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words that are funny when you deprive them of their prefixes.
go! :

― gabriel (gabe), Saturday, 5 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

(ps i am full of wine)

― gabriel (gabe), Saturday, 5 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

gress

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 5 April 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

gruntled, etc.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 April 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

plussed

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 5 April 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank God, I thought this thread was going to be about some really strange World War II movie.

Flappable. Also I guess "flapped" as an adjective and "to flap" as a transitive verb.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 5 April 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

destructible.

― hstencil, Saturday, 5 April 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

choate
eptitude
finitesmal

― Vic, Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

toxicated

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

moralised
bauched
franchised (dis in)

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

nocent

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

findibulation. best when using a staple gun

― dave q, Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

membered

― Viic, Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

veterate

― Viic, Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

lopolis

― Viic, Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

mm... cruciating

― gabriel (gabe), Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm fond of derfed, which clearly means having had quite enough food, thank you. It can obv also be used in the active voice ("derf me"), or even in the (YES IT STILL EXISTS) middle voice ("I'm gonna go derf" = "I'm gonna go feed"). And as noun, why not? "That's good derf, that."

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

furiating

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Frared light. It's in the visible spectrum, I believe.

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

And then there are those wonderful words like:

sanction &
cleave

which possess, simultaneously, opposite meanings.

― Skottie, Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think words like that are solutely lightful!

― Skottie, Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Heheh, this reminded me of a post of mine to alt.usage.english back in '92. Some good responses there, actually.

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(Haha, "I" look like Momus in my sig there!)

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

haha

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead's 2003 Tour: the Prefix: Holocaust tour.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

sect

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sect is a perfectly good word in itself. How the opposite of a breakaway religious group is a small chitinous arthropod with six legs is hard to grasp, however.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Indie = Die

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

pute

― donna (donna), Saturday, 5 April 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

OleM, yr cheating! You have to take off the whole prefix or nothing at all!

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 5 April 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, sorry, perhaps... Which post(s) are you referring to?

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 5 April 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I get it. Yes, that was cheating. Should probably be in a thread about "false" prefixes instead.

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 5 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Both of them, certainly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 April 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Deed.

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 5 April 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

terview

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

phony

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 5 April 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

noculate

(i love this thread, I'm not sure why)

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

'terview' is Ole M style cheating, jel!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 April 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Effable

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 5 April 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Effable is usable, though, isn't it? (I remember writing something a long time ago that had this not-as-clever-as-I-though pun on effable / f.able / fuckable.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 5 April 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man, terview is my favourite new word!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Quiscine Slottop terviewed the visage of his wretched half-aunt Zelm Rathat."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

chalant

― Vic, Saturday, 5 April 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

capable.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 5 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

'Capable' is surely commonplace, Michael.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 April 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i was being facetious.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 5 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Choate is a posh school.

Culcate.
Fluenza.
Ebriated.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 5 April 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ane.
Whelm.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 5 April 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

undate

― Vic, Saturday, 5 April 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

evitable!

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 5 April 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

junction.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 5 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

junction. (I removed a different prefix from michael. He removed 'in-' and me 'con-'.)

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

junction. [I removed, etc.]

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 April 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

we are both surgent.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 5 April 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

trovertible. descript. alize. timidate. cle.

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Sunday, 6 April 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Dundant. Duce.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 April 2003 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)

regardless.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

thuse. dure. pathy.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

roarious

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(and) ravenous

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

trodden
scription
ert

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 7 April 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"If you don't turn that music up, you'll go af"

peat

"Everybody understood me, so I had to peat myself"

becile

"He's a complete becile. I can't recommend him highly enough"

voke

"Can't voke yr license till you pay this here fee"

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Who's up for some requited love?

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Who's up for some requited love?

-- Millar (tmilla...), April 7th, 2003.

SHUT UP!

― Vic, Monday, 7 April 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Quited love is better.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

combobulate

― minna (minna), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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