Well, give us a break Gary! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

LOL.

I used infra dig at a job site this morning. The poor guy I said it to asked if it required a backhoe.

You keep coming out with them thar big words theys gonna think you got an edgemacation!

October 01, 2010Word of the Day
TITTUP \TITT-up\DEFINITIONverb

: to move in a lively manner often with an exaggerated or affected action
EXAMPLES As the curtains part, the play's main characters tittup to and fro across the stage.

"Ahead of him Sulla could see Gaius Julius Caesar's women tittupping along on the high cork soles and higher cork heels of their winter shoes…." -- From Colleen McCullough's 1990 novel The First Man In Rome
DID YOU KNOW?"Tittup" has been used as noun naming an imitation of the sound of horses' hooves moving at a pace between a canter and a gallop since as early as 1703. The rhythmic sound and bounce of such movement was infectious enough to lead people to apply the word to other bouncy gaits, and to lively or restless behavior in general. "Tittup" was first used as a verb in 1785. In 1862, William Makepeace Thackeray recalled the word's equine origins when he wrote of "a magnificent horse dancing, and tittupping." The word is not common today, but it does see occasional use, especially in British sources.

All I can say is she must be cold! (HOW YOU GONNA FOLLOW A WORD LIKE THAT)! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

Either that or the Plastic surgeon lied and the fluid WILL freeze! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Now THAT'S cold! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I like the use of Sulla and Gaius but I had a different vision when I read the word!

Interesting word. I always heard it used in a pluralized form...which...is apparently incorrect.

Ok, another day and another word. Boy I sure hope it isn't like yesterdays, Don't think I could stand another other one like that!

October 02, 2010Word of the Day
AMOK \uh-MUK\DEFINITION adverb

1: in a murderously frenzied state
2a : in a violently raging manner b : in an undisciplined, uncontrolled, or faulty manner
EXAMPLES "We simply can’t have children running amok all over the school,” said the principal when asked to explain the school’s hallway pass policy.

"Massing in moonlight, legions of critters swarm across back roads and run amok through the countryside. Vegetable gardens disappear overnight. Lawns and crops are destroyed. It's the attack of the voles. And they could be coming to a backyard near you." -- From an article by Debbie Arrington in the Sacramento Bee, August 21, 2010
DID YOU KNOW? "Amok" first entered English in the mid-1600s as a noun meaning "murderous frenzy." In the 16th century, visitors to Southeast Asia first reported on a psychiatric disorder known in Malay as "amok." Typically, the afflicted person (usually a Malay man) attacked bystanders in a frenzy, killing everyone in sight until he collapsed or was himself killed. By the 17th century English speakers had adopted both the noun and adverb forms of "amok," as well as the phrase "run amok," a translation of the Malay verb "mengamok." The psychopathological behavior the noun "amok" refers to is now recognized to occur worldwide in numerous countries and cultures. As for the adverb, time has mitigated its violent nature; nowadays it usually describes the actions of the unruly and not the murderous.

Ok, now for something TRUELY epic:

SEED- Verb, past tense.

VIEW- contraction" verb and pronoun

Example: "I ain't never seed New York City, view?

This thread is quite didactic (educational, informative).

October 03, 2010Word of the Day
CAUCUS \KAW-kus\DEFINITIONnoun

: a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy; also : a group of people united to promote an agreed-upon cause
EXAMPLES Delegates attending the local caucus chose the candidates they wanted placed on the ballot at the party convention.

"Williams's appeal is clearly pitched at the Wilkerson supporters who don't care about the machinations of the Democratic caucus, but wonder why the revival of, say, Dudley Square never seems to happen." -- From an article by Adrian Walker in The Boston Globe, September 4, 2010
DID YOU KNOW? In February of 1763, John Adams reported that the Boston "caucus club," a group of politically active city elders, would meet in the garret of Tom Dawes to choose "Assessors, Collectors, Wardens, Fire Wards, and Representatives." He wrote that at the meetings, those present would "smoke tobacco till you [could not] see from one end of the garret to the other." A similarly opaque smoke screen seems to shroud the history of the word "caucus." Linguists can see that it is clearly an Americanism; Adams's use is the first known to link the word to such a political meeting. Beyond that, details are uncertain, but some scholars think "caucus" may have developed from an Algonquian term for a group of elders, leaders, or advisers.


AND for you gamblers out there I give you this:

Every day is just a role of dice, and snake eyes is just a way of life!

KISMET \KIZZ-met\DEFINITIONnoun

: fate
EXAMPLES Penelope and Richard believed it was kismet that brought them together on that day when they met and fell in love. "He was sitting at the bar of the Fairmont Hotel…. It was pure kismet that I sat down next to him." -- From an article in Simple Justice, August 29, 2010
DID YOU KNOW? Is it your fate to tie macrame while drinking coffee and eating sherbet in a minaret? That would be an unusual destiny, but if it turns out to be your kismet, you will owe much to Turkish and Arabic. We borrowed "kismet" from Turkish in the 1800s, but it ultimately derives from the Arabic "qisma," meaning "portion" or "lot." Several other terms in our bizarre opening question (namely, "macrame," "coffee," "sherbet," and "minaret") have roots in those languages too. In the case of "macrame" and "minaret," there is a little French influence as well. "Coffee" and "macrame" also have Italian relations, and "sherbet" has an ancestor in a Persian name for a type of cold drink.


OK, not really a word for a day, but I just GOTTA do this.

It was KISMIT that one day "THE KING" would be worm food! I think he made a move by that name.

The King's kismit should be very small, so small that he disappears.