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Petruchio -> RE: Word Fight (2/11/2006 2:56:57 PM)

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Next word... fustian


Pompous speech or speaking. I'm not sure why, but I think it originally meant coarse speech from medieval broadcloth.

Next: inculpate



Lordandmaster -> RE: Word Fight (2/11/2006 3:07:17 PM)

I'm assuming "inculpate" has to mean something like "incriminate."

Oh, and "fustian" has the same history as "bombast." Both were cloths used for filling, so "fustian" and "bombastic" speech was overwrought, as though stuffed with fustian and bombast.



delectablepink -> RE: Word Fight (2/12/2006 8:11:36 AM)

Lam..i think i caught You out! "Inculpate" is to "nuture a bad thing". (Damn, looked it up; Lam is still bating 1000.)

Next word:

"pulcritude"

delectable pink



mnottertail -> RE: Word Fight (2/12/2006 8:40:09 AM)

that describes you beautiful

Ron



delectablepink -> RE: Word Fight (2/12/2006 8:50:34 AM)

O Ron! TY. What is Your new word?

delectable pink



Lordandmaster -> RE: Word Fight (2/12/2006 9:23:08 AM)

I looked up "inculpate" after I made my guess, and I was right. (I was thinking it had to be basically the opposite of "exculpate.") It's also attested as an obsolete adjective, however, with the meaning "without guilt." That's not something I would have guessed, and the last example in OED dates to 1647.

"Pulchritude" is spelled with an -h-.

Whose turn is it to throw out a new word?

Edited to add: I'm hardly batting 1.000. I didn't know "dumbledore" or "accolent"--and probably a couple of others I no longer remember.



mnottertail -> RE: Word Fight (2/12/2006 9:33:18 AM)

miasma, if it is my turn

Ron



BitaTruble -> RE: Word Fight (2/12/2006 1:12:32 PM)


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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

miasma, if it is my turn

Ron


along the lines of a foul cloud or fog

nw - cortege



IrishMist -> RE: Word Fight (2/12/2006 4:49:27 PM)

quote:

cortege


funeral procession

new word:

whoobub



Petruchio -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 12:41:54 AM)

quote:

whoobub


We hear that here in the South a lot: "Whoo, Bub, you done shot yourself a right fine hole in yore pickup truck."

(You didn't mean 'hubbub' by any chance?)

quote:

miasma


Now that's interesting. I would have guessed swamp or bog, but Truble turns out to be right about it being the gas or fog from a swamp or bog.




Petruchio -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 12:43:52 AM)

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Lam is still bating 1000.


Uh, delectable, I guess that makes you a Master Bater.

My contribution: uraeus




Lordandmaster -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 1:03:31 AM)

I just looked it up, because I've never heard of it. It is the same word as "hubbub." Shakespearean spelling. That's kind of unfair, I think.

No idea what "uraeus" means.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Petruchio

quote:

whoobub


We hear that here in the South a lot: "Whoo, Bub, you done shot yourself a right fine hole in yore pickup truck."

(You didn't mean 'hubbub' by any chance?)




delectablepink -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 3:33:05 AM)

i like "whoooooohoooooooo" but it's not my word.

New word: "parataxis"

delectable pink



IrishMist -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 5:30:44 AM)

HMmm lol, I take it I am reading too much Shakespear? Sorry, going through that stage here right now with they youngin and school. I just find so many wonderful variations of words there that I forget sometimes that they are no longer used by most :(



Lordandmaster -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 6:55:34 AM)

That refers to syntax. "Parataxis" is when you combine clauses without using conjunctions. ("I ate; I fucked; I got heartburn.")

Edited to add: The opposite of "parataxis" is "hypotaxis." ("I ate, thereupon fucked, and consequently got heartburn.")

I looked up "uraeus," so I'm disqualified for that one. Anyone know it?

quote:

ORIGINAL: delectablepink

New word: "parataxis"




Sartoris32801 -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 6:58:28 AM)

quote:

parataxis"



juxtaposition :

New Word: leitmotif:

Sartoris



Lordandmaster -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 7:13:56 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Sartoris32801

quote:

parataxis"


juxtaposition :


Not exactly. I just explained it above.

quote:


New Word: leitmotif:


We still haven't done "uraeus," but a "leitmotif" (meaning "guiding motif") is a theme or motif that recurs and animates a work of literature. Like that stupid sled in Citizen Kane.



Sartoris32801 -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 9:28:57 AM)

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Not exactly. I just explained it above.


You got out of the gate quicker. After I had replied I saw the post under yours.

I pass to the next person on uraeus. Petruchio's word! Perhaps Shakespeare? "Taming of the Shrew"?

Sartoris



BitaTruble -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 11:48:49 AM)

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I pass to the next person on uraeus. Petruchio's word! Perhaps Shakespeare? "Taming of the Shrew"?


Hmm.. I'm stumped.. possibly a latin root.. will also have to pass this one. If I 'had' to guess, it would be something having to do with space, maybe one of the constellations, some symbol of an animal or god. ::shrug:: Need a gammarian in here. lol

Celeste - color me clueless



Petruchio -> RE: Word Fight (2/13/2006 12:58:12 PM)

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Hmm.. I'm stumped.. possibly a latin root.. will also have to pass this one. If I 'had' to guess, it would be something having to do with space, maybe one of the constellations, some symbol of an animal or god.


Very close, Truble, not stellar but symbolic of animal and god. I had just come across the word uraeus shortly before going on-line.

The King Tut exhibit is here in Florida. Do you remember the gold image of a serpent that Egyptians sometimes wore at the front of their headress? It's called a uraeus, so Truble is on the right track there.

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parataxis


And here I thought it was double taxation! (grin)

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