GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)

[Algot Runeman]

this time surreptitiously ogled and assessed by several young ladies. And one other young man.

Spifflily stated, sir.

[Algot Runeman]

cervine

Pronunciation: /ˈsərˌvīn, -vin/

adjective
of or relating to deer; deerlike.

Origin:
mid 19th century: from Latin cervinus, from cervus 'deer'


Ray Habens


funkomavintage

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Kid gloves, not so much.
Fringed deerskin shirts for the mountain men and guys like Daniel Boone, yes. Those were cervine products.

Fellows, I am not sure you should refer to your wife as "cervus" when you say "Yes, Dear!"

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

cervine

I don't think I shall bother to remember this WotD. It's much too similar to a word that has a totally different meaning, but that I hold very dear.
I don't want any confusion when asking for a cerveza to drink or a deer stew with beer for dinner (ragoût de cerf à la bière).

Would you order cervine stew with cervoise?

Click the image to watch a series of yummy culinary pictures.

Spoiler: show

[voralfred]

If I were on top of the Matterhorn, I'd certainly ask for deer stew with beer.
And a mere 5% for the waiter who, not being a seer, is no peer to me. Hear, hear !

Mais au sommet du Cervin "Garçon, un ragoût de cerviné à la cervoise ! "
Et 10% pour le service.

(...)
I don't think I shall bother to remember this WotD. It's much too similar to a word that has a totally different meaning, but that I hold very dear.
(...)

Oh, deer !

[Algot Runeman]

hikikomori

Pronunciation: /hiˌkēkəˈmôri/

noun (plural )
(in Japan) the abnormal avoidance of social contact, typically by adolescent males.
a person who avoids social contact.

Origin:
Japanese, literally 'staying indoors, (social) withdrawal'


Cayusa

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Does keeping up with those I've never met except through the Internet mean I suffer from hikikomori?
Of course, I make those contacts while indoors at home.
On the other hand, I'm not an adolescent, though I am male.
Bah. All this introspection is too tiring. I'll just stop and read a book now.

[voralfred]

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Does keeping up with those I've never met except through the Internet mean I suffer from hikikomori?
Of course, I make those contacts while indoors at home.
On the other hand, I'm not an adolescent, though I am male.
Bah. All this introspection is too tiring. I'll just stop and read a book now.

An e-book, a pure abstraction that would make you hikikomori ? Or a real, physical, paper, book that weighs in your hand and with which whom you can have a social, real, affective contact like the rest of us ?
Who needs more social contact than a well-furnished library ?

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

hikikomori

I thought ikomori is a necessary sushi ingredient.

One day in an Asian food shop, I asked the lovely Japanese girl to help me find all the purchases I needed. Well, yes, I always tend to monopolize pretty saleswomen for as long as possible.

But when I asked for a packet of ikomori, I had a sudden attack of hiccups at the worst possible moment. I asked, "Do you have hikikomori?".

She barely managed to hide her giggle and smile behind graceful fingers. To this day I don't know whether she laughed because of my hiccups or my ikomori.

Spoiler: show

[voralfred]

hikikomori

I thought ikomori is a necessary sushi ingredient.

One day in an Asian food shop, I asked the lovely Japanese girl to help me find all the purchases I needed. Well, yes, I always tend to monopolize pretty saleswomen for as long as possible.

But when I asked for a packet of ikomori, I had a sudden attack of hiccups at the worst possible moment. I asked, "Do you have hikikomori?".

She barely managed to hide her giggle and smile behind graceful fingers. To this day I don't know whether she laughed because of my hiccups or my ikomori.

Spoiler: show

Shoudn't this undeniably lovely and graceful saleswoman be in school instead of working in an Asian food shop helping lecherous old geezers? This shop should be inspected by the International Labour Organization to check for underage employment.
BTW : what is ikomori supposed to be? I thought maybe you hiccuped twice, but I could not find a sushi ingredient called omori either.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Spoiler: show

Shoudn't this undeniably lovely and graceful saleswoman be in school instead of working in an Asian food shop helping lecherous old geezers? This shop should be inspected by the International Labour Organization to check for underage employment.
BTW : what is ikomori supposed to be? I thought maybe you hiccuped twice, but I could not find a sushi ingredient called omori either.

I wanted an image of an adult Asian girl biting her knuckles to emphasise the "suppressing laughter". But the little girl with this particular gesture was the only one I found in Google Images.

As for the sushi ingredient, I've found that I had completely misunderstood when, long ago, a chinese shopkeeper tried to explain the recipe (he had hiccups). I know now that I should have been asking for nori.

[Algot Runeman]

dissonance

Pronunciation: /ˈdisənəns/

noun
Music
lack of harmony among musical notes: an unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles the harsh dissonances give a sound that is quite untypical of the Renaissance
a tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements: dissonance between campaign rhetoric and personal behavior

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonant- 'not agreeing in sound', from the verb dissonare


Ed Yourdon

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There was a moan from Aunt Benita. Her spotlessly clean kitchen was being overrun by a colony of ants.

Uncle Benny said, "Don' worry, Honey. I got some stuff dat do de trick. Just put some of dis on ants and dey go away to die."

Benita didn't heed the advice of her good-hearted husband. She felt a dissonance at the thought of using a poison around the spotless kitchen counters where she would make their supper. She stirred the marinara as she thought through some other options.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

dissonance

There's no need to twist the knife in the wound.
I do realise that hiccups are a dissonance in these edifying WotD discussions.
I assure you that I commit these faux pas involuntarily and without any malice.
And even though I mean no disrespect, I still beg your forgiveness.

Spoiler: show

[Algot Runeman]

appestat

Pronunciation: /ˈapəˌstat/

noun
Physiology
the region of the hypothalamus of the brain that is believed to control a person’s appetite for food.

Origin:
1950s: from appetite, probably on the pattern of thermostat


Tony Alter

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Ben's appestat was turned up when he was a kid. It has not changed much since he was 20. However, his weight has followed the urgings of the appetite. He weighs over 350 pounds today. He does not play nose tackle in the NFL, either, though he watches from the stands.

[voralfred]

Too many people have turned up appestat, alas. But some, either to compensate this, or for reasons of they own, become addicted to an activity which goes in the opposite direction, and though healthy in moderate amount can become dangerous in case of excessively high setting of their exercistat.

[Algot Runeman]

autodidact

Pronunciation: /ˌôtōˈdīˌdakt/

noun
a self-taught person.

Derivatives
autodidactic
Pronunciation: /-ˌdīˈdaktik/ adjective

Origin:
mid 18th century: from Greek autodidaktos 'self-taught', from autos 'self' + didaskein 'teach'


Robert Hufstutter

Joey may not have been entirely an autodidact. His skills as a mechanic were predicted when he was a kid, he watched his uncles and father gather around various jalopies and piles of automotive junk. They inspired him to make more than they were capable of accomplishing. Today, he rebuilds all sorts of cars. He doesn't keep them. His joy comes from the loving restoration of the original beauty of a Hudson, a DeSoto, pretty much any American car.

[Yes, the auto pun is intended...]

[Algot Runeman]

bindi

Pronunciation: /ˈbindē/

noun
a decorative mark worn in the middle of the forehead by Indian women.

Origin:
from Hindi bindī


Mark Miller

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Mohana listened to the others. She didn't understand very much of the animated conversation, but loved being part of the group of "women", all with bindi on their foreheads. She felt at home.

[Algot Runeman]

louche

Pronunciation: /lo͞oSH/

adjective
disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way: the louche world of the theater

Derivatives
loucheness
noun

Origin:
early 19th century: from French, literally 'squinting'


ClintJCL

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Rock stars epitomize loucheness, and have done so from the very beginning. Parents found Elvis sordid, for sure. Their teenagers definitely found him appealing.

[Though I don't know either the group or the performer, the middle person is the rock star, Jared Louche of the Chemlab rock group. He's clearly trying to live up to his name.]

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

louche

Though I do like about 50 % of all R&R and R&B music, I've never liked to actually see the pop stars, louche or not.

But I've always had a predilection, not to say addiction, to a generous louche of Potage Saint Germain, Tomato Soup with Meatballs and Soupe à l'Oignon Gratinée.

[Algot Runeman]

addiction, to a generous louche of Potage Saint Germain, Tomato Soup with Meatballs and Soupe à l'Oignon Gratinée.

Do you intend to suggest, sir, that your three course dinner would consist of three servings of soup? Perhaps you needed to squint at the menu excessively and thought you'd ordered a standard sequence of courses; a soup, an entré and a dessert?

Soupe à l'Oignon Gratinée is often first on my order, though a fish chowder is frequently worth the time. I have tried neither the Potage Saint Germain nor the Tomato Soup with Meatballs. Tomato soup without the meatballs, but made as cream of tomato has been in my diet since I was a very young boy. Yum!

Soup has been a joyful, satisfying habit for so long, perhaps I should consider your three course dinner suggestion, after all.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

addiction, to a generous louche of Potage Saint Germain, Tomato Soup with Meatballs and Soupe à l'Oignon Gratinée.

... Soup has been a joyful, satisfying habit for so long, perhaps I should consider your three course dinner suggestion, after all.

Make that seven because I forgot four very delicious soups: Leak Leek & Potato Soup with black pepper, Minestrone with grated Parmigiano and last but not least the Lady and Lord of the Mediterranean, French Bouillabaisse and Spanish Zarzuela (called Opera in Barcelona).

[Algot Runeman]

edification

Pronunciation: /ˌedəfiˈkāSHən/

noun
formal
the instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually: the idea that art’s main purpose is to supply moral uplift and edification

Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin aedificatio(n-), from aedificare 'build' (see edify)


dmott9

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Tom did not enjoy his edification.
Tom preferred tearing things down.
Tom looked forward to next week for smashing Halloween pumpkins.
He felt his seat in the classroom would better be offered to another.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

edification

I've always had trouble keeping edifications, edifices and edibles apart.

So I thought of a mnemonic to make it easier to remember:

The McDonald's is an edifice where edification of their edibles is shown in the menu.

[voralfred]

(..)
I've always had trouble keeping edifications, edifices and edibles apart.

So I thought of a mnemonic to make it easier to remember:

The McDonald's is an edifice where edification of their edibles is shown in the menu.

It's a good thing you thought of this mnemonic.
Otherwise, when visiting a school, which is an edifice where edification is offered, you wouldn't know whether to eat the edifice itself (its stones, bricks, wood, etc.), of the edification personel (the teachers). Knowing you as well as I do, I still suppose you'd rather eat the edificated people (the students), preferably if they are pretty young girls...

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

... I still suppose you'd rather eat the edificated people (the students), preferably if they are pretty young girls...

Oh yes. I envy this young man. An only and single male, his edification is boosted by the edible girls in the venerable Bath edifice. (Click on the image).

Michael Kenny is the only male in a class of 48 women studying at the world famous Norland College.

[voralfred]

(...)
Oh yes. I envy this young man. An only and single male, his edification is boosted by the edible girls in the venerable Bath edifice. (Click on the image).

Oh! Yummy, yummy....

[Algot Runeman]

autochthon

Pronunciation: /ôˈtäkTHən/

noun (plural autochthons or autochthones /-THəˌnēz/)
an original or indigenous inhabitant of a place; an aborigine.

Origin:
late 16th century: from Greek, literally 'sprung from the earth', from autos 'self' + khthōn 'earth, soil'

Indigenous image (Imagine one you like.)

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Luke was a local. His family were locals. His forefathers were locals.
Maybe others would consider him an autochthon, but he just likes the simple term.