybe, I should go to the Oxford dictionary sight...but that costs money...hmmm...

bob k. mando · Post by **bob k. mando** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:57 pm

naw naw, no need to spend money on me, especially when it could just be an editing error (although cherryh does know latin ... latin word or derivative with an -ly suffix?).

i'd email cherryh but she's got a note on her web site saying she's WAAAYYY behind on email and asking for submissions to be withheld.

It means "as if taking a piss in the wind."
heh, yeah, that's it.