Include - Being engrossed in a board game.

Define - candlestick

Candlestick: A stick, the pointy end of which has a wick on.

Define: Wicked

wicked: being a pointy stick with a wick at the end that has been surgically removed. A sort of candlecision.

<wanders in with bunyip's word from the game thread in tow and nails it to the ground with a large hammer>

define: inadvertant

<wonders if it maybe got a bit flat from the hammering, and if beeing pierced by a nail may change its meaning>

Inadvertant: accidentally misspelled self-reference.

Define: bee

<wonders if there is an easy way to see whether a word has already been defined in the thread, i.e. without having to open 52 pages>



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2011 08:37AM by delacuesta.

But why wouldn't you want to re-read some of these gems?

Try this (you may have to Right-click, copy the link, then paste into (say) NotePad to read the full link.)

My sample word search was for "adjudicate,-

[www.google.co.nz]

I'm sure you can work out the rest.

Thanks!

<knows that word was used before, because I defined it>

Bee - A word that could use a course of WeightWatchers to lose all those unneccesary letters, as could tee, pea, and queue

Define - overweight

Overweight: ME!
Alternatively, the time spent in a queue beyond that which is reasonable to spend in a queue.

Define queue.

(does it matter if a word has been used before? Part of the beauty of the English language is that quite a few words have multiple meanings)

@mycroftstwin

Close, but _{no cigar!}

I just tested the searching method I suggested above to delacuesta.

Quote:

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: February 11, 2011 04:57PM

Pea - One of those words with too many extraneous letters, like queue, bee and tea.

insert something really witty here.

Despite the fact that I did indeed define it, I thought I'd at least try to be creative the second time round.

So there.

<draws himself up haughtily>
<trips over his orange-striped bell-bottoms>
<watches his raccoon-skin hat fall off his head, and into a pit of scorpions>
<who immediately throw it out of the pit - even a pit of scorpions have taste>

queue - the letter q shouting 'ue' into an echo box.

define - reverberate

<Aha! My corduroy bell-bottoms have tasteful lime green stripes, and don't quite cover the tips of my purple suede winkle-pickers, as is currently fashionably correct.>

reverberate: to seek synonyms for the predicate content of a sentence.

Define: Predicate

<bell bottoms are so yesterday - appears wearing blue and maroon drain pipe trousers and patent leather Doc Martens>

Predicate: A dictator in waiting

Define: waiting

Predicate: To divine what's for tea.

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Define: belly

"snap" .... I win.

Belly - ha'i may call you, any night, any day. Here am I your special island. Come away, come away.

<Purple suede winkle-pickers? Elvis would have had a fit if he'd had to have sung about them...>

Define - musical

Musical - the noise made by tiny kittens.

Define - Casserole

Casserole: The part played in a movie by a small stew.

Define: mulligatawny

Mulligatawny: When a mullet is a nasty yellowy brown colour.

Define: Haberdashery

Haberdashery: Rendering external walls with buttons etc.

Define: Effulgent