the worthless word for the day is: pauciloquence [rare] uttering few words, speaking briefly (from L. pauci; few, little + loquent-em speaking) "So we resolve...
the worthless word for the day is: sialoquent [obs] /sy-AL-uh-kwent/ (f. sialo- saliva [Gk.] and -loquent speaking [L.]) spraying saliva when speaking (hence,...
the worthless word for the day is: ingeminate [f. L. ingeminare; to redouble, repeat] to repeat, reiterate (a word, statement, etc.), usually for the purpose...
the worthless word for the day is: collop 1) a small piece or slice, especially of meat 2) a fold of fat flesh (not to be confused with dollop) "Alan was in...
the worthless word for the day is: accidie /AK-suh-dee/ acedia: apathy, boredom "Wasn't accidie, that lethargy of the spirit, one of the deadly sins? To the...
the worthless word for the day is: diapason /dye-uh-PAY-zun/ 1 a) a burst of harmonious sound b) the principal foundation stop of an organ c) (i) the entire ...
the worthless word for the day is: retroussé [F] /re-tru-SAY/ turned up <retroussé nose> "His large brown eyes were wide-spaced, the upper lids heavy, above...
the worthless word for the day is: trouvaille [F, from trouver, to find] /troo-VYE/ something discovered by chance; a windfall "My dear, you are a perfect...
the worthless word for the day is: objurgatrix a common scold :) "Objurgatrix comes from the verb objurgate, to chide or rebuke harshly, and means a scolding,...
the worthless word for the day is: ludibrious [now rare] (from L. ludibrium - sport, jest) inclined to scoff; scornful, mocking "...before this lukewarm or...
the worthless word for the day is: cromulent [nonsense word] used in an ironical sense to mean legitimate, and therefore, in reality, spurious and not at all...
the worthless word for the day is: insalubrious not conducive to health; unwholesome "I shouldn't bother. No doubt there's an insalubrious corpse somewhere...
the worthless word for the day is: quaggy 1) resembling a marsh; soggy 2) soft and flabby cf. quagmire "In the quelchy quaggy sogmire..." - from a poem by...
the worthless word for the day is: pot-valiant (also potvaliant) bold or courageous under the influence of alcoholic drink "Her husband was 'pot-valiant,' he...
the worthless word for the day is: jejeunosity jejuneness, naiveté coined by Maureen Down, NYTimes: "Even officials with a combined century of international ...
the worthless word for the day is: spadassin [F, swordsman] a duelist; a fighter, a bully "He was a man of from forty to forty-five years of age, half...
the worthless word for the day is: listful [archaic] inclined to listen, attentive "Explicit cautions, as they enter a too listful ear, are likely to be...
the worthless word for the day is: klazomania compulsive shouting; thus, klazomaniac "YOU are a KLAZOMANIAC!!" - graffito -tsuwm http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd...
the worthless word for the day is: pastinaceous [obs. rare] (from L. pastinaca, parsnip) of the nature of or akin to the parsnip "Its root is carnous.. of a...
the worthless word for the day is: alliaceous /a-lee-A-shus/ (from L. allium, garlic) having the smell or taste of garlic or onions "The alliaceous odour...
the worthless word for the day is: vigesimation the act of putting to death every twentieth man (cf. vigesimal and decimation) For those who pine for the...
the worthless word for the day is: dord [non-word] defined in W2* as "density"; began life as an error made when transcribing a card that read "D or d"...
the worthless word for the day is: kwyjibo a nonsense word from the television series The Simpsons, made up by Bart Simpson during a game of Scrabble; when...
the worthless word for the day is: zzxjoanw /ziks-JO-an/ a Maori drum [Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary] The Music-Lovers Encyclopedia by Rupert Hughes (all editions...
the worthless word for the day is: manxome a nonsense word invented by Lewis Carroll to describe the Jabberwock: (perhaps) fearsome, monstrous; (or) related...
the worthless word for the day is: winx [obs.] to bray like an [donkey*] (Brit. dialect, related to whinny) *expurgated for email this week: more obscure...
the worthless word for the day is: lirp [obs. rare] a snap of the fingers also v., to snap with one's fingers not to be confused with lirt, [obs.] deception,...
the worthless word for the day is: oofy wealthy, rich; hence oofiness, wealthiness "My oofy maiden-aunt." - Blackwood's Magazine, Dec. 1896 "He just can't...
the worthless word for the day is: darg [Scot] a day's work, the task of a day (from daywark (daywork) through the series of forms dawark, da'ark, dark, darg)...
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