Buffy Posted April 12, 2007 Report Posted April 12, 2007 Buffy, would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?Not only a plethora! An Infinitude /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find... :)Buffy Quote
Turtle Posted April 12, 2007 Report Posted April 12, 2007 gobbet /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif Quote
Boerseun Posted April 12, 2007 Report Posted April 12, 2007 < < < I n f i n i t e s i m a l > > > Quote
Turtle Posted April 12, 2007 Report Posted April 12, 2007 sanguine /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif Quote
Turtle Posted April 15, 2007 Report Posted April 15, 2007 panoply /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif Quote
Racoon Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Posted April 19, 2007 Anti-establishmentarianism /forums/images/smilies/mad_2.gif Quote
Pyrotex Posted April 19, 2007 Report Posted April 19, 2007 Circumnavigate /forums/images/smilies/devilsign.gif Quote
Turtle Posted April 19, 2007 Report Posted April 19, 2007 trill /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif Quote
Boerseun Posted April 20, 2007 Report Posted April 20, 2007 Circumcisiongate /forums/images/smilies/mad_2.gif ...even Rabbis have their scandals. Quote
Pyrotex Posted April 20, 2007 Report Posted April 20, 2007 Circumlocution /forums/images/smilies/mad_2.gif Get to the point, Boerseun :eek2: Quote
Michaelangelica Posted April 21, 2007 Report Posted April 21, 2007 UsufructA bit hard to pronounce:) Etymology: Late Latin ususfructus "use" from usus, participle of utor "to use" + fructus "enjoyment, result", participle of fruor "to enjoy." Fruor is a reduction of frugor, which shares a stem with German brauchen "use." —Dr. Language, yourDictionary.com Quote
Turtle Posted April 22, 2007 Report Posted April 22, 2007 Usufruct A bit hard to pronounce:) I assert my usufruct to use Michael's 'usufruct' in a sentence. :shrug: arcadian /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif Quote
Michaelangelica Posted April 22, 2007 Report Posted April 22, 2007 I assert my usufruct to use Michael's 'usufruct' in a sentence. :D arcadian /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif LOL you B*****D ( an Oz paean of praise):) "My neighbor and I usufruct our respective _________*"* You choose the subject noun from:a Tools.;)b Wives.:doh:c Husbands.:)d Bank accounts. :De Holiday condos.f Condoms :shrug: Quote
Michaelangelica Posted April 26, 2007 Report Posted April 26, 2007 Do we have blandiloquenceon hypography? Etymology: Today's is another case of lexical larceny by Mother English, this time of Latin blandiloquentia "smooth-talking," a compound composed of blandus "soft" + loquor "to talk," whose verbal noun is loquentia "talking, talk." Oddly enough, the PIE root underlying bland- is *mol- "soft" (cf. Italian molle "soft") in the usual three ablaut flavors, including *mel- and *ml-. The word-initial combination [ml] sometimes became [bl] in Latin and Greek, hence Latin "blandus" with a suffix –nd. In Greek we find malakos "soft," in Serbian, mlad "young," and in Russian molodoy "young." English inherited this root through the Germanic languages as "melt" and "mild." —Dr. Language, yourDictionary.com Quote
Buffy Posted April 26, 2007 Report Posted April 26, 2007 prohibited /forums/images/smilies/mad_2.gif A reminder that commentary--and especially definitions or even etymology--should be eschewed in the Great Words thread... Exhortingly,Buffy Quote
Boerseun Posted April 27, 2007 Report Posted April 27, 2007 Questioningly /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif ...says who? Quote
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