Flocculate!

[Guest]

I've just been reading a book of wonders (short stories *smile*) edited by Neil Gaiman (Anasai Boys) and Ed Kramer. The stories revolve around Neil's graphic novel adaption of "Sandman".

A beautifully written selection of night and daymares. My favorite way to spend an hour in the bath.

Now, it's been said many times that there is nothing new under the sun, it's all been done, yadda yadda yadda.

I found the concept to be a little disheartening - all my excriciatingly-crafted mediocre smut has already been done? *sob*

And then I read something like this and am delighted to find a jewel like flocculate. Never seen the word before, couldn't find it in a dictionary, it looks to me like the author's invention. Steve-Oh's (King) good for that too, every once in a while.

Do you/have you created words? Where do they come from? What is your opinion of these words? Are they a joy or a distraction?

*note - I haven't figured it out quite yet, I believe it's and adjective, I'm feeling a cross between flaccid, opulent - it feels fleshy and more than a little creepiscular. *giggle*

 

[Guest]

Dammit! This is a great topic!

Has it been done?

Phrissh...

 

[jomar]

groundation - one who is grounded for family rule infraction(s) "I'm (You're) on groundation."

 

[gauchecritic]

flocculent is the loose tufted wool on sheep, or those bits of cloudy fluffy wool left after carding.

Flocculate is surprisingly redolent of itself. It's flocks of particles together.

 

[Guest]

flocculent is the loose tufted wool on sheep, or those bits of cloudy fluffy wool left after carding.

Flocculate is surprisingly redolent of itself. It's flocks of particles together.

Crap. *shrugs* I thought it was a new one.

Thanks for the info, tho. Always good to learn new things.

I still stand by my delight in manufactured language. New stuff. It hasn't all been done, it can't have been!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Now I have that word screaming in my head.


Must use it in a sentence in the offline world now!!!

 

[oggbashan]

definitions

Flocculate: form into flocculent masses, hence flocculation.

Floccus: tuft of woolly hairs or filaments.

Flocculent: like tufts of wool.

Floccinaucinihilipification: act or habit of estimating as worthless.

Concise Oxford Dictionary

 

[Guest]

Flocculate: form into flocculent masses, hence flocculation.

Floccus: tuft of woolly hairs or filaments.

Flocculent: like tufts of wool.

Floccinaucinihilipification: act or habit of estimating as worthless.

Concise Oxford Dictionary

I am unworthy. *smile*

 

[oggbashan]

Flocculation is the process that causes little balls to form on your best sweater when you washed it in the wrong detergent.

Og

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Flocculation is the process that causes little balls to form on your best sweater when you washed it in the wrong detergent.

Og

Also know as floccuation eliminatus.

 

[Guest]

Flocculation is the process that causes little balls to form on your best sweater when you washed it in the wrong detergent.

Og

Oh, my Lord. Let me serve you!

*giggle*

 

[Stella_Omega]

Never seen the word before, couldn't find it in a dictionary, it looks to me like the author's invention. Steve-Oh's (King) good for that too, every once in a while.

Do you/have you created words? Where do they come from? What is your opinion of these words? Are they a joy or a distraction?

*note - I haven't figured it out quite yet, I believe it's and adjective, I'm feeling a cross between flaccid, opulent - it feels fleshy and more than a little creepiscular. *giggle*

There's a term for those-- Noncewords!

I use them all the time, and they drive spell-check up the wall. They only get used the once, usually, and their meaning is derived from the context...

I'l post some when I find 'em.

"Creepiscular" is a good'un! Creepification...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

A friend of mine gave me "skrok"

Skrok: the sticky residue left behind on the tables or bar of a "Skrok bar".

 

[Guest]

A friend of mine gave me "skrok"

Skrok: the sticky residue left behind on the tables or bar of a "Skrok bar".

Thank you Stella. *kiss* I sure do love this place. *notes "noncewords"*

Skrok...

skrok..

Hmmmm.

"Is that some skrok on your cock or were you just thinking about me?"

Like that, thanks Abtruse!

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Og is dead right (as always) but a tad prosaic (as always).

'Flocculate' is a beautiful word that describes how those big fluffy clouds gather in the sky on a sultry summer's day, presaging a storm. The sensous meaning - that Og ignores - is given by words like 'flock' and 'floss' that makes you look to the blue heavens on a summer afternoon when you are lying naked in a cornfield watching the cumulus flocculate above you.

 

[Guest]

Og is dead right (as always) but a tad prosaic (as always).

'Flocculate' is a beautiful word that describes how those big fluffy clouds gather in the sky on a sultry summer's day, presaging a storm. The sensous meaning - that Og ignores - is given by words like 'flock' and 'floss' that makes you look to the blue heavens on a summer afternoon when you are lying naked in a cornfield watching the cumulus flocculate above you.

Oh, how absolutely, dreavely!

 

[gauchecritic]

I think I invented the word 'swiffle' in my Earth Day entry 'Red Riding Hood' to describe what long hair does in a light breeze.

fortunately it's in the humour/satire category so I could take the liberty of interjecting as author to explain the meaning.

Which incidentally foreshadowed the latter parts of the story where I use quite a few of Caroll's invented words from 'Jaberwocky'. "brillig", "Slivy toves" etc.

 

[oggbashan]

Prosaic again

Flocculate is what detergent foam does under a weir on a polluted river, and in your washing machine when you haven't got time for one more rinse.

Otiose Og

 

[Guest]

Damn, damn, damn. Reading more of these shorts at lunch.

With whom do I have to fornicate in order to produce such g-motes?

 

[Remec]

Flocculate: form into flocculent masses, hence flocculation.

Floccus: tuft of woolly hairs or filaments.

Flocculent: like tufts of wool.

Floccinaucinihilipification: act or habit of estimating as worthless.

Concise Oxford Dictionary

Would this be why that spray snow at Christmas time is called flocking, because it looks like gathered bits of wool? Or is that just a coincidence?

 

[Guest]

Would this be why that spray snow at Christmas time is called flocking, because it looks like gathered bits of wool? Or is that just a coincidence?

Hello gorgeous, my old
friend - to see you is a light
shining my smile.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Would this be why that spray snow at Christmas time is called flocking, because it looks like gathered bits of wool? Or is that just a coincidence?

No coincidence at all-- that's exactly why!
Hi, gorgeous!

 

[Remec]

No coincidence at all-- that's exactly why!
Hi, gorgeous!

Coolness. Ain't words jus' amazing sometimes?

 

[Remec]

Hello gorgeous, my old
friend - to see you is a light
shining my smile.

Aww, how sweet...although, I think gorgeous is more fitting for you than me.

 

[oggbashan]

Words, just words

I'm in the process of making up quiz questions for a pensioners' group on Monday. Here are some of the questions. You should be able to answer the first two.

Og

1. What is the meaning of the noun OSCULATION?
2. What is the meaning of the noun FLOCCULATION?
3. What is the meaning of the noun AGGLOMERATION?
4. What is the meaning of the adjective CYMBIFORM?
5. What is the difference between the words FLOTSAM and JETSAM?
6. What is the meaning of the adjective QUOTIDIAN?
7. What is the meaning of the verb IMPIGNORATE?
8. What is the meaning of the adjective OTIOSE?
9. What is the meaning of the noun RIP-RAP?
10. What is the meaning of the poetic noun WELKIN?