Word Of The Day

It's new years day, so today's theme is 'ould lang syne' or long ago....

Happy new year!

 

Is there anything sadder than posting on an Internet message board at 12.46 a.m. on New Year's Day?

Apart perhaps from already being in bed like I was ...

Happy New Year to you too!

 

Oh you, oh you :tongue:

If you must know, paps, I'd just got back from the pub. I'd have stayed later, but my lightweight mate over exterted himself, chundered everywhere and decided to go home soon as the bells chimed. So back I came....

 

mooch:
v.tr.

1. To obtain or try to obtain by begging; cadge.
2. To steal; filch.

v.intr.

1. To get or try to get something free of charge; sponge: lived by mooching off friends.
2. To wander about aimlessly.
3. To skulk around; sneak.

n.

1. One who begs or cadges; a sponge.
2. A dupe, as in a confidence game.

moocher mooch'er n.

 

Word of the day is norovirus aka winter vomiting disease. Everyone's talking about it ....

 

Today's word is:
Numinous - awe inspiring; that which is wholly other.

Heard it being used multiple times today in a discussion involving Christopher Hitchens where he suggested it be used to refer to a secular conception of "spiritual" experience in contradistinction to supernaturalism.

Today's second word is "contradistinction":tongue: (A contrast of distinct and opposing qualities.)

 

Today's word is:
Casuistry

 

do wot mate?

 

lol i second that.

has syzygy come up yet?
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tis 'the instance (new moon or full moon) when the earth, sun, and moon are all in a straight line.'[/size]

it's also one of very few words that has no vowels at all.

i have this horrible feeling i've added this word before..

 

Haha:tongue:

"Specious or excessively subtle reasoning" - is that any better?

 

i love this one:

pulchritudinous. any guesses?

–adjective
physically beautiful; comely.

 

what a unique word

 

LEGS help spread the word..

 

Legs? :uhoh2:

 

lol... i like the word Enigma. =]

 

Today's word is

Orrery

Which is a clockwork model of the planetary system. I mainly like it because you can't say it without sounding like you're growling like one of Jonny's bears

 

Peroration

A rhetorical flourish at the end of a speech or argument

 

i'd like my word of the day to be Consequence
because i think people should think about it more and everything has one

 

Concupiscence

- Strong sexual desire; lust

 

Im going to start using this. I like it