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on kudos, stpeter said:
"A singular, naturally (there is no such thing as a "kudo"!). It's borrowed directly from the ancient Greek word for praise, and it's pronounced..." more...
on flustrated, stpeter said:
"A combination of flustered and frustrated." more...
on promethean, stpeter said:
"Naturally the opposite is epimethean." more...
on janky, stpeter said:
"Kind of a cross between junky and skanky." more...
on tread pebble, stpeter said:
"A neologism for the annoying little stones that get stuck in the treads of your shoe soles and make a clicking sound as you walk along (also applies..." more...
on threadpebble, stpeter said:
"Erk, I misspelled my own neologism -- I meant tread pebble, not *thread* pebble!" more...
on tire mist, stpeter said:
"A neologism for the mist that hits your windshield as you drive along the highway after a rainstorm, requiring you to use your windshield wipers even..." more...
on threadpebble, stpeter said:
"A neologism for the annoying little stones that get stuck in the threads of your shoe soles and make a clicking sound as you walk along (also applies..." more...
on octopodes, stpeter said:
"Gotta love those plurals from Greek (the plural is very much not octopi!). Oh and it's pronounced okk-TOP-oh-deez. Jeez. :)" more...
on perhapsy, stpeter said:
"Feeling uncertain in one's thoughts or feelings. As in "I'm feeling a bit perhapsy about going to the movies tonight." more...
on thinksome, stpeter said:
"Given to thought and reflection; more precise than thoughtful methinks. :)" more...
on schnike, stpeter said:
"A censor-friendly version of shit (seemingly first used in the 1995 film Tommy Boy)." more...
on shat, stpeter said:
"Supposedly, the past tense of shit, falsely formed on the model of sit and sat. But it's amusing nonetheless." more...
on randroid, stpeter said:
"See also randian and randanista." more...
on phenomenography, stpeter said:
"Used by the late Hao Wang (in his book "Beyond Analytic Philosophy: Doing Justice to What We Know") to denote the charting or mapping of human..." more...
on randian, stpeter said:
"See also randanista. :-)" more...
on randanista, stpeter said:
"A more colorful word for randian." more...
on sinderesis, stpeter said:
"Conscience as the directive force of one's actions." more...
on lunkhead, stpeter said:
"A modification of lumphead, it seems." more...
on confiscatory, stpeter said:
"As in confiscatory taxation..." more...
on avaunt, stpeter said:
"Avaunt, you cullions! (Henry V: Act 3, scene ii)" more...
on lather, stpeter said:
"Why do people get into such a lather over words like ain't?" more...
on atrabilious, stpeter said:
"See also atramentous." more...
on chaord, stpeter said:
"A combination of chaos and order." more...
on ain't, stpeter said:
"Ain't is a contraction for "am not". Another form is "amn't" but that's hard to pronounce, no? It was further shortened to "a'n't" or "ain't". We're..." more...
on catastrophism, stpeter said:
"Contrast with uniformitarianism." more...
on uniformitarianism, stpeter said:
"Contrast with catastrophism." more...
on philippic, stpeter said:
"As long as it's not simple and desultory. ;-)" more...
on you, stpeter said:
"Enough about me, let's talk about you!" more...
on pillbox, stpeter said:
"As in a leopard-skin pillbox hat, perchance?" more...
on y'all, stpeter said:
"And my favorite contraction, the future y'all'll." more...
on splainin, stpeter said:
"As in, you got some 'splainin' to do!" more...
on don, stpeter said:
"A contraction of "do on". Contrast with doff." more...
on doff, stpeter said:
"A contraction of "do off". Contrast with don." more...
on frith, stpeter said:
"From the same root as friend and free." more...
on supercede, stpeter said:
"Usually I ain't a pedant, but I guess about supersede I am! :-)" more...
on the list Collective nouns, stpeter said:
"I once wrote a poem about collective nouns -- http://www.saint-andre.com/poems/problem.html :-)" more...
on bredth, stpeter said:
"I think you mean breadth." more...
on supercede, stpeter said:
"I think you mean supersede, no? From Latin super (over) and sedere (to sit)." more...
on aphrodesiac, stpeter said:
"I think you mean aphrodisiac, no?" more...
on fubsy, stpeter said:
"There's a building Manhattan that I used to call the fubs building -- for "fat, ugly, big, squat". Imagine my surprise when I discovered the meaning..." more...
on atramentous, stpeter said:
"Inky black. What a cool word!" more...
on aporia, stpeter said:
"A fine Aristotelian word -- The Philosopher often introduced aporiai as a way of motivating the discussion." more...
on autochthonous, stpeter said:
"Contrast with allochthonous, naturally." more...
on autochtonous, stpeter said:
"I think it's autochthonous." more...
on skosh, stpeter said:
"The source seems to be the Japanese word sukoshi." more...
on scoatch, stpeter said:
"I thought the spelling was skosh." more...
on smoot, stpeter said:
"I learned this term from IBM Fellow Jerry Woodall, who went to school with Oliver Smoot at MIT. If I recall correctly, he may even have been involved..." more...
on stpeter's profile, stpeter said:
"Erk, haven't checked out this page in a while...

Colleen: There were two words a high school English teacher of mine never let us use: "very" and..." more...
on zyzygy, stpeter said:
"Did you mean syzygy?" more...
on purile, stpeter said:
"Did you mean puerile?" more...
on linament, stpeter said:
"Did you mean lineament?" more...
on brook, stpeter said:
"I quite like this word as a verb -- as in sentences like "John will brook no dissent around here." (Not true.)" more...
on John's profile, stpeter said:
"What does it mean to "handle plurals better"? Some folks might simply prefer the plural form. Example: I prefer interstices to interstice because..." more...
on wonk, stpeter said:
"Know spelled backwards." more...
on dwindle, stpeter said:
"Only three? In what dwarfish world do the West Wing writers dwell? Have they been drinking too much dwale? And what kind of dwelling is the..." more...
on tumnescent, stpeter said:
"I think you folks mean tumescent no?" more...
on Papageno's profile, stpeter said:
"Yet another member of the 2000 club! :-)" more...
on truck, stpeter said:
"This word is great as a verb (I feel the same about brook)." more...
on schlepp, stpeter said:
"Right, I think the spelling is schlep." more...
on hapax legomenon, stpeter said:
"Those of us who are on a first-name basis just call this one hapax. :-)" more...
on brandelion's profile, stpeter said:
"Another pseudonym seeking a patronym, eh? Welcome to the 2000 club! :-)" more...
on colleen's profile, stpeter said:
"Thanks for the return comment; I'm happy to have brought a smile to your face. Sadly, you and I seem to be diametric opposites when it comes to..." more...
on fubar, stpeter said:
"F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition." more...
on snafu, stpeter said:
"Situation Normal, All F***ed Up. Beyond snafu is fubar. :-)" more...
on the list jabberwordie, stpeter said:
"Just added another: sonofabitch. As in "he's a helluva sonofabitch"... :-)" more...
on nocturne, stpeter said:
"The opposite of aubade." more...
on John's profile, stpeter said:
"Hey John, I just discovered that you're a fellow maineiac. :-)" more...
on cunt, stpeter said:
"Yet this shocking word is cognate with quaint. Odd, eh?" more...
on ain't, stpeter said:
"Poor ain't. So universally reviled by Latin-loving prescriptivist grammar Nazis. Yet so wonderfully Anglo-Saxon." more...
on amok, stpeter said:
"Frenzied. Not to be confused with amuck." more...
on amuck, stpeter said:
"Getting stuck in the muck. Not to be confused with amok." more...
on logorrhea, stpeter said:
"A tendency to extreme loquacity. Not to be confused with blogorrhea." more...
on blogorrhea, stpeter said:
"A tendency to extremes of blogging. Not to be confused with logorrhea." more...
on colleen's profile, stpeter said:
"Welcome to the 2000 club! :-)" more...
on gezellig, stpeter said:
"A notoriously untranslatable Dutch word meaning the combination of cozy, warm, comfortable, enjoyable, sociable, pleasant, et alia." more...
on natch, stpeter said:
"Aw, I find it quite fun, myself! And do you mean retch? :-)" more...
on anarchitect, stpeter said:
"This is an idiologism meaning an architect of emergent order (if there can be such a thing)." more...
on unctious, stpeter said:
"Did you mean unctuous?" more...
on John's profile, stpeter said:
"Oh, and how about a Jabber bot that enables you to add a word via IM? I could probably hack one up for you..." more...
on John's profile, stpeter said:
"Here's another techie suggestion -- enable ClaimID support (it's easy!) so that Wordies can proudly say "yes,..." more...
on John's profile, stpeter said:
"Hey John, since you use Jabber, how about adding it to the service dropdown list on the profile page? :-)" more...
on John's profile, stpeter said:
"Count me addicted. I blogged it here." more...
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