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Re: Word of the day

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Mon Jun 08 2020 10:26am

macliam wrote:
Mon Jun 08 2020 10:04am
So, is someone who attaches or binds an Alligator? :eh:
Very clever the way you wrote that.
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Word of the day

Post by Richard Frost » Tue Jun 09 2020 9:25am

TUESDAY, JUNE 09, 2020 - Word of the day - https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/
osmatic
[ oz-mat-ik ]
adjective

of or relating to the sense of smell.

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF OSMATIC?
Osmatic, “relating to the sense of smell or to animals with a keen sense of smell,” is a borrowing from French osmatique, which was coined by the 19th-century French surgeon and anthropologist Paul Broca in 1878. Osmatique derives from the Greek noun osmḗ (also odmḗ) “smell, odor, scent” and the French adjectival suffix -atique, from the same source as the English suffix –atic. Osmḗ is the classical Attic form of earlier and dialectal odmḗ, from a root od- “to smell” and is closely related to Latin odor “a smell, odor, whiff, hint.” Osmatic entered English in 1880.

HOW IS OSMATIC USED?
Each of our senses diminish their acuity at a slightly different rate as we fall off to sleep. Our auditive, osmatic, thermal, and tactile responses become seemingly dormant …
RICHARD NEUTRA, NATURE NEAR: THE LATE ESSAYS OF RICHARD NEUTRA, 1989

Osmatic messages permit recognition of others as individuals or as members of a social category, or signal a certain emotional state.
GUY ANKERL, EXPERIMENTAL SOCIOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE, 1981
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Re: Word of the day

Post by macliam » Tue Jun 09 2020 12:22pm

..... as opposed to ozmatic, which is the immediate denial of being a kiwi. :D
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Re: Word of the day

Post by Richard Frost » Tue Jun 09 2020 1:39pm

Ozmatic - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ozmatic
When something is past being awesome, it is ozmatic.
derived from the ozmatic name Osman; a person with a personality that far exceeds ordinary awesomeness.
Dude that game was awesome!
naw man it was ozmatic!
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Re: Word of the day

Post by Richard Frost » Wed Jun 10 2020 8:47am

Word of the Day : June 9, 2020 -https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
lissome
adjective LISS-um
Definition
1 a : easily flexed

b : characterized by easy flexibility and grace : lithe

2 : nimble

Did You Know?
Lissome (sometimes spelled lissom) is a gently altered form of its synonym, lithesome. While lissome tends to be the more popular choice these days, the two words have similar pasts. They both appeared in the 18th century, and they both trace back to the much older lithe, which first appeared in English during the 14th century and comes from an Old English word meaning "gentle." Lissome can also be an adverb meaning "in a supple or nimble manner," but this use is rare.

Examples
"A couple of images haunt me from this 'West Side Story,' and both do come from video. One is of an anonymous, lissome figure, barely detectable as he or she dances at the end of a long, dark street. The other is of a television playing while Maria and Anita are arguing about a recent gang slaying." — Ben Brantley, The New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020

"The visiting Americans … look dazed, like astronauts observing lissome green Martian women in a ’50s sci-fi cheapie." — David Edelstein, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2019
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Re: Word of the day

Post by macliam » Wed Jun 10 2020 10:48am

As opposed to "Gissome" which was a plea heard often at school break times........
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Re: Word of the day

Post by Richard Frost » Thu Jun 11 2020 10:07am

Word of the day - https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... ish/gorgon

Gorgon

(ˈɡɔːɡən )
NOUN
1. Greek mythology
any of three winged monstrous sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, who had live snakes for hair, huge teeth, and brazen claws

2. (often not capital) informal
a fierce or unpleasant woman

Word origin
via Latin Gorgō from Greek, from gorgos terrible [1350–1400; ME ‹ L Gorgōn ‹ Gk Gorgo᷄, der. of gorgós dreadful]

Examples of 'Gorgon' in a sentence

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The head is reputedly a Gorgon 's; the snakes I regard as the giveaway.
Trenhalle, John A MEANS TO EVIL

He was a Centaur, or possibly a Gorgon, or maybe even a Satyr. - Nicola Barker BEHINDLINGS (2002)

I went to a pay phone and searched for Gorgon in the Manhattan directory.
George Cockcroft THE DICE MAN (1971)
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Word of the day

Post by Richard Frost » Fri Jun 12 2020 8:50am

THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2020 - https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-th ... 020-06-11/
klatsch
[ klahch, klach ]
noun

a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF KLATSCH?
You usually associate klatsch “a casual party” with coffee klatsch “a casual gathering for gossiping and drinking coffee.” Coffee klatsch is a partial rendering of German Kaffeeklatsch (in English kaffee klatsch or kaffee klatch). Coffee and Kaffee need no explanation. Klatsch is informal German for “gossip, gossiping,” from the verb klatschen, of imitative origin. In German Klatsch also means “a slap, a crack (as of a bat), a clap (of the hands).” Klatsch (klatch) entered English in the 1950s.

HOW IS KLATSCH USED?
Maybe they didn’t have anything in common and that was the point, was the thing that made the klatsch interesting, hearing the various perspectives people had. - SAM SAVAGE, "KLATSCH," AN ORPHANAGE OF DREAMS, 2019

At coffee-break time, Billy made a nice addition to our little klatsch. - JIM WINDOLF, "MY ASSOCIATE," THE NEW YORKER, MAY 7, 2001
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Re: Word of the day

Post by macliam » Fri Jun 12 2020 1:12pm

It's a borrowed word.... first used in 1941 in the US, where many German and Yiddish words were popular schmuk, putz, spiel, etc.
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Word of the day

Post by Richard Frost » Sat Jun 13 2020 9:07am

Word of the day - https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=U523DF ... =Truculent

truculent
[ˈtrʌkjʊl(ə)nt]

ADJECTIVE
eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
"the truculent attitude of farmers to cheaper imports"
synonyms:
defiant · aggressive · antagonistic · belligerent · pugnacious · bellicose · combative · confrontational · ready for a fight · hostile · obstreperous · argumentative · quarrelsome · contentious · uncooperative · bad-tempered · ill-tempered · sullen · surly · cross · ill-natured · rude · discourteous · unpleasant · feisty · spoiling for a fight · stroppy · bolshie · scrappy
antonyms:
cooperative · friendly · amiable
Origin
mid 16th century: from Latintruculentus, from trux, truc-‘fierce’.

truculent adjective - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truculent

tru·​cu·​lent | \ ˈtrə-kyə-lənt also ˈtrü- \

Definition of truculent
1: aggressively self-assertive : BELLIGERENT
2: scathingly harsh : VITRIOLIC
truculent criticism
3: feeling or displaying ferocity : CRUEL, SAVAGE
4: DEADLY, DESTRUCTIVE

Other Words from truculent
truculently adverb

Synonyms & Antonyms for truculent
Synonyms

aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, warlike
Antonyms

nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, unbelligerent, uncombative, uncontentious
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Truculent derives from "truculentus," a form of the Latin adjective trux, meaning "savage." It has been used in English since the 16th century to describe people or things that are cruel and ferocious, such as tyrannical leaders or wars, and has also come to mean "deadly or destructive" (as in "a truculent disease"). In current use, however, it has lost much of its etymological fierceness. It now frequently serves to describe speech or writing that is notably harsh (as in "truculent criticism") or a person who is notably self-assertive and surly (such as "a truculent schoolboy"). Some usage commentators have criticized these extended uses because they do not match the savagery of the word's original sense, but they are well-established and perfectly standard.

Examples of truculent in a Sentence
The hard work is to demonstrate exactly how the outsize Churchillian personality, so truculent, so impulsive, so often profoundly wrongheaded, became, in the dark spring of 1940, just what was needed for national survival. — Simon Schama, New York Review of Books, 28 Feb. 2002

Milton—in his prose an opinionated and truculent writer—remains a magnet for opinionated and truculent criticism. — Helen Vendler, New Republic, 30 July 2001

Recent Examples on the Web
With the obstacles presented by the pandemic, and a truculent White House that has been sabotaging its work from the jump, the Census Bureau is scrambling to count each person and in the right place.
— Rich Benjamin, The New York Review of Books, "Who Counts in a Census Taken During a Pandemic?," 14 Apr. 2020

Donald Trump’s administration wanted the truculent prime minister out of the way in order to claim peace in Kosovo as a (rare) foreign-policy success in the run-up to America’s presidential election.
— The Economist, "A Balkan bust-up Did America help oust Kosovo’s reformist government?," 2 Apr. 2020
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