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  1. Cogito

    Cogito Former Mod, Retired Supporter Contributor

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    With great perspicacity, she ignored the irrelevant details and deduced the solution from the two key facts no one else had even noticed.
     
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    If only perspicacity can be bought I won't have such an idiot of a son.
     
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    If it wasn't for his perspicaciousness, Holmes may have taken a backseat to Watson in those books. :D
     
  4. Cogito

    Cogito Former Mod, Retired Supporter Contributor

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    Although "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is an anchronism that deserves obsolescence, I am apalled when strangers interfere with a mother who chides her son when he throws a public tantrum.
     
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    Mother Fairy chided the Imp for scaring the little fairies.
     
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    Mom chided my brother when he asked for "sour cream and chides" on his baked potato.
     
  7. mammamaia

    mammamaia nit-picker-in-chief Contributor

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    cog takes the prize for pretentious verbosity and chudz gets points for silliness...

    manav will have to be satisfied with dishorable mention for inappropriate capitalization of 'imp'...

    ;-)
     
  8. Manav

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    She cried, said words of anger and walked away, when all I wanted from her was shrift.
     
  9. mammamaia

    mammamaia nit-picker-in-chief Contributor

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    while that may be technically grammatical, 'to be shriven' would work/read better, imo...
     
  10. Manav

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    I felt odd writing it too, but still kept it to see what you'll say. Thanks.
     
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    I went to church so the priest could hear my shrift. Who knew it was going to take ten hours?!?
     
  12. mammamaia

    mammamaia nit-picker-in-chief Contributor

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    guess this and manav's try shows that 'shrift' doesn't work well without 'short'...

    anyone else want to try?
     
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    The preacher shrugged at the spineless sinner's shrift.
     
  14. mammamaia

    mammamaia nit-picker-in-chief Contributor

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    how does one have 'shrugged' something?

    needs an 'at' or 'off' to make sense...
     
  15. mammamaia

    mammamaia nit-picker-in-chief Contributor

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    i'm very sorry to have to announce that i won't have time to keep up this thread any longer, since i've been asked to write children's books for a publisher and very important and worthy memoirs for a couple of folks who have incredible stories to tell, but need a pro to rewrite their book mss...

    this will take up most of my time, so i'm hoping a kind volunteer will come forward and offer to keep up this thread...

    any takers?

    love and apologetic hugs, maia
     
  16. Cogito

    Cogito Former Mod, Retired Supporter Contributor

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    I'll leave this open a little while longer, to permit responses to the most recent Wicked Word.
     
  17. Manav

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    maia, best of luck with your books.
     
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    Thanks for running this to this point, and best wishes with your upcoming endeavors!
     
  19. mammamaia

    mammamaia nit-picker-in-chief Contributor

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    thanks, guys!

    it truly saddens me that no one else will step up to the plate... wish i could continue, but just don't see how i can do it justice while juggling so many full plates...

    maybe 'seeding' this thread with some 'cherce woids' will inspire someone with more time than i have to keep it going:

    amerce
    barratry
    consternation
    dread
    emigre
    foofaraw
    glitch
    hoary
    illicit
    juxtapose
    kibbitz
    licentious
    marabou
    nitty-gritty
    obfuscate
    perpendicular
    quintessence
    rapscallion
    suserration
    touchstone
    ululate
    variegated
    williwaw
    xenophobe
    yahoo [the word, not the web company!]
    zydeco

    fingers-crossed hugs, m
     
  20. pennib

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    Hi – Having just joined I see this as a topic worthy of continuing. This my own made up selection!

    Amlas – (pronounced Am-Lass) - ‘A mind like a sieve’ – to describe someone who is the village idiot.

    Mentalisum (pronounced Men-Tal-is-um) meaning - not understand something to the point of it driving one mentally insane. Not to be confused with a method of mind reading used by some magicians.

    Nimby – (pronounced Nim Bee) - ‘Not in my back yard’ – It came about because people got fed up with unwanted rubbish , like unwanted circulars through their letter boxes and Dog’s poo being deposited on their front lawns

    Paleopresoptimist (Pail-eo-press-op-tim-ist). Someone who thinks about the future, spends most of their time in the past and is never in the present when you want them. According to the results from a female only survey, most men are Paleopresoptimists.

    Spontification
    (pronounced Spon-Tif -I- cation) – making nonsense remarks that can be interpreted as a form of heckling.

    Swnoi agawi – (pronounced Sue Noi ag Awee) – ‘Somebody who nicks others idea’s and gets away with it’ – The sort of character that’s a real pain in the butt, the Plagiarist from hell.

    Verstosterone (pronounced Vers-tosster-own).-The action of when you can’t help but keep speaking in verse.

    Words they tumbled off his tongue,
    All neatly phrased and funny some,
    Accursed, addicted to Verstosterone,
    He felt so alienated and all alone.


    Sentences I can now write proper, without the need to rhyme.
    The verses there again, might just break forth, from time to time.
    Ah! If you insist,
    I’ll slap my wrist,
    and put it all behind....
    ;)
     
  21. Cacian

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    hi I am new to this are we supposed to add our own new words of the day/week here?
    is so here two ofmine that I found recently:

    BURGEONING: begin to grow or increase rapidly.
    which stems from the french word bourgeon which means the stem of a flower.

    ANDROGYNOUS:meaning both man and women characteristics in one. it is apparently of greek descent, howerver I cannot help noticing the similarity with the word android
     
  22. mammamaia

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    the similarity is due to the fact that 'andro' is from the ancient greek word [andros], meaning 'man'...
     
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    Although grotesque in appearance, his indefatigable nature made him inestimable subordinate.
     
  24. mammamaia

    mammamaia nit-picker-in-chief Contributor

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    did you mean 'inestimably' since it seems to be modifying 'subordinate'?
     
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    Nimby isn't about having minor things like dog poo in your back yard.
    It's usually used in relation to things that are generally considered to be necessary to the community, but which nobody would want in their own neighbourhood. Say a halfway house for ex-offenders, or a dump, or an airport. The argument being that 'they have to go somewhere' the reply, of course, being, 'not in my back yard'.
     

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