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demurrage has been listed 9 times with 1 comment
saxifrage has been listed 17 times with 0 comments
grattage has been listed 3 times with 2 comments
thanage has been listed 3 times with 1 comment
forage has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
roughage has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
hersage has been listed 1 time with 3 comments
ramage has been listed 5 times with 2 comments
bricolage has been listed 51 times with 3 comments
viduage has been listed 3 times with 1 comment
curettage has been listed 3 times with 2 comments
ambage has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
imposturage has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
foggage has been listed 3 times with 2 comments
lockage has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
panderage has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
rubbage has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
bondage has been listed 16 times with 2 comments
cribbage has been listed 8 times with 1 comment
scrimmage has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
gavage has been listed 6 times with 2 comments
lastage has been listed 3 times with 1 comment
byddage has been listed 3 times with 2 comments
badinage has been listed 45 times with 5 comments
persiflage has been listed 63 times with 4 comments
anchorage has been listed 9 times with 1 comment
frontage has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
fuselage has been listed 19 times with 0 comments
equipage has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
pilgrimage has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
orphanage has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
parsonage has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
massage has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
message has been listed 12 times with 1 comment
passage has been listed 18 times with 2 comments
wreckage has been listed 6 times with 0 comments
patronage has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
waftage has been listed 2 times with 1 comment
ossifrage has been listed 4 times with 7 comments
salvage has been listed 10 times with 1 comment
hemorrhage has been listed 14 times with 0 comments
selvage has been listed 18 times with 4 comments
fromage has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
cleavage has been listed 12 times with 1 comment
acreage has been listed 5 times with 1 comment
cordage has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
breakage has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
plumage has been listed 15 times with 0 comments
potage has been listed 8 times with 0 comments
tonnage has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
voyage has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
collage has been listed 18 times with 1 comment
foliage has been listed 17 times with 0 comments
spoilage has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
umbrage has been listed 76 times with 19 comments
rampage has been listed 17 times with 0 comments
lineage has been listed 14 times with 0 comments
vintage has been listed 37 times with 0 comments
mirage has been listed 30 times with 0 comments
triage has been listed 29 times with 1 comment
steerage has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
peerage has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
pillage has been listed 23 times with 7 comments
footage has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
portage has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
baggage has been listed 14 times with 1 comment
luggage has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
seepage has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
vagabondage has been listed 8 times with 2 comments
sparkage has been listed 2 times with 1 comment
homage has been listed 14 times with 2 comments
yardage has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
assuage has been listed 69 times with 2 comments
adage has been listed 23 times with 1 comment
signage has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
lurkage has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
drinkage has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
garbage has been listed 18 times with 0 comments
disparage has been listed 17 times with 1 comment
cottage has been listed 14 times with 0 comments
sausage has been listed 25 times with 5 comments
village has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
blockage has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
language has been listed 18 times with 12 comments
beverage has been listed 9 times with 1 comment
savage has been listed 27 times with 1 comment
courage has been listed 17 times with 1 comment
damage has been listed 12 times with 0 comments
carnage has been listed 29 times with 1 comment
usage has been listed 6 times with 0 comments
slayage has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
coinage has been listed 10 times with 0 comments
decoupage has been listed 12 times with 0 comments
verbiage has been listed 42 times with 3 comments
Lots of delayed cargo lately, yarb?
This week I've been thinking about demurrage.
How very illuminating. Thank you, my furry friends!
(Special thanks to the bear for all the citations...)
Ooh! *pilfers for own list*
mmmm ... snausages
Checks to see if someone has taken umbrage yet. Nope, guess it's still there.
saxifrage, manurage, grattage, thanage, dumpage, eatage, hersage, bricolage, ramage, lactage, viduage, curettage, ambage, keelage, soccage, careenage, foggage, imposturage, lockage, panderage, rubbage.
It seemed to work to make me cooler (relatively, of course) when I was 14, but I think that these days it wouldn't work. For words where the "age" suffix wouldn't work, we used "action". So instead of bondage, you'd have bond-action, or for barrage, barrage-action.
Thanks, y'all!
Well, I tried it with my broker. I wanted to acquire some US Treasuries, so I asked her if she would be into a little bondage. She threw me out.
I guess I'm just not as cool as seanahan...
It's a fine line; pile on too much wordage and suddenly you've crossed that threshold into bloviage. Where the toll for all that excess verbal baggage can cost you some serious coinage.
Did it work, seanahan? Because I might want to try it to increase my, ummm, coolage.
When I was around 14 my friends and I used to use -age as a suffix for just about everything, to denote coolness.
gavage (not so nice if you're a rodent or a goose). Then there is the more specialized subset here:
XX-age
oooh, thank you! I'm glad I learned about the right to carry things where one will!
There's also lastage, a kind of transport fee.
Thanks, sionnach. And chained_bear, I don't know how I missed your OED delvings - I've always enjoyed -age for its ability to connotate stuff/ness and now I know why. Cool.
persiflage, and the closely related badinage
I found an interesting usage note in the OED for the suffix "-age." Even though it isn't a suggestion, it seems like it might belong here. I humbly submit:
suffix of abstr. nouns, originally in words adopted from Fr., afterwards a living Eng. formative. (OFr. -age: late L. -ticum, a favourite termination of abstr. ns. of appurtenance, and collectives; orig. neuter of adjectives in -tic-us. Cf. cl. L. silv-ticus of the wood (silva), It. selv-aggio, Pr. salv-atge, Fr. sauv-age, Eng. sav-age, with viticus of or pertaining to a journey (via), viticum that which pertains to a journey, provision for the way, later the making of a journey, Pr. viatge, It. viaggio, Fr. viage, voyage; umbrticus of or pertaining to the shade, shady (umbra), late L. umbrticum that which is shady, shadiness, a mass of shade, Fr. ombrage, Eng. umbrage. Afterwards a common formative in Fr. itself, as in entour-age; thence readopted in med.L. as -gium: cf. homgium, carigium, formed on Fr. hommage, cariage, which if formed in L. would have been *hominticum, *carricticum.)
1. From names of things, indicating that which belongs to or is functionally related to... (e.g. language)
2. From names of persons, indicating function, sphere of action, condition, rank... (e.g. orphanage, vassalage)
3. From verbs expressing action... (e.g. damage, marriage)
Isn't that cool? I had no idea. What an awesome language we have.
I told you they were wild. ;-)
Thanks for your wild suggestions, u, but I'm only listing -age suffixes. -rage, -phage, and -stage are for someone else to take on. And I just don't like marriage, etc - too average, I guess.
Well then, how about frontage, anchorage, and storage? If you really are at all interested in walking on the wild side (though apparantly marriage and average are too wild?) perhaps you might consider backstage, xylophage, and enrage?
Thanks! I hadn't realized just how many -age words there are. I'll take any and all that I like, however strange, but reserve the right to exclude average, advantage, percentage and the like - just cause I don't like the way they look.
orphanage, parsonage, porterage? Message, passage, pilgrimage, postage? Advantage, equipage?
I found a number of very weird and probably obsolete terms, if you're interested.
Also I noticed you have wreakage but not wreckage.
Hey. I take umbrage at that. (Not really, and also I know it's already on your list. But how often does one get to use the word umbrage anyway? You can't blame me for grabbing the opportunity.)
You do have verbiage and foliage as well, even though you've declined carriage and marriage. Hmm... how about potage, tonnage, voyage, plumage?
In a similar statistical vein, how about percentage?
umbrage, spillage, frottage, spoilage, foliage, greengage, collage :}
and how could I, as a statistician, forget average
vintage, lineage, rampage. I have to suggest, though I wouldn't blame you for not accepting it: pwnage
well, if you don't like marriage, how about mirage?
So many wordsies! Thank you all. C-b, I do have something against marriage - I just don't like the -riage (except maybe for triage). Also, I'm going for polysyllabic and stuff-related rather than time-related -ages.
Do we have something against marriage?
package, footage, stockage, underage, overage, coverage...oo, and pillage
portage, carriage
suffrage, outrage, page, rage, cage, sage (do you want those itsy bitsy ones?) Hmmm, Power outage? seepage (gross), luggage, cabbage, ravage
Two from my list: shrinkage and vagabondage.
then, of course, there's just regular bondage. And baggage.