odd/interesting words
12-04-2009, 05:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Loretta
loquacious-- very talkative ( I tell students "You are very loquacious today" and then they have to look it up to see what I mean. LOL!)
LOL! :mrgreen:
12-04-2009, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Moonpi
Virago vi-rah-goh
A noisy, domineering woman. a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
A polite term to use instead of the "B" word. :)
A noisy, domineering woman. a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
A polite term to use instead of the "B" word. :)
I aren't one, though! :XD:
12-04-2009, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Quilt Mom
onomatopoeia - the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitationof the sound associated with it, (ie buzz, hiss)
No, I didn't learn it in English class - my mother taught it to me as part of a cheer they used at her high school in the thirties!
No, I didn't learn it in English class - my mother taught it to me as part of a cheer they used at her high school in the thirties!
I always associate it with my oldest brother. It was his favorite word.
To me it sounds like something a dog would do:
on a mat ah pee-a :mrgreen:
12-04-2009, 05:42 AM
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Originally Posted by ERhausfrau
Discombobulated - Things get all screwed up, messed up, just totally discombobulated! :roll:
12-04-2009, 06:11 AM
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nescience: ignorant
hubby just suggested this one and when he told me the meaning, i asked if somebody called him that, as to why he remembered it?
He replied, "yes, David B. was doing a crossword puzzle and said, - you are a nescient f***er, aren't you?" :shock:
Now that would stick!
Funny thing is, David had to look the word up himself.
So, in hubby's mind, and now mine, David is the nescient one!
ohh, hubby just said David ain't nescient no more...cause 'he ain't no more!'...yikes!:shock:
OTOH...hubby likes to stand inside the doorway when feeling borborygmus...and when I complain about the "back-talk"...he turns on the fan...that blows towards me!!! I think that is not nescient at all...he knows what he is doing! :roll:
Since, during his "back talking" episodes, I can't 'confabulate' toward him...I feel unarmed...no ambidextrious tricks going on there. :roll:
hubby just suggested this one and when he told me the meaning, i asked if somebody called him that, as to why he remembered it?
He replied, "yes, David B. was doing a crossword puzzle and said, - you are a nescient f***er, aren't you?" :shock:
Now that would stick!
Funny thing is, David had to look the word up himself.
So, in hubby's mind, and now mine, David is the nescient one!
ohh, hubby just said David ain't nescient no more...cause 'he ain't no more!'...yikes!:shock:
OTOH...hubby likes to stand inside the doorway when feeling borborygmus...and when I complain about the "back-talk"...he turns on the fan...that blows towards me!!! I think that is not nescient at all...he knows what he is doing! :roll:
Since, during his "back talking" episodes, I can't 'confabulate' toward him...I feel unarmed...no ambidextrious tricks going on there. :roll:
12-04-2009, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
Originally Posted by Quilt Mom
onomatopoeia - the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitationof the sound associated with it, (ie buzz, hiss)
No, I didn't learn it in English class - my mother taught it to me as part of a cheer they used at her high school in the thirties!
No, I didn't learn it in English class - my mother taught it to me as part of a cheer they used at her high school in the thirties!
I always associate it with my oldest brother. It was his favorite word.
To me it sounds like something a dog would do:
on a mat ah pee-a :mrgreen:
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