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word: apostrophe

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:14:34 +0000

At last! :-D

word: overdiversification

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:13:13 +0000

But...you just put them there.

*confused*

word: proctofoam

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:11:38 +0000

Probably not.

word: fireplace fender bender

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:06:22 +0000

Don't know their title, but Queen Elizabeth employs at least 2; chaps who maintain and repair the fireplace furnishings and implements at Buckingham...

word: kafka feliz

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:00:53 +0000

<a href="http://gaelstat.blogspot.com/2009/11/kafka-feliz.html"> Kafka laughing his ass off </a>

word list: sweet tooth fairy

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:35:09 +0000

I think “sweet tooth fairy” has become a perfect sweet tooth fairy by now, don’t you agree?
(I’m wondering when exactly that happened...)

word: catamite

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:27:39 +0000

Came across it in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

word list: Bearing and Carrying

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:11:46 +0000

conifer

word list: Bearing and Carrying

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:10:49 +0000

lucifer

word: ovigerous

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:09:12 +0000

Wants to look like over-generous.

word: ixnay on the ottenray

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:06:51 +0000

Memorable quote by Igor in the movie <i>Young Frankenstein</i> in response to Dr. Frankenstein's emotional comment on the Monster's...

word: ovigerous

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:16:11 +0000

"bearing eggs or modified for the purpose of bearing them" --<i>Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary</i>

word: pardon, your shibboleth is showing!

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:11:36 +0000

"I know where you're from because I recognize your accent."

word: locust valley lockjaw

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:07:19 +0000

Affected patrician (American) English accent spoken on Long Island, New York. Think Thurston Howell, III, from the t.v. show Gilligan's Island.

word: thurston and lovey

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:05:24 +0000

Thurston spoke with the patrician, teeth-clenched, from-the-Hamptons or Long Island North Shore affectation. Linguists have given it a name -...

word: contender says yes to power vote

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:40:37 +0000

<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/wales_politics/8348442.stm">In case it wasn't obvious</a>: 'Welsh Labour leadership...

word: good night stalker

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:26:33 +0000

Good!

word: lagosuchian

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:47:25 +0000

Sometimes it suchs to be a dinosaur.

profile: strev

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:38:24 +0000

<A HREF="http://wordie.org/words/mistrievous">I played with your name.</A>

word: ∴

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:45:19 +0000

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therefore_sign">Wikipedia: therefore sign</a>