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[percysunshine]

Choreogracious:

The art of composing pleasing greetings to complete strangers.

 

[KissMy]

i have enough words ...thank you

Your so full of words that they continue to spill out.

A Spanish person would tell you to ¡cállate!

 

[Truthseeker420]

No thanks, Fox "News" has word of the day and all you get is 1 million rednecks trying shove pontificate and dirty liberal into a sentence.

 

[Amelia]

okaaaaaaaay

 

[Mr.Nick]

I knew the definition of 75% of these words, but they're not really practical words to use in even a thesis or dissertation - let alone a common conversation.

This thread is certainly educational, however useless (with no offense to the OP)....

 

[Amelia]

Truthseeker420's feelings about this topic are so strong that he/she objected to it twice!

 

[Mr.Nick]

Truthseeker420's feelings about this topic are so strong that he/she objected to it twice!

Well I think THC is involved there......

That's what you would call a demotivated poster ...

 

[Dabs]

FUCKLES:

Laughing while you give a fuck~

 

[Alan Stallion]

Collywobbles

pl.n. informal.
1. A pain in the stomach, especially due to nervousness.
2. A state of nervous apprehension.
[19th century: fanciful coinage, from COLIC + WOBBLE.]

 

[asaratis]

What's another word for thesaurus?

 

[Liability]

What's another word for thesaurus?

Let's Aks TdM.

If anybdoy wood no it wood half to be hur.

 

[Amelia]

What's another word for thesaurus?

hehe

Do you know?


Thanks to your question I now know 'thesaurus' once had other/broader meanings than the one we use now.

Thesaurus of Horror - Google Books

 

[Amelia]

Quodlibetical

Not restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment.

 

[Alan Stallion]

MacGuffin

In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist (and sometimes the antagonist) is willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to pursue, often with little or no narrative explanation as to why it is considered so desirable. A MacGuffin, therefore, functions merely as "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction". In fact, the specific nature of the MacGuffin may be ambiguous, undefined, generic, left open to interpretation or otherwise completely unimportant to the plot...

(snip)

...Examples in film include the meaning of rosebud in Citizen Kane (1941), the titular Maltese Falcon, the Rabbit's Foot in Mission: Impossible III (2006), the briefcases in Pulp Fiction and Ronin, and the mineral unobtainium in Avatar (2009)...

MacGuffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Amelia]

fantod

1. Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving.

2. Sometimes, fantods. a sudden outpouring of anger, outrage, or a similar intense emotion.

 

[percysunshine]

Fictoid
pl.n.adj. informal.

1. An invented word.

2. A message board topic designed to elicit a typed response without audio recriminations.

 

[g5000]

halse

v. t. 1. To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.
Each other kissed glad
And lovely halst.
- Spenser.
2. To adjure; to beseech; to entreat.
O dere child, I halse thee,
In virtue of the Holy Trinity.
- Chaucer.
1. To haul; to hoist.
[imp. & p. p. Halsed (hạlst); p. pr. & vb. n. Halsing.]

 

[JamesT]

MacGuffin

In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist (and sometimes the antagonist) is willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to pursue, often with little or no narrative explanation as to why it is considered so desirable. A MacGuffin, therefore, functions merely as "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction". In fact, the specific nature of the MacGuffin may be ambiguous, undefined, generic, left open to interpretation or otherwise completely unimportant to the plot...

(snip)

...Examples in film include the meaning of rosebud in Citizen Kane (1941), the titular Maltese Falcon, the Rabbit's Foot in Mission: Impossible III (2006), the briefcases in Pulp Fiction and Ronin, and the mineral unobtainium in Avatar (2009)...

Thanks! I've been looking for a word to describe just such a situation.

 

[Alan Stallion]

Thanks! I've been looking for a word to describe just such a situation.

Cool.

Today's word...

avuncular (adj)

1 : of or relating to an uncle

2 : suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality <avuncular indulgence>

— avun·cu·lar·i·ty noun
— avun·cu·lar·ly adverb

Avuncular - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary