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Re: Word of the day

Postby Magellan » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:37 am

HH3 wrote:I thought that was when Booneys daisy dukes are pulled up too high in the front, giving him a portmantoe.

Portmanflyseyes?
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:42 am

HH3 wrote:I thought that was when Booneys daisy dukes are pulled up too high in the front, giving him a portmantoe.


I knew it. Mowing the lawn last night I could just feel some eyes were watching me.
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:28 am

Newspeak - noun - an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”

"....in the official Newspeak, "the broadening of the sphere of commodity and money relations." In translation: moves toward a market economy....."
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Magellan » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:52 am

Booney wrote:Newspeak - noun - an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”

"....in the official Newspeak, "the broadening of the sphere of commodity and money relations." In translation: moves toward a market economy....."

Courtesy of George Orwell, of course, a man very much ahead of his time.
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:24 pm

Stravage - verg - to stroll, wander aimlessly

"...What made you stravage about the cliffs, looking for nothing in particular...."
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:53 am

Arithmancy - noun - divination by the use of numbers, especially by the number of letters in names.

"In modern languages such as English, many different systems of arithmancy have been produced, none of them entirely satisfactory. The most basic, which is much used in the popular numerology but also can be found in Renaissance occult writings, simply gives each letter the number of its place in the alphabet ..."
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Fri Mar 17, 2017 8:11 am

Cimmerian - adjective - {si-meer-ee-uhn} - very dark, gloomy.


"...The sunny English noon had swallowed him as completely as if he had gone out into cimmerian night...."
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:01 am

Anthophilous - (an-thof-uh-luh s) - adjective - Attracted by or living among flowers.

... we are probably justified in concentrating our attention on adaptation to the needs and preferences of flower-visiting ( anthophilous) animals that may be effective pollinators.
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Fri Apr 07, 2017 12:55 pm

Fanfaronade - noun - bragging, bravado, bluster.

"I mean, that sometimes you baffle me by the fanfaronade behind your foolish words."
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Fri Apr 07, 2017 12:57 pm

Nescience - noun - nesh-ee-uh ns - lack of knowledge, ignorance.

"... quiz shows merely expose our appalling national nescience"
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:07 pm

Inveterate - adjective - in-vet-er-it - settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like

"...It was an ideal wintering home in every respect but one: it was owned by the Turlocks, the most inveterate hunters of Maryland..."
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Re: Word of the day

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Mon Apr 10, 2017 3:37 pm

Have you tried using these words in day to day conversation?
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Mon Apr 10, 2017 3:42 pm

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Have you tried using these words in day to day conversation?


I did, but I found the lugubrious look on some people's faces, the ones who clearly didn't understand, quite distressing.

Fortunately the ataraxia I felt when I walked away meant I could move on quickly.
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:43 am

Mensch - noun - [ mench ] - ( informal ) a decent, upright, mature and responsible person.

"..I understand that people make mistakes but a real man, a mensch, shoulders his responsibilities and faces people and at least explains..."
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Corona Man » Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:15 pm

Booney wrote:Mensch - noun - [ mench ] - ( informal ) a decent, upright, mature and responsible person.

"..I understand that people make mistakes but a real man, a mensch, shoulders his responsibilities and faces people and at least explains..."

I will get shot down here... but what the hang. Mensch is the opposite of Jaensch then?
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Re: Word of the day

Postby bennymacca » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:21 am

Corona Man wrote:
Booney wrote:Mensch - noun - [ mench ] - ( informal ) a decent, upright, mature and responsible person.

"..I understand that people make mistakes but a real man, a mensch, shoulders his responsibilities and faces people and at least explains..."

I will get shot down here... but what the hang. Mensch is the opposite of Jaensch then?



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I read Booney's original post and was about to make the exact same joke haha.

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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Fri Apr 21, 2017 3:39 pm

Leporine - noun - lep-uh-rayn - Zoology of, relating to, or, resembling a hare

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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Fri Apr 21, 2017 3:41 pm

Rampike - noun - ram-pahyk - Chiefly Canadian, a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.

"Along the crest of the ridge, among the rampikes, silhouetted dark and large against the sunrise, moved a great herd of caribou, feeding as they went."
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Re: Word of the day

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Fri Apr 21, 2017 6:41 pm

Might use that word in a sledge at golf tomorrow..
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Re: Word of the day

Postby Booney » Fri Apr 28, 2017 11:26 am

Perfidious - adjective - per-fid-ee-uh s - deliberately faithless, treacherous, deceitful

"It's impossible to believe a close friend could be so perfidious"
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