dactylonomy

The art of counting on one's fingers.

i counted them once back in 1973....i assume they're all still there.

Lessee...::holds hands flat down on a table::, starting with the left little finger --10, 9, 8, 7, 6, including the thumb. Correct? Plus 5 from the right hand equals 11!!!!

Qualtagh

The first person you meet after leaving your house for a special occasion or the first person entering your house after New Year's Eve. (This should not be a woman.)

My family had a tradition carried over from Germany that on New Year's Day all the women stayed home and all the men went visiting. The men would stay for a short while, have a cup of coffee or a shot of schnapps and move on to the next house on their journey. If your first visitor of the new year was a woman you would have bad luck the entire year. I can remember accompanying my fathe on his New Year's Day rounds as a kid.

did you remember to put your best foot forward?

Defenestration is still my favorite word.

Defenestration is still my favorite word.

*tosses Phyrex out the window*

Is it still your favorite? ;)

logodaedaly

The ingenious or cunning use of words.

Frogger is such a great poster because of his logodaedaly.

Linzy--woolsey

Hoosier pioneer women spun cloth called linzy-woolsey.

Use this word and impress your friends.

Kinda like the word banal.

Frogger, what...no word of the day today?

logodaedaly

The ingenious or cunning use of words.

Frogger is such a great poster because of his logodaedaly.
Cunning linguist?

Quixotic- Hopelessly romantic.

mammothrept

A spoiled child.

The word comes from a Greek word meaning, raised by one's grandmother.


We have a few mammothrepts right here in Allforums.

icterical


Tinged with yellow. Evakian, your teeth are icterical.

quadrumanous

apelike in destructiveness. It comes from a Latin word meaning four handed. (Apes have feet like hands)

Selassie

A sophisticated slur for Ethiopians I invented. :eek:

Yeah, but my words are real, my icterical toothed friend.:lolhit:

:eek:you deny His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings of Ethiopia and Elect of God?!?!

No, I don't! Using the name of the descendent of King Solomen and the Queen of Sheba can never be considered a slur. Calling an Ethiopian a Selassie would be a compliment.

Evakian is simply being a quadrumanous mammothrept.

Frogger is being badgerly.

A new slur I invented. :eek:

People with small vocabularies are sometimes reduced to making up words.:lolhit:

People with small vocabularies are sometimes reduced to making up words.:lolhit:
that's just ridiculocity:lolhit:

George's Bush's patriotastic war in Iraq has proven affordablish for America, and that's a statement you can put your vaponderous mouth behind.

It sems both you and the whippersnapper like autogeneal words.

i didn't make mine up-John Ecker did!

i didn't make mine up-John Ecker did!
You and Frogger have no creativity.

i don't need creativity, i can blame others:p

i don't need creativity, i can blame others:p
A politician!

Is that word in the dictionary? It has a devious sound to it.

i'm pretty sure "blame" is in every dictionary.

All words are phantasmic, so dont be such a jinflin, Frogger. This has all been carefully strategerized.

Also, read the poem "Bandersnatch". I think that's the title.

All words are phantasmic, so dont be such a jinflin, Frogger. This has all been carefully strategerized.

Also, read the poem "Bandersnatch". I think that's the title.
Bandersnatch is from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

Bandersnatch is from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
The vorpal blade went snicker snack!

Do you mean Jabberwock?

Those are portmanteau words, words made by combining two existing words into a new word.

Do you mean Jabberwock?
No, the name is Jabberwocky.

But the words are still portmanteaus, Evakian. Just like the name Evakian is a portmanteau, made up of two Estonian words meaning smart ass, and delinquent.

Singerie

A decorative style using pictures of monkeys, often wearing clothes and acting like people.

"Did you see Evakian in that singerie decorated room? He looked so cute in his little red vest and fez."

kakistocracy Government by the worst element of society.

If Mike Dukakis had won we could have had a Dukakistocracy.

kakistocracy Government by the worst element of society.


That is exactly what he have right now.

Kakistocracy, rule by the least-able or least-principled of citizens, is a form of government in which the people least qualified to control the government are the people who control the government.

Dukakis '08!