[Sir Thursday]

Here's an excellent hangman word for you:

zyzzyva - A species of South American weevil


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[Blind Sapper]

Shiara, on 30 January 2012 - 05:13 AM, said:

How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!

Also, spelunking is a great word (as used by Bruce Wayne when explaining his need for body armor).

Morgan Freeman was quite skeptical, however.

That was a great movie, btw. Quite the Grand Guignal.

[Blind Sapper]

Week 3 already. Please ignore the large empty space.
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Word of the Week 2/1/12: Yarborough: n, A hand of cards containing no card above nine.

Nils wept upon drawing his yarborough, for he had just bet his beloved pet duck, Clarence.

Outdated term: dwimmer-crafty: adj, skilled in the arts of magic, especially having powers of illusion


Quote: "My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way." Henny Youngman

This post has been edited by TheBlindSapper: 01 February 2012 - 09:37 PM

[Use Of Weapons]

Katharine Kerr uses a derivative of 'dwimmer' in her Deverry novels, 'dweomer'.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

UseOfWeapons, on 01 February 2012 - 10:28 PM, said:

Katharine Kerr uses a derivative of 'dwimmer' in her Deverry novels, 'dweomer'.

Those of use who've played Elder Scrolls games.....

[Blind Sapper]

Adjutant Stormy, on 02 February 2012 - 07:56 AM, said:

UseOfWeapons, on 01 February 2012 - 10:28 PM, said:

Katharine Kerr uses a derivative of 'dwimmer' in her Deverry novels, 'dweomer'.

Those of use who've played Elder Scrolls games.....

Dragonspeak should be a real world language...like Klingon or Elven. Oryay Igpay Atinlay.

[worry]

No way. Dragons should learn to speak English if they really want to be taken seriously. Smaug did, and look at how much financial success he had. It's the language of opportunity. Other dragons are just gonna fall behind.

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worrywort, on 03 February 2012 - 10:32 PM, said:

No way. Dragons should learn to speak English if they really want to be taken seriously. Smaug did, and look at how much financial success he had. It's the language of opportunity. Other dragons are just gonna fall behind.

Of course, this is assuming that Tolkien's "Common Tongue" is English.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Somniferous: inducing sleep or drowsiness, often in conjunction with boredom or lassitude.

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Ain, on 07 February 2012 - 03:47 AM, said:

Somniferous: inducing sleep or drowsiness, often in conjunction with boredom or lassitude.

I sure hope this is unrelated...

If it is, I hope you were posting while capernoited adj., intoxicated, drunk.

[Use Of Weapons]

I don't get drunk. Instead, I have a cup of smouch, n. imitation teas made out of the dried leaves of hawthorn, ash, sloe and other native British plants, and coloured with various noxious substances, such as verdigris and copperas

[Blind Sapper]

Well its week four now...deal with it.
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Word of the Week: 2/8/12: Cacodemonomania: n, The pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit.

Kathy began drawing pentagrams on the walls of her apartment after diagnosing herself with Cacodemonomania.

Outdated idiom: "Colder than a witch's tit" A trivial-sounding saying with a shady past...more here.

Quote: "Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it."
--Salvador Dali

[Blind Sapper]

C'mon people, I need new vocab here.

[Use Of Weapons]

enchiridion, n. -- A small handbook or manual

[Blind Sapper]

Week 5 :
Word of the week: 2/15/12:
Acersecomic: n, A person whose hair has never been cut

The arcesomic couldn't stop tripping over their flowing locks while jogging.

Outdated idiom: putting your nose to the grindstone: Diligently working on something, (ie)getting stuff done.

Quote: "Be careful of the toes you step on today; they may just be connected to the ass that you have to kiss tomorrow."

[worry]

Gross, who has toes growing out of their ass??

[worry]

And is there a word for that?

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Nose to the grindstone isn't out of date. People use it all the time!

[Use Of Weapons]

Plus, people still use grindstones -- professional chefs and the like. As well as blacksmiths, of which there are still many.

[Blind Sapper]

Okay. Here's a better one:

Bumblepuppy: A careless card player or a sloppily played card game.

Common in the mid-1930's, It was taken from a ficticious game called Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy, featured in Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World.

Source: Taken almost word for word from this month's Mental Floss.