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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 6:30:57 AM

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Ok, I think I have it

Rhedarious refers to those who are old fashioned enough to still enjoy riding in carriages?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 7:55:41 AM

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Tikkiee, that word hasn't been in use since the 1700s. How did you know its meaning?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 7:57:20 AM

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Apparently, she is older than she looks.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 8:07:10 AM

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Aren't we all?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 8:11:14 AM

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New word "Noctuabundus".

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 9:51:42 AM

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Ahhhhhhhh! The children of the night, what beautiful music they make.

night wanderer.

lefse

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 10:53:09 AM

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Tikkiee, that word hasn't been in use since the 1700s. How did you know its meaning?

It is actually used in some Dickens books; in addition to that it has used in relation to Queen Elizabeth

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 10:56:29 AM

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OED defines "rhedarious" as "of or serving for a cart or chariot." It's from rheda, meaning "four-wheeled carriage." If someone knew what rheda meant, I think they cold figure out "rhedarious." But it hasn't been used in a long time.

"Noctuabundus" isn't in OED. It's a Latin word that is hapax legomenon; in other words, it appears once only (in Cicero). It's usually interpreted as "arriving in the night," but there's a new theory that it means "arriving like an owl," from noctua, "owl." See Hannah Rosen, "Noctuabundus ad me venit ... tabellarius," Mnemosyne 55.1 (2002), 89-92.

I can't imagine too many people know that word. I had to hunt all this down. Does anyone have an example of "noctuabundus" in English? I really think we need to keep this game to English words.

"Lefse" isn't in OED either. I had to look it up. It's from Norwegian.

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Tikkiee, that word hasn't been in use since the 1700s. How did you know its meaning?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 10:57:52 AM

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Ok...didn't know that. I found it in Lost Words and it said there that it hadn't been used since 1700s. Didn't put up definition since I had to look it up.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 10:59:01 AM

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Yeah...if I get a vote (and I'm sure I don't), can we please keep to English?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 11:01:54 AM

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I am in agreement also. English only.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 11:15:43 AM

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ok, but old english since we are tossing about latin roots like the vulgate.

woof (*and don't say dog)

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PS: lefse is a potato bread that looks like a burrito wrap (slather in butter and death to heathens that put sugar on it)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 11:42:35 AM

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Middle English is as far as we should go back. At least I can take a stab at those.....

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 11:48:18 AM

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This is a word FIGHT and not a word non-violent civil disobedience. I am afraid I must draw a line in the sand somewhere. But that is just me.

LOLOLOL,
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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 11:58:48 AM

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Well, whatever. I guess I'll check back now and then and see if there's something I may know. Have fun all.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 12:22:00 PM

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My apologises; got it from an arcane site and did not know it was latin. Nice word though.

i vote for english too, and it's not my turn. It's still Ron's unless He's been rule out of bounds.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 12:55:01 PM

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I'll go next, simply because that's the way I am

"Fletcherize"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 12:56:53 PM

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PS: lefse is a potato bread that looks like a burrito wrap (slather in butter and death to heathens that put sugar on it)

LOL I was thinking it was a potato

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 1:00:37 PM

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Fletching is aiming feathers on an arrow. Fletcherize might be the act (like Marilyn Chambers says, just another act.) of putting them on, or am I putting you on?

Ron
Dammit! Just looked and nope, not even close unless you will loosely encompass 'the act of' as having an intended meaning to Fletcherize. I know it is a stretch.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/25/2006 1:05:38 PM

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Fletching is aiming feathers on an arrow. Fletcherize might be the act (like Marilyn Chambers says, just another act.) of putting them on, or am I putting you on?

Ron
Dammit! Just looked and nope, not even close unless you will loosely encompass 'the act of' as having an intended meaning to Fletcherize. I know it is a stretch.

LMAO, yes a bit of a stretch; just a bit though

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