Post other cool words here.

By The Occifer on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 06:46 am:

Speaking of words-of-the-moment, serendipity was a cool word in 2001, wasnt it? Everyone seemed to think they discovered it. Then that John Cusack movie came out.
I found out where the word came from... Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, was once called Serendip by Arab sea-traders. There was a book written ages and ages ago by someone I cant remember, called The Three Princes of Serendip, all about the aforementioned princes who went on magical adventures together and stumbled across good and wonderful things purely by accident. Hence, the word serendipity was born.

By Lyrical Genius on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 09:00 am:

And I get so high I just can't feel it...
In and out my brain, running through my veins
You're my sunshine, you're my rain

By Skrooie on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 11:33 am:

'Spazzy' always makes me snigger, even though it's woefully non-PC. As long as it is used in the correct manner.

'Boobies' again, always raises a 'titter.'

By Cam on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 11:34 am:

'Cool' is definitely not a cool word. Neither is 'wicked' ... I really hate that one !

By ikras on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 02:00 pm:

dal eht yikciM ffo pu ti dekcip I, won taht yas syawla I !drow looc a si rekcollob kniht I

By sarki on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 02:00 pm:

Ignore my brother, he's a bit..erm...backward!

By {daL ehT} ykciM on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 05:11 pm:

!REKCOLLOB UOY FFO SSIP

.lausu sa zeedal gnipoC yxes eht lla ot olleH

By JEFF FOLKOFF on Monday, May 13, 2002 - 07:08 am:

WHY IS HAM SO TASTY

By Karla on Monday, May 13, 2002 - 03:18 pm:

I agree, it is a magnificent word.

I've really liked the word "wicked" and "wanker" for a while. Especially those 2 words together.

Wicked Wanker. It just sounds cool. Bollocker sounds funny too, hahah...we don't have words like that here in the usa, wanker translates to "Jack off", which I don't like though.

And ok, I think the word "poof" sounds funny, and of course who doesn't like "fuck".

By indigo on Monday, May 13, 2002 - 05:01 pm:

Yeah, wanker's a good word - I don't like wicked though. Bollocks is a great word - if you're really angry at the world, you can just yell BIG FAT HAIRY BOLLOCKS!

By Quintal on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 05:48 am:

The Word of the Day for May 16 is:

docile \DAH-sul or DAH-syle\ (adjective)
1 : easily taught
*2 : easily led or managed : tractable

Example sentence:
Peabody was such a good-natured, docile horse that even the youngest children could ride him.

By indigo on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 04:26 pm:

Not according to dictionary.com!


Word of the Day for Thursday May 16, 2002:

subterfuge \SUB-tur-fyooj, noun:
A deceptive device or stratagem.


In the end, however, all the stealth and subterfuge were for naught, as the young publicity agent couldn't keep the secret.
--Larry Tye, The Father of Spin

She has also complained . . . that the reporter used subterfuge to interview her, pretending to be the mother of an inmate.
--Roy Greenslade, "Filthy rags," The Guardian, January 11, 2001

He is adept at subterfuge, at gaining entry to factories by masquerading as a laborer, a wholesaler, an exporter.
--Jonathan Silvers, "Child Labor in Pakistan," The Atlantic, February 1996


Subterfuge comes from Late Latin subterfugium, "a secret flight," from Latin subterfugere, "to flee in secret, to evade," from subter, "underneath, underhand, in secret" + fugere, "to flee." It is related to fugitive, one who flees.

By Anonymous on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 02:57 pm:

"cunt" is actualy the Latin word for "shame". Sinc it's generally used to refer to a certain part of a female body (and then used after that as an insult), I'd hrdly call it "magnificent". I personally do NOT think my nether reions should be called "shame".

By The future on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 04:53 pm:

By Speaking of words on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 05:21 pm:

http://www.rathergood.com/swearotron.html

By Quintal on Friday, June 14, 2002 - 05:05 am:

Oligarchy.

1. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Those making up such a government.
3. A state governed by a few persons.

By Our daily bread is stale again! on Sunday, June 16, 2002 - 04:34 am:

<b>Jocularity!</b>

By Karla on Sunday, June 16, 2002 - 05:46 am:

By Butter~Mobile on Sunday, June 16, 2002 - 07:31 pm:

"Oligarchy". In other words, "Coping".
Yo, Quintal. Respect, man.

By Quintal on Monday, June 17, 2002 - 09:20 am:

Prescience
Pronounced pree-see-ence
noun.

1. Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.

By Lucky the exploder on Monday, June 17, 2002 - 11:29 am:

Benzine - spirit obtained from petroleum and used as cleaning agent.

Well I think it sounds rad. Oh no, the murderer next door is drilling again...

By Scampathetic on Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - 11:52 am:

I hate it when bogan blokes say they're "tuning" a girl. A guy told me yesterday he was depressed because someone "tuned his chick." I'm suffering from Commodore envy and a lot else too probably, so my opinion isn't rational.

What is it that you think is magnificent about the word "cunt", Occifer?

By Quintal on Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - 12:27 pm:

rad
adj. Slang

1.Excellent; wonderful.

[Short for radical.]

By The Occifer on Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - 12:31 pm:

The last time I heard a bogan use the word "tuning" in the way you describe it, Scamp, was when my cousin's friend told everyone that Winfield (the aforementioned cousin of mine) was now "tuning that chick from Home & Away!"
Apparently this "chick" was some girl who played a 3 or 4 week role in the show as the seductress of that little, annoying blonde guy.

Cunt, Scamp? It's just a lot of fun to watch people's faces when, as a person who uses swear words only lightly to moderately, you drop it into the most unlikely of sentences and conversations.

By Scampathetic on Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - 01:29 pm:

The little, annoying blonde guy... Sam? Sam tuning a chick! Hyuk Hyuk! I wonder if that line has appeared in a Home & Away script yet?
Yeah, I read once that "the advantage of swearing rarely is that it creates more of an impact when you do," but I dunno if it's true.

By The Occifer on Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 02:29 am:

It's very true! People who say fuck this and fucking that and fuck everything get absolutely no use out of the word, apart from a sentence filler or prompter. People who swear sparingly, on the other hand, can use the words for various more interesting purposes.

But no, not Sam tuning a chick! Winfield, my cousin, tuning Sam's chick!

By Anonymous on Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 11:02 am:

Yeah!

By indigo on Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 03:43 pm:

tuning? Is this an Australian thing?

By Butter~Twirré on Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 05:52 pm:

Yeah, sadly enough, it is indigo.
"Frisson" is a funky French word for a lot of situations, if words not in English are allowed.

By steve on Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 08:12 pm:

Ah divvent see what's see faffin wrang wi' sayin feck aaal the time, evarry 4 seconds in yor evarry day sentence. people hev faffin reets an' yee shud faffin respect them.

By Fireballbuster on Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 08:13 pm:

Faffin' A man!