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aspiringwriter
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causing a shipwreck
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bentan
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Definition: excessively fond of and submissive to one's wife.
Usage: The uxorious man derived great pleasure from being ridiculed and cuckolded by his dominating wife.
Portmanteau
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| Jan 20 @ 2:46 PM |
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A portmanteau (IPA: /p?rt'mænto?/), plural portmanteaux, is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g., spork from spoon and fork, animatronics from animated and electronics, guesstimate from guess and estimate, wikipedia from wiki and encyclopedia, or ginormous from gigantic and enormous). Typically, portmanteaux are nonce words or neologisms. Portmanteaux are commonly used in science fiction for a wide variety of technical words, such as cyborg from cybernetic and organism.
I hadda look that one up.. thanks.
new word:
flexiloquent
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| Jan 20 @ 4:07 PM |
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bentan
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No explanation of portmanteau is complete without the followed favored example: fucking + retard = fucktard. lol
Flexiloquent: pertaining to someone who speaks ambiguously.
Onomatopoeia
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| Jan 20 @ 4:32 PM |
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swyeter
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A word that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as "click," "clang," "buzz," etc.
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| Jan 20 @ 6:23 PM |
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bentan
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Zygodactyl: Pertaining to having the toes arranged in two opposed pairs, two in front and two in the rear.
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| Jan 20 @ 7:04 PM |
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NachoBaby
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eh that one was easy. 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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| Jan 20 @ 8:37 PM |
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bentan
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Ah not quite m'dear ... it's 1 followed by googol zeros, where googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Girouettism: altering one's opinion to suit current trends in public opinion. Vote Dick in 08!
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| Jan 20 @ 9:09 PM |
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aspiringwriter
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a number raised to the eigth power.
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| Jan 20 @ 10:30 PM |
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NachoBaby
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Yup, you are going to have to splain this one to me AW. Dit can be one of many abbreviations.. but I'm not finding it a sa solid word.
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| Jan 20 @ 10:39 PM |
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aspiringwriter
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sure, its archaic. a poem or a song (methinks ditty comes from it)
I took it from
http://phrontistery.info/three.html
Your right though, could be any of a number of abbrev.'s. Somebody else want to toss out a new word.
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| Jan 21 @ 12:22 AM |
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swyeter
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expanding the dit to:
dithyramb
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| Jan 21 @ 1:28 AM |
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aspiringwriter
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in brief, 1) a choral poem to Dyonisis, 2) enthusiastic bit of writing
now try
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| Jan 21 @ 1:31 AM |
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swyeter
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A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short
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| Jan 21 @ 6:10 PM |
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NachoBaby
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Turned on by people in bathing suits.
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| Jan 21 @ 6:43 PM |
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sumdaysoon
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gardyloo - an old cry when throwing slop water
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| Jan 21 @ 7:56 PM |
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swyeter
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A protozoan superclass whose members are characterized, at some time in the life cycle, by the possession of hairlike structures called flagella.
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| Jan 21 @ 10:58 PM |
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NachoBaby
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Damn Swy.. I can't even SAY that..
Someone who hates practicing the piano.
lebensabschnittsgefahrte
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| Jan 21 @ 11:12 PM |
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aspiringwriter
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literally a companion for a bit of (your) life. also a euphamism for "living in sin"
keeping with the german roots
bildungsroman
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| Jan 22 @ 12:25 AM |
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swyeter
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A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character.
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
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