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Shecky:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on May 09, 2011, 01:25:08 AM ---cool recombobulated! rolling that one over and over in my mind and tongue! Of course if you were that far in your buzz--I admire your ability to say it at all. *smiling*
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I also took the term "disgruntled" and dissected it with Occam's Razor. Back when I was teaching at a public university (and happy with it), I called myself a "gruntled government employee". ;D
I'm told I speak more easily and more glibly with a wee dram of the booze in me. That or being utterly tired but wired; I've actually invented a few words in that state. My favorite has always been "retrosnack". Think about it. :D
Snowleopard:
Urgh, I think I know what retrosnack means Shecky.
LizW65:
--- Quote ---I also took the term "disgruntled" and dissected it with Occam's Razor. Back when I was teaching at a public university (and happy with it), I called myself a "gruntled government employee".
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This reminds me of a famous PG Wodehouse quote, something like: "While not precisely disgruntled, he was far from gruntled."
I like defenestrate "to throw from a window" and from HP Lovecraft: squamous, Stygian, ichor, foetid, Tartarean. The problem with using those in a story, though, is that it usually comes off as Lovecraftian pastiche.
OZ:
I love the words foetid and ichor. I like the word noisome as well. They may be a bit cliched but I love the descriptive power of phrases like "a dank, foetid jungle" or " foul, noisome ichor dripped from its wound".
Shecky:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on May 10, 2011, 01:53:30 PM ---
This reminds me of a famous PG Wodehouse quote, something like: "While not precisely disgruntled, he was far from gruntled."
I like defenestrate "to throw from a window"
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By logic, "fenestrate" should be "to push in through a window". :D
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