Word of the Day

[Plant Woman]

Everyday I get a word of the day and I try to learn it. Ain't that sweet! Any-who, the best way for me to learn the word is to make a sentence with it. Problem is I don't always do it, so I propose I do a word of the day here, and write a sentence using the word. And if anyone else would like to use the same word in a sentence to help their vocabulary-learnin' join in! Or not. I think by reading different uses of the same word will broaden my understanding of it.

08/01/08 word is:

panoply \PAN-uh-plee\, noun:

1. A splendid or impressive array.
2. Ceremonial attire.
3. A full suit of armor; a complete defense or covering.

My garden jungle consists of a panoply of flowers and colorful foliage, carefully selected and planted to weave in and around each other.

[Plant Woman]

This may be a boring thread, but I will post for a few days and if no one participates, I might cry, but I'll drop it. :please:

[Crumb]

My desk drawers contain a panoply of junk food.

[JoeP]

So, do I understand this right: you choose the words? And invite us to use the word of the day?

We'll see how it goes. At least, if you keep it up, you'll have an impressive panoply of words.

[Ymir's blood]

Jim was a millionaire, but it was just panoply money.

[wei yau]

For the coronation, Prince Justin has a panoply of panoplies to choose from. However, due to the threat of assassination, he decided to go with the panoply.

[ceptimus]

I can't find the frying pan. Oh please! Where is it?

[JoeP]

:groan:

We need a groan button.

[Plant Woman]

Thanks, everyone! I was going to post the different words I receive everyday in an email, however, that doesn't mean I HAVE to post it. :woopsie:

:doh: We don't have a groan button?:hm:

[GodPossessed]

I like "punctilious"

It means: strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.

Kant was so punctual and punctilious about his daily walk that his neighbors would set their timepieces by it.

[Histrionica]

Use this :puke: for now.

[JoeP]

Is it a new day yet? You'll need to be as punctilious about posting the word as Stormlight is with posting happy birthday threads.

[Plant Woman]

Sorry about that, sometimes I don't get here until late in the morning; I'm also one of the latest time zones. I will try to put it up before I go to sleep then.

sapient \SAY-pee-uhnt\, adjective:

Wise; sage; discerning.

Appointing sapient advisers for the candidate wouldn't help her; she refused to listen.

[Garnet]

Brian is not sapient.


Sorry, couldn't resist.

[godfry n. glad]

:groan:

We need a groan button.

That should go with the request for :wince: and :cringe: !!!

[godfry n. glad]

Pee ent.

Are you happy now?

[JoeP]

:groan:
and :shakegroan:

[JoeP]

Being sapient on the internet is like pissing into a volcano.

[godfry n. glad]

Being sapient on the internet is like pissing into a volcano.

:wince:

:groan:

[godfry n. glad]

Isn't :groan: just

oooouuuu....
:facepalm:

Hmmmm, guess not. The balloon should only appear when his palm covers his face. Also, a rolleyes might be helpful, just before placing the face in the palm.

There's also the 'hold my nose' gesture to indicate it stinks....have we that?

[Plant Woman]

brummagem BRUHM-uh-juhm, adjective:

Cheap and showy, tawdry; also, spurious, counterfeit.

He walked through strings of plastic beads hung like curtains across the doorway, and waited nervously in the brummagem room.

[freemonkey]

Her collection, though she thought it gave her an air of sophistication, was really just a bunch of brummagem.

[ceptimus]

I live near Brummagem and am confused by your use of the word.

Brummagem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brummagem)

[Plant Woman]

I live near Brummagem and am confused by your use of the word.

Brummagem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brummagem)

According to your link, the word has a long list of usage. Perhaps the meaning I gave is indigenous to the U.S.?

[ceptimus]

Yes - your usage of the word is explained in the Wiki article.

Previously I've not come across it. Living here, one tends to hear the word used in two contexts:

1) A friendly familar alternative to 'Birmingham', often shortened to 'Brum'.

2) A 'brummagem screwdriver' is an alternative name for a hammer. The implication is that 'Brummies' (people from the Birmingham area) are too stupid to use precision tools and only know how to 'adust' things by hitting them with hammers!

[Plant Woman]

More fun with words!

[Dingfod]

brummagem - v. - the act of searching a cluttered janitorial closet for something with which to sweep up a mess.

ex: Homer Sapient was brummagem around the kitchen after Hilda dropped her tray of chips on the dining room floor.

[Plant Woman]

:giggle:

[Ymir's blood]

After leaving the seminary, Ted found a position with a well-to-do church in the West Midlands, tending to the needs of the Brummagem Christians.

[Plant Woman]

obeisance \oh-BEE-suhn(t)s; oh-BAY-suhn(t)s\, noun:

1. An expression of deference or respect, such as a bow or curtsy.
2. Deference, homage.

Obeisance comes from Old French obeissance, from obeissant, present participle of obeir, to obey, from Latin oboedire, to listen to, from ob-, to + audire, to hear. The adjective form is obeisant.

BTW, I get my word of the day from Dictionary.com.


Her obeisance becomes clear every time he speaks; she falls quiet, listening carefully to every utterance.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Her obeisance becomes clear every time he speaks; she falls quiet, listening carefully to every utterance.

Gloria Steinem's gonna be pissed when she hears this.

[Dingfod]

obeisance - n. - sense that one should obey their superior

ex: The slacking lackey lacked obeisance unless the boss was in sight.

[Plant Woman]

Her obeisance becomes clear every time he speaks; she falls quiet, listening carefully to every utterance.

Gloria Steinem's gonna be pissed when she hears this.

:laugh:

[JoeP]

Charter clause 214 (b) [i] {4}. All Freethought Forum members must display true obeisance to ChuckF.

[Plant Woman]

:foocl:

[freemonkey]

That crazy, deluded bitch thinks she deserves obeisance from everyone.

[Plant Woman]

:giggle:

[Plant Woman]

vituperate vy-TOO-puh-rate, -TYOO-, vi-, verb:

To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

Vituperate comes from Latin vitupero, vituperare, to scold, blame, censure.

During the worst flame wars on a forum, you can watch the post count go ever higher, the words fly as posters vituperate in the worst possible manner with each other.

[Crumb]

When I don't post a sentence using the word of the day PW sends me a PM vituperating me.

[ceptimus]

I vituperated them till they became obeisant.

(trying to catch up).

[mickthinks]

The panoply of brummagem which he offered in obeisance was received with a howl of less than sapient vituperation.

(trying to catch up).
Me too.

[Sock Puppet]

As he vituperated the sales clerk, spittle flew from his mouth as if he had actually said the word "vituperated."

[Plant Woman]

You guys! :foocl:

[JoeP]

You guys!, she vituperated.

[freemonkey]

Her communications with, and about, others are always vituperative, never kind.

[Plant Woman]

You guys!, she vituperated.

Her communications with, and about, others are always vituperative, never kind.

I'm going to get a complex! :giggles:

[Dingfod]

vituperate - v. To talk bad about Tupperware sellers.


example: By the way Nancy vituperated, you could tell she had no intention of attending her neighbor Francine's Tupperware party.

[freemonkey]

You guys!, she vituperated.

Her communications with, and about, others are always vituperative, never kind.

I'm going to get a complex! :giggles:

:hug:

Sorry, I'm just working out my issues with my neighbor in your thread.

[Plant Woman]

You go right ahead, I'm just giggling. :hug:

[Plant Woman]

spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:

1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

Spoony is from the slang term spoon, meaning "a simpleton or a silly person."

Today's word is a fun one and dedicated to all my spoony pals here at :ff:.

[Dingfod]

spoony, adj. - Something better scooped up with a spoon than a fork.

ex: That beef stew was spoony.


I love Balderdash.

[Watser?]

YouTube - Spoonie Gee - Spoonin G Rap

[Plant Woman]

:slide:

[ceptimus]

Whenever I think about the canteen of cutlery my grandmother left me in her will, which had several knives and forks missing, I become spoony.

[freemonkey]

Not only is she a a xenophobe and a homophobe, she is also almost sickeningly spoony in her Americanism.

[Chris Porter]

He was absolutely spoony over his poodle puppy, dressing him in doll clothing and carrying his hairy lover in a green knapsack.

[Plant Woman]

asperity \as-PAIR-uh-tee\, noun:

1. Roughness of surface; unevenness.
2. Roughness or harshness of sound; a quality that grates upon the ear.
3. Roughness of manner; severity; harshness.

Asperity comes from Latin asperitas, from asper, "rough." It is related to exasperate, "to irritate in a high degree," from ex- (here used intensively) + asperatus, past participle of asperare, "to roughen," from asper.

No matter how quaint a pathway looks with cobblestone paving, their asperity makes walking difficult.

[Sock Puppet]

The asperity of this asparagus makes me wonder exactly how it was cooked.

[Dingfod]

asperity - adj.

Buttocks of equal quality or size.

ex: As he watched them walk away, Mike believed Belinda and Lucy had achieved asperity.

[Chris Porter]

And here I was, thinking asperity meant tart, sharp, or acidic, in relationship to someone's utterance/frame of mind. I've now been schooled with asperity.

[Plant Woman]

vexillology \vek-sil-AHL-uh-jee\, noun:

The study of flags.

From Latin vexillum, "flag" + (Greek) -logy (from logos, " word, discourse").

Looking at the smiley list, you would think someone was into vexillology.

[ceptimus]

I'm a vexillologist!
:hi: :ar: :la: :md: :mn: :antilles: :look: :jacksonville: :wy: :dc: :sd: :tx: :nm:

[JoeP]

:gooduse: young ceptimus.

[Plant Woman]

provenance PROV-uh-nuhn(t)s, noun:

Origin; source.

Provenance comes from French, from provenant, present participle of provenir, "to originate," ultimately from Latin provenire, from pro-, "forth" + venire, "to come."

[Plant Woman]

The provenance of all the plant material in my garden comes from local nurseries, who are now rich, while I am poor.

[Crumb]

I found the brief provenance of "provenance" interesting.

[Plant Woman]

hehe 11:11 on both our posts. Don't tell anyone. :shh:

[Crumb]

:hide:

[JoeP]

No authorities can attest to the provenance of the Semper Novum text.

[Plant Woman]

enervate EN-ur-vayt, transitive verb:

1. To deprive of vigor, force, or strength; to render feeble; to weaken.
2. To reduce the moral or mental vigor of.

Enervate is from the past participle of Latin enervare, "to remove the sinews from, to weaken," from e-, ex-, "out of, from" + nervus, "sinew."

When I watch TV too much I feel enervated; but watch out, when I interact with others I feel invigorated.

[Petra]

I am very enervative. I have enervated enerventions that I really should register a patent for. :toothpick:

[JoeP]

After being vituperated over my failure to understand the provenance of the vexillologist's flags, I am seriously enervated.

[Dingfod]

enervate - v.

To use creative ideas to help reduce energy consumption.


e.g.: Toyota showed it's ability to enervate when it came out with it's Prius hybrid automobile.

[Dingfod]

provenance - n

Government of a province, e.g. Canada's Manitoba.


ex: It is fair to say wheat farmers play a large role in electing the provenance of Manitoba.

[Plant Woman]

I am so going to put this in my vocabulary.

chichi (SHEE-shee), adjective:

Affectedly trendy.

From the French word that literally means "curl of false hair"; used figuratively in the phrases faire des chichis, "to have affected manners, to make a fuss"; and gens à chichis, "affected, snobbish people." Sometimes spelled "chi-chi."

As an aside, in Hawaii shi-shi means go to the bathroom, as in I have to go shi-shi. So it may not be a good word to use in the Islands.

[Plant Woman]

Being part of the girly gang is sooooo chichi.

[Sock Puppet]

It's especially appropriate for the girly gang, since in Spanish slang (at least Mexican, not sure about other countries), chichis are boobies.

Her chichis were so chichi in that designer bikini.

[JoeP]

At his hotel in Hawaii, Miguel-Jesus du Bois was very confused about asking the affectedly trendy concierge with the big boobies where the bathroom was.

[Sock Puppet]

"Two tickets to Pittsburgh, please."

[Plant Woman]

lackadaisical lack-uh-DAY-zih-kuhl, adjective:

Lacking spirit or liveliness; showing lack of interest; languid; listless.

Lackadaisical comes from the expression lackadaisy, a variation of lackaday, itself a shortening of "alack the (or a) day!"

She wanted to pack up and leave because his lackadaisical attitude meant they lived in a house full of unfinished projects he started and never completed.

[JoeP]

Most FF members could participate in this thread, but are too lackadaisical.

[Crumb]

:unnod:

[Dingfod]

lackadaisical - adj

The absence of brightly colored flowers in a floral arrangement.


ex - That lackadaisical funeral spray had only brown, blue and green in it.

[Dingfod]

chichi - n

The center of the center of the invisible power that flows through everything.


ex: Her chichi was off balance, causing her to be beaten in the judo match.

[Plant Woman]

blackguard BLAG-uhrd, noun:

1. A rude or unscrupulous person; a scoundrel.
2. A person who uses foul or abusive language.
3. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, "blackguard language."
4. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

Blackguard is from black + guard. The term originally referred to the lowest kitchen servants of a court or of a nobleman's household. They had charge of pots and pans and kitchen other utensils, and rode in wagons conveying these during journeys from one residence to another. Being dirtied by this task, they were jocularly called the "black guard."

[Plant Woman]

We have a few blackguards that hang out on FF and make jabs at others whenever they can.

[Dingfod]

blackguard - n.

Non-Caucasian security personnel, opposite of whiteguard.


The blackguard kept close watch out for the safety of his employer, the whiteguard monitored the property gate.

[Plant Woman]

philter FIL-tur, noun:

1. A potion or charm supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love.
2. A potion or charm believed to have magic power.
3. To enchant or bewitch with or as if with a magic potion or charm.

Philter is derived from Greek philtron, from philein, "to love," from philos, "dear, loving."

She slowly stirred the carefully selected ingredients in the mixing bowl and wondered how she could convince her date to drink the philter to the last drop of liquid. Bending her head awkwardly backwards, she peered into the darkening sky and howled like a wolf in search of her long lost mate.

[Dingfod]

philter - n

A filter fitted to a funnel used to fill gasoline tanks on small engines such as lawnmowers.


The philter keeps the bits of grass and dirt out of the gasoline tank on the Lawnboy.

[JoeP]

"Philter reception. Message for you Phil."

[Plant Woman]

knell NEL, verb:

1. The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.
2. To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.

From the Old English cnyll, cnell, "the sound of bells."

It was the sound of the tinkling bamboo chimes that made me take notice. Shortly I heard the sound of the neighbor’s tires rolling down their gravel driveway, a knell that my garden would no longer be a place of peace or quiet.

[ceptimus]

The death knell of Nell Gwyn was tolled by the bells of St Clement's.

(I'm using it as a noun here, as that's the way I always have.) :shrug:

[Chris Porter]

In parts of the world, a ringing new definition knelled the dawn.

[Dingfod]

knell (k'nel) - n

1. Southern colloquialism for a manmade waterway for transport of goods and passengers usually on barges, boats, or ships.


ex: That big ol' ship of your'n ain't gonna fit in that there knell.

[mickthinks]

"How dare you insult me with this spoony assemblage of chichi junk, from what blackguard provenance I dare not guess!" Her asperity was severe. "Your lackadaisical courtship is the knell on our enervated affair, which no philtre could revive."

[Plant Woman]

aestival ES-tuh-vuhl, adjective:

Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases. [Spelled also estival.]

From the Latin æstas, summer. Also from æstas:

We haven't had much aestival weather this August and tomorrow they predict weather like we normally have in November. I predict we will have a few tree falls.

[Dingfod]

aestival (a-est-i-vel) n

1. Lacking a festival or the opposite of festival.
2. Festival sponsored by the first letter of the English alphabet.


ex: The Tulsa State Fair was so lame last year it was virtually an aestival.

[GodPossessed]

blackguard - n.

Non-Caucasian security personnel, opposite of whiteguard.


The blackguard kept close watch out for the safety of his employer, the whiteguard monitored the property gate.

I'm afraid you have maligned the term "whiteguard" to the point where it no longs means low scorer on the basketball team.

[Plant Woman]

bruit BROOT, transitive verb:

To report; to noise abroad.

Bruit comes from Old French, from the past participle of bruire, "to roar."

Journalists all over the world waited for Dingfod's fresh new meanings. They would quickly bruit it to the world.

[Dingfod]

bruit (BRU-it), contr. v.

1. Demand that one immediately brew something, esp. tea.


ex: Wally yelled at Sam, who was hunting around for sugar cubes, "Just bruit, damn it!"

[Chris Porter]

"Hsst!" fiercely whispered Maggy, leaning towards John. "Tone down! We all know what goes in where by now, no need to bruit about it." John sat back down, visibly deflated.

[Plant Woman]

juju JOO-joo, noun:

1. An object superstitiously believed to embody magical powers.
2. The power associated with a juju.

Juju is of West African origin, akin to Hausa djudju, fetish, evil spirit.

There is juju in this place; every time I step out my door I am transported to the garden of the gods.

[JoeP]

Juju is an active poster at Moosie's europeforum.

Not an entry, just an observation.

[Chris Porter]

The juju of Austin's mojo overwhelmed even Miss Moneypenny.

[Watser?]

Juju is/was also a musical style in Nigeria, especially popular in the 1980s. King Sunny Adé and Chief Ebenzer Obey were the most famous juju musicians.

[Dingfod]

juju (jew-jew) - n

1. denigrating term for a certain ethnic/racial group.


ex: Yo, the juju with the black hat and curly sideburns ordered the bagels and lox.

[Plant Woman]

peregrination pehr-uh-gruh-NAY-shun, noun:

A traveling from place to place; a wandering.

Peregrination comes from Latin peregrinatio, from peregrinari, "to stay or travel in foreign countries," from peregre, "in a foreign country, abroad," from per, "through" + ager, "land."

I often dream about a year of peregrination, just to see where my wanderlust will take me.

[Plant Woman]

Sorry for missing a day, deadlines kept me too busy.

[Plant Woman]

comity KOM-uh-tee, noun:

1. A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between or among nations or people; civility.
2. The courteous recognition by one nation of the laws and institutions of another.
3. The group of nations observing international comity.

Comity is from Latin comitas, from comis, "courteous."

During the Olympics, nations send their best to compete in mutual comity.

[JoeP]

The comity for the 2010 Soccar Weld Cap in South Aafrika is steell busy deciding on thee flower arrangements.

[JoeP]

The Peregrination was founded in 1978 to serve as a beacon of hope for self-determination of peregrine falcons all over the world.

[Dingfod]

perigrination (pair-eh-grin-nation) n

1. Country whose national symbol is the Peregrin Falcon.


ex: If Idaho were to become an independent country, it would be a perigrination (http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Idaho/Raptor_peregrine_falcon.html).


comity (COM-ih-tee) n

1. Southern colloquialism for comedy.


ex: My mother in law from Southeast Texas calls a comedy a comity.


Seriously, she does.