This word of the day entertains me.

hircine: of, pertaining to, or resembling a goat.

This is today's word of the day

adamantine: utterly unyielding or firm in attitude or opinion.

I like it.

The word of the day today is Slimsy.  It means Flimsy or frail.  It's one of those words that I don't believe it's a word.  Or that it even needs to be a word.  Just use flimsy or frail and you've got your meaning across.

It's raining pretty nicely up here.  I've moved the truck out into the rain in the hopes that it'll get some cleaning, but I ( Read more... )

I did not realize how cool of a word hopscotch was...

hopscotch
\ HOP-skoch \
verb;
1. To journey quickly and directly from one usually far place to another.

noun:
1. A children's game in which a player tosses or kicks an object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the ground.

verb:
1. To move or pass through something, as a ( Read more... )

4/5/10 12:00 am - dictionary_wotd - grok: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2010/04/05.html
grok: to understand.

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I reject this as the word of the day. I'm unsure of wether or not it's become a "real" word.. but I greatly disliked Strangers in a Strange Land. Nice try Heinlein.

The ( Read more... )

The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

In the life front Nothing is new ( Read more... )

petrichor (PET-ri-kuhr) noun

The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell.

tchotchke \CHOCH-kuh\, noun:
A trinket; a knickknack.

The rare tchotchke aside, our antiquing journeys mainly amounted to wishful foraging, in the spirit of a more roomy and prosperous someday we somehow never really articulated.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Most Wanted

Of course, you also have arcades, like Funland, and your typical tchotchke vendors, ( Read more... )

monomania, monomania, monomania, monomania 
monomania \mon-uh-MAY-nee-uh; -nyuh\, noun:
1. Pathological obsession with a single subject or idea.
2. Excessive concentration of interest upon one particular subject or idea.

monomania, monomania, monomania, monomania,

Now that's a word of the day that I might remember.