Bonk! The exclamation you make when you hit said Yoinker over the head with a clubklike object and take back what's yours.
Here are some words for y'all. Some of you will know where these come from: Contrafibularities: ‘Contra’ can be taken to mean ‘against’. The ‘Fibula’ is a bone in the leg. Contrafibularities can be taken to mean ‘pulling ones leg’. It also has tones of the word ‘apology’. Note: Contrafibularity is the the singular. Anaspeptic: ‘Ana’ can mean back or up, and the ‘peptic’ part can mean the stomach. This word can be taken to mean throwing up, or being sick Frasmotic: The words ‘frazzled’ and ‘spasmodic’ seem to be combined here, implying a frenzied fit. Compunctuous: The main part of this word would seem to be ‘compunction’. It also seems to be mixed with ‘contemptuous’. The meaning of the could be taken as ‘being drawn to do someone harm’. It does go a little against the meaning of the sentence it is used in though. Pericombobulation: ‘Peri’ can mean ‘around’, and this seems to be combined with ‘discombobulation’. The meaning could be something like causing someone to go around in uncertain, needless circles. Extramuralisation – The meaning of ‘extra’ can be taken as ‘outside’, whilst the source of ‘mural’ might be wall. Thus, this means oustide the building. Pendigestatory – The ‘Pen’ part of the word could be taken from the Latin meaning almost and the ‘digestory’ indicates digestions. So, the meaning is ‘a small snack’. Interludicle – A short interlude, or break. Interfrastically – The ‘Inter’ part of the word can be taken as meaning ‘among’ or ‘in the middle of’. The ‘phrastic’ part of the word is a clever combination of both ‘phase’ and ‘phrase’. The word then means in the middle of phases of talking.
Zeitgeist - the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
Nearly always used in a political context. And it also implies that the ideas being mentioned are no longer relevant or popular.
Hmm, I always thought of it as something that said politician swung and missed at. "Sen. Blowhard's disconnect from the zeitgeist was no more apparent than when he introduced a bill to repeal the twenty-dollar clause of the seventh amendment."
Plangent adjective LITERARY (of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy. "the plangent sound of a harpsichord"
I hate it. Such an ugly sounding word to describe a sound that isn't ugly. I could see "the plangent sound of beating a seal to death with a barstool."
Minatory adjective FORMAL expressing or conveying a threat. "he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging"
frunk: an enclosed storage compartment located near the front of the vehicle, especially electric cars.
Helot: a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens. From P.D. James's A Taste for Murder.
Your (lack of) age is showing. In MY day, everyone knew what a little deuce coupe was. The Beach Boys made it famous.
Well, that's what I was referring to. I had heard the Beach Boys song, and I knew that was about a car, but I didn't gewt any comnnection between what was said in the Manfred Mann song and the Beach Boys song. Maybe if it actually sounded like he said "Revved up like a deuce" I would have made the connection, but it didn't sound at all like that to me. And while the lyrics in the Beach Boys song made it clear he was singing about a car, the lyrics in Manfred Mann did no such thing. I never made the connection, since it just sounded like "Wrapped up like a douche", and any time I asked anybody else what they thought it was, they thought the same thing I did. Still to this day, I can't hear anything else, and it sure doesn't sound like 'revved up like a deuce'.
primogeniture: the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative.
Hmm... Mountain Lion's scientific name is Felis Concolor, I assume meaning something like "one color cat", which is weird 'cuz they're not all one color.
Maybe it's Spanish, like chili con carne. The other big cats are felis sincolor, just black and white
The phrase, "running the gauntlet" is incorrect, and now I am having an existential crisis. "A 'gantlet' is a flogging ordeal, literally or figuratively. A person may run a gantlet. A 'gauntlet' is a glove."
The problem with knowing something like that is that if you write it correctly nobody will get it. They'll just think it's a mistake. Still it's good to know though.
According to Webster, both are acceptable. Gauntlet can also be used to describe an ordeal. Although I've always thought 'run the gauntlet' originated from a Native American ordeal and was specific to that type of ordeal.
