Mr. Mxy's Word Corner

[MrMxyzptlk]

Lol you havent updated your sig on it =P

TY!  'Got sidetracked with that exciting story! 

 

[BFM_Hydra]

We know how forgetful you can be at...your age, Mxy

[MrMxyzptlk]

We know how forgetful you can be at...your age, Mxy

Forgetful about what?

[BFM_Hydra]

Let me remind you. You got sidetracked on a story about Bolide, but in doing so you forgot to update the word corner word in your signature, rendering people incapable of realising that such a change has occurred in the first place.

[MrMxyzptlk]

Let me remind you. You got sidetracked on a story about Bolide, but in doing so you forgot to update the word corner word in your signature, rendering people incapable of realising that such a change has occurred in the first place.

Hunh?

How much change in first place did you say you need?



And wh..

Hey!!!

DUCK or you'll get hit by that incoming bolide!





 

 

[MrMxyzptlk]

Time for a new word! . . .



cwm     [koom]

–noun

cirque (def. 1).


[Origin: 1850–55; < Welsh: valley. See combe]



So, then, you'll likely want to see this.


The sole reason that this word is on my list: It's the OTHER word in the english language that uses "w" as a vowel!  (Remember "crwth" from back in the old forums?)

As with "crwth," the only time I've ever used "cwm" was to play it in a Scrabble^TM game!

[CCBigBoy]

Wait ...... Isn't Endeavour a name of an USA ship (Space Shuttle), Mr. Letters's Soap? 
CC=BigBoy+-
 

[MrMxyzptlk]

Wait ...... Isn't Endeavour a name of an USA ship (Space Shuttle), Mr. Letters's Soap? 
CC=BigBoy+-
 

Why yes, that is the name of one of our space shuttles, BigBoy, but, um, ... what's THAT got to do with the new word post ("cwm"), just before your post?!?! 

[BFM_Hydra]

'Twas also the name of the ship that Capt. Cook was on when he discovered the East Coast of Australia and landed in Botany Bay. (And then got killed a few years later on Hawaii )

As with "crwth," the only time I've ever used "cwm" was to play it in a ScrabbleTM game!

'Nuff said. What's your high score?

Try beating 627...

[BFM_Hlao]

cwm     [koom]

–noun

cirque (def. 1).


[Origin: 1850–55; < Welsh: valley. See combe]

Wootz!

[MrMxyzptlk]

Okay!  'Didn't think we got anywhere with cwm, so ... let's move on!

This new one takes us back to my original intent: words with singular of ultra-specific meaning.  (Cool, eh?!)

So now I give you...



pen·chant   [pen-chuhnt; Fr. pahn-shahn]

–noun

a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.


[Origin: 1665–75; < F, n. use of prp. of pencher to incline, lean < VL *pendicāre, deriv. of L pendére to hang]



Now THIS word I use fairly frequently! I pretty-much use it in place of the similar meaning for the word "habit."

One might even say that I have a penchant for using the word!

[BFM_Exodus]

I would go as general as saying you have a penchant for word games!

MmmmMmmMm... i like it.

[MrMxyzptlk]

Well there goes another lead balloon! 

Okay, so let's see if THIS one fares any better!:

ca·piche   [ka-peesh]

Slang interjection

1. (US, with a menacing connotation) Understand?


[Origin: 1940s slang, from It. capisci? "do you understand?" (also coppish, kabish, capeesh, etc.).]

This is another one that I use regularly,
and I'd suggest that you use it a few times over the next two weeks,

capiche?

 

[BFM_JANE]

Is it only an interjection? Is it at all possible for me to capiche something? Perhaps I don't capiche the word because I thought it was Italian... Didn't they use it in The Godfather? Because that's the only place I've ever heard anyone use Italian words that made it into the American language. Of course, only after we mutilate it (capisci).

"Don't put your feet on the coffee table, you're mussing my doilies! And I don't want you wearing your shoes in the living room anymore, capiche?"


By the way Mxy, have you put Dictionary.com aside? Merriam-Webster rules!

[MrMxyzptlk]

Is it only an interjection? Is it at all possible for me to capiche something? Perhaps I don't capiche the word because I thought it was Italian... Didn't they use it in The Godfather? Because that's the only place I've ever heard anyone use Italian words that made it into the American language. Of course, only after we mutilate it (capisci).

Yes, it's only and interjection/interrogative, and yes, it's only an English (US, almost exclusively) word after it came into being after being mutilated - as you say - in the nineteen-fourties...

"Don't put your feet on the coffee table, you're mussing my doilies! And I don't want you wearing your shoes in the living room anymore, capiche?"

Apropos, indeed!

By the way Mxy, have you put Dictionary.com aside? - Merriam-Webster rules!

Nope, because:

- It lacks SO many words, like "capiche," for instance!
- It's main page is a MESS.
- They're too conceited for my taste.
- Impossible for me to remember how to spell website name.
- I burned my Merriam-Webster dictionary after wifey used it to beat me in Scrabble^TM because it didn't have some word that I played for lots o' points that she challenged - and WON because of it's lameness!   

 



So NO Merriam-Webster for me, capiche?!?