the worthless word for the day is: windigo [also wendigo] /WIN-di-go/ (in the folklore of the Ojibwa and other American Indians) a cannibalistic giant, the...
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Feb 3, 2004 5:05 am
the worthless word for the day is: yowie a large, hairy, man-like creature supposedly inhabiting south-eastern Australia "The 'yowie', a large hairy animal...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 4, 2004 4:26 am
the worthless word for the day is: iconodule [Eccl. Hist.] one who worships or serves images (opposed to iconoclast) also, iconodulist iconoduly - the worship...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 6, 2004 6:32 am
the worthless word for the day is: inexpugnable /in-ik-SPUG-nuh-bul/ (from L. in- + expugnabilis, capable of being overthrown) impregnable, unassailable,...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 9, 2004 4:49 am
the worthless word for the day is: eagre /E-gur/ or /A-gur/ [chiefly Brit., origin unknown] a tidal bore or flood tide (up an estuary) (not to be confused with...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 10, 2004 6:39 am
the worthless word for the day is: haruspicy /huh-RUS-puh-see/ [from L. Haruspex, the title of a lower order of priests who performed the act] divination from...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 11, 2004 6:31 am
the worthless word for the day is: epiphyte /EP-uh-fite/ [from Gk. epi, upon + phyton, plant] a plant which grows on another plant; usually restricted to...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 12, 2004 5:59 am
the worthless word for the day is: logolept /LO-go-lept/ a word maniac; verbivore, logophile also, logolepsy (an obsession with words) "You could call it a...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 13, 2004 4:02 am
the worthless word for the day is: uglyography bad handwriting; uncouth spelling hence, uglyographize (to spell uncouthly) [coined, and used only by, Robert...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 16, 2004 6:09 am
the worthless word for the day is: sottise, sottisier [F] /so-TEEZ/ a silly remark or saying; a foolish action; also transf. "The Daily Mail Diary..is not...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 17, 2004 2:41 am
the worthless word for the day is: subdolous /SUB-du-lus/ (from L. subdolus) [now rare] crafty, cunning, sly "The King was troubled, lest this subdolous and ...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 18, 2004 4:07 am
the worthless word for the day is: looby an awkward clumsy fellow: lout, lubber "While I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 19, 2004 5:01 am
the worthless word for the day is: quacksalver [obsolete Dutch (now kwakzalver)] /KWAK-sal-vur/ a charlatan or quack; also transf. "Brother Zeal-of-the-land...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 20, 2004 4:48 am
the worthless word for the day is: catachrestic [Latin catachresis, from Greek katachresis, misuse] characterized by the misuse of words for the context ...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 24, 2004 4:51 am
the worthless word for the day is: sprezzatura [It.] ease of manner, studied carelessness; the appearance of acting or being done without effort; spec. of...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 25, 2004 5:24 am
the worthless word for the day is: entrepôt [F] an intermediary center of trade and transshipment "The head of the entrepôt sent a message to his immediate ...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 26, 2004 4:41 am
the worthless word for the day is: smatchet [Sc.] an insignificant contemptible person; a chit "Awa' and mird wi' your maiks, ye smatchet, And mint nae mair...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 27, 2004 6:56 am
the worthless word for the day is: moeurs [F] the behaviour, customs, or habits of a people or a group of people autres temps, autres moeurs (other times,...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 2, 2004 2:59 am
the worthless word for the day is: hylotheism the doctrine equating god to matter, or the universe "All adoration therefore 'becomes pure Hylo~theism and...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 3, 2004 3:23 am
the worthless word for the day is: quibbleism [rare] the practice of quibbling "The use he may make of the most ordinary words for the purposes of quibbleism."...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 4, 2004 5:41 am
the worthless word for the day is: siderism a phenomenon similar to animal magnetism (or mesmerism) formerly supposed to result from the bringing of iron or...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 5, 2004 2:50 am
the worthless word for the day is: resistentialism Paul Jennings's mock philosophy which maintains that inanimate objects are hostile to humans. [OED2] ...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 8, 2004 5:55 pm
the worthless word for the day is: shtoom [Yiddish, from G. stumm (also schtoom, shtum(m), etc.)] [a] silent, speechless, dumb; esp. in phr. to keep (or stay)...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 9, 2004 5:24 am
the worthless word for the day is: solfatara [It., sulfur mine] /sole-fuh-TAR-uh/ a volcanic area or vent that yields only hot vapors and sulfurous gases "The...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 10, 2004 6:03 am
the worthless word for the day is: testudinal [from L. testudo, tortoise] of, relating to, or resembling a tortoise (also testudinarious - of a tortoise shell)...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 11, 2004 5:29 am
the worthless word for the day is: indite [from ME enditen] (also endite) a : make up, compose <indite a poem> b : to give literary or formal expression to c...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 15, 2004 4:43 am
the worthless word for the day is: osirify to identify with Osiris; (broadly) to deify most big dictionaries limit the meaning to identification with Osiris;...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 16, 2004 4:30 am
the worthless word for the day is: apteral [from Gk. apteros, wingless] [Arch.] having no columns along the sides; used especially of a classical temple "Our...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 17, 2004 3:59 am
the worthless word for the day is: ocker [Austral. slang] (from the name Oscar) a rough, uncultivated, or aggressively boorish Australian man (esp. as a...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 18, 2004 4:25 am
the worthless word for the day is: entasis /EN-tuh-sis/ (from Gk. word for tension) [Arch.] a slight convexity or swelling, as in the shaft of a column,...
