Unique Words I've Learned

[Naboka]

LOL ... Talk about fake news.

One man's "fake news" is another man's opportunity to fill his tank with indignation and fear.

Nothing quite like the power generated by indignation and fear to propel our vehicles.

Unfortunately, that propelling is often over a cliff, but...

[DrPlacebo]

Not recently-learned words, but I've learned they happen to be in the dictionary in this game: various Indian military ranks. I've gotten points for NAIK (equivalent to corporal) and SUBEDAR (equivalent to warrant officer). I've also scored points for SEPOY and SOWAR (the equivalents to private in infantry and cavalry respectively), but those were also generic terms used for native troops in British India.

I assume that HAVILDAR, DAFFADAR, and RISALDAR are in the dictionary as well, but haven't seen them on WordTwist boards.

[2cute]

This one just begs posting.

So, I was looking up kora, kore, koro and koru.

Drum roll...

KORO: A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.

A delusion I've never entertained.

Until now.

OMG!!!!!!!!

Not as lovely as oont, but certainly memorable.

LOL ... Talk about fake news.

[Naboka]

This one just begs posting.

So, I was looking up kora, kore, koro and koru.

Drum roll...

KORO: A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.

A delusion I've never entertained.

Until now.

OMG!!!!!!!!

Not as lovely as oont, but certainly memorable.

[Naboka]

You had a sorel in your soler? Egads! How'd you get him out?

Sorel: a young buck in his third year.

Soler: an upper room.

Each 8 points, 10 points plural,

[2cute]

Here's another:

Ait = n. An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.

[Nylimb]

I learned this one years ago while playing Boggle the old-fashioned way:

IOTACISM - excessive use of the letter iota

It's more interesting in my imagination than in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotacism

[dannyb]

I am guessing that what ever favor you are trying curry with a deity, it is probably in your best interest to sacrifice a "worthy" animal.

[2cute]

I always wondered about oont. Why an especially attractive or handsome camel? Turns out that for sacrificial purposes you don't want to sacrifice a scraggly three legged camel you need good looking camel. So an oont would be a sacrificial worthy animal.

Ahhh, yes, the strongest or best (or tamest as in dogs or cats) to continue the species ... yet to sacrifice ... I think it would make more sense to chose the worst as those genes won't carry on to the next generations.

[2cute]

Thanks Naboka for both the yte and extra 'e' hidden berries in the puzzle.

[Naboka]

Adding that extra "e."

I'm not a linguist, so the definitions aren't precise. But, the points are bountiful. And the satisfaction of finding these common gems not dissimilar to biting into an almond embedded in your chocolate-almond ice cream. A bunch of crunch with your munch.

Beare: burden

deare: obsolete for dear, also to dere or hurt, harm, injure

feare: obsolete for fear. Also a fere or companion, mate, friend, spouse.

geare: to jeer

heare: obsolete for hear. Also hair

leare: to teach

meare: obsolete for mere and mare. Also, bound as in boundary or some type of measure. (hard to figure out exactly what those old sentences mean: "...or els half a meare on the one side of the.."

peare: equal or peer

seare: sere or withered or dried out

steare: to guide

teare: obsolete for tear

yeare: obsolete for year

[Naboka]

Here are a bunch of words with "yte."

They're easy to overlook, like berries hiding in the bush, trying not to get eaten by a beare.

Oh, wait, a beare is a burden not an animal.

Goodbye berries.

byte: sequence of 8 bits

cyte: city

gyte: delerioius, senselessly extravagant

hyte: insane, mad

kyte: stomach

lyte: to dismount

tyte: at once

wyte: to blame, reproach, censure

[Naboka]

I always wondered about oont. Why an especially attractive or handsome camel? Turns out that for sacrificial purposes you don't want to sacrifice a scraggly three legged camel you need good looking camel. So an oont would be a sacrificial worthy animal.

The logic of man must be a continuous source of amusement for the gods.

[dannyb]

I always wondered about oont. Why an especially attractive or handsome camel? Turns out that for sacrificial purposes you don't want to sacrifice a scraggly three legged camel you need good looking camel. So an oont would be a sacrificial worthy animal.

[2cute]

a sav, in local parlance, is short for saveloy, mini frankfurter, lil' weiner....

"Oont, a camel, an attractive camel, Rai a drop of golden sun, (or not!) Doum a palm tree fruiting gingerbread, Bap, the breakfast of a Scot, Sav, a hot dog that got shrunk, Saz , a lute that's not a lute, Oud, just click on the link, and that brings us back to Oont!". Seeee! it would be easier if there was a laugh button, and maybe a treble clef....

ROFLMAO .... Excellent the 'Do-Re-Mi' Wordtwist version ...




Found some ... How about these ... Ooo, this one is a laugh ...

Sample A Sample B



I wonder how this will come out ...