quote:flense –verb (used with object), flensed, flens·ing. 1. to strip the blubber or the skin from (a whale, seal, etc.). 2. to strip off (blubber or skin).
Example: "Get your bloated carcass in here so I may flense you!"
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
Thank you, Sir. You just made my day that much brighter.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Welcome.
quote:bloviate [bloh-vee-eyt] –verb (used without object), ‐at·ed, ‐at·ing. to speak pompously.
Example: "I swear to God, Bob, if you bloviate one more time, I will flense you alive."
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Posted by Jeorge (Member # 11524) on :
or flense, maybe?
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Too early...thanks.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
quote:gubbins — noun 1. ( functioning as singular ) an object of little or no value 2. ( functioning as singular ) a small device or gadget 3. ( functioning as plural ) odds and ends; litter or rubbish 4. ( functioning as singular ) a silly person
Example: That's it Bob, you bloviating gubbins, I'm going to flense you!
Posted by Jeorge (Member # 11524) on :
I'm sensing a bit of animosity toward Bob here...
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Do you know Bob?...because if you did, you would know he deserves it.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_: Welcome.
quote:bloviate [bloh-vee-eyt] –verb (used without object), ‐at·ed, ‐at·ing. to speak pompously.
Example: "I swear to God, Bob, if you bloviate one more time, I will flense you alive."
Do you really think that, of all places, Hatrack doesn't know what bloviate means?
Posted by Aros (Member # 4873) on :
Pandiculation [pan-dik-yuh-ley-shuhn] -Noun The act of stretching and yawning (or sometimes just stretching or just yawning).
Disperse you mangy rapscallions, before I flense you thoroughly. I'm so tired of your inane rambling, it's causing me continual pandiculation!
Posted by Jeorge (Member # 11524) on :
quote:Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_: Do you know Bob?...because if you did, you would know he deserves it.
Oh, believe me, I do, and yes, he does.
Posted by Jeorge (Member # 11524) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Do you really think that, of all places, Hatrack doesn't know what bloviate means?
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
bob deserves it
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
I assumed "Word of the Day" meant it would be every day.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
To Dobbie: Day ain't over yet.
quote:turophile [toor-uh-fahyl] –noun a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
Example: Covering yourself from head to toe in Velveta doesn't actually qualify you as a turophile.
Posted by Parsimony (Member # 8140) on :
I miss Bob already.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Meaning: A tempest in a teacup, a mountain made of a molehill, a federal case, a very big deal.
Example: No batrachomyomachy now people, Bob died of flensing related wounds.
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dobbie: I assumed "Word of the Day" meant it would be every day.
I knew a man who looked like you who used to do this.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
quote:jentacular (comparative more jentacular, superlative most jentacular) Adjective 1. Of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up.
Example: I'm so groggy after drinking so much at Bob's funeral last night that I need immediate jentacular action.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
quote:billingsgate –noun coarsely or vulgarly abusive language.
Example: "Did Bob's widow order such billingsgate on his tombstone?"
Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :
quote:nurdle (plural nurdles) (cricket) Such a shot 1. A cylindrical shaped pre-production plastic pellet used in manufacturing and packaging. 2. A "blob of toothpaste shaped like a wave", which is often depicted on toothpaste packaging
I learned this at work today. It is now occupying precious space in my brain.
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Of course there's a name for the wave shaped toothpaste picture. Why wouldn't there be?
Though a graemlin to convey dry humor seems to be sorely lacking.
Posted by Ace of Spades (Member # 2256) on :
What's that "(cricket) Such a shot"?
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
It doth not seem such a hurdle To make the tooth paste Nurdle But mine doth seem to curdle. Still, tis such a nice ol' word-le.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Points to D_M for inventing the word "word-le".
Posted by Ginol_Enam (Member # 7070) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darth_Mauve: It doth not seem such a hurdle To make the tooth paste Nurdle But mine doth seem to curdle. Still, tis such a nice ol' word-le.
I lol'ed.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
A nurdle (or Knurdle) is also a lump of frozen steel that forms on the end of a tuyere.
quote:TUYERE : a nozzle through which an air blast is delivered to a forge or blast furnace
Note: tuyere rhymes with queer. That is, anyone in the steel industry I've ever heard use the word pronounces it that way. The pronunciation in the link maybe more accurate from the french, but I've never heard it that way.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
quote:widdershins or withershins — adv 1. in the direction contrary to the apparent course of the sun; anticlockwise 2. Compare deasil in a direction contrary to the usual; in the wrong direction
Example: I usually attempt to be witty here, but today I'm going widdershins.
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