Word or Words of the Day and Discussion

[PrincessFiona60]

levity:
1. Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.
2. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
3. (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/levity>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

sagacity:
The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; wisdom.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sagacity>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

eviscerate:
1. (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eviscerate>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

portend:
1. (transitive) To serve as a warning or omen.
2. (transitive) To signify; to denote.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/portend>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

doula:
A support person, usually female, who may not have medical or midwifery
training, who provides emotional assistance to a mother or pregnant
couple before, during or after childbirth.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doula>

 

[Addie]

I want to thank you for making me feel so smart. You have been putting up words that I knew the meaning before I even read any further. Doula I knew instantly. Having lived in Texas, why wouldn't I?

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Well, I don't put the words up to make people feel stupid. I put them up to teach, if you already know, sometimes it is a reminder the word is still around. If I ever sound like I am patronizing or making you feel stupid, just tell me. I don't mean to be that way.

 

[taxlady]

Well, I don't put the words up to make people feel stupid. I put them up to teach, if you already know, sometimes it is a reminder the word is still around. If I ever sound like I am patronizing or making you feel stupid, just tell me. I don't mean to be that way.

Doesn't sound that way to me.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Thank you, Taxy!

 

[cjmmytunes]

My daughter had a doula and a midwife when.she had.my granddaughter.

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[Addie]

Well, I don't put the words up to make people feel stupid. I put them up to teach, if you already know, sometimes it is a reminder the word is still around. If I ever sound like I am patronizing or making you feel stupid, just tell me. I don't mean to be that way.

Oh heavens no. I love this thread. I love learning new things. It just was that you posted three or more words in one day that I already knew and was very familiar with. Kind of like being able to run a category on Jeopardy.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

That makes me feel better, Thanks Addie!

Today's word is silly, but so descriptive:

shipwrecky:
1. Characteristic of a shipwreck.
2. (figuratively) Weak, feeble; shaky.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shipwrecky>

 

[Addie]

That makes me feel better, Thanks Addie!

Today's word is silly, but so descriptive:

shipwrecky:
1. Characteristic of a shipwreck.
2. (figuratively) Weak, feeble; shaky.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shipwrecky>

I have known some folks who are walking shipwrecks.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

chiropterologist:
Someone who studies bats (the flying mammal).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chiropterologist>

 

[Addie]

chiropterologist:
Someone who studies bats (the flying mammal).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chiropterologist>

Now there is one occupation I will never be guilty of practicing. I will leave that to others.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

coppice:
A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain
times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth
and ensure a reliable supply of timber.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coppice>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

olympicene:
(organic chemistry) A pentacyclic aromatic hydrocarbon whose structure
is in the form of the Olympic rings.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/olympicene>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

dolorous:
Solemnly or ponderously sad.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dolorous>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

bowdlerize:
To remove those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or
otherwise unseemly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bowdlerize>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

yarl:
A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic
of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yarl>