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Let's have some fun! We'll try to make up 101 new words that should be in Merriam-Webster. I will start:
#1 Fageant--an odious rectocentric festival
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Let's have some fun! We'll try to make up 101 new words that should be in Merriam-Webster. I will start:
#1 Fageant--an odious rectocentric festivalCome climb my mountains. -
Re: 101 WORDS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE DICTIONARY
Originally posted by Nobar King View Post
So many of the words and their definitions are archaic. Here is an example:
Main Entry: 1buck
Pronunciation: \ˈbək\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural bucks
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bucca stag, he-goat; akin to Old High German boc he-goat, Middle Irish bocc
Date: before 12th century
1or plural buck : a male animal; especially : a male deer or antelope
2 a: a male human being : man b: a dashing fellow : dandy
3or plural buck : antelope
4 a: buckskin; also : an article (as a shoe) made of buckskin b (1): dollar 3b (2): a sum of money especially to be gained <make a quick buck>; also : money —usually used in plural
5[short for sawbuck sawhorse] a: a supporting rack or frame b: a short thick leather-covered block for gymnastic vaulting
Okay, now what does this sentence mean?
A good strong buck can carry a hundred yards a game.Come climb my mountains.Comment
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Re: 101 WORDS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE DICTIONARY
You learn something new every day. I never knew that jigaboos were kin to old German he-goats before. Also, I live for the day when the words "atheist", "homosexual", "Muslim" and "feminist" are all considered archaic and obsolete.Originally posted by Roberta View PostO Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
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Re: 101 WORDS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE DICTIONARY
We're getting there, they're already synonyms.Originally posted by Brother Temperance View PostComment
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