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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #150 on: April 17, 2009, 01:45:53 AM »
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1.    the state or quality of being anfractuous. [ WHY do they do this?!?! ::) ]

LOL! Why indeed. We hates that.


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2.    a channel, crevice, or passage full of windings and turnings.

Those (1 and 2) definitions would seem to make the word a noun. I checked and both dictionary.com and my beloved Merriam-Webster.com list it as a noun. In your post, you've listed it as an adjective. I would have sworn you copy and pasted this stuff Mxy! Or are you rebelling and calling it an adjective anyway... What would Geoffrey K. Pullum have to say about that?! :LOL:


Quote from: Merriam-Webster.com
2: a winding channel or course ; especially : an intricate path or process (as of the mind)

:love: Merriam-Webster! I was wondering if it could be something intangible, but I needn't look any further than MW, it has all the answers.

I have to think of a sentence. I am determined to use the word as a singular.

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #151 on: April 17, 2009, 08:32:00 PM »


It is, indeed a noun, JD: I cut&paste the PREVIOUS word's code and edit in the new stuff, and missed updating the form of language part!  :embarrassing:

It's now corrected, TY!


...And if you look further down the referenced page you'll see definitions that include abstracted forms, too....

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #152 on: April 20, 2009, 03:32:26 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure#Maze_of_twisty_little_passages


Instead, it could be called  the maze of anfractuosity.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #153 on: April 20, 2009, 03:41:08 AM »
I think maze of anfractuosity be redundant. Oh, the anfractuous English language! Does that count?


EDIT: I also think I sound like a pirate up thar, argh!



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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #154 on: April 20, 2009, 01:54:03 PM »
Quote from: BFM_Hydra on April 20, 2009, 03:32:26 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure#Maze_of_twisty_little_passages


Instead, it could be called  the maze of anfractuosity.


Wow, does THAT bring back memories!!



PLUGH!



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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #155 on: April 20, 2009, 04:30:44 PM »
:love: the colossal cave adventure
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #156 on: June 05, 2009, 12:43:30 AM »


Long time no word!

This one's a twofer!:


hoke [hohk] verb, hoked, hok⋅ing, noun


–verb (used with object)
1.    to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually fol. by up): a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.

–noun
2.    hokum.

[1930–35; back formation from hokey or hocum]



I spend a LOT of time hoking up my posts,
most of which are chock full of hokum in the first place!


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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #157 on: June 05, 2009, 01:00:09 AM »

Great word(s)!

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #158 on: June 05, 2009, 02:39:31 AM »
LOL yes, that is a great way to describe your posts, Mxy :siderofl:
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #159 on: June 05, 2009, 09:41:59 PM »
Your examples and the dictionary's example reminded me of logical fallacies.

I personally like the "red herring," mostly because it sounds like a fish, but also it means that the person is hoking up his/her argument by avoiding the topic altogether.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #160 on: June 08, 2009, 10:24:23 AM »
HA i love yousing big words like on myspace and stuff
here are a few of my favorates...

Catyclismic- SUPER HUGE AWESOMENESS
Chaotic-adj. form of Chaos
Seridipitous- Discoverd by mistake

i love using big words that no one nos what they mean cause they make me look smart  :zoid:
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #161 on: June 08, 2009, 10:48:15 AM »
Quote from: Kane on June 08, 2009, 10:24:23 AM
HA i love yousing big words like on myspace and stuff
here are a few of my favorates...

Catyclismic- SUPER HUGE AWESOMENESS
Chaotic-adj. form of Chaos
Seridipitous- Discoverd by mistake

i love using big words that no one nos what they mean cause they make me look smart  :zoid:

Ya, but a Big part of looking smart is spelling them correctly!:

Seridipitous => serendipitous

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #162 on: July 11, 2009, 11:21:05 AM »
It's okay Kane, I like to hoke up my conversations as well, just it backfires sometimes. v.v
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #163 on: July 12, 2009, 12:38:28 PM »


Okay, enough of that hokey!

NEXT!:


a⋅myg⋅da⋅la [uh-mig-duh-luh]


–noun, plural -lae.  Anatomy.
1.    an almond-shaped part, as a tonsil.
2.    a ganglion of the limbic system adjoining the temporal lobe of the brain and involved in emotions of fear and aggression.


bef. 950; < ML: almond, tonsil, L: almond < Gk amygdálē; r. ME amygdal, OE amigdal almond < L amygdalon < Gk amýgdalon; cf. almond



The dental surgeon bought his fiancee and HUGE amygdala1-shaped diamond ring, but upon his proposal, she took it and - with all her might - shoved it through his skull into his amygdala2, killing him instantly!

 :o

'Guess the wedding's off then?!?

 ::)

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #164 on: July 16, 2009, 05:25:43 AM »
Tonsils are almond-shaped??


Dr Lector, what's up with Bob? He seems... subdued.  :eyebrow:


I ate his amygdala with some fava beans and a nice glass of almond milk.



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