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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 12:43:34 GMT -5
Hey guy's,
I felt we needed a word of the day thread. So here we go with our first word of the day.
Boorish: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
If your cousin tells revolting jokes, belches, and smells like he spent the winter in a cave, he could be described as boorish — an adjective used for people with bad manners and a sloppy appearance.
We almost always use the word boorish for men. This may be because it can be traced back to a 13th century word for “herdsman.” Herdsmen spent a lot of time alone with their sheep, sleeping in tents, and cooking over open fires, so it was no wonder that they didn't have the same refined manners as city folk. If someone offends you by acting boorishly — say, by cutting you off in traffic — you could exclaim, “What a boor!” Just don't confuse boor with bore: bad manners may be offensive, but they're rarely boring.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2014 7:26:34 GMT -5
The Word of the day
Avarice
Immoderate desire, greed for wealth: an unreasonably strong desire to obtain and keep money. “His life was consumed by ambition and avarice.”
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 10:28:40 GMT -5
The word of the day
bruxism: Involuntary and habitual grinding of the teeth
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 5:23:14 GMT -5
The Word of the day
Truculent:
1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 7:06:39 GMT -5
The word of the day
borborygmus: noun: A rumbling noise caused by the movement of gas through the intestines.
sentence: He was woken early by borborygmus as his insides fermented and his intestines ballooned with gas beyond their capacity.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 7:28:48 GMT -5
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Gambrinous: To be content and happy due to a stomach full of beer
Sentence: I am perfectly gambrinous tonight, thank you beer!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 7:45:22 GMT -5
Word of the Day
Strikhedonia: The pleasure of being able to say to hell with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 7:52:09 GMT -5
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Deipnosophist: noun; A person skilled in the art of dining and dinner-table conversation.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 8:06:41 GMT -5
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floccinaucinihilipilification: noun ; The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.
*Often cited as the longest non-technical word in the English language.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 17:48:43 GMT -5
Word of the Day
Cadge: (noun) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
2. A padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 6:41:48 GMT -5
Word of the Day
Dentiloquent: Talking through one's teeth
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2014 14:43:43 GMT -5
Word of the day is back
Humbug: A humbug is a person or object that behaves in a deceptive or dishonest way, often as a hoax or in jest. he term was first described in 1751 as student slang, and recorded in 1840 as a "nautical phrase".
Etymology: There are many theories as to the origin of the term, none of which have been proven:
Charles Godfrey Leland mentions the idea that the word could be derived from the Norse word hum, meaning 'night' or 'shadow', and the word bugges (used in the Bible), a variant of bogey, meaning 'apparitions'.[6] The Norse word hum mentioned, or hume, actually means 'dark air' in Old Norwegian. From the other Scandinavian languages based on Old Norse, there is húm in Icelandic which means 'twilight', hómi in Faeroese which means 'unclear', and humi in Old Swedish which means 'dark suspicion', documented back to 1541.[7] From this word is also derived the Swedish verb hymla, still in use, which means 'to conceal, hide, not commit to the truth'
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Post by Dave (PLK) on Dec 6, 2014 21:30:16 GMT -5
....that's 2 words....just sayin'
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2014 21:34:44 GMT -5
....that's 2 words....just sayin' etymology is the origin of the words. So I was simply pointing out where the word came from so you are wrong bro. I only gave one definition, wrong wrong wrong bro. So I only had one word of the day.  |
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Post by Dave (PLK) on Dec 6, 2014 21:48:55 GMT -5
Ha ha..I totally missed that Frank. Doh!!
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