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on assignation, kingrat47 said:
"Has anyone ever seen this word used to mean anything other than tryst?" more...
on gorgeous, kingrat47 said:
"I find it funny that a word meaning "surpassingly beautiful" has gorge as its root, given that the only time anyone uses the word gorge in that..." more...
on strength, kingrat47 said:
"By gum, you're right. And now the barbell is even more lopsided..." more...
on strength, kingrat47 said:
"I've always liked this word because it's the longest word in the language with just one vowel: I have this goofy image of the e in the middle as a..." more...
on snippid, kingrat47 said:
"If we are to believe Hobbes, the way that wet leaves smell" more...
on hot-diggety-dog, kingrat47 said:
"It helps if you imagine that you're Archie Andrews when you say this." more...
on coruscating, kingrat47 said:
"Another word that, to me at least, communicates something of its meaning through its sound-I always picture the light playing along the word as the..." more...
on skiver, kingrat47 said:
"I use this as a synonmym for "shirker," which is apparently not a terribly common usage. Huh." more...
on carcharodon, kingrat47 said:
"Literally, "ragged tooth" more...
on cacophony, kingrat47 said:
"I actually think it's a great word because it sounds like what it is-a particularly complex onomatopeia." more...
on haver, kingrat47 said:
"To hesitate" more...
on rannygazoo, kingrat47 said:
"The run-around, nonsense: "Don't give me any rannygazoo." P.G. Wodehouse era slang." more...
on intelligentsia, kingrat47 said:
"There's an connotation to this word of futile oppositionism; I'm not entirely sure I'd use it for most groupings of intellectuals." more...
on inexactitude, kingrat47 said:
"This, like sesquipedalian, is a word that describes itself, or so think I." more...
on awesomeness, kingrat47 said:
"No one's got this yet? Awesomeness!" more...
on psephology, kingrat47 said:
"Derived from the pebbles used to vote in ancient Greece." more...
on selachophobia, kingrat47 said:
"A fear of, among other things, Carcharodon carcharias." more...
on catalanotto, kingrat47 said:
"It's a name, but it's a good one." more...
on carcherodon, kingrat47 said:
"Ragged tooth." more...
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