Wordie: Oddball Opposites: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:08:53 +0000

Oh, I don't know. Isn't that rather redundant? ;-)

However, that gave me an idea--foely.

Comment by gangerh, 7 months ago

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:21:49 +0000

foe spam?

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:18:00 +0000

Good one! I'm surprised it hasn't already come up. :-)

Comment by Treeseed, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:26:23 +0000

How about daymare...for a bad dream you have in the daylight hours.

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:17:33 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions, all--goofy though they may be. :-) Treeseed, I'm only adding words that are presumably not yet in existence. I think overworld is in use already. Gangerh, no "hims," "hers," "us," and "thems" since you already have at least one list on that topic.

Comment by Treeseed, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:23:48 +0000

How about overworld?

Comment by gangerh, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:33:32 +0000

Pthemsycat?

Comment by sionnach, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:47:19 +0000

All from the recesses of my own little mind, skipvia..

Comment by skipvia, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:07:40 +0000

I have to know, sionnach--are you quoting What's Up, Tiger Lily? or did you make that up yourself?

"Name three presidents..."

Comment by mollusque, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:02:42 +0000

Three lefts make a right.

Comment by sionnach, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:59:41 +0000

How about wong? As in "two wongs don't make a wight?"

Comment by gangerh, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:43:19 +0000

Evenball Opposites? And what's the opposite of opposite anyway?

Comment by gangerh, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:42:10 +0000

Shotgun divorce?

Comment by gangerh, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:38:09 +0000

Hirsuiteerdash?

Comment by gangerh, 7 months ago

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:35:06 +0000

Just found this list of yours, reesetee. I wasn't here at the time but it seems you opened a right can't of worms. You might even need last aid by now. A list par excellence with a long way to go yet. Hugely entertaining.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:38:34 +0000

Good grief; I can't keep up with you two! You're leaving me positively breathful. ;-) Sionnach, I'm leaving "whitemail" off because I discovered it's an actual word (rats).

Comment by sionnach, 10 months ago

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:13:23 +0000

My pussycats, Boris and Natasha, get totally freaked out by thover and heavyning.

OK, that may be trying too hard....

I'm confused. Isn't inhaler a synonym for sucker?

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:10:47 +0000

Scoll down, exhaler, I think hairierdash has you bang to lefts. I awaken my case.

Comment by sionnach, 10 months ago

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:56:34 +0000

Balderdawdle!

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:19:30 +0000

I'm inadhesive to my guns, you impertinent rapoldonion.

This list is getting way out of hand. I like that :->

Comment by sionnach, 10 months ago

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:09:43 +0000

Oh that bilby! Always down to some lowjinks or other! But tends to play a bit slow and tight with the facts at times.

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:58:18 +0000

Don't listen to sionnach, he's a cowshitter. It's a load of poppyvagina. He's probably trying to hard soap you with pukedygook.

Comment by sionnach, 10 months ago

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:48:37 +0000

what about whitemail? And Sasquatsch's diminutive cousin smallfoot. jillhammer? cowdozer? bullwaker? eggfoot? hangunder?

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:46:58 +0000

Picture this: I'm walking through an industrial zone and flesh-eating rain from Moray Firth towards a Scottish football match that really doesn't matter and a word pops into my head. Silenceteering.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:50:18 +0000

Ha! You're on a roll.

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:47:01 +0000

Aeroplane take-offs I don't mind but the give-ons are scarier. But don't listen to anything I say, it's all hairierdash.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:33:25 +0000

Ooh! Thanks, bilby!

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:15:37 +0000

Lotsa fun :-) I wonder if distances in white-holes are measured in dark-years?

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:20:43 +0000

Don't know--I always assumed it was a local term. I know there was a type of racing car called a crackerbox....

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:08:43 +0000

I remember hearing my mother say something dismissive about "a little crackerbox house." I wonder if it was a generic term for small, or if it had a more specific meaning, as a shotgun house. A cursory check yielded nothing so far.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:56:35 +0000

Interesting. If my college dorm room had had a second floor, it could have been a very skinny house. In fact, the rooms in that particular building--long and narrow, with high ceilings--were called crackerboxes. ;-)

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:20:51 +0000

I think they are usually, if not always, at least two stories high because they have such a small footprint, so they are not really like shotgun houses.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:38:11 +0000

Are they like shotgun houses?

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:28:20 +0000

They look uncomfortable, too! I often wonder what it is like to live in one. (skinny houses, that is)

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:20:54 +0000

Eesh. They sound uncomfortable. ;-)

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:11:58 +0000

Oh fun and more fun--this makes me thing of the word longhouse, whose "opposite" would be shorthouse. And in Seattle, they are building a lot of skinny houses on narrow lots.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:02:17 +0000

Oooh, thanks s! Some good ones there.

I like some of these better than I like their real opposites--shortshoreman and longbread are two favorites. :-)

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:37:32 +0000

I love this list, R. How about sourbreads and sweetdough? And overway? Bandlength? To go with headweak, perhaps footstrong?

I love the sound of shortshoreman.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:17:59 +0000

Smoothhouse--"opposite" of roughhouse. :-)

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:39:10 +0000

What's a Smoot House?

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:49:14 +0000

Thanks, guys! Suggestions welcome--I'm sure there are zillions more.

Comment by palooka, about 1 year ago

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:59:17 +0000

Creative list reseetee. You must have been smartstruck!

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:40:34 +0000

I like smoothouse!