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on pediculous, slumry said:
"Or silly feet--ped=feet+ridiculous" more...
on privy, slumry said:
"I have always heard both pronounced the same way, with a short i, rhyming with chivvy." more...
on carbon copy, slumry said:
"Apparently you can still buy carbon paper; if I rummaged enough, I probably would find some at home." more...
on time is money, slumry said:
"I am also a long time fan of Lakoff." more...
on idiopathic juxtafoveal telan..., slumry said:
"You sound as if you have more intimate knowledge of this than you would like." more...
on John's profile, slumry said:
"Welcome, Infostyx! I also became an instant addict--I am enjoying your list. Oroboros is right--that delete function seems to be broken." more...
on grandmother, slumry said:
"Teach your grandmother to suck eggs." more...
on carbon copy, slumry said:
"What? Never made a carbon copy? What?" more...
on time is money, slumry said:
"Looks like you have been reading George Lakoff, O." more...
on dyslogistic, slumry said:
"In contrast to eulogistic." more...
on phylactery, slumry said:
"I think I first read about phylacteries in Chaim Potok's novels. So many books, so little time!" more...
on antioxidant, slumry said:
"He said he did not need to eat blueberries because he wears his seatbelt. That is what he said. *groan here*" more...
on solipsism, slumry said:
"Oh, Reesetee, you mean I really do have voices in my head, too? In that case, I also wonder why I can't get them all to agree with each other.

I..." more...
on solipsism, slumry said:
"It was a memorable conversation, U.

And R--I feel sure you will fill your suitcase with plenty of Canadianisms!" more...
on solipsism, slumry said:
"*Green with envy*" more...
on empurple, slumry said:
"It happens. Old abandoned cameras, that sort of thing. :)" more...
on conbobberation, slumry said:
"I like it!" more...
on empurple, slumry said:
"I like this word! When very old Kodak film is developed, the pictures are all purplish--a phenomenon I saw demonstrated this week. Our 20 year old..." more...
on favorited, slumry said:
"I agree, with you, U (amazing, I know). These idiosyncratic lists are fun. I also like to frustrate myself by looking at the inscrutable lists..." more...
on solipsism, slumry said:
"Okay, I am getting separation anxiety now. I will miss you two voices in my head next week. (Dear S calls all of you my imaginary friends). U,..." more...
on cathexis, slumry said:
"Any particular writing's of Wilber's that you can cite on that subject?" more...
on solipsism, slumry said:
"Are you sure? It may be very lonely!" more...
on solipsism, slumry said:
"Well, he should care--if you are a part of him, he would be diminished by your absence. Says Judge Slumry. So there." more...
on save, slumry said:
"And just wait until I start in on the word fancy!" more...
on save, slumry said:
"Oooh, I hadn't thought of that!" more...
on save, slumry said:
"Invective and spleen and treason too? Wow! Am I a Wordie heretic? Will I be burned on a pyre?

I will join with my conbrethren and..." more...
on the list A Bazillion Imaginary Numbers, slumry said:
"This is a great list, and enlightening. I am going to add umpty-umpth to my words, because I particulary like it as an ordinal.

I like..." more...
on stuff and nonsense, slumry said:
"It always amuses me--it was a favorite of my mother's, usually used semi-humorously." more...
on cathexis, slumry said:
"That is interesting. As I recall, one of Freud's translators more or less coined this word as a translation of a German word that means someting..." more...
on save, slumry said:
"Stuff and nonsense! Eyewash! Save is a perfectly fine preposition, having evolved in parallel with the other sense of save. It does mean..." more...
on rugose, slumry said:
"Rosa rugosa has wringkly leaves" more...
on eyewash, slumry said:
"Used as an expression of disbelief; poppycock" more...
on carbuncle, slumry said:
"We sailed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a..." more...
on the list Poetrie: The Emperor of Ice Cream, slumry said:
"Thank you for this Poetrie, Reesettee!" more...
on celestial, slumry said:
"As a noun, celestial refers to a heavenly being, a god or angel." more...
on metempsychosis, slumry said:
"the doctrine of transmigration of souls into another body" more...
on hand-handled, slumry said:
"That's what the sign on the peaches at the grocery store said." more...
on furibund, slumry said:
"deranged" more...
on badminton, slumry said:
"Bad mitten! Bad mitten! Go to your room, mitten!" more...
on edulcorate, slumry said:
"There are some words I just can't pass up; this is one." more...
on postprandial, slumry said:
"This word makes me blush--then I remember: food--it is food they are talking about." more...
on the list Poetrie: The Owl and the Pussycat, slumry said:
"Aw gee. . .I am glad you did that. I love Edward Lear. I was trying to recall if it was the honey or the money that was wrapped up in the [five..." more...
on mercurochrome, slumry said:
"Oh, I must add mercurochrome to my evocative smells list! And speaking of stains, this made me think of gentian violet." more...
on the list Stuffie: See the Light, slumry said:
"a bit of a stretch, maybe, but what about under a bushel?" more...
on the list The Jumblies, slumry said:
"Thanks--that was fun to do--and I had to do it, because you had planted an earworm! :)" more...
on the list Out to Sea, slumry said:
"sieve? And I just learned that a pink is a small sailing vessel" more...
on the list The Jumblies, slumry said:
"Poetrie: The Jumblies
Inspired by Reesetee's Out to Sea list" more...
on the list Out to Sea, slumry said:
"I second that--nice list; I like the Lyle Lovett quote. In fact, I think I will stop listening to this disturbing news about the nation's..." more...
on axunge, slumry said:
"Why, to make mercurial ointment, of course: "In the old formula for making mercurial ointment, the quicksilver is merely directed to be rubbed..." more...
on whimmy, slumry said:
"full of whims; whimsical" more...
on shibori, slumry said:
"a Japanese textile art" more...
on kumihimo, slumry said:
"Japanese braid making" more...
on bump, slumry said:
"Probably an echoic for hitting" more...
on bumper, slumry said:
"a cup or glass filled to the brim" more...
on passing, slumry said:
"surpassingly" more...
on pud, slumry said:
"Formed by apocope from pudding. Used to refer to dessert in general. "What's for pud?" more...
on mastadon, slumry said:
"The extinct animal was a mastodon, not a mastadon." more...
on slickenside, slumry said:
"Sounds like if you tried to walk on it, it would be a slip 'n slide!" more...
on staghorn moss, slumry said:
"a club moss" more...
on reverb, slumry said:
"reverberation" more...
on anent, slumry said:
"a preposition that means in regard to or concerning" more...
on shake, slumry said:
"Cedar shakes look similar to cedar shingles; however, the shakes are split rather than sawn." more...
on done, slumry said:
"Alas, I have offended. I am undone!" more...
on faineant, slumry said:
"a sluggard" more...
on do-all, slumry said:
"a factotum" more...
on weirdo, slumry said:
"Wordie, scrambled" more...
on vendor, slumry said:
"Or we could go the other directions and call ourselves Wordors." more...
on daubery, slumry said:
"Yup, less-than-skillful painting at that." more...
on hooverville, slumry said:
"After the eponymous President Hoover--a collection of shacks and huts at the edge of the city where unemployed people lived in the 1930s" more...
on apatheism, slumry said:
"Just a step removed--summed up flippantly by "I don't know and I don't care." more...
on hoover, slumry said:
"verb: to clean with a vacuum cleaner" more...
on crumb bum, slumry said:
"Ah yes, glad to remember this one." more...
on caymadian, slumry said:
"A Canadian expat who lives in the Cayman Islands. (in jest, of course) Seen on a T shirt worn by an American who would like to pass for..." more...
on vendition, slumry said:
"It is real--from OED--funny, huh?" more...
on vender, slumry said:
"OED says: "One who sells; a seller; sometimes in restricted sense, a street-seller."

I have seen it used only in the restricted sense, such as..." more...
on vendor, slumry said:
"OED says: "late Anglo-French; earlier vendour from the French vendeur. One who disposes of a thing by sale; a seller." Cf. vender" more...
on vendition, slumry said:
"the act of vending; sale" more...
on dwarfling, slumry said:
"a diminutive dwarf" more...
on fixings, slumry said:
"accompaniments or ingredients for food" more...
on lower, slumry said:
"intransitive verb: to be dark and threatening; also lour. noun: an angry or threatening look" more...
on henbane, slumry said:
"Hyoscyamus niger" more...
on daftberries, slumry said:
"Atropa belladonna" more...
on pappus, slumry said:
"It is what allows a dandelion or thistle seed to sail through the air." more...
on pumpkin positive, slumry said:
"Results of a medical test where, "a penlight shone in the mouth reveals a brain so small that the whole head lights up." Doctor humor, or so I hear...." more...
on toreador, slumry said:
"bullfighter; also toreadors, a style of pants worn by women in the 1950s" more...
on vie en rose, slumry said:
"life as seen through rose-tinted glasses" more...
on vielle, slumry said:
"hurdy gurdy" more...
on stramonium, slumry said:
"dried leaves of jimson weed" more...
on stinkweed, slumry said:
"a name for jimson weed and other plants" more...
on jimson weed, slumry said:
"datura stramonium" more...
on atropine, slumry said:
"also daturine" more...
on daturine, slumry said:
"a poisonous alkaloid, also called atropine" more...
on crataegus, slumry said:
"a genus of small trees in the rose family" more...
on hawthorn, slumry said:
"several species of crataegus are called hawthorn" more...
on thorn apple, slumry said:
"datura stramonium; also the fruit of the hawthorn" more...
on datura stramonium, slumry said:
"datura, jimson weed, stinkweed or thorn apple; a poisonous tropical plant" more...
on dwayberry, slumry said:
"atropa belladonna, most commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade" more...
on dory, slumry said:
"a small fishing boat; also walleye" more...
on wallydacker, slumry said:
"walleye" more...
on walleye, slumry said:
"walleyed pike, dory" more...
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