One doesn't have to exclude the other.
Sectarian: One who believes everything should be divided before eating.
Summa cum laude: Latin for "An angry mob is approaching."
Partisan
One doesn't have to exclude the other.
Sectarian: One who believes everything should be divided before eating.
Summa cum laude: Latin for "An angry mob is approaching."
Partisan
Partisan Stubborn refusal to see anything outside of the story your group has come up with, glaringly obvious facts to the contrary...
Obvious Clear enough to me and you cannot help it if you are a blind prejudiced fool!
Runaway
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
Runanway - someone who simply cannot be induced to hang around a dull atmosphere while there is so much excitement to be had elsewhere
My 95 year old Grandmother was a a habitual runaway from her nursing home causing much consternation amongst family and staff - but to her it was the clear distinction of living a death or seeing some of the world while there was still life left in her, unfortunately I was too young to intervene and went with the family attitude that she was a pain - but really if they'd left her be she probably would have become a success in some field and lived to see 195 (at least)
Old age - no such thing - 100 years isn't old it's just not long enough for people who still have all their faculties
Some people are already old at ten, others at twenty etc - so really it's just relative
Tearaway
Tearaway: To bulldoze a new path
Indifferent: The same
Habeas Corpus
Maybe we should have another thread for old words that you've already prepared new definitions for, as opposed to new definitions for words that are proposed by someone else - which admittedly can be a bit frustrating if you've got a good definition all lined up and no one seems likely to propose the word that would allow you to trot it out.
Last edited by MarkBastable; 04-18-2011 at 03:44 PM.
I don't think we really need an entirely new thread for such a subtle distinction. The Devil's Dictionary is funny definitions; seems to me irrelevant whether they're provided by the same person or different people. Both are fun to read and write, and fun is what it's about, no?
Good God, no.Originally Posted by Calidore
But that apart, it's a game - which is why it's in the game section - and the game is that you supply a definition and set the next word to be defined by someone else. Indeed, in the post that set up this thread, Nikhar said,
It's not a complicated game, but that's the way it works.
Compare the 'Rate That Song' thread, in which someone posts a link to a music video, and the next person comments on it, rates it out of ten and then posts a new link. There's no real reason why people shouldn't just post links willy-nilly, and comment on them themselves, and then rate them - but that's just not how the game works.
Both threads are specifically about passing on the baton, and are designed that way to minimise the possibility of one person churning out multiple entries in multiple posts. Of course - there's no reason not to have a thread that actively encourages that, but my own suggestion would be that this isn't it.
What do other regular posters to this thread think?
Last edited by MarkBastable; 04-19-2011 at 06:58 AM.
One thread, irregardless of which way we do it. Some are too good to miss posting, but always, always leave a word for the next person.
Habeas Corpus Latin meaning "you have the body?" a nebulous writ sometimes applied to crimes where it has no jurisdiction, there not being a body since the malefactor was arrested simply for forgery. It is also applied to crimes where the body/bodies are all too evident, but the lawyer is sharp enough to claim "unjust detention". (See OJ Simpson)
Malefactor
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Absolutely.
Malefactor: Y chromosome
Absolutely
Absolutely Said of something that has a slightly better chance of being true than a snowball's chance in Hell, often loudly, as if volume can make it true or false!
Nefarious
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Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
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Nefarious Famous for wrongdoing, so obviously an elected official in any political stage, able to put both feet in their mouth at the same time while simultaneously jumping to conclusions, pushing their luck and swapping horses in midstream at flood stage. Highly hilarious to watch, shows nightly on the evening news.
Election
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Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
Nefarious: One who commits naughty deeds, recognizable by his unnerving, boisterous laugh and his twirlable mustache.
Election: Causing a political party member to rise higher, enabling him to screw his constituents senseless.
Lackadaisical
Lackadaisical Being too apathetic to get up from in front of the TV to get that cold beer you've been dying to get, and waiting for your spouse to appear so you can holler at him/her to get it for you, only he/she has figured you out by now and has gone to bed
Ostentatious
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Ostentatious - committing a verb so that everyone observes and makes comment, and for no other purpose
Going to the more populous supermarket so that as many people as possible will see that you're still alive is a form of ostentation
'Hello Frank! Fancy meeting you here - I thought you were dead! Hey look everybody - it's Frank! And he's still alive!'
Gregarious
Gregarious 1) Said of a person who has the right to remain silent but lacks the wisdom to do so
2) Said of people whose tongues are tied in the middle and blab at both ends, see Gossip
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