Word or Words of the Day and Discussion

[PrincessFiona60]

unheralded:
Without prior warning; unexpected or unannounced.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unheralded>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

popliteal:
(anatomy) Of the area behind the knee.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/popliteal>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

ungulate:
Having hooves.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ungulate>

 

[Cooking Goddess]

I wonder if you can undulate with hooves...

 

[PrincessFiona60]

LOL!!

pink slime:
1. (paper manufacture) An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring
in the slurry used in making paper.
2. (informal) A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material
such as skin and connective tissue, spinal bones, and digestive tissue
by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a
food additive.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pink_slime>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

hapax legomenon:
A word occurring only once in a given corpus.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hapax_legomenon>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

oubliette:
A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oubliette>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

capias:
(law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified
person or persons into custody.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capias>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

crosswordese:
The jargon of crossword puzzle answers, classically consisting of rare,
archaic, or dialectal words.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crosswordese>

 

[Cooking Goddess]

You've got that right, sister! Himself is having me "check" Crosswordheaven right now. Yup, we cheat!

 

[PrincessFiona60]

levant:
To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/levant>

 

[Addie]

Occasionally you will put in a word that I don't even have to look at the printed explanation or meaning. I just love those days.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

vates:
A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vates>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

doggedly:
In a way that is stubbornly persistent: Abby marked the International
Day of the Dog with her beloved Jack Russell terrier, despite how he was
doggedly gnawing through her extensive collection of shoes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doggedly>

 

[tinlizzie]

"Stubbornly persistent" - that mosquito, while I'm on the stepladder with a paint can in one hand and brush in the other.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

"Stubbornly persistent" - that mosquito, while I'm on the stepladder with a paint can in one hand and brush in the other.

I would have "whitewashed" her.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

capacious:
Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capacious>

 

[PrincessFiona60]

anapest:
1. (US, prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short
and one long (e.g the word "velveteen").
2. (US, prosody) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this
meter; e.g. “Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the
Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did NOT!” (Dr. Seuss, How
the Grinch Stole Christmas.).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anapest>

 

[Cooking Goddess]

capacious:
Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

And all this time when people told me I had a capacious mind I thought it was a compliment...

 

[PrincessFiona60]

And all this time when people told me I had a capacious mind I thought it was a compliment...

LOL!!

What's horrible is I now fill what used to be my capacious pants.