Wordie: Defenestrate: Comments

Comment by PossibleUnderscore, 2 months ago

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:50:37 +0000

Why Is It Still Here??

Comment by Prolagus, 2 months ago

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:09:09 +0000

You could ask user yo.

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:56:31 +0000

Can it be removed? It's rather vile.

Comment by chained_bear, 2 months ago

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:53:03 +0000

I don't get why it's so friggin' HUGE on this page.

Comment by PossibleUnderscore, 2 months ago

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:59:50 +0000

I'm not entirely sure either...but maybe it has something to do with defenestrating blades?

Comment by bilby, 2 months ago

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:34:08 +0000

I don't get why on it's on this page.

Comment by yo, 4 months ago

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:04:27 +0000

defenestly!

Comment by yo, 4 months ago

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:51:27 +0000

IMG/Users/ILOVEGAVIN/Desktop/emo.jpg/IMG

defenestly!

Comment by Milosrdenstvi, 5 months ago

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:55:12 +0000

defenestly!

Comment by chained_bear, 5 months ago

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:39:55 +0000

AWWW!!! *weejies* I totally forgot about that picture!! :)

So, if you defenestrate someone who then crawls back in and becomes refenestrated, and this person brings a landscape (etc., etc.) and is therefore rescreefenestrated, and perhaps this person himself then throws qroqqa and sionnach out the window, and Wordie and sionnach then become dereferencestrated and defennecstrated, respectively, but the original defenestrator is then flung out the window and accidentally defenecastrated and does not attempt to climb back in, and all the while reesetee is reeseteefenestrating, then, is it faster to Paris, or by bus?

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:29:30 +0000

See defennecstrate.

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:10:18 +0000

If you through sionnach out a window are you defennecstrating?

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:36:11 +0000

If you throw qroqqa out of a window, are you dereferencetrating Wordie?

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:28:21 +0000

*cringing*

Comment by skipvia, 5 months ago

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:54:38 +0000

If the poor chap being tossed out of the window has the misfortune to lose his...ummm...family jewels to an inconveniently placed shard of broken glass, is he then defenecastrated?

I don't imagine he'd attempt to crawl back in.

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:42:57 +0000

Sometimes it can be very difficult to make a mundane point on Wordie :-)

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:12:53 +0000

*rubs head*

Hey! Who tossed me out the window?

Comment by gangerh, 5 months ago

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:47:47 +0000

So if they're howling with laughter they're reeseteefenestrated then?

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:52:21 +0000

*howls with laughter*

Comment by chained_bear, 5 months ago

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:03:33 +0000

If you throw someone out a window and they crawl back in and happen to bring with them a landscape of broken rock fragments, are they then rescreefenestrated?

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:47:42 +0000

Yes, as opposed to undefenestrated, as discussed at unfenestrated.

Comment by skipvia, 5 months ago

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:28:28 +0000

If you throw someone out of a window and they crawl back in, are they then refenestrated?

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:10:48 +0000

Excellent observation, bilby! There are also 2 for defenestrated. I don't suppose we can count unfenestrated.

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:09:26 +0000

I know schadenfreude (404) has a few misspellings, but the def- count is split between this (224) and defenestration (191), total 415.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:37:34 +0000

Ooh look! It's past the double century. Municipal celebrations in Prague!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:19:02 +0000

Wouldn't you first have to do some defenestrating? Or will it be one of those memoirs? ;-)

Comment by wordwench, about 1 year ago

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:12:54 +0000

I long for the day when I get to subjectively use this word in my memoirs.

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:00:57 +0000

If you've ever lived in the historic centre of a European town/city that hasn't changed much since the late Middle Ages, this word makes more sense. The staircases are narrow, often winding. In many cases it's just easier to get stuff to/from an apartment through the window rather than via the stairs. There was also a great tradition of just heaving things out the window, after which they became somebody else's problem, eg. nightsoil. It's hard to imagine life in such places without a word like defenestrate.

Comment by rebeca, about 1 year ago

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:40:01 +0000

I like this word, but I didn't relate it with Russia until I read the comments listed here. Defenestration. Bears. Vodka. - Wordie is putting dangerous ideas in my mind.

Comment by logos, about 1 year ago

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:28:05 +0000

Defenestration is not in vogue in the US. I suppose if there were a fire or divorce proceedings, it is possible. We lack the good old-fashioned chaos of a Russia or Europe where this type of thing gets more play. I cannot visualize this word without smoke, riot police, mobs, and Molotov cocktails.

Comment by gangerh, about 1 year ago

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:32:48 +0000

Weird town yours, logos. I mean, it's surely normal to throw second floor furniture from a second floor window if you want to defenestrate it. If someone wanted to use the first floor window or, insanely, the sixteenth floor window instead then asylum, yes.

Comment by logos, about 1 year ago

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:50:57 +0000

In my town, a man defenestrated all of the second floor furniture from the second floor windows and was hauled off to the regional asylum.

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:33:01 +0000

Nouns, babe, just nouns. Escalation can be a wonderful thing.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:23:37 +0000

Are those words all verbs in their respective languages? I think "das Fenster" just means window... right?

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:57:28 +0000

Like this word. But it's over-listed here so I won't join in. With finestra (Italian), finetre (French) and Fenster (German), it seems there's a grand European tradition of chucking people out of windows.

Comment by Laiane, about 1 year ago

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:46:07 +0000

I, too, learned this word in relation to Prague. I first encountered it a travel guide (The Rough Guide series, I'm sure). It talked about if you stood at a certain spot in the Castle you could "contemplate the trajectory" of the advisors when they were defenestrated.

Comment by uselessness, over 2 years ago

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:21:32 +0000

Pragmatists?

Comment by cathari, over 2 years ago

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:33:48 +0000

Only by selling Windows to Pragueians. (Praguers? Pragueites? Praguesmen? Praguese?)

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:35:55 +0000

Yes, but can you fenestrate Prague?

Comment by cathari, over 2 years ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:17 +0000

See my comment over at this list regarding how to fenestrate things.

Comment by chained_bear, over 2 years ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:04:44 +0000

I had a theatre professor who told me the story of a dare--I don't know if this is a current, ongoing dare, or happened once in, say, the '60s--in which actors in the Royal Shakespeare Company had to work into their performance a certain phrase without throwing off their lines or the play's action.

The phrase was "defenestration of Prague."

Comment by uselessness, over 2 years ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:03:41 +0000

There's a great scene in A Beautiful Mind where Charles, the "prodigal roommate," defenestrates the desk of a collegiate John Nash. The best part is (not to spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it) discovering what that scene really means later on.

Comment by jeffazi, over 2 years ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:53:54 +0000

to throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"

Good word. Reminds me of Prague. And Die Hard. What's not to like?

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:53:48 +0000

Many thanks to Bill Waterson for introducing me to this word.

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:45:12 +0000

"The monster, in his consternation,
Demonstrates defenestration,
And runs and runs and runs and runs away.
Rid of the pest,
I now can rest,
Thanks to my best friend, who saved the day."

Comment by snowsim, over 2 years ago

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:20:33 +0000

"If someone tries to sell you some Windows™, tell him to defenestrate himself." — Crispin Cowan