Unlike yourself I'm not here to tout my superiority, and it is not my intent to impress everyone with a supreme knowledge of English. As far as my literary reference goes, it is spot on. You are a perfect example of a wormtongue. You have no respect, no honor, and yet you wag your slippery tongue for nothing but slander.
odious [oh-dee-uhs]
-adjective 1. deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
2. highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting.
snipe
-noun 1. any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe), of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
2. any of several other long-billed birds, as some sandpipers.
3. a shot, usually from a hidden position.
-verb (used without object) 4. to shoot or hunt snipe.
5. to shoot at individuals as opportunity offers from a concealed or distant position: The enemy was sniping from the roofs.
6. to attack a person or a person's work with petulant or snide criticism, esp. anonymously or from a safe distance.
Fabulist (disambiguation)
In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. "Fable" comes from Latin fabula (meaning 'conversation', 'narrative', 'tale') and shares a root with faber, "maker, artificer." Thus, though a fable may be conversational in tone, the understanding from the outset is that it is an invention, a fiction. A fable may be set in verse, though it is usually prose. In its pejorative sense, a fable is a deliberately invented or falsified account.
A fable often, but not necessarily, makes metaphorical use of an animal as its central character. Medieval French fabliaux might feature Reynard the fox, a trickster figure, and offer a subtext that was mildly subversive of the feudal order of society.
Certainly Evanescence cannot be said to be an obscure word . . .
Try using it at the grocery store....
"Excuse me, i don't see the new Evanescence CD in this rack--do you have it in stock?"
florid -adj-
1. reddish; ruddy: a florid complexion.
2. flowery; excessively ornate; showy.
Example:
Although his writing style was florid, and his verse no more than doggerel, his enthusiasm for literature transmitted itself to his son.
Houyhnhnms -
a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos,
imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
As in, "Do you know the way to Gog?"
Dysteleology - the doctrine of purposelessness in nature...
When Brandon contends that a word such as florid is obscure, this thread become meaningless.
Not that there was much hope for it to start with.
churlish: adjective
Setanta does not like to appear churlish.
Are you kiddin' ? ! ? ! ?
That's a specialty of mine . . . hussy . . .
Hussy: noun
A loose woman:pejorative of German hausfrau meaning housewife.
Letty is not a loose woman but is not very domestic either.
oubliette -- a form of dungeon which was accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling. To exit an oubliette was impossible under any circumstances, without outside help. The word comes from the French oublier, "to forget," as it was used for prisoners whom it was desired to forget.
Letty wrote:Hussy: noun
A loose woman:pejorative of German hausfrau meaning housewife.
Where did you find that explanation
pool-pah: **** storm or, The Wrath of God.
etymology:noun
The study of the history of words.
Letty found out about how a word can become devalued over time when the original meaning was simple.
That's how, Walter.
