Meanings of words

[Virgil]

The conquoring hero.

infintesmal

[Miss Darcy]

Infinitely small.

Music

[samercury]

A wonderful art able to make people feel a variety of emotions from joy to sadness

Wonder

[Virgil]

Tha amazement of it all.

tutelage

[Pendragon]

Tutelage
1.)The capacity or activity of a guardian; guardianship.
2.)The capacity or activity of a tutor; instruction or teaching.
3.)The state of being under the direction of a guardian or tutor.

skylarking

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Skylarking - Being where you shouldn't be, doing what you shouldn't be doing and loving it!

Infidel

[adilyoussef]

An infidel is somebody trying to prove to him/herself that he/she can experience life from different perspectives and loses through this what might be more important than to live.

Rightious

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Rightious is a misspelling of righteous.


Misspell

[Virgil]

skylarking - youthful frolicing

drama

[Miss Darcy]

Drama - the dark element of life.

Happiness

[Pendragon]

Happiness That which has a different meaning for everyone :D

dumbfounded

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I was going to define dumbfounded but the ... I mean, I just... erm... it's... er, you know!


Flamboyant

[Virgil]

Flamboyant - A male insect set on fire? No,

Seriously - demonstratively extroverted

simpatico

[Miss Darcy]

Italian for sympathetic :p, in English meaning...pleasing, attractive.

Psychiatrist

[samercury]

A psychiatrist is someone who takes your money and makes you sit in a chair for hours, talking about stuff that you don't want to...

Time

[Kaltrina]

time is something that when you need it most it just vanishes and makes you want more of it, and when you don't need it then there is just plenty of it to make you crazy... :D

roof

[RobinHood3000]

How dogs answer the question, "Who's the greatest baseball player of all time?"

babe

[Pensive]

Thats what I call huffy-puffy (stiff and funny) men.

Insulators

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Insulators - That which keeps us from the world or the world from us.


Synergy

[RobinHood3000]

The mechanism by which adding skill points to a skill in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction benefits other skills indirectly.

Literacy

[Riesa]

Synergy:

a combined effort to produce a finer result.

bumpkin

[Virgil]

bumpkin - a person whose sole experience is cleaning out barns

campestral

[Pendragon]

Campestral Of, relating to, or growing in uncultivated land or open fields, a weed like jimpson weed or iron weed in plain ole hillbilly.

four-flusher

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Four flusher - My favourite kind of poker player (and thankfully, one of the commonest!)


Quandary

[Virgil]

Quandary - when the brain cells aren't working in cohesion

lexicon

[Pendragon]

lexicon a book to look up the meanings of words you don't know, except that you usually don't know how to spell them either so it can become difficult and somedays you sit around plotting the demise of Noah Webster in the most grisley fashion possible...http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/vis.gif


grammer

[RobinHood3000]

Last name of the actor who plays Dr. Frasier Crane

warrior

[Miss Darcy]

An ant who is employed in mass murdering other ants.

Soulful

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Soulful - of, or resembling, the performer James Brown.


Crumbly

[Pendragon]

Crumbly falling apart. Said of good cookies and pie crusts, or the crypts of the undead, haunted places, etc. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Sarge/q3aHappyBones.gif


haunted

[samercury]

Haunted is:
1) one of my favorite songs :D
2) to be stalked and bothered by someone or s/t (usually a ghost)

Rotate

[Virgil]

Rotate - to spin something around, and hopefully not make it nausous and vomit.

ponder

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Hmmmm... How best to describe the word, "ponder" - I can see that I'm going to need to think about this seriously for quite some time - in fact, I'll ponder.


Smutty

[Virgil]

smutty - that which excites, in a cheap way.

market

[Pensive]

Market is a place where I love to go.

Mutter

[samercury]

To mutter is to complain to oneself about the miseries around you

Come

[Pendragon]

Come One of the most useless words in a cat owners language. Why do we even name the things, anyway? They do what they want, when they want and ignore us. :brow:

pets

[samercury]

:lol:

Pets are animals that live with us and pretend to like us but in reality have secret organizations planning to destroy everyone...

Plan

[Miss Darcy]

An innocent scheme.

Barbaric

[Pendragon]

Barbaric Any practice that goes against ones carefully designed principles. For example, a vegetarian will consider the consumsion of meat barbaric. And an Animal Rights person will consider any form of hunting barbaric. Death Penalty opponents consider any form of execution barbaric. And so on, ad infinitium

morals

[Virgil]

Come One of the most useless words in a cat owners language. Why do we even name the things, anyway? They do what they want, when they want and ignore us. :brow:


Reminds me of a Winston Churchil quote on why the pig was his favorite animal. This is a paraphrase from memory.

A dog looks up at you as if you were God; a cat looks down at you as if he were God. But a pig stares you straight in the eye, because he knows he's just as mortal as you.

Morals - That which guides us in life to be good people.

jarhead

[Riesa]

jarhead

Hero or Ant, depending on ones view, but usually one sporting a shaved noggin and attired in military browns and greens

Fog

[Miss Darcy]

Fog is another word for heavy mist...mist that glides along the moors, a white phantom of silence...

Impossible

[Virgil]

impossible - that which reality or perception limits

plebeian

[Riesa]

plebian:
of a common class, vulgar, crass

degenerate

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Degenerate - A throwback. One lacking in acceptable social graces. See jarhead above.


Mutiny

[Pendragon]

Mutiny An unplanned rising up against authority. If it were planned, it would be termed a "revolution". Many words are like this. A gambling joint giving sucker odds on a number drawing is running a "numbers racket" which is against the law. However, the "lottery" which does the same, is perfectly legal. If someone kills your family and you loose it and take revenge, you commit "murder". The state "executes" the person for "crimes against the state." A person selling homemade booze is a "bootlegger". Stores selling booze have an "ABC licence". ;) :brow: :nod:

Absolute

[Riesa]

Absolute:
ultimate and self-defining, pure.

harmonious

[Virgil]

harmonious - the state of existance in a home, where the husband and wife are not arguing.

glossary

[Riesa]

glossary:
Very helpful explanations or definitions of unfamiliar, uncommon, or foreign words in a book.

circle

[Virgil]

circle - a line that comes around back to its begining.

phone

[Pensive]

Phone is one of the most interesting things that ever existed.

Era

[Pendragon]

Era 1.) a bygone time in which many errors were committed, which if we fail to remember, we are doomed to repeat. 2.) (Redneck definition) a miscalculation in judgement, used thus: "Ol' Eb figgered he cud outrun thet thar cop car but he war in era. They busted him fer DUI."


Destiny

[Virgil]

Destiny - The end of one's future.

Farewell

[Riesa]

farewell:
a lovely old fashioned word for "See 'Ya"

luck

[Pensive]

Luck - Sometimes it works, other times it does not.

Droop

[Pendragon]

Droop To lean over limply, as if the life were drained out of something



awkward

[Kaltrina]

that is what I feel when people look at me after I enter a room or give a compliment...


awesome

[Riesa]

awesome:

breathtaking and humbling or something really really cool, dude.:cool:


general

[Kaltrina]

when a number of places or things are included...

fault

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Fault - A visible crack in a rock strata or personality.


Flabbergast

[Riesa]

flabbergast:
to be overwhelmed, wide-eyed, mouth slack, when Robert Horry made the three point shot in the final second of game 7 against the Sacramento Kings, I was flabbergasted.


run-on

[Pendragon]

Run-on To continue argueing ad infinitium, while the rest of us have found better things to do, as if a lot of words will get the point across to people who have already lost interest. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/bur2.gif


translation

[adilyoussef]

Translation is transmiting words from one language to another carrying a cultural background and a whole system of belief that can never be transfered faithfully.

Play

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Play - slackness in a piece of string; using the string to skip with; twanging the string to make music; fighting with a hooked fish on the other end of the string; pretending that the string is a lasso and the chair over there is a wild mustang; competing in a tug-of-war, using the string.


String

[Kaltrina]

string is what I use to tie a bunch of papers... :D


box

[Riesa]

Box-

what adults did a few generations ago to impudent children's ears.


Drip

[smilingtearz]

Water drips from a leaking tap. I hate leaking taps!

taps

[Riesa]

Taps:
A musical eulogy.

nurture

[Virgil]

Box-

what adults did a few generations ago to impudent children's ears.

LOL :lol:

nurture - the tender care a mother gives.

diction

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Diction - 'Ow we say wot it is wot we say, innit?


misanthropy

[Riesa]

misanthropy:

ungenerous with human failings, a conviction that we are all doomed, and that we deserve to be doomed.



philanthropic

[Pendragon]

philanthropic Of, relating to, or marked by philanthropy; humanitarian, although history screams at me to say that some of the most noted philanthropists were noted for the ruthlessness with which they made their money to begin with, and were called "robber barons" in their heyday.

patience

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Patience - A card game I get easily bored with if I don't win straight away.


Serenade

[Riesa]

Serenade:
a love sick puppy's attempt to woo the girl of his dreams by singing beneath her window on a moonlit night.


chivalry

[Virgil]

chivalry - perhaps idealistic and never fully adopted, but a code of honorable behavior.

sublime

[Riesa]

sublime: perfect, awe-inspiring, better than anything, idyllic
or a pretty decent band.


seven year itch

[Virgil]

Seven year itch - Being married now 14 years, I guess I've either had a seven year itch twice or now I'm doubly itchy.

rig

[papayahed]

The place where I would have liked to work, on an oil rig in the carribean.

truck stop

[Riesa]

Seven year itch - Being married now 14 years, I guess I've either had a seven year itch twice or now I'm doubly itchy.

rig

:lol: very funny, virgil :lol:

truck stop:

a place to stop your truck.


Hoe-down

[Weeping Willow]

A really funny tune to listen when Drew carry and the guys are doing it in how's line is it anyway!

Line

[Riesa]

you watch drew carey in Israel?

line:
a thing I sometimes cross, to my embarrassment.:blush:

wheedle

[Scheherazade]

Line is something someone has crossed so much that it is a dot to them at the moment! But luckily for them, I am in a good mood!

*grins Scheherazadishly*

New word:

Cute (Please, I beg of you, do not refer to me in your definition!)

[Riesa]

cute:my new puppy, re: Bula, All About Animals thread.

new word:

Wheedle

[Weeping Willow]

Yep off course! Drew is one of the funnyest but i didn't like what they did in the last seasons of the drew carry show!

Wheedle: to make someone do for you things they don't really want to..

New word: Autumn

[Pendragon]

Autumn That part of the year when you cannot decide if it's worth carrying a jacket or sweater on a hike until it's too late and you need it :D :nod:




wisdom

[Virgil]

wisdom - That which comes with age, for some at least.

supple

[Scheherazade]

wisdom - That which comes with age, for some at least.
You mean like grey hair/hair loss/hair at unbecoming places and false teeth???

None of which I have yet... I am glad to admit that I don't have any form of wisdom yet!

Supple:This one you surely lose as you age??


Next word: grammar

[Virgil]

You mean like grey hair/hair loss/hair at unbecoming places and false teeth???

None of which I have yet... I am glad to admit that I don't have any form of wisdom yet!

Supple:This one you surely lose as you age??


Next word: grammar
Lucky for me I have my hair (although getting peppered with grey) and it doesn't seem to be getting thin either. Unlike most of my male friends I grew up with. I seem to have a high percentage of male friends who are thin on top or have lost their hair entirely. I don't have any of the other wisdom problems you list.

grammar: either (1) the rules of a language or (2) the way a child refers to his mother's mother. ;)

breath

[Miss Darcy]

Something that quivers, trapped within you when something beautiful happens.

Goosebumps

[RobinHood3000]

A young adult horror series by a certain R.L. Stine.

Jedi

[Weeping Willow]

One who can use the force!

Star

[Pendragon]

STAR 1.) A blinking light in the heavens caused by a sun light-years distant

2.) A person on stage or screen, surrounded by blinking lights of various types, often playing music or singing in tones that might be heard light-years away

3.) Such a person whose ego has grown to the point where he/she feels he/she should be recognized instantly light-years away

fame

[RobinHood3000]

A failed reality show.

Flick

[Weeping Willow]

Another word for a movie
In other words images burned on film projected on a screen or a wall!

Scream!

[adilyoussef]

Scream is a sound emited when a bad emotion arises suddengly.

Yeld

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Yeld - A barren cow.

Did you mean that? Or did you miss the 'i' out of yield? I must admit to needing to look it up!


magnanimity

[Riesa]

magnanimity:

Given to charitable feelings.

resilient

[Pendragon]

resilient strong and tough, difficult to assult, resistant to attack


pious

[Riesa]

Pious:
of or relating to PI,
Toddler asking for pie for a friend and himself.
One of a strong religious belief with a prayerful lifestyle.

fervor

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Fervor - Word describing the passion, heat and intensity with which we Brits abhor the way that Americans drop innocent 'u's from our words without a moment's compassion!


colour

[Riesa]

:lol: too true.

Colour: the range of shades that combining red, blue and yellow produces.

candor

[Pendragon]

candor To bluntly speak one's mind, something for which the Brit's have never lacked, which I greatly admire. Imagine one of our Senators or Congressmen shooting back at some high-class lady: "Yeah, I am drunk! But you're ugly and tomorrow, I'll be sober!"


wisecrack

[beer good]

Wisecrack: the distingushing feature of a smarta**.

Antediluvian

[Riesa]

Antediluvian:
outdated, ancient.

cornerstone

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Cornerstone - That which all else is built upon. eg. The word, "Life" in this thread.


blasé

[Riesa]

Ah ha! mac user. :D

blasé:
disinterested in a superior fashion.

Ablution

[Xamonas Chegwe]

But alas too late! For a user name, unlike a password, cannot be changed; my unaccented form is cast in stone I fear. I have composed upon this theme in the Tanka thread - It makes the grief more bearable.

Ablution - An act of cleansing, usually performed only in plural - hence, perhaps, the washing of a single hand?



Kindling

[Weeping Willow]

Ablution - The purifying of body and soul!

Poncho

[Riesa]

poncho-the accessory to your sombrero that you will soon purchase while traveling in Mexico.

and Xamonas Chegwé, I dropped the s, 'twas an error. Kind of like dropping H´s, I suspect. Not that I supect one of your obvious linguistic expertise to do so.

new word:

Kindling

[Pendragon]

Kindling Small pieces of wood used to start a fire. Also the first small arguement that leads to the greater conflagration.

snobbish

[smilingtearz]

snobbish: one of my classmate who thinks she's superior to others... Someone's got to tell her what a DORK!! she is... :D :D

next word: essence

[Riesa]

:D

Essence:
that which is at the core of something, that defines what it is.

smile

[Kaltrina]

smile is what everybody sees in my face, always... :D


nose

[Pensive]

I hate it when people have nothing to do other than to poke their nose into other's buisness.

Clouds

[Pendragon]

Clouds Harbringers of rain and gloom or filled with silver lining. Depends on your point of view. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/bur2.gif


dasterdly

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Dastardly - Cartoon character Dick - The world's most unsuccessful cheat. Or a decription of the diabolical schemes he used.



Plinth

[Virgil]

Plinth - the base of something (truth be told, I had to look this up)

rubric

[adilyoussef]

Rubric reminds me of magazins.

Plot

[Miss Darcy]

The architecture of the storyline, or alternatively, the Czech word for 'fence.'

Voracious

[Riesa]

voracious: having a grand and passionate appetite for something.

tempestuous

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Tempestuous - Of, or resembling a tempest - like the worst, and best, relationships.




Initiation

[adilyoussef]

Initiation can be described as a word carrying responsibility.

Advance

[smilingtearz]

Advance: To move forward...

humility

[adilyoussef]

Shame + shame + shame = I can get it no more (humility).

Shame

[Riesa]

shame: the feelings that arise, and bring high color and heat to the face when one is caught doing something naughty.
or
What I tell the puppy when he has an accident. "Shame on you, Bula."

next word

hurl

[RobinHood3000]

What starr would do at the mere mention of anything remotely sentimental.

cookie

[Virgil]

What starr would do at the mere mention of anything remotely sentimental.

cookie
:lol: Oh, Star.

cookie - a little fat pill that settles in the wrong places.

monger

[Riesa]

Monger:
One who mongs. ;)

Peddler

[Anon22]

One who peddles

drinker

[Virgil]

Monger:
One who mongs. ;)

Cheater. :D

Drinker - One who imbibes beverages, sometimes alcoholic ones.

ululate

[Riesa]

:D
One frustrated and crated puppy's loud whimpers and whines.

Blues

[adilyoussef]

Blues is music, is art, is blues.

Mouse

[samercury]

A mouse is 1) something that helps you take over your computer :p 2) a small animal that can make your life miserable

Time

[adilyoussef]

Time is someting that controle us, limit our existance, and put an end to it. Like the old Arabic proverb that says: "Time is like a sward, if you don't cut it, it cut you off."

Blood

[Kaltrina]

Blood is what runs through our veins... :D


jog

[Pendragon]

Jog A running pace used for exercise or a brief walk used to try to recover lost memory



hefty

[RobinHood3000]

Brand of plastic bag.

Bottle.

[Riesa]

bottle:
a depository for a shipwrecked person's messages


dish

[Virgil]

dish - that which one places edible stuff on

haggard

[Riesa]

again with the haggard?;)

It calls to mind an old woman with no teeth, stringy hair and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.

Or the Country Great.

Or: something from the Google image game, Haggard somebody or other. Can't recall.

next word:
Ignorant

[Pensive]

I have never met a person so ignorant that I could not learn something from him/her.

Satisfaction

[adilyoussef]

Satisfaction is a state of being that one can reach in a moment of estasy or extreem hapiness. For me, satisfaction is an unreached word.

Pleasure

[hemial]

Pleasure can be found in everything you do - it's just a matter of view.


cold

[adilyoussef]

Cold is what I'm feeling now.

Warm

[Pendragon]

WARM A feeling seldom experienced by the depressed...

loathing

[adilyoussef]

Lothing is a miserable feeling felt by a miserable person.

Care

[Pendragon]

Care A warm feeling of benevolence, or else a feeling of great weariness


fair

[Virgil]

again with the haggard?;)

It calls to mind an old woman with no teeth, stringy hair and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.

Or the Country Great.

Or: something from the Google image game, Haggard somebody or other. Can't recall.

When I think of haggard I think of the second stanza from the Keat's poem, "La Belle Dame sans Merci": "O what can ail thee, knight at arms/So haggard and so woe-begone?" It always comes to mind, such a catchy sentence.

fair - a medevil or just a plain country event for folks to get out.

nefarious

[Riesa]

When I think of haggard I think of the second stanza from the Keat's poem, "La Belle Dame sans Merci": "O what can ail thee, knight at arms/So haggard and so woe-begone?" It always comes to mind, such a catchy sentence.

Much nicer thought. My heart is pained thinking of this poor Knight; how beautiful. I must go read this poem, surely I've read this before?. I think of the painting...
http://www.lyons.co.uk/A4H/classic/Dicksie-Sans_Merci.jpg


nefarious:

corrupt, foul behavior: I can't help thinking of the Soprano's.

new word:
axis

[Pensive]

The earth revolves on its own axis.

Petals

[Miss Darcy]

Exquisite love hearts, creating the illusion of a rose,
Falling softly to the ground,
One by one.

Ecstasy

[Pendragon]

Ecstasy Unfortunately, this has come to mean a very powerful drug that cause a feeling of euphoria...

ethereal

[adilyoussef]

Ethereal, deceitful, or rather unreal is the feeling I feel in a moment of day dreaming.

Casual

[Riesa]

casual:
flip-flops, khaki shorts and a white t-shirt.

warmth

[Xamonas Chegwe]

warmth - The ordinal form of the number warm. And a hot little number it is too.


vice

[Pendragon]

Vice Any habit that has aroused the ire of enough people to cause it to fall into disfavor, even if at one time it was social equitte


affronted

[Riesa]

affronted: someone who is injured by disrespectful behavior.

dashing

[RobinHood3000]

"...through the snow, on a one-horse open sleigh...", or what so many women seem to be looking for that so many men lack.

spoon

[Pensive]

Spoon can do things which a plate can't.

Heal

[adilyoussef]

Heal is the ability to give more than to have, is the ability to draw a smile on the face of a desperate person; to heal is to make alive again.

Finger

[Riesa]

Finger is something you use to point with....

beguile

[Pendragon]

beguile To decieve, or to take by deceptive behavior: fool


intelligence

[Weeping Willow]

A thing most humans lack off.... and i wish they had more off...
(including me)

Ghost

[Riesa]

ghost:a lucid projection of memory.


Undead

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Undead - A ridiculous concoction of hack horror writers! Now, please tilt your neck a little my dear, that I may better observe the fall of light on your exquisite throat....



Rehearse

[Riesa]

to trouble with the effect of ones presentation

ambivalence

[Pendragon]

ambivance 1. conflict of ideas or attitudes: the presence of two opposing ideas, attitudes, or emotions at the same time


2. uncertainty: a feeling of uncertainty about something due to a mental conflict


insanity :rage:

[Pensive]

Insanity is what is over me sometimes.

Tolerate

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Tolerate - A corruption of "Toller rate", an ancient charge, paid by church bell-ringers, for the right to wake everyone up at some ungodly hour on a Sunday, even when people have hangovers. There are some things up with which I cannot put. And that's one of them! ;)

Flatulence

[Riesa]

Only you, Xamonas. :D

What horses have much of, since they can't belch or someone that has an excessively highfalutin way of speaking or writing..


musty

[Virgil]

warmth - The ordinal form of the number warm. And a hot little number it is too.

Xanonas - You have quite a sense of humor. I thought this was great. :lol:

musty - that basement smell after a steady rain.

kapellmeister

[Riesa]

Quite the clever one, isn't he?
Master of Kapell????okay, dictionary: Ka·pell·meis·ter ( P ) Pronunciation Key (k-plmstr, kä-)
n.

The leader of a choir or orchestra.

Americana

[Virgil]

Americana - folk articles from the american heartland

pomaceous

[Riesa]

Was that off the top of your head?

Quote M.W.:

"Pomaceous" was first planted in the English language by physician Edward Baynard when, in 1706, he advised, "Apples and pomaceous Juices, are the greatest Pectorals." ("Pectoral" is now a rarely used word for a food that helps digestion.) Since then, "pomaceous" has mainly been sown by botanists and poets. The word, which is ultimately derived from Late Latin "pomum" (meaning "apple"), was originally used of apples and things relating to apples, but later it was also applied to things that look like pears. (Pears, like apples, belong to the pome family.)

umption

[Virgil]

Was that off the top of your head?


umption
I've been jotting down neat words I come across ever since I started Lit Net. This was one of them.

umption - *grasps the dictionary* - OMG, the horror. It's not in my M-W. I'm going to have to pass.

Umption

[Riesa]

umption: a slightly made up word looking for a brilliant definition by the PAM.

new word:

mozambique

[Virgil]

mozambique - a country in Africa; or is it a city?

capricious

[Riesa]

Fickle, bouncy.

palm view

[Virgil]

palm view - The view from a hotel room in the tropics?

vanilla

Good night Riesa. I'm calling it quits.

[Riesa]

night-night, V.
Vanilla-
a bean that could almost make me believe in a higher being.

buoy up

[Pendragon]

bouy up To console, to cheer up, to support



horsefeathers

[Riesa]

A load of hooey.

walk a tightrope

[Virgil]

to balance opposing variables to accomplish a task.

demarcate

[adilyoussef]

Demarcate is limiting oneself.

Paddle

[Pendragon]

Paddle A thing a lot of people find themselves up a creek without :lol:


rosemary

[Riesa]

rosemary: an herb that grows quite well in window boxes and arid soil. Something that leaves a wonderful pungent scent on hands and clothes after touching it, makes chicken delicious too.

dulcet

[Pendragon]

dulcet Pleasing to the ear; melodious, i.e., not my singing http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/musik/music-smiley-013.gif


livewire

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Livewire - A curious creature, resembling ordinary electrical flex. The livewire will inviegle it's way into your house, hide amongst the wires and cables behind your TV, computer, hi-fi system, etc., and surrepticiously twist, tangle and tie the genuine flexes into a knotted mess, which it uses as a nest.


Plectrum.

[Pendragon]

Plectrum Fancy-dancy name for a guitar pick



haberdasher

[Riesa]

haberdasher: a gentleman's outfitter.


proper

[Pendragon]

proper Approved of by at least one other person http://www.smileyville.net/aiwan/ok.gif

indecent

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Indecent - A unit of currency, 1/100th of an Indedollar - now considered too vulgar an amount to be openly exhibited, hence it's other meaning: obscene, beneath propriety.



Pimple

[Pensive]

If you will replace "p" in the pimple with "s" then you will get "simple"

Pieces

[Virgil]

Pieces - A zodiak sign of fishes? No something broken down into smaller parts.

bell bottom

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Bell bottom - 1. (derog.) A person with a posterior resembling a cast bell. 2. The trousers worn by those of the hippy persuasion. 3. (obviously) The bottom of a bell!


Termagant

[Pendragon]

Termagant A quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew, a child's usual rememberance of various school teachers.(EDIT) proven to be fallicious later in life!


boorish

[Riesa]

Boorish: ill-mannered, repugnant, loutish and insensitive.

oaf

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Oaf - A loaf with the first slice removed. Or a person with all redeemable qualities removed!


Quarrel

[Virgil]

Bell bottom - 1. (derog.) A person with a posterior resembling a cast bell.
LOL :lol: :lol:

Quarrel - Something you do when somebody calls you crass and arrogant. :D

Journey

[Riesa]

Journey: What happens between Point A and Point B.
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
André Gide

Philosophy

[Virgil]

philosophy - that study of life that some find profound, but I find steril.

adventure

[Riesa]

Adventure: To boldly go where no one has gone before.


Split

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Split - A city in the Dalmatia region of Croatia. On the Eastern Adriatic coast. (Honest! ;))


Homily

[Virgil]

Homily - That part of mass where the priest starts lecturing and causes all sorts of drowziness.

bonanza

[Pendragon]

bonanza A western series starring Lorene Green and Michel Landon, now in reruns only. Or to discover wealth, if we must.



Grotesque

[Virgil]

grotesque - the distortion of something until it is gruesome

tabernacle

[Pendragon]

tabernacle A large church or other place set aside for worship of a higher power




mystery

[Miss Darcy]

Mystery: case in which much detail is concealed by the mists of the unknown.

Immortality

[Virgil]

immortatlity - living on and on and on and on and on.......

Annunciation

[Riesa]

Annunciation:

and lo, an angel appeared unto Mary....and said "What I am about to tell you will change your life and history forever..."

petulant

[Pendragon]

petulant Peeved about something, got one's knickers in a twist, etc.





Garrulous

[Riesa]

Garrulous:

Someone who loves the sound of their own annoying voice and assumes the rest of the world does too, therefore continually talks and talks and talks.


limn

[Virgil]

and lo, an angel appeared unto Mary....and said "What I am about to tell you will change your life and history forever..."

Sounds like what a priest and rabbi said to me and my wife fourteen years ago with a similar affect...

limn - when a child sticks her finger in a waterpaint jar and scribbles circles on drawing paper or on the table or on the floor or on the walls.

prudella

[Riesa]

Sounds like what a priest and rabbi said to me and my wife fourteen years ago with a similar affect...that sounds like the beginning of a joke to me....

limn - when a child sticks her finger in a waterpaint jar and scribbles circles on drawing paper or on the table or on the floor or on the walls.try a 'sharpie' it's more accurate. :p
prudella[/QUOTE]prudella deville, prudella deville, if she doesn't scare you nobody will....
or...prune flavored nutella.

I have no idea. What is it?

withers

[Virgil]

prudella - *checked, not in M-W* Sorry. It's the base part of a rennaissance multi part painting arrangement. A little too obscure.

withers - that which dries up and faints, collaspes, dies.

art

[Pendragon]

art much like beauty and the rain is in the eye of the beholder



fantastic


P.S. I was unable to find "prudella" but "predella" came up with the following definition:




pre·del·la [ prə déllə ] (plural pre·del·las)


noun

Definitions:

1. altar platform: the platform for an altar, or the step on which an altar rests


2. decorated base of altarpiece: the decorative base of an altarpiece, embellished with small paintings or sculptures

[Pensive]

It really feels good to own anything fantastic.

Penny

[Riesa]

Penny- a cute name for a Hen.

odd

[Xamonas Chegwe]

odd - uneven in a quirky sort of way.


plaintive

[Riesa]

plaintive-christina in andrew wyeth's 'christina's world'



tenuous

[Virgil]

art much like beauty and the rain is in the eye of the beholder



fantastic


P.S. I was unable to find "prudella" but "predella" came up with the following definition:




pre·del·la [ prə déllə ] (plural pre·del·las)


noun

Definitions:

1. altar platform: the platform for an altar, or the step on which an altar rests


2. decorated base of altarpiece: the decorative base of an altarpiece, embellished with small paintings or sculptures
Thanks Pen. I guess it would be the base of an alterpiece, decorated with paintings or a relief sculpture in the rennaissance.

[Virgil]

tenuous - when you over stretch *ouch* your tendons in your ankle

soul

[Riesa]

you should try yoga.

soul-unknowing to any degree of accuracy, I decline to state. ;) or

A type of music.


repletion

[Pendragon]

repletion sated, saturated, besotted, filled to the breaking point



asinine

[Riesa]

asinine: lowbrow ridiculous


cloot

[Xamonas Chegwe]

cloot - A 1970's film starring Jane Fonda as a prostitute, famous for the misspelling of it's title.


Lumber

[Riesa]

lumber-the way a person walks on the morning after a night of hard drinking.

shed

[Pendragon]

shed an outbuilding that's on its last legs and appears to be extremly intoxicated and thus unable to stand up straight

hovel

[Xamonas Chegwe]

hovel - Resemblin' han hegg hin shape. (This reply is sponsored by Sam Weller)



Indignant.

[RobinHood3000]

A worker insect with a shovel.

Warrior

[Riesa]

Warrior: One who is prepared to face conflict with strength and bravery.

Soldier

[Pendragon]

Soldier In the United States, anyway, a young person that the Goverment has declared too young to decide if they wish to drink or smoke, but perfectly old enough to vote or to die for their country.

patroit

[Riesa]

Patriot: one who believes in the ideals of his/her country and freely chooses to defend its ways with their lifeblood.

Hippie

[Pensive]

Hippies are people who can't adjust themselves in the society. (I am not sure about the meaning that it is right or not)

Tide

[Riesa]

Hiya Pensive :wave: :)

I like it; it's pretty accurate, I'd say.

Tide: the moon goddess' ultimate power over the essence of women and turbulent oceans.

content

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Content - A canvass structure used to house criminals.



Illegitimate

[Riesa]

Illegitimate - A frequent cause of the words 'Love Child' to be tattooed across someones stomach, arm or back.

Dyslogism

[RobinHood3000]

Opposite of datlogism.

Infatuation

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Infatuation - The irrational belief that the woman that has taken out a court injunction against you coming within a light year of her, kind of likes you deep down and will come to realise it if you kidnap her and chain her up in your garage.


Megalomania

[RobinHood3000]

I tell you, it's only another couple more weeks before she figures it out!!

Megalomania--Building a life-size working replica of the Death Star...


Spring constant

[Pendragon]

Spring constant The loose one in your sofa you can always depend on to snap free and attempt homicide when a guest of more or less importance is in your home


vice squad

[Riesa]

a police group that deals with illegal prostitution and gambling.

pay off

[Pendragon]

pay off how orgnized crime manages to get by the police and vice squads


notorious

[beer good]

Notorious: 1) A really awful Duran Duran song
2) The absence of oriosity; non-orious
3) (In)famous; well-known but not necessarily liked. (See #1.)


Karaoke

[adilyoussef]

Karaoke is used to make people dream of being singers.

Teacher

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Teacher - A man trying to put square ideas into round minds.


Changeling

[RobinHood3000]

The grown-up temporary name of Beast Boy/Garfield Logan, of DC Comics' Teen Titans.

Arsenal

[Pendragon]

Arsenal The grown-up name of Green Arrow sidekick Speedy




Nightwing

[RobinHood3000]

Nightwing Grown-up name of Batman sidekick Robin

Cheshire