fester

Fester Bestertester! I remember him! (said Uncle Fester)

So did I.

Oh, I meant only the POS tagging option, chained_bear. :-)

I'll post this somewhere else too, but John: I hope you DO keep the tagging option whether you keep the WordNet stuff or not.

This word, though somewhat grotesque is one of my all time favorites. Festering wound. Gives me chills.

I like it! Although I guess we're bound to see this kind of thing happen now and then.

John, are you still planning on keeping the taggable parts of speech option now that you've set this up?

It can be both, according to WordNet (WordNet: sounds kind of Orwellian, no?).

For a given word WordNet will tell you what part of speech is most common (its "polysemy count"), and it's usually spot on. I have the Word pages set up to figure out which part of speech is most common, and display that definition. This usually works, but for some reason it's claiming that the noun and verb forms of 'fester' have an equal polysemy count. Which strikes me as wrong: I agree with you, it's much more common as a verb.

So, I guess WordNet ain't perfect. Better than nothing, though, I think. What do you think?

Wait--the definition of fester is a noun? I never heard that. I thought it was a verb, meaning to become inflamed/infected. Is it a noun as well?

I had a small pet rodent named Fester. She was very lovely and tame.

Fester Bestertester, MAD magazine character.

:-)

gunther's rage on the line at the BMW factory was mounting because the boss kept after him to work fester and fester.