Originally posted by JaminJamin, word doesn't appear in my old Webster's II... took it from Maxwell Nurnberg's "I Always Look up
phallocarp....
You probably know what it means if you have ever read National Geographic.
And GB, is Bloviate in a 'print' dictionary?
the Word 'egregious'" (page 104). Bill O'Reilly has also used the word on nightly Fox News.
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobbyesprit d'escalier... 'staircase wit', the bon mot or clever phrase that comes to mind hours after the party is over.
Divagation... a wandering from the subject, digression (from L. vagari,
to wander, to roam, i.e., vagrant, vagabond). Daily RHP occurrence.
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Ambrose Bierce includes these (and then I said... ) brilliant afterthoughts, with a touch of cynicism,
in his "The Devil's Dictionary"... "to remember, to recall with additional details something that never happened"
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the:
1. (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house.
2. (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West.
3. (used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith.
4. (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time.
5. (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped.
6. (used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends.
7. (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea): to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous.
8. (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way.
9. (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties.
10. (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night?
11. enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave.
12. (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyFootling... silly, unimportant, trifling, trival.
esprit d'escalier... 'staircase wit', the bon mot or clever phrase that comes to mind hours after the party is over.
Ambrose Bierce includes these (and then I said... ) brilliant afterthoughts, with a touch of cynicism,
in his "The Devil's Dictionary"... "to remember, to recall with additional details something that never happened"
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThanks! Looks like that is another word makes it into common usage slowly but surely... (bloviate that is) Your citation makes me think of another great book: Handbook of Beastly Mispronunciations.
esprit d'escalier... 'staircase wit', the bon mot or clever phrase that comes to mind hours after the party is over.
Ambrose Bierce includes these (and then I said... ) brilliant afterthoughts, with a touch of cynicism,
in his "The Devil's Dictionary"... "to remember, to recall with additional details something that never happened"
😀
Anyone who speaks out loud in English should probably read it...
Here's another:
Debride...
a.) brutal divorce
b.) more correctly a surgical removal of dead skin.
