You best be getting a-roistering then, ms bear.
I'm pretty fond of verbster, I have to say, yarb. I think a verbster list would get me all het up.
I checked the etymology, and you're absolutely right. Rooster does indeed come from "roost" and "er".Off the list it goes!
Hmm. You make good points, mollusque and yarb, but I'm not sure that the "er" in rooster is actually a suffix. Is a rooster "one that roosts"?I'll have to check the etymology.
Good point Mollusque. Where there's a rooster, there ought to be a jester too. I'm not keen on the verbster list, but I will custom-build a list around roister.
What's wrong with a list hundreds of words long? And how is it that rooster is roosting here?
How about a new list, instead? Something like "Verbs that end in 'ster'"?If you'll get it started, yarb, I'll help populate it!
The nouns-only rule is draconian though, if only because it prohibits the superlative roister. Perhaps you could amend the rule to stipulate "nouns only, with the exception of roister"?
*laughs* Yes, the rules do make it difficult, but I had to stipulate them, or else the list would be hundreds and hundreds of words long. :-)
I keep adding words here and then deleting them because they're not nouns or they're occupations with the -er suffix. Frustrating!
You best be getting a-roistering then, ms bear.
I'm pretty fond of verbster, I have to say, yarb. I think a verbster list would get me all het up.
I checked the etymology, and you're absolutely right. Rooster does indeed come from "roost" and "er".
Off the list it goes!
Hmm. You make good points, mollusque and yarb, but I'm not sure that the "er" in rooster is actually a suffix. Is a rooster "one that roosts"?
I'll have to check the etymology.
Good point Mollusque. Where there's a rooster, there ought to be a jester too.
I'm not keen on the verbster list, but I will custom-build a list around roister.
What's wrong with a list hundreds of words long? And how is it that rooster is roosting here?
How about a new list, instead? Something like "Verbs that end in 'ster'"?
If you'll get it started, yarb, I'll help populate it!
The nouns-only rule is draconian though, if only because it prohibits the superlative roister. Perhaps you could amend the rule to stipulate "nouns only, with the exception of roister"?
*laughs* Yes, the rules do make it difficult, but I had to stipulate them, or else the list would be hundreds and hundreds of words long. :-)
I keep adding words here and then deleting them because they're not nouns or they're occupations with the -er suffix. Frustrating!