Seldom-Used Words

[AllardChardon]

A quick post, before going out to work in my gardens;

porte cochere - noun 1. archaic: a passageway through a building or screen wall designed to let vehicles pass from the street to an interior courtyard 2. a roofed structure extending from the entrance of a building over an adjacent driveway and sheltering those getting in or out of vehicles

 

[oggbashan]

A quick post, before going out to work in my gardens;

porte cochere - noun 1. archaic: a passageway through a building or screen wall designed to let vehicles pass from the street to an interior courtyard 2. a roofed structure extending from the entrance of a building over an adjacent driveway and sheltering those getting in or out of vehicles

Archaic?

Buckingham Palace has several both type 1 and 2. Many UK stately homes have both.

Garages (US = gas stations) have type 2 porte cocheres. We call them canopies.

Many people have car ports attached to their houses. They are technically porte cocheres.

 

[trysail]

freegled v.(slang), past tense of freegle, 1. To search for free goods on the internet,
2. To offer unwanted possessions on the internet for free, as opposed to selling them.

A portmanteau of free and google, also has connotations of frugal.







oggbashan used the word in "The Isolated Blurt Thread" in the Authors' Hangout forum at Literotica
http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=41033069&postcount=104441

Lacking an on-line subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary, I am unable to ascertain whether it has been officially blessed as a word or remains slang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegle

 

[oggbashan]

freegled v.(slang), past tense of freegle, 1. To search for free goods on the internet,
2. To offer unwanted possessions on the internet for free, as opposed to selling them.

A portmanteau of free and google, also has connotations of frugal.







oggbashan used the word in "The Isolated Blurt Thread" in the Authors' Hangout forum at Literotica
http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=41033069&postcount=104441

Lacking an on-line subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary, I am unable to ascertain whether it has been officially blessed as a word or remains slang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegle

Freegle used to be Freecycle until the originators/licensors of Freecycle imposed stringent conditions that many found irritating. Locally Kent is split between Freegle and Freecycle groups with many people belonging to both.

 

[sapphicus68]

tintinnabulation (n.) - ringing or sound of bells; also used to refer to tympani
(very fun for the mouth)

 

[Jett_73]

tintinnabulation (n.) - ringing or sound of bells; also used to refer to tympani
(very fun for the mouth)

As opposed to...

tintinadulation (n.) - state of being a fan of comic strips featuring a young reporter and his little white dog.

 

[sapphicus68]

As opposed to...

tintinadulation (n.) - state of being a fan of comic strips featuring a young reporter and his little white dog.

lol. i am definitely a tintinnabulatrix

 

[AllardChardon]

Good day, posters. Welcome Jett_73.

For the record, I have never heard of either freegle or freecycle, but I am glad to be informed of new words being created by their users.

Og, that is what my silly dicitionary says, archaic. I see now that porte cochere might only be archaic in America, along with most of the English language. Just kidding.

portal-to-portal - adj of or relating to the time spent by a workman in traveling from the entrance to his employer's property to his actual working place (as in a mine) and in returning after work

 

[CarlusMagnus]

tintinnabulation (n.) - ringing or sound of bells; also used to refer to tympani
(very fun for the mouth)

A great word. See http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/venturi-poebells.html for the use to which Edgar Allen Poe put it.

 

[AllardChardon]

Carlus, Edgar is marvelous with words and sounds.

Is anyone else feeling the effects of tonight's full moon, besides me?

portage - noun 1. the labor of carrying or transporting 2. archaic: the cost of carriage: PORTERAGE 3.a. the carrying of boats or good overland from one body of water to another b. the route followed in making such a transfer

 

[CarlusMagnus]

Is anyone else feeling the effects of tonight's full moon, besides me?

Always.

And while we are thinking about astronomical phenomena, let's remember that there will be a transit of Venus on June 5/June 6 (depending on what part of the world you live in). It begins around 2205 UT for North America—when it will be late afternoon on June 5 there, and it will still be in progress at sunset. In the British Isles, it will be in progress at sunrise on June 6 and will end not too long thereafter. (Good luck with your weather, Brits!) It will not be visible at all from most of Spain, from eastern Africa, or from most of South America.

The last such event was eight years ago, in June 2004. But don't count on seeing the one after this one. Unless you plan on being around—with good mental function—in December of 2117.

 

[Handley_Page]

I have some photos I took of the last one somewhere.

 

[AllardChardon]

Yes, Carlus and Handley, it is a very exciting event, astrologically, of course. Today is the day.

porringer - noun a low one-handled metal bowl or cup for children

 

[sapphicus68]

tarantism (n.) - wild, spontaneous dancing!

 

[oggbashan]

tarantism (n.) - wild, spontaneous dancing!

Tarantella 1. A rapid whirling dance of Southern Italy. 2. The music for this.

I think that there is no justification for the myth that the Tarantella was devised to stop the effect of the bite of the Tarantula spider, but Wikipedia thinks there is.

 

[trysail]

tumpline n., a strap or sling passed around the chest or forehead to help support a pack carried on a person's back.


Etymology:
1790–1800; tump (earlier mattump, metomp < Southern New England Algonquian < proto-Eastern Algonquian *mat- empty root appearing in names of manufactured objects + *-a·pəy string) + line






The word appears in Wade Davis' Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest ( New York, 2011).

 

[AllardChardon]

This next word is completely unknown to me. Anyone else recognize it?

porrect - adj extended forward

 

[trysail]

chorten n., (in Tibet) a monument to a distinguished Buddhist, especially a lama.

Etymology:
1890–95; < Tibetan chörten (spelling mchod rten )







The word appears in Wade Davis' Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest ( New York, 2011).

 

[oggbashan]

This next word is completely unknown to me. Anyone else recognize it?

porrect - adj extended forward

1962 Oxford Shorter:

A. Porrect - 1819 adjective Zoological - Stretched out or forth; extended, especially forward.

B. Porrect late ME verb - 1. To stretch out, extend (part of the body). Now only in Natural History. 2. To put forward, tender (a document, etc.); to produce for examination or correction. Obsolete except in Ecclesiastical Law 1774. So - Porrection - extension (rare); proffering; presentation (only Ecclesiastical).

My picture of the adjective or verb is of a tortoise extending its head and neck to reach a tasty morsel. But "porrection" sounds almost like a man's inadvertent salute to a desirable lady...

 

[AllardChardon]

Og, being Literotica and all, that was my first thought. Has anyone ever used it that way. As in, "His distinct porrection bursting through the opening in his trousers definitely caught my eye." hehe

pork pie hat - noun a felt, straw, or cloth hat with a low crown, flat top, and turned-up or snap brim

 

[AllardChardon]

Good day, everyone. Here is one I forgot about;

pore(1) - vi 1. to gaze intently 2. to read studiously or attentively 3. to reflect or meditate steadily

 

[trysail]

Good day, everyone. Here is one I forgot about;

pore(1) - vi 1. to gaze intently 2. to read studiously or attentively 3. to reflect or meditate steadily

4. n., a pore is a tiny funnel-shaped opening in the skin made of a fold in the epidermis that enters into the dermis. Human skin has millions of pores.

 

[AllardChardon]

Indeed, Trysail, that is the pore most of us think of first. But it was not the first entry in the dictionary. Instead, to pore over one's research took top spot. Interesting to me.

Here is one I am familiar with;

popular sovereignty - noun a Pre-Civil War doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorail legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted in the territory

 

[AllardChardon]

I hope everyone has a nice, relaxing weekend. Two for one this morning;

poppycock - noun empty talk: NONSENSE

poppyhead - noun a raised ornament often in the form of a finial generally used on the tops of the upright ends of seats in Gothic churches

 

[AllardChardon]

Good day. Here is one I have never seen or heard, but I bet my nautical friends on here have.

popple(2) - noun 1. a heaving of water (as from boiling) 2. a choppy sea