boys and girls, my dear friends and readers, gather 'round:
the word for today is argh.

wait, wait! you say, what bilge is this, ye bletherskate? argh is not a real word, merely a sort of onomatopoeic growl of frustration, anger, or disapproval.

that may be as well, but i put it to you that argh is a real word ( Read more... )

gather 'round, dear boys and girls, the word for today is macellarious.
macellarious is an obsolete and incredibly rare adjective pertaining to that which is like a slaughterhouse, butcher's, or the older senses of shambles: meat market, meat vendor's stall, place of great destruction and carnage, etc ( Read more... )

so i missed a few weeks. i've been busy.

gather 'round, boys and girls, the word for today is sanguinolency.
sanguinolency is a noun describing the quality (and a quality it is) of being sanguinolent or bloody!
that which is sanguinolent is of or regarding blood: stained, streaked, smeared, spattered, sprayed, or soaked in it, containing it, or ( Read more... )

the word for today is february.
february is the second month of the julian and gregorian calendars, all twenty-eight days of it and all twenty-nine days in a bisextile. appearing first in the later roman calendar, it was eleventh month, sandwiched between december and january.
the word itself comes to us from the latin februarius, the roman ( Read more... )

going to try to do this in under half an hour... i'm tired, i have things i need to do, and my legs are decaying.

gather around, dear girls and boys, the word of the day, sometime last week, is were.
were, as a noun in this sense, is a great old word of common teutonic origin defined as a man or husband, and one which we have unfortunately ( Read more... )

cease your warlike violence for a moment, boys and girls, and gather around.

the word for today is amok.
amok comes down to us through the ages via portuguese (amouco) from the malay adjective amoq, originally defined as engaging furiously in battle, attacking with desperate resolution, rushing in a state of frenzy to the commission of ( Read more... )

hwæt, boys and girls, gather around.
the word for today is alder, illustriously one of the oldest attested nouns in this tongue of ours ( Read more... )

the word for today is whelk.

to quote:
and finally among the lamellibranch bivalves, that most depraved of the whole sub-species - the whelk. the whelk is nothing but a homosexual of the worst kind. this gay boy of the gastropods, this queer crustacean, this mincing mollusk, this screaming, prancing, limp-wristed queen of the deep makes me sick ( Read more... )

the word for today is cullion.
in its oldest form, a testicle, now considered obsolete, with a modern cognate in the spanish cojones.

'Nay, nay,' quod he, 'thanne have I Cristes curs ( Read more... )

the word for today, boys and girls, is none other than powder-monkeys.
aye, powder-monkeys.

this from A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, in its several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggers, Thieves, Cheats &c., with An Addition of some Proverbs, Phrases, Figurative Speeches &c. : Useful for all sorts of People ( ( Read more... )