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I would like to see Kilt incorporate a script to do this from a database, but being a non-coder, I have no idea if I'm asking for a huge task or not.

Anyway, for now (but not for very long), I'll come up with a Word of the Day to help with my own, and hopefully other's, vocabularies.

:D

I doubt I can teach Brad or Kilt anything though.


Ok, first one:

mordacious

\Mor*da"cious\, a. [L. mordax, -acis, fr. mordere, morsum, to bite. See Morsel.]

Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing.

-- Mor*da\"cious*ly, adv.
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Hey, MK, you're slacking! :deviate: I'm awaiting your next mellifluous term... :wink:
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You don't really expect to witness a proverbially perspicacious purse being made from a perniciously pedantic porcine ear, do you ? :P

If so, best to pray to tempus to fugit as expeditiously as possible.
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:lol: :clap:
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Or maybe after the first post, he's begun suffering sesquipedalophobia or some such related malady...
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Either that, or perhaps deep down he's a nervous nescient, and he engages in public sesquipedalianism in order to obfuscate that from the hoi polloi. :P
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Aye, a fugacious venture gone exanimate, another of MK's numerous desipient divagations. At least it did not end in defenestration... :twisted:
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/me nods sagely while ordering a fresh pair of libational sour mashes to share with his polyglotic paisano.

Degustibusnon disputandum :P
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:clap: This is fun! :mrgreen:
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Dudes, this thread just slipped too far down I guess.

Kilt, the "messages since you were here last" function isn't working properly.

Ok, since aunflin said it, I'll use it. Besides, it is one of my favorite words.

defenestrate - the throw out of a window
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MK: You missed the point that Aunflin and I were indirectly alluding to by example - it's not enough to merely define the WOTD ... you have to creatively demonstrate it's proper use. :P
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I also feel like a 5 year old teaching a physicist quantum mechanics.
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If you stick with "Cat's Cradle", I'm sure you'll have no trouble keeping the rapt attention of most Superstring Theoretical Physicists. :deviate:

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Seriously, this is all in good fun. Don't let Aunflin's secret thesaurus addiction frighten you :P
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heh, yeah, if that wasn't creatively demonstrate[ing] it's proper use for that first word i don't know what would be.
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So, what's your WOTD Bob ?

I have relatively little doubt that your didactic tithe to the discussion shall be blessed with a surfeit of verisimilitude. :P
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Brad_H wrote:If you stick with "Cat's Cradle", I'm sure you'll have no trouble keeping the rapt attention of most Superstring Theoretical Physicists. :deviate:
Ouch! :slap:
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I asservate a perspicuous discussion on this topic (the more etymons the better!), though not in great nimiety. And please do not objurgate me! This may lead to a plethoric oniomania for Thesauri, Dictionaries, and assorted Vocabulary Books. :wink:

And here's a doozy of a word: floccinaucinihilipilification.

What's this one mean? :)
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Aunflin wrote:And here's a doozy of a word: floccinaucinihilipilification.

What's this one mean? :)
Is that worth a Sherlock? :mrgreen:
(I could be mean and say that it is something that BKM does, but I think he cleared that up recently. :wink:)

P.S. As a bit of trivia: this was the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, but not in the second edition.
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self cleansing?
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I think it's worth a Sherlock, jweb.
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Aunflin wrote:I think it's worth a Sherlock, jweb.
Yay! :clap:

floccinaucinihilipilification
Noun.
The action or habit of judging something to be worthless.

floccinaucinihilipilificate
Verb.
To judge a thing to be valueless.

Example:
jweb is saddened by BKM's floccinaucinihilipilification of his own opinion.

/jweb waiting impatiently for his shiny, new Sherlock. :hot:

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/Aunflin polishes the Sherlock 'til it shines, and slides it 'cross to jweb.
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Post by MidasKnight »

Perhaps my favorite word ever:

fustigate
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my favourite word would have to be.... contumacious but you all probably know what it means :( i feel like a two year old compared to you guys so i'm gonna go read the dictionary...
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Ah, this is becoming a very didactic thread...
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