Oddball Opposites

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

However, that gave me an idea--foely.

foe spam?

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

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

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.

How about overworld?

Pthemsycat?

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

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

"Name three presidents..."

Three lefts make a right.

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

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

Shotgun divorce?

Hirsuiteerdash?

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.

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).

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?

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

Balderdawdle!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Ha! You're on a roll.

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.

Ooh! Thanks, bilby!

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

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

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.

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. ;-)

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.

Are they like shotgun houses?

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

Eesh. They sound uncomfortable. ;-)

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.

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. :-)

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.

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

What's a Smoot House?

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

Creative list reseetee. You must have been smartstruck!

I like smoothouse!