Xelebes
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Here is a fun one:
colposinquanonia - Estimating a woman's beauty based on her chest.
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Here is a fun one:
colposinquanonia - Estimating a woman's beauty based on her chest.
Quinn, wouldn't that be the size of her breasts?
From the steam-boating days;
promenade deck - noun an upper deck or area on a deck of a passenger ship where passengers promenade
Good day, everyone. Here is today's entry from the same source;
ebullience - noun the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings; EXUBERANCE
...I bring this up for three reasons. The first is to show the continuing shabby quality of peer-review at scientific magazines when the subject is even peripherally related to climate. Nature magazine blew it again, and unfortunately, these days that’s no news at all. It’s just more shonky science from the AGW crowd … and people claim the reason the public doesn’t trust climate scientists is a “communications problem”? It’s not. It’s a garbage science problem, and all the communications theory in the world won’t fix garbage science...
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/25/the-ocean-wins-again/
Dreg (floaties) comes from Old Norse (dregg = sediment.)
Dree (Dreogan) is the base word for many Old English words. Dright (People, Citizen population), Drighten (leaders of the population, Lords), Dreg (the Suffered). Probably shared the same root as Draw, Drag, and Draft (Pre-Germanic: *draghanan - to carry.)
Edited - Drear does not share the same root. Comes from the notion of "dripping blood."
What is a derecho?
A derecho (pronounced similar to "deh-REY-cho" in English, or pronounced phonetically as "") is a widespread, long-lived windstorm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms.
Because derecho is a Spanish word (see paragraph below), the plural term is "derechos." In this case there is no letter "e" after the letter "o."
What is the origin of the term "derecho"?
The word "derecho" was coined by Dr. Gustavus Hinrichs, a physics professor at the University of Iowa, in a paper published in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888. A defining excerpt from this paper can be seen in this figure showing a derecho crossing Iowa on July 31, 1877. Dr. Hinrichs chose this terminology for thunderstorm induced straight-line winds as an analog to the word tornado. Derecho is a Spanish word which can be defined as "direct" or "straight ahead" while tornado is thought by some, including Dr. Hinrichs, to have been derived from the Spanish word "tornar" which means "to turn". A web page about Dr. Gustavus Hinrichs' background has been created by National Weather Service Science and Operations Officer Ray Wolf, and he provides more details about Dr. Hinrichs' development of the term "derecho" in the late 1800s. He also mentions how the term "derecho" became more commonly used in the late 1900s...
Appears to be derived from draw.And in case you come across it dreghe means something different again. On dreghe means at a distance or long as in:
Thane the dragone on dreghe dressede hym agayne ( Morte Arthure)
I took Spanish in school and derecho meant right as in right turn or right hand. I learn something new almost every day on this thread, thank you, contributors.
I am currently in Tennessee and there are lots of streets called pike here, so here is a local word;
pike - says it comes from turnpike - noun 1. a toll bar: TOLLGATE 2.a. a toll road or one formally maintained as such, esp. a toll expressway b. a main road, esp. a paved road with crowned surface
The Shorter Oxford gives 6 major different meanings to the word Pike and the Maquarie goes one better with 7. A common Australian expression is to accuse anyone who wriggles out of a minor commitment that they have piked or are a piker
Sca Fell Pike is a mountain. A pike is the pointy bit of an anvil or the raised upper of a shoe, or something a Roundhead pointed at a
Cavalier with serious intent. When they're not being a fish!
The Shorter Oxford gives 6 major different meanings to the word Pike and the Maquarie goes one better with 7. A common Australian expression is to accuse anyone who wriggles out of a minor commitment that they have piked or are a piker
Sca Fell Pike is a mountain. A pike is the pointy bit of an anvil or the raised upper of a shoe, or something a Roundhead pointed at a Cavalier with serious intent. When they're not being a fish!
Thanks for the laugh, CharleyH. Maybe you should start a new thread with that title, I bet you get some takers. On a personal note, those particular words are always in the forefront of my mind.
Here is a quote by Samuel Clemens from the same book;
"The sunset is like some Brobdingnagian fire Company that is trying to put out the stars."
Brobdingnagian - adj gigantic; huge; immense
[from Brobdingnag, an imaginary country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]
Funny thing in all of this posting of seldom words. The ones I don't hear often enough in this thread are "wanna fuck?"