Word Of The Day

[Hunny]

plotz

YIDDISH verb.

1a) To become emotional, with excitement, grief or anger.
1b) To collapse or faint from it.

An example of to plotz is to become totally enraged at the sight of abuse.

"When i heard she had slept with my roommate, i was about to plotz!"
"Wait until you get a load of the banquet room. You're gonna plotz!"

2) Plotzing means to burst or explode. In some instances it can refer to a sudden
bowel movement. "I can't laugh anymore or I'll "plotz."

3a) To collapse or faint from exhaustion
3b) To "fall down dead right now"

"Oy, after all that shopping I'm about to plotz"
"Ham and cheese sandwiches? If your grandfather weren't already dead, he'd plotz."


4)It can mean to be unintelligibly intoxicated ("He was plottzed!")

[sadie1263]

Jul 17, 2012 15:36:45 GMT Big Lin said:

'I am enuii the eighth I am!'

The Germans call it 'weltschmerz' and it's a universal human feeling at least some of the time!

Ok....that seriously cracked me up......thank Lin.....I needed the laugh!

[Hunny]

cogent

Convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation.

One woman was so intelligent that the professors always lit up when she spoke;
her eloquent, cogent analyses forced them not to be lazy, not to repeat themselves.
-- Meg Wolitzer, Surrender Dorothy

[Big Lin]

Of course against prejudice and fanaticism even cogent arguments don't work!

[sadie1263]

No....for that you need a 2 x 4 or possibly a baseball bat

[Hunny]

agog



Very eager or curious to hear or see something: "I'm all agog to see London".

Full of excitement or interest; in eager desire; eager, keen.

Kobe Bryant left the Minnesota Timberwolves agog after
a series of eye-popping moves in a game last week.
-- New York Times, February 5, 1998

By the second day he had found his sea-legs, and with hair flying and double-waistcoats
flapping, he patrolled the deck agog with excitement, questioning and noting.
-- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834

[Hunny]

diffident

1. Lacking self-confidence; distrustful of one's own powers; timid; bashful.

2. Characterized by modest reserve; unassertive.


Minny was too delicate and diffident to ask her cousin outright to take her to Europe.

Both would have liked champagne, but each was too diffident to suggest it.

[Hunny]

stolid

1 - Not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; showing little or no emotion or interest

2 - Calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.

~ She remained stolid during the trial.

~ The butler responded to the duchess's constant demands with stolid indifference.

Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, impassive, Al Gore (just checking if you're paying attention)

Antonyms: demonstrative, expressive

[Hunny]

erudite

Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; learned.

"In front of imposing edifices like the Topkapi Palace are guides displaying Government-issued
licenses. Many of these guides are erudite historians who have quit low-paying jobs as university
professors and now offer private tours."
-- "What's Doing in Istanbul", New York Times, February 23, 1997

[chips]

Love these Hunny

[Hunny]

aplomb

Assurance of manner or of action; self confidence; coolness.

He arose from the commode with domestic aplomb, possessing now the certainty of what he must do.

His initial broadcasting success was due at least as much to his considerable
professional aplomb as it was to his father's broadcasting connections.

[Hunny]

incondite


incondite
\ in-KON-dit \ , adjective

1. Ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.
2. Crude; rough; unmannerly.

He is no such honest chronicler as R.N., and would have done
better perhaps to have consulted that gentleman, before
he sent these incondite reminiscences to press.

[Hunny]

evanescent

Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting.


The Pen which gives. . . permanence to the evanescent thought of a moment.

The accidentally famous. . . may write books, appear on talk shows,
and, in so doing, attract even greater public attention. This type
of celebrity status, of course, is brittle and evanescent.

[Hunny]

intrapreneur

An employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support
to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the
corporation's usual routines or protocols.

Intrapreneur was coined in the 1970s as a variation of the
more common word entrepreneur. The prefix intra- means "within."

[Hunny]

billet-doux

\ BIL-ey-DOO \ A love letter.

The bouquet struck her full in the chest, and a little billet-doux fell out of it into her lap.

“Billet-doux means love letter, in French.” “Then why didn't you just
say love letter?” “Because French is the language of love, my boy.
Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.”

[CarlaCarlaCarlaCarla]

Jul 9, 2012 16:55:32 GMT Hunny said:

re: Types of STUPID


Words that deride...

dumbass, dipshit, twit, cretin, stupe

My favorite is shitferbrains.

[Hunny]

compeer


1. Close friend; comrade.

2. An equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague.

3 as a verb (archaic): To be the equal of; match.


Quotes:

Whoever eats them outlasts heaven and earth, and is the compeer of sun and moon.
-- Cheng'en Wu, Monkey

Aren't you pleased with him, and didn't he arrange things well, eh, my good compeer Lenet?
-- Alexandre Dumas, The Women's War

[Hunny]

vituperate

\vy-TOO-puh-rate\ , verb:
To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

There are moments in life when true invective is called for, when it
becomes an absolute necessity, out of a deep sense of justice, to
denounce, mock, vituperate, lash out, in the strongest possible language.
-- Charles Simic, quoted in "The argument culture", Irish Times, December 17, 1998

The incensed priests...continued to raise their voices,
vituperating each other in bad Latin.
-- Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

[Hunny]

assiduous

\uh-SIJ-oo-uhs\ , adjective:

1. Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive.

2. Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, "assiduous labor."

"I can scarcely find time to write you even a Love Letter", Samuel Adams,
an assiduous committeeman, wrote his wife in early 1776.

He was a man who by assiduous reading, through his devotion to
literature, had become the quintessential successful gentleman,
a man who could hold his own with the most cultivated companions.

[Hunny]

ineffable

\in-EF-uh-buhl\ , adjective:

1. Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable.

2. Not to be uttered; taboo.

". . .the tension inherent in human language when it attempts to relate
the ineffable, see the invisible, understand the incomprehensible."

"An ineffable beauty descends upon the canyon as the sun begins to set."

[Hunny]

canard


1. An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.

2.a. A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft,
mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.

2b. An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.


IN A SENTENCE...

Then there's the old canard that the critics have it easy.

And the canard about tenure making it difficult to fire teachers is ridiculous.

[Hunny]

eschew

\es-CHOO\ , transitive verb:

To shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful).

In high school and college the Vassar women had enjoyed that lifestyle, but
afterward they had eschewed it as shallow.

While teaching in Beijing, in the late 1920s, he helped launch what became
known as the "new poetry" movement, which eschewed traditional forms
and encouraged topics based on everyday life.

Finally, the first American diplomats . . . made a point of eschewing fancy
dress, titles, entertainments, and all manner of protocol, so as to
be walking, talking symbols of republican piety.

[Hunny]

expatiate

\ek-SPAY-shee-ayt\ , intransitive verb:

1. To speak or write at length or in considerable detail.

2. To move about freely; to wander.

He had told her all he had been asked to tell--or all he meant to tell:
at any rate he had been given abundant opportunity to expatiate
upon a young man's darling subject--himself.


At the midday meal, Mrs. Lucas expatiates on the difficulties of caring for a
parakeet her daughter has unloaded upon her and which, let out of its cage
for an airing, has escaped through the door suddenly opened by Mr. Lucas.


His relationship with his family was for many years an unhappy one,
and he does not care to expatiate upon it.

[sadie1263]

I have to start working some of these into regular discussion........eschew just sounds like you're sneezing though.

[Hunny]

putative

\PYOO-tuh-tiv\ , adjective:

1: commonly accepted or supposed

2: assumed to exist or to have existed

The putative reason for her dismissal was poor job performance.

Certainly, to have even a putative ancestor commemorated
by Shakespeare is something about which to boast.