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andydp
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 Posted: 09/27/03 - 12:48 Post subject: Build your vocabulary
OK just as a lark... How about starting a tread where you submit a "new word" and the next person has to provide the REAL definition of it.
Example:
Post 1: Bloviate << yes, its real
Post 2: To talk pompously (think blowhard)
Here goes:
Quotidian
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 09/27/03 - 12:56 Post subject: Re: Build your vocabulary
| andydp wrote: | OK just as a lark... How about starting a tread where you submit a "new word" and the next person has to provide the REAL definition of it.
Example:
Post 1: Bloviate << yes, its real
Post 2: To talk pompously (think blowhard)
Here goes:
Quotidian |
Daily, recurring every day. 2) usual or ordinary
Next...
Jurel
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pokychick
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Posted: 09/27/03 - 12:57 Post subject:
jurel - yellow carangoid fish of Atlantic...most valued as fish food
flibbertigibbet
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Noley
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Posted: 09/27/03 - 13:00 Post subject:
| pokychick wrote: | quotidian - everyday, commonplace
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person, usually a woman 
Next: Iowan
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airehead
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Posted: 09/27/03 - 13:05 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | | pokychick wrote: | quotidian - everyday, commonplace
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person, usually a woman
Next: Iowan |
Resident of Iowa?
Next: Troglodyte
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TimRuns
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Posted: 09/27/03 - 13:06 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | | pokychick wrote: | quotidian - everyday, commonplace
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person, usually a woman
Next: Iowan |
I dunno  someone who's a native of Iowa?
Now my turn:
roughy
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Noley
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Posted: 09/27/03 - 13:19 Post subject:
Roughy? Couldn't find that one?
How about: nip-up
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