The word of the day game

[homoe]

OK then, let's try this new one


new word..............lagniappe

[cathexis]

Originally Posted by homoe

OK then, let's try this new one


new word..............lagniappe

something new, fresh, and different
also, the name of a free street newspaper in New Orleans


how's about.......

New Word: precociousness

[homoe]

Originally Posted by cathexis

something new, fresh, and different
also, the name of a free street newspaper in New Orleans


how's about.......

New Word: precociousness

Unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development. If a younger child does it, they are often referred to as precious.

new word......trammel

[homoe]

OK no takers soooo how about........


new word impish......

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by homoe

Unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development. If a younger child does it, they are often referred to as precious.

new word......trammel

Trammel.... refers to an netting device to capture an fish.

Originally Posted by homoe

OK no takers soooo how about........


new word impish......

Impish refers to those elves who work hard all year long.


New Word: Cowabunga!

[homoe]

For trammel I was thinking also along the lines of..........


A restriction or impediment to someone's freedom of action.


It always amazes me how so many words have so many various meanings!

[homoe]

cowabunga...........



Said to express delight or satisfaction.


new word........tintinnabulation

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by homoe

cowabunga...........



Said to express delight or satisfaction.


new word........tintinnabulation

That's a word that describes the sound of ringing bells or tingling of wind chimes or keys or even coins in your pocket (I think). It's actually an word invented by Edgar Allen Poe, which is used in the first stanza of his poem.... The Bells.

New Word: Paleomagnetism

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

That's a word that describes the sound of ringing bells or tingling of wind chimes or keys or even coins in your pocket (I think). It's actually an word invented by Edgar Allen Poe, which is used in the first stanza of his poem.... The Bells.

New Word: Paleomagnetism

paleomagnetism is the branch of geophysics concerned with the magnetism in rocks that was induced by the earth's magnetic field at the time of their formation.

[homoe]

new word.............licentious

[homoe]

OK let's try...............


wafture .........

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

OK let's try...............


wafture .........

The act of waving or a wavelike motion.


Soon they will be doing this at the start of baseball season once again.........


new word...........lilt

[puddin']

Originally Posted by homoe

new word...........lilt

can i ask how this thread works? i've been gone a while. and though i do adore words, i would like to know the parameters here. (do i sound like a geek? yes i do)

[puddin']

Originally Posted by homoe

Unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development. If a younger child does it, they are often referred to as precious.

new word......trammel

enmesh. see. i just went and did what i thought. though that may not be the game at all.....

[cathexis]

Originally Posted by puddin'

enmesh. see. i just went and did what i thought. though that may not be the game at all.....

to catch by entanglement as a fish in a boating net

New Word: ethnobotony

[homoe]

Originally Posted by puddin'

enmesh. see. i just went and did what i thought. though that may not be the game at all.....

Hey puddin'

Give a definition to the last word posted then YOU leave and a word and someone defines that and so on and so on..........

[homoe]

Originally Posted by cathexis

to catch by entanglement as a fish in a boating net

New Word: ethnobotony

Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people. ... investigating plants used by primitive societies in various parts of the world.


new word.............plethora

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by homoe

Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people. ... investigating plants used by primitive societies in various parts of the world.


new word.............plethora

Plethora, can mean having an abundance of examples or an abundance of most anything, I think.

New Word: Superlative

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

Plethora, can mean having an abundance of examples or an abundance of most anything, I think.

New Word: Superlative

Of the highest quality or degree. The very best.

new word....redolent

[cathexis]

Originally Posted by homoe

Of the highest quality or degree. The very best.

new word....redolent

having a pleasant odor or scent
something that is aromatic


New Word: organic (chem.)