My Word Of The Day!!!

fargon • Oct 27, 2006 10:41 pm
My word of the day is, FELLATRIX. What's yours?
SteveDallas • Oct 27, 2006 10:57 pm
Callipygian
Pie • Oct 27, 2006 11:11 pm
Crepuscular :rolleyes:
SteveDallas • Oct 27, 2006 11:56 pm
Ah, crepuscular... I have a history with that word.
lumberjim • Oct 28, 2006 12:02 am
predilection
wolf • Oct 28, 2006 1:25 am
Cromulent
Elspode • Oct 28, 2006 2:34 am
Amnesia
busterb • Oct 28, 2006 8:14 am
vicarious
Pie • Oct 28, 2006 10:09 am
wolf wrote:
Cromulent

Nice! Thank you for that word -- I will try to use it today.
Clodfobble • Oct 28, 2006 11:49 pm
Delightful
KinkyVixen • Oct 29, 2006 12:28 am
bajillion
glatt • Oct 30, 2006 2:45 pm
coprophagous
mrnoodle • Oct 30, 2006 2:53 pm
perpspicuousness
wolf • Oct 30, 2006 2:53 pm
polymorphous
Stormieweather • Oct 30, 2006 2:56 pm
Pedantic


Definition = Buddug
barefoot serpent • Oct 30, 2006 3:47 pm
buttplug

oh wait, this isn't the Word Association thread...
yesman065 • Nov 1, 2006 4:28 pm
Felonacious
Shawnee123 • Nov 1, 2006 4:28 pm
Felonious MOnk
busterb • Nov 2, 2006 2:13 pm
non sequitur
Shawnee123 • Nov 2, 2006 2:52 pm
blarferple--an cross beam used in ancient religious constructions

(the fake word and definition I straight-facedly gave to a male friend who challenged me to come up with a word that rhymes with purple. I almost fooled him and got a free beer. It's a talent. I can't teach it)
Flint • Nov 2, 2006 2:53 pm
Costanza: "It's not a lie... if you believe it."
Shawnee123 • Nov 2, 2006 3:22 pm
True Flint.

Funny thing was, dude says "a word from 3000 years ago doesn't count" and as he said that he realized I was goofin' him and he got really embarrassed. I told him it was OK, he just knows I'm so smart he had no reason to doubt me. :rolleyes:
Happy Monkey • Nov 2, 2006 4:00 pm
Are there any words that aren't colors that have no rhymes?
Flint • Nov 2, 2006 4:01 pm
Happy Monkey wrote:
Are there any words that aren't colors that have no rhymes?
wolf • Nov 2, 2006 4:03 pm
CISM is an acronym, not a word, but some of the newer folk in the business say it to rhyme with rhythm rather than the correct way, which is to say each letter.
Shawnee123 • Nov 2, 2006 4:03 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes

Good question, the only other one I could think of was orange. He said there were six. But now, reading this article, I find there really are rhymes for orange and purple. Who woulda thunk?

Edit: this article contradicts itself. First it cites rhymes for orange and purple and silver then it lists those words in rhymeless word list.
Flint • Nov 2, 2006 4:05 pm
wolf wrote:
CISM is an acronym, not a word, but some of the newer folk in the business say it to rhyme with rhythm rather than the correct way, which is to say each letter.
If it's pronounced similar to "schism" I don't think it rhymes with rhythm.
wolf • Nov 2, 2006 4:14 pm
soft c. Like s-short i-s-um
Elspode • Nov 2, 2006 4:18 pm
Shawnee123 wrote:
blarferple--an cross beam used in ancient religious constructions

(the fake word and definition I straight-facedly gave to a male friend who challenged me to come up with a word that rhymes with purple. I almost fooled him and got a free beer. It's a talent. I can't teach it)


If you haven't, you must immediately rush out and purchase the game "Balderdash", and play it with six intelligent, preferably intoxicated friends. Being able to read well, and lie with a straight face, is an essential skill in this rather terrific game.
Shawnee123 • Nov 2, 2006 4:18 pm
Will do! :)
Flint • Nov 2, 2006 4:29 pm
wolf wrote:
soft c. Like s-short i-s-um

But rhythm doesn't have an "s" - it's a "th" . . .
Happy Monkey • Nov 2, 2006 4:29 pm
I suppose logarithm doesn't count, since it contains the complete homophone. Heh, that's sorta amusing. There is no rhyme for rhythm. Somehow it makes me think of rap.
BigV • Nov 2, 2006 5:12 pm
melancholy
wolf • Nov 2, 2006 6:33 pm
Flint wrote:
But rhythm doesn't have an "s" - it's a "th" . . .


voiced vs. unvoiced sybillant. It's a rhyme, I tell you.
Flint • Nov 2, 2006 7:32 pm
okay, okay, I believe you believe it's a rhyme
yesman065 • Nov 3, 2006 2:00 pm
Girth
Shawnee123 • Nov 3, 2006 2:01 pm
Wayne.

Oh sorry, this isn't word association.
yesman065 • Nov 3, 2006 2:02 pm
lol
Clodfobble • Nov 3, 2006 4:17 pm
yesman065 wrote:
Girth


Rhymes with "worth."

BigV wrote:
melancholy


Technically, a word rhymes if it has the same vowel sounds in each syllable from the stressed syllable onwards, meaning you only have to rhyme with "-choly". So in that case, "folly" and "trolley" would both work.
footfootfoot • Nov 5, 2006 7:30 am
The folly of the melancholy trolley.

My word is expatiate.
Stormieweather • Nov 5, 2006 12:11 pm
harangue \huh-RANG\, noun:
1. A speech addressed to a large public assembly.
2. A noisy or pompous speech; a rant.

transitive verb:
1. To deliver a harangue to; to address by a harangue.

intransitive verb:
1. To make a harangue; to declaim.
wolf • Nov 5, 2006 1:10 pm
scrofulous

And another personal favorite ... crenulation
dar512 • Nov 14, 2006 4:12 pm
One we had the giggles over in high school - masticate.
footfootfoot • Nov 14, 2006 5:59 pm
crenulation reminds me of one of my favorites:
crepuscular
rkzenrage • Nov 14, 2006 7:16 pm
Quintessences.
Guyute • Nov 14, 2006 10:02 pm
defenestrate
dar512 • Nov 14, 2006 10:16 pm
of Ermintrude Inch
John Adams • Nov 14, 2006 10:46 pm
Prognosticate
John Adams • Nov 14, 2006 10:49 pm
No actually I think that was wrong, my word should have been:

Vicissitude


OK, bad joke, I thought it was funny.
footfootfoot • Nov 15, 2006 9:51 pm
ocelot?

As often as possible.
BigV • Nov 21, 2006 6:14 pm
sclera
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