utterly useless words

[tawantinsuyo]

Funny you should mention it.

Check out my avatar--that's a toad I caught in my back yard a few years ago and I made a pet out of him. He died, so I guess now I'm toadless

The OED gives only two examples of usage and both refer to gardens. Here's one: "When the garden was dug..it was toadless."

[tawantinsuyo]

Overfluentnesses? Even overfluent. Huh?

Tried to look it up. Nothing.

If you can't find a definition for the base... hmm.

Overflowing? Maybe.

Can't imagine it having anything to do with fluency. Seems the goal is to gain that effortless flow necessary in public speaking, sports, reading, art, singing, factory production--just about anything. Including Wordtwist.

OED has it: "Excessively fluent." Which is hardly surprising. :-)
The most recent example it quotes is from 2006:

A. Karpf Human Voice iii. 46

We may all be actors, but the over-fluent voice draws uncomfortable attention to the degree of performance.

It also has "over-fluency" (thus, hyphenated), but not overfluentness.

[dannyb]

How about a word so useless it is not considered to be a word here in WordTwist: Nage. It is considered "too French". Here in America nage is more often used to refer to the flavored poaching/steaming liquid or the broth used as a sauce than used as the the French technique "ala nage". So the other day when I served poached halibut sprinkled with tomato powder served in a tomato water, saffron, fennel nage. I had to tell my wife and guests that what they are eating doesn't exist in WordTwist land, but if I served the same halibut on a gelee made from fish fumet it wouldn't be "too French" and it would be acceptable. Go figure.

[jeepiegirl]

Sure- at a conference where a biologist gives a seminar on coenzymes it could be crucial. Perhaps does not fit in a useless word category.

[bwt1213]

By means of coenzymes? Sounds good to me.

[jeepiegirl]

Right? Here's another: COENZYMATICALLY

[cosmicsweety]

New subject: What in the world does tuberculosising mean??

I can't even find that one when I look it up. The act of having tuberculosis??

[jeepiegirl]

New subject: What in the world does tuberculosising mean??

[JedMedGrey]

Funny you should mention it.

Check out my avatar--that's a toad I caught in my back yard a few years ago and I made a pet out of him. He died, so I guess now I'm toadless

We live on a ridge 200 ft higher and about 1/4 mi straight line distance from the nearest water, yet every year tiny toadlets show up in the gardens. It is amazing to think that such a tiny creature, only 3/4" - 1" long, can make such a journey! We provide shelters for the toads yet rarely find any within them - plenty of other shelter nearby. Some of the toads are easily recognizable by their coloration and markings, and it is always a joy to recognize a returnee to the Pest Management Team. I'm sure that plenty of the toadlets fall prey to the snakes we also welcome. We create rock and wood piles scattered throughout the gardens so they have shelters also.

[DrPlacebo]

After months of browsing the Collins scrabble dictionary, finally got a chance to use some q u-less words that have been elusive.


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Useless words for the most part.

I've actually seen qanats (grew up in the Middle East), so I wouldn't say the word is useless at all... (That said, Gulf Arab countries use the word "falaj" instead of "qanat.")

[RussDNails]

Thanks Lalatan, always nice to hear from you..........

[lalatan]

After months of browsing the Collins scrabble dictionary, finally got a chance to use some q u-less words that have been elusive.

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Useless words for the most part.

That was a stroll down memory lane for me. 30 years ago I regularly played Scrabble with my computer. I played all those words except QIN. Getting a Q tile was either a disaster or a boon, all depending on whether you ever got a U tile to go with it. Knowing the q w/o a u words was important so you could get rid of it.

Russ, I see you are pulling away big time from #2 on the total pts HoF. You have almost reached 70 million pts! Congrats! That is simply amazing.

[RussDNails]

Thanks—he was actually a great pet…….he wasn’t deceased when I set up my Wordtwist account and decided to use him as my avatar…….lived a good long life (7 years or so)……

[2cute]

Funny you should mention it.

Check out my avatar--that's a toad I caught in my back yard a few years ago and I made a pet out of him. He died, so I guess now I'm toadless

That's a toad? I thought those were blurry brown nails. LOL

Aww, you used your deceased pet toad as your avatar. Sorry for your loss.

[Naboka]

After months of browsing the Collins scrabble dictionary, finally got a chance to use some q u-less words that have been elusive.


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Useless words for the most part.

Have taken to putting point values next to the words in that dictionary. May have some value to the obsessed.

Tips

and taps.

Or, like bored travelers on the boggle bus, the bench advertisement barely registers.

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