Saint-Just
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Appropriately today, Susie's post: "Word of the day is ‘brabblement’ (16th century): noisy infighting or toys-out-of-pram-throwing."
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Saint-Just
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A gentle reminder of the word ‘matutolypea’: grumpiness or downheartedness first thing in the morning. Based on Latin and Greek, literally ‘morning grief’, or ‘sorrow of the dawn’.
Not something of concern to any of us, of course...
Not something of concern to any of us, of course...
BorderReiver
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Thank you, Marc, I can now put a name to my usual morning state of being.
Saint-Just
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Shirley not 
MaC
Moderator
I don't get this waking up grumpy.
I wake up, I'm awake, I'm fine, I'm up.
The body disagrees and gives me an hour of at best discomfort and at worst miserable pain, but me ? I'm fine.
Son2 looks like the walking dead until he's out the shower though
and Himself really needs that first coffee.
Just as well we're all different.
Word,
Collocation
I wake up, I'm awake, I'm fine, I'm up.
The body disagrees and gives me an hour of at best discomfort and at worst miserable pain, but me ? I'm fine.
Son2 looks like the walking dead until he's out the shower though
and Himself really needs that first coffee.Just as well we're all different.
Word,
Collocation
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Oldtimer
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Sometimes I wake up grumpy, but usually I let her sleep.
Sudoriparous Secreting sweat.
Sudoriparous Secreting sweat.
BorderReiver
Moderator
Saint-Just
Administrator
Not to the exacting standards posted above but this neologism made me smile.
PRESSTITUTES
Definition: A person or media entity that misleadingly tailors news to fit a particular partisan, financial or business agenda.
PRESSTITUTES
Definition: A person or media entity that misleadingly tailors news to fit a particular partisan, financial or business agenda.
Saint-Just
Administrator
And as a follow up to my post in the "in the news today" thread...
Saint-Just
Administrator
Without Susie’s help this time, I give you kakistocracy: a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
Without looking it up, who knows what sloughened means? It's even being highlighted by spellchecker. My cousin who lives in Lincoln but used to live here in Wakefield said he used it yesterday and nobody understands.
BorderReiver
Moderator
Nope.
MaC
Moderator
To be in a slough.....a ditch, a swampy bit......down, enmired.
MaC
Moderator
I wonder how it became the shed skin ? I think of it as a root of sluice.
Saint-Just
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BorderReiver
Moderator
"
1720, intransitive, "come off as slough;" 1762, transitive, "to cast off" (as the skin of a snake or other animal), from the Middle English noun slough "shed skin of a snake" (see slough (n.)). Originally of diseased tissue. Related: Sloughed; sloughing.
also from 1720
slough (n.2)
"cast-off skin" (of a snake or other animal that normally sheds or molts), early 14c., slughe, slouh, which is probably related to Old Saxon sluk "skin of a snake," Middle High German sluch "snakeskin, wine-skin," Middle Low German slu "husk, peel, skin," German Schlauch "wine-skin;" from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *sleug- "to glide." By 1510s as "mass or layer of dead tissue around a wound, etc."
also from early 14c."
Beachlover
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Fed up, Pissed off, disillusioned.
bushwacker
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You've obviously never been there then. Its more of a shithole but 'bog' suits
Saint-Just
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Susie to the rescue, today: Word of the day is ‘ingordigious’ (17th century): motivated primarily by greed.
Jaggededge
Explorer
My ex boss to a T.
Saint-Just
Administrator
Susie again, without any link to current events of course:
MaC
Moderator
My parents were cousins; it's legal and the children are healthy, just don't marry in too often.
To quote a Rheumatology specialist, whose own parents were cousins, "You can breed for brains, but physically it ends up causing repeat problems if done too often".
To quote a Rheumatology specialist, whose own parents were cousins, "You can breed for brains, but physically it ends up causing repeat problems if done too often".