Wordie: Struthious: Comments

Comment by bilby, about 1 month ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:48:01 +0000

Strewth!

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 month ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:42:16 +0000

Where has this word been all my life?

Comment by skipvia, about 1 month ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:32:13 +0000

Or the ever-popular Struthiomimus.

Comment by mollusque, about 1 month ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:06:26 +0000

For more seriously struthious words, see struthonian and struthionine.

Comment by she, about 1 month ago

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:49:02 +0000

I admire this word's ability to pass for something very serious and not at all to do with ostriches: "Did you enjoy the play?" – "Why, it was positively struthious!"

(Also: struthious truthiness? Struthiness.)

Comment by yarb, 4 months ago

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:24:44 +0000

He could describe her dress only as struthious (if there existed copper-curled ostriches), accentuating as it did the swing of her stance, the length of her legs in ninon stockings.

- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor

Comment by Jrome, about 1 year ago

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:51:29 +0000

Thanks to Mike G. Now that guy, he knows himself some serious vocab!

a. of, or resembling, an ostrich

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:25:32 +0000