Scantlings

I figure we abecedarians need to catch up with some here who are logodaedalist.

For today, I'll nominate: dyspeptic

Most recently used by the Economist in describing how our President looked while holding a joint press conference with the unsympathetic Prime Minister from Germany.

I thought he just looked like a Trunt

Bipartisanship.
No one in Washington DC seems to know what it means. (Edited)

My son and I had a long vexillological discussion the other day.

I have had a lot of trouble getting the words gonfalon and fleam out of my head lately,

All these $10 words. I try to eschew surplusage.

Jamie wrote:All these $10 words. I try to eschew surplusage.

Is that last one pronounced Frenchy?

Orestes Munn wrote:

Jamie wrote:All these $10 words. I try to eschew surplusage.

Is that last one pronounced Frenchy?

Je pense, no. We have the best words.

Here is one that I came across this week that I never heard before: henid.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/henid

I loaned one of my students a 500 mm Nikon mirror lens. Over the weekend, she took a great shot of a broad-winged hawk. I said, "wow...that bird is yarak." I think I have been waiting about 30 years to use that word in a sentence.

I'm stopping at Royal Farms to buy a Powerball ticket. Maybe two.

Tim Ford wrote:I loaned one of my students a 500 mm Nikon mirror lens. Over the weekend, she took a great shot of a broad-winged hawk. I said, "wow...that bird is yarak." I think I have been waiting about 30 years to use that word in a sentence.

I'm stopping at Royal Farms to buy a Powerball ticket. Maybe two.

Meanings evolve over time. Urban dictionary says dick

Not that weird of a word, but it's fun to use when you are certain someone won't know what it means:

'exacerbate'

I once used that in a meeting in the context that something was 'exacerbated' by an issue we were having.

I was interrupted, "excuse me, 'what-erbated'?"

Norm Crosby "The Dyslexic Pontificator"
https://youtu.be/tQyxodOT7wU

Today, I came across "refulgent" in a P.D.James novel.

re·ful·gent
rəˈfəljənt/
adjective literary
shining brightly.
"refulgent blue eyes"

CRUCIFEROUS

Iron bottomed plants??? Who knew..... some of my best friends in the plant kingdom are cruciferous!

Coddiwomple To travel purposefully toward an as-yet unknown destination. Kinda sounds like something trunp does.

viktor wrote:Coddiwomple To travel purposefully toward an as-yet unknown destination. Kinda sounds like something trunp does.

No, I think that's "thrashing aimlessly". In Durham it's known as "gormless".

Covfefe.

Panope wrote:Covfefe.

Gesundheit!

I think in means "Grab'em by the pussy"

Panope wrote:Covfefe.

I’ve seen it and heard but WTF is it ?

cap10ed wrote:

Panope wrote:Covfefe.

I’ve seen it and heard but WTF is it ?

The end word of a tweet that Trump fell asleep in the middle of. If you google it you will find many things of amusement.

Heterotopic - came across this one when reading about Lebbeus Woods (on of my favorite architects). It takes the -topic from U-topia and Dys-topia. I take it as being an abstract of material existence - taking into account all the things that exist in what we thought was the nothingness in between and materializing that. I think the best example was when you see yourself in a mirror. The mirror is real, but the image you see is not yet somehow we take it as real.

like that

ad·vec·tion

adˈvekSHən

noun
the transfer of heat or matter by the flow of a fluid, especially horizontally in the atmosphere or the sea.

See advection fog, advection showers.

(1) Advection fog. Advection fog forms due to moist air moving over a colder surface, and the resulting
cooling of the near-surface air to below its dew-point temperature. Advection fog occurs over both water
(e.g., steam fog) and land.


The Wednesday, Feb. 26th snow showers were post-frontal when there was cold air advection (the wind blows colder air into the area) within the lower portion of the atmosphere. The Thursday, Feb. 27th snow showers were pre-frontal when there was warm air advection (the wind blows warmer air into the area) within the lower portion of the atmosphere.

Warm air advection
will gradually take place especially by Friday and bring a return
back to warm and higher dewpoint air. Instability across the area
from the day time heating and some mean relative humidity increasing
will bring a shot for isolated showers and thunderstorms Thursday
through Friday. As mentioned, warm air advection will bring warming
temperatures through the forecast period.

Cool word! I've been Avection Fogged often on SF Bay!

slub
sləb/
noun
1.
a lump or thick place in yarn or thread.
adjective
1.
(of fabric) having an irregular appearance caused by uneven thickness of the warp.

I happened to notice an ad for a "slub pocket tee." After research, I take it that "slub" modifies "tee" and not "pocket", and refers to texture in the cloth.