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Word of the day.

#406757

Postby redsturgeon » April 25th, 2021, 11:01 am

For the last week or so the weather has been great (where I am) beautiful clear skies and the warmth of the sun on your face. All slightly tempered by the chilly easterly wind.

Did you know there is a word to describe that feeling of the sun's warmth on your skin on a cold day?

Apricity

From: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-a ... n%20winter

Definition
: the warmth of the sun in winter

About the Word
This word provides us with evidence that even if you come up with a really great word, and tell all of your friends that they should start using it, there is a very small chance that it will catch on. Apricity appears to have entered our language in 1623, when Henry Cockeram recorded (or possibly invented) it for his dictionary The English Dictionary; or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words. Despite the fact that it is a delightful word for a delightful thing it never quite caught on, and will not be found in any modern dictionary aside from the Oxford English Dictionary.


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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby bungeejumper » April 25th, 2021, 11:16 am

Only easterly? Pah, I bet the eskimos have thirty words relating to the precise direction of the wind. And another twenty for "warm enough to defrost a month-old whale carcass on the beach". And another fifteen for "cold enough to constipate a polar bear".

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby EssDeeAitch » April 25th, 2021, 11:34 am

redsturgeon wrote:Did you know there is a word to describe that feeling of the sun's warmth on your skin on a cold day?

Apricity


No, I didn't but its a lovely word and I shall do my best to promote its use. And here in north east England I shan't be short of opportunities to do so.

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby bungeejumper » April 25th, 2021, 1:28 pm

I came across "grogblossom" the other day. An eighteenth-century description of a drinker's red nose.

But it's unlikely to displace "gardyloo" in my affections, even though the opportunities to use the word are fading fast. It's what you shout as you empty your chamberpot from an upper-storey window. :)

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby Mike4 » April 25th, 2021, 1:46 pm

bungeejumper wrote:I came across "grogblossom" the other day. An eighteenth-century description of a drinker's red nose.

But it's unlikely to displace "gardyloo" in my affections, even though the opportunities to use the word are fading fast. It's what you shout as you empty your chamberpot from an upper-storey window. :)

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Have you finally had that flushing toilet you've been promising yourself installed in Bungee Towers now then?

:?

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby AsleepInYorkshire » April 25th, 2021, 1:47 pm

It's waam thun :lol:

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby bungeejumper » April 25th, 2021, 1:59 pm

Mike4 wrote:
bungeejumper wrote:It's what you shout as you empty your chamberpot from an upper-storey window. :)

Have you finally had that flushing toilet you've been promising yourself installed in Bungee Towers now then?

Oh yes, but I'm keeping the gazunder handy till next month's elections are out of the way. A return to Victorian values would do wonders for some of those canvassers. :twisted:

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby Mike4 » April 25th, 2021, 3:42 pm

bungeejumper wrote:
Mike4 wrote:
bungeejumper wrote:It's what you shout as you empty your chamberpot from an upper-storey window. :)

Have you finally had that flushing toilet you've been promising yourself installed in Bungee Towers now then?

Oh yes, but I'm keeping the gazunder handy till next month's elections are out of the way. A return to Victorian values would do wonders for some of those canvassers. :twisted:

BJ


Being keen to maintain my reputation for high quality nit-picking, I'm reasonably sure the Victorians had flushing bogs courtesy of that nice Mr Crapper.

Wasn't it the Elizabethans who designed and built their houses with the upper floors overhanging to facilitate their "gardylooing"?

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby marronier » April 25th, 2021, 5:21 pm

It was originally " Gardez l'eau " ; "Watch { beware } the water ".

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby Rhyd6 » April 25th, 2021, 6:20 pm

Aunty Polly who lived in a small cottage several fields above us was still yelling "gardy loo" until the late 1970s. She grew the most wonderful vegetables and mum asked what she used for fertilizer - "tis all natural"she replied, "I throws the contents of Miss Rosebud"(her chamber pot) out of the winder every mornin'". Gifts of said vegetables were swiftly passed on to the unsuspecting, though I'm happy to admit that Miss Rosebud resides on the windowsill in my bathroom with a very healthy plant inside her.

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby jfgw » April 25th, 2021, 9:33 pm

Snorvey wrote:'Clunge'

No idea what it means but they've said it over 20 times in the first 12 minutes of the Inbetweeners Movie.


I would be wary of using any word from The Inbetweeners without first knowing its meaning, if only due to the risk of its use being inappropriate for a person of my age!

I worry about the scriptwriters sometimes. How did they come up with the idea of the Dead Hand Gang where one sits on one's arm for 15 minutes so that it goes numb, then masturbates with it so that it feels like someone-else is doing it?


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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby servodude » April 25th, 2021, 9:56 pm

jfgw wrote:
Snorvey wrote:'Clunge'

No idea what it means but they've said it over 20 times in the first 12 minutes of the Inbetweeners Movie.


I would be wary of using any word from The Inbetweeners without first knowing its meaning, if only due to the risk of its use being inappropriate for a person of my age!

I worry about the scriptwriters sometimes. How did they come up with the idea of the Dead Hand Gang where one sits on one's arm for 15 minutes so that it goes numb, then masturbates with it so that it feels like someone-else is doing it?


Julian F. G. W.


I'm pretty sure they've lifted that one from Billy Connolly

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby AleisterCrowley » April 25th, 2021, 10:35 pm

Verschlimmbesserung

Hell of word, eh? Geman, of course.

Approximately- an 'improvement' that makes things worse.

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby scotia » April 26th, 2021, 6:11 pm

marronier wrote:It was originally " Gardez l'eau " ; "Watch { beware } the water ".

The cry was Introduced in Edinburgh by the French who accompanied Mary Queen of Scots on her return from France. Presumably the Scots didn't feel the need for such a warning. The Edinburgh Sewage boat which operated until 1998 was named the Gardyloo.

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby stewamax » April 26th, 2021, 6:43 pm

For me the oddest non-foreign-import verb in English is yclept (from OE)
And the oddest surname is Docwra (from Old Norse)

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby AleisterCrowley » April 26th, 2021, 6:46 pm

There is (was?) a construction company called Clancy Docwra - I initially(!) thought DOCWRA was an acronym
Duchy of Cornwall Water Regulatory Authority, or similar ... :)

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby swill453 » April 26th, 2021, 6:50 pm

AleisterCrowley wrote:There is (was?) a construction company called Clancy Docwra - I initially(!) thought DOCWRA was an acronym
Duchy of Cornwall Water Regulatory Authority, or similar ... :)

They're just branding themselves Clancy now? I wonder why...


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Re: Word of the day.

#407205

Postby XFool » April 26th, 2021, 6:57 pm

AleisterCrowley wrote:Verschlimmbesserung

Hell of word, eh? German, of course.

Approximately- an 'improvement' that makes things worse.

So basically, "The Web"?

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby stewamax » April 26th, 2021, 7:14 pm

Rhyd6 wrote:Aunty Polly who lived in a small cottage several fields above us

Not literally above us we hope - or you may qualify for TLF deodorant.

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Re: Word of the day.

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Postby Mike4 » April 26th, 2021, 7:43 pm

XFool wrote:
AleisterCrowley wrote:Verschlimmbesserung

Hell of word, eh? German, of course.

Approximately- an 'improvement' that makes things worse.

So basically, "The Web"?


No basically, Windows!


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