Weird word of the week

[cw_owner]

voracious

1. craving or consuming large quantities of food.
2. exceedingly eager or avid.

Reference: Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) (based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, 2006), http://www.dictionary.com

This word suggested by majorsamfan.

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[troubleinharlem]

"naissance" - the birth or growth of an idea.

[nontu]

Tatterdemalion, probably one of the prettier words out there for something ugly. If that's too obscure, how about 'bemused'? That might also help clarify the correct use for it, since a lot of people seem to think it means amused.

[readthisandweep]

Tatterdemalion doesn't in fact mean something ugly. It's an old word for a ragamuffin; a beggar or urchin; a 'tattered' shabbily dressed, barefoot child. It's definition encompasses dilapidated, worn-down & bedraggled.

[Tatterdemalion is also a fictional character & supervillain featuring in Marvel Comics. He wore gloves either coated with or secreting a chemical agent which dissolved any material composed of paper, such as dollar bills.]

'Florry Talbot, a blond feeble goosefat whore in a tatterdemalion gown of mildewed strawberry, lolls spreadeagle in the sofa corner, her limp forearm pendent over the bolster, listening.'

From: Ulysses by James Joyce.