The ABC game

[Eve]

strange

[Suze]

eerie

[Eve]

spooky

[Suze]

weird

good night Eve it was fun :5:

[Eve]

'Night Suze :hi:

[L e s]

Suze 'N' Eve

It may be fun, is this the rule breaking that Ben has been promoting after all it is the ABC thread :tongue2:

I shall continue with


Quarrelsome

[Eve]

It all went 'peculiar' when Suze went 'offbeat'. All a bit weird.



Ridiculous

[L e s]

Sensuous

[Eve]

tomato

[Suze]

Oops! sorry 'bout that

ulcer

[Eve]

verruca

[L e s]

Wishful

[Eve]

eXasperated

[Breezy]

Yogurt

[Suze]

zoanthropy
-- the delusion that you have assumed the form of an animal

[Eve]

antithesis

[Suze]

belly

[Eve]

conundrum

[L e s]

Dictionary

[Eve]

elephant

[L e s]

Frogs

[Eve]

gobstopper

[L e s]

Humidity

[Eve]

integrity

[L e s]

Jovial

[Eve]

keno

[L e s]

Liason

[Eve]

myopic

[Suze]

neckerchief

[Eve]

obfuscate

[L e s]

persuasive

[Eve]

quinine

[Breezy]

restoration

[L e s]

Superannuation

[benhenry]

termination

[Eve]

uke

[benhenry]

velocipede

[Eve]

wacko

[benhenry]

x-axis

[Eve]

ytterbite

[benhenry]

zilch

[Eve]

asceticism

[benhenry]

bullock

[Eve]

cecity

[benhenry]

disingenuous

[Breezy]

elation

[benhenry]

ferrules

[Eve]

garrulous

[benhenry]

hadrons

[L e s]

insignificance

[benhenry]

joules

[Eve]

kinetic

[benhenry]

libations

[Eve]

melody

[L e s]

nomenclature

[Eve]

ozone

[benhenry]

petroglyphs

[Eve]

quislingism

[benhenry]

retrograde

[Eve]

seriocomic

[benhenry]

topiary

seriocomic

That's about half-funny, Eve. This isn't fair, I have to look up ALL of your words; grumble, you probably don't hafta look up ANY of mine, huh?

[Eve]

you probably don't hafta look up ANY of mine, huh? just occassionally:) Rock drawing is not one of my fortes :)

ubiety

[benhenry]

vernacular

just occassionally:)

ubiety

Hey, Eve... ubiety mad ethe list here: :cjlol:

Worthless Word For The Day (http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/)

[Eve]

ubiety is a very nice word. When I clicked that list I got ......
today's wwftd is...
the worthless word for the day is: hoon

origin unknown, but perhaps a blend of hooligan
and goon] Austral./NZ slang
1) a lout or hooligan
2) someone, esp. a young man, who drives fast and
recklessly
3) an act of driving fast and recklessly
v. hoon, to drive fast and recklessly; hooning


vroom

[benhenry]

whistle

noun: an inexpensive fipple flute



ubiety is a very nice word.

I love the list. Ubiety was a past winner, under the U in the index for the archives.

[Eve]

xylophone

[benhenry]

yclept

[Eve]

zoo

[benhenry]

apple of Peru

[Eve]

billabong

[benhenry]

cavitation

[Eve]

diaglyph

[benhenry]

erudition

[Eve]

folly

[benhenry]

galumphing

[Eve]

heartache

[L e s]

instill

[Eve]

jacaranda

[benhenry]

kickback

[L e s]

Ladylike

[benhenry]

maple

[Suze]

nebula

[benhenry]

opalescence

[Suze]

petulance

[benhenry]

quixotic

[L e s]

recidivist

[Eve]

saxatile

[benhenry]

taxonomic

[Eve]

upbraid

[benhenry]

venturesome

[Eve]

worrisome

[benhenry]

xenobiologists


Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field, combining aspects of astronomy, biology and geology, which considers the question of whether extraterrestrial life exists and if so, then what are its origin, distribution, and evolution. It comes from the Greek words astron = star, bios = life and logos = word/science), and is also known as exobiology (Greek: exo = out) or xenobiology (Greek: xenos = foreign).

[Eve]

yucca

[benhenry]

Zoroastrianism

[Eve]

afflatus

[benhenry]

beneficial




... cool word, Eve

[Eve]

I liked that word too :) It is not a bit onomatopoeic is it :)


cretonne

[benhenry]

disencapsulated

[Eve]

erstwhile

[benhenry]

flimflammed


heehaw... what does disencapsulated mean, Eve? :wink:

[L e s]

Gerbera

[Eve]

what does disencapsulated mean, Eve?
disecncapsulate does not appear to be a word but guess it means th oppostie of capsulate which means to condense. Are you suggesting I am long-winded ? :)


haywire

[Suze]

indexed

[Eve]

juxtapose

[benhenry]

knight errant


looking for gerbera to give an African Queen.


No, too short winded... I like what you have to say... I was just trying to flimflam you with the unword. :)

[Eve]

logagraphia

[benhenry]

morgrafied

I'm sorry, I couldn't find a definition of this word; in a way. But I am also interested.

I think etymologists(?) study the origins of words sometimes in an approach very similar to anthropology...
they study the origins of the people who use the words, to better understand the origins of the word.

We used this word in our childhood... "war" games... "role-playing" is what it is called now, I think.
The poor half-sister of King Arthur went slightly crazy and successfully evil. Her name is Morgan, I think... and her son might be Mordred?

When we played Robin Hood, or King Arthur, and somebody snuck up on you and scared the p
erson next to you; you would say something like, "... ok, maybe you scared me, but I'm gonna transmorgrafy you!"

And you would mean that they would be scared beyond scared....

Just like the darn realization that not only are you in deep
peril but it is all your fault in some weird way... like Arthur realizing who Mordred's father is when he gets challenged...

Heavy stuff for kids, huh? But not really... as adults we tend to forget that kids can be very subtle... we knew exactly what Morgan+mortify= transmorgrafied meant.

Now, I'm going to be transmorgrafied if all my writing didn't spark an agreement of a remembrance of something similar back in your memory...
but instead of being bad like Morgan...


it could also be used as a superlative in a positive way... You hit the winning home run and you were transmorgrafied when your girl saw it...

It can mean that something darn good couldn't have happened any darn better.

So. I hope that little spin was fun.

If anybody remembers using "transmorgrafy" as described above, let's pool our memories and see if we can submit it to some mugwump somewhere who will get it entered as a "slang" word in a new dictionary... or archaic word! :cjlol:

[Eve]

I was often threatened with "transmogrification" by my mother, which I assumed was similar to 'I'll burst you". She never did either :)

Transmogrify = reverse, metamorphose,transfigure.


Edit - you must learn to know your "A" from your "I" :cjlol:

[Breezy]

narcisscism

[L e s]

Oleander

[benhenry]

persimmon

...oops! Looks like I might have gotten an extra "r" in it, too...or you left one out! That could be a regional variation... I think I remember transmoRgrify... but I could be mistaken. I'm sure I haven't used that word in 40 years until yesterday. :)

[Eve]

transmogrify
verb

transmogrifies, transmogrified, transmogrifying
1. humorous
To transform, especially in shape or appearance and often in a surprising or bizarre way.
Derivative: transmogrification
noun


quince

[benhenry]

resonance

Well, I guess that explains why I couldn't find it. Sigh. The world is always so darn alphabetical.

[Eve]

soliloquy

[benhenry]

transubstantiation

[Eve]

ultramundane

[L e s]

verbosity

[Eve]

wychhazel

[benhenry]

x-chromosome

[Eve]

yodh

[benhenry]

zen


...seventh letter of the Hebrew-Samaritan script

[Eve]

arabesque

[benhenry]

bozotic

[Eve]

cyan

[benhenry]

dihydrogenoxide

dihydrogenoxide : click here (http://www.ndc.edu/sutheimer/dihydrogen%20oxide.htm) for people who would like to ban it

[Eve]

eucalyptus

[benhenry]

frangipani

[Eve]

gypsophila

[benhenry]

hariolate

[Eve]

ignomy

[Suze]

java

[Eve]

kibble

[benhenry]

lunch

[Eve]

mandible

[benhenry]

neocene

[Eve]

objectionable

[benhenry]

projectile

[Eve]

questionable

[Suze]

relationships

[Eve]

synonymous

[benhenry]

trigonometric

[Eve]

rhomboid - woops sorry going backwards :eek:



undine

[Suze]

visibility

[Eve]

welter

[benhenry]

zephyr


x-plane oh crikey, you ladies are killing me...



wind shear darn.. I suppose this means I have "X" again. sheesh.

[Suze]

Xerox

[benhenry]

zephyr

[Eve]

yawl

[benhenry]

zephyr

yawl

Ya'll have got me all confused now... this game has me beat. :)

[Eve]

T R U V W Z X X Z Y Z new version of alphabet :)


Alphabet

[benhenry]

beta

The second part of the alphabet word. I'm fairly certain it goes here. :)

T R U V W Z X X Z Y Z new version of alphabet :)


Alphabet

[Eve]

confound

[benhenry]

demagoguery

[Eve]

escutcheon

[benhenry]

fumarole

[Eve]

gamma (4 is 7)

[benhenry]

hoplite

don't you mean 3 is 7? alpha-beta-gamma-delta-epsilon, etc.

[Eve]

:cjlol: Proof I can't count. Seems my brain was on strike in more than one game yesterday.


italicize

[benhenry]

jacinthe

[Suze]

keratonosis

[Eve]

liverwurst

[benhenry]

maraschino

[Eve]

nuts

[benhenry]

onions

[Eve]

tears

[benhenry]

tears

abcdefghijklmno T ??? :cjlol:

[Eve]

sorry - confused with free association

pixilated

[L e s]

Queried

[Eve]

reunited

[L e s]

Swell

[Eve]

toodlepip

[Breezy]

unusually

[benhenry]

verify

I don't believe there is any such word as "toodlepip!" :wink:

[L e s]

verify

I don't believe there is any such word as "toodlepip!" :wink:

http://cgi.peak.org/~jeremy/retort.cgi?British=toodle-pip

toodle pip expr intj :
bye-bye, cheerio.


'Fraid there is Old Bean :tongue2:

wazzock

[Eve]

toodle pip expr intj :
bye-bye, cheerio.
Thank you Les - a very common word where I come from :) ttfn

xylophone

[benhenry]

yowza


har har! Wazzock I can understand, but toodle pip? Yowza, that will get you funny looks about anywhere I can think of in Kansas. :)









yowza= slang for yes sir... also an exclamation like YES, Alright!

[Eve]

Zarrafact? (Scouse (Liverpool slang) meaning 'Are you sure that is correct?')

[benhenry]

aye-aye :wink:

[Eve]

butty (bacon is best)

[benhenry]

catenary

[Eve]

density

[benhenry]

ephemeral

[Eve]

fetlock

[benhenry]

gimbal

[L e s]

Hydra

[benhenry]

incubus

[Breezy]

juniper

[Eve]

kapuka

[benhenry]

lei

[Eve]

mimosa

[benhenry]

nautilus

[Eve]

oscitant

[MaKa]

perambulate

[benhenry]

quarry

[L e s]

rejuvenation

[Eve]

star

[benhenry]

teleportation

[MaKa]

urbanization

[Eve]

vole

[benhenry]

wikiup

[Eve]

Had to look up that wigwam :)


xeroma

[MaKa]

yodeler

[benhenry]

zareeba

[Eve]

Aotearoa

[benhenry]

Boolean

Aotearoa

Clouds seen from the sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa)

Perhaps the most likely explanation for the name is derived from seafaring. The first sign of any land from a boat is often cloud in the sky above the island. New Zealand's mountain ranges are longer and higher than elsewhere in the South Pacific and so they are particularly good at generating standing waves. The resulting long lenticular clouds are very different from the more usual cumulus clouds seen elsewhere in the region. The sight of these clouds over either of the country's two main islands could easily have led to this name

Way cool, Eve! A gorgeous horizon to look for, for sure.

[MaKa]

cruciferous

[Eve]

dillydallier

[MaKa]

egomaniac

[benhenry]

Freudian

[MaKa]

Gregorian

[Eve]

hobbledehoy

[MaKa]

Ipecacua

[Eve]

jennet

[MaKa]

katamaran.

[Eve]

lucifugal

[MaKa]

madrigal

[Eve]

nocturne

[benhenry]

opacity

[Eve]

Pleased to be able to help Eve follow the rules :ljlol:





quodlibet

[MaKa]

ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRSTU and V WXYZ
Just a refresher for us to see!

[benhenry]

ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRSTU and V WXYZ
Just a refresher for us to see!

The alphabet is more like a suggestion than an outright rule, correct?

I mean, it is like a strike zone, right? A matter of opinion based on who is in the best position to call it, or call it loudly? :wink:

[MaKa]

Gosh, I wasn't aware that the alphabet was subject to interpretation!?!

[benhenry]

Gosh, I wasn't aware that the alphabet was subject to interpretation!?!

Wouldn't that be cool in a twilight zone kind of way, if you woke up one morning and "G" was third letter, like in Greek. That was the only change that you could notice in the world.... just a thought for october...

[MaKa]

Am not sure I want to live in such a topsy-turvy world!

Right now I'm looking for #5718½. Maybe someone else can
locate it!!

[Eve]

Minding my p's & q's :cjlol:

Please ignore quodlibet ( and I really liked that one). Of course I was just checking the alertness of everyone :)


Pillock

[benhenry]

quintessential

[Eve]

ramification

[benhenry]

singularity

[Eve]

toblerone

[MaKa]

unilateral

[L e s]

ventriculitis

[MaKa]

Weltanschauung

[benhenry]

x-bar theory

[Eve]

yanquapin

[MaKa]

zoological

[benhenry]

ambiguous

[Eve]

bedevilled

[MaKa]

chrysanthemum

[Eve]

delphinium

[benhenry]

ectoplasm

[MaKa]

fargesia

[Eve]

gunwale

[MaKa]

hemerocallis

[Eve]

ignominiously

[benhenry]

juxtaposable

[MaKa]

kingfisher

[Eve]

largo

[MaKa]

mischief

[benhenry]

neckerchief

[MaKa]

osteoporosis