Wordie [wûrd • ē]
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93 wordies list
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first listed by:
snanderbatch (67 words)
appears in these lists:
pander's Words, by pander
zander's Words, by zander
snarky's Words, by snarky
yaser's Words, by yaser
Dain's Words, by Dain
Jword's Words, by Jword
azd's Words, by azd
Say What?, by taiwandroo
2007bee-r03, by prakash
soph2's Words, by soph2
Man Unmade, by dontcry
Reading Reading, by yarb
A, by belkjoseph
vivek's list, by vivek_av
eross1's list, by eross1
zetadiction, by koldewyse
Palabrarium, by golliwogs
d, by sickandmean
SAVED FAVES, by jorge999
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Born in Appalachia,
he now lives in the city
--and attends bucolics anonymous...
--jorge999
I couldn't agree more skipvia! Whenever my mother uses this word she always sighs saying, "Ahhh, that scene is just so bucolic," and all I can think of is someone barfing in a pasture.
Skipvia may be intested in the citation on salinity.
The actual meaning of this word is exactly the opposite of what it implies. It has always sounded like someone throwing up to me.
derives from Greek boukolikos , "rustic; pastoral," from boukolos, "a cowherd; a herdsman" from bous, "a cow; an ox."
And also from the Indo-European gwou, the Latin root is bos which we get bovine from.