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have you ever tried to expand your vocabulary by posting new words on a post-it on your fridge, and then attempting to use them in as many following conversations as possible?

think of this thread as a fridge,
and ILE generally as those conversations...

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

pap-boat

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

(that appeared in a review in the mag i work at, btw)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't find it in the dictionary mark. can you give an example of how to use it?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

it's like a gravyboat except for pap!! (pap like old-skool babyfood)

(the one mentioned in the mag was made of silver)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

retromingent

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

contabescent

"my will to live is contabescent"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

lülülü adj dated feeble

example: 'Wenn Sie einmal austreten müssen, dann bitt' ich mir aus: Scharfer Strahl und nicht so lülülü wie die Zivilisten.'
('When you have a piss, remember to blow a forceful jet - not a feeble one like the civilians.')

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

contumely

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

banns

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

nugatory

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

in a sentence people!!!!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

in a sentence on another thread too, please.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

bubo, as in "Damn, when that plague hit Europe, motherfuckers got much buboes all over themselves! I was all like 'whoa'!"

― Neudonym, Friday, 6 June 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a word-a-day desk calendar, which is great fun. I don't usually remember the words though, I just read them, think "That's interesting," and then forget it. But yesterday's word was "dude." That was neat.

― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 6 June 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Totting = going through rubbish for items that may be valuable. (is how I describe cataloguing books, death to grey literature)

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a word-a-day calender built into my frazzled hippie brain where the word-of-the-day is dude EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN DAY OF MY LIFE OH SOMEONE PLEASE GET ME OFF THIS PHISH-LOT!!!! < /damn dirty hippie>

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the last word i learned was 'defile' as a noun - which is like a valley but very narrow, such that a military unit would need to defile in order to march through the defile.

― ron (ron), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"thinkless": a word made up by my daughter's friend to describe how she freezes up in class. "Whenever Mrs. K calls on me, I just get all thinkless."

― Neudonym, Friday, 6 June 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Awww, kids say the stupidest things.

― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Invaginate.

― mei (mei), Saturday, 7 June 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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