Word of the Day...

**Stormseye** · October 12th, 2011

I think it was in "IT" that this word made lots of appearances in this context and it threw me a tad.

depend (dɪˈpɛnd) vb.: rare ( foll by from ) to hang down; be suspended

**blunthead** · October 12th, 2011

pugilistic (pyoo-juh-listic) adjective, pertaining to a person who fights with the fists, such as a boxer, usually a professional.

His body was half buried under debris, still smoking..."Pugilistic position?"..."Yes."... Burnt corpses often curl into a boxer's pose, with arms and fists tucked under the chin.

**Patricia A** · October 12th, 2011

Jocoserious [joh-koh-sear-us]
Half jocular, half serious, partly silly and partly somber; blending jokes and serious matters. The noun, used only once, is jocoseriosity.

**blunthead** · October 12th, 2011

Originally Posted by Patricia A

Jocoserious [joh-koh-sear-us]
Half jocular, half serious, partly silly and partly somber; blending jokes and serious matters. The noun, used only once, is jocoseriosity.

...used only once? Well, we can't have that. Let's see...

**Patricia A** · October 13th, 2011

Kakistocracy [kack-is-stah-kruh-see]
The government of a state by its worst citizens. The adjective is kakistrocratical.
A lovely piece of rhetoric is the 1876 citation in the OED:
Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a Kakistrocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

**Moderator** · October 13th, 2011

Not a bad description for our present political clustermug.

**Sigmund** · October 13th, 2011

Hi!

I posted this in another thread but, the word 'Asshat' has been posted and bandied about recently...

Asshat
	One who has their head up their ass. Thus wearing their ass as a hat. Asshat

*giggle*

Peace.

**Patricia A** · October 14th, 2011

Limbeck [lim-beck]
To wear yourself out in the effort to have a new idea. This word ultimately comes from an Arabic word meaning 'a still,' the analogy being that you distill ideas with your brain.

**Patricia A** · October 14th, 2011

Originally Posted by Sigmund

Hi!

I posted this in another thread but, the word 'Asshat' has been posted and bandied about recently...

Asshat

*giggle*

Peace.

Originally Posted by Patricia A

Limbeck [lim-beck]
To wear yourself out in the effort to have a new idea. This word ultimately comes from an Arabic word meaning 'a still,' the analogy being that you distill ideas with your brain.

It's odd how these two words seem to have some sort of peculiar synergy hu?

**blunthead** · October 14th, 2011

prize (praɪz-d; prahyz-d) verb, leveraged.

Watching a pathologist rooting around inside a body--with its chest prized open like Sigourney Weaver's worst nightmare--left her emotionally dumbfounded.