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Word of the day!

  • 26-03-2003 5:29pm
    #1
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Today's word is ... birthday

    What is tomorrow's word? and the day after? What would you like the word of the day to be??


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    "poo"



    kdjac


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭DRakE


    I vote for tomorrow's word to be Thursday.

    M0cks Sense.


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Quantum.

    DeV.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭ozt9vdujny3srf


    jiggle, jiggle is a great word


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭regi


    How about a phrase? I like 'smarmy bastard'


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35,523 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    qwidgybo or thingmyjig


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    how about Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,152 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    *******


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    DeVore gets tomorrow's word, because it's his birthday! Keep the suggestions coming ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Originally posted by ecksor
    DeVore gets tomorrow's word, because it's his birthday! Keep the suggestions coming ;)

    Grrrrrr ..... Favouritism

    :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭Thorbar


    Badonkadonk

    Generally refers to a womans behide which is something along the same lines as Jlo's mighty rear.


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,239 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by ecksor
    Today's word is ... birthday What is tomorrow's word?
    Hangover?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Sloth


    oppression.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭hedgetrimmer


    subscribe to www.dictionary.com they give you a word a day...some really odd ones. Example...

    Word of the Day for Monday March 24, 2003

    salmagundi \sal-muh-GUHN-dee\, noun:
    1. A salad plate usually consisting of chopped meat,
    anchovies, eggs, and onions, served with oil and vinegar.
    2. Any mixture or assortment; a medley; a potpourri; a
    miscellany.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Discombobulated.

    The Guardian used it on the front page on Monday. I'm guessing Suzanne Goldenberg won a bet.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Originally posted by hedgetrimmer
    subscribe to www.dictionary.com they give you a word a day...some really odd ones.

    Yeah, but we want a boards word of the day.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    duende (doo-en'-day) n. the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm [from Sp. dialect for "charm", from Sp. "ghost, goblin" from duen de casa].


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Carbiens


    duck or quack,

    say them a few times over and you'll realize their the two funniest words in the english language


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Haberdashery, for today and every other day.
    Just to keep the thread going, har-de-har.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    Humdinger - Something extraordinary


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  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Ameliorate - Improve

    as in "Ameliorate your Verbosity using the English board!"


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Today's word is ... poo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    tits


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ivan


    acrimonious

    to be angry, bitter and/or sharp in language or attitude

    as in:

    an acrimonious relationship


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Today's word is ... jiggle


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Clintons Cat


    I Nominate Language


    Dedicated to the Director Of Koyaanisqatsi,Godfrey Roggio for the quote
    Our Language is in a state of vast humilliation.
    It no longer describes the world in which we live.


    That or Shrubbery


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Today's word is ... favouritism


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    Maybe todays word can also be mammy!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    You boys make it too easy for me... he he!

    Mammy comes from Mammary gland which is part of the breast which secretes milk during breast feeding... so there you go.... he he!
    More information available on request however i feel you probably dont even want the information already given...... sorry!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Todays word is ......... floater


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