Red Cat Jenny Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 what fun would that be ? Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Handed Jill Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Heh. Folks who run cable inside office buildings would know that word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCholeBlack Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 mocteroof Go ahead, guess what it means. No cheating now. Give up yet? The act of making produce look better quality than it is. try that on your next trip to the grocery store :) "If part of the goods be plundered by a pirate the proprietor or shipmaster is not entitled to any contribution." An introduction to merchandize, Robert Hamilton, 1777Slightly Obsessed, an 18th Century reenacting blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Hmm like wax on the veggies an beet juice in the ground beef? sigh... Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 How about "OSWEGO"? Aye it's a place...but it would be fun if one were to attempt it with a mouth full of cereal or Ritz crackers.... Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTom Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 How about "OSWEGO"?Aye it's a place...but it would be fun if one were to attempt it with a mouth full of cereal or Ritz crackers.... Bwahahahah! I thought that was what was going on with "mocteroof." Let's see now.... has anyone brought up "floccinaucinihilipilification"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Rivulet mmm saucy.... is from Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo, from Latin rivulus, diminutive of rivus, "a brook, a stream." Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCholeBlack Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Today's word Barratry: In maritime law barratry is a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo. Something any good pirate should know how to do "If part of the goods be plundered by a pirate the proprietor or shipmaster is not entitled to any contribution." An introduction to merchandize, Robert Hamilton, 1777Slightly Obsessed, an 18th Century reenacting blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PirateSSe Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Monopediomaniac~ Someone with a sexual attraction for a one-legged person. Ought to make any peg-legged pirate feel wanted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheeky Actress Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 How about "OSWEGO"?Aye it's a place...but it would be fun if one were to attempt it with a mouth full of cereal or Ritz crackers.... Been there...Lived there...went to College there...fun place... Member of "The Forsaken" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 QUOTE (Red Cat Jenny @ Mar 29 2007, 10:08 PM) How about "OSWEGO"? Aye it's a place...but it would be fun if one were to attempt it with a mouth full of cereal or Ritz crackers.... Been there...Lived there...went to College there...fun place But....can you say it with a mouthfull of Ritz crackers? Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 uncular Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraccioli Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 There's a new poster with the ID Jack an Apes, which I happened to know was wordplay, but I didn't know the actual meaning of the word. So I thought I'd enlightened everyone else with me: jackanapes n. A conceited or impudent person. A mischievous child. Archaic. A monkey or an ape. [From Middle English Jack Napis, nickname of.] What a great moniker! My hat's off to him/her. In a completely unrelated word matter, I came across a phrase this morning in Investor's Business Daily on a company that processes corn (Corn Products International - CPO) and I liked it so much that I have to repeat it. "It will be disastrous for refiners if the summer's corn crop flops." Corn crop flops! (The world is really so amusing. I bet they wrote that that way on purpose.) "You're supposed to be dead!" "Am I not?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dex Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 [From Middle English Jack Napis, nickname of.] "c. 1450, Jack Napes nickname of William de la Pole, first Duke of Suffolk, whose badge was a figure of an ape's ball and chain." (Houghton-Mifflin etymological dictionary) More info about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_la...Duke_of_Suffolk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hester Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 putative ... referring to Sunshine's spouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraccioli Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 I was listening to a podcast of Life Matters (a show from Radio Australia) and I came across this word: blokey - typically male behavior, attitude, appearance, etc.; macho. Blokey! "You're supposed to be dead!" "Am I not?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Blamange... Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberts Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 broadside..wot side o her yer lookin at Wine, women, coin n song. Equal shares of each says I! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Today's word is plenum.. Because it looks cool..and you can't say it with a mouthfull of crackers Also because the phonetic spelling..PLEH-nuhm..contains a variation of one of my oft used words.. Pleah Plus if you were a small furry creature you might find one cozy and adopt is as your home.. and so that makes it cool. There is no answer...this wasn't a question.. Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misson Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 recherché (adj.) 1. Uncommon; rare. 2. Exquisite; choice. 3. Overrefined; forced. 4. Pretentious; overblown Misson's persistence in switching user IDs to maintain Dread Pirate status is quite recherché. (You decide which meaning is implied.) "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde "If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted is really true, there would be little hope of advance." -Orville Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriarRose Kildare Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Aye, now here is a word you don't hear to often: Juggernaut - n. an irresistable force Now that is interesting. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. The Dimension of Time is only a doorway to open. A Time Traveler I am and a Lover of Delights whatever they may be. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Flummox ... I just can;t imagine anyone really using that word...heehee Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Vichy... as in shower.. not soise... Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriarRose Kildare Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Petard - n. an ancient cannon or bomb attached to a gate or wall, to blow a hole in it. One of my favorite lines in Hamlet Act III scene iv: Hoist with his own petard A wonderful metaphor for being caught in a trap of one's own making. However in further reading the word petard comes from the french pe'ter, "meaning to fart" and ultimately the Latin pedere which also has the same low meaning. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. The Dimension of Time is only a doorway to open. A Time Traveler I am and a Lover of Delights whatever they may be. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misson Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 I was watching the classic version of The Scarlet Pimpernel the other day and I noticed he kept saying "Odds fish!" So I wondered what that meant... Noun: odd fish ód fish or odds fish ódz fish 1. Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group So I am an odd fish. In fact, we all are. "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde "If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted is really true, there would be little hope of advance." -Orville Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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