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Title: What's your word-of-the-day today?
Post by: DrewKaree on July 19, 2005, 10:13:29 pm: Growing up, if I didn't know what a word meant, my parents would NEVER tell me what it meant, even if they knew it. I had to drag out the old 5-inch-thick dictionary and look it up...hopefully it was in there, as our dictionary was old, and not the most up-to-date thing around. It's a habit I still have, and thanks to the wonder of this here "intra-net" thingy, it's easier than ever to find out the meaning of words. Here's something I came across today - what have you come across today to share with us?

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samizdat

Main Entry: sa
Title: Re: What's your word-of-the-day today?
Post by: DrewKaree on July 19, 2005, 10:28:26 pm: Quote

Penumbra

Main Entry: pen
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Post by: monkeybomb on July 19, 2005, 10:37:50 pm: persnickety

per
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Post by: shmokes on July 20, 2005, 01:57:27 am: Keck

\Keck\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Kecked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Kecking}.]To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit.

By the way, you should really check out www.hyperdictionary.com. Look up a word and every word in the definition is a link to the definition of that word. So if you look up keck, but don't know what retch means, no problem....just click it. Great time waster.

Also, you should set up a personalized google page at http://www.google.com/ig
It makes a great homepage for a variety of reasons, one of which being the word of the day.
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Post by: shmokes on July 20, 2005, 02:00:31 am: defenestrate

v : throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"
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Post by: tommy on July 20, 2005, 03:10:09 am: FAHQ

Far-k-u

Latin word for.....

;D
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Post by: Kev-in DFW on July 20, 2005, 07:55:04 am: tetanomotor-

\Tet`a*no*mo"tor\, n. (Physiol.)
An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its
nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

synonyms - WIFE! as it pertains to your last nerve...
Title: Re: What's your word-of-the-day today?
Post by: DaveMMR on July 20, 2005, 08:00:59 am: callipygian
Pronunciation: "ka-l&-'pi-j(E-)&n
adjective
Having shapely buttocks
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Post by: Sephroth57 on July 20, 2005, 11:29:16 am: i been using penis wrinkle as an adjective today
Title: Re: What's your word-of-the-day today?
Post by: DrewKaree on July 20, 2005, 10:44:02 pm: Quote from: tommy on July 20, 2005, 03:10:09 am
FAHQ

Far-k-u

Latin word for.....

;D

Quote from: Sephroth57 on July 20, 2005, 11:29:16 am
i been using ---auto-censored--- wrinkle as an adjective today

Of all the people that this could help, you two are tops on the list.

I've never seen such a quick and fitting demonstration of a real-life version of Beavis & Butthead. Now it's time to figure out which one of you is who ;D

And stop with the "weiner" jokes. We're adults, you "morans"!
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Post by: DrewKaree on July 20, 2005, 10:46:53 pm: Quote from: DaveMMR on July 20, 2005, 08:00:59 am
callipygian
Pronunciation: "ka-l&-'pi-j(E-)&n
adjective
Having shapely buttocks

Sorry to any of you out there, but I thought this was funny as all get out and simply icing on the cake:

Etymology: Greek

Dave, you almost never fail to impress! I have a feeling there's now a battle on to find something to top this. :D
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Post by: danny_galaga on July 20, 2005, 11:05:01 pm: cumberbun
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Post by: danny_galaga on July 20, 2005, 11:05:29 pm: and any new words Dubya invents (",)
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Post by: DrewKaree on July 20, 2005, 11:35:35 pm: Quote from: danny_galaga on July 20, 2005, 11:05:01 pm
cumberbun

Like the thing you wear around your waist with your tuxedo?
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Post by: danny_galaga on July 20, 2005, 11:40:03 pm: thats it! although ive never worn one. our highschool didnt do formals and besides which i didnt pass anyway ;D
Title: Re: What's your word-of-the-day today?
Post by: DrewKaree on July 21, 2005, 12:44:57 am: Quote from: danny_galaga on July 20, 2005, 11:40:03 pm
thats it! although ive never worn one. our highschool didnt do formals and besides which i didnt pass anyway ;D

cummerbund

And you should get one. I can picture you now - all hairy, riding your bike down the street with a cummerbund wrapped around your forehead ;D
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Post by: danny_galaga on July 21, 2005, 06:01:42 am: and you think i dont now?
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Post by: Sephroth57 on July 21, 2005, 11:57:57 am: lol i just realized i was auto censored. since when is pen1s a bad word =p
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Post by: DrewKaree on July 21, 2005, 04:21:50 pm: Quote from: Sephroth57 on July 21, 2005, 11:57:57 am
lol i just realized i was auto censored. since when is pen1s a bad word =p

When you spell it with a 1 ;)

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Antebellum

Main Entry: an
Title: Re: What's your word-of-the-day today?
Post by: DrewKaree on July 21, 2005, 04:38:49 pm: Quote

Burnt-rubbery

Main Entry: burnt rubbery
Pronunciation: burn-t 'ru-ber-ee
Function: adjective
Etymology: Sting-Latin-ray

the smell remaining after a tire fire: existing after a tire fire; especially : existing after a tire fire in Oklahoma

You were RIGHT, Stingray! ;)
Title: Re: What's your word-of-the-day today?
Post by: Luxury on July 21, 2005, 06:03:39 pm: Quote from: DrewKaree on July 19, 2005, 10:28:26 pm
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Penumbra

Main Entry: pen
Title: Re: What's your word-of-the-day today?
Post by: DrewKaree on July 22, 2005, 07:58:05 pm: Quote

Simpering

Main Entry: 1sim