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on bovril, sionnach said:
" Snoopy and the origin of the name Bovril " more...
on marmite, sionnach said:
"I don't care that Australians don't have navels. And their little pouches are kind of endearing. But that song is deeply disturbing, as is the entire..." more...
on lapsus nivium!, sionnach said:
"Avalanche!" more...
on te capiam, cunicule sceleste!, sionnach said:
"I'll get you, you wascally wabbit!" more...
on margaritas ante porcos, sionnach said:
"Pearls before swine." more...
on bilkirkegaard, sionnach said:
"Oh no! Bilby's been dipping into the philosophy books again." more...
on l'esprit de l'escalier, sionnach said:
"Also known as Treppenwitz." more...
on bisto, sionnach said:
"Bisto browns.
Bisto thickens.
Bisto seasons.
All in one go." more...
on chocolate kettle, sionnach said:
"See as useful as a chocolate teapot, on the "Comparative Utility" list." more...
on windfucker, sionnach said:
"The "windfucker", also known as a "fuckwind", is a small falcon or kestrel. First recorded use of the word was in 1599 according to the OED:

The..." more...
on promite, sionnach said:
"Is yeast a vegetable?

Promite versus Vegemite smackdown " more...
on marmite, sionnach said:
" marmite art " more...
on dweomer, sionnach said:
"Dweomer, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is the Old English word meaning 'witchcraft' that derives from the Old Norse term dvergmál..." more...
on domdaniel, sionnach said:
"a fictional cavernous hall at the bottom of the ocean where evil magicians, spirits, and gnomes meet. It was first mentioned in the continued story..." more...
on promite, sionnach said:
"A member of the unholy Promite-Marmite-Vegemite trinity.

See also Bovril. And choice of 'mites on crumpet." more...
on bibble, sionnach said:
"Does this have anything to do with ishkabibble?" more...
on airscrew, sionnach said:
"da Vinci's word for a propeller." more...
on widow's curl, sionnach said:
"a small refractory lock of hair that will not grow long enough to be bound up with the tresses, but insists on falling down in a curl upon the..." more...
on golf widow, sionnach said:
"A woman who has lost her husband to the golf course." more...
on merry widow, sionnach said:
"See also Dolly Varden" more...
on widow's mite, sionnach said:
"a small contribution given cheerfully by one who can ill afford it. Mark 12:41–44." more...
on widow's piano, sionnach said:
"Widow’s Piano.

Inferior instruments sold as bargains; so called from the ordinary advertisement announcing that a widow lady is compelled to sell..." more...
on widow's port, sionnach said:
"Widow’s Port.

A wine sold for port, but of quite a different family. As a widow retains her husband’s name after her husband is taken away, so..." more...
on widow monkey, sionnach said:
"a small South American monkey (Callithrix lugens); -- so called on account of its color, which is black except the dull whitish arms, neck, and face,..." more...
on widow-and-orphan stock, sionnach said:
"And no points to dictionary.com for what it returns for this term. WTF?" more...
on widow-and-orphan stock, sionnach said:
"A stock characterized by smaller than average price movements, a relatively high dividend, and little likelihood of dividend reduction or serious..." more...
on the widow at windsor, sionnach said:
"A poem by Rudyard Kipling:

The Widow at Windsor

'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
She 'as ships on the..." more...
on widow-in-mourning, sionnach said:
"the macavahu." more...
on widow-hunter, sionnach said:
"One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune." more...
on widow-bench, sionnach said:
"In Sussex, that share which a widow is allowed of her husbands estate, besides her jointure." more...
on widows' man, sionnach said:
"A Widows' Man is a fictitious seaman kept on the books of British ships in the Georgian era for accounting purposes. The wages of these men were paid..." more...
on widow's share, sionnach said:
"An elective share is a term used in American law relating to inheritance, which describes a proportion of an estate which the surviving spouse of the..." more...
on widow's cruse, sionnach said:
"An inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7." more...
on widow's cross, sionnach said:
"Species of stonecrop: a species of stonecrop that grows in dry soil and bears white flowers on a raised stalk. Latin name Sedum pulchellum." more...
on mooreeffoc, sionnach said:
"Here is the derivation:

a Chestertonian fantasy (coffeeroom seen in reverse)

"Mooreeffoc is a fantastic word, but it could be
seen written up..." more...
on nihilartikel, sionnach said:
"a deliberately erroneous entry in a dictionary or other reference book. See also esquivalience, mountweazel." more...
on recumbentibus, sionnach said:
"How about circumbendibus?" more...
on squiddy awards, sionnach said:
"
Squiddy Awards " more...
on cum catapultae proscriptae e..., sionnach said:
"When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults" more...
on clamo, clamatis, omnes clama..., sionnach said:
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream" more...
on asinus asinum fricat, sionnach said:
"The ass rubs the ass. (Conceited people flatter each other about qualities they do not possess)" more...
on antiquis temporibus, nati ti..., sionnach said:
"In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags" more...
on animadvertistine, ubicumque ..., sionnach said:
"Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?" more...
on cambrian facial pack, sionnach said:
"Two sea-cucumber fossils and a package of mud from the Burgess Shale." more...
on sherpes, sionnach said:
"A viral infection endemic to the Himalayas." more...
on cumbrian facial pack, sionnach said:
"Two slices of cucumber and some Lake District mud." more...
on gurning, sionnach said:
" Online gurning competition

Winner gets a Cumbrian facial pack!" more...
on the list Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur., sionnach said:
"Gaberbocchus
Hassard H. Dodgson

Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova
Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo;
Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique..." more...
on fainting in coils, sionnach said:
"So the mock turtle was a cockney, eh?" more...
on goby, sionnach said:
"desert" more...
on santorum, sionnach said:
"Another name for santorum could be assmarmite." more...
on assmarmite, sionnach said:
"See santorum." more...
on the list Keeping Secrets, sionnach said:
"must not mock the leather-eared one ....

artichoke ... hmmm" more...
on lasciate ogne speranza, voi ..., sionnach said:
"Hmmm. So you consider Italian to be a "bastardization" of Latin? I'm sure Prolagus will be flattered." more...
on mirror jabberwocky, sionnach said:
"" more...
on stimthought, sionnach said:
"Or possibly "better buggy whips". Just ask the Amish." more...
on transport for the next gener..., sionnach said:
"I hate to say this, but I'm afraid you are all mired in the fuzziest of thinking here. Each of us, at the moment of birth, automatically becomes a..." more...
on marmite, sionnach said:
"Are these weirdnet definitions which identify marmite as a kind of pot legit?" more...
on crumpet, sionnach said:
"You could always substitute marmite for vegemite on that crumpet, skip.

Wasn't Crumpet the flirtatious elf in the Santaland Diaries?" more...
on the list Very Funny, sionnach said:
"Isn't this every wordie's dream, when you get right down to it? To smuggle a whole slew of one's very own madeupical words into the language, and..." more...
on the list Word bounties, sionnach said:
"The plural seems more natural to me, though use of the singular wouldn't bother me. I hope that puts me on the other side from Judge Posner*, but I'm..." more...
on scheissenbedauern, sionnach said:
"Glad to oblige, MiaLuthien!

A different thought: I wonder if the term portmanteau word makes sense in the context of German, given that..." more...
on the list Recently discovered subatomic particles, sionnach said:
"Then there's the decameron, a dirty, dirty particle!" more...
on scheissenbedauern, sionnach said:
"No! No! No! This "word" does not exist, has never existed, and breaks all the rules of German:

<a..." more...
on einiopterophagist, sionnach said:
"An eater of buffalo wings. based on:

Einiosaurus
A “buffalo (bison) lizard” from Late Cretaceous Montana. The name is based on Black Feet..." more...
on the list Stuffie: Butterfingers!, sionnach said:
"toast? buttered cat? a deuce? scone? leaf? down menu?
serene?" more...
on the list Tom Elvis Jedusor & friends, sionnach said:
"I have deliberately chosen those terms and names in the Harry Potter books which had the greatest diversity in translation, because the choices that..." more...
on crumpet, sionnach said:
"Sounds of vulpine chundering ..." more...
on upside-down, sionnach said:
"That Mercator dude has a lot to answer for.

Lambs ..... in ..... Space. You'd think they would have evolved Velcro feet by now.

Though rumor has it..." more...
on santorum, sionnach said:
"It's the word "frothy" that gives this term its ew-factor, I think." more...
on ichthyodigitalophagist, sionnach said:
" 50th anniversary of yummy teatime staple

114 packets a minute, I believe it says." more...
on fream, sionnach said:
"To roar like a wild boar during the rutting season, when he seeks to mate".

Charming." more...
on ichthyodigitalophagist, sionnach said:
"An eater of fish fingers." more...
on ichthyodigital, sionnach said:
"I think you say: "Excuse me, where is the aisle for ichthyodigitalophagists?" more...
on ichthyodigitalis, sionnach said:
"A powerful cardiac stimulant found in fish fingers; toxic if ingested in large doses. A popular method of murder among fishwives." more...
on piscidactylous, sionnach said:
"pertaining to fish fingers; ichthyodigital." more...
on ichthyodigital, sionnach said:
"pertaining to fish fingers.

See also piscidactylous." more...
on the list 2008 Wordlist, sionnach said:
"Yes, but when a list starts to get up to the thousand mark adding new words to it can be a


very


slow


process


indeed." more...
on chain bear, sionnach said:
"Now I can start to worry about specious vulpine intervention on Wordie." more...
on comments, sionnach said:
"joining the love parade. Thanks, John!" more...
on neither fish nor fowl, sionnach said:
"like those damned Laodiceans." more...
on fraught, sionnach said:
"whimper" more...
on antagomir, sionnach said:
"Of course, there's also Antagomir, the disagreeable sister of Faramir and Boromir," more...
on runcible, sionnach said:
"My kitchen is full of runcible spoons. For the quinces, don't you know. So, don't be telling me they don't exist. Or I will have to come after you..." more...
on fraught, sionnach said:
"Well, who doesn't enjoy a bit of early-morning fraughttage to start the day?

If my earlier question came across as snarky, my apologies. Didn't..." more...
on pigwidgeon, sionnach said:
"Noun. (Written also pigwidgin and pigwiggen.) A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy.
Webster's..." more...
on igly, sionnach said:
"exceptionally ugly." more...
on antagomir, sionnach said:
"Ooh! Antisense pharmacophores! Slouching towards clinical testing. Ever so slooooowly." more...
on oz, sionnach said:
"let's not forget "TV series involving considerable amounts of full-frontal male nudity and a hefty dollop of homosexual rape scenes" more...
on chain bear, sionnach said:
"Is somebody pulling a yarb here, by any chance?" more...
on fraught, sionnach said:
" I'm pretty certain it doesn't and can't mean "full"

Sorry, qroqqa, I don't understand your reasoning here at all. Why not? And if not that,..." more...
on kitten-cat eyes, sionnach said:
"The correspondence would be "pup -- kitten", "puppy needs a corresponding diminutive, "kitty" seems best, but "pussy" would work as well...." more...
on stiction, sionnach said:
"must stop ... prions ... replicating ....
aaaarrrrgghh ... dreaded grey goo ......" more...
on lamington, sionnach said:
" yummy wikilink

I particularly enjoyed the following wikifacts:

Ironically, Lord..." more...
on tom marvolo riddle, sionnach said:
"I am Lord V........" more...
on tom vorlost riddle, sionnach said:
"ist Lord V........" more...
on tom orvoloson riddle, sionnach said:
"Sono io Lord V........" more...
on marten asmodom vilijn, sionnach said:
"Mijn naam is V........" more...
on tom elvis jedusor, sionnach said:
"Je suis V........" more...
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